For the UK release of American Gods we interviewed the main cast of the show featuring Ricky Whittle and Ian McShane in Soho, London.
Whittle plays Ex-convict Shadow Moon, left adrift by the recent, tragic death of his wife. Little does he know his life is about to change after he meets a crafty, charismatic con man named Mr. Wednesday
Ricky was charming, and talked about his character Shadow Moon and later we found out about his gruelling audition process.
"Every time he came in, he grew into the role and showed us new colours of who Shadow could be and his storyline and jumped through 16 hoops. And some of those hoops were on fire. And some of them were over shark pits. But he just continued with the discipline of an athlete to work on this character and earn this role. So how did Ricky get it? He earned it." - Executive producer Bryan Fuller
Ian McShane plays Mr. Wednesday and it was really fun talking to him for the show. He's mellowed over the years, in a good way, like a great Whisky. And after all these years he's still got great hair for a 70 year old.
The two actors had a great chat and you could tell they would have some good nights out whilst filming the show.
American Gods is already renewed for a second season, and adapted from Neil Gaiman's popular 2001 novel of the same name. The novel tells the story of an impending war between the multicultural gods of history who were brought to America by immigrants and the gods created out of our modern worship of technology, media, drugs, and celebrity, among others.
Look See also filmed a documentary with Neil Gaiman talking about his inspiration for the book. To see that check out the link here.
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