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25.04.2024 - 20:35 / variety.com
Adam B. Vary Senior Entertainment Writer When John Bradley met with David Benioff and D.B. Weiss about their new series “3 Body Problem,” the first thing they told the “Game of Thrones” actor is that they’d written a role in the sci-fi mind-bender for him.
Quite literally. “They said, ‘It’s as close to yourself as any character you’ll ever play,’” Bradley says. “It’s kind of a daunting prospect.
It’s a bit like you’re going to see yourself drawn by one of those caricature artists on the street. I’m going to find out what these highly perceptive, very bright people think I am as a person.” The character Benioff, Weiss and co-creator and co-showrunner Alexander Woo created for Bradley — Jack Rooney, part of the “Oxford Five” of college friends and scientists at the center of the series — may not, on its face, seem all that flattering. Jack is brash and blunt, telling his university mates they’re foolish for not abandoning their promising academic careers like he did to pursue their fortune in the private sector (in Jack’s case, as a snack food magnate).
But Bradley found the comparison “very flattering.” “He’s the character that mostly plows his own furrow,” he says of Jack. “A little bit like me, he’s come from a working-class background, and he’s over-achieved in life. As a result, he’s determined to look everybody in the eye and not do what he’s told.” While Bradley does see several major parallels between himself and Jack — “We cut people down if we suspect they’re starting to believe in their own bullshit,” he says — there are some differences.
“Jack is the side of myself that I’d like to be all the time. I do worry if I’ve said the wrong thing. Jack doesn’t mind the consequences of what he says if he believes it to
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