[Editor’s Note: The following interview contains spoilers for “Watchmen” Episode 8, “A God Walks Into Abar.”]When Yahya Abdul-Mateen II was cast in “Watchmen,” there was only Cal Abar.
In his audition, he read “something from the pilot” and another scene from the second episode “that got cut” — nothing else.
During his chemistry tests with Regina King, he was embodying her capable, dutiful, human husband.
That role was enticing enough for the “Get Down” and “Us” star, and no one told him to expect anything else.“I took it script by script,” Abdul-Mateen said in an interview with IndieWire before the season began.
“I just built a guy who was very comfortable in his own skin; who was able to be a rock solid counterpart to Angela and the chaos of her world.
[…] He’ll play his role up until he has to play a different role.”Little did I know, Abdul-Mateen was secretly referencing an actual separate role: Dr.
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