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The comic is the comic,
and the show is the show,
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and you don't want to
worry about that too much.
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Just make it your own.
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But don't fuck it up, Dom.
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Open my heart to you.
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Ah!
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I wrote Preacher 20 years ago.
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It's been those nine
or six books on the shelf.
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And that's not going to change.
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So for me
it's very, very interesting
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to see someone come along
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and take a different angle on it.
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Preacher is something that
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I never even dreamed
of thinking of trying to make
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until I already could
maybe make stuff.
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Then I tried for a long time
and got rejected by everybody.
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Action!
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Oh!
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We didn't get the rights,
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and other people
were trying to make it,
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and we've been pretty much trying
for the last 10 years,
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and we get to be the guys
to ruin it.
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Steve Dylan, the artist and I,
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we'd seen an attempt to make it
as an independent film, fail,
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an HBO show, fail.
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Bigger budget film, fail.
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And at that time I think
we quite cynically decided
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that it was unfilmable.
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Along came Seth and Evan
to prove us wrong.
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Cut!
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Literally 10 years ago,
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Seth handed me the copy
of Preacher book one,
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and he said,
"You have to read this.
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It's the best comic ever."
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And his name
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is the Word of God!
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Evan's brother
gave him the comic
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when he was little,
like really little,
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and said, "This book
will change your life."
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I am the chosen one.
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That was a great alchemy
between Seth and Evan and myself
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because they're huge fan boys
of the comics,
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knew it backwards and forwards,
and I did not know it.
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So I was like,
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"Well, guys, it's got to work
on this level.
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I've never seen this,
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I don't know who
this person is."
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Once you focus on like,
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how do we setup
these characters,
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then it became very filmable.
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Evening, Padre.
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What's the matter with you?
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Someone beat you up with
a dark and handsome stick or something?
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Dominic's character by far
is the hardest thing though,
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because he's like
a Clint Eastwood kind of cowboy.
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And the more we do it,
the more we realize like,
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"You only get to say,
like, 10 words every 20 minutes.
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You better say them
really well."
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I'm still learning lots
about Jesse Custer,
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and, you know, however much
I read the comics,
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which I get a great deal from,
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I'm still learning,
as are the writers,
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where is this character going?
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What's he going to become?
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Who is he trying to be?
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It's like smacking his hands
out of the way,
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hitting him in the face, you know.
It's like amusing.
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Seth and Evan just saying,
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"Just really, really--
just try one.
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Because you're so kind of focused
in fighting."
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So you're trying to look scary,
strong,
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and actually he said,
"Don't do any of that."
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Having learnt the choreography
of the fight,
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then just smile your way
through it."
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You could, like, literally, laugh,
like, at how easy it is.
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Jesse loves every minute of it.
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Hopefully, it plays
as a very dark character,
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revealing that this guy
is the most dangerous man.
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Jesse is a hard character
to get,
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mostly because
he's an anachronism.
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He really belongs
somewhere in the 1870's,
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walking down to the O.K. Corral
with a pistol on his hip,
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ready for a gun fight.
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Eugene told me
that he left you some messages.
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The characters
are what made us think
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it would be a good TV show
more than anything.
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Once we had Joel and Ruth
and Dominic
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and so many of these
other great actors,
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it really felt like
this is the world of Preacher.
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Tulip has a pretty good intro
in the comics.
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She's trying to kill a guy
and she misses
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and shoots a guy's jaw off
and is shocked.
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But we've altered
her character a bit.
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Awesome!
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So awesome!
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She discovers
that there's two kids
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that watched the whole thing.
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So she compensates for that
by making it
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into a sort of a play world
for them.
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Who likes arts and crafts?
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I think she's described
in the script as like
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the coolest babysitter ever.
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Action.
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- So more bad guys are coming?
- Mm-hmm.
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Coming to kill you?
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Well, they're going to try.
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Ruth creates a bazooka
out of peach cans and moonshine,
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which is actually
one of the many terrible things
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you can see on the Internet.
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Who wants to play
hide-and-go-seek?
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This is the plane set
we've built for the fight scene,
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basically what's happened is
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he's met a bunch
of hedge funders--
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just smashed that guy
in the head with a bong...
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...five times.
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As for Joe,
obviously born to play Cassidy,
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not a huge leap, I'm guessing.
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Go to hell, abomination.
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When will you idiots learn,
huh?
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It's embarrassing.
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Cut!
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- Like he's more of a human...
- Teapot, yeah.
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Tip me up and pour me out.
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Push it forward.
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Yeah.
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Nice, oh there we go!
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We're saying he should take
the shades off the pilot,
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like after he fills the bottle.
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The shades were my idea,
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right, you just took credit
for my shade moment,
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I'm fuming.
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That was awesome over there.
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Yeah, great.
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Woo!
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You don't see this side
of vampires.
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Usually vampires
are quite cool, cultured,
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they've been alive
for a long, long time.
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You could have had children
that have died.
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Everybody leaves him
because they die.
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There was quite a few builds
on this show
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that there's typically not
in a pilot.
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The plane is a huge build
going to worlds like Nairobi.
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And we had over 40 locations.
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Cable TV has evolved
only recently to the point
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that it can financially
and stylistically
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support a show like this.
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You couldn't have turned it
into a film.
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There's too much in it.
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Even a two-and-a-half-hour,
three-hour screenplay
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would be completely overloaded
with bizarre characters
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over-the-top situations.
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But a TV show does give you
that room to breathe.
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In regards to the comics,
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it jumps
from one genre to the next.
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It's a big challenge of this show,
because it is a drama,
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it's a crime thriller.
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Don't worry, father,
I ain't going to shoot you.
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It's a dark comedy.
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Mrs. Root, how are you tonight?
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It's a martial arts movie.
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Action!
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Road trip.
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Satire.
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I just read the Japanese
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let a fellow marry
his own pillow.
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That's a big challenge
for all of us as writers,
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and for actors,
for directors, everyone.
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It's pretty crazy a bit.
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I can't believe
they're letting us make it.