Chris Mundy on why they cast Aaron Pierre as John Stewart
"It's a tricky role because there's a physicality to believing that someone is a superhero, and then there's a physicality to the character of John Stewart. He was a Marine sniper, which requires a certain kind of focus and diligence. After the Marines, he becomes an architect, so there's an artistic side to him. Those are a lot of elements that an actor has got to be able to project. And Aaron is someone who understands that physicality as a trained theater actor. We talked a lot about that how being a Marine is John's job, but it's not his entire personality. He's as much an artist as he is a Marine. There's a real balance of the physical and the artistic that's just innately inside of Aaron, and I think it's essential. If we're doing our jobs well as writers, we're not stating all this stuff out loud. We're trusting that our actors can fulfill that role. The audience has to believe that he could take a guy down with one punch, and also believe that he could sketch intricate portraits of his family and birds and all these beautiful things".
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