'I would never try and recreate what he did.'
to talk about the way in which he paid tribute to Kilmer through his character.
“I think Val Val Kilmer sort of helped redefine what the sort of roguish archetype in those types of films is. His performance is so unique and bonkers and tonally strange and off-kilter, but it works,” he began to explain.“And then there was obviously going to be an equivalent of that in this series that people would want and the fantasy demands. But I was never going to be able to do what he did, so I just tried to make that as much my own as possible,” he said.
“And Jon Kasdan, our creator, and Steven Wolfman, our first block director, we did a lot of work in our bootcamp of learning who these characters are. We just tried to create this sort of swagger, aloofness, like an almost drunken, carefreeness to this character that paid a bit of a tribute to Madmartigan but was still, in essence, myself,” he went on to say.
“I would never try and recreate what he did. But there was a tall guy with a sword and there had to be another one,” he added.