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Johnny Flynn on His New Drama ’Prayer for the Dying’ and Musical Friendship With Co-Star John C. Reilly: ‘We Actually Sang a Lot Together’
Johnny Flynn on new drama ‘A Prayer for the Dying’ and his musical friendship with co-star John C. Reilly.
Johnny Flynn ’s career has taken him from Regency England (“Emma,” “Vanity Fair”) to WWII (“Operation Mincemeat”) to contempo Glasgow (“Lovesick”) to mid-century Italy (“Ripley”) to 1971 David Bowie (“Stardust”), and now the versatile actor-singer-songwriter travels to post Civil War America in “ A Prayer for the Dying.” Adapted from the novel by Stewart O’Nan and directed by Dara Van Dusen, the drama unfolds in 1870 Wisconsin, in a small town of Scandinavian settlers who face a chillingly timely threat of a pandemic and wildfires. What was it like to work with Dara Van Dusen, who’s making her feature directorial debut with this film? You know, obviously, he’s a great comic actor, but I think my favorite stuff of his is the kind of vulnerability that he brings to his more serious roles.
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