Ethan Hawke plays child-killer the Grabber in The Black Phone.
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It’sthe tortured who torture…” says Ethan Hawke, clearly still deeply uncomfortable about playing his first bad guy. “Broken people break people.” Talking to Total Film about his difficult decision to take on the role of masked child-murderer the Grabber in Scott Derrickson’s coming-of-age horror The Black Phone, Hawke remembered all the good reasons he’d turned down other villain offers in the past.