Kayti Burt Oct 22, 2019
We talked with Denny Love, who plays Chip "The Colonel" Martin in Hulu's new Looking For Alaska adaptation.
While John Green's Looking For Alaska novel was told from Miles "Pudge" Halter's point of view, Hulu's limited series has adapted the story in a much more ensemble-driven context. This isn't just Miles' story anymore, if it ever was to begin with. This story belongs to characters like Alaska and Dr. Hyde and Takumi and Lara, too.
Perhaps most affectingly, this story belong to Chip "The Colonel" Martin. In a sea of stellar performances from young and older actors alike, Denny Love's portrayal of Chip—a black scholarship student at Culver Creek Academy who, as Miles' roommate, acts as his guide to this new world—is particularly exceptional. To uncouthly quote my own review on the subject:
Love delivers a layered, vulnerable performance that moves from confidently...
We talked with Denny Love, who plays Chip "The Colonel" Martin in Hulu's new Looking For Alaska adaptation.
While John Green's Looking For Alaska novel was told from Miles "Pudge" Halter's point of view, Hulu's limited series has adapted the story in a much more ensemble-driven context. This isn't just Miles' story anymore, if it ever was to begin with. This story belongs to characters like Alaska and Dr. Hyde and Takumi and Lara, too.
Perhaps most affectingly, this story belong to Chip "The Colonel" Martin. In a sea of stellar performances from young and older actors alike, Denny Love's portrayal of Chip—a black scholarship student at Culver Creek Academy who, as Miles' roommate, acts as his guide to this new world—is particularly exceptional. To uncouthly quote my own review on the subject:
Love delivers a layered, vulnerable performance that moves from confidently...
- 10/22/2019
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