I am not sure who deserves the most praise in this situation: Donald Glover for staying in character so well and in such elaborate prosthetics or Lakeith Stanfield for enduring the discomfort of sharing a space with such a haunting personality. I had no idea who it was and I still don’t quite know, so it was very weird for me. I didn’t see any prosthetics, so I didn’t know. And they called ‘cut’ and it was Teddy, and when I saw him get makeup done, it was Teddy. I was like, ‘Who’s Teddy Perkins?’ and everybody’s like, ‘I don’t know,’ so I looked him up and there was nothing online but when I talked to him, he said he had been acting for years, so it was really strange.

I just had no idea who the hell that was, and I thought he just came out of nowhere. I never knew that that was Donald, I never got confirmation on that actually. The way Darius felt was quite similar to the way I felt - uncomfortable throughout the duration of shooting it. I had no idea what was going on and it was very much a trip.

I was creeped out the whole time and I had no idea who Teddy Perkins was, and they were like, “He’s this guy.” And he was very strange, and I’ve never seen anyone that looks like him, sounded like him, and so it completely threw me off. The actor dished on the puzzling experience filming the creepy, Emmy-winning episode (in which Darius tries to pick up a piano from a wealthy recluse) in the following excerpt from a 2018 Entertainment Weekly interview: Lakeith Stanfield Had No Idea Who Was Playing Teddy Perkins While Shooting That Famous Atlanta EpisodeĪnother person famous for producing music under a pseudonym is Atlanta star and creator Donald “Childish Gambino” Glover, whom Lakieth Stanfield, apparently, did not realize was the one playing the title role of Season 2’s “Teddy Perkins,” at first.

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