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KSDK Interviews Matt Servitto
KSDK Interviews Matt Servitto
KSDK interviews actor Matt Servitto about the 4th and final season of 'Banshee'.
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“Time and experience, son” is what I like to call the Brock Lotus mantra on Cinemax’s
), Brock is the last good man standing in this town, or as close to good as one will find in a place where bullets and fists often without relent or need to pause for physical and mental trauma.
Servitto’s role calls for constant comic relief of the sarcastic and real moment variety, which happens every time Antony Starr’s Lucas Hood gets into inconceivable trouble and then Brock shifts into a serious call of duty speech to a tormented young deputy. He mixes light and dark better than most actors, and I had the opportunity to chat with Servitto about the role and upcoming final season last week. It started out as a Q&A before developing into a conversation between two people who are in love with this show.
Servitto: The craziness was shooting the thing. Now we just sit back and watch. It’s another crazy year. Writers sitting around trying to figure out how they are going to top themselves on this show.
Buffa: Adam Targum (Executive Producer and Writer) told me in September that when the fourth season picks up, jaws will collectively drop when they see how
Servitto: They took such a risk with the first episode’s storyline. When I saw the script, I was like “you guys have got to be kidding me”. You kept thinking how they are going to top last season because every episode feels like a season finale. I loved how they toned it down this season and made it more mysterious and weird while keeping it
Buffa: Yes and I knew this interview was going to be a bit of dancing around because the
team wasted no time in firing things up this season and it’s hard to truly discuss it. What does happen does immediately kick this season in motion.
Servitto: Oh yeah, and it’s funny. Normally, when we do press for
, they give us a whole sheet of talking points. Things to cover and talk about and emphasize. This year they gave us a non-talking point sheet. Don’t say this and don’t say that. So what are we supposed to be saying? There’s nothing you can talk about without giving something away. These interviews are full of landmines. I’ve told people to avoid the press before they get through the first few episodes.
Buffa: Well, we do know you are now sheriff. Via the promos and Lucas Hood handing you the badge again at the end of season 3, you are the man finally. Then again, Brock refers to the new position as a “hemorrhoid”. This is not how he saw his sheriff tenure unfolding.
Servitto: It’s definitely be careful what you wish for. Why would this man want to be sheriff of the most violent town in America? He’s also somehow who once saw the town differently. You get the sense with the rise of Proctor and Hood showing up that things change. I had a line once, “Why does every guy with a machine gun within 100 miles want to shoot at you?” A big part of Brock is that he wants to do the right thing. He wants to restore order to Banshee. I have a line (which could be heard in the trailer), “The only thing I care about is this town.” He has a little bit of Lucas Hood going right now.
Buffa: After Emmett died, Brock was the closest to good in this town. Everybody else is twisted. Once they went on that revenge mission to kill Hondo in the season 3 premiere, he has tumbled down into Hood territory of blurring the lines.
Servitto: I feel like everybody on this show had their Welcome to Banshee moment. I went to the shootout at the end of season 1 and some in Season 2 but still Brock didn’t get his moment. That vigilante mission in Season 3 was his welcome to Banshee moment. It’s impossible for Brock to maintain this moral course. I feel like even the most moral guy in this town is somewhat corrupt. Season 4 is where you see him get the job and struggle with it. There’s so much going on. Again, not much I can say about it….
Buffa: There’s really not. You truly have to see it in order to understand what we mean here.
Servitto: When I first read the script for the first episode, my first thought was for the fans. That had never happened before. I usually think about the show and the actors, but that script, it was like taking a show I know and taking it on a whole different ride. I can’t wait for it to start so all these secrets we have been keeping in since August can finally be out there.
Buffa: Over the years, what Brock and Lucas have and engage in appears to be a father-son like quarrel. Is that accurate?
Servitto: I think the real father-son thing, especially this season, is more between Brock and Bunker (Tom Pelphrey) because there really is an age difference and we have some “Leave it to Beaver as only Banshee knows” moments where I sit him down and talk to him. With Brock and Hood, it reminded me of what my
character, Agent Harris, had with Tony Soprano. At the beginning of the show, we were pretty much adversarial. I’m the FBI and trying to take you down. Once Harris transferred out of organized crime and into Anti-Terrorism for the last three seasons, all of a sudden Tony and I become friendly. There was a mutual respect.
I feel like the same thing happened on this show. Lucas and Brock start off as enemies and by the end of season 3, on their trip to New Orleans, there is this love-hate and mutual respect thing going on. Especially where Brock tells Lucas, “I don’t care who you are. I need you.” There’s a little of that in Season 4 too. Just when you think these guys are done with each other, they still have a use for each other. He’s brought me a little bit to the dark side and I have brought him to the light side. We met somewhere in the middle. I liked that they never tipped it too far in one direction.
At one point they were supposed to kill my character. At the end of Season 1, Brock was supposed to die. I had a one year thing where I was going to figure out who he is and that he is lying. It’s right as we are heading to the Metal Works shootout. I discover some file and figure it out. I meet him at the metal works and I tell him you are lying. As I get shot and die, I tell him, “You are liar”. However, halfway through the season, the producers pulled me aside and told me Brock isn’t getting killed off. They liked what I was doing and wanted to keep me around. It was almost a one year thing and it developed into a full blown thing. Which is nice.
Buffa: You have a difficult role. Brock has to be the comic relief and also step into these fiercely dramatic moments right after. It’s not an easy role to play.
Servitto: What’s fun about Season’s 2 and 3 is that people would email and tweet me that they loved the comedy my character brings. It’s funny because it’s usually not on the page. I’m the audience’s eyes. I’m calling it as I see it. This scene happens and Brock is the only one who stands there and says, “what the hell are we doing?” I just say what is everybody is thinking. Once they found out that humor is important, they started layering it in there. With Season 4, my character ends up in a very dark place which is fun. There’s still the sardonic Brock, but there’s moments where you see all of it being tested.
is comic relief yet after that settles in there is a true conviction in his portrayal of Brock Lotus. Here is a man who just wants the best for his town. Brock is like the last man standing with the majority of his sanity in place but every episode that dwindles. Bad things happen to good people in Banshee, and Brock’s will to see a right in this chaotic mess may be his undoing or the final swing from the weary yet wise badge. “Time and experience, son”.
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