When you’re in a M. Night Shyamalan movie, it’s easy to understand an actor obsessing over the eventual twists that are surely to come. But as Jonathan Groff experienced in Shyamalan’s new film Knock at the Cabin (February 3), it’s easy to get “lost” in the story. “We're really submitting to his vision and trying to help him achieve exactly what he wants,” Groff told Newsweek’s H. Alan Scott. Groff plays Andrew, a father held hostage with his partner and young daughter by criminals who force them to make an impossible decision to avert the end of the apocalypse. Groff says he understood Andrew “in a primal way” and that this was “the first time I've ever done a horror movie. So, it was a real education.”  For an actor so known for his voice, both in the Frozen franchise (as Kristoff), but also in Broadway musicals like Spring Awakening and Hamilton, the difference between stage and screen is huge. “I've really appreciated my time doing film and television, because it really keeps me on my toes” and that “there is something really freeing about the intimacy of film and TV that I really love.” 

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