They can affect empathy and affect love and all that stuff they don’t. Psychopaths don’t have actual charm, they imitate. He’s a psychopath, he has fits of anger, but I think this character knows there’s more power in silence. My two main decisions were: there’s power in silence. I have this thing about auditions: I either want to succeed magnificently, or go down in flames. They didn’t tell me what character so I was reading it and thinking, “oh yeah, the bumbling guy is going to come in at some stage.
I only get to read those scripts when my friends are cast in those films. Because I don’t get those scripts! Never, ever. Yeah, I got the script in my hands and I went nuts for it. Stephen, do you recall reading this script for the first time? Visually and aurally seductive, the film also boasts three pitch-perfect performances. In the film, a rebellious teen, Vicki (Ashleigh Cummings), falls prey to Evelyn White (Emma Booth) and her mustachioed husband John (Curry) and is chained to a bed while they plan her torture and murder. Those steady pale eyes hold Time Out transfixed as he discusses the making of this disturbing film.Ī stunning debut from writer-director Ben Young, Hounds of Love is inspired by a real-life kidnap and murder spree in Perth in the 1980s by a married couple. Curry’s a deadpan comic, and the blank look that made his mulleted narrator in The Castle a briliiant comedy character is the same dead-eyed gaze that controls, menaces and haunts as sociopath John White in Hounds of Love. From his film debut in 1997’s The Castle to playing Graham Kennedy in miniseries The King to joining forces with Shaun Micallef touring the sketches of Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, Stephen Curry has proven one of the nation’s most endearing comedic performers.īut when Time Out sits down opposite him at a Sydney hotel, we get it.
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