Spencer Garrett rented a home one block away from Paramount Studios in Los Angeles in hopes that he would land a role on a long-running TV series and have an easy commute to work.
"I thought it would work out great," Garrett tells Headlines & Global News in an exclusive interview. "I'd get on a series for seven years and skateboard across Melrose to work but it hasn't worked out that way yet."
Instead, the 51-year-old actor is crisscrossing the country to play recurring roles in five different TV shows. He currently stars on the NBC drama "Aquarius" as one of Charles Manson's attorneys and as a sociopathic psychiatrist on the new season of "Murder in the First" on TNT.
Later this summer, Garrett will return to USA Network's "Satisfaction" as Neil's boss, Victor, and then join the second season of "Survivor's Remorse" for a few episodes on Starz. He also will start production on the first season of ABC's "Blood & Oil" in Utah.
Very little time has elapsed between his projects. He started last summer in Los Angeles, shooting the complete first season of "Aquarius" and then "Murder in the First." Garrett then traveled to Salt Lake City to shoot the pilot for "Blood & Oil" and is now in Atlanta filming "Satisfaction" and "Survivor's Remorse."
"I think I just need to get rid of my house and set up shot in different hotels," he jokes. "I'm bopping all over the country and I'm exhausted but I couldn't be happier about it."
After finishing up "Satisfaction," Garrett will head west to start filming the first season of "Blood & Oil," which stars Don Johnson and Chace Crawford. The ABC series reunited him with one of his "Aquarius" directors, Jonas Pate, who created the new "Dallas"-like show with his brother Josh.
Garrett plays Myron Stipple, the Oil and Gas Commissioner of North Dakota who has aspirations to become governor. He describes the politician as a "moral, straight-forward, church-fearing Mormon who ends up getting swayed by the feminine wiles" of Amber Valletta's character Darla Briggs, the wife of Johnson's oil baron.
"I'm curious to see where that character goes. I had a blast shooting the pilot," he says.
"Blood & Oil" will premiere this fall on ABC.
In the meantime, you can catch Garrett on "Aquarius" on Thursdays at 9 p.m. on NBC and on "Murder in the First" on Mondays at 10 p.m. on TNT. "Survivor's Remorse" premieres on Saturday, Aug. 22 on Starz.
