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Diogo Morgado on Being The Man in CW's "The Messengers"

Diogo Morgado on Being The Man in CW's "The Messengers"

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The YH Studio welcomes actor Diogo Morgado to fill us in on his intriguing sci-fi series for The CW, "The Messengers", in which he portrays a character known only as The Man. He explains the concept of the show and how he preps for his nude scenes, plus he compares this role to his previous one of Jesus Christ in "The Bible' miniseries. He also shows off his strong eyebrow game and we teach him how to moonwalk!

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Young Hollywood

tilt your chin down a little bit. There. That was it. Is it cool? Now you can do the one eyebrow raise. I'll teach you the moonwalk if you can teach me how to do that.

Diogo Morgado

No, this is my thing. I can do this all day long.

Young Hollywood

Wow! How the heck? This is the moonwalk in your eyebrows. Can you move your scalp cuz some people can move it?

Diogo Morgado

I can move my ears. Wiggle.

Young Hollywood

You and Jack Black. Oh my gosh. You're gonna get me in trouble in here. Will I? Yes. That's welcome.

Diogo Morgado

Well, that's actually my character. So welcome. Whatever.

Young Hollywood

Oh. Now you are. You are the you are the guy that sort of like brings out the truth in people. Look at this. I know you can't stop staring. No, I mean it's not No, No, That's not what I meant. No, isn't it cool? No, it's kinda kinda mean. It's kinda creepy. You're intense in this photo. You could've been in Zoolander too. Like with the blue steel? Yeah. Could've been. Oh, yeah. Tilts your chin down a little bit. There. That was it. Is it cool? Now you can do the one eyebrow raise. I'll teach you the moonwalk if you can teach me how to do that.

Diogo Morgado

No, this is this is my thing. I can do this all day long.

Young Hollywood

Wow. I can move my ears. Wiggle. You and Jack Black. Oh my gosh. Where do you sign up for the ear gym? Yeah, it's What's the membership fee?

Diogo Morgado

Yeah, it's just you just you just use your your whole face. Does it mean but they teach you that as an actor, don't they?

Young Hollywood

No. Oh. So this show you're playing you are the man.

Diogo Morgado

I am the man. Yeah, it's uh The Messengers. What a show. Uh this is like basically humanity. Humanity is being tested through five distant strangers as a mysterious object coming coming from outer space and crashes on Earth. It creates a huge

Young Hollywood

You're saying you're nodding? Oh, no. I'm nodding because the good people at CW sent me the pilot and I'm addicted.

Diogo Morgado

You are? Oh, yeah. This is so up my alley. I'm fine on that. The whole show it's it plays a lot with the our perspective of good and evil inside of us. We all have a potential killer or a potential saint. Uh it's it really depends on on the circumstances you're in. Imagine that someone that you really love, you know, gets some some sort of attack. There's there's an inner primal

Young Hollywood

Right.

Diogo Morgado

thing going on inside of you and and you might end up doing something really bad out of it.

Young Hollywood

Oh, I could do that just if somebody peeves me off on the road.

Diogo Morgado

Exactly.

Young Hollywood

Oh, yeah. Doesn't have to hurt a family member. You're that easy? Wow. You're a mean girl. Road Rage.

Diogo Morgado

Yeah, but that will that define you as a bad person?

Young Hollywood

Does that make me a bad person? Maybe not. There you go. But it is a bad thing. Going from and I know everybody's drawing the comparison, the Bible, playing Jesus.

Diogo Morgado

No, it's a wonderful comparison.

Young Hollywood

Such opposite ends of the spectrum. There has this has to be more fun in a sense. I mean More delicious, please.

