The character George Hutchence, aka Skyfox, had some notable layers that enticed viewers. “George is just a cool superhero. He appears to be one way but internally, he’s covering a lot of things up. That shows me there’s a lot of complexity, a lot of depth to the character.” said Matt Lanter, who played Hutchence in “Jupiter’s Legacy.” George Hutchence is a man whose prowess and mystique is unrivaled by anyone else in the show. In order to create someone with that kind of stoic appeal, Lanter looked to one of Hollywood’s most confident and charismatic icons: Mr. Paul Newman himself (per The Boston Herald).
“I also wanted a bit of Paul Newman, who’s one of my favorites,” Matt Lanter told Den of Geek in 2021. “Paul Newman to me always looks like he has a secret just in every movie. If you go back and watch, you’ll see what I’m talking about. He just always feels like he has a secret and I really love that about him. I think it makes him interesting.”
If you’ve watched “Jupiter’s Legacy,” you probably recognize some of these attributes embedded in Hutchence’s demeanor. Though the “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” star never lived to see his influence take flight in the form of a supervillain, one would probably be right to assume that he’d be flattered by the homage.
