That there was a cost to trading off Cal for Dr. I wanted to make sure that when Cal went away, that there was an attachment to him. She needed to be a husband, she didn’t need him to be anything supernatural, until she did. I didn’t want to tip anyone off,” he said. “I didn’t want to get in the way with what I had been doing with Cal. Once he found out, he said that he tried not to alter his performance too much. On the outside I kind of received that cool, calm and collected, but on the inside, man, I was going nuts.” “I didn’t how that would play out until a couple episodes in, I had a conversation with Damon to flesh that out, and he said very matter of factly Cal is Dr. I knew that he had a mysterious background,” he said. “I went through a couple episodes, actually, without the knowledge of where Cal was going.
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Manhattan until a few episodes in.Īlso Read: 'Watchmen,' 'Succession' and 'Pen15' Among WGA 2020 TV Award Nominees In the end, humanity is better for it momentarily, I think Veidt is better for it, momentarily.”Ībdul-Mateen said he didn’t know he was going to be Dr. Manhattan has the knowledge of what he’s going to do with it and how it’s going to go, but I think the truth is, still, there’s a better place for his friend.
“He knows that there’s a better place for someone like him,” Abdul-Mateen said. We also learned that the two clones were crafted out of a couple that Manhattan knew as a child, and just why he sent Veidt there. The episode also shows why Manhattan has looked like an African-America man who supposedly didn’t know who he was, thanks to a visit to his old friend Adrien Veidt (Jeremy Irons). But that’s one of the tragic things about falling in love with someone like Dr. She was always his destiny…I guess that’s kind of cold to Laurie. He’s simultaneously experiencing it,” he explains. He’s a guy who doesn’t try to alter events of the future. “He doesn’t go to Laurie, because that’s not what he does. Manhattan perceives time as all happening at once, he knows that his future is with Angela. The story that’s kind of repeating throughout history is the theme where the god wants to be a human, and the human wants to be a god… wanted to feel human again.” That “utopia” that Manhattan created is the same place where Jeremy Irons’ Adrian Veidt has spent the past decade.Īlso Read: 'Watchmen' EP Breaks Down the Major Reveal That Upends Alan Moore's Original ComicĪs for why he immediately sat down at a bar in Vietnam across Angela instead of finding Blake, Abdul-Mateen said that, since Dr. “He attempted to create new life and to create a utopia but they treated him like a god.
“He was just not satisfied,” Abdul-Mateen explains. Manhattan come back to Earth, and why did he not seek out his former lover, Laurie Blake (Jean Smart)?
TheWrap spoke with Abdul-Mateen about how long he had to carry the secret of who Cal really was, and probably the two biggest questions that viewers had: Why did Dr. Manhattan in disguise this whole time, Sunday’s penultimate “Watchmen” showed viewers the ill-fated romance between Regina King’s Angela Abar and the man formerly known as Jon Osterman. (Warning: The following story contains spoilers from Episode 8 on “Watchmen entitled “A God Walks Into a Bar”)įollowing last week’s game-changing reveal that Cal Abar (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II) was really Dr.
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