Movies & TV The Terror: Devil in Silver Devil in Silver: Aasif Mandvi Talks About Shooting Dr. Anand’s Major Scene Reactor interviewed Mandvi about his character’s journey over the course of the show. By Vanessa Armstrong | Published on June 5, 2026 Photo Credit: Emily V. Aragones/AMC Comment 0 Share New Share Photo Credit: Emily V. Aragones/AMC Warning: This episode contains spoilers for the fifth episode of The Terror: Devil in Silver, “Vermillion.” The fifth and penultimate episode of The Devil in Silver has more than one shocking moment, and one of them involves New Hyde’s managing psychiatrist, Dr. Anand. Dr. Anand, who is played by Evil alum Aasif Mandvi, has a run-in with Dorry, New Hyde’s long-term patient played with disturbing perfection by Judith Light. That run-in involves Dorry crushing Dr. Anand’s face into a pulp and tearing him open with her bare hands. It’s not subtle, and it’s a scene that Light, in character as Dorry, would constantly remind Mandvi of on set. “She would always just come up to me and secretly whisper [in a singsong voice], ‘I’m gonna kill youuuu… I’m gonna kill you…’ It was kind of a creepy thing that she would do to me,” Mandvi told me in an interview. Mandvi talked more about Dr. Anand’s final scene, how the social commentary of the show attracted him to the role, and what he thinks his character on Evil, Ben, would think of New Hyde. Read on for our full discussion. Image: Emily V. Aragones/AMC This interview has been lightly edited for clarity and brevity. What attracted you to the role of Dr. Anand from the get-go? It’s a great role, and multi-layered, and there’s a lot of complexity to the role. As an actor, it felt like it was fun to dig in and sink your teeth into something like that, and then I just liked the social commentary that the series has. I’d done this show Evil, and that was a real mix of horror and social commentary as well, and this lived in a similar space. I also liked the idea of Dr. Anand caught between being a person who genuinely, I think, wants to do good, and then also being beholden and being imprisoned himself inside this institution. He’s a middle management guy who’s stuck in this place where he knows he has to compromise his ethics and sense of right and wrong in order to keep the institution going, and that’s an interesting conundrum that I think that we see a lot in our world right now. He’s interesting because as episodes go on, it’s not quite clear how much he acknowledges or knows about the supernatural component as well. Did you have a thought in your mind of how much he knew what was really going on in New Hyde? I think he’s in denial about a lot of it. It was always a question for me: How much does he know? And then the question became: How much is he willing to look in that direction? I always got the feeling that he was a man who didn’t want to see the things he didn’t want to see. He wanted the institution to run smoothly, and with a certain level of consistency. For him, keeping the institution going was more important than losing the institution altogether, and so whatever he had to compromise in order to do that he would do. And then this other stuff with the devil and the supernatural, I don’t think he knows quite what to make of it, and I thought that was interesting, because I don’t think he buys into it 100%, but I think he knows that something is going on, and so I imagine it gives him an ulcer. Image: AMC+ It’s ironic too, because he gets punished for trying to do good at the end. And that’s the thing, right? As long as he just goes along with it and doesn’t take any action, he manages to survive. But the minute he takes action, the metaphor of the devil, through Judith’s character, kills him. I feel like that was a really powerful scene and moment in the show, but also a message about what the show was saying. At the end of the day, it’s all about just get in line, follow the rules, don’t speak up, just take your meds, non-compliance is not an option, all that kind of stuff. And when Dr. Anand decides to step out of line, the institution stamps down on him and kills him. And again, I would say we see more of that in the world today than we want to. It was an interesting and powerful metaphor. When did you know what would happen to your character? I think I got all the scripts prior to shooting, so yes, I probably knew before then. And it was kind of fun, because Judith was always in character when we were shooting. I rarely saw her out of character and she would always just come up to me and secretly whisper [in a singsong voice], “I’m gonna kill youuuu… I’m gonna kill you…” It was kind of a creepy thing that she would do to me.” That is creepy, especially from her. Yeah she was always Dorry, with the whole wig and the teeth thing. She was very much in that character the whole time. Image: Emily V. Aragones/AMC Can you talk about actually filming that scene, just what that was like? It was bizarre. There’s a lot of things that we do in this business where you look back on it, and you go, “Oh, right, that’s a weird thing that I had to spend the day doing.” That day I spent like five hours just [making grunting sounds, as one does when their face gets smashed in]. They had to shoot it at all different angles, and then they had a prosthetic, and they had a stunt guy. But I just remember Judith sitting on top of me just screaming for God knows how many hours. Did she stay in character for that too, in between takes? In character the whole time, yeah. It was a day. On one hand, I got to lay on the floor all day. On the other hand, I was basically told, “We just want the sounds of her hitting and smashing your face.” And I was like; I know a lot of things that I can call upon but that is not necessarily one of them…  what does that feel like to have your face smashed in? Photo Credit: Emily V. Aragones/AMC Have you seen end product of it? The final version on screen? I haven’t seen that one yet. It must be a weird thing, to see yourself in something like that. Yeah, I don’t know how I feel about it. My wife was like, “I’m not watching it.” It’s a weird thing… I’m trying to think if I’ve died in many things. I don’t know if I have or not, but in this particular gruesome fashion, this was a first, although I did get to take a selfie with the guy who had my smashed-in face. Well that’s good for memories! And for my last question, I have to ask: you mentioned Evil, and I’m a big fan of that show as well. Do you have a take on what Ben [Mandvi’s character on that show] would think of New Hyde if he ended up in there in some capacity? I think Ben would have quite a field day trying to figure out what was what, and what was real, and what was not real. This show starts to become less ambiguous as it goes along, whereas Evil always remained ambiguous about what was real and what was not. And I think in this case, if Ben went behind that door and ended up in that other world back there, I wonder if it would be more like the episode we did on Evil where he gets stuck in the elevator down in the basement and is suddenly faced with his worst nightmare and fears. So, I don’t know, but I definitely think that Ben would be checking the entire place… he’d be checking into the air conditioning. The season finale of The Terror: The Devil in Silver premieres on AMC+ and Shudder next Thursday, June 11, 2026.[end-mark] The post <i>Devil in Silver</i>: Aasif Mandvi Talks About Shooting Dr. Anand’s Major Scene appeared first on Reactor.