Russell Tovey is leaning fully into his “Daddy” era for his upcoming role in ‘Plainclothes.’ His character Andrew is a father, a pastor, and old enough to be the father of Lucas, played by Tom Blyth, whose own dad recently passed away. “Yeah, I embrace Daddy,” Tovey says. “I mean, Pedro Pascal says, ‘Daddy is a state of mind,’ but also I think realistically, I’m a dad age, so state of mind and state of play.” For Tovey, this role reflects a natural progression in his career. “I’ve been doing this [acting] for years. I think we sort of transition into all these other roles, and now I’ve got children — on-screen children, not off-screen, [that] I know of,” he laughs. Tovey, who has been out to his family since age 18, has portrayed gay characters in shows like ‘The Flash,’ ‘Legends of Tomorrow,’ ‘Years and Years,’ ‘American Horror Story: NYC,’ and most notably, in the groundbreaking Jonathan Groff-starring HBO show ‘Looking,’ which followed a group of gay men living in modern-day Sa...