”I just did a terrible Michael Caine impression,“ Bannon says of his first audition tape
Jack Bannon does an uncannily accurate, Michael Caine-esque East London accent when playing a young Alfred Pennyworth in Epix’s series, “Pennyworth.” But the affectation didn’t come so easily to him right away, he said.
“The first self tape that I did audition-wise, it was all quite rushed and I just did a terrible Michael Caine impression,” Bannon joked in a recent interview with TheWrap.
“So they called me back… then it was about wrestling it into something real. But also, I wanted people to say, oh, it sounds a bit like him,” he said of Caine, who famously played Alfred in Christopher Nolan’s “Dark Knight” trilogy.
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Asked whether he was trying to pay homage to Caine or any of the other actors who’ve played the character in the past, Bannon replied, “a little bit.”
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Margeaux Sippell
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