Cameron Britton Thought David Fincher Was Going Fire Him From Netflix’s MINDHUNTER
Mike Sprague
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Netflix’s Mindhunter recently lost Zodiac and Se7en director David Fincher. So while we all wait for further news regarding the future of the series, star Cameron Britton (Ed Kemper) looks back on how he thought he was going to be fired.
Britton tells PopCulture.com: “…I thought, I mean, I thought I was going to get fired. I was trying not to get fired. I just didn’t think I was doing a great job. And Jonathan Groff and David Fincher had to talk me down from the ledge, so to speak. And when I found out that people were receiving my work the way that they were, I realized that my perception of myself was off. I don’t want to live like that. I don’t want to live where people see me a certain way, and I’m oblivious to that.”
He adds: “Mindhunter was an epic rebuild in my thinking about myself and art. That was the base of a new direction in my life. What I realized on that set is that acting is a challenge, in that you need to surprise yourself every moment. The idea of coming into a scene with a bunch of preconceived deliveries of how to do a line or how to block it. You know, ‘I’m going to say this line, and then put my hand on my cheek, and then say this line.’ Those sorts of things, they aren’t real life. And it’s a major challenge that you need to be surprising yourself on every line.”
Now while Fincher might be done with Mindhunter, Netflix hasn’t canceled the show and is leaving “the door a tiny crack open” for its return, “Maybe in five years.”
In the meantime, the first two stellar seasons are still streaming on Netflix.
Executive produced by David Fincher and Charlize Theron, the series follows FBI agents Holden Ford and Bill Tench as they attempt to understand and catch serial killers by studying their damaged psyches. Along the way, the agents pioneer the development of modern serial-killer profiling.
The second season sports a 99% approval rating over on Rotten Tomatoes with a Critics Consensus that reads: Mindhunter expands its narrative horizons without losing sight of the details that made its first season so rich, crafting a chilling second season that is as unsettling as it is utterly absorbing.
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