In Heretic, Hugh Grant plays the villain. He tells Morning Edition that actors are drawn to the bad guys “rather than the dreary, goody-two-shoes lead.”
iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/nx-s1-5019372/nx-s1-5236056-1" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">, two young Mormon missionaries knock on the door of someone we know only as Mr. Reed . At first, he seems harmless and curious about their religion.
“It’s so important to find your faith in a doctrine you actually believe,” Mr. Reed tells the missionaries, portrayed by Sophie Thatcher and Chloe East. “And that’s a very, very personal challenge that I’ve struggled with for a very, very long time. What is the one true religion?” But a conversation about faith soon reveals a slow burning menace which turns into terror as his guests find themselves held captive and trying to escape.The following interview has been edited for length and clarity.He appears at the beginning of this film to be a perfectly nice, decent, rather intelligent man living with his wife in a middle-class home somewhere in the middle of America.
A key moment in sort of working out who he was: I decided he was the kind of teacher who wore double denim. Double denim was incredibly important to my vision of this character.The older I’ve gotten – the more acting I've done – it’s almost obsessive. So, yes, there’s hundreds of pages of biography of this guy.Yes. Yes. But while I’m writing them, I’m also connecting with the director, the writers saying, “What do you think of this? What do you think of that?” But a lot of it’s just me.
"I decided he was the kind of teacher who wore double denim," Hugh Grant says."Double denim was incredibly important to my vision of this character."I’m fascinated by it. And it’s fun for actors. And it’s also always interesting and magnetic for audiences. They’re always drawn to the bad guy rather than the dreary goody two shoes lead.I love gangster movies. I love movies about gang members, mob members.
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