Dr. Who and Gracepoint star David Tennant will play the villainous Zebediah Kilgrave (The Purple Man) in the 2015 Netflix series Marvel’s A.K.A. Jessica Jones, according to Entertainment Weekly.
In the comics, Kilgrave, a Yugoslavia native, was a former communist spy who was caught stealing a canister of nerve gas. A shot that narrowly missed Kilgrave punctured the canister releasing the gas and turning Kilgrave all purple, but also giving him the power to command and control people by secreting pheromones.
He'll make Kilgrave a truly original villain.
, executive producer
