“He had a lot of different accents and a lot of different voices for different environments.”

Keep reading to find out what Mitchell discovered he had in common with the Tiger King, Joe Exotic.

“He was as much of an actor as I am.”

John Cameron Mitchell in Joe vs. Carole

It turns out that their pasts aren’t too different, either.

“We had our self-hatreds,” he said.

“We worked through them.”

John Cameron Mitchell in Joe vs. Carole

“I haven’t been there in a while, but I know it,” he told us.

“If I had stayed, I might be a little Joe-ish, you know?”

“He became an attempted murderer,” Mitchell laughed, “which I haven’t yet.”

All eight episodes of “Joe vs. Carole” are available to stream now on Peacock.