‘Preacher’ Casts Joseph Gilgun As Cassidy 

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 has cast another co-lead. British actor Joseph Gilgun (

) has joined the drama pilot based on Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon’s cult 1990s comic. The project, from Seth Rogen & Evan Goldberg, Sony TV and AMC Studios, is about Jesse Custer, a conflicted Preacher in a small Texas town who merges with a creature that has escaped from heaven and develops the ability to make anyone do anything he says. Along with his ex-girlfriend, Tulip (Ruth Negga) and an Irish vampire named Cassidy (Gilgun), the three embark on a journey to literally find God.

Jesse’s sidekick Cassidy is described as the most wild-ass, bestest “bro” you’d ever want to meet. He may be 100 years dead but no one’s more boisterously alive than Proinsias Cassidy. An incorrigible mischief-maker, Cassidy’s up for anything — joyriding, bungee-jumping, bank robbing, peyote dropping. He’s also a relentless conversationalist with opinions on everything from religion to politics to pop culture to theories on why people are better able to tolerate the odor of their own flatulence.

In addition to Negga, Gilgun joins Ian Colletti who was cast as Eugene Root, aka Arseface. Dominic Cooper has been in conversations for the lead, Jesse.

While he has been steadily working in film in TV in his native England for a decade

marks only Gilgun’s second U.S. gig — he is co-starring opposite Vin Diesel in the upcoming feature

. Gilgun is repped by UK’s Hamilton Hodell and Peikoff Mahan.

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Wow way to thrill me Preacher TV show, with Misfits Joseph Gilgun. And directly after hearing bout the X-Files return.

Now THAT’S good casting. Makes me hopeful they know what they’re doing with Tulip.

Good to finally see a good casting choice for one of the main characters, as opposed to the actors they’ve chosen for the other leads. I like Dominic Cooper, but I’m doubtful that he can pull off a big, strapping Texas shit-kicking redneck like Jesse Custer. And the less said about Tulip’s casting, the better.

They’ve cast a Yorkshire man as an irish character, why not an irish woman as a southern usa woman?

Great casting … he’s an actor many fans of the comic actually wanted for the role, too.

Regarding Tulip’s casting a) Ruth Negga is a good actress and b) her skin colour actually contributes something interesting to the plot. Considering Jesse is raised in a compound of fanatically religious, racist psychopaths, you can imagine how they’d react to an interracial relationship.

I hope the casting of Misfit’s actors indicates that Preacher will be aiming for a similar mix of comedy and violence.

you just blew my mind, i hadnt thought of that

So sorry, Mam, I know how much you’ve been waiting the last few years for ‘Eli Dingle’ to return to your favourite soap, but he’s back in another one of my type of shows again instead. :D

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