Scott Bakula on what makes his “Looking” character tick: “There’s a part of him that can only go so far anymore”

Viewers of HBO’s Looking have seen the relationship between Dom (Murray Bartlett), one of the show’s main three characters, and Lynn (Scott Bakula) unfold slowly over the last two seasons.

Lynn is older than Dom and Bakula recently shed some light on what makes the character tick.

‘… He’s a survivor,’ the actor tells xfinity.com. ‘He was there when the AIDS crisis began. He lost his friends. He lost the love of his life basically. He became, I think, relatively pragmatic about life and kind of matter-of-fact about it, and I think he gave and gave and gave a lot of his soul energy away.

‘I think he saw something in Murray’s character, in Dom, that reminded him of the past, of his real, true love and at the same time, there’s a part of him that can only go so far anymore, if that makes sense.

‘It’s not that he’s dead inside. He’s still got a lot of passion and a lot of life, but he’s mature, and he’s seen a lot, and a lot of what he’s seen wasn’t good and yet, that community that went through that and survived that time and stood proud and strong and tall and held people as they died and all of those things, they’re amazing, amazing people. I think of him in that light, and it was an honor to get to play someone like him.’

Bakula was doing double duty while shooting Looking as he had also begun work on the new CBS drama NCIS: New Orleans.

‘It was fun in terms of energetically [but] it was a nightmare because I was shooting here in New Orleans late on a Friday night until two in the morning or whatever and then getting up at six, taking two flights to get to San Francisco and then shooting until two in the morning on Saturday morning, and then getting two flights back on Sunday and be back to work on Monday. So that was a challenge.’