The story of Jan Broberg’s abduction—by the same person, twice—is almost too wild and disturbing to fathom. Jake Lacy tells beastobsessed what it was like to channel the evil of her kidnapper in Peacock’s 'A Friend of the Family.'
in its revelatory weaponization of that “type” he had perfected. His classic American handsomeness that had been used to convey cinematic congeniality was now used to telegraph something more sinister.he played the quintessential Aggrieved Rich White Guy; now, he’s playing the friendly neighbor no one expects could be responsible for so much evil.
For an actor, there’s an undeniably riveting character study to play with Berchtold. Occupying his mindset is also a terrifying prospect, however—from the sheer hubris he carried to what it means to have been capable of such grotesque abuse of a child. Filming those scenes involved a bit of dissociation and emotional redirection. “It's easier for me to conceptualize what it would be like to kill a person than it is for me to think [about] what it would be to abuse a child,” Lacy says. “Robert Berchtold did not feel the disgust, shame, and guilt that you and I would feel in even engaging in those thoughts. For him, that's the thing he wanted most.
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