Anthony Carrigan talks about connecting on a personal level with her evil character Metamorpho in Superman of DC

Anthony Carrigan (Barry, Death of a unicorn) is destined to play the bad metamorpho James Gunn”S DC Movie, Superman. The comic book character is known to be able to transmute his body into a wide variety of elemental compounds and form them at will.

He will work alongside Lex Luthor in the film to stop Superman, but Carrigan has started the role knowing that even a villain has a background and a complete personality.

In an interview with EW, Carrigan spoke of obtaining the role and because he feels that he connects to the best with Metamorpho, explaining:

“I think the reason why [writer/director and DC Studios co-head James Gunn] He called me in particular because I really understood this idea of ​​feeling different on human level, feeling like something that happened to you seems a curse “, says Carrigan, who has alopecia areata, with consequent hair loss.

“This was this not express that James and I understood. Then, once I really started asking him questions about it, there was this feeling that he really wanted someone who was rather tortured with what was going on. The really human quality of the struggle with that, I think, arrives.”

Superman It will present “some elements” that allude to the background of Metamorpho, mentions it Carrigan, including the presence of Stagg Industries, a company extracted directly from the DC comics that plays a role in the origins of the character. However, Fan will meet Metamorpho “in full swing to those who are”.

By adding to his tragic nature, the character arrives in the fiction of the film when Lex, Hellbent in destroying the man of steel, metamorpho forces to transform his body into kryptonite to keep superman weak.

“You are in a situation in which someone must hurt, having to be an agent of the bad guy. And at the same time, there is this struggle to want to be good,” explains Carrigan. “What the film makes brilliantly is that he puts you in this situation of” Oh! He has no choice. “He must do it and see how painful it is.”

A self -proclaimed “big fan of practical effects”, Carrigan says that his transformation of Metamorpho required about five to six hours on the make -up chair. “It’s worth it,” he adds. “It’s worth it because you can really feel the consistency of something. Your brain notes the difference.”

How did you deal with that process? “Maybe it’s just the fact that I grew up with two older sisters who sought me and they would put me the trick they wanted on me, but I go completely in a completely state … I don’t know, I was a quiet state. I am only having fun. The most difficult part, I think, is the last hour.”

Superman It opens in cinemas on 11 July.