Netflix’s Jo Nesbø’s Detective Hole is a star-studded, gorgeously shot, wonderfully taut new Scandinavian crime thriller, but it’s also got a bit of a name problem. That is, Tobias Santelmann‘s hard-boiled hero is saddled with the profoundly silly name of … wait for it … Detective Harry Hole.
“You know, from the get go, it was like, ‘How do we tackle the ‘Harry Hole’ of it all?’” Jo Nesbø’s Detective Hole star Joel Kinnaman told DECIDER. “It’s funny, I did a radio interview in London and the announcer there, he was like, ‘Harry Hooley.’ I was like, ‘That’s a really nice try.’”
Kinnaman then suggested how the memorable name worked in the project’s favor. “Yeah, I think it becomes a marker for the show,” he said. “So I think they’ll remember it just because of that.”
The name “Harry Hole” might sound goofy to American audiences, but in his native
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