{"id":128403,"date":"2020-12-08T02:05:23","date_gmt":"2020-12-07T23:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/jack-bannon-discusses-pennyworth-season-2\/"},"modified":"2020-12-08T02:05:23","modified_gmt":"2020-12-07T23:05:23","slug":"jack-bannon-discusses-pennyworth-season-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/jack-bannon-discusses-pennyworth-season-2\/","title":{"rendered":"#Jack Bannon discusses ‘Pennyworth’ Season 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Jack Bannon discusses ‘Pennyworth’ Season 2<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s the \u201cBatman\u201d world like it\u2019s never been seen before.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Epix drama \u201cPennyworth\u201d dives into the lore of the famous superhero\u2019s universe by showcasing the early life of Alfred Pennyworth (Jack Bannon), the man who would later become Bruce Wayne\u2019s loyal butler.<\/p>\n

Season 2, premiering Dec. 13 at 9 p.m., has added new cast member James Purefoy (\u201cRome\u201d) and finds Alfred now running a black-market club as the threat of the fascist Raven Society grows stronger.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe great thing about being allowed to do a Season 2 is that you work out what works and what doesn\u2019t and start playing to your strengths,\u201d says Bannon, 29. \u201cBecause it\u2019s wartime, there\u2019s a lot of big action in it, which felt almost like we were doing a movie at times rather than TV.<\/p>\n

\u201cSeason 2 takes place a year on from the end of Season 1. Civil war has fully kicked off, the country is even more divided, and the Ravens have gained even more power,\u201d he says. \u201cLondon and Soho is a neutral zone, so Alfred has a big new nightclub that he\u2019s running in Soho [and] he\u2019s trying to get together enough money to get to America \u2014 because England is struggling and he thinks he and his mom can go make a better life there.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo that\u2019s his main goal.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Jack Bannon<\/figcaption>
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Bannon says he was eager to work with Purefoy, who plays Captain Troy, a character new to the audience but very familiar to Alfred. <\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s an old captain of Alfred\u2019s from the army,\u201d Bannon says. \u201cHe\u2019s kind of a dark character that Alfred sees himself in and looks up to. They have quite a strange but brilliant relationship, and James is an actor that I\u2019ve watched for years. He came on and was so generous with his knowledge and time<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was great fun.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cPennyworth\u201d is set in a recognizable version of 1960s London mixed with a comic-book style alternative history. For instance, along with \u201960s fashion and pop culture, there are televised public executions and the Raven Society, which is working to overthrow the British government.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Jack Bannon and James Purefoy<\/figcaption>
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The story follows Alfred, a former British SAS soldier who\u2019s forming his own private security company while working as a bouncer in an exclusive nightclub.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cFor me, the Christopher Nolan trilogy was the one that really grabbed me,\u201d Bannon says about his history with the Batman franchise. \u201cI wasn\u2019t a comic book reader really when I was growing up. But the films definitely grabbed my attention.\u201d<\/p>\n

The most famous movie version of Alfred is Michael Caine\u2019s portrayal in Nolan\u2019s \u201cDark Knight\u201d trilogy \u2014 and Bannon says he even modeled his onscreen accent after Caine.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Jack Bannon<\/figcaption>
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\u201cI think he was the one that said, \u2018I\u2019ll play a butler as long as he\u2019s ex-SAS.\u2019 So he gave us that backstory which our series<\/a> explores, so we owed him that \u2014 and also because [the show is] set in the \u201960s, and [Caine] was kind of the archetypical film star of the \u201860s. <\/p>\n

\u201cIn the very first audition tape, I thought I was too young for the role and did a terrible Michael Caine impersonation,\u201d Bannon says.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought, \u2018Well, I\u2019ll never hear anything about that<\/em>!\u2019\u201d\n <\/div>\n

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