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| “ | There's a lot of no good sons of bitches out there. | „ |
| ~ Willard Russell to his son Arvin. |
Willard Russell is the deuteragonist in the 2011 gothic novel The Devil All the Time and the overarching antagonist in its 2020 film adaptation of the same name.
He was portrayed by Bill Skarsgård, who also played Richard Persson in The Crown Jewels, Pennywise the Dancing Clown in the It duology, Kro in Eternals, the Marquis de Gramont in John Wick: Chapter 4, and Count Orlok in Nosferatu.
Biography[]
US Marine Willard Russell is introduced in the Solomon Islands during the Second World War in 1945, coming across his comrade Miller Jones who had been gruesomely mutilated and crucified by Japanese soldiers. Willard gives him a mercy kill.
Willard meets a waitress named Charlotte, who he falls in love with. After being driven back home by his uncle Earskell, he tells his mother Emma that he had fallen for Charlotte. Willard soon marries Charlotte and they have a son, Arvin. Willard later assaults a couple of hunters who threatened to rape Charlotte to show his son how to stand up for himself.
Charlotte soon contracts cancer, and Willard becomes increasingly desperate to save his wife, even sacrificing Arvin's dog Jack at the altar.
After Charlotte dies, Willard attempts to make up with his son, but Arvin refuses to talk to him. Devastated, Willard slits his throat at his wife's altar, leaving his son to find his body.
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Trivia[]
- In the book the film was based on, Willard sacrifices several animals and one person to the altar, while he only does so to Arvin's dog in the film.