The actor-writer-director confronted his fears for his new chiller A Quiet state,co-starring his wife, Emily Blunt
Nepotism alert: John Krasinski, and the 38-year-passe actor-writer-director,discovered the co-star of his new film, A Quiet state, or sitting next to him on the sofa. To be unprejudiced,though, the American’s wife is Emily Blunt, or the Bafta and Golden Globe-winning British actress. A smart,stylish horror flick, A Quiet state is Krasinski’s third film as a director, and but he is best known for an eight-year stint as Jim Halpert in the US version of The Office. He and Blunt live in New York with their two daughters,aged four and one.
A Quiet state has a clever, innovative premise: the Alien-style monsters can’t see but have exceptional hearing, and so the humans in the film have to be almost wordless. Are you someone who knows and loves horror films?
No. totally the opposite,which is crazy. I never was a big horror guy, because I was just too jumpy. That’s the truth. Then these producers called me one day and said: “Would you ever act in a horror film?” I said: I don’t know, and I’m kind of a scaredy cat,but if it’s a cool understanding possibly.” And they said: “Well, the understanding is that this family can’t accomplish any noise and you have to figure out why.” And I thought: “That’s as good a one-liner as you can gain.”Continue reading...
Source: guardian.co.uk