Linc Hand Talks Fox’s ‘Ghosted’ [Exclusive Interview]

Ghosted, a new paranormal comedy debuting on Fox’s fall 2017 line-up, is just one of many shows we’re excited about this season.

The series promises comic delights from the duo Adam Scott, playing Max, a paranormal expert and romantic discontent, and Craig Robinson as Leroy, a disenfranchised police officer who finds himself recruited off the mean streets of the mall to chase ghosts.

Max and Leroy are set on this buddy-cop adventure by Agent Kurt Checker who works within a branch of the government charged with investigating the paranormal.

Charming horror aficionado Linc Hand plays Agent Kurt Checker, who mysteriously disappears, but not before he sends a cryptic message to his team, naming Max and Leroy as his saviors.

I had the opportunity to speak with Hand, and in-between bouts of rich laughter, we talked about his experiences on Ghosted, his spy-ready upbringing, and why he makes an effort to walk into the middle of the street to avoid gutters.

Hand chuckled as he admitted that he is not at the point in his career where he can yet be very picky about his roles. So, when he was able to read the script for Ghosted and it was “actually really, incredibly good,” that just made the opportunity even more exciting for the athletic actor.

“I worked with Craig and Adam, and everyone from the producers to those guys are so incredibly — this is gonna sound super cheesy — but they’re so incredibly cool and so nice from day one,” Hand shared.

“Right off the bat, it really felt like you’re kinda walking into a place with old friends. And that’s such an amazing feeling, whatever you do.”

Armed with the friendly welcome, Hand was able to prepare for his character so that his performance flowed from a genuine, authentic place, that did not “bring in too much homework” and over-complicate moments.

But, Hand did do his homework to create a checkered backstory for Agent Checker. Hand imagined him as “a person who had grown up watching horror movies. And the house he grew up next to, he believed was haunted and nobody believed him,” he said. That is what led him “into the world of actually fighting the things that go bump in the night.”

The bumps in the night that really get to Hand come from a big red pair of squeaky shoes. Hand said that if you want to make him lose his cool, make him sit down next to a clown.

His clown fear started young, but it grew exponentially when he watched the horror film It. Hand candidly admitted, “I’m a grown man and to this day, when I’m walking down the street, and if there’s a gutter to the side, I’ll walk out to the middle of the street, so, just to make sure.”

Hand even had a chance recently to test out his clown combat skills when he was taking his Siberian husky Lex on a late-night walk.

“We were walking, and it was late at night. We were just doing kind of a late night walk, and we walked by a gutter, and I kinda zoned out because there was no traffic. It was really quiet, really nice, really peaceful. And I hear something jump from in this gutter. My heart dropped. I went right into a fighting stance. I thought one hundred percent, I was fighting It to death, old school style.”

We are confident Hand would reign victorious over any clown or paranormal creature because of his spy-ready upbringing. “My dad was a street fighter way, way back in the day so I grew up fighting and sparring,” he said. “So I kinda got that mentality from him when I was really young.”

The skills Hand has developed since childhood would make him a good agent in real life.

“I walk around thinking that I am a spy,” Hand readily admitted.

“If [my fiance and I] go walking together at night with our dog Lex and I hear people talking right away I zone her out, and I’m like ‘Babe, shhh.’ I focus in like I’m listening to like this evil plot of like some kind of cartel. She’s like, ‘It’s two people talking.’ I’m like, ‘Why are they talking, I need to know. I need to know my exit strategy.'”

For himself, Hand likes to watch things that give him a good belly laugh, like South Park.

He recommended a good laugh even for the most tense situations. “If the universe let’s you get in an argument with somebody you care about, the best way is to crack a joke,” Hand said. “The argument just goes away, and you laugh about it and move on.”

You’re bound to get a good laugh out of watching Ghosted, too. Hand shared why he thinks audiences will be excited about the series.

He said that Ghosted promises to provide a “moment to sit down for thirty minutes and watch something that takes you away, lets you kinda transport out and just have some fun. I think that’s going to be the special part about this show. You get to see some really great people, having fun, that really care about each other. And it’s a really great escape.”

Make sure to watch Linc Hand’s Agent Kurt Checker and the other amazing characters of Ghosted, premiering October 1st, 2017, 8:30/7:30c on Fox.

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