He feels a lot right from the beginning just because of the circumstances and that challenges him a lot, and then we get to see a lot. He doesn't have to just jump into an esoteric situation that he has to work to feel something towards. So it means that, as a series, we get to launch him really well and we get to put him very quickly. It's about a relationship that defines him. I think that we're just lucky that, for whatever reason, the third book hadn't been done as a film anyway because it just serves as an origin, as a jumping-off point so well, it's just such a personal story to him. I think those are questions that people are trying to answer already and we're very lucky that they're already trying to answer it, even though we haven't aired yet. I couldn't help but wonder, looking forward with this series, sure, it's called "The Lost Symbol," but is it too early that there have been talks of seeing your Robert Langdon in Season 2, Season 3, doing The Da Vinci Code, doing Angels and Demons, or is it still just too early? This is a different take that doesn't try and replicate what came before it.
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Through watching the first few episodes, the tone of the series, the look of the series, and maybe it's because Eddie Izzard is involved in both of these series, but I got very much a Hannibal TV series vibe, where it's a re-invention and you're not ignoring what came before it, but you're really establishing that this is a new thing. Everything that happens in our story is just occupying enough.
Where the story goes means that I couldn't possibly tie myself to any other narrative. Then once we got into the actual work of it, the scripts are just so occupying that nothing else seemed to matter. That was my approach and, whether that was by design to subvert any nerves or not, it seemed to work. That just allowed me a distance and a freedom to both do my own thing, and also to bring in their love of that person that they do already appreciate. I took the approach that we were leaning on their love for that character and that, actually, I could do something to explain that person. But I think it actually ended up giving me a freedom. It's something that, I think just from very early on knew that, by every metric, that should be something that weighs heavy, that people have such a love for that character, either in the films or the books. Did you actively avoid seeing what Tom Hanks did with the character or did you even watch those movies? You're younger, but it's contemporary, so it feels like a multi-verse, if you will. Speaking to that, there being an established character that you could then go back and discover since there were these movies, major blockbuster movies that came out, and you obviously are playing a slightly different version. Those are all interesting ideas that I could explore in a younger version of that person.
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I could look for little behaviors, that there's a loneliness to him, perhaps, or a distance he creates with others, or difficulty he has with feeling and his knowledge seems to trap him more than free him. About why that person became that person. So I could look for clues and I didn't have to be tied to that character, but I could more just look at who that person. But then, that was just very lucky because after being cast, I got to read, I had 3,000 pages about my character, which is just incredibly rare and, not just my character, but what my character will become.