Den of Geek: So, you’re getting close to the premiere, how does that feel after all your work? With the show and the character, I’m having an awesome time. As a an actor I’ve never done anything this intense…every day, trying to set a tone, set the foundation for something to blow the right…it’s important to build your house on bricks not on sand. It’s funny because the episodes kind of blend into each other but then they don’t. It’s been a hell of a ride. Is there anything that’s jumped out at you in the nine episodes you filmed so far? What do you think of John Constantine as a person? His biggest redeemable quality is that he’s a humanist. He’s trying to achieve what he needs by any many means necessary, but he has to save his humanity. He doesn’t want Hell to interfere; he doesn’t want Heaven to interfere. He’s a man of the people, like in the earlier comics. He’d kill his best friend to save a thousand people but if the best friend is the one he needs to save, he’ll kill a thousand people. I’ve been watching all the Exorcist films plus researching actors. It’s funny, we’re doing an episode at the moment, and I’m not sure I should say it; I needed to watch the Exorcist for it. I get freaked out, man, you go to work for fifteen hours and then you read a comic or watch a movie. I was so much brighter at Comic Con at San Diego! There was a great film Neil Marshall told me to watch, The French Connection. I took some brashness from Gene Hackman. I tried to keep as much things outside the script as possible like following the comics. Warren Ellis, fucking hell! Did you watch Keanu Reeves as Constantine? Did it inspire your performance in any way? It’s funny I saw the movie long before I knew anything about this world. A good friend of mine who owns his own comic company called Improper Books, he was always talking about Constantine and how he’s his favorite character. I see the movie as a standalone thing, but I hadn’t read the material, it’s a different thing in my head. What characters do you hope appear in the series, like Swamp Thing? Or is there any Hellblazer you read that you would like to adapt? Matt Ryan, thank you very much. Constantine premieres on NBC on October 24th at 10 pm. Like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter for all news updates related to the world of geek. And Google+, if that’s your thing!
