SPOILER ALERT: Last week Christopher Eccleston tugged at our heartstrings as the down on his luck, priest, holding on the his faith in HBO’s rapture drama The Leftovers. Now the former Dr. Who star is opening up about his new role.
Recently Christopher Eccleston spoke to Rolling Stone about his character Matt Jamison:
“He's far less developed in the book than he is in the series, and I think Tom would be okay with me saying that. I do like the Bosch comparison--there's certainly a lot of writhing and gnashing of teeth in Matt. But I was surprised by how much the character had made on me even as a peripheral presence. When I eventually talked to [showrunner] Damon Lindelof about the part…it seemed pretty obvious to me that a man of God, one who's been left behind in something akin to a Biblical rapture, that there would be a lot of dramatic potential there. He's been woven into the ensemble quite nicely.”
Last week’s episode was Eccleston big solo episode, however, he managed to make an impression with his brief appearances on screen:
“It's pretty obvious that, even with the small amount of screen time that he has in the first two episodes, that this is a man who is in denial of his own pain. He's clearly externalizing it by trying to convince others that this is no act of God that's happened, and that somehow, this will make everyone feel better. And that it will somehow ease the pain of what's happened to his wife, fix the ruins of what's happened to his family and fix the doubts that are plaguing him about his belief system in the aftermath of the Departure. Those notions are certainly expanded on in the third episode.”
Check out Eccleston and the rest of the ensemble tonight at 10:00 p.m. on HBO.
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