Corey Hawkins Talks The Man in My Basement: Silent Struggles, Legacy & Mental Health

In this exclusive interview with The Quintessential Gentleman, Corey Hawkins dives deep into his role as Charles Blakey in The Man in My Basement, the new psychological thriller adapted from Walter Mosley’s novel and directed by Nadia Latif. Set in Sag Harbor, New York, the film follows Charles, a man on the verge of losing his ancestral home, who accepts a chilling deal from a mysterious stranger played by Willem Dafoe. What begins as a financial lifeline soon unravels into a story about trauma, psychosis, and the unspoken burdens men carry in silence.