Evil embodied - Eddie's chilling performance

Jessica Chastain, Amy Loughren, and Tobias Lindholm praise Eddie and his performance,

and Eddie talks about his approach to the character.

"Well, I approach any character just to start by reading literally any source, then it was about

footage, it was about as much footage as I could get my hands on. The physical element

was important to me. Charlie did self-soothe a lot, that was you know touching himself,

touching his hair or clothes. He was described as looking like a question mark..."

“I had that feeling when I read the script of, ‘Can I play this person without the why?’ But then

I kind of thought on that and ultimately realized that the why and knowing the why is our need

as human beings to feel safe,” Redmayne told IndieWire in an interview earlier this fall.

“As in, if we answered why Charlie Cullen did this, then we would be able to other him and go,

‘Oh, he did it for this reason, and that’s monstrous and we would never do that, so we’re safe.’

Whereas actually, that’s not how the world works and that’s not what he did.”

“How this guy was ever allowed near vulnerable people is one of the shocking questions.

But it also meant that as an actor, I had all of that research there.”

Screening and reception on 21st November 2022 in LA

Eddie and director Tobias Lindholm attended an industry screening and

reception Monday night (November 21, 2022) in Los Angeles.

The moderator was Variety's awards editor Clayton Davis.

Source: @ByClaytonDavis on Twitter

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The Q&A moderated by Pete Hammond was held on Nov. 19th, 2022

at the Directors Guild. You can watch the conversation with

Jessica Chastain, Eddie Redmayne, and director Tobias Lindholm

on deadline.com here

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“To me, the supervillain of the story isn’t the person committing the violence, it’s the organization

that allows it to exist, turns a blind eye to it, and medicine for profit,” - Jessica Chastain.

“The question we are interested in is why wasn’t [Cullen] stopped? What was it in the American 

hospital system that made this go on for years and allowed him to go above 400 victims

without being stopped? Why was it a single mom, with heart disease, and an ICU nurse,

that is responsible for stopping him? Why wasn’t the system able to?” - Tobias Lindholm

"Amy talked about her love for this man and how kind and gentle and self-deprecating and

the fact that he saves her life,” he said. “She met this other human being twice. She describes

how his eyes glazed over and he was a different human being. She describes it as dissociative.

That was a revelation for us because it meant that we could tell this story truthfully. It was

about a friendship, and I suppose in some ways a love story.” - Eddie Redmayne

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