Robert Pattinson and Tom Holland in #TheDevilAlltheTime

‘xcuse me preacher – you got time for a sinner

Antonio Campos talks to USA Today about his favourite scene in The Devil All the Time (and it might just be mine too):

Pattinson’s preacher Preston Teagardin presents his own level of creepiness, with his insidious preacher serial-prowling on his young flock. Campos gave the British actor a look at an early draft of the screenplay and offered any part. Pattinson was “drawn” to the complicated, highly flawed preacher and owned it. 

Teagardin’s wicked behavior comes to a reckoning in a confrontation with Tom Holland’s revenge-seeking Arvin Russell. The emotionally charged moment, which has behind-the-scenes superhero implications for Spider-Man (Holland) and the Caped Crusader (Pattinson), is Campos’ favorite scene in the whole movie.

It begins with Russell pretending to confess to the crimes for which Teagardin is guilty.

“It was like doing a piece of theater. We focused on every single line, every single moment,” says Campos. “And then I thought about that scene every day for eight months of editing. It was my obsession to nail every moment. And I’m so proud of it.”