1 year ago
30
In an exclusive interrogation with E! News, Perry Mason prima Matthew Rhys explained wherefore his character's deficiency of acquisition successful the courtroom really benefited his show successful play two.
Spring TV Shows We Can’t Wait to Watch
Matthew Rhys recovered comfortableness successful Perry Mason's imperfection.
The Emmy winner plays the titular lawyer connected play 2 of Perry Mason—premiering March 6 connected HBO—and portion the 2nd play picks up six months aft the events of play one, Mason's suaveness successful the courtroom inactive needs immoderate work. In an exclusive interrogation with E! News, the Americans alum said it provided a unsocial accidental to turn close alongside his character.
"You're benignant of doing it successful existent time, truthful the roadworthy to find was being played retired connected camera," Rhys explained of his performance. "It's similar the luxury of play 1 when, successful existent time, Mason's staggering his mode into becoming a proceedings lawyer. You don't person to travel successful time 1 and beryllium this precise slick, performance-level proceedings lawyer. I was allowed to benignant of bumble and fumble successful beforehand of everyone, arsenic Mason did."
Because Mason is supposed to beryllium a spot awkward and inexperienced, Rhys joked that his enactment was made easy.
"That's the quality of it," Rhys said of his process. "There's thing to research! Mason wouldn't cognize immoderate of this. I'll conscionable person different drink."
If Rhys was figuring retired his performance connected the fly, however, his co-stars revealed that didn't get successful the mode of him captaining their ship—which Juliet Rylance, who plays Della, told E! News that was particularly evident after filming a grueling courtroom country implicit the agelong of 3 days.
"Matthew stood up and conscionable gave this truly beauteous code astatine the extremity of a precise agelong day," Rylance remembered, "thanking each of the radical that had been determination arsenic onlookers successful the courtroom and fixed truthful overmuch time. It was 1 of those moments wherever I thought, 'He is that benignant of leader.' He's the fantastic person of a company."
Merrick Morton/HBO
Rhys' endowment and affability has earned him 1 precise peculiar admirer: Robert Downey Jr., the hubby of Perry Mason shaper Susan Downey.
"When Robert and I ticker [the show] together, I emotion watching him arsenic a chap histrion who is astir apt Matthew's biggest fan," Susan Downey told E! News. "He's cheering him connected arsenic he's watching these details and nuance successful performance, astir similar a sporting match. I've ne'er seen that before. He's like, 'Yes! Nailed it.'"
Watch on with RDJ when Perry Mason airs Mondays astatine 9 p.m. connected HBO.
Get the play down the scenes. Sign up for TV Scoop!
