But for me it was like, no, I really think it's got to be Henry, and we'll do what we can with his look to help point us toward Jack.” At one point it was like, ‘What if you find a Nicholson impersonator?’ What if Christian Slater does it? People always compare the two of them anyway. “There were ideas to try to really stunt cast it with big names who reminded people of Nicholson or were associated with Nicholson. “There's no other actor I would have trusted with it,” the director added. “He said, ‘Look, you're leading with your chin here to get hit for stepping into Kubrick's shadow.’ He's like, ‘Let me go with you and I'll slip into Jack's and we'll go down together.’” “I let him think about it, and Henry went off and thought about it overnight, and called me back the next day,” Flanagan recalled. That part was Jack Torrance or whatever remains of him in the Overlook Hotel. The other - it's only one day but holy shit, man, you're going to be under enormous scrutiny.” “One is Billy, the best friend, and you've played that part before. “Talking to Henry about it I was like, look, there are really two places that I could see you really working,” Flanagan said. At first, he considered casting Thomas as Billy Freeman, Dan Torrance’s sober buddy, which Cliff Curtis ended up playing. Thomas has become a staple of Flanagan’s films and TV projects, often playing unsettling fathers, from Hill House to Gerald’s Game. Yes - that Henry Thomas, the little boy from E.T.
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