Matthew Rhys plays the title role in the new HBO series, “Perry Mason” — a younger and more hardboiled version than the one Raymond Burr played in the '50s and '60s. 'He's a man who kind of lives on whiskey and cigarettes,” Rhys says.
"I was getting to fulfill a number of romantic notions in my inner child," Matthew Rhys says of playing the title role in the new HBO seriesAs a child, Welsh actor Matthew Rhys fell in love with old American noir films — so much so that he'd sometimes channel iconic movie stars.
"There were moments when I was pulling the last drag on my cigarette and then ... trying to casually throw a one liner," Rhys says."[Humphrey Bogart] was in my head a lot vocally."His version of the iconic criminal defense attorney is younger and more hardboiled than the one Raymond Burr played in the popular TV show from the '50s and '60s. The new series focuses on Mason as a divorced private investigator in the early 1930s in Los Angeles — before he became a lawyer.
"He's a man who kind of lives on whiskey and cigarettes," Rhys says of his version of Mason."I was getting to fulfill a number of romantic notions in my inner child."Rhys lost weight for the role. He says it wasn't a significant amount — just enough to thin out his face:"It was one of the things I remember seeing a lot of in the photographs: There's a very sort of haunted look in those veterans that returned [from World War I]," he says.
I tried it a handful times and I would fall apart more often doing that than being myself and then going into [the] American [character]. I hated the facade. And also, I was panicked, because you're improvising in an American accent, where usually you say the lines, you learn the lines at the same time you practice the dialect, so you have a fair shot at it. When you're improvising in a dialect — in an already ...
The lady who was in charge of disguises and wigs for the CIA, she commented on us saying our disguises are incredibly elaborate in comparison to what the CIA [does], whereby they use disguises just at a distance so it can be just a wig or a hat or glasses.
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