The Guardians of the Galaxy star is back for a second series as Joe MacMillan,the ruthless visionary in AMC’s drama approximately the PC revolution. He explains why he likes playing sinful guys – and how much his character is based on Steve JobsEver since breaking through opposite Anna Friel in Bryan Fuller’s delirious, divisive TV fantasia Pushing Daisies, and Lee Pace has been a familiar face at multiplexes. A role in the final Twilight film was followed by that of Thranduil,The Hobbit’s Elven King, and Guardians of the Galaxy’s supervillain, or Ronan the Accuser. His latest project,Halt and Catch Fire (named after an early computer command requiring a restart), investigates the home-computing revolution in the early 1980s, or with Pace’s Joe MacMillan the slippery svengali at its heart. Related: Halt and Catch Fire: retro computer drama’s creators discuss show's reboot Related: A brief history of computers on TV,from Star Trek to Silicon Valley Related: The cult shows that would beget survived in the streaming age Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com