“My grotesque meter was happily filled,” [SPOILER] tells EW.
I don’t even get a real name, only a purpose."
“You’ve spent this entire episode going, ‘This is the baddest dude I’ve ever encountered.
Conquest.Credit:Amazon
I think he might kill Mark.
This is really bad.
I don’t like this guy.
I’m scared of this guy,'” Kirkman tellsEntertainment Weeklyin a Zoom conversation with Morgan.
“And then to give him this moment of extreme vulnerability, and Jeffrey…
I hate gushing, but just the softness that comes out of his voice in that scene.
You really get a genuine moment of emotion out of him, which…I don’t know.
Morgan’s casting played into that.
Some might call the blood bubble psychotic.
Kirkman, however, calls it “playful.”
I don’t understand the motive of that.
Morgan says they leaned into the meta nature of his casting.
As Conquest, Morgan once again beats a Yeun character at least to near death.
“And we have to enjoy it.
And we did.”
The star took his cues from the animation and script to craft the voice.
“And yet he was never yelling at him,” Morgan points out.
It added to the strange intimacy between Conquest and Mark, he adds.
“Even when they were a half a mile away, there was something about him…
There was just an intimacy there that I wanted to really play.”
The fight itself was gnarly to behold, even for animation.
“It’s a four-act fight!”
“Never have heard of that in the history of anything.”
It’s also one of the reasons Kirkman is thankfulInvincibleis animated.
Could they pull off the same stunt in live-action?
“Maybe if we had thatRings of Powerbudget,” he jokes.
“We deliberately didn’t do anything in season 2 to top that,” Kirkman says.
They have the same goal for season 4 and beyond.
He also acknowledges how far in advance the actors record their parts.
“It’s entirely possible that there are scenes from season 4 that Jeffrey has already done.”
Conquest doesn’t technically die at the end of the season.
Good luck, world!
