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"Hannibal showrunner Bryan Fuller has compared Michael Pitt&amp;#039;s Mason Verger to Batman villain the Joker. Fuller told SciFiNow that Verger is &amp;quot;the Joker to Hannibal&amp;#039;s Batman&amp;quot; on NBC&amp;#039;s dark thriller series.  &amp;quot;The scenes with Michael Pitt and Mads Mikkelsen have been so much fun to cut because we&amp;#039;ve always talked about how Mason Verger has to be a bit of the Joker to Hannibal&amp;#039;s Batman,&amp;quot; he said. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m eager for people to take a peek at what [Michael] does, because I think it will be certainly iconic in the Thomas Harris legacy of these characters.&amp;quot;  Fuller went on to compare Pitt&amp;#039;s flamboyant Verger to &amp;quot;a pimp&amp;quot;, The Great Gatsby and Keeping Up with the Kardashians star Scott Disick. &amp;quot;Michael Pitt brings such a pimp quality to Mason Verger, because the first time you see him he&amp;#039;s dressed in this fantastic fur coat,&amp;quot; the writer explained. &amp;quot;There&amp;#039;s a little bit of The Great Gatsby meets Scott Disick, so he&amp;#039;s fantastically styled, and Michael had so much fun with the role.&amp;quot; Hannibal airs on NBC (Fridays, 10/9c) in the US, with season two launching on May 6 on Sky Living in the UK. Read Digital Spy&amp;#039;s latest US-pace Hannibal recap Watch a clip from Hannibal season two below - spoilers for UK viewers:      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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