Lance Reddick

thumb Lance Solomon Reddick (June 7, 1962 – March 17, 2023) was an American actor. Quotes Not at all. Until that point, I never had much of a film career and struggled to get considered for any significant film roles. The bulk of my career had been in television. Although I loved the script and was excited about the part, I figured it was going to be this little action movie that if we were lucky, would be a cult hit. Then it turned into a juggernaut. Yes. I feel, especially with television, people think you are the personality you portray on the screen because they see so much of you as that person. And also, because so many American acting stars aren’t doing much more than a version of themselves, it can be a bit jarring to people when you’re nothing like the character. When my wife and I started dating, my wife’s sister asked her if she was sure about me because I seemed intimidating. After all, she was a fan of “Fringe” and assumed I was like Special Agent Broyles. Another time, in the first season of “Fringe,” we were shooting a scene on the street, and one of the cops helping with security turned to my makeup person and said, “that guy's a badass!” (A lot of cops love "The Wire"). She looked around and said, “who?” When he pointed at me, she exclaimed, “Lance?!” The character work is the same for everything. Know the story, know my lines, find how the character moves and talks, and develop or intuit enough back story to make sure you understand how and why Charon reacts to situations the way he does, what drives him, what does he want. Other than that, stay in shape and, at least with John Wick 3, be diligent about my gun training and stunt rehearsals. In the first film, my first scene was the first scene I shot, and it was Keanu’s entrance into the Continental. I remember him walking into the lobby and stopped halfway, and just looked at me. It was only for a moment, but it felt like he was looking through me into my soul. It was chilling. He wasn’t Keanu at the moment. He was John Wick. Well, we might have different definitions of “healthy” regarding Instagram, but I have to say I’m not much of a picture person. I’m more of a word person, so I’m more active on Twitter. But in terms of it impacting my likes, I’d say it was really during the pandemic that I was on Instagram a lot. It was an opportunity to share different sides of myself artistically - both comedically and musically - and politically. It’s also been quite an education in the best and the worst of what people are capable of (including myself) and just an education in human nature in general. LANCE REDDICK No, I didn’t – I didn’t know that until I read it in Entertainment Weekly after I’d been cast. It’s one of those things where my agent may have mentioned that there was some interest, but you hear things like that all the time so it’s really in one ear and out the other. It’s not something that I remember. I’m fairly confident that would have been a much bigger character had I not been cast four months later on Fringe. I knew that I was Widmore’s right-hand man, that’s how the character was described to me – I remember, when I originally spoke to Damon Lindelof, the way he described it was “I was the Darth Vader to Widmore’s The Emporer” I’ll be honest, since I was in junior high and high school, I always worked out a lot; I was something of an athlete. And then I really wanted to wrestle in college but they didn’t have a team. I’ve always been kind of methodical about the way that I exercise, but as I’ve gotten older I don’t exercise as hard. Back when I was on The Wire I was still working out pretty hard. It’s mostly a lot of calisthenics and a lot of heavy aerobics. For those people who don’t know the original, the story is set over twenty years – It’s about a guy who’s kind of a tool (laughs) who is abducted and held for 20 years, and the movie is really about him figuring out why, and getting kind of closure-revenge. I play a character called Daniel Newcombe, who is a very wealthy successful business man, who may or may not be involved in what happens to this characters. Interview: Lance Reddick External links Category:Actors from Baltimore Category:2023 deaths Category:1962 births Category:Yale University alumni Category:African Americans