Lovers of thrillers and true crime stories can’t miss “Locked Up with the Devil”, the new original miniseries inspired by real events on Apple TV +, developed by acclaimed author Dennis Lehane (“Mystic River”, “Shutter Island” ) and starred and produced by Taron Egerton (“Rocketman”).
Egerton takes on his most intense role to date as Jimmy Keene, a privileged young man, the son of a decorated cop and a famous high school athlete, sentenced to ten years in prison for drug trafficking. Once inside, Jimmy has a chance to get out of his sentence. To do this, he must “simply” break into a maximum security prison, befriend suspected serial killer Larry Hall (Paul Walter Hauser), and convince him to reveal where he buried the bodies of several girls.
Despite being aware of the similarities between the ‘Locked Up with the Devil’ lead and the role that launched his career, Eggsy from ‘Kingsman: The Secret Service’, the British actor was clear from the start that Jimmy had to be taken elsewhere and not be repeated. Egerton tells us in our interview on the occasion of the release of the miniseries that he has been a lot “exciting” interpreting the duality characterizes the character and “peel its layers throughout the series” to find out where it comes from “anger, arrogance and misogyny”.
To give it life, moreover, Egerton trained hard with the goal of fully exploring the insecurity behind his overworked physique and pristine appearance.: “The important thing for me was to understand what part of his masculinity, his vanity, is what makes you want to be bigger than the others. He wants to be the alpha male, the strongest, the most beautiful and the most successful, because he is very insecure “.
In the mind of the killer
Paul Walter Hauser, known among other things for ‘Richard Jewell’, ‘Cruella’ or ‘Cobra Kai’, plays the creepy Larry Hall, a disturbing and strange figure for which even the actor has given himself completely, to the point of end up exhausted, as we were told. “As the series progressed and my fatigue from shooting and everything going on around it increased, it ended up taking over. I stopped drinking while filming and we shot 5-7 weeks longer than expected. This affected me, but I’ve already got rid of the character”it states.
To flesh out Jimmy’s counterpoint, Hauser has also undergone his own transformation, resulting in one of the season’s most sinister characters, in both body language and childlike voice. “I wanted the character to walk defeated, like a dog hit in the nose by a newspaper”To explain. “I tried to create a kind of emotional castration and I made decisions that strange people would make”. Her relationship with Egerton’s character is at the center of a series that grows darker with each chapter and offers strong emotions.
‘Locked up with the Devil’ also stars Greg Kinnear, Sepideh Moafi and Ray Liotta in one of his later roles. The first two episodes (of 6 in total) are now available on Apple TV +, with a every Friday new weekly episode.
Source: E Cartelera
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