‘The Devil All The Time’ Director Explains Why There are So Many Brits in His ‘Midwestern Gothic’

“It’s hard for us to necessarily see the way we look from the inside,” Antonio Campos says of film starring Tom Holland and Robert Pattinson

Tom Holland The Devil All the Time
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The cast that director Antonio Campos had to work with on his film “The Devil All The Time” is staggering, including Tom Holland, Robert Pattinson, Mia Wasikowska, Bill Skarsgård, Sebastian Stan and more. But while many of them live oceans apart from the small town where his film is set, Campos says they each brought a distinct outsider’s perspective to the seedy side of American society.

In fact, though the characters in “The Devil All The Time” are all meant to be inhabitants of Knockemstiff, Ohio, the film features at least three Brits (Holland, Pattinson, Harry Melling), several Aussies (Wasikowska, Jason Clarke, Eliza Scanlen) and two other Europeans (Skarsgård and Stan).

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