Neil Patrick Harris is the star of Netflix’s upcoming family-oriented dark comedy Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events, but you might not be able to tell if someone didn’t tell you, because Harris is so thoroughly hidden underneath prosthetic makeup to play the evil Count Olaf.
A Series of Unfortunate Events premieres Friday, Jan. 13 on Netflix.
On A Series of Unfortunate Events, which is based on the bestselling series of young adult novels by Daniel Handler, the Baudelaire siblings are orphaned and sent to live with their new legal guardian, Count Olaf, who is only concerned with securing their inherited fortune for himself.
“And then when I heard that I got to wear prosthetic makeup and look nothing like me, even better,” he says.