We spoke w/ ansonmount about why the 'MK Ultra' script hooked him and how 'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' Season 2 compares to Season 1.
Written and directed by ex-Intelligence Officer Joseph Sorrentino and based on the CIA drug experiments from the early 1960s, the psychological thriller MK Ultra follows psychiatrist Ford Strauss , as he unknowingly becomes a pawn for the government’s fixation on mind control. As a man who truly cares for his patients and wants to help them, the moral and scientific boundaries he’s forced to push past lead to dangerous consequences.
Typically, an actor signs on for something because they’re either interested in or they connect with something in the story, they want to play the character because it’s different from what they’ve done, or they want to work with the filmmaker, and sometimes it’s all of those things combined. What was it about this project that got you interested?
Like is often the case of independent films, you shot this a while ago, and it’s only just now available to audiences. How do you feel about that? Is it weird that it can take such a long time to get a project out in front of audiences, or does that also feel like part of the industry that you’ve had to get used to?
This is a very dry character, meaning that he’s focused on his work. He’s not somebody who really veers off of that. He’s not a guy that’s telling jokes, or going around being funny with people. Was all of that on the page? Is that who he was in the script, or is that what you wanted to bring to him?
I thought it was also so interesting to have the scene, toward the beginning of the film, where your character is bound and gagged. It’s something that he’s clearly done with his wife before. Did you have any conversations about why that seemed to be something that worked for him, along with how to shoot that? I thought that was such an interesting moment, with the way this guy presents himself in every other moment.
These days, it seems like people are so quick to jump into conspiracy theories, especially if it reinforces anything that they might doubt or wonder about. It’s so interesting that this film takes that idea one step further and, this is not a conspiracy theory, but this was an actual program going on.
People, including myself, have loved you as Captain Pike, and people, including myself, are also loving Strange New Worlds. Without any spoilers for anything that would get either of us in trouble, how would you say Season 2 will compare to Season 1?
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