In American Gods, ex-con turned bodyguard Shadow Moon
(The 100's Ricky Whittle) sees himself in the middle of a war between the traditional gods of biblical and mythological roots from
around the world and the upstart pantheon of gods reflecting society’s modern love
of money, technology, media, celebrity and drugs.
The series, which is based on Neil Gaiman's novel of
the same name, features a plethora of characters, and today we are given a first
look at two, the Goddess Bilquis, a.k.a. the Queen of Sheba played by Yetide
Badaki, and Shadow's wife Laura played by Emily Browning.
Beware
of possible spoilers!
"One of the most amazing sequences for me when I
was reading it was the Goddess Bilquis eating a man with her vagina! I think
it’s beautifully written in the novel. What I love about how Neil’s laid out
that sequence is that you’re in the gentleman caller’s point of view for his
climax and the reeling of that. I mean, what is it like to cinematically
deliver an orgasm to an audience that . . . more than likely, is not
experiencing an orgasm at that moment, although you never know! Being in his
point of view in the novel, he comes out of his orgasmic revelry and then he
realizes that he’s kind of hanging upside down, chest-deep from her. We plan to
deliver that moment as it is written, because I believe that we can, and that’s
very exciting for us because we were breaking that story and thinking, we are
just going to lift that right out of the book and drop it right into the show.
That came up in the Starz meeting,
they were like, ‘how are you going to do that moment?’ and we said, ‘we’re going
to do it exactly as written’," showrunner Brian Fuller told IndieWire back in March.
As for Laura, "what really came out of Emily
inhabiting Laura is that this is a character for who being dead is not the
worst thing that’s ever happened to her. Not because her life was horrible
prior, but just in that there’s a level of interest in this new existence for
her. Part of the fun of cracking this open with Emily are those conversations
we’ve had about where she’s going, what she wants to achieve, and how she
[acts] as a character who, in some way, has to experience some wish fulfillment
with coming back to life in a non-traditional way," revealed co-showrunner
Michael Green to EW.
Premiering in 2017 on Starz, American Gods also stars
Gillian Anderson, Ian McShane, Cloris Leachman, Bruce Langley, Dane Cook, Pablo
Schreiber, Peter Stormare, Jonathan Tucker, Crispin Glover, Demore Barnes,
Orlando Jones, Mousa Kraish, Chris Obi, and Omid Abtahi.
Getting really rediculous. I liked Ricky Whittle on "THE 100" and didn't mind his character's relationship with a young white girl but now.................AGAIN! Hollyweird is going overboard with all this black on white relationships. Our society is nowhere close to this percentage of inter-racial pairings. Yes it more now than in the past but come on! Way over doing it. Otherwise this sounds like it might be good.
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