The Sinner

It's got the guy that played the president in Independence Day.

Oh, Sinner.

That is fucking incredible.

That was a

I'm just creatively outputting, working, going, oh, OK, I'm working on television right now.

I'm doing The Sinner and doing, you know, Cruel Summer and Candy and, you know, all these things.

And you blink and nine years has passed.

And I've just been working and producing on television.

Even Candy.

That's a good one too.

Sinner.

Surely.

He's playing Hamash.

Neil Huff, of course, we talked about in The Sinner Season 4.

He is a recurring character, although I'm not sure to what capacity, but I saw his name in the episode two credits.

Hamish.

Ocean

... through Iron Ocean, we, we did The Sinner.

We produced The Sinner.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Oh, yeah.

[laughs]

We, we're looking to break the Smartless movie.

I loved The Sinner.

But also, he notices that the ice that he's gathered, uh, has a very strange smell to it, and he gives it to a sort of marine biologist scientist woman who-- to, to do some experiments on it, see, you know, what's, what is that all about.

So it's created by Jesse McKeown, who has worked on the Umbrella Academy and The Sinner, and is familiar with Newfoundland.

And for Hartnett, well, he has done film roles including The Faculty.

Uh, he was also in an M.

... with anything with water and the mermaids, and the she-maids, and the s- I, yeah.

Y- but doesn't that sound kinda good though, Julia? Like, this, it, it reminds me of that one, uh, maybe the fourth season of The Sinner when Harry goes to that island, and there is some kind of monster that's been unsettled by what's happened on the land, and he kinda puts together this mystery that has old, you know, I don't know, maybe bones were disturbed, or you know, he kind of unfolds.

So it can be something, you know, like that.

So I, I don't know.

This has been A Closer Look.

Our guest tonight is an Emmy and Golden Globe-nominated actress, producer you know from shows such as The Sinner, Candy, The Better Sister, and Seventh Heaven.

She stars in Matchbox, the movie which premieres Friday, October 9th on Apple TV.

Please welcome back to the show our friend

relate to each other in that way, so.

As an actor, you were in Modern Family, Difficult People, The Sinner, Good Fight, Uncoupled.

Uh, acting still part of it? And when you, if, when you act now, if you were to act after the show, do you sort of look at the director and go, "I've got some tips for you"?

Oh my God, no. [laughs] I would ne-