What preparation did Zen Duke have to undergo to play such an iconic character?
1] Zen Duke did not study any of the past films on Robin Hood in preparation as his focus was to create a Robin Hood for the present and future. Zen did however study the accents of Englishmen living in the United States and therefore toned down his natural English RP accent (pure English long associated with the BBC and used by less than 5 % of the population) with American slang to depict Hood as a British outlaw who left an aristocratic home in the UK and having lived all over the world is now living in the US instead of a toffy nosed chap from jolly old England.2] Zen gave Hood a much tougher in your face attitude more in lines with an incorrigible outlaw than the goody gum drop manner in which Hood has always been portrayed. For this, Zen studied the incomparable British legend known as the quintessential angry young man Richard Burton (Look Back in Anger, Where Eagles Dare) just as Johnny Depp is said to have studied Keith Richards when prepping for the role of Jack Sparrow.3] Fi
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