The Oscar-nominated star of The Visitor and The Shape of Water and new film The Last Shift on drag racing, doo-wop
music and discovering James Bond
I grew up in the 50s and 60s in DeKalb, Illinois, which is this small town in the midwest about 60 miles from
Chicago. It had a population of about 30,000 with a university and a state school. It was surrounded by cornfields, and housed the headquarters of the DeKalb Agricultural Association, where they dealt with hybrid corn to make it more pest- and drought-resistant. So unless you were a farmer, there wasn’t a lot to do.