How do you resist the robot takeover?
Davis, the titular algorithm is far more advanced, and has many people under its spell.
“I like playing characters that really go for it.
Chris Diamantopoulos on ‘Mrs. Davis’.Ron Batzdorff/PEACOCK
If you’ve watched any ofMrs.
Diamantopoulos describes JQ’s leadership style as “viscerally muscular.”
Over the course of the conversation, JQ gets so excited that he ends up destroying the phone.
Jake McDorman and Chris Diamantopoulos on ‘Mrs. Davis.'.Elizabeth Morris/Peacock
“you could see the sinew and veins popping through the leadership style,” Diamantopoulos says.
“This guy uses bravado and any kind of grandiosity that he can muster to get his point across.
He speaks through a megaphone.
He carries a bazooka.”
Diamantopoulos isn’t Australian, but he is quite an experienced voice actor.
He put those skills to use generating JQ’s hilarious accent.
“I’d never done Australian before,” Diamantopoulos says.
It allows me to figure out how the guy stands, how he breathes, how he walks.
“But then I thought, ‘oh s, I’ve never done that before.’
And that’s a real tough accent.
So I just went into study mode.
I really started breaking it down as best I could and figuring out how that worked in my mouth.
It’s like Cinema Australian.
It’s like he lives and breathes in Zack Snyder’s300.'”
He continues, “Damon loved that and [series co-creator] Tara Hernandez loved that.
This guy’s flexing his biceps all the time, hoping someone will touch him.”
“JQ lost everything when Mrs. Davis hit the scene.
His reason for being, the thing that gave him the crackle, was gone.
He was no longer exceptional, because Mrs. Davis allowed for everyone to be exceptional.
It destroyed him, he couldn’t pivot.
So there is this real sadness and vengeance to him, this feeling that everything was taken from him.
The first six episodes ofMrs.
Davisare streaming now on Peacock.
