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‘The Girl With The Needle’s Magnus Von Horn On Fear As “Creative Fuel”, Period Piece’s Current Resonance And Influences Of ‘Oliver Twist’, ‘The Exorcist’ & More – Q&A

Read Deadline's interview with The Girl with the Needle filmmaker Magnus von Horn who discusses fear as a creative fuel, story's timeliness and influences

Von Horn below expands on the film’s trajectory, how it has employed “time travel to reflect something about our current world” and working with Danish superstar Dyrholm. I had three references I gave her — one was Fagin from Oliver Twist from the 1948 version by David Lean, which is a psychopath, but very charming and quite funny the way it’s acted; Regan in The Exorcist when the devil speaks through her; and Willem Dafoe’s character in The Lighthouse — and she kind of really quickly got that. But I was introduced by a casting agent to these potential actresses for Karoline, and most of them looked very healthy — and that says something good about Denmark, because it’s a welfare system that exists on a level where everybody’s middle class.

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