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Robert Knepper recently sat down with Digital Spy to talk about his upcoming role on Heroes!
He reveals that his character is like a young Keith Richards. “He’s kind of my role model for it. I don’t know what the hell I’m doing with the accent – I’m trying to put a little bit of a lilt into it. You don’t know if he’s Irish, you don’t know if he’s English… he should be all-worldly. There’s something about it that screams out British or Irish. I don’t want you to ever pinpoint where he’s from and as soon as you think you’ve got it, I’ll change it! I’m having a ball with it. It’s good to play such a crazy character. It’s kind of like a ‘I don’t care’ rock and roll look.”
It’s another evil character, but Knepper says that he doesn’t play evil characters as evil. He plays them as charming! And he says he hasn’t had to kill anyone yet.
Knepper chats about a scene he filmed recently. “A couple of weeks ago, we shot this huge scene where I’m in a carnival and I’m standing next to this thing where you throw the ball and knock over the milk bottles. It’s supposed to be set in the past, like I time travel back 14 years or so into Japan, so all the actors were Japanese-American.”
How long is he signed on to do the show? “Indefinitely.”
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239 days ago
It’s interesting to read what Robert Knepper has to say about Samuel’s accent – I love his performance as Samuel and think he is a great actor, but as a Scottish & Irish mix myself I find the ‘accent’ cringeworthy. He may be trying not to let the character be pinpointed, but no one speaks with a constantly modulating accent, and it just sounded American for the first few episodes then the ‘Irish’ began to creep in. It just sounds like an actor who can’t do an Irish accent, and it is distracting me from watching the show I enjoy because I keep shuddering at it!
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