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Jesse Custer Will Smoke In “Preacher”
While I hate cigarettes, and have never even tried one, it’s still a character trait I enjoy seeing in film and on television.
Until cigarettes are completely removed from our culture, I will always be okay with seeing it in our entertainment, so long as it’s not being shoved down the viewers’ throats in some sort of propaganda kind of way.
It really sucked when the title character of NBC’s “Constantine” was forced to cram his bud into an ashtray. In fact, it ruined the character for me. Maybe for those who never read “Hellblazer” it wasn’t such a big deal, but Constantine had become synonymous with smoking. And his habit was part of his character(‘s flaws).
With Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg now filming their “Preacher” pilot for AMC, the one thing I kept wondering was whether or not the cabler would allow the characters to get shit-faced and whatnot. We (sort of) have an answer.
Jesse Custer, the main character in the comics, is an alcoholic chain-smoker void of purpose, that is until Genesis enters his body. Dominic Cooper is donning the clerical collar for the series, and apparently will be smoking (his American Blend Pilgrims) like a chimney. Again, this is a huge character trait for Custer as, in the comics, his childhood father figure was watching John Wayne on television.
Furthermore, Custer uses his father’s “F*ck Communism” Zippo lighter throughout the comics.
So, while I don’t approve of smoking, I do approve of the use of such as a character trait that will lend to how we relatabe to what’s being projected on screen.
Now, the other half of the mystery is to be revealed. Will Custer also have an alcohol problem? And will Cassidy (Joseph Gilgun) be drinking alongside him?
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All of us here at Bloody Disgusting are deeply saddened to learn that George A. Romero Foundation Founder and President Suzanne Desrocher-Romero has passed away.
GARF shared in a statement on socials, “It is with a heavy heart that we announce the passing of Suzanne Desrocher Romero. Suzanne passed away of natural causes on June 24 at her home in Toronto after a prolonged illness.”
The statement continues, “Suzanne was the fierce leader of the George A. Romero Estate and The George A. Romero Foundation. She worked tirelessly to preserve George’s legacy. Her work at the foundation will continue to inspire and live on for generations to come. The family asks for privacy at this time.”
Desrocher-Romero founded GARF in 2018, after her late husband’s passing in 2017, and has been a fierce advocate for his legacy and the arts. It was her mission to “strengthen horror as a serious field of global study,” and she was a tremendous fighter on behalf of Romero’s works and supporting new filmmakers inspired by his legacy.
It was Desrocher-Romero who spearheaded the recovery and restoration of The Amusement Park, and, as the person in charge of the George A. Romero estate, worked closely with author Daniel Kraus on completing unfinished novels like Pay the Piper and The Living Dead. She most recently celebrated the restoration of her favorite of Romero’s zombie films, Day of the Dead, and was hard at work producing the upcoming film Twilight of the Dead.
That passionate advocacy led to Suzanne Desrocher-Romero becoming family to Bloody Disgusting as well.
2023 marked the start of an ongoing partnership between Bloody FM and GARF on The Dead, a scripted audio series spanning multiple seasons that saw Desrocher-Romero working closely with the Bloody FM team and mentoring the series’s contributing writers with GARF. To say her loss will be felt internally is an understatement.
“Anytime George Romero is mentioned is good, because what we are doing is to provide a healthy legacy. We’re uplifting his legacy, we’re supporting the archive, and we’re also supporting the Horror Study Center. So, all of these three things are what the Foundation is striving to do. As far as I’m concerned, the more we say George Romero’s name, the better it is,” Desrocher-Romero recently told BD.
It’s the perfect encapsulation of her unwavering enthusiasm for supporting Romero’s legacy and the horror genre, and just a glimpse at how much she contributed to preserving it. She is, in short, an inspiration.
We send our deepest condolences to Suzanne Desrocher-Romero’s family, friends, and GARF.
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