Point is, it’s an intense sequence, and Holland’s preparing by doing push-ups.
And running in place.
Until finally he bursts into frame, out of breath, over and over again, take after take.
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This his hometown, the police department, all of it is the last place Henry wants to be.
“It’s definitely taken a toll on him,” Holland says.
“He wanted to get as far away from this town as he could.
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He has a complicated history with it.”
“Complicated” is putting it simply.
“He’s a very traumatized creature,” Skarsgard says of his character.
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“He’s very feral.
He’s not normal.
Everything is off and wounded in some way.”
“I can’t say who he is without revealing what he’s been through.”
“There were things they were pitching that were truly terrifying and truly creepy.”
“They’re the closest things to true-life monster stories that we tell ourselves as a culture.
How do we assign blame?
How do we reckon with the idea of evil and whether we believe in it?”
Who stays in a place like that?"
(“It’s just the strangest choice,” Lynskey says, laughing.
“The Stephen King world is a good place to be.
This story, really, is an homage to him,” she says.
“I hope we were able to do him proud.”
She needn’t worry.
The author approved the project and signed on as an EP.
And maybe just a little scared.
Castle Rockdebuts July 25 on Hulu.
