The Life of Chuck is a story of life, love, dance, and death. Adapted from a Stephen King novella by horror auteur Mike Flanagan (Midnight Mass, House of Usher), the new film brandishes a star-studded cast including Tom Hiddleston, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Karen Gillan, Mia Sara, Benjamin Pajak, Annalise Basso, and Mark Hamill. Mashable Entertainment Editor Kristy Puchko spoke to the lot about one particularly eerie element of this critically heralded film.
In The Life of Chuck, the titular character, Chuck Krantz, discovers there’s a door in his childhood home that, if opened, reveals a premonition of death. It could be that of a loved one or your own. So, if presented with such a terrible temptation, would you open the door?
Flanagan was quick to admit he would, saying, “I wouldn’t be able to help it!” Gillan called it “the ultimate spoiler” before deciding “my answer is no to that.” Ejiofor, who plays her ex-husband in the film, agreed. “If there’s nothing you can do about it,” he explained, “Then why?”
Benjamin Pajak, who plays a young Chuck opposite his onscreen grandfather Mark Hamill, was torn, suspecting it would depend on the moment of this temptation.
Hiddleston, who plays the grown Chuck, mused, “The challenge is not to open the door, but to live with what’s behind the door. Which is that none of us are getting out alive.”
Hear the full answers from the cast in the video above.
The Life of Chuck is now playing in theaters everywhere.
