{"id":141731,"date":"2020-12-25T20:52:21","date_gmt":"2020-12-25T17:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/owen-teague-on-playing-harold-in-the-stand\/"},"modified":"2020-12-25T20:52:21","modified_gmt":"2020-12-25T17:52:21","slug":"owen-teague-on-playing-harold-in-the-stand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/owen-teague-on-playing-harold-in-the-stand\/","title":{"rendered":"#Owen Teague on playing Harold in ‘The Stand’"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Owen Teague on playing Harold in ‘The Stand’<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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Owen Teague plays creepy Harold Lauder in \u201cThe Stand,\u201d an adaptation of Stephen King\u2019s 1978 thriller about a global plague and the battle between good and evil. The nine-episode series<\/a> co-stars James Marsden, Odessa Young, Whoopi Goldberg and Alexander Skarsgard.<\/p>\n

Teague is no stranger to King\u2019s eerie universe, having played Patrick Hockstetter in the 2017 movie \u201cIt\u201d and its 2019 follow-up, \u201cIt Chapter Two.\u201d He\u2019s also app<\/a>eared in \u201cBlack Mirror\u201d (in the episode directed by Jodie Foster and \u201cLocke and Key\u201d and played Nolan Rayburn in the Netflix series \u201cBloodline.\u201d <\/p>\n

In \u201cThe Stand,\u201d Teague\u2019s Harold grows jealous of Stu\u2019s (Marsden) relationship with his crush, Fran (Young), who chooses Stu over him \u2014 and eventually transforms into a villain.<\/p>\n

The Florida native, 22, answered some questions about his portrayal of Harold in the CBS All Access series.<\/p>\n

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Did your roles in \u201cIt\u201d and \u201cIt Chapter Two\u201d prepare you for the internal world of \u201cThe Stand\u201d?<\/strong><\/p>\n

This was something completely different. In the \u201cIt\u201d movies, I was playing a true psychopath \u2014 someone with no capacity for empathy and no real concept of life outside his own head. Patrick was a complete solipsist. To him, only he existed. Harold is the opposite of that. He\u2019s definitely messed up and exhibits sociopathic tendencies, but he\u2019s very aware of the world around him and the feelings of the \u201cothers.\u201d Especially those feelings in relation to him. His worldview is incredibly self-centered, but he\u2019s got the ability for empathy. It\u2019s just easier for him to retreat into his own hatred than to let that empathy have a voice in his head.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Did you watch Corin Nemec, who played Harold in the 1994 version of \u201cThe Stand\u201d?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t. From the moment Josh [Boone, who developed the series] brought me on, I knew what I wanted to do with the character. The book was my main influence, that and the research I did prior to shooting, in terms of incels [\u201cinvoluntary celibates\u201d] and Harold\u2019s philosophy. I had been a huge fan of the book even before I heard Josh was adapting it, and the way King wrote Harold is so rich and specific that I knew I really just wanted to bring that to life as best I could. I actually watched the 1994 miniseries only after I wrapped the show.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Owen Teague and Odessa Young<\/figcaption>
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Is there one particular trait in Harold that appealed to you as an actor?<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n

I mean, the character as a whole is the most fascinating to me in nearly all of King\u2019s writing, but I think it\u2019s the split of light and dark in Harold that really got me. He knows he has the ability to shed this old life of hate and resentment and pain, and he desperately wants to but just can\u2019t. It\u2019s too scary. One thing that always stood out to me in the book is when Frannie says \u201cknowing what I know now, I would probably pick Harold to be friends with instead of Amy\u201d (Harold\u2019s better-loved sister). Harold, I think, could be a really cool person, if he were able to leave his insecurities and resentments behind. If you put a group of people on a scale, in terms of value as human beings, Harold will always see himself as the lowest point \u2014 but there\u2019s the really interesting bit with Harold, because he sees himself as the highest point too. There\u2019s a simultaneous self-hatred and self-aggrandizement. And a simultaneous capacity for terrible, dark things but also kindness and good. It\u2019s just that it\u2019s so much safer for him to give into this shield he\u2019s had his whole life of the darkness. Even when presented with the opportunity to change, he runs back to his comfort. Those paradoxes really attracted me, as well as just the sheer fun factor you can have with a character like Harold, who\u2019s so theatrical and unhinged.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Is there an actor you admire, and why?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve always loved Andy Serkis. I don\u2019t hear people talk about him as an \u201cactor\u201d a lot because he does so much with motion capture and non-human roles, but that\u2019s what makes him so great. He\u2019s able to communicate so much with just his body and eyes (and voice, often completely changed from his day-to-day speech), and make inhuman creatures feel human. He makes us understand beings so different from us, and I love that.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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