Hamish Linklater On His “Little Haunted Island” Roles In ‘Midnight Mass’, ‘Widow’s Bay’: “You’ve Got To Defend Your Territory”
SPOILERS: This post contains details about the Widow’s Bay episodes ‘Our History’ and ‘Seasickness’
Fans of Hamish Linklater might have experienced a bit of déjà vu with this week’s double episode feature of Widow’s Bay.
The actor, who plays Richard Warren, admitted some similarities to his role in the 2021 Netflix limited series Midnight Mass, explaining why he risked typecasting to play another “bad leader of a parish on a little fishing island” in the Apple TV+ series from Katie Dippold.
“You definitely worry that people will only think of you as a bad leader of a parish on a little fishing island,” he told Decider. “But then you start getting jealous, and you’re like, ‘I don’t want to see anybody else run a little haunted island better than me.’ So then you’ve got to defend your territory.”
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