Special Report: A Prayer for the Dying (2026)

Podcast: The Projection Booth · Weirding Way Media

Opublikowano: 2026-10-08

Johnny Flynn talks with Mike White about playing Jacob Hansen (opposite John C. Reilly's Doc) in A Prayer for the Dying, Dara Van Dusen's directorial debut adapted from Stewart O'Nan's novella. Flynn breaks down the challenge of embodying an unreliable narrator — a Civil War veteran whose PTSD warps everything the audience sees through his eyes — and the novella's hidden debt to the Book of Job, which is why he showed up to set in Slovakia with a real, unscripted beard he and Van Dusen eventually agreed on. Flynn also gets into what drew him to working with a firs...