Actor J.K. Simmons has been in a number of films, television projects, and video games over the years, and is now playing a demon who lives behind a bathroom stall hole in the appropriately-named Glorious. While this could seem like an unusual choice, director Rebekah McKendry says it was not, and the Oscar-winner got picked for the position due to the disarming nature of his voice.

“Even in the early stages, the biggest thing for me was that the guy in the bathroom could not sound scary from the start. It needs to sound like a guy in a bathroom stall next to you. It needs to sound cordial and friendly and he can’t sound scary. There has to be a reason that Wes wants to keep talking to him. And so, J. K.’s voice is perfect because he’s just so multifaceted. The beautiful thing is he and Ryan got to work together a lot. We had several rehearsal sessions before we got into doing the recordings or onto set. So, they had already worked through the script, processed it, talked about it. We had big discussions about philosophy, motivations. So, by the time that we were actually recording, it just happened.”



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