'Preacher' Stars Break Down Episode 2's Big Moment
AMC's Preacher had plenty of twists and surprises in its second episode, though none more-so (unless you're a comic book fan) than the survival of two characters thought dead about halfway in. Anatol Yusef, who plays DeBlanc, and Tom Brooke, Fiore, spoke with Variety on the characters and the comic.
"No, but Garth Ennis was my neighbor in New York," Yusef said. "So that’s my relationship to the comic before the job. Trying to be true to a character is a slightly dangerous game because we’re not the writers."
"I brought it over with me and read it before the pilot," Brooke said. "I never read a comic like that. I wrote a lot of questions down. I read my bits and our bits in the comic and I had a lot of questions, but none of them got answered. It didn’t really matter though, because it became clear that the show was a different thing and the series was living by its own rules."
The two revealed that the bloody Church scene, in which a mini-massacre occurred, was the first scene they filmed, "so we were kind of thrown into it," Yusef said.
On the mysterious character's themselves, Yusef explained that they are on a mission. "We are here to get the power within Jesse and we want to take it back because we feel that it’s on us. We represent, in the TV series, the first time the audience really experiences the other world or the unseen, so we fill that kind of color. We can’t say too much more just yet."
"There’s also an innocence and naiveté to them that you don’t really get with other characters in the season, which was really nice to play," Brooke said.
Yusef expanded. " In a way we’re the least self-conscious of the characters, we’re kind of like babies. And that can make us sillier, more mysterious, and more menacing — it can make us all sorts of things, really."
Source: Variety
