Glover portrayed essentially a white man and the scenes played on a racial tension even though the character was actually a black man with egregious plastic surgery.
Atlanta: Robbin’ Season’s stunning, unsettling latest episode relies on the unbearable tension between Lakeith Stanfield’s Darius and Donald Glover’s creepy mansion dweller Teddy Perkins.
As such, it seems Glover wanted to make sure it didn’t just feel like Ern and Darius or Donald and Lakeith joking around on set.
“Donald was in character the whole time on set — it was just amazing the commitment he brought to the character,” Derrick Haywood, who played Teddy’s brother Benny, told Vulture.