Osgood Perkins

"What I loved was that this character was [he] had a real complexity that mirrored the experiences that he was going through in the Backrooms in a way that I found really bizarre but also really compelling, and there was something that was explaining in Carl’s psychology, there was something that I found was explaining the environment, in a way, that I found… I understood it as a feeling. And I felt like that was very deeply cinematic to me," said Ejiofor.— Chiwetel Ejiofor in an interview with Digital Trends about Backrooms.