Matt Reeves on casting Tom Rhys Harries as Matt Hagen in ‘CLAYFACE’ 🫠 “There was just something that really grabbed us right from the very beginning with Tom—he had an incredible, interesting intensity. You could see him digging into the darkness of this character, but also you had a kind of empathy for him. So again, that’s the razor’s edge in this kind of story. On the one hand, you want to be frightened of him, but you also want to understand him at a deeper level, and Tom was so magnetic right from the beginning. He just felt so arresting and different, and we thought, ‘Wouldn’t it be exciting to bring someone and introduce him to the world in this way through this character?’ Obviously, he’s done other work, but our feeling is that people are going to know Tom really for what he does here, and his work is incredible.” (via @BatmanNewsChris at BatmanNews.com)