"Early into filming Task, Raul Castillo and Tom Pelphrey drove off set in Philadelphia to grab some lunch and get to know each other better. They were about to film the first episode's big drug-house rip-off, as Castillo calls itfull of precise choreography, tons of moving parts, and a lot of voices in the same room. Castillo was familiar with the director, Jeremiah Zagar, from a previous film they worked on together called We the Animals."
"He lowers the radio, and he was like, Talk to me. What's Jeremiah like as a director?' I started cracking up because I immediately knew why he was asking that. I don't like to be micromanaged. And in that moment, even though we were just getting to know each other, I instinctually knew that we were the same breed of animals as actors."
"The two actors play inseparable friends named Cliff (Castillo) and Robbie (Pelphrey) in the HBO crime drama, created by Mare of Easttown's Brad Ingelsby. They're a pair of trash collectors who scheme to rob drug houses for cash. But after a bust goes wrong, they're pursued by detective Tom Brandis (Mark Ruffalo) and a dangerous biker crew called the Dark Hearts."
Raul Castillo and Tom Pelphrey connected off set early in filming Task, sharing lunch before shooting a complex drug-house rip-off. Castillo already knew director Jeremiah Zagar from We the Animals, while Pelphrey was new to both Zagar and Castillo and felt nervous. Castillo reassured Pelphrey that Zagar would empower actors rather than micromanage. The pair play Cliff and Robbie, trash collectors who rob drug houses, in a Brad Ingelsby–created HBO crime drama. Their scheme unravels after a botched bust, drawing the attention of Detective Tom Brandis and the violent biker crew called the Dark Hearts, culminating in Cliff's brutal, prosthetic-enhanced death.
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