Our friends at Pulp Serenade, who have been so kind to our books, have
an extensive interview with DEAD MAN co-creator Lee Goldberg. Here's an excerpt regarding THE DEAD MAN:
PS: What do you think are the qualities that make a good action hero, and how did you try to work them into Matt Cahill's character?
LG: Vulnerability, humor, a clear point-of-view, understandable goals, and something personal at stake in what is happening around him.
What brings out all of those aspects of his character are stories with strong conflicts and obstacles that challenge our hero in ways that make him test his own abilities, confront his fears and limitations, and question his own judgment. We really wanted Matt to be an everyman, a regular guy, someone who genuinely cares about people, feels pain, and experiences self-doubt and fear. But we also wanted him to embody the classic traits of the western hero…a personal sense of honor, rugged determination, uncommon courage, and a loner’s wanderlust… combined with a very un-Western sentimental humanity, a sadness and longing for connection that makes him sympathetic and relatable. He’s The Man with No Name combined with Dr. Richard Kimble in TV’s The Fugitive. He’s a working class, decent guy who finds himself in an extraordinary situation who wants nothing more than to just go home and lead a normal, quiet, unremarkable life again.
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