Variety (YouTube)
June 8, 2018
Los Angeles Times (YouTube)
June 7, 2018
Before Jonathan Groff Could Nail Mindhunter, He Had to Stop Smiling
ANATOMY OF A CHARACTER
The stage and screen star discusses leading David Fincher’s pitch-black serial-killer series.
K. Austin Collins
June 14, 2018
Vanity Fair
THE CHARACTER: HOLDEN FORD, MINDHUNTER
If you’ve seen classic David Fincher films like Seven, Zodiac, or even The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, you know the infamously exacting director has a type: the obsessive who tries to solve a crime in the library or the archives, nimbly combing through databases and warehouses full of forgotten evidence. The Fincher obsessive starts their work unblemished—but by the end, it has upended their lives.
In the case of Fincher’s 10-episode Netflix series Mindhunter, that obsessive is Holden Ford, played by Tony-nominated actor Jonathan Groff. Holden starts as a textbook Groff character: neat, bookish, pretty, an F.B.I. choirboy who becomes a teacher and researcher after a hostage situation goes wrong. But soon, alongside behavioral scientist Bill Tench (Holt McCallany) and anthropologist Wendy Carr (Anna Torv), Holden falls down the rabbit hole of a new line of thinking about killers, one that brings him a little too close to the murderers themselves.
