Bill Irwin Interviews

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The following are published interviews featuring Bill Irwin.

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### 2017

Legion’s Bill Irwin on Filming the Show’s Bizarre Tandem Fight Scene [Archived Copy] by Abraham Josephine Riesman - Vulture - March 1, 2017

> *"All I did was try to build a reality where, back in my protective laboratory, I was sort of like a father but sort of like a sibling, telepathically and imaginatively getting the story of what was happening to her out there and feeling it viscerally so that I’m receiving the blows she’s getting and no longer quite giving as much out in the field of battle. It was a wild scene."*
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‘Legion’s’ Bill Irwin on the “Mythic” Power of Noah Hawley’s X-Men Series [Archived Copy] by Josh Willer - The Hollywood Reporter - March 1, 2017

> *"It’s father-daughter, but it’s also brother-sister. Noah has the time relation working in his head and if he were on the phone, he could explain it. I sort of have a sense of it. We have aged at different rates because she only ages when she’s out in the world. Needless to say, we have a couple of generations between us. I still marvel at this notion, even as I’m talking about it a year and change from when he first tried it out on me."*
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Bill Irwin Talks About The Wild Ride Of Being On ‘Legion’ And That Episode Four Finale [Archived Copy] by Dan Seitz - Uproxx - March 2, 2017

> *"We’ve been trying to reflect each other from day one, hanging out in the makeup trailer and trading ideas. We’ve got 45 years difference in age, and it makes for a translation process! We were fascinated by the idea that they share the same body space. And as she gets older, and only ages when she’s outside my body, there’s more reason to separate, and more desire to separate."*
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Bill Irwin Says Legion Is Hawley-Meets-Marvel [Archived Copy] by ComicBook.com Staff - ComicBook.com - March 7, 2017

> *"You are responsible to certain storytelling realities," Irwin said. "Or lack of realities… but don't hold yourself back as long as your freedom is responsible to the origin."*
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### 2018

Interview with Legion’s Bill Irwin [Archived Copy] by Wayne Cheong - Esquire Singapore - no listed date, est 2018

> *"I've some vaudeville background and I just like to dance whenever I can. I love the idea of an older character doing some dancing and he'll even show the younger people a move or two. So, I managed—and still managed—to make it clear to Noah [Hawley] that I was excited about any possibility for this character to surprise people by dancing a little bit. That's how that scene came about. And because it's Noah, he wove an incredible dance face-off [in the episode’s confrontation with the Shadow King] and let me be part of that."*
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Bill Irwin and Amber Midthunder on the Evolution of Cary and Kerry in ‘Legion’ [Archived Copy] by Eric Goldman - Marvel - April 16, 2018

> *“They’re ever evolving and it’s really interesting. In Season 2, things have happened between these two characters that inhabit one body so that we’re forever feeling out our duality. But as the same time, we as a storytelling group, this production, we’re going back and looking at this proposition and getting a second chance to take it on."*
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Actor Bill Irwin talks Legion, working for FX, and getting recognized as Mr. Noodle [Archived Copy] by Red Stewart - Flickering Myth - May 2, 2018

> *"For us as actors, there are two writer’s voices: there’s Noah Hawley, and there is his primary collaborator Nathaniel Halpern, who was there every day on set. I don’t know how he did it: he was creating episodes, rewriting previous episodes, and he was at every shot helping supervise. So, to have the writing team get smaller and more compact, it must have taken a huge toll on those writers, but it really focused the work for us actors."*
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Bill Irwin talks Legion season 2 [Archived Copy] by Nicola Austin - We Have A Hulk - June 3, 2018

> *"There’s a huge narrative shift from season one to season two, and I was surprised with how suddenly we are now in league with Division 3. I think the greatest impact it’s had over the course of season 2 is between the Cary and Kerry relationship. Also no one is as sure this season who to trust, as we thought we were last season. And that has played out and I don’t know how much of season 2 you’ve seen, but the Cary/Kerry relationship undergoes a pretty major evolution."*
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‘Legion’ Cast on the Future for Kerry, Cary, and Ptonomy [Archived Copy] by Eric Goldman - Marvel - July 27, 2018

> *As the off-camera father of a 27 year old son, which is about six eight years older than off-camera Amber is, [Cary and Kerry] suggests parenthood, but it isn’t strictly a parenthood paradigm. But part of the parenthood paradigm is the “I’m in charge of you, do what I say! …I need your help now.”*
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### 2019

'Legion': Amber Midthunder, Bill Irwin and Jeremie Harris on Bringing the Show to an End [Archived Copy] by Christina Radish - Collider - August 12, 2019

> *"Of course, this narrative is full of time travel, which is really interesting for a guy my age to think about. It’s the confusion and the weight upon one’s shoulders, that I feel from this story."*
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## Podcasts

We Have A Hulk Marvel Mini Episode 10 Bill Irwin - May 10, 2018

> We interview Legion star Bill Irwin, who plays Cary Loudermilk, about series 2 of the show.
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Below The Belt Show Bill Irwin - September 25, 2019

> Al talks to veteran actor Bill Irwin who can be recently seen in FX's Legion!
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