New Netflix film The Pale Blue Eye explores Edgar Allan Poe's life, and his time in the US Military Academy.
Poe isn't the main character, but the film explores the literary trailblazer in a setting most people aren't aware he was ever in.
"The fact that he was at West Point [the military academy] for a period of time - what does a person who is an artist, who is so different from what you might normally find at West Point and the rigidity of West Point, what do they do under those circumstances? "It's very freeing - I remember feeling that a few years ago I did Blanche in [A Streetcar Named Desire at the National Theatre] and there's something about Blanche that you just feel like you could do almost anything. It just feels that you can give all of those bits that you've restrained in yourself to another character.
"But yeah early on, I was reading a lot about Edgar being obsessed with the dead with death and the occult, and I thought, you know, I'm just going to head to the graveyard with my book and see what comes to me.
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