{"id":142943,"date":"2020-05-05T15:59:12","date_gmt":"2020-05-05T13:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/05\/05\/i-am-fascinated-by-people-who-make-killing-their-vocation-joseph-gilguns-lockdown-tv\/"},"modified":"2020-05-05T15:59:12","modified_gmt":"2020-05-05T13:59:12","slug":"i-am-fascinated-by-people-who-make-killing-their-vocation-joseph-gilguns-lockdown-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=142943","title":{"rendered":"'I am fascinated by people who make killing their vocation': Joseph Gilgun's lockdown TV"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Brassic star and co-creator on his obsession with true-crime shows \u2013 and the dangers of forgetting about the victims who appear in themI\u2019ve always been quite macabre, and I love true crime documentaries, especially about murder. One of the projects I\u2019m working on is a much darker idea, so I\u2019ve been doing a lot of research. I am fascinated by people who make killing their vocation. A lot of people who have killed tend to think: \u201cI\u2019ll never do that again,\u201d but they never forgive themselves. But there\u2019s a very small percentage who say: \u201cI wouldn\u2019t mind doing that again \u2026 that was great.\u201d It\u2019s a really tough job, too \u2013 it\u2019s a two-man job, really. How do you get rid of a body? It\u2019s 70% water, this thing!I\u2019m trying to persuade my sister to watch The Staircase on Netflix. You have to give it a few episodes because the man in question seems to be a very strange fella, but I was blown away by it. There\u2019s this pipe-smoking author getting up to all that, maybe murdering his wife. I think he probably did do it [although he has always maintained his innocence]. I\u2019m no expert, but I\u2019ve got a feeling.Another series I like is Cold Case Files (Netflix); in the US, only 1% of cold cases get solved, and this show is all about reopening the ones that always nagged at detectives and still play on their minds. They end up finding these terrible men and women who have done dreadful things, and you think: how have you done that? You\u2019ve got to be ill.I think human beings can be terribly cruel. We have these moments that are really, really sweet and lovely, but we can be quite violent and dominating. I find the nature of how we treat each other really interesting, be that for good or for bad. I\u2019ve not met serial killers, but I\u2019ve met men with no empathy, who don\u2019t get it. A lot of the experiences on Brassic are fun and funny, but there\u2019s the odd person you bump into with whom you\u2019re just not safe \u2013 they don\u2019t feel on the same level as you, and they never bloody will.You can forget that there are [victims] who have suffered unimaginably to make a documentary that you think is brilliantly done \u2013 we\u2019re absolutely desensitised. You have to try to remind yourself that it\u2019s not just a TV show you\u2019re watching \u2013 the content is about a human being that lives and breathes out there in the real world, even if they\u2019ve passed away. Also, in the same way, no one wakes up and thinks: \u201cI\u2019ll become a drug addict,\u201d no one thinks: \u201cI\u2019ll become a serial killer.\u201d It\u2019s a slow process and life filters you in such a way.I think we watch these things out of curiosity, though, in the same way we watch horror films. It\u2019s like: what does it look like to be chased through the woods by a killer or to have your head pulled off your shoulders by a shark? I\u2019m fascinated by it \u2013 I nearly did it then \u2026 I nearly said I loved it. It\u2019s bizarre, isn\u2019t it? Continue reading…
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The Brassic star and co-creator on his obsession with true-crime shows \u2013 and the dangers of forgetting about the victims who appear in themI\u2019ve always been quite macabre, and I love true crime documentaries, especially about murder. One of the projects I\u2019m working on is a much darker idea, so […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=142943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}