“Exorcism” reverberates with an actor (Russell Crowe) in crisis who needs support from Lee (Ryan Simpkins), his emotionally conflicted daughter.
When asked to play the troubled daughter of Russell Crowe’s troubled actor in “The Exorcism,” an offshoot of the classic horror hit “The Exorcist,” Ryan Simpkins was ready.
“You hear ‘The Exorcist’ and you think one thing. Then I read the script and was like, ‘I have to do this!’ It’s such a great part. She’s so cool and there was so much depth to her. And,” Simpkins, 25, added in a Zoom interview, “we take those expectations and really flip them on their head.”
This “Exorcism” is personal for Joshua John Miller, its writer-director. He’s the son of Jason Miller, whose acting debut as Father Karras in “The Exorcist” made him a star and complicated both their lives.
The stories surrounding that horror phenomenon that Jason told Joshua growing up inspired “Exorcism.
