Tom Sturridge at first tried to look like the Morpheus from Neil Gaiman’s comic book series: translucent white skin, a mop of hair standing on end, pitch black eyes with stars in the center.
But he and Gaiman realized that to bring the “Sandman” protagonist to life, he had to be able to walk among humans.
“Because the most important thing for me is that Morpheus is representative of us,” the 36-year-old British actor, who stars as the Dream King, told the Daily News.
