in which he plays a priest with a mysterious history with demonic forces. The movie, a meta take on the exorcism genre, starsas washed-up movie star Anthony Miller, who gets a chance at a comeback when he's cast as the priest in an-like horror film. He lands the role after the director's first choice ominously dies on set, and sure enough, the movie-within-a-movie proves to be majorly cursed.
Crowe's presence as an actor made forming that connection "so easy," Pierce says. "He has such a strong sense of reality in a scene that you feel brought along with it. Sometimes, it can be hard to focus or hard to disregard the cameras in your eyeball. Not with him because he's all-encompassing. I really liked that."
Besides getting the chance to work with Crowe, Pierce was excited to take on the role because it resonated with two somewhat paradoxical childhood interests: the church and horror movies. When he was a little boy, Pierce says, "I just went nuts for classic horror. In fact, one of the fun things I got to do in this movie was we had this great makeup team, and they did special effects makeup.
In fact, Pierce took inspiration for his role from one of the church's leaders. "I had a minister of my church who I admired a lot, and I think that he would've been the most influential in conceptually thinking about it," he recalls. "But then a lot of it came from how the character was written, and I was cognisant that this was drawing inspiration from the original.
There was another inspiration, though, that he kept close during the production. "My dad wanted to be an actor but ended up not being one, but he worked in community theater, and there was a thing where he played a bishop. And so, in my dressing room in my trailer, when I was doing, I had this double frame picture that my sister had given me of me playing a priest in a play many years ago at Williamstown and dad playing a priest back in the probably '50s. I love it.
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