“I was playing Red Dead Redemption again for the fourth time while I was character building,” says Midnight Mass actor Rahul Kohli, but adds that the character is more than just the cowboy audiences are used to. “This character [embodies] two things... John Wayne, and in Post-9/11, you had America’s greatest villain; the bearded brown man who’s Muslim, and [Flanagan] fused them [together].”