"I went to school the next day and looked at those boys, and they backed off. "He said, 'You go back to school and you get a look on your face like you're totally crazy because nobody wants to fight a crazy man,' " Watson recalls. When a young Muse came home one day and told his brother that he was facing bullies at school, brother had some sage advice. "I used to be a skinny little clarinet player and just about anybody could whip my butt," he says. In fact, he says he perfected his scary act as a 7-year-old growing up in Louisiana. It's been a while since Watson has known his softer side in roles. "I think Westmoreland looks at Michael much in the way a father looks at a son." "As soon as I got on set and started working with Wentworth, we developed a bond," Watson says. Watson won't say if Westmoreland gets to be part of the prison break or if he'll even be part of the show's second season. Watson plays a convict who has become the wise confidant for inmate Michael Scofield (Wentworth Miller), who is in prison to save the life of his brother. His stint in "Prison Break," he says, could even things out. He considers his "breakout" role to have been playing a kindly horse trainer in Julia Roberts' movie "Something to Talk About." A slew of nice-guy roles followed before getting caught up in horror films. Playing against type in "Prison Break" is allowing the 57-year-old Watson, who is eyeing a possible sitcom opportunity for next season, to stretch his wings again. "They are so much fun to make," he says of horror films, "and the fan base of those kinds of movies are so loyal." Then he got "I Know What You Did Last Summer," and Watson found he was typecast the other way. "When I first got to Hollywood, there was no way I could play a bad guy," he says. The actor, who was serial killer Ben Willis in the "I Know What You Did Last Summer" slasher flicks, is now the kindly but dark inmate Charles Westmoreland on the big house drama "Prison Break" (Mondays, 8 p.m., Fox/Ch. Actor Muse Watson is finally acting behind bars after years of killing people on screen.
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