Released on January 6 on Netflix, the film The Pale Blue Eye features Christian Bale as a veteran detective and movie star Harry Potter. But did you recognize her?
Besides season 2 of Ginny & Georgiasubscribers of netflix eagerly awaiting the release of The Pale Blue Eye, a thriller adapted from the eponymous novel by Louis Bayard. In this film, set at West Point Military Academy in 1830, the body of a cadet is discovered. An even more suspicious death since we realize that the heart of the victim has been removed from his chest. Fearing that the reputation of their new military academy will suffer from this barbaric act, its leaders enlist a veteran inspector, Augustus Landor, to solve the murder. Hindered in his investigation by the code of silence of the students, the latter will ask for help from a young cadet of the academy, the future writer Edgar Allan Poe. In the cast of the feature film, we find Christian Bale, but also an actor seen in the saga Harry Potter.
Harry Melling (Dudley Dursley in Harry Potter) is completely unrecognizable in the skin of Edgar Allan Poe
On screen, fans of Harry Potter will have a hard time recognizing the one who embodied in the saga Dudley Dursley, the tyrannical cousin of the young wizard. After starring in the miniseries The Ladies Gameactor Harry Melling is once again starring in a Netflix original production. This time, the British actor embodies Edgar Allan Poe, the future writer who was truly admitted to the West Point military school and studied there before being expelled from the establishment. A role that immediately seduced the actor because “baggage that goes with the name of Edgar Allan Poe.” And to continue: “My first step was to understand where this baggage came from, why he is often described as this very dark and brooding character. And so I read his stories, his poetry, certainly his youthful poetry as well. I just tried to figure out as much as possible who this man was.”
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Three other actors from Harry Potter in the movie The Pale Blue Eye
In addition to Harry Melling, we find in the cast Christian Bale in the role of Augustus Landor, an inspector ready to do anything to get his hands on the person or persons responsible for this barbaric act at West Point. By his side, Netflix subscribers can now discover the performance of actresses Gillian Anderson, Lucy Boynton, Charlotte Gainsbourg, as well as that of three other actors who have distinguished themselves in the saga. Harry Potter : Timothy Spall (he played Peter Pettigrew alias Wormtail), Toby Jones (he lent his voice to the elf Dobby) and Simon McBurney (he lent his voice to Kreacher, the house elf of the Black family.) With many international stars in the cast and a well-crafted plot, it is not surprising to see that The Pale Blue Eye has already reached the top of the most watched films on Netflix right now, dethroning the sequel toAt daggers drawn.
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