![]() And it’s creepy to watch and it’s exactly what I think all entertainment should be about, which is primarily, you have to want to know what happens next. If he was more communicative and tried to go it alone less, then he might be thought of less as a lunatic.Īnd then they put Peter in some situations where he’s driven by forces of lust and grief and ego to go to some very dark and murky areas, even within half an hour of the episode. ![]() So although it’s easy to and very tempting to talk about this giant canvas of it, the conspiracy thriller of it all the religious and political implications of it, the fact is, there is a guy who’s really struggling and does some very perverse things in the show. So all of those things are great place to start and then because they’re such sophisticated storytellers, you get that for about a nanosecond before he’s thrown into something that breaks all that certainty up and pulls the rug out from under him and he has to reinvent himself and find out who he’s meant to be. ![]() How much do you engage with that as an alpha male? You were in charge of them and they’re in charge of you. You’re having sex with someone, but you’re not romantically involved. So all of that as a starting point was interesting. Although he’s sleeping with her, there’s no real romantic connection. He phones his old protégé (Heche) who is now his boss and says, “Get me out of here.” And he goes to Jerusalem, and is fine at his job, but is throwing himself into his work and is completely paralyzed and in stasis in his private life. Something went wrong in his private life, a tragedy that he’s running from. He was obviously very good at his job as an FBI agent, but he f-ed up royally back at home. So the story’s good, but even given all that, you do want to know, “who am I playing? What’s the humanity at the heart of it?” because big themes aren’t really enough.Īnd this guy’s complicated. Then, I knew what the canvas of it was, which was people trying to bring about the end of the world in Jerusalem, which is a place that Gideon knew well, and was and is obviously the most controversial, contested piece of land in the history of mankind. I mean, if they were dramatizing the lifecycle of a hedgehog, I’d be in. Isaacs: Well, the fact is, if somebody says to you that the creator of “Homeland” and the creator of “Heroes” are going to tell a story together, it doesn’t really matter. What most appealed to you about playing Peter?
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