Thanks to a new image from The Sandman, we get a better look at Tom Sturridge’s Morpheus carrying his helmet.
Gearing up for Netflix’s The Sandman series premiere this summer, Entertainment Weekly spoke with actor Tom Sturridge and writer Neil Gaiman about the King of Dreams, and they shared a better look at Morpheus.
In the image, we see Tom Sturridge’s Morpheus holding the helmet we met in The Sandman volume one, and we get a better look at the character.
About Sturridge’s casting process, The Sandman creator Neil Gaiman told the aforementioned site: “I think I’ve personally seen about 1,500 auditions for Morpheus… I hesitate to imagine how many have seen [la directora de casting] Lucinda Syson and her team. But after endless auditions: “We were able to go to Netflix and say, ‘That’s Tom,’” says Gaiman. “We know it’s Tom.”
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Building Morpheus
For his part, the actor talks about two important aspects that he took into account to bring The Sandman to life: the image and the time. “I cared a lot about the physique and image of Morpheus,” he says. “We’ve all seen the pictures of him, we know the skeletal physique of him, the type of muscles of him, from another world. Making my body look like that – requires A, B, C and D – such that you can’t easily get into the soul of an Endless.”
The other important part is the voice, as the note states, Marfeo’s speech bubbles in the comic are black with white lettering, “and the words spoken in those bubbles are a big part of what gives The Sandman its character.” literary flavor. Both Gaiman and Sturridge have worked in their own way to bring that quality to the screen.”
The way the dialogue was delivered, says Gaiman, “was probably the thing that obsessed me the most. Someone had written a terrific script, (showrunner) Allan Heinberg had rewritten a terrific script, and I’d read every version, but there was always a moment at the end where I was still playing around with Morpheus’ dialogue: making sure the words were correct, that the rhythms were correct”. Adds Sturridge: “I remember him telling me that everything he says has to seem set in stone. He never improvises. He has experienced and perceived every thought, dream and moment, and therefore he knows what he is going to say. That was very helpful.”
Finally, EW shared Gaiman’s best advice: “I once growled at him and said, ‘stop being Batman’… I was trying to be a little whispery.”
“It was my first day!” Sturridge says in his defense. “But it was incredibly helpful.”
Source: EW
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