Fan Casting Gran'ma in View Askew's Preacher

A hundred-year-old harridan in a pretty white dress with a red rose pinned to her chest, clinging to Southern Belle gentility like a weapon. She is Jesse's grandmother and the architect of his nightmare—the woman who ordered his father's murder, buried him alive in a coffin at the bottom of a swamp, and broke his spirit until he agreed to become a preacher. Her voice is a witch's croak, her reassuring smile is a promise of hell, and even death cannot stop her: she sits bolt upright on her deathbed to shriek Jesse's destiny into his bones before finally letting go.