We chat with benbarnes about his installment of Guillermo del Toro's CabinetofCuriosities, 'Pickman's Model,' and how his initial hesitation to join the netflix anthology gave way to fascination:
How much influence can one piece of art hold over a person? This is the question at the heart of "Pickman's Model" in Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities. Based on H.P. Lovecraft's short story of the same name, the plot chronicles the life of a young artist as he encounters the titular tortured artist and find his world upended multiple times in his life by his grotesque art.
Ben Barnes: I think it was a combination of things, because actually, my first thought about it was I've played before period artists, and I just wrapped another movie where I play a sort of 1900s artist, and I thought, "I've done this." Even the thing that's closest to horror that I've done I would say is Dorian Gray, which is a Gothic thriller-y thing, I would say.
It's his experience, and it's the things that have happened, that are happening, to him in his life, and the choices he's making, which are breaking him down, whereas actually it's something, in the end, external.
The demonic side of things is more representative of the darkness that exists in the world. They obviously use some effects to make the paintings move, as well, but the actual paintings themselves were pretty distressing. I remember not wanting to look at them after the sketches, and after the original version.
What was it like developing a rapport with Crispin Glover for this? Because the dynamic between your characters is very important for the story. I think, to some people, that can be fairly nauseating, but to us, it was really exciting, or interesting, to find the relationship between them, that connection, the things they agreed on, their shared passions, the status shifts that happen, the outsider quality of his character, and then to discover why one of them needed the other, because it's sort of that thing of is art art until it's consumed by somebody, and Pickman needs Thurber to be his audience.
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