Jenna Coleman

Morpheus meets (and maybe flirts with?) Joanna Constantine in the third episode of the Netflix adaptation of Neil Gaiman's iconic comic.

• In a fun reference to the source material, one of the security guards’ innards coats the inside of an elevator when John makes his escape. Her hope is that with a different protective amulet on his side, John will see reason and hand the ruby over to Dream. But c’mon, Ethel. You locked your son up for a reason. • Would Dream have let the demon eat the princess in order to get his helm back? Being a magical pain in the arse is dangerous work, and the people who love John often get more of the damage than he himself does. In order to get John on her side, the “let’s not kill Dream, let’s just give the ruby back” side, she gives up her demonic amulet. Also learning that man is not an island and that one’s actions have consequences are John and Ethel Cripps. She is still trying to get John to hand over Dream’s ruby so that she can give it back and seek forgiveness from Morpheus. Ask Alex how that works out, Ethel. Oh, right, you can’t, because he will be trapped in a waking nightmare until he dies. Besides Johanna Constantine, we meet two other recurring characters in the Sandman mythos this ep: Mad Hettie and Matthew the Raven. The former is a centuries-old woman who is too obstinate to die and has knowledge of the occult. Dream and Constantine’s stories intersect and overlap in a way that underscores the episode’s main theme, that you can’t live in a hermetically-sealed bubble. I wonder if she’s still down there and if we’ll meet her when Dream travels to hell in the next episode. Morpheus interrupts Johanna’s exorcism, and she in turn interrupts his attempt to reclaim his helm. And Dream is very much in the same place as Johanna, emotionally: untrusting, hiding their surplus of feelings under a façade of not caring, and going through a trenchcoat era. Johanna’s contact suspects a member of the royal family has been possessed, and what does it say about their current reputation that a possessed princess is honestly an upgrade?

The Sandman spoilers follow. John Constantine has been knocking around the fictional realm for a while. The occult detective has jumped from DC comic to DC ...

I think that's where the meeting of Constantine and Dream (Tom Sturridge) is so beautiful, because Dream sees straight through to her dreams, where she doesn't open the door to anybody." As mentioned, we've barely scratched the surface with Johanna… Back then we find a Lady Johanna Constantine (John's counterpart) attempting to coerce the King of Dreams into giving her immortality. In The Sandman, this is first hinted at through Johanna's relationship history with ex-girlfriend Rachel (Eleanor Fanyinka). The emotionally stunted Johanna ghosted Rachel by leaving the home they unofficially shared and never coming back. His look was based on Sting, as a way of getting the musician into DC comics (starting with 'Swamp Thing' issue 25). John Constantine has been knocking around the fictional realm for a while. "Because [love] never ends well." She added: "The more vulnerability that she has, the more she has to lock herself up, and armour herself away. She's trading life. During an interview with Digital Spy she said: "No." Point blank – simple. "When we looked at what we were going to do in this whole series, we knew that we were going to have Lady Johanna Constantine meeting Dream in a pub. This latest iteration of the character sees them flip from John to Johanna Constantine in a gender-swap move by Neil Gaiman in the adaptation of his The Sandman.

When Gaiman started writing The Sandman series, his comic book story was intertwined with the bigger DC universe, so it was easy to bring many heroes and ...

After helping Dream retrieve his Pouch, Johanna finally gets rid of a recurring nightmare in which she has to witness the loss of life caused by her failures. The second reason for the change is that Johanna Constantine is actually two different people in The Sandman universe. In the series, Dream’s ( Tom Sturridge) fateful encounter with Johanna Constantine also follows the general story of Preludes and Nocturnes, the first volume of Gaiman’s Endless saga. In the comic books, Dream meets Johanna three centuries before crossing paths with her descendent John. So, for the series, The Sandman’s creative team thought it would be more interesting to have the same actress playing both parts. And even if they did, it would be confusing to put classic DC heroes in the middle of the series – there’s a reason why even The Sandman comics became increasingly disconnected from the bigger DC universe. When Gaiman started writing The Sandman series, his comic book story was intertwined with the bigger DC universe, so it was easy to bring many heroes and villains from different comic book series into the pages of The Sandman, such as John Constantine, Mr. Miracle, and even the Martian Manhunter. The same couldn't happen in Netflix’s series because they didn't have the right to use other DC characters.

The actress stars as Johanna Constantine in Netflix's The Sandman, a 10-part show based on Neil Gaiman's wildly popular comic book series. But, while there are ...

“It is so important to me – it completely transforms the way you hold your body. “It is such a circus – it is such an unnatural thing for a human being to be doing – to have loads of people shouting your name and pointing cameras at you. “In this industry, there is a lot of noise and so many voices coming at you. "It is far more daunting to play real-life people," she says of some of the former parts she’s taken on. “Look I am not the first person you would think of for this role, but I love that Neil tried to invert the expectations of the character by coming to me. “I think it is such an interesting approach for them to explore Constantine in a way that we haven’t seen before.

And Johanna Constantine is both a relative and reinterpretation of DC Comics character John Constantine, who has been a popular staple of the superhero universe ...

“They weren’t going to dictate the terms of what it was,” Christie told TheWrap. “So yes, of course, it can be a crushing awareness that this is an archetypal character and this has been portrayed so many ways and over so many decades. But it all helped her avoid following in the footsteps of the famous Constantine comics mantle and allow her to carve out her own character. My reaction was very instinctive because it was purely from Allan’s words on the page and her psychology. Thankfully the writing is so exceptional from Neil, and from Allan with his translation of what this is. I’m glad it happened that way around because it meant I’ve been able to kind of stick true to my instinctive response, as opposed to having too many external influences.” Lucifer obviously traces its origins back to religion and has been depicted across art for centuries before the advent of Hollywood entertainment.

Neil Gaiman says Jenna Coleman gives the best on-screen portrayal of Constantine. Here's what you should know about the character and the actress.

You know that if you fall in love with her, you are dead and demon-fodder. And you also know that you can't help falling in love with her." While in the show Dream puts her to sleep, in the comics he proposes a secret deal with her. It was big and obvious that we were going to [cast a woman]." For fans of the comic, it may be a little confusing, but below we have a clear explanation of how Johanna Constantine and John Constantine fit into Netflix’s ambitious new fantasy show. A great adaptation makes it so that fans barely even think about changes made along the way; poor attempts to bring concepts to the screen make any changes appear like a gross oversight from what fans actually wanted.

Although, at the top of the list is Jenna Coleman as Johanna Constantine. Essentially filling the role of the more famous DC Comics hero John Constantine in the ...

Despite not literally being John, Coleman is so good in the part that fans are blazing with love for this adaptation of the Hellblazer, with Constantine even trending on Twitter in the wake of the show’s release. The fans aren’t the only ones who are demanding more of Coleman’s Constantine as EP Neil Gaiman has likewise revealed that a Hellblazer show would be his dream Sandman spinoff. The Sandman only premiered on Netflix this Friday, but fans are already demanding a spinoff.