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‘Moon Knight’ Star Ethan Hawke Took Inspiration From Southern Baptist Preachers for Marvel Villain (Video)

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“Moon Knight,” that villain is the chillingly calm Arthur Harrow. But as it happens, Ethan Hawke didn’t look to other villains in pop culture for inspiration on being scary; he looked to real life “television preachers.”Episode 2, now streaming on Disney+, makes a pretty big reveal about Harrow too: he used to be the Moon Knight.

Or rather, he was Khonshu’s avatar as Marc Spector and Steven Grant are now. (The actual name Moon Knight has yet to be dropped).

As he explains everything he’s done up to this point to Steven, we learn that Harrow has delivered “justice” almost blindly.As always, he’s quiet and calm — almost likable at times.

And that likability was an intentional piece thrown in by Hawke.“I did a kind of strange thing, which is I decided I didn’t want to really draw from villains,” Hawke told TheWrap in March. “I wanted to pick people I admired because I thought I could do a better portrait of somebody if I didn’t think of them as a bad guy.” But yes, there were a few very specific names and types that Hawke kept in mind.

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