We spoke w/ Jamie Bell about why he finds his character so disturbing on 'Shining Girls.'
From showrunner Silka Luisa and based on the novel by Lauren Beukes, the Apple TV+ series Shining Girls follows Kirby Mazrachi , the survivor of a traumatic assault who was never able to uncover her attacker’s identity until a recent murder is way too close to her own experience.
JAMIE BELL: No. That was part of it, when I met with Michelle [MacLaren] and Silka [Luisa]. They explained what the show was because I hadn’t read the novel, and then I was like, “Oh, that sounds great. But who is he, though? I know that he’s the killer and I know he’s the villain of the piece, but there has to be something else. I can’t just be a boogeyman. Why does he do this? I need to know why.
BELL: Here’s the thing, we’re so well-versed in behavioral science. True crime is a billion-dollar industry now, weirdly. We’re flooded with these non-fiction podcast documentaries. I have a podcast-level understanding of it, but it’s impossible to really fully understand the wiring of a brain like that, when it comes to why this stuff happens to people and what is it that makes people do these things. It’s difficult.
It’s because he has an ability that nobody else has, to revisit these scenes, over and over and over again. He gets to know you from birth. He understands you, as a child. He understands where you’ve come from. He knows everything about you. In a way, he doesn’t even need to be aggressive, particularly. The threat is taken away. He doesn’t need to perform that because he’s already 10 steps ahead of you.
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