\u00ab\u00a0He understood the darkness that came from the charisma of a character like Billy Lee,\u00a0\u00bb director Drew Goddard says about Chris Hemsworth<\/b>
\nDrew Goddard, who wrote and directed \u201cBad Times at the El Royale\u201d for Fox, fulfilled one dream when Jeff Bridges agreed to take the role of Father Daniel Flynn, but it\u2019s Chris Hemsworth, who plays charismatic and (of course) incredibly fit cult leader Billy Lee, with whom Goddard wants to work with for the rest of his life.
\u201c[Chris Hemsworth] is such an extraordinary talent and an extraordinary person. He really is someone I could mix all the other actors around him he\u2019s so conscious of everyone else, both cast and crew,\u201d Goddard told TheWrap during a phone interview. \u201cHe\u2019s just \u2014 he\u2019s one of the radiant talents of our time\u2026 I hope he\u2019s in everything I do for the rest of my life.\u201d
This marks Goddard and Hemsworth\u2019s second film together, the first being \u201cThe Cabin in the Woods\u201d in 2012 \u2014 also the last time Goddard directed a feature film.
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\u201cBad Times at the El Royale,\u201d which hits theaters this weekend, follows seven strangers, each with a secret to bury, who meet at Lake Tahoe\u2019s El Royale, a rundown hotel with a dark past. Over the course of one fateful night, everyone is presented with one last shot at redemption \u2014 before everything goes to hell.
Along with Hemsworth andBridges, \u201cBad Times at the El Royale\u201d stars Cynthia Erivo, Dakota Johnson, Jon Hamm, Nick Offerman, Lewis Pullman and Cailee Spaeny.
Hemsworth\u2019s character plays a vital role in bringing the cast of characters together on the fateful night, and on his character is where one of the film\u2019s major themes lies.
\u201cSo much of this film is about toxic masculinity and how men use that toxic masculinity to achieve power,\u201d Goddard said. \u201cWe see it with cults even today, these cults are still thriving and you see the same characteristics in these cults; they\u2019re all, almost exclusively led by men and a singular man who is very charismatic and very dangerous in his charisma and I felt like exploring that darkness was sort of key to the understanding of this film and understanding what the women of this film were going through and what they had to deal with and so it started there.
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\u201cChris sunk his teeth into that very quickly. He understood the darkness that came from the charisma of a character like Billy Lee and how seducing people, and the audience, makes them complicit in the darkness and so with Chris, he very much embodied that.\u201d<\/p>\n

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