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While Ron Howard and Brian Grazer returned to executive produce the series under their Imagine Entertainment banner, Zukerman made a very conscious decision not to play Langdon like a younger version of Hanks. "She’s the smartest person in the room, she’s ten steps ahead of everybody else, she’s so emotionally mature, she’s so cool, she’s driven by a faith in humanity and a faith in impossibility." "I know the fanbase is very invested and that Katherine has a very unique history with Langdon, which we haven’t seen before," Curry says. Zukerman's co-star, Valorie Curry ( The Tick) also looked to Brown's source material for inspiration, especially since Langdon's companion in The Lost Symbol, Katherine Solomon, has never been portrayed before. "He ends up being someone who is incredibly knowledgeable, but has a hard time trusting anything he can’t prove or he doesn’t know the origin of, which are feelings." When it starts to be about feeling something internal for him, he starts to lose all faith and trust in himself, and that congealed something for me," Zukerman continues. He’s only really ever comfortable when he’s in an argument, when he’s talking about something he knows about. "I was fascinated by that and I think it made a lot of sense for his arms-length approach to people. I think he sort of has a social claustrophobia as well he has a hard time letting anyone in.
"In someone who, perhaps, is already predisposed to claustrophobia. What does that mean and where does that come from and where else might he have claustrophobia? I think that there’s something that goes on for Robert Langdon where he has a hard time connecting with people. "I was fascinated by that idea," the actor says. One of the biggest character traits Zukerman honed in on from the novels was Langdon's crippling fear of tight spaces (something the character has struggled with since he accidentally fell into a well as a young boy). I’ve never been able to work on something like that before." Why is that something he does? Why is that his behavior? I just open it up a little bit, fray the hairs a little more. Even though our story is an origin story - it’s based 20 years before that person - that gave me more freedom because then I could look for clues, little things about the person he becomes. "Luckily, I hadn’t actually read any of the books previously," Zukerman tells SYFY WIRE. "I had 3,000 pages of material to study and to try to mine for information about who this guy was. Ashley Zukerman (most recently seen in the Fear Street trilogy over at Netflix) steps into the role previously occupied by Oscar winner Tom Hanks across three film adaptations directed by Ron Howard.
#Peacock the lost symbol tv
Based on the 2009 (and previously unadapted) novel of the same name, the TV series takes place in the early days of Langdon's career of solving puzzles and thwarting vast-reaching conspiracies.
#Peacock the lost symbol code
After a five-year hiatus, Robert Langdon - author Dan Brown's Harvard professor/symbologist of The DaVinci Code fame - is returning to a screen near you via The Lost Symbolon Peacock later this week.