In the film "The Abode of the Damned," the actors are miraculously chosen, all thanks to the excellent casting. This made it possible to create such a tape that not only sells successfully, but also looks great by the audience who missed good films. But each of the actors is a personality that needs to be learned in more detail.
The film takes place in Britain, in a psychiatric hospital. A girl and a guy come here who want to show themselves perfectly at a new job. But for them, everything turns out to be much more complicated than they could imagine.
And now we are directly interested in the actors who starred in the film “The Abode of the Damned”.
Kate Beckinsale (Eliza Graves)
Kate received an invitation to the first shoots while still in her first year at Oxford. The proposal was tempting, and she agreed to the role in the film "A lot of noise from nothing." The last year of training, the actress was completely busy filming, which is why she decided to quit her studies. Kate tried to combine immediately shooting in a movie, on television and staging in the theater. In 1999, the girl began to be invited to American projects. After that, absolutely all film enthusiasts began to recognize her as a real celebrity from high-quality films.
Many people know the films “Another World”, “Van Helsing”, “Intuition”. The protagonist of the “Island” starred in all these pictures. An interesting fact is that for the shootings in the film "Aviator" the girl had to recover by 9 kg in order to ideally enter the role. And this was not in vain, because in the end the tape received five Oscars and several Golden Globes.
Ideal role
Her play as Eliza turned out to be what everyone expected. She was able to convey the emotions of her heroine as much as possible. She no longer recognizes Celine from “Another World”, there is no feeling that she will go to destroy everyone. The opportunity to be so versatile gave her a ticket to a successful acting life. And this time, Kate perfectly entered the cast of the film "Resident of the Damned", the actors in which they look organically.
The heroine Kate is a girl who sometimes can not even distinguish patients from doctors, and the situation in personal terms is also very controversial. An interesting role, of course, because it is not in vain that the alternative name of the film is “Eliza Graves”. The answer why the film is named that way can only be found after the tape is fully watched.
Michael Kane (Dr. Salt)
Kane’s career began back in 1964, when he was entrusted with the role in the film “Zulus”. And then came the major roles in good projects, in which Michael showed himself well, and there are more than seventy of them. Over the course of his career, the actor has been nominated for a variety of prizes many times, including the Oscar. By the way, he still took two statuettes for himself.
Here Michael played the role of Dr. Salt, who applies non-standard methods in the treatment of absolutely all diseases. The actor also does an excellent job of creating a living person, and not just putting on the image set by the scriptwriters. It is interesting to watch his work, he is a true professional who has long and successfully applied his vocation in the field of cinema.
Jim Sturgess (Edward Cugget)
Another character in the film “The Abode of the Damned” (the actors and roles were very well matched to each other) is Edward Cugate, played by Jim Sturgess. Jim got his first good role in 2007, when he participated in the film Through the Universe. After that, they began to invite him to good projects with already famous actors such as Natalie Portman, Scarlett Johansson and others. In 2016, he decided to try himself in the series, or rather, in "Feed the Beast."
Edward is the very young doctor who arrived to get practice. The hero turned out to be charming, as the authors intended. It is interesting to follow this character, try to predict his next action and worry about him. Perhaps this feeling appears due to the fact that the hero himself first gets into such an institution and tries to find out all the secrets hidden behind these walls.
Ben Kingsley (Silas Lemb)
The actors of the film “Resident of the Damned” (2014) played in the company of Ben Kingsley, the holder of two honorary awards at once: the Order of the British Empire and the badge of the knight-bachelor. They were received for phenomenal successes in the acting field. This is confirmed by many awards, including the Oscar. The actor was repeatedly nominated for an Oscar, Golden Globe, Emmy, Golden Raspberry. The latter still did not get him, which is good, because Kingsley's reputation remains at its best.
The career of the actor began with the theater, and his father tried over the pseudonym. Ben Kingsley's real name is Krishna Pandit Bhanji. First appeared in films in 1972, after which he began to participate in series.
Ben's character is the other side of the psychiatric hospital. It is Lemb who does not accept new methods of treatment, but tries to give patients complete freedom so that they can continue to be treated without feeling like prisoners whom nobody lets out of the building.
Game in general
The rest of the cast of The Abode of the Damned also performed very well. All the characters turned out to be colorful and interesting, but there is no point in discussing them, because they make up the background for the main characters.
In the film "The Abode of the Damned" the actors are perfectly selected, each is in its place. So it is absolutely not surprising that the film is so popular not only among the audience, but also among critics who put only high marks on this work.
If you look at “The Abode of the Damned”, the photos of the actors will immediately become recognizable and associated with their characters. The fact is that in the tape there is no busting with makeup, everything is simplified and presented as naturally as possible in order to facilitate the perception of the film. And it worked great.