Posted: 7/22/22 at 10:23am
Someone I knew had an extra ticket last minute, so I ended up going to see this.
Payton was on, and I was curious to hear what people felt about his characterization/mannerisms during the book scenes, compared to Frost. It struck me that Payton played Jackson as pretty down-to-earth, surprisingly normal, kind of chill and even-tempered when dealing with the people around him.
This surprised me, because I was expecting him to be played as more eccentric, more of a "force of nature that commands the room." With kind of a hypnotic inscrutability. Maybe that's just my expectation, but it also seemed like that's how some of the other characters talk about him.
Was this a deliberate choice from the director to make Jackson a bit more humanized (if so, there's textual evidence to support that read as well), or was it just Payton's acting style?
How does Frost play it?
Updated On: 7/22/22 at 10:23 AM
