Jack Reynor

Saw Midsommar yesterday. I won't lie, I was watching Jack the whole movie and thinking, "I hope he gets naked in this." Needless to say I got a lot more than I expected. I read that he insisted on including as much full frontal nudity as possible, because he liked how it flipped the horror trope of the naked and afraid woman on its head. He wanted it to be as humiliating as possible - brave guy!
Absolutely agree. Same feeling for me.
 
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The report adds that Jack Reynor’s Christian is more explicitly a dick in the director’s cut, but the Harga community is also more sinister as a key nighttime sequence shows them nearly sacrificing a young boy in a ritual drowning. Per Indiewire’s account:

The Hårga gather by the water, and perform a lighthearted (if characteristically morbid) skit about making an offering to the goddess; in this case, the offering is a “brave” young boy named Bror with a very unenthusiastic mother.



Bror is dressed in the same tinselly chainmail that Christian helped put on the tree, and then prepared to be sacrificed into the water; they even force him to hold a giant stone for good measure. But the ceremony is halted at the last moment, as Bron’s bravery is deemed a sufficient gift to the goddess. Everyone laughs. Good times. No child murder tonight. But if you look closely at what Connie (Ellora Torchia) is wearing at the end of her movie when her body is wheeled into the funeral pyre, the mystery of her death can now be solved: She was drowned in Bror’s place.
 
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