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writer Matthew Graham about Charles
Paste: [Overlord] Karellen is such an important role and it’s an essential role to cast correctly. I think you found a great actor in Charles Dance. What was it about him that made you decide it needed to be him?
Paste: [Overlord] Karellen is such an important role and it’s an essential role to cast correctly. I think you found a great actor in Charles Dance. What was it about him that made you decide it needed to be him?
Graham: You only have to be in a room with Charles for 20 seconds to know why he can be Karellen. He’s a lot more down-to-earth than I imagined he’d be probably because he always plays period roles—but he has this penetrating gaze. When he turns those eyes on you, you’re like "yes sir…no sir." Right from day one, he was what we wanted. Just the regal nature of his presence. But also the voice. Karellen’s voice is important—he has to be statesman-like, but he’s also got to be a philosopher, as well as a bit cheeky. It’s a lot to pull off and in a way that’s not too idiosyncratic. You need a voice that has a neutrality to it but, at the same time, resonates. And Charles has that perfectly and he does a lot with what seems like a minimal amount of effort.
http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2015/12/beginning-of-the-end-writer-matthew-graham-on-his.html
http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2015/12/beginning-of-the-end-writer-matthew-graham-on-his.html
