interview | nathan mitchell

Nathan Mitchell contains multitudes. Currently featured on two top-rated shows, Amazon Prime Video’s ‘The Boys’ and Netflix’s ‘Ginny & Georgia,’ respectively, some might even call him a superhero — a technical term, “supe”. Classically trained, the Canadian-born actor began his career in 2007, with appearances in television projects like ‘Supernatural’, ‘Arrow’, and ‘Psych: The Movie’. Having wrapped production on the fourth season of ‘Ginny & Georgia,’ a series revolving around a biracial teenage girl and her dysfunctionally fabulous mother, Georgia (Brianne Howey), Mitchell plays a supporting role as Xion, a transient father to the show’s lead Ginny (Antonia Gentry) — a stark contrast to his role as Black Noir in ‘The Boys’. The show is a campy and oftentimes eerily adjacent caricature of the happenings, people, and places inspired by the country’s real-life villains, currently in its fifth and final season. Yet, it’s hard to believe the role that brought the characteristically handsome actor to primetime fame was, for many years, clothed in mystery. In a masks-off interview, Mitchell talks with Schön! about the joy of getting into character, living with phantasia, muscle suits, legacy, and superhero do’s and don’ts (snacks included). In ‘The Boys’, you play a superhero, and... Read more » The post interview | nathan mitchell appeared first on Schön! Magazine.