Tucked away in an estate outside of London, Professor Coupland along with a team of university students conduct an “experiment” on Jane Harper, a young girl who harbors unspeakable secrets. What dark forces they uncover are more terrifying than any of them expected. Harris plays Professor Coupland.

How did you get involved with “The Quiet Ones”?

Simon Oakes, the president of Hammer Films called me up and pitched the movie to me and then sent me the script. It was a ride and I was taken on it when I read it and I loved it.

What did you love about the script?

First of all, my character was such a juicy character. But also I was completely drawn into the story and what I liked about it was that it was dealing with a supernatural subject matter, but from the point of view of a skeptic and through science. It wasn’t asking you to believe in it right away, the preconditioning of enjoying the movie, it’s saying “Come in, arm the door, and let’s get to live in doubt.” You’ll slowly strip that away and you arrive at the same point of the story.

Tell us about playing professor Professor Coupland? What do you love about him?

He’s a professor at Oxford University, he’s working at the Para-Psychology department which a lot of universities had at that time, and he’s studying the paranormal. He wants to prove that the paranormal is caused by human agencies rather than supernatural agencies and he has some personal reasons behind it, which become revealed later in the story. Like I said before, what I liked about him and his journey is that the audience gets to feel a lot of different things about this character and they change the way they view him and feel about him. So at the end of the story he is humanized and he’s still the antagonist, obviously, the villain of the story but he was a really well rounded character.

Was it fun for you dive into the world of supernatural/horror?

It’s actually really good fun to act! Anything goes, and there’s no such thing as too much. You can really indulge yourself, you can really indulge your hand.

What are your favorite horror films?

The Others, Jaws, The Exorcist, The Night of the Demon, The Shining, Rosemary’s Baby, there are lots, Evil Dead 2

Did anything mysterious happen on set?

We didn’t have any ghosts appearing or anything like that, on set you’re surrounded by 40 or 50 people but it looks like it’s just us in an empty house, but there are 40 or 50 people there all the time and mostly everyone starts to smell bad after two weeks and everyone’s trying to get out of people’s way.

What was your favorite scene?

There’s a scene towards the end of the movie where we start to get branded by sigils. It was a lot of fun to do. It was just crazy.

Speak about working with director John Pogue?

John was very inclusive, he was very open to ideas, he’s very smart and he insisted that we all get together and rehearse two weeks before we started shooting. He was always into any ideas that would make the movie better and tell the story in a stronger and more economical way. I enjoyed him very much.

What was it like working with Sam Claflin?

Sam is a fantastic energy, he’s very positive and when we started working on the film, one of the things I really appreciated from him and from all the other kids from the movie, was that they were so excited and thrilled to be working on the film and on this particular movie, there was a sense of joy that you have when you’re on early jobs and there’s still a sense of wonder about it. I looked at that and I remembered it, and that’s such an important quality to have and I really appreciated that. Spielberg has the same thing, he has a great enthusiasm about him when he’s on set.

What was it like working with Olivia Cooke?

She did a great job. She did an absolutely great job , she had a tough job to do as well. She had to stay in a really dark and heavy place all the time and she brought a lot of weight of that on her shoulders. I was really impressed with her and so was the crew, that was one of the things that we were noticing, the conversations that people were having during lunch or away from the set. They knew she was giving a very special performance and it was going to be a really significant opportunity for her.

Any upcoming projects you would like to share?

I’ve got “The Man from U.N.C.L.E.” coming out, “BoxTrolls,” and “Poltergeist.” They’re really good movies, they’re very different as well. One’s an animated movie, the other is an action adventure film, and of course “Poltergeist” is another horror movie.

Where did you get your passion for acting from?

Probably from my dad, most likely. We would sit around the dinner table and we would discuss performances and plays and films. He would tell us about performances he’d seen by other actors, who weren’t performing any longer. It seemed great fun.

Was there a particular project that he did that you really liked?

So many of them, I have to say, I couldn’t really pick one, and all for different reasons. He did a beautiful movie for BBC called the “The Snow Goose,” of course, “The Field,” “Camelot,” “Wild Geese,” which he did when we were kids, that sort of boy’s own action adventure movie. He did a fantastic disaster film called “Juggernaut,” which I saw recently and is still really powerful. It’s always a treat, seeing him on screen. He’s obviously different at being a dad, but you can see little mannerisms of how he would be in private, and I listen, so I always enjoy watching him.