Fanning said Mills wanted the performance to be as authentic as possible, so he gave her a copy of M. Scott Pecks The Road Less Traveledas a tool to help her prepare for the role. Fanningrevealed most of her performance wasfiltered through her own interpretation of the 1978 psychology book.Mill
n antidote the old-fashioned, evil wayby projecting his pain on others. M. Scott Peck, the late and great psychiatrist, correctly identified all evil as defined by that dynamic: The refusal to suffer, leading to very toxic ways of avoiding ones pain that, ultimately, make it viral to others.