I can’t remember if he approached me or I approached him, but we wanted to work together again I loved his work on “Under the Dome.” What impressed me about Jack was he had done so many episodes of “Lost” and he never once felt like he was phoning it in. The show is produced and many episodes directed by Jack Bender, with whom you worked on “Under the Dome.” How did this collaboration come about? Did he approach you, or did you go to him?

It’s great because it gives him a chance to concentrate on the part and not worry about the accent. My suggestion was he emigrated when he was 17 and found the accent helped him get girls and held onto it. The only thing I asked was to make sure he keeps his Irish accent, but put in a line or two about why he has it. He looks exactly the way I had imagined Hodges would look. I’ve heard that you had Brendan Gleeson in mind for the role of Bill Hodges early on.

King took a break in his busy schedule to talk about what scares him, what makes a good adaptation, and where his acting career is headed. Unless you understand that, you can’t really address their problem in a meaningful way.” “But you have to remember that those people who do those things think they are doing God’s work. “But it never crossed my mind that some of the things that have happened since then with people trying to kill and maim innocent people would happen,” says King. He was stopped at a South Carolina motel when he saw a local news bit about a woman who ran her car into a line of job seekers. Published in June 2014, King says he couldn’t have predicted how timely the novel would become.

“He’s a monster but the show and Harry’s performance tries to say: Even monsters are heroes to themselves.” “He is sympathetic in the show, and I liked that because it adds to the audience’s unease,” says King. As with many King characters, even the villain is beautifully drawn and complex. Mercedes” taunting him, unaware that the killer is Brady Hartsfield (played by Harry Treadaway, a seemingly mild-mannered individual who is also the neighborhood ice cream man). It stars Brendan Gleeson as retired detective Bill Hodges, who is haunted by an unsolved case in which a man in a Mercedes drove into a crowd, killing eight people. “Hey, listen, I’m only the writer, I’m the last person to know.”Īnd starting Wednesday, viewers can check out the 10-part series based on his novel “ Mr. “I think one is in September, one is in October,” he says. September will see the film adaptation of “ It” and a book co-written with his son, Owen King, called “Sleeping Beauties.” There are also two Netflix movies due this year, “Gerald’s Game” and “1922,” but don’t ask him when they’re coming out. Currently, he has “The Dark Tower” in theaters and “The Mist” on TV. Stephen King will turn 70 in September, yet shows no signs of slowing down.

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