The Making of Justin Therouxs Maniac Character (and His Blow-Job Robot)
Sally Field and Justin Theroux in Maniac. Not pictured: The Sucktube. While writing Maniac, creator Patrick Somerville and director Cary Joji Fukunaga invented an ordinary enough character: Dr. James Mantleray, a doctor who oversees a mind-bending pharmaceutical trial that aims to cure mental illness, until it all goes terribly wrong. Then, they decided to cast Justin Theroux.
“They admitted, ‘We really want someone with a point of view and a take on it,’” Theroux told Vulture ahead of Maniac’s premiere, adding that aside from the basic story line, Mantleray wasn’t very defined on the page.
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