Charles Halford over zijn rol in Constantine, True Detective en meer

RDJ134 29 november 2014 om 16:37 uur

De toekomst voor de Amerikaanse TV serie Constantine is onzeker, wat heel erg jammer is aangezien het nu pas echt goed tot leven aan het komen is. Nu had de acteur Charles Halford een interview over zijn rol als Chas in Constantine, True Detective en meer.


You got cast in this show and filmed a pilot, and you thought it would be going in one direction, but then that changed and shifted. Were you nervous about how the show you had already signed on for would change, and did you then have a moment where you felt things got back into a groove and you really dug where things were going?

HALFORD:
Well, I've dug it from the start, but it's still nerve-wracking. You do the work, and then time goes by. And then, you present it to whoever tunes in and, hopefully, that's a lot of people. Hopefully, they like it enough to tell more people. So, the nerves haven't really stopped. In terms of the Liv-Zed thing, from the pilot, I was really mixed on it. It felt like we were starting over, in a certain regard, but I also agreed with the creative decision, as a fan of the comic books. I just think that it's a show about Constantine. All of us accent different elements of that character in the comics. He's in every panel, and in our show, he's in almost every scene. Matt is just a work horse, and he's been totally amazing through the whole thing. The amount of work he puts in and the passion he has behind it is really something. The trick, then, is creating characters around him that will challenge and motivate him and, most importantly, remain true to who he is. This is a well-established character that a lot of people grew up with. We're in as much service to all the little Constantine-isms, as we can be for our venue. I like the way that they've addressed all of that. Zed can push back. She's a stranger to Constantine's world, but she's not a stranger to the other realm. It's out of John's character to lead anybody by the hand. As you saw in Episode 4 ("A Feast of Friends"), when it came to trying to save an individual, he's after the bigger scale of humanity. He just wants humans to be left alone to be their miserable selves. So, I thought it was a strong move, creatively, but there were some moments of panic where it was just like, "Really?! Okay." But, I'm really happy with how it's gone. The Zed-Chas-Constantine broken family dynamic really started working some magic with Episode 5 ("Danse Vaudou").

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