Hi. Ethan, how you doing?
Good. Good.
How you doing?
All right. Thank you. I'm all right. Thank you.
Congratulations on the film.
Thank you.
It's. It's really, really good.
It's really, really good.
I was very surprised by it.
It didn't go anywhere where
I thought it was going to go, and I like it when it when it does that.
So that was. That's a positive, I think.
I've seen you in so many films.
You've done so many amazing roles, and now you get to take a step to the
to the dark side.
How much fun was it to flex some different muscles by it
by playing this This this this grabber, man?
Well, it's fun to be inside.
You know, I love a good script.
You know, there's there's a math to a good script.
And so in a way, I wouldn't want to flex their muscles for no reason.
But there was
there's
something about the mask work of it all that it's just crazy.
And terrifying.
And the thing about a scary movie,
I felt this on Sinister to this
a sense of playfulness.
You know, you do feel it's like midnight and you're telling a
scary story to thrill everybody before bed or something.
You know, there's something very old fashioned about the genre,
the horror genre.
You know, it's timeless in a way.
Everybody
throughout the history of mankind enjoys a good scary story every now and then.
Yeah, absolutely.
Absolutely.
I just kind of got on the ride myself.
It's a good ride to be on.
I won't say that your your performance in this with the mask reminiscent
I was reading,
obviously, when Tom Hardy played Bane
in Batman, where Christopher Nolan wanted to perform.
He wanted someone to come through the the mask grip,
but he kind of changed his body and his body language and stuff.
I know in this film you get to do a few things with your body.
How much for challenge is that to kind of have this
this big function that you use as an actor kind of taken away from you?
It's really unique.
I mean, it's it's just because you you train as an actor to be expressive and and
how how all that works.
And when it's taken away from you, all of a sudden the voice becomes
essential.
And body language, we've all seen it living through the pandemic.
You know, you're your brain.
When you see people
where they're covered up and you don't know
whether they're smiling at you or whether they're angry, you can't the eyes
tell only so much And so there's a certain power in it.
You know, I love Scott Derrickson and I would always laugh about the Bob
Dylan line that anybody is wearing a mask.
You know, they're telling you the truth and anybody is not wearing a mask.
You know, they're lying.
And so it's like this.
This guy's both announcing his truth.
Through the mask, which is that he's insane and doesn't want to be seen.
And when you're somebody is so desperate not to be seen,
it really makes you wonder what is going on inside that brain.
Yeah, absolutely.
Yeah. And obviously, you've been in this industry for a long time.
So I wanted to wondered what you made
of Madeline McGraw and Mason Thames in this film, because they have to both do
quite a lot of challenging work in. And so
I just wondered what your your reaction was to saying that performance is
just a movie lives and dies on on them,
on their talent and their soul.
That's what I love about the movie is their story.
I mean, the grabber I'm I'm just this evil,
this symbol of a malevolent force in a lot of ways.
And what the movies really about is them taking care of each other and
that's what's original about it to me is it's like a
it's a coming of age story set in the horror genre and that this brother
and sister loving each other, they can they have the power to heal each other.
Yeah. Yeah. Well, I wish you all the best with the film.
Thank you so, so much for your time.
I really enjoyed it.
I hope it goes over, goes gangbusters for thank you.
Appreciate it so much.
Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, you're watching.