STRANGER THINGS Actor David Harbour Speaks To The Heroic Qualities That HELLBOY Possesses
While chatting about his first trip to San Diego Comic-Con, Hellboy actor, David Harbour, spoke to the kind of hero Big Red is. Going as far as to call him, "a hero for America that we live in today."
David Harbour made his first trip to San Diego Comic-Con to promote the upcoming second season of Stranger Things. While there, he sat down with The Hollywood Reporter to speak about the trip, and what type of geeky stuff he is into.
“I did read some comics, but I was not a huge comic guy," he explained. "I got into graphic novels later on in my life. In my twenties, my friends introduced me to some darker graphic novels, things like Watchmen and Hellboy. The comics were not really my thing. I was a little more into cartoons and Dungeons & Dragons and like He-Man and Thundercats. Those cartoons and stuff.”
The conversation then shifted to his upcoming title role in Hellboy: Rise Of The Blood Queen, as Harbour spoke to the heroic nature of Big Red. “I really do think those Mike Mignola Hellboy comics are so beautiful and he’s such a hero for America that we live in today. I definitely think Hellboy is an antihero. He was kind of born into it. It wasn’t something like Batman where he chooses to go and fight crime. He was just born this weird half-demon spawned by Nazi occultists and saved by these dudes who tried to raise him right. For him, it’s a sense of discovery. His actual destiny as a ‘hero’ is to end the world. He is the beast of the apocalypse. So, in a way, his struggle to be a superhero is to just not do the thing that he’s destined to do,” he said.
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