alcoholism at the point where THE RAVEN takes place, forcing Cusack to delve deep within himself and his past for inspiration. “My fear was how dark I was going to have to go to do it. I was ready for it, but it was an intense headspace to be in. You really do feel like you know what it’s like to go as far into the abyss as you can before not being able to come out. I’ve been like that in my life, so there is a familiarity to going right to the edge of killing yourself, the edge of sanity. I think artists crave that and are drawn to that, so I can relate. That’s as deep as I can go as an actor without literally losing my mind. I didn’t eat or sleep. I just stayed strung out for about eight weeks.”


Detective Fields is out of his league, oblivious to the fact that Poe is a world champion at staring contests. Of the resulting performance, McTeigue says, “John nailed


the different frequencies of Poe. He really dove in head first and embraced it and wanted to show a Poe that hadn’t been shown before.” Supporting Cusack and Evans are Alice Eve (SEX AND THE CITY 2) as Poe’s fiancé Emily, and Brendan Gleeson (GANGS OF NEW YORK) as Colonel Hamilton. The director reports that the film, shot in Serbia and Hungary,


will not only deliver a strong performance in Cusack, but a graphic depiction of the horrors born of Poe’s imagination. “I thought if you are going to do Poe, you have to do at least some of it quite graphically because his stories didn’t pull any punches. In ‘Murders


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