John, what was it like coming into the second season of a show with such an established, singular tone and characters? John Malkovich : I absolutely loved the first season, so I was just very happy to be among those people.
Because of the way the first season ended, the Church has to go on and I am part of that continuation of the Church. But I really like all of these characters, so I was delighted to do it. So much of the first season revolves around the nature of the papacy and Lenny doing whatever he wants.
But John Brannox is a very different man than Lenny. How did you approach playing that character? Sorrentino : It was important to me that the character was a tired man, a man that has nothing to ask of life. Except, maybe, the papacy. His real goal is to disappear, not to be the pope. To be the pope, for the Catholics, is like being the second person after God.
So at the end, maybe both of the popes will prefer to be in another place. How did you approach playing someone with that much authority? And this enormous, massive world of expectations and projections and fantasies and wishes. Power is a rather different thing, in my opinion.
So he never really needed to do anything at all. He took no part in managing the estate. His relationship with power would be about the same as any person who would be put in that position. Law : I think it is different. The way I always saw it with Lenny, he was putting everything on hold. He was so lost in his own drama that he almost froze the faith and reverted back to the book in order to buy himself time to figure out what the fuck he was going to do. Though Lenny is hugely egotistical, I think he was so lost in his own drama that he hid from it.
He was just trying to figure out what to do before everyone figured out what he was doing. And the answer lay in opening his heart. He scared people away because he rejected what he saw as their shallow Catholic faith. How did that change with the post-coma version of the character? And perhaps he has to face something that he was running away from during the first season. Malkovich : What does a saint do except wrestle with God or fate against the limitations of being a human? As a translation of faith.
My natural instinct is you try and nail things down. Was that your experience of playing Brannox, a character who is also adrift in a sea of faith? There is an app for that. Brannox is a different breed of cat. One of the things I love about the show is that the Church has a very strong aesthetic. Paolo Sorrentino. More like this. Watch options.
Storyline Edit. Under the papacy of Sir John Brannox under the name of John Paul III, Vatican tries to clean its good name after a series of sexual scandals that jeopardized the institution itself.
The news about Pius XIII's comeback shocks the Christianity, turning the admiration of millions of believers in true idolatry for the returned Pope.
Everyone can be a saint. Did you know Edit. Trivia John Brannox has a quite interesting collection of 18th century Venice landscapes made by Canaletto and other painters of late baroque.
You can see it in third episode, at the time of his rejection. Connections Featured in Jeremy Vine: Episode 3. User reviews Review. Top review. Great topic, great script, acting, cinematography, lighting.
Watching it, I experience flashes of Federico Fellini. FAQ 3. When will the series premier? Is this a prequel to the young pope? Details Edit. Release date January 13, United States. English Italian. Wildside Haut et Court Mediapro. Technical specs Edit. Runtime 1 hour. Dolby Digital.
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