In a long career, Anthony Head has been well-versed in finding a variety of roles. “It’s something that I’ve worked quite hard at over the years, not to be pigeonholed, for someone to say, ‘Oh that’s him, that’s what he does,'” Head told the New York Post. And with Netflix’s “The Stranger,” he reaches his goal. In the mystery series adapted from the Harlan Coben book of the same name, not everything is as it seems. 

Richard Armitage stars as Adam, a husband and father who thinks he has everything together until a stranger (Hannah John-Kamen) blows it up. After the nameless character tells Adam that his wife faked her pregnancy and subsequent miscarriage, Adam goes down a rabbit hole of questions, some surrounding his father, Ed (Head). Their relationship is tense at best, mostly because Ed is not a quality person. Head told the New York Post that he enjoyed the twists and turns of the story. And this is not a character you will have seen him play before — at least not until the ultimate “Ted Lasso” villain, Rupert Mannion.

“I don’t think you’ve seen him quite this sort of frosty, almost, before. He’s not nice,” Coben corroborated when speaking to Digital Spy. “Giles, I’m sorry Giles. We love turning people against type.” 

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