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He walks in and he couldnt care less.
Then hes like,This stuffs gross.
Who would buy this?Then he has his first flash, Sheridan says.
He realizes that the Black Dahlia murder may have been Hodels own sick Surrealist masterpiece.
Theres this undercurrent of misogyny thats very strong, Sheridan says of Surrealist artists like Salvador Dali.
Certainly in Man Ray, turning women intothe coat rackwhere its a womans body with a cut-out head.
Hodels interest really made me look at the way these guys thought about women in a different way.
Neither is on display in the gallery in the episode, though.
Because of artistic license and intellectual property rights, using real Surrealists is tricky, Sheridan says.
You cant link famous real people to a serial killer, particularly in Europe.
That presented an interesting challenge for production designer Julie Berghoff, an Emmy winner for HulusThe Handmaids Tale.
We wanted them not to be seen.
It was almost like an offering.
(To the Surrealists, the half-bull, half-man minotaur represented unbridled male power and sexuality.)
His character was like this bull in a china shop, she says.
Thats why a bull appears at certain points throughout the series, and not just to represent Hodel.
The bull really is about the evil in all of us.
Its not sexual, its more the blood lust, Sheridan explains.
[Different] characters see it at various times when the joy of killing is on them.
The bull can happen to anybody.
Those dangerous and horrible feelings are available to anyone.
