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Interview with Dane DeHaan
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Young an upcoming actor Dane DeHaan has shown throughout his career that he is always up for a challenge. He’s taken on tough, demanding and often dark roles in films such as Lawless, Kill Your Darlings and Devil’s Knot. He played Spider-Man’s nemesis The Green Goblin in The Amazing Spider-Man 2 and even took on a pretty much experimental role in Metallica Through The Never.
That vast acting array was the perfect background for DeHaan as he approached yet another challenging role – the role of a young executive named Lockhart investigating the hidden agenda behind a strange ‘wellness’ retreat in the new thriller A Cure For Wellness.
“A Cure For Wellness is about this guy named Lockhart. He’s an up-and-comer on Wall Street who gets sent to this health spa to look for his CEO who hasn’t come back. It’s a simple task go and get the guy and bring him back before the company goes under, but he gets stuck there like everybody else. At this spa nobody seems to ever leave and a lot of crazy stuff seems to happen. As an audience you pretty much follow my character on a journey as he tries to put together the pieces of this puzzle. He’s got to get this guy back to his office but it’s really this old, ancient problem that becomes pretty horrifying. I think it is the opportunity to watch a movie that is compelling but also terrifying. It’ll be fun to watch but it will also leave an impression on you… there are just certain scenes that will really shock you. It’s almost a dare… I dare you to watch it.”
One of key stories in A Cure For Wellness is Lockhart meeting the mysterious Hannah played by Mia Goth. “Lockhart first meets Hannah at the castle… the spa,” explains DeHaan. “At first he doesn’t understand what he is seeing… it is almost like a vision. And she is playing this song that seems really familiar to Lockhart and then he finally finds her and she is feeding ham sandwiches to something in the water and I think he is not only bewildered by her but mystified by her because she is this strange creature. She’s also a lot younger than everybody else at the spa which really confuses him because she just didn’t seem to fit into the puzzle at all.”
For many film buffs A Cure For Wellness is the first time they will have had a chance to see the acting work of young actress Mia Goth and DeHaan says that she is perfectly cast to play Hannah. “In a lot of ways Mia is not unlike Hannah,” he says. “Mia has a lot of intrigue but also a sense of innocence around her as well. Mia is also this really committed actor and while it isn’t her first movie it is very early on in her career so she is really hungry and really committed and is all about things being as real as possible and her intentions are all in the right place… she’s really pure. Yeah it has been really fun getting the chance to work with her. Then there’s Jason (Isaacs) who is the opposite of Mia. He’s the old pro. He’s all about things being as real as possible and exploring moments. Jason is all about hitting his mark and saying his line – he has his thing and he is amazing at that thing. He has this theory where he doesn’t like memorising in lines before he gets to set he likes to memorise them when he gets there and he feels like that gives him a more organic experience. He’s a lot different to Mia and that is one of the things that I did in the movie I got to work with a lot of different kinds of actors every day.”
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The film also gave DeHaan the opportunity to work with one of Hollywood’s most interesting and diverse directors, Gore Verbinski, and DeHaan says it was something that he relished. “I really liked working with Gore,” DeHaan says. “I think that somebody have a photographic memory but I believe that Gore has a cinematic memory. He shows up and he knows exactly what he is doing, he knows what shots he is doing and where he is going to use those shots in the movie. He also has this amazing way that really feeds your performance and it gives you a sense of the genre and just the energy with which it is going to be shown and also portrayed to the audience. And he is so on top of every aspect of the film – the props, the acting – it’s like he has the entire movie in his mind and he knows exactly what he wants and then it becomes my job to bring what he wants to life.”
DeHaan says one of the most challenging part of the film was when he had to film the tough scenes with Lockhart in the isolation tank. “They were really intense scenes,” he says. “It was also an intense experience because there were some takes where we would just do a series of it and I would just be under water for like 25-30 minutes. It wouldn’t have been that bad if I could have had goggles on so I could see but I couldn’t see anything. The lighting is pretty dark and moody and there is a camera coming at my face which really was just like this dark, blurry thing coming at my face and then I’m in a leg cast and have wires that are literally holding me in the tank horizontally. So even to get out, if it were possible, would be pretty much impossible so throughout that whole process I just had to keep playing mind games with myself.”
A Cure For Wellness can be pre-ordered on DVD and Blu-Ray right now.
Written by Dave Griffiths
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