Apex Shadow - Episodes Two and Three -- "Fragile Little Gods" and "When They Fall Like Stars" -- new roles added!
Zigzag106 (Tom Coles) for Liam Turner
This is rough stuff. But I really wanted to show some humanity here. The things Liam does to his family are horrible, unacceptable. But he's also a survivor of trauma himself, and I didn't want to shy away from that. Having failed once before, during an event known in the lore as the Downtown Tragedy, he's never really recovered, and because he doesn't know how to ask for help, it's come out of him in the worst possible way, hurting those closest to him, and eating his soul alive. We're not looking to condone his actions, but we're looking to understand the man.
Remember that when Turner's acting like a brazenly arrogant, confrontational, misogynist douche-nozzle... it's all cover. It's all nonsense. Try to hold onto that in your audition.
Gruff - Controlling - Arrogant - Insecure - Vulnerable
[Stern and domineering. A uniformed police officer who he could probably hurl into the sun is trying to tell him what to do, and that doesn't work for him at all.]
You've got something to say to me, you be a man and you say it. Enough of this pussy-foot bullshit. I've had a long fucking day.
[A final confrontation with the Man in Black. Turner is rapidly decompensating, after having hurt his son in a fit of rage. Moreso than ever before. Now he's in the family vacation home, staring this killer down, trying to justify his actions, even as he's wracked with guilt.]
I have saved countless lives. I am a goddamned hero. Just as much as Apex. Just as much as any of them! Now-- what? What, you're gonna come into my home, on the worst night of my life, and threaten me with your little fucking gadgets, and your stupid pointy ears, because you don't like how I talk to my wife? How I raise my son? Who the fuck do you think you are?[Beaten, within an inch of his life. All but begging for death. This is the moment when the mask of bravado, of machismo, of arrogance, all falls away. What's left is a truly broken man who can't stop himself, and hates himself for it. This is an extinction event. This is years of trauma held inside, bursting out at a crucial moment]
I can't stop. Why can't I stop? Why won't any of it stop? I let them die, you know? I was... supposed to be a hero. I was supposed to protect them. And in the end, I just... I failed them all. I keep hearing them. Screaming. Crying. They won't stop, they never stop, and I... oh, god. Please. Please. You have to make it stop.
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