![]() ![]() And what that means and how people feel about that, and all the questions, all of the drama and politics that comes with that. We set it in some type of world that is parallel to the United States, and the Duke of Venice, who is a black person played by myself, is a parallel to our President, a black President. How is that? This play is obviously set in Venice, but it's a very contemporary interpretation. ![]() ![]() And I think it's really going to speak to American politics today and what people are dealing with on a day to day basis. And so when Peter Sellars was coming up with all the ideas and cast would come in and we started to really get a sense of what the vision was, you know it was really exciting. This is probably not the Othello that most people expect, but I'm very confident that it'll be the Othello that people really want to see. No, actually, because this is not your cookie-cutter production of Othello. Did you feel strange at all to not be playing Othello? To be the Duke of Venice? The part of Othello is often played by a black actor. ![]() During rehearsals last week Gaius spoke with us about Sellars's production, what the play means for contemporary audiences, and the odds of returning to Friday Night Lights for a cameo. The cast also includes the reliable and potentially riveting match-up of John Ortiz as Othello and Philip Seymour Hoffman as Iago-and that probably has something to do with why the run is almost sold out. This hotly anticipated production, directed by minimalist avant-garde opera and theater director Peter Sellars, electrified Vienna earlier this summer and makes its American debut on Saturday, for 23 performances only. But Public Theater audiences are about to know him as the Duke of Venice, star potentate of the Most Serene Republic of Venice, in William Shakespeare's Othello. He is repped by Gersh and Principal Entertainment LA.Many know New York native Gaius Charles as star running back Brian "Smash" Williams in the hit high school football series Friday Night Lights. The Grey’s Anatomy and Taken alum can currently be seen on the big screen in Krystin Ver Linden’s debut feature Alice, which world premiered at the recent Sundance Film Festival, and in Land of Dreams, premiering at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival. Known for his fan-favorite role as Brian “Smash” Williams on Friday Night Lights, Charles’ recent television credits include guest/recurring roles on The Wonder Years, Queens and Roswell, New Mexico. Gimple, who is chief content officer of The Walking Dead universe and Cohan and Morgan. The six-episode series, which will launch on AMC and AMC+ in 2023, is exec produced by Eli Jorné Scott M. He has patience and resilience and walks rather than runs from his mistakes. His journey unearths a loss he is haunted by. This is a family man, devoted to building a safe world for his wife and daughters. Perlie enjoys his work and intersperses humor with the terror he incites. He’s confident, ruthless, and unyielding in the pursuit of what he believes is justice, with the force of his will and his menace. The crumbling city is filled with the dead and denizens who have made New York City their own world full of anarchy, danger, beauty, and terror.Ĭharles will play Perlie Armstrong. Isle of the Dead sees Maggie (Cohan) and Negan (Morgan) traveling into a post-apocalyptic Manhattan long ago cut off from the mainland. ![]()
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