So, who is playing the Saint of Killers?!
Just he other day Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg shared the first ever look at Dominic Cooper and Ian Colletti in the “Preacher” series as Jesse Custer and Arseface, respectively.
Now, we have a saint, just not THE Saint.
” ‘Preacher’ centers on Jesse Custer (Dominic Cooper), a conflicted preacher in a small Texas town who merges with a creature that has escaped from heaven and develops the ability to make anyone do anything he says. Along with his ex-girlfriend, Tulip (Ruth Negga), and an Irish vampire named Cassidy (Joseph Gilgun), the three embark on a journey to literally find God (to make him answer for abandoning mankind).”
British actor Tom Brooke has been cast as Fiore, one of the two Adephi angels sent to Earth to retrieve Genesis, the aforementioned creature (created through the unholy union of an angel and demon) that escaped from Heaven. Fiore has the awful task of enlisting the help of the Saint of Killers, one of the best character in the comics.
Previously in “Preacher” casting, W. Earl Brown will portray ‘Sheriff Hugo Root’, the mean-hearted father of Eugene Root aka Arseface (Colletti), a flinty-eyed, conspiracy-credulous redneck who is not a fool and has a vulnerability to him.
Jamie Anne Allman will play Betsy Schenck, a meek wife who appears to suffer beatings by the hand of her husband, Donny. When the Preacher checks up on her, though, she tells a different story. Derek Wilson is Donny Schenck, a Civil War re-enactor and abusive thug who gets into altercations with Jesse Custer (the Preacher) but nevertheless shows up to church on Sundays.