In his new film, Rupert Grint plays one of four people who arrive at a remote holiday cabin and insist the family occupying it make an impossible choice – either sacrifice one of their own, or watch as the apocalypse unfolds.
While the plot of Knock At The Cabin, which is based on horror novel The Cabin At The End Of The World, may be extreme, it also plays on real fears faced by many families.
The Harry Potterstar told Sky News it was all the more relevant to him as he has faced his own home invasion.
“Definitely becoming a dad, those fears are very real now – actually, I was broken into,” Grintsaid. “A few years ago, when we just did [TV show] Servant, and I saw the guy in my living room… he didn’t steal anything, but we had this kind of face-off.
“He was wearing my coat that he just stole. It was terrifying, it was absolutely terrifying.”
On hearing the story for the first time during our interview, writer-director M Night Shyamalan said he might not have cast Grint had he known what he’d been through.
“[Being in the film] did bring some quite raw emotions,” Grint said. “But no, I mean, it was a long time ago.”
The actor and Shyamalan, who’s also known for The Sixth Sense and Signs, have been working together for a while now, with the fourth and final series of their TV show Servant recently released.
Grint said having an existing relationship made shooting Knock At The Cabin that bit easier.
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“We paused Servant briefly for a few weeks and then kind of made this in the middle of that. So yeah, it all feels very much a kind of big family and I love working with Night, we get on really well and we do have this kind of shorthand. We know what we’re going to get with each other and it’s great.”
Shyamalan also cast actors he had not worked with before for the film, including Dave Bautista.
The former wrestler, who’s known for playing Drax from Guardians Of The Galaxy in the Marvel franchise, has been open about wanting not to be pigeon-holed as an action star.
Shyamalan said this was part of the appeal for him.
“I love casting against what people are known for and, you know, with Bruce [Willis] and Mel [Gibson] and Dave they were kind of action stars and I’m saying, okay you’re not going to do that in these movies, you’re going to do dramatic, complicated work,” he said.
“And their physicality is an asset because it’s just humming there and I don’t need to actually activate it, it’s there, he’s still 320 pounds or whatever, he’s still that guy.
“But in all those cases, there was a desire and an intricacy of thought that made me very comfortable that they could do these kind of deep-level performances.”
Knock At The Cabin is out in cinemas in the UK now
BBC presenter Lauren Laverne has said she has been given the “all clear” after being diagnosed with cancer.
The 46-year-old said in a post on social media that she will return to work next week on The One Show and has been working on new episodes of BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs.
She said she is set to also return to her 6 Music show in the new year.
She has not specified what type of cancer she had.
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Thanking medical staff, friends and all those who sent her get well wishes, Laverne said on Sunday she would most like to thank her husband Graeme and her two children, who she said have been “absolutely extraordinary throughout”.
“It’s been a difficult time but one that has taught me so much about what really matters,” she wrote.
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“I can’t say I suddenly regretted never having hiked the Inca Trail, more that I now see more beauty in ordinary things than I could have imagined, and feel more than ever that the small things in life – the connections we make and care we take with each other – are the big things really.”
A new episode of Desert Island Discs is due to air on 1 December, and will be a pre-recorded interview with comedian Mark Steel that is believed to have been done by Laverne before she went on leave.
She will return to record more episodes as well as Christmas editions of the series over the next few weeks.
A BBC spokeswoman said: “We’re delighted to welcome Lauren back to the studio this month for The One Show and Desert Island Discs, with new episodes airing on Radio 4 from 1 December, and we look forward to welcoming Lauren back to BBC Radio 6 Music in the new year.”
Zayn Malik paid tribute to former One Direction bandmate Liam Payne as he kicked off his solo tour.
Payne died last month of multiple traumas and “internal and external haemorrhage” after falling from a third-floor balcony in Buenos Aires, according to a post-mortem.
Images from Leeds’s O2 Academy on Saturday showed Malik – who delayed his Stairway To The Sky tour due to Payne’s funeral on Wednesday – shared a tribute.
A message was displayed with a heart on a large blue screen behind the singer reading: “Liam Payne 1993-2024. Love you bro.”
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Rapper Ye – formerly known as Kanye West – has been accused of sexual assault in a civil lawsuit that alleges he strangled a model on the set of a music video.
Warning: This story contains details that readers may find distressing
The lawsuit alleges the musician shoved his fingers in the claimant’s mouth at the Chelsea Hotel in New York City in 2010, in what it refers to as “pornographic gagging”, Sky News’ US partner network NBC News reported.
The model who brought the case – which was filed on Friday in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York – was a background actor for another musician’s music video that Ye was guest-starring in, NBC said, citing the lawsuit.
She is seeking compensatory and punitive damages against the 47-year-old.
A representative for Ye was approached for comment by NBC News on Saturday.
The New York City Police Department said it took “sexual assault and rape cases extremely seriously, and urges anyone who has been a victim to file a police report so we can perform a comprehensive investigation, and offer support and services to survivors”.
The lawsuit alleges that a few hours into the shoot, the rapper arrived on set, took over control and ordered “female background actors/models, including the claimant, to line up in the hallway”.
The rapper is then believed to have “evaluated their appearances, pointed to two of the women, and then commanded them to follow him”.
The lawsuit adds the claimant, who was said to be wearing “revealing lingerie”, was uncomfortable but went with Ye to a suite which had a sofa and a camera.
When in the room, Ye is said to have ordered the production team to start playing the music, to which he did not know his lyrics and instead rambled, “rawr, rawr, rawr”.
The lawsuit claims: “Defendant West then pulled two chairs near the camera, positioned them across from each other, and instructed the claimant to sit in the chair in front of the camera.”
While stood over the model, the lawsuit clams Ye strangled her with both hands, according to NBC.
It claims he went on to “emulate forced oral sex” with his hands, with the rapper allegedly screaming: “This is art. This is f****** art. I am like Picasso.”
Universal Music Group is also named in the lawsuit as a defendant and is accused of failing to investigate the incident.
The corporation did not immediately respond to a request for comment by NBC.
Jesse S Weinstein, a lawyer representing the claimant, said the woman “displayed great courage to speak out against some of the most powerful men and entities within the entertainment industry”.