Rebecca Hall On Getting Into Character For ‘The Listeners’ & Why The BBC Series Is A “Four-Hour Movie”
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Rebecca Hall has revealed how she got into the character of a woman who hears a constant, low humming sound in BBC series The Listeners.
Adapted from the Jordan Tannahill novel, Hall plays English teacher Claire, tormented by the sound and desperate to make it stop.
Speaking to Deadline on the eve of TIFF, where it is world premiering, Hall said she developed a trick to help her get into character. “What was helpful was we were shooting on film,” said the Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire star. “Digital is silent but with film you can hear the sound of the whir.
Sooner or later I latched onto that as my hum. It was comfortable and helped me be where I needed to be.” After a while, Hall said “it became the thing of the character, I knew it was there and it was a sort of companion.” Director Janicza Bravo experimented with playing a low hum at points during filming, but she joked that there were complaints. “You don’t want to stress the crew out,” she added.
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