April 18, 2024 12:35 pm

The Pale Blue Eye Director Hardly Knew Who Harry Melling Was Before Casting Him as Edgar Allan Poe
The Pale Blue Eye Director Hardly Knew Who Harry Melling Was Before Casting Him as Edgar Allan Poe

The Pale Blue Eye Director Hardly Knew Who Harry Melling Was Before Casting Him as Edgar Allan Poe

Harry Melling has an impressive resume under his belt—one that includes several Harry Potter films and Netflix’s quarantine hit The Queen’s Gambit—but The Pale Blue Eye writer and director Scott Cooper was unfamiliar with all but one of Melling’s works when he cast the English actor as a young Edgar Allan Poe.

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​Now that he’s more familiar with the English actor’s work, writer and director Scott Cooper is a huge fan: ‘He is a remarkable actor.” Read More