“I’m endlessly fascinated by depictions of masculinity,” he says. “The kinds of men in the world are as numerous as grains of sand. Yet we are fixated on this two-dimensional notion of masculinity, and a lot of people—especially the characters I play—they’re plagued by it, deformed by it. They spend their lives contorting themselves to fit in, being told they can only be and feel one specific thing, when humanity doesn’t work that way. We’re complex and contradictory beings, regardless of gender.”
-I guess I needed to make sure it was really you in there.
Ben Daniels as Bel Riose & Dino Fetscher as Glawen Curr
Foundation (2023) · S2·E07 · Sci-Fi · dir. Mark Tonderai
And yet, when I think of Cleon… I long for him. I remember that tender little boy who hid inside him like a ghost. And what a man that made him. Noble, thoughtful, passionate.