‘The Bastard Executioner’ video: Timothy V. Murphy talks transition from ‘Sons of Anarchy’
For a series that is not even out yet, FX is doing something at the moment that is beyond cool with “The Bastard Executioner“: They are giving you short previews of all of the action behind the scenes as the pilot films in Wales, with many of these featuring everyone from the cast to the producers. We cannot remember the last series that provided you with so much access during the filming process. We saw the origination of this at times during “Sons of Anarchy,” where Kurt Sutter proved that he could keep fans invested in the product without giving away the plot through photos, web chats, and other mediums.
With “The Bastard Executioner,” what these videos are about more then anything else is engagement. You have people jumping into a fan community from the get-go, and they never forget that your show is being made or that it is coming on. This is one of the reasons why “Sons of Anarchy” routinely broke its own ratings records one season after the next.
This video below concentrates on one man in Timothy V. Murphy who is a “Sons of Anarchy” alum coming aboard the new show. He discusses moving from a very violent character in Galen O’Shay to a priest, a man who at least superficially inhabits a very different world. There could be both an internal and an external interpretation to this. Obviously, this character does physically live in a different world, given that we are in medieval times (the era, not where you eat turkey drumsticks and yell at waiters in a different accent) and the rules put upon you are far stricter and more religious-based.
It may be some time before we learn all of the finer details in terms of premiere dates and times, but our dream would be for this to be the direct successor to Sutter’s previous masterpiece in the fall. We have more news, including more videos, at the link here.
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