'The Leftovers' SPOILERS: Season 1 Episode 3 'Two Boats and a Helicopter' - Christopher Eccleston Talks Reverend Matt Jamison & Job With HBO

If you watched the latest episode of HBO's new series The Leftovers, you might have seen the best episode of television of the summer. The episode followed Christopher Eccleston's character Reverend Matt Jamison without showing another storyline, which was the firs time the series did such a thing. In a new interview with HBO, Eccleston explains the parallels between his character and Job from the Bible, what the symbolism meant, and what we can expect for the Church of Mapleton. (SPOILERS to follow)

You can check out of episode three recap HERE!

If you are familiar with the Book of Job, you probably caught onto the parallels between the biblical character and Jamison. Eccleston told HBO that he was already familiar with Job in the Bible, which certainly helped his performance in "Two Boats and a Helicopter."

"Two or three years ago, before I did the show, I was asked to do a reading at Westminster Cathedral in front of the Archbishop of Canterbury. I was asked to read from the book of Job, when God finally decides to address Job's questions and says, 'Who are you to question me? Did you make the sea? Are you responsible for the fish in the sea?' And all that powerful, unbelievable powerful prose," he said. "I was very, very struck by it - by the power of that exchange, the first questioning of God by a man, the first existential man in literature, possibly. A year later, I was in a tiny church in Devon, a tiny church with my mother actually, and the Bible was open. I walked up, and it was open at that very page. Then I ended up playing a character that identified with Job. So I've been following him -it's crazy."

Read more from Eccleston on this powerful episode and character HERE!