Chris Messina Interview: Going from 2010's Devil to The Boogeyman
29I’ll take a Chris Messina performance in any genre, but as a diehard horror fan, I wouldn’t mind seeing him do more films in that realm.
While 2020’s She Dies Tomorrow is a genre-bending movie with horror touches, there’s a 13-year gap between The Boogeyman and Messina's last film that falls squarely in the horror genre, 2010’s Devil, the M. Night Shyamalan-produced movie about a group of people trapped in an elevator. In that one, Messina plays the detective investigating the spooky happenings going down in the elevator, but The Boogeyman has him going head-to-head with the film’s evil entity himself.
Messina plays Will Harper, a therapist and father of two (Sophie Thatcher and Vivien Lyra Blair) who recently lost his wife in an accident. While struggling to cope with the loss, Will throws himself back into work. When a new patient (David Dastmalchian) shows up at his door without an appointment, Will reluctantly agrees to see him. Unfortunately, little does Will know, this man has a darkness in tow, a darkness that feeds off of heartbreak and vulnerability making his own family a prime next target.
Hear all about Messina's journey from Devil to The Boogeyman in this interview!
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