J. August Richards
J. August Richards
Jaime Augusto Richards III commonly known as J. August Richards is an American actor. He is best known for his portrayal of vampire hunter Charles Gunn on the WB television series Angel and Mike Peterson/Deathlok in Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActor
Date of Birth28 August 1973
CountryUnited States of America
fully learned playing school throwing wants
Everything I've ever learned about acting - and I went to theater school - was about playing what the character wants and throwing yourself fully into going after what the character wants.
carefully definitely episode guarded information officially until
Everything with Marvel is on a need-to-know basis, so I didn't officially know until the second episode I did, which I think was the 10th episode in the season. Information is carefully guarded over there. I definitely didn't know that I was 'Deathlok.'
people relationship
I've always been able to sense the relationship between two people based on how one person says the other's name!
cool objective
When you're doing superhero stunts, the objective is to look as cool as humanly possible.
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Marvel makes you feel like 'Iron Man' will show up at your front door to kill you if you say the wrong thing.
I was in fittings for the first costume even before I knew I was even going to be 'Deathlok.'
joss love period shows
I think often times on Joss Whedon's shows he can make you hate a character for a period and then love the character. He does it effortlessly.
great looks maybe realize watch
I thought, 'Oh, this is great,' because maybe someone who does look like me will watch 'Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.' and realize that they can be an actor if they want to be, or they can be a superhero. They can have a hero that looks like them as well.
believe saw
I believe that I'm an actor to this day because of 'Star Wars.' I saw 'Star Wars' as a child, and I was completely enamored by it.
astronomy character figure grew interest learn stars study
My interest in astronomy grew from the play 'Space' that I did, where I had to learn where my character was from. I had to study the stars and figure where everything was and how I got here and all of those things.
drawn line oddly
Oddly enough, I've always really loved Nightcrawler. You know who else they didn't use enough was Phoenix. I just thought her story line was so tragic. I was just really drawn to that character as well.
alive characters creating enjoy enjoyed love opportunity people seen
I love creating characters that people may or may have not ever seen before. But I enjoy the opportunity to try to make something new, and that's when I really come alive as an actor, so I really enjoyed working on 'Arrow.'
constantly fail freedom love
I feel that, as an actor, you're constantly working to become better, which I love, but with painting, I can fail on my own terms. There's a freedom in that, so that's why I love to paint.
bad obviously steal term
To steal a term from one of my Twitter followers, 'Deathlok' is the 'anti-villain.' He's on the side of the bad guys, but he obviously doesn't want to be there.