Matthew Modine interview: ‘America has never dealt honestly with what its history is’

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. D’Onofrio – a method actor who was deep into his role as the tormented Private “Pyle” – was wound up to see Modine having a laugh between takes. open image in gallery Matthew Modine as the avenging father in new horror film ‘Wrong Turn’ “America has never dealt honestly with what its history is – the slaughter of the indigenous people, the enslavement of millions of Africans that were brought over to build our country,” Modine says. She was a student of Konstantin Stanislavski – everything was very political with her.” open image in gallery Matthew Modine in 1984 film ‘Birdy’ Modine is the first to acknowledge he’s less of a household name than, say, Cruise or Cage, and it’s known he turned down the former’s role of Maverick in Top Gun and Marty McFly in Back to the Future. “I have a fanbase now,” he says of the show’s success, adding: “Nothing can touch the kind of global awareness that Netflix can bring to you.” Modine says he’s campaigned for his return to the series – he last appeared in a cameo role in season two, having died offscreen in the first – and has told its creators, the Duffer brothers, “how important it is for him to come back”.