Keegan-Michael Key - The Snow Job

THE COMIC ACTOR MAY LAYER HIS STYLE FOR WINTER, BUT HE IS SHEDDING THE MANIC CHARACTERS THAT MADE HIM A STAR—AND GETTING COMFORTABLE IN HIS OWN SKIN.

- Amy Spencer

If you want to know where Keegan-Michael Key is headed with his career, just look at what he’s doing with his style. “I’ve been trying to subtle-ize,” says the actor, 48, of his wardrobe, “to add some subtlety and maybe even a little bit of inscrutability.” The same is true professionally, with Key pulling back on the outrageous characters he’s played in more than a decade of television sketch comedy on MADtv and Key & Peele and the comic roles he’s had since, in which, he says, “I’m usually the crazy person.”