The actor, who stars with Mandy Patinkin in “Death and Other Details,” says such moments happen “right before you get to that place with somebody, when the pause is no longer as awkward.”
Violett Beane doesn’t know if she believes in ghosts.
But there was that incident aboard the Queen Mary — the retired British ocean liner reported to be haunted — while she was shooting “Death and Other Details,” her new Hulu murder mystery set at sea.
“Our hair artist at the time said that she felt, like, a hand come across her and wind on her neck,” Beane said. “She ran out of the room and just freaked out.”
There’s no freaking-out onscreen when Beane’s character, Imogene Scott, is thrown together with Rufus Cotesworth, once the world’s greatest detective, played by Mandy Patinkin.
“He’s a legend,” Beane said of Patinkin. “He brings this sort of magnitude with him, and he never misses. You just learn so much from that.”
When she felt momentarily overwhelmed during the pilot, she turned to Patinkin for advice.
“He sat me down and talked me through it,” she added. “It was like art imitating life, and it was really, really sweet.”
In a video interview from her home in Los Angeles, her own artwork on the wall behind her, Beane spoke about her affection for Charlie Kaufman, René Magritte and the band Big Thief. These are edited excerpts from the conversation.
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