Corey Hawkins on Facing Down Dracula in “The Last Voyage of the Demeter” | Mashable

it’s monster time when the lights go out being able to go back and work with universal again and amblin they know how to do it they know how to do it right when it comes to genre films and also being able to work with Andre I’ve been a fan of his for a long time and his idea for it this idea of this thriller where you know it is alien but on a boat you know it is Jaws it does have all of that but it was all of that before before all the you know

predates all of those those films this chapter of Dracula Clemens is a he’s a Cambridge educated doctor um he’s a man of science and getting to the opportunity to like play Someone Like This who I look at as a hero in this genre in the horror genre in this space it was fun and uh I think Clemens is somebody who’s faced with this this thing that he doesn’t quite understand and so his journey as well as Dracula’s Journey throughout the film um maybe they see a bit of the other in each other and uh and

so I thought that was interesting and sub you know something to tackle he’s a man who has to walk through the world in

the skin that he’s in and I have to walk through this world and the skin that I’m in and um you know you have all of that and then you set him you know in a on a boat with Sailors that he’s never met before don’t look like him who they don’t necessarily trust him uh and people go missing on this ship and and and so it’s one of those things where it’s

like a microcosm of all the all your worst fears and he’s literally confronting that I mean he’s but the thing about Clemens is that he is adaptable and he has to be because he’s had to walk through the world and be adaptable and so I think that’s a huge part of his resilience and that’s also why you sort of lean into him and or why I leaned into Clemens and I want to kill the cusset thing