Is Archer ignorant, selfish, or just a master of misdirection?
ADAM REED: I think selfish. When we were working on the pilot with FX, I didn’t want to do the bumbling spy who gets it right accidentally, but I also thought it was important that Archer not win all the time, because he is handsome and he is apparently rich, and he is good at Krav Maga and he’s got six-pack abs. I thought if he won all the time, then you wouldn’t root for him, but rather than make him stupid and bumbling, we decided that the only way to have him fail was that he’d need to get in his own way, due 90% of the time to selfishness. So, I think selfish. TROY: And Aisha, I wanted to know, is Lana with Cyril just to aggravate Archer, or because he’s well-endowed? AISHA TYLER: (laughing) Yeah, nothing like a big old cartoon…uh, tool. Um, you know, I think she’s definitely not dating him just to aggravate Archer because she can do that on her own. I think Lana needs nobody to fight her battles for her. I think she’s just dating Cyril because he’s useful. Probably the instrume
