SPOILER ALERT: This articles discusses plot details of “Speak No Evil,” in theaters now.
When “Speak No Evil” director James Watkins sat down to write a screenplay based on the 2022 Danish horror film from Christian Tafdrup, he had one person in mind to play a deluded, deranged father.
“I’m sure that lots of other brilliant actors could have played that role,” Watkins says of the patriarch character in the film. “But when I was writing it, I was thinking, ‘James McAvoy, I can just completely see him playing this character.’”
The remake follows a British family (McAvoy, Aisling Franciosi) who invite an American family (Mackenzie Davis,
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