During a Rotten Tomatoes IG Live Q & A session (starting at the 15-minute mark), Wittrock explained that the audition process was big and daunting - going the old-school audition route with Wittrock showing up to audition at a studio in front of a group while also being filmed and looked at from various angles (nice casting director story, too). Wittrock said the audition was way bigger than I thought it would be and that he was told he had the part about a week later. The actor hasn t seen the suit yet since they won t be filming for a while - but since he s reading the comics, he joked about having concerns about how skin-tight the costume will be. Here s a look at the full interview:
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HBO Max Casts Jeremy Irvine as Gay Green Lantern Alan Scott
Per the Hollywood Reporter, HBO Max’s
Green Lantern has found its Alan Scott. Jeremy Irvine (
Treadstone) will play the iconic comic book hero, who is one of the most high-profile gay characters in all of comics. However, the character being gay is a more recent development. Scott was introduced to be gay in 2012 and to have a boyfriend named Sam Zhao.
The first character to bear the name Green Lantern, Scott made his debut in 1940. Scott was the primary Green Lantern until the comic was canceled after the Golden Age of Comic Books. DC chose to go a different route as Hal Jordan took over the mantle, but Scott would be re-introduced with the explanation that Scott was on Earth-Two, an alternate universe, while Jordan was on Earth-One.
HBO Max has found its original Green Lantern: Jeremy Irvine (Treadstone) is in talks to play the very first such superhero in the forthcoming series, which will depict the time-tripping adventures of a multitude of Lanterns, our sister site Deadline reports. Irvine’s character, Alan Scott, predates Hal Jordan as the original Green Lantern and was a