
His nonverbal cues elevated the charming weirdness of the animatronic horror film. Such a casting has worked before - Willy's Wonderland thrived with a wonderful yet wordless Nicolas Cage acting like a video game character who requires power-ups and health pick-ups before each fight. Image via Raimi Productions Bill Skarsgård Was Dedicated to Perfecting His Expressions for 'Boy Kills World'įor his part, Skarsgård was totally on board with such a challenge.
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That was one of the core ideas that we had to make this movie different, to add something that is not usually in an action movie. "I mean, that was basically from the beginning, the very first moment we started when we shot the proof of concept trailer in 2016. Mohr wanted his action film to stand out and having a character physically communicate through his expressions while his inner voice narrates was among the first ideas he based the original concept trailer around: Although he saw plenty of action playing opposite Keanu Reeves's Baba Yaga, Chad Stahelski's stylish gun-fu blockbuster is more of a traditional action film with a hero that, while he doesn't say much, delivers memorable lines that build up his legend.



Fresh off of stealing the show as Marquis Vincent de Gramont in John Wick Chapter 4 and a brilliant performance in Zach Cregger's horror breakout Barbarian, Boy Kills World takes Skarsgård in a vastly different direction from his recent work.
