Mark Ruffalo says that 'Mare of Easttown' follow -up 'task' will start his heart

Task It is a strange crime thriller that aims to get into the face, under the skin and in the deepest corners of his heart with the characters that his manufacturers expect his eyes to overlook.

“The people who know you in life are essentially invisible,” the creator of the series and Easttown mare The master mind Brad Ingelsby counts Weekly entertainment Of men, the project led by Mark Ruffalo brought to light. “Every day, his mailman leads through his neighborhood. He knows his invoices and magazines, and garbage men know what they are eating, their Amazon boxes, and that resonated.”

With a steel stage of the home-east-eastsylvania of Ingelsby (once again with “the craziest dialect” previously heard in MareRuffalo jokes) ,, TaskLike their characters, spectators disarms when they are lulled in a sense of comfort with their unpretentious.

Even so, “offers”, promises Ruffalo of the crescendo of the tension spectators they experience throughout the trip. “It has a great pulse. It moves, it's exciting. And at the same time, yes, you're going to get your heart.”

The Oscar nominee says everything knew that his character, Tom, lacks inertia when we find him. Invisible among the bustle of his FBI office, Tom once led a quiet life as a man of the fabric. A disturbing family tragedy at the hands of his adoptive son tested the faith of Tom years before, which caused an existential adjustment that, now, sends his trigger (therefore, Mbeedu, Alison Oliver, Fabien Frankel) that stands towards Robbie (Ozark'S Tom Pelphrey), a garbage collector who lights up like a weapon thief.

Tom and Robbie are nothing special on the surface, and that is the point. In the midst of track hunting on the case, Tom horsed on his desk, palely pale as a sausage sandwiches and oncén in his mouth. He drinks a lot. He has a painfully uncomfortable relationship with a afflicted teenage daughter. And he is not totally sure of what he is looking for in life, apart from that problematic band of masked perpetrators stalking the streets around him.

Robbie also fights with the loss, when a local motorcyclist gang murdered his brother. Dreaming with a better life for their children and their nieces, Maeve (Emilia Jones), the search for Robbie's justice looks different from Tom, but the program faces its parallel trajectories with each other on a path to destruction and, strangely, revelation.

“We tied with these people, we interact with them, and it is totally attractive, because they are police and thieves. It is persecution, danger and crime,” Ruffalo observes. “The wonderful world of a detective in an investigation, slowly unraveling in this collision course of these two characters that we know they have to know one day and wonder what will happen when they finally do it.”

In addition to deeply probe the dynamics of families that are chosen and others determined by blood, the thread that unites both men also touches a central question: who are we, if not driven by faith?

The difference in the belief systems of these characters, and the answers they find as they approach each other in the seven episodes of the program, adds an additional layer of complication that Ruffalo and Ingelsby felt on a personal level.

Ingelsby comes from a long line of priests, and his uncle left his vocation after 30 years, while two other tombs also served as priests.

“When my uncle left the priesthood, he had many questions,” says Ingelsby. His own exploration of belief systems led to “interesting conversations about how his ideas have changed over the years. [For Task] He was interested in a character whose belief system falls apart, and now he has to return the pieces. That is something I deal with every day: what to do? Yo Do you believe in God?

Ruffalo also comes from a religious family on both sides. Catholic raised by a father who was very involved in the faith of Bahá'í, in addition, the mother of the Marvel star was evangelical. In his first communion, he even remembers being “saved” by televangelist Jimmy Swaggart as a birthday gift for his grandmother.

Tom's struggle with faith is that a Ruffalo can relate, after being “indoctrinated in these belief systems,” he says, “whether or not he wanted.”

He also thinks that, as an actor, he is “mystically attracted by certain parts that can address problems in his own life”, and Task It is one of them.

“You should have a lot of faith at this time or be delirious so as not to question the concept that some benevolents supervise the struggles of humanity. The way religion is used today is a great detour. I have fought with it for a couple of decades now,” admits Ruffalo. But, it is difficult to distinguish the trees forest, and this show reminds me of its essence, which are concepts of empathy, compassion, love, forgiveness, tolerance and humility. ”

In the end, Tom and Robbie find rare forms of “grace”, feels Ruffalo, but discover how and why the arrival of him and Robbie to their respective destinations is better to see the show built around them.

TaskLike Ingelsby Easttown mare Before, it is one that is not a heavy introspection despite its heavy themes. This is, after all, a series of HBO crimes. There are chills, turns, emotions, shocking deaths and an outstanding and exuberant performance of Martha Plimpton as head of Hosco Police.

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“A shocking death gives an audience the feeling that anything is possible,” says Ingelsby about his exclusive style, in which the spectators retired in the middle of the winding Kate Winslet and Jean Smart navigated Mare. “We are scheduled to see a program with expectations, and the idea that any of these characters could be killed is exciting, because everything is on the table.”

In other words, I might think that you see the unsuspecting emotions of Task Coming, until you do, that's.

Task Debuts on September 7 in HBO.