The Saturday Show on BBC Radio Scotland<\/a> that speaking in his own accent helped him give the character a fuller personality.<\/p>\n“I want the fans to like what I have done with the character and accept that I have a Scottish accent,” he said.<\/p>\n
“It threw a lot of people off at the start, but having my own accent meant I could put my own spin on the character.”<\/p>\n
The eight-episode series has been described as the conclusion of a trilogy that also includes WandaVision and Agatha All Along.<\/p>\n
Its cast includes Marvel veteran Paul Bettany, award-winning actor James Spader and British performer Joe Locke, who Mollica made his London West End debut with.<\/p>\n
When Mollica was added to the lineup in October 2025, he described it as “the best day of my life”.<\/p>\n
“I submitted the self tape into the abyss thinking I’m never going to get the role, but after a five-month audition process I was on the plane to New York to do a screen test with Paul Bettany and Terry Matalas, who created the series,” he said.<\/p>\n
“My manager in America phoned me and goes, ‘your life is about to change, kid,’ and I just cried.<\/p>\n
“I bawled my eyes out, sat on a wall and it started raining in a prophetic fallacy kind of way.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scottish actor Ruaridh Mollica has said he hopes fans will accept his accent as he stars in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":805011,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-805010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=805010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/805011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}