Television & Reality TV - Mindhunter (Netflix) #3: "This person you're after? He has an overwhelming fantasy life." - Page 13

***L i N d $ @ y*** · 09-21-2019, 09:56 PM

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in addition to playing a murderously nice guy in little shop, groff stars in netflix’s david fincher–produced drama mindhunter, playing an fbi agent who interviews serial killers; the show is based on the real work of john douglas, who was one of the first criminal profilers. Considering he’s no big fan of true crime, groff is somewhat confused about how he became a poster boy for gore and mutilation, though he’s enjoying the texts from friends who point out that even when he does musical comedy, there’s a dark edge involved. A few days after we meet in philadelphia, we’re talking over breakfast at the cozy grey dog in chelsea, where he insists on paying for everything, picking up all the water and utensils, and getting up from the table to refill my coffee cup when it’s empty.

If there’s a murderous kinship between little shop and mindhunter, it extends to the shows’ shared skepticism about that white-picket-fence-style normalcy. Holden, groff’s profiler character, is a cardboard cutout of a man with a girlfriend who introduces him to 1970s-style sexual liberation, but he is ultimately more fascinated with the deviancy of the killers he’s interviewing. To play him, groff shuts down his charisma, amassing such emptiness between his angular jaw and his eyebrows that you wonder if he’ll slip into deviancy himself. It’s a performance of square, even sinister straightness that feels close to the best-little-boy performances of closeted queer men, though what seems to thrill holden most in the show are his interviews with killers. “sexuality is so complicated, and the people i’ve ended up working with who have cast me in straight parts are interested in looking at things in a complicated way,” groff says, noting that he feels the argument about whether gay actors can play straight, or vice versa, has gotten “sillier” as time goes on. “being out and gay and being myself, it allowed me to find people that weren’t closed-minded.”

**crazy_diamond** · 09-22-2019, 02:30 AM

Thanks for the interview

Elle · 09-22-2019, 07:16 AM

Thanks for that

**stlavin95** · 09-24-2019, 01:06 AM

Thanks

***L i N d $ @ y*** · 09-24-2019, 11:22 PM

Some BTS for S2 from Michael Cerveris' IG:

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“we’re the *****ing Beatles” @mindhunter season 2 #jetset literally @mindhunterfans @mindhuntershow

**crazy_diamond** · 09-25-2019, 02:59 AM

at the plane picture

***L i N d $ @ y*** · 09-25-2019, 11:12 PM

An excerpt:

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What was it like to speak to Charles Manson?
We actually went back a couple of times to interview Manson. He did take the sunglasses. He wanted to show everyone that he ripped us off because everyone would know that he was talking to the FBI. [Mimicking back and forth with Manson] “I want those glasses.” “These are Ray-Ban glasses. These are expensive!” “I’ve got to take them back, man. I’ve got to show everybody I ripped you off.” So he took the glasses and he never gave them back! Unlike in the show.

A lot of characters on the show are based on real people, but they’re pretty fictionalized. What did you think about the story line with Tench’s son? Should we be worried about him?
Well, it did not happen to the real guy Tench was representing, [Robert] Ressler, but that case does exist. It was up in San Francisco. A woman in a park with a 20-month-old toddler. Two brothers, 10 years old and 7 years old, snatch the child. They kill the child in the basement with a brick and then they attach a cross to the child, believing that the child’s going to be resurrected. So that did happen.

**crazy_diamond** · 09-26-2019, 03:43 AM

Thanks for this

and yes keep renewing it!

**stlavin95** · 09-26-2019, 11:16 PM

Hopefully they keep too

**crazy_diamond** · 09-27-2019, 03:26 AM

Hurry up with the renewal already..

**stlavin95** · 09-28-2019, 08:57 PM

We need it asap

**crazy_diamond** · 09-29-2019, 03:44 AM

we do

**stlavin95** · 09-30-2019, 05:04 PM

***L i N d $ @ y*** · 09-30-2019, 08:51 PM

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Originally Posted by crazy_diamond (View Post)

Hurry up with the renewal already..

This is what I hate with Netflix. They take time to announce renewals like network TV.

**stlavin95** · 09-30-2019, 10:04 PM

They do

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