I say “Well, I think I’m going to see Constantine after all.” And you say, “What? That’s stupid. Keanu, and Los Angeles instead of London, and dude.” And I say, “Well.”
Then the New York Times says, “How difficult is it to play a mythic figure like Gabriel as opposed to, say, a soccer mom?” And Tilda Swinton says “They’re exactly the same, because no one you play is ‘real.’ Every character is a construct, even if you’re playing a suburban mother. You’re looking for a construct in the way you look and talk, and you have either the mythic information about Gabriel, or what we know about suburban mothers, and then you just try to make it real. It’s exactly the same. So, you start with what we know about Gabriel as God’s messenger.”
The picture looks something like this:
It goes a long way to unconvince me from taking a pass.
(You could also read Kip on the matter, who says basically the same thing, which is not surprising since I stole it all from him anyhow.)
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Hell, a snap like that makes me want to break out In Nomine and see if I can make it work.
The potential in In Nomine is marvelous. I’ve always wished someone with a little more taste for the awesome (old meaning) potential of angelic roleplay had brought it over to the US.
Bet you could make it hum, though.