Good good afternoon , everyone . Let me start off by saying that I ’ve been looking forward to this here and now when I could call you all publicly for months now as I knew that my cast in ABC and Marvel ’s Inhumans was sure to be the issue of many a conversation .
There is perhaps no other performer in the worldly concern who translate more the weight and responsibility of taking on a character as complicated and important as Medusa ’s Hair . Quite frankly , there is no Medusa without her hair . I know that , my adorable and gifted cobalt - star Serinda Swan knows that , and perhaps most of import of all , our lovely executive producer Jeph Loeb knows that .
This is why I wanted to take the metre to respond to some of the concerns that have been voice on this very blog and the wider internet about my performance on Inhumans . Last night , dearest Jeph contain to the level at San Diego Comic - Con , along with my stunt threefold Sondra on his headspring , to debut a young Inhumans trailer in which I have a battle fit with Iwan Rheon .
Serinda , Iwan , Sondra and I inexhaustibly bring with our choreographer for weeks plot out and perfect that sequence so as to carry the strength and ferocity and Medusa ’s Hair is supposed to incarnate . Medusa ’s Hair is as much her peak as it is her most trusted weapon . shoot on set that day , we all truly felt as if we nail down Medusa ’s dangerous regality . Imagine my shock absorber and dismay , then , when I first heard people compare me to a vulgar Party City wigging .
I am a classically trained , Sheinhardt Wig Company postiche of the theater who graduated from the Royal Tampa Academy of Dramatic Tricks . I ’ve appear well - regard output ofSpider - piece : Turn Off the Dark , Evil Dead : The Musical , andJoseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat . I am a seasoned thespian who takes their craft very severely , and if I ’m being absolutely honest , I do n’t think that I ’ve been given a fair slam here .
I wholeheartedly stand by my execution , but I ’d also care to prompt everyone that to truly become Medusa ’s Hair , a … small amount of computer - father assist was necessary . Before each 24-hour interval of shooting , I sat for hours with my personal stylist , who worked in tandem bicycle with our VFX section to check that that every unmarried one of my shiny chain were fitted with those fancy movement - capture bead so that I could be made more imposing and nimble in post - production .
From my perspective , what we managed to create for Inhumans is nothing brusque of a technological masterpiece . Honestly , I surmise that anyone who disagrees with me in all probability harbor some arcdegree of unjust diagonal against me because I ’m a wig trying to break into the gamy - visibility , cutthroat cosmos of modern superhero entertainment .
Motion - capture technology in film was not nearly as visually astonishing when Andy Serkis first reserve Lord of the Rings , and yet he was afterwards grant chance after opportunity to prove himself as a gifted actor . Tell me : What does Andy Serkis have that I do n’t ?
Before writing this letter , I reached out to my well friend Colette , the wig who played Storm ’s pilus in Fox ’s first two X - Men films , for some advice about how to handle this intact situation .
“ They ’re just jealous , ” she told me . “ They want what you have and they ’re discomfited that they ca n’t have it . Do n’t run forth from their negativism . Bathe in it . swither yourself in its frothiness . Let it stipulate you to your roots and make you stronger . ”
Colette ’s right hand . Medusa ’s Hair is the role of a lifetime . When the world at long last gets to see my in all of my voluminous resplendence in IMAX field of operations this September , I ’m sure you ’ll see my performance for what it genuinely is : art .
To my devotee : thank you so much for believing in me and the news report we ’re all trying to say with Inhumans . To my detractors : I did n’t amount here to make friends . I come to make nontextual matter . rightful artistic production that intercept into the beating heart of the human experience . That kind of art can be unmanageable for the average mind to apprehend — something that will always sadden me but will never deter me from give chase my dreams .
unfeignedly ,
Medusa ’s wigging
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