Kurt Sutter
“I’m a really passionate person, and that passion crosses the line into aggression at some point and I lose my shit,” Sutter tells The Hollywood Reporter.
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‘The Bastard Executioner’ Cast and Crew
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Miller Mobley The cast and crew of The Bastard Executioner were photographed July 10 on the set of the Fox 21 TV Studios drama at Dragon Studios in Bridgend, Wales.
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Kurt Sutter
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Miller Mobley The creator has selected another severely deformed part for himself — the Dark Mute, a burn victim — which probably is fodder best reserved for his therapist, though Sutter offers a theory: “I always feel like I need to bury myself deep into something that’s not me … just because there is such a close association with the show,” he says. “But I’m sure there’s some [other] reason that I’ve not yet uncovered.”
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Katey Sagal
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Miller Mobley Sagal, 61, and Sutter got together at a time when the Married … With Children actress was struggling to find compelling work. “I’d been on TV as one comedic person for so long, it was really difficult,” she says. That changed when Sutter wrote the role of Gemma on Sons of Anarchy for her. On Bastard, she plays a prescient woman who offers potions.
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Lee Jones
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Miller Mobley The Australian newcomer, 32, plays the titular executioner, whom he describes as a former knight who ultimately is unsuccessful in trying to escape a life of violence. The part required extensive research along with horse and fight training. As for the forthcoming profile boost, he laughs: “People just keep saying, ‘Get ready, it’s going to be crazy!’ ”
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Lee Jones
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Miller Mobley Lee Jones will have a starring role in the medieval drama along with appearances by Tim Murphy, Ed Sheeran and Sutter's 21-year-old stepdaughter Sarah White.
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Flora Spencer-Longhurst
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Miller Mobley After several rounds of auditions, the classically trained British theater actress was cast as Lady Love, a baroness who is divided between her duties as a noble and her Welsh pride. “She’s a very pious, earnest, strong character,” says Spencer-Longhurst, 29. Like Jones, she makes her U.S. television series debut with Bastard.
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Kurt Sutter
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Miller Mobley “I feel like I have a job as a storyteller, and part of that job is engaging an audience,” says Sutter, who intends to maintain that populist philosophy that guided him on Sons of Anarchy and The Shield for The Bastard Executioner. “It’s not about me sitting in my ivory tower sending out scripts with a sense of, ‘I don’t f—ing care if people like this shit or not.’ ”
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Paris Barclay
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Miller Mobley The director and executive producer jokes that in his relationship with Sutter, he’s the maternal one (“the caretaker, the voice of reason”) and Sutter is the father figure (“funny, garrulous, terrifying, strong and occasionally emotionally reckless”). That said, Barclay encourages Sutter’s bravado: “Oh, he has to be crazy for this show to be great.”
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Stephen Moyer
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Miller Mobley The True Blood veteran met Sutter on Twitter and still regrets having to turn down a guest spot (as a pimp) on Sons of Anarchy. A “massive” fan, he was eager to be part of Sutter’s next act, in which he will play a chamberlain and drinking mate to Ventris: “Kurt is this kind of crazy, multifaceted puppeteer,” says Moyer, 45. “But he’s also a sweetheart.”
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Stephen Moyer
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Miller Mobley Moyer is a Sons fanatic who’d been nudging Sutter about casting him for some time.