John Hannah stars in first-person GoPro thriller Bad Day at the Office
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- John Hannah stars in "Bad Day at the Office," an action thriller in which his character wakes in a hotel room with no memory, a corpse in the bath, and the police knocking at the door.
- "Bad Day at the Office" is filmed entirely in first-person using GoPro cameras, producing a visual style the piece compares to Call of Duty, Peep Show, and the Prodigy's "Smack My Bitch Up" video — leaving Hannah's face, "his best-known feature," mostly off screen.
- Hannah's filmography includes Jonathan Carnahan in The Mummy films, a gladiator school owner in Spartacus, a transhumanist scientist in Marvel's Agents of SHIELD, an emergency medicine chief in Transplant, and both halves of the title character in the 2002 Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
- He played the scientist at the opening of The Last of Us who warned that a fungal infection could destroy humanity, and appeared opposite Denzel Washington in The Hurricane and as a psychopathic killer in Truth or Dare.
- Earlier career touchstones include starring opposite Gwyneth Paltrow in Sliding Doors and delivering the W.H. Auden eulogy for his partner in Four Weddings and a Funeral.
- Readers are asked to post questions by 6pm on Thursday 13 August, with Hannah's answers to be printed in the next instalment of the publication's readers' interview series.
Why it matters: The GoPro first-person format sidelines Hannah's most recognizable asset — his face — making this a notable stylistic departure for an actor long identified with soulful close-ups in films from Four Weddings to The Mummy. The narrow 6pm Thursday 13 August submission window gives readers a tight deadline to shape the Q&A across a career that has spanned indie British cinema, Marvel television, and prestige horror.
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