
michonneing:
"I didn’t have who Will Graham was in mind. And then, our very first conversation with the network about who this should be was Hugh Dancy. There were three names that came up – Hugh Dancy and two other actors – and everybody said, “Let’s go to Hugh and see if he’s interested.” We just thought that he has an innate likeability and this character is very complex. Like it says in the book, “Fear makes Will Graham rude,” so he is anti-social and complicated and in his own world. You have to have somebody who has an innate likeability, otherwise they’re just going to come off like an asshole, and Hugh has that. You want to be invited into a world by an actor, and Hugh Dancy, as an actor, invites you in to the world that he’s inhabiting.
And based on getting Hugh, Mads was interested because they had worked together on King Arthur. They were friends. So, we sat down with Mads and pitched what the show was to him.”
Bryan Fuller [x]
(via ineffableboyfriends)
这个是说当时选角的事,刚开始不清楚应该选谁来扮演Will的角色,有三个人(包括Hugh)都在考虑范围内,当时所有人都说让Hugh试试看,但是很担心他能不能演好——像书里面说的那样“恐惧让Will变得粗鲁暴躁”,然后性格十分孤僻复杂(并且沉醉在自己的世界里)。演员要求有个人魅力(其实原文说的是要让人舒服……就是看上去很……讨人喜欢),否则只会让Will看上去像个不讨人喜欢的混蛋,所幸的是Hugh做得很好。
然后因为他的加入,才会有Mads的加入,两个人当时因为拍《亚瑟王》结缘成为好友之类的。