In David Cronenberg’s “Crimes of the Future,” Scott Speedman plays a man named Lang Dotrice, a calculating and mysterious character who spends the bulk of the film attempting to initiate contact with a pair of high-profile performance artists in order to donate raw materials to their act.
“Crimes” takes place in a near future wherein humanity has carefully ridden themselves of physical pain, leading to a widespread popularity in “aesthetic surgery,” performed live for entertainment’s sake.
Extracting exotic, new internal organs — an equally mysterious and widespread medical phenomenon — is the height of the art world, and…The post Crimes of the Future’s Scott Speedman on Oblique Conspiracies and Activating His Character [Interview] appeared first on /Film.
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