How Nicolas Cage and Gary Oldman inspired Nat Wolff in Stephen King’s adaptation of ‘The Stand’

Nat Wolff takes a place in Stephen King ‘s long history of change. But, with The Stand after debuted on CBS All Access, the last time is here.

The nine-part miniseries was developed and produced by writer, producer and director, Josh Boone.

“Josh asked me to play Harold when I was about 17 or 18,” Wolff recalled. “We were pushing The fault in our stars, and said he wanted to change The Stand. He told me that, and I believe that someone was listening to us and running with the story. That was back in 2014. So it turned out I was in The Stand before he even had rights to the book, so I’ve been pretty quick on it for a long time. ”

When it came to throwing, the actor ended up playing a differently essential character, Lloyd Henreid.

“It was great to work with Josh again. He didn’t get my direction because I wasn’t in any of the events he was directing, but he was the executive producer. We managed to develop everything for the character together, ”Wolff explained. “Before we started, he sent me a picture of Nicolas Cage Wild at heart, and I posted a picture of Gary Oldman State of Graceand then we were gone. ”

“He’s a wild character, but I saw him as a bit weak and patient and a good target to take Randall Flagg under his wing to turn him into a guy to do his bad business. It reminded me of one of those cult leaders in the documentaries where this charismatic leader is. Somehow, these people are doing these horrible things, but these people seemed pretty normal before. It’s just the power of someone with a lot of charisma giving you a reason, and you do whatever they say. It’s a wonder. ”

Flagg is played by Wolff co-star Alexander Skarsgård Kill Team. The Stand marking the third time he and Boone have worked together and the second time Wolff and Greg Kinnear have starred. However, the actor never met several of the The Stand co-stars.

“I haven’t met Whoopi,” Wolff said, feeling disappointed. “I have yet to meet her. It was kind of like the bad guys in their bad boy camp because I have all the scenes with Alexander and Ezra Miller and Kat McNamara and others, so those are the people I ended up being around . I had to do some fun scenes with Greg Kinnear near the end, but I won’t spoil anything. ”

When it comes to Stephen King, Wolff thinks he’s a big fan but with a caveat.

“On a scale of one to ten, I would say nine except because there are some people who read all the books, and I didn’t,” he admitted. “The ones I read, I read again and again. I am a big fan. He has this amazing ability to write things that strike you and are so accessible and dark and fun and stylish and scary. At the same time, they always say something profound about humanity. The way in which he can tap into such important themes and appeal to pop culture and hit the zeitgeist is amazing. It’s really kind of it. ”

This was because he honored the work of the author so much that his character makes such a bloody and bloody entrance during a robbery attempt.

“That’s the scene I was fighting to keep in the script,” Wolff said with envy. “When I first read the book, one of my favorites was that he was going on stealing resources like a fool. It was talked about in the script, and I was like, ‘I think you have to see it. ‘So I prayed for Josh, and then they were very happy to have him because he has an impact and he gives Lloyd a little bit of support.’

Rightly or wrongly, links were drawn between The Standpandemic story and the miniseries going to release at the time of a pandemic. The two words barely came into conflict.

“It was very deceptive,” Wolff explained. “I packed on March 5, flew to LA, and then four days later I was in quarantine. We fired the show about pandemic, and then the pandemic hit. It was very strange. I was throwing toilet paper burning through the prison cell bars in a scene, and then that night, I read that the prisoners in Europe were doing the same thing. It was weird. ”

The Stand the latest in a series of projects for Wolff, but a very personal one, his debut album, the unique short film The youngest.

“It was a real artistic experience,” he said. “There are so many people where you do something, and you get kind of ethical about this industry, and this has given me a resurgence. He finished at the HollyShorts Film Festival in Los Angeles, and did very well there. It was submitted to Tribeca. They are looking at it. We hope to play more festivals too. “

The youngest stars June Van Patten, Olivia Boreham-Wing, and Michael Gandolfini. Van Patten plays a young girl, Autumn, who is at her older sister’s house party and records the experiences and feelings she goes through.

“June is my boyfriend’s little sister,” explained Wolff, who also wrote the script. “I spent a lot of time with her because I spent a lot of time with my boyfriend’s family. June is just a wonderful, progressive little girl I also saw who didn’t understand a lot of things going on around her, but she embraced it emotionally. I thought that was interesting. I would also notice how other people treated her. Some would talk to her as if she were just a little toy or a puppy, while others would treat her like a man, and it meant a lot to her when she was treated as one of them. ”

“I started writing the script, and a lot of what she said came back to me and I got in. I called some of my friends and shot him in my parents’ house. ”

He said, “I have said that working with her was what I thought it would be like working with Joaquin Phoenix. About five to ten percent of everything it does is like total gold, just the way you want it, and then it’s this nature force for the rest of the time giving you more and more. Whenever a line started to feel a little too scripted, we would change it and try to capture something special, stay open, and get that electronic in a bottle. Many of my friends who worked on the team were actors, and they said that watching it was like watching an acting lesson because she doesn’t have bad acting habits. She was just full of id. ”

Casting and working with Gandolfini paid for Wolff in more ways than one.

“I met him right after his father died, and he became my little brother. It grew as a family, ”he said. “It turned out that Michael had known June since she was born and he was about 14, so they already had a perfect bond. That was one of the reasons he was perfect for the part. Michael had to be a ten percent actor turned into an instant but also because she was such a wild card, he had to direct the scenes to where they had to go, even if they went on. reheat five minutes. He would steer her back. It was fantastic, and I was very lucky. The youngest it was a fun, artistic experiment, but it ended up being one of the things I am most proud of, out of everything I have ever done. ”

The Stand it’s on CBS All Access with new events dropping weekly through Thursday, February 11, 2021.

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