![]() ![]() But in all honesty, I just wanted to play it as though it was one soul loving another soul. The fact that they were a man in the first season, I suppose, was important to a lot of people in the modern zeitgeist times, the era that we’re in and everything else. But it’s that sort of first obsessive love where you just want to grab the person and hold on to them and never, ever, ever let them go. It was secondary to the importance of telling a true-love thing and, in Klaus’s case, really painful because the first person in his entire life that he could actually see himself loving-and by “loving,” I mean placing above himself in importance-might not be the healthiest love in the world. Klaus is a queer character, which is important to a lot of viewers. You got to take it easy when you weren’t practicing your lines. So Steve Blackman and the rest of them encouraged me to do as little as possible when I wasn’t at work. But I made an even bolder character choice for Klaus, since he doesn’t have a sculpted body or a six-pack or anything like that. So they did a lot of training with our fight choreographer, Tommy Chang, and just for themselves because they thought that was right for their characters. It’s more like a “work-in” regiment with very occasional “out”? Tom and David are very astute warriors, very adept with their fists and with knives and stuff like that. My workout regimen would be very fair-weather. Do you have a workout regimen for the series? I dig it.Īnd most of the time, you have your shirt open or your shirt off. Occasionally, I’ve felt I’ve gone back up slightly too much, but otherwise, mostly I’d agree with you. And so it just took me down, and mostly I’ve stayed down there. And it was only after that I started to enjoy my performance because I got tied to a chair. And I thought, “Klaus needs lots of limb dexterity.” But there were times in the series where I thought, “Ah, he’s being too limby.” In the fourth episode, I get kidnapped by Hazel and Cha-Cha. Did you have an inspiration for this, or did you just kind of work from the ground up? Your character’s physicality is so unique. He’s a bit stunted, isn’t he? He’s a bit trapped in childhood, I think. He’s not the soft-spoken, wise Ben we saw in the past. But in this new timeline, he’s alive and a member of the Sparrow Academy.Ī new Ben, altogether. Min’s character, Ben, who was a ghost only you could see last season. It’s very endearing.Īnd we see more of Justin H. I like how you’ve used the character’s full name there. ![]() Hargreeves: philanthropist, industrialist, and space alien. And really, the Sparrow that I’m most involved with after that is Sir Reginald D. And then after that, we all scattered to the wind. I had a bit with them in a big ol’ bombastic dance-off at the start of the series. They were great, and they were all very distinctive. You just get a sense of who they are and you think, “Yeah, I’d probably still watch the show if it was them,” you know what I mean?Īnd they’re not just formidable fighters with their powers, but they can also cut a rug on the dance floor. Beyond that, there’s just a sense between them all that they know what the pecking order is. And in fairness, the show quickly establishes the hierarchy between the Sparrows. And it felt exciting because we’re going, “What do they all do?” I watched the series back in aid of this couple of days of. ![]() It was interesting to have a whole new breadth of parallel characters come in with a new set of powers. What was it like working alongside an entirely new cast with the inclusion of the Sparrow Academy this season? However, it’s his pairing with the Sparrow Academy’s Sir Reginald Hargreeves (played by Colm Feore) this season that transforms Klaus’s propinquity with his adopted father-and by extension his relationship to death-into a kind of happy, mutually beneficial marriage.Īhead of the premiere of Umbrella Academy’s third season, I chatted with Sheehan about the new storyline that includes the rivaling Sparrow Academy children, Klaus’s partnership with Sir Reginald, conquering death, and more. The Irish actor’s air of blithe abandon as Klaus makes the character the perfect partner (or foil) for many of the other characters, regardless of their temperament. Robert Sheehan portrays the gleefully morbid orphan with a calculated recklessness, infusing both humor and heartbreak into a character whose relationship with death grows deeper with each new season of the show. Among Umbrella Academy’s stellar ensemble of quirky characters, Klaus Hargreeves is a standout among standouts. ![]()
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