Netflix and Kill: An interview with Holt McCallany

Season one of Mindhunter is now available on Netflix, an adaptation of a memoir of the same name by FBI behavioural scientist Joe E Douglas.
Douglas visited Charles Manson, Ted Bundy, Ed Gein and other serial killers in prison. He hoped that by deepening our understanding of these murderers, future killers could be more easily apprehended.
Holt McCallany plays Bill Tench, Joe E Douglas’ senior partner. The jaded FBI agent is a voice of incredulity, scepticism and reason to his younger counterpart.
The actor explains how Mindhunter attempts to get past the idea of glamourous killers like Hannibal Lector and reveal how these men are in fact “deeply fractured, depraved, sadistic, scary individuals”.
This is what he believes was pretty much David Fincher’s “mission statement”. He loved working with the iconic director and claims that “whatever walk of life he’d chosen, he’d have been successful”.
As a veteran big screen actor, McCallany sees television as a unique opportunity for long form storytelling, as “never before in human history has there been a medium where you can examine a character in as much detail”.

Full interview available in our latest print edition.
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