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I could’ve suggested a couple of more fitting people for the job, nevertheless AMC has found an Arseface all on their own.
According to Deadline, the small-screen take on comic book fave “Preacher” has signed Ian Colletti (he was on Fox’s entertaining but ill-fated remake of Aussie hit “Rake”) to play butthole. Or Arseface.
The project from Sony TV and AMC Studios is about Jesse Custer, a conflicted preacher in a small Texas town who merges with a creature that has escaped from heaven and develops the ability to make anyone do anything he says. Along with his ex-girlfriend, Tulip (Ruth Negga), and an Irish vampire named Cassidy, the three embark on a journey to literally find God.
Colletti plays Eugene Root, aka Arseface. Even with his horribly disfigured face and severe speech impediment, Eugene’s still the nicest kid you’ll ever meet and really looks up to Jesse. Stomach-churningly difficult to look at, Eugene’s the town’s reviled Frankenstein’s monster, but that won’t change his earnest, sweet and pure outlook on life. However, he is troubled by something terrible he’s done in the past — something he fears might have turned God himself against him.
Dominic Cooper (“Need for Speed”) has been rumoured for Jesse. Not a shade on original choice Timothy Olyphant – but that was a good decade when his John Hancock was passed around, understandably he’s moved onto other things since then.
