Physical Address
304 North Cardinal St.
Dorchester Center, MA 02124
Villem Dafoe and Corey Hawkins in ‘man in my basement.’
Andscape
“When I first read this book in the mid-2000s, it was because my grandfather actually had a copy of that,” Corey Hawkins explains while talking about his last film, The man in my basementAdapted from the Legendary Author Valter Mosley’s title novel. “I’m not sure if he read it because we’ve never talked about it, but he had a copy.”
Setting up the 90s in the African US Neighborhood Sag Luka, New York, Havkins game Charles Blake, a man who is not at work, and on the edge of exception to his home ancestors. Typing on the door of mysterious businessman, Anniston Bennet, played by Villem Dafoe, brings a bizarre and lucrative proposal to rent his dusty basement for summer and receives enough money to clean his debts for good.
Once Charles accepts, he believes that he led frightening paths facing his family’s spirits and locks men in a terrifying puzzle, in the heart of her traumes and roots of all evil. The man in my basement Countries in Theaters Friday, 12. September 2025. years, before the subsequent projects on Hulu.
“The man in my basement” unlocked something for Corey Hawkins
“I remember I took myself for my proximity to the characters in the book,” Hawkins, famous for that Straight Outta Compton and In heightsIt goes on. “I grew up in Washington, DC, who at the time was known as Chocolate City. There were a lot of incredible black-medical work professionals and reading this book about SAG Lucy and that the incredible historical enclave of the above began this black woman was a beautiful dish.”
“I was interested in Charles and I was weird,” Do I see me in this guy? “Do I see my uncle or my friends? ‘That was years ago, like you with these novels, and then you return to this adaptation and really interesting in different periods and different odors. I was always a fan.”
MovieMaker Nadia Latif makes its feature of directorial debut The man in my basement. She first read the book about 20 years ago and has always seen it as a film.
“She had a deep connection with that”, Dafo’s actions. “She is crazy smart, very articulally, cultivated, and what she could have looked at me, which was not to work. The fact that she hadn’t been in Sudan, and she was black. All this was in a very personal takeover of this material.”
Havkins adds: “Nadia was very purposeful in terms of these characters together, because it behaves, but we had that spontaneity, because every time I went in that step in the basement, there was always a little differently or something. The man in my basementPsychological thriller, includes Hawkins and Dafo’s characters that descend into a dark rabbit hole of confessions and conflicts.
“Willem has this non-created presence and it is what makes it in a lot of conversations and unrelated words, and in the basement of this nature” I in the basement of this nature “I in the basement of this character” I in the basement of this and the basement This character “I into the basement of this and in the basement of this character” and in the basement of this and in the basement “I in the basement” I in the basement “and in the basement of this character” I in the basement of this and in the basement of this character “. 24: heritage The actor continues. “It’s a different cinematic language down. It’s a different emotional language than worse for Charles. It was just exciting that they could unpack those secrets, like me and Villas would throw curves.”
Anniston Bennet, played by Villem Dafoe, in the ‘man in my basement.’
Andscape
As the actor maintained tension in ‘man in my basement’
Heads did not have the opportunity to wake extensively before recording began. It is something that Dafa is known for its fertile work, which includes Bodge, Nosfer, Spider-man, Florida Projectand Street streetsHe believes that it helps conflict even more and feel more natural.
“We’d shoot,” he remembers. “There was no big blocking, because when we play those basement scenes, we try to make sure, to make a reaction, to make a reaction, to make it, to try to challenge, to find some of your real Reaction. Peace with that, with our deep, dark secrets and pain that we both go in very different ways. “
Part of that process meant not to rest when things are intense.
“It was relentless,” Havkins laughs. “Their Interaction Breathes, But IT Also is uncomfortable, and think anytime you feel a break from that, or step away, is when we have been and like and like and like to call running with stallions. You get down there with these Thoroughbreds, and I’m only as good as Willem Allows me to be and Vice Versa, so we played off each. Nadia was like a composer balancing these two instruments, but instruments of maybe each other destruction. “
“It was an interesting process that was working with him, and at that time, we also saw our first time to see our first time to see our way that we first saw that we first saw that the first time The road to see and find our first time to see and see our first time. It is our first time that we will see our first time, and our first time to see our first time we will agree.
Corey Havkins game Charles Blakey in ‘man in my basement.’
Andscape
Ghosts of the past live in ‘man in my basement’
Despite the fact that was a quintessential American story, The man in the basement It was recorded in Bridgend, South Wales, a city, located 20 miles west of Cardiff, Welsh Congrection, and 20 miles (32 km) east of Swonde, the second largest city of Velsov, another city. Swansy also happens that the city I grew up in the 1980s. At that time, a predominantly white community, it was almost a community of Hawkins and his character knew to grow up. However, the mirror is the experience of Dafoe.
“I didn’t assume that Swansea and parts of South Wales recorded a particularly high population of black people, but I think much has changed much. It was actually incredibly how much she looked like a port.” Hawkins Muses. “Nadia also set up the film in the 1990s, including geopolitical. Wales, because it really has Harbor, even outside Sag Hampton, don’t think of Historic Hampton, don’t think of historical Hampton, don’t think of historical Hamptons, don’t think of historical Hamptons, you don’t necessarily think at the Istrian Hampton. “
Dafae continues, “The only black people I saw at the local paper chemistry institute where I was in New York. To understand the prospect of Charles Charles, and I also believe that Aniston was a credible character.” I had to make it even. “I had to make a credible character.” I had to make it even. “I had to educate.”
“It had more to do with the identity, history and what contributes to the way people seeing themselves. I also found it very wise in her analysis, but very harshly in its analysis, but in its analysis of history, power, colonialism and races.”
(Left to right) Corey Hawkins, Nadia Latif and Villem Dafoe attend the premiere of the ‘man in my basement’ during the International Toronto Toronto Film Festival in Toronto, Ontario.
Getti images
We circle the chatting over the zoom, because Dafa and Hawkins premiere at the Toronto Film Festival, the mysterious and the crime, it is actually real, but actually real, but actually actual, but actually real, It is actually real, but actually actual, it is actually a real thing, but actually actual, it is actually a real thing. Dafoe is the first to answer.
“Because I had to play it, I had to believe there was,” he says. “I don’t know how you play the spirit, until your feet keeps the fire, and some situations that are built into the film. Once again, I had to believe that it was a credible character.”
“It’s a great question,” Havkins laughs. “I think Nadia would have a different answer than I do. I won’t say what my answer is, but the addition of the possibility of that, especially after you have seen the movie twice, that’s what really makes The man in my basement Percolate in the minds of people. Eventually the door is open, and who is inside the cage and that curiosity got the best of Charles, digging this inheritance. How many people see Aniston or knows it’s down there? What is the secret? Why is that a secret? There are all these questions and I think that could be up to interpret. “
