“Francis is haunted by the death of his father,” star Toby Regbo tells Zap2it of his character’s journey. “He murdered his father. He watched his father die in front of him after stabbing him in the eye with a lance. He’s haunted by his past and how that materializes and how that manifests itself could be seen as a supernatural element in a way; his inner demons come out of the woodwork.”

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