Benedict Samuel over zijn rol als de Mad Hatter in Gotham

RDJ134 11 oktober 2016 om 13:38 uur

Het alweer derde seizoen van Gotham is lekker op dreef en zijn er weer een aantal nieuwe villains geïntroduceerd en daar is de Mad Hatter er één van. Dit karakter wordt gespeeld door Benedict Samuel en deze had recent een interview met de website Collider en daar zei hij onder andere het volgende:


Collider: How did you come to this show? Did you go through an audition process for this, and did you know exactly what role you'd be playing?


BENEDICT SAMUEL
: I auditioned in Sydney. I was not in the country. I was in Australia, so I sent a tape, and it was a really quick turn-around. It happened over the course of a weekend, really, that I auditioned, had a callback, and then had to wait a couple of weeks for a Visa to come through, which was down to the wire. That was really the only thing that was getting in the way of whether I could actually do the job. I also feel like it came out of a great relationship that I've built with the casting directors, Sharon [Bialy] and Sherry [Thomas], in Los Angeles. I felt very confident and comfortable going in because these women had seen me work before, and I was just very happy to land the role. Because of the whole secrecy with the casting process, they don't actually release sides from the show. The sides they released were written for the audition process. I had this awesome scene that was set in an interrogation room, and I was so looking forward to doing it again on set, but they just made the scene up. It wasn't in the script. But thankfully, the writers are talented and have given me lots of wonderful stuff to work with.

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