ComingSoon Editor-in-Chief Tyler Treese spoke to The Pale Blue Eye director Scott Cooper about the upcoming Netflix film.
director Scott Cooper about the upcoming Netflix film, which begins streaming on January 6. Cooper discussed the novel that the movie is based on and working with Christian Bale and Harry Melling.
Tyler Treese: How were you introduced to the original novel? It really sets a perfect framework for this movie.Oh, thank you, Tyler. Much like Edgar Allan Poe, I spent my formative years in the state of Virginia. I was born there. Poe … he was never adopted, but John Allan — his benefactor in Richmond, Virginia — raised him for many, many years in the state of Virginia. My father taught English and literature, and after my first film, Crazy Heart with Jeff Bridges, he sent me the novel.
Harry [Melling] was so great as Poe, and I love how he is used like Watson in this movie — sending him out to do the task for the detective. What did you like most about that dynamic? Harry and Christian [Bale] just work so well together. That’s one thing. And then secondly, just as a director, to have two actors who bring two very different performances in the same frame is really compelling. One in Christian, as I mentioned, who’s quite restrained and quite observant. Then you have Harry Melling, who is open to flourishes and who can hardly keep whatever thoughts that are coursing through his head from verbalizing. To see these two men occupy the same space, and then at the end of the film, we see just how sincere Poe is.
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