Igby Rigney has finally joined theStephen Kingbandwagon.
Their own book club, which includes actress Kate Siegel, Flanagan’s wife and muse, is flourishing.
“He talks about Stephen King all the time,” Rigney remarks of Flanagan.
Igby Rigney stars as Kevin, a terminally ill teen, in Netflix’s ‘The Midnight Club.'.Eike Schroter/Netflix
“I just decided to go all in and now I’m obsessed.”
Rigney has been reading a lot these days.
He’s just coming out of the lifestyle of a vagabond actor.
Igby Rigney plays one of the eight members of the titular Midnight Club, a gathering of the residents at Brightcliffe Hospice to share ghost stories.Eike Schroter/Netflix
He’s hoping to make this new setting work, at least for a little bit.
Flanagan has enjoyed a career in remixing literary works to create fresh modern adaptations.
The same goes forThe Midnight Club, which takes elements from the works of Christopher Pike.
Kevin, a former high school track star, is dealing with the loss of his popularity and physical prowess after a terminal diagnosis.Eike Schroter/Netflix
Rigney stars as Kevin, one of the terminally ill teen residents of Brightcliffe Hospice.
It’s a role that plays up Rigney’s own boy-next-door quality.
Once Kevin is diagnosed with his terminal illness, he starts to lose those relationships and his physical prowess.
Igby Rigney.Noah Asanias/NETFLIX
But of course, since this is a Flanagan series, supernatural happenings are going on.
“But he also stars in a separate story, based on Pike’s novelThe Wicked Heart.
Rigney is still trying to find that confidence others, like Flanagan, see in him.
Whenever he feels excitement over an audition, he believes he somehow messed it up.
That’s how he felt whenMidnight Masscame around.
(Obviously, he was wrong.)
He got to meet with Flanagan and his producing partner, Trevor Macy.
Before long, he was in Vancouver shooting the show in 2020.
The city would also be home to the set ofThe Midnight Club.
There’s an ease to how he approaches his work, and his life, that is very rare.
He’s one of the most earnest actors I’ve ever worked with.
I hope to work with him many more times.”
“It’s scary to not have something coming up,” he remarks.
He also appreciates the mystery of the show’s concept.
Rigney tries to take lessons with him with every production.
WithMidnight Mass, he learned about the importance of creating a community on set with other actors.
“She would walk backward from her mark to wherever she was starting,” Rigney recalls.
“That way it was already in her head exactly how many steps she was gonna take.”
“It’s still very much a Flanagan project,” he says of the Poe-inspired series.
“I think all of the things that have brought fans to him are very present inHouse of Usher.
It’s a little different.
That marks another entry in his book club with Flanagan.
“I might have badgered him a little bit, being like, ‘Anything!
I just wanna be a part of this,'” he says of the TV adaptation.
