There was some controversy over his casting, as a straight man.
“We should continue to fight for equality across all roles.
Where’s the juice to him?
Where’s thestuff?”
“I didn’t want to do the audition.
It didn’t excite me.
But eventually they gave me this scene to read.”
The scene had Charles compare himself to the titular character in Saul Bellow’s novelDangling Man.
“That book is about a guy waiting to be drafted to go to war.
And he wants to be drafted because it will give his life meaning.
This was Charles' conundrum, too.
And I thought, st, yeah, that’s the juice.”
With his tenure onThe Crowncomplete, O’Connor is moving on to other exciting projects.
In 2021, he’s due to have two new projects out.
The other is a post-World War Iromance.
