(Spoiler alert: This story contains minor spoilers. Do not read on if you haven’t seen “The Invisible Man.”)
When “The Invisible Man” writer and director Leigh Whannell figured out his screenplay was shaping up to be a story about domestic abuse, he knew he’d have to do a lot of research to accurately depict a woman’s perspective.
“The film told me it wanted it to go there — I didn’t go into this saying, right, I am going to tell an ‘Invisible Man’ story about domestic violence,” Whannell told TheWrap. “It was more that I started with this character, and thought, what makes him scary? It’s the absence of him. He’s unknown. That led to me to a woman escaping a relationship, and one thing led to another. As soon as I had made that decision, I had to research that. I talked to counselors...
When “The Invisible Man” writer and director Leigh Whannell figured out his screenplay was shaping up to be a story about domestic abuse, he knew he’d have to do a lot of research to accurately depict a woman’s perspective.
“The film told me it wanted it to go there — I didn’t go into this saying, right, I am going to tell an ‘Invisible Man’ story about domestic violence,” Whannell told TheWrap. “It was more that I started with this character, and thought, what makes him scary? It’s the absence of him. He’s unknown. That led to me to a woman escaping a relationship, and one thing led to another. As soon as I had made that decision, I had to research that. I talked to counselors...
- 2/27/2020
- by Beatrice Verhoeven
- The Wrap
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