Brady Corbet On 'Simon Killer,' Antonio Campos

Brady Corbet plays the cold title character in Antonio Campos’s chilling film Simon Killer, the story of a young man who travels to France following a breakup with his girlfriend and his unraveling. The movie, which is almost entirely improvised, was a creative challenge for Corbet. “I don’t think I would have done it with anyone other than Antonio. And that’s not like hyperbole," Corbet told Uinterview exclusively. "I’ve thought about it and I don’t know who could ask me to do a movie that was this radical in such a radical way, that I would have felt close enough to, someone that I know well enough that we can share this certain amount of control."

Corbet’s acting career began with a guest role in an episode of King of Queens when he was just 10 years old. His first film role was in the 2003 drama Thirteen, alongside Vanessa Hughes and Holly Hunter. In 2004, he played the troubled teen convinced that he had been abducted by martians in Mysterious Skin.

Though he plays a man with violent tendencies in Simon Killer, Corbet says he's just the opposite in real life. “I couldn’t hurt a fly!” he told Uinterview. “I’ve been attacked very few times in my life and honestly, I’ve never fought back. I’m a pacifist.”