Diogo Morgado

Fun fun. It's a tricky word. Yeah. Um mainly because, you know, playing Jesus for me it was almost not work. It was like a really personal and emotional journey for me. It was what a spiritual journey for me. Now, for me, this is going back to work. You know, it's it's different. But what it what really helps me out with this character in the fact that yes it is the extreme opposite, you know. I think doing uh the whole experience of Son of God and the Bible and playing Jesus helped me out in in in in a different take and a different perspective of how good and evil operate in this world. You know, I think I used to think before I played Jesus, I used to think that we need we all need like a group of people to change the world for for the better. I always thought that we need like an association, like a group to group out and change things. After playing Jesus, I don't I don't I don't believe in that anymore. I think it starts with each of us. You know, sometimes, you know, when you're having when you're having a bad day, instead of of sharing that negativity, if you just switch it up to love and keep smiling and start smiling to everyone, you may change someone's uh day.

Young Hollywood

I saw I saw an interview you did at Comic Con and they were talking about how you're almost like you're the guy that brings out people's true humanity. Humanity. And who they really are. And then you said something that I thought was really interesting about how um friends, how you're almost like the way a friend should be.

Diogo Morgado

Exactly. Like a tell the truth.

Young Hollywood

Yeah, like a true friendship is is is, you know, counting on someone that is there to tell you the truth, no matter how much it will hurt you. Okay, so I have some scenarios for you. Wow. Somebody has spinach in their teeth.

Diogo Morgado

I would say it immediately.

Young Hollywood

You do. Oh, yeah. What if you're on a date?

Diogo Morgado

Even worse. I don't want to be spending the whole day looking at the spinach. You don't want to look at it. No, what's the spinach's purpose now?

Young Hollywood

Yeah. Do you think that everything's random or do you think that everything

Diogo Morgado

No, I did not think everything has a meaning. Everything has a meaning.

Young Hollywood

So you were destined to do to be naked on certain.

Diogo Morgado

Well, destiny's another. Well, when I was shooting I was like I hope this was destiny. Cause uh I'm naked and this and it's a strong wind and it's it's not comfortable. I have a sock covering me.

Young Hollywood

Yes, you Oh, you're wearing the sock?

Diogo Morgado

I was wearing the sock. They were

Young Hollywood

Did they give you a choice? Yeah, like sock or no sock. Yes. And you chose sock. That's the choice.

Diogo Morgado

And I was like, wearing a sock? Please. No touch-ups. I'm fine. I'm fine. Just Let's go.

Young Hollywood

Was it like did you sleep the night? Cuz girls I know would be like the night before but.

Diogo Morgado

I was good the night before. Oh, yeah.

Young Hollywood

Now you're ready to lighten the mood and go out and go out with the moonwalk. Let's let's do it. Okay. Now here's what you do. You put your left go up on your left toe. Yeah. And now slide right like Slide it through. No, but you're going like this. I hope mine looks better than mine. But you go like this. I think I actually put the left foot up and you slide that one. You slide And then you go like that. That's just. What a great um television moment, right? Yes. Yeah. You were so You were so um unexpected.

Diogo Morgado

Unexpected. Yeah. You're right. Okay, what else? That's it. So we're we're not we're not having the cooking segment.

Young Hollywood

Next up on Young Hollywood we cook with the devil. It's some it's a spicy meal. It will be. It's gonna be hot. It's gonna be hot. Can you raise your eyebrow now? There you go.

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FAQ

What show does Diogo Morgado discuss in the interview?+
Diogo Morgado discusses his sci-fi series "The Messengers" on The CW.
What character does Diogo Morgado play in "The Messengers"?+
Diogo Morgado plays a character known only as "The Man" in "The Messengers".
What was Diogo Morgado's previous significant role?+
Diogo Morgado previously played Jesus Christ in "The Bible" miniseries.
How does Diogo Morgado view the comparison between his roles as The Man and Jesus?+
Diogo Morgado sees playing Jesus as a spiritual journey and playing The Man as a return to work, noting how his experience as Jesus helped him understand good and evil for his current role.
What is the concept of "The Messengers"?+
"The Messengers" is about humanity being tested through five strangers after a mysterious object from outer space crashes on Earth.
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