AMC’s “Preacher” is coming, and the cable channel is already pushing the intensity of the new series hailing from Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg (This Is the End, Superbad, Neighbors).
Set to debut on Sunday, May 22nd at 10:00 p.m. ET/PT, the first clip gave us a look at Tulip (Ruth Negga) in action. In the comic, Tulip is the self-reliant and tough as nails ex-girlfriend of Jesse Custer (Dominic Cooper). Fate brings them back together, but she’s not so quick to forgive him. Check out a new promo that teases Tulip, with more to come, obviously.
Based on the twisted and popular ’90s comic book franchise of the same name, “Preacher,” created by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon, is the story of Jesse Custer (Dominic Cooper) a conflicted Preacher in a small Texas town who is inhabited by a mysterious entity that allows him to develop a highly unconventional power. Jesse, his ex-girlfriend, Tulip (Ruth Negga), and an Irish vampire named Cassidy (Joseph Gilgun) embark on a journey to, literally, find God.
AMC previously provided the first below shots of Cassidy (Gilgun), Tulip (Negga), Jesse Custer (Cooper) and Ian Colletti as Arseface.
Other cast includes W. Earl Brown as ‘Sheriff Hugo Root’, the mean-hearted father of Eugene Root aka Arseface (Ian 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 but nevertheless shows up to church on Sundays.
A Nightmare On Elm Street‘s Jackie Earle Haley was cast as Haley Odin, a member of the local KKK branch and clashes multiple times with Jesse.
Ian Colletti as Arseface
Dominic Cooper as Jesse Custer
Joseph Gilgun as Cassidy
Ruth Negga as Tulip O’Hare
