Every viewer of Hulu’s “The Looming Tower” will remember how Episode 3’s interrogation scene ends: Robert Chesney, played by the Emmy-nominated Bill Camp, stands tall over terrorist suspect Mohamad al-Owhali (Youssef Berouain) and shouts, “Write it down! Write down the number you called after the bomb went off! Write it down!” The embodiment of a looming tower himself, there’s no avoiding Chesney’s command; Mohamed will write down the information because he has no other choice.
The whole scene builds to this moment, this shout, but that’s not the way Camp wanted to play it.
“I wanted to see if I was able to achieve that moment, which comes out in a really aggressive way, […] without even raising my voice; to carry the sort of tone of that whole scene all the way through — and I failed,” Camp told Indiewire, with a laugh. “I couldn’t do it.
The whole scene builds to this moment, this shout, but that’s not the way Camp wanted to play it.
“I wanted to see if I was able to achieve that moment, which comes out in a really aggressive way, […] without even raising my voice; to carry the sort of tone of that whole scene all the way through — and I failed,” Camp told Indiewire, with a laugh. “I couldn’t do it.
- 6/13/2018
- by Ben Travers
- Indiewire
In playing the composite character, Robert Chesney, on “The Looming Tower,” Bill Camp found a very enriching role. “There was a liberty of having a larger landscape to work with. It was a great source to be able to combine all of these things rather than trying to depict just one character,” reveals the actor in our recent interview (watch the exclusive video above). Regarding the challenges in portraying a character that was based on several real life people, he focuses on the positives of what that portrayal was to him: “Maybe in the beginning stages it was challenging to find who Bob Chesney was, but ultimately that challenge faded and the experience became exhilarating!”
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