8 min read “LUCIFER IS HERE to see you,” the receptionist tells me over the phone when Tom Ellis first arrives for our chat at the Men’s Health offices. The Welsh actor played the Lord of Hell for six seasons, first on Fox and then on Netflix, in the supernatural drama Lucifer . The show concluded in 2021, but the character has clearly stuck in the minds of the show’s appropriately cult-like fanbase, even as Ellis has spent the last several years appearing in a variety of projects, including the hit drama Tell Me Lies , the critically acclaimed miniseries Washington Black , and the movie adaptation of the popular mystery books The Thursday Murder Club . As Lucifer, Ellis played a charming devil who abandons his throne for Los Angeles and finds himself dabbling as a consultant for the LAPD. The result was an otherworldly procedural that consistently broke genre barriers and reflected its antihero’s tongue-in-cheek flair for the dramatic.…