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Tom Kirkman does not find his role a natural fit
"He's just in incredibly uncomfortable circumstances," says Sutherland. "He's scared, and I wanted to convey that in every way I possibly could, whether it was tonally through the dialogue, physically, surrounded by these gigantic people with guns. Certainly from the beginning of the episode, all the way through to when he makes his first address to the nation, you see that physicality start to change where he starts to rise to that occasion."
"He's just in incredibly uncomfortable circumstances," says Sutherland. "He's scared, and I wanted to convey that in every way I possibly could, whether it was tonally through the dialogue, physically, surrounded by these gigantic people with guns. Certainly from the beginning of the episode, all the way through to when he makes his first address to the nation, you see that physicality start to change where he starts to rise to that occasion."
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TitlesDesignated Survivor, Pilot