Here is what Elijah had to share with Mr Porter.
On his new movie Maniac
The thing about this particular Maniac is that it's a stylised version of the original. The original had its own sense of style I think, but it was pretty dirty. I wouldn't even classify it as a B-movie. I'm not a huge fan of remakes, especially horror film remakes. But I was intrigued by this. What resulted was far more stylistic and beautiful than I had anticipated. It was initially pitched to me as: you'll play the killer, and you'll only be seen in reflections. So interesting. And each sequence effectively is a single shot, so every scene became this puzzle of trying to figure out how I was involved, where the camera moved. It was like a dance.
