Paul Dano on being shaved by Brian Cox playing a paedophile: “How did we do that?”
nme.comL.I.E., Dano starred as a neglected teenager being groomed by a paedophile, played by Succession‘s Brian Cox.In one of the film’s most disturbing scenes, Cox’s character tenderly shaves Dano’s face with a cutthroat razor.
It’s a sequence that didn’t weigh too heavily on Dano at the time (he was 17 years old), but now has a much greater impact on him.In a wide-ranging interview with The Guardian, the actor said he couldn’t believe they got away with the scene, admitting that he now views it in a completely different light.“My first thought now is: how did we do that?” Dano said. “When you’re young, you’re like, sure, whatever.
Now it would weigh on me more, frankly. It was a good experience, though. I love Brian, and he was lovely to me.”Elsewhere in the interview, Dano discussed his new film Dumb Money, an adaptation of Ben Mezrich’s non-fiction book The Antisocial Network, which dramatises the true story of how YouTuber Keith Gill became rich after capitalising on a stock movement for the video game retailer GameStop.On preparing to play Gill, Dano said: “I became totally smitten with him.
He’s such a buoyant spirit. I could see there was something so beautiful in him. It’s all about: here I am, I’m wearing a headband and a cat shirt because I think it’s cool.”In reference to dressing like Gill, Dano added: “It makes you feel younger.
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