English actor Jack Bannon spoke to us about starring as Alfred Pennyworth, Bruce Wayne's butler, in the Batman prequel series 'Pennyworth.'
“Luckily, the show isn’t out yet. We’re kind of under the radar; this is our free-pass year where no one knows who we are,” Bannon says over the phone from his San Diego hotel room, where he’s taking a beat between convention commitments. “I’ve walked past a big poster of me, which was very surreal, but no one seemed to notice. No one batted an eyelash, which I thought was amazing.”
The English actor says when it came to researching the part, he stopped himself from going down too much of a rabbit hole, for fear of intimidation.“There have been so many brilliant interpretations, so the way I dealt with it — because it’s a daunting list of names — was that they’re following me more than I’m following them, because in the story, I’m first,” Bannon says, noting actors like Michael Caine and Jeremy Irons have played the Alfred character in past films.
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