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Manny Jacinto Was, In Fact, Trying to Seduce You
As The Acolyte’s Tyler Durden figure, he wanted the Stranger’s appeal to go beyond just “arms.”
It also isn’t Tyler Durden, but the Stranger, Manny Jacinto’s baddie with the body on The Acolyte, was conceived by series creator, producer, writer, and director Leslye Headland as sharing a fair amount of DNA with Fight Club ’s anarchist icon. On top of that, I suggested me being hung upside down, as opposed to Mae being trapped in the net, in episode five, and the last one that I haven’t talked to many people about was in the finale, where Qimir touches Osha’s hand with the lightsaber. But I think Leslye saw what we did with episode five and saw my screen test with the mask, and she was like, “We need more of him.” So we have this big final battle with JJ and I; I had those months of prep and training to get my body ready.
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