David Harbour on what attracted him to ViolentNight: “There was something about that feeling that I was like, ‘Oh, this will be wonderful. I’ll get to make a Christmas movie. My kids won’t be able to see it, but I’ll make a Christmas movie.’”
.” Harbour was still letting that sink in as he chatted from Budapest, Hungary, where he’s filming the video game adaptation “Gran Turismo.”
There were two moments. The first was, they wanted me to have a meeting with the director [Tommy Wirkola] and David Leitch the producer before they sent me the script, which I thought was a bad sign, but part of it was to see their enthusiasm about it. Leitch is very good with “John Wick” and “Atomic Blonde,” all the action stuff that he does. Then Tommy really won me over with his passion for Christmas movies. He’s Norwegian, an excitable guy. In Norway, they have a bunch of reindeer.
Jimmy Stewart feeling like he doesn’t have any meaning in his life and that he never amounted to anything, then realizing that all these little things that he did were so important to everyone else, is a beautiful thing to feel at Christmas. Especially when I was alone. When you are alone, you feel sad about your situation. And to turn that on and feel a part of something larger than yourself was really nice.
[Laughs.] It’s either my extreme confidence in myself or my ignorance. I wasn’t worried about taking on the role in that way. I was worried more about the movie as a whole. I was like, does this work? And what it felt like [was] a big swing — and if we’re going to swing, we better swing for the fences.
I thought I would still be in my 400-square-foot apartment in the East Village, barely able to pay my rent and doing off-Broadway plays! But then “Stranger Things” changed everything. During the shooting of it, we were up in Winnipeg and the new “Batman” movie came out, and we all went to see it and loved it. I thought it was similar to our movie in the sense of, Batman in that movie has to become a third thing; he becomes vengeance. There’s a similar theme here, where Santa has this very clearly defined idea of Christmas. People have this idea of him, of Christmas, of nice and naughty.
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