Lang explained what it was like portraying 1 Samuel 15:32-33, in which Samuel cuts the Amalekite King Agag to pieces.
“[King] Agag is just a walking offense,” Lang said. “He’s just living filth.”
“Samuel was a warrior,” Lang said. “He’s not just some old dude who’s kind of walking around, you know, prophesying and blessing and settling disputes and stuff like that—he went to war.”
Lang has had the opportunity to portray several roles in which he “either [administers] a beating or, many times, [gets] a good beating myself.”
“It would have been disappointing to me to be in a production with as much violence and killing as this one and not to be able to dispatch at least one guy,” he added.
Watch Lang’s portrayal of the prophet Samuel starting this Thursday on Prime Video.
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