“I’m attracted to dark material,” Moss muses. “There’s something about horror… You can be dark and weird and do challenging things… You’re allowed to put the character in extreme situations. And it’s justified.”

For her next trick, Moss would like to channel that energy in the opposite direction. “I’d love to be a villain,” she says. Over the course of her career, it’s the one thing she’s never done. “I’ve been playing a lot of heroines, and I would love to be the bad guy. I’d love to explore that.”

As a teenager, Moss held sleepovers with her friends and screened scary movies like The Shining, The Exorcist and It. But these are films that feel one step removed from the everyday experience, horror movies about killer clowns and demon parasites and weird, freaky twins. The Invisible Man is, for better and for worse, grounded in reality. What if your boyfriend was a controlling sociopath, who also happened to be a tech genius who had figured out a way to render himself invisible? And what if nobody, not your sister or your friend or the legal authorities, believed you when you tried to tell them about him?

“A monster that isn’t visible is universally terrifying,” explains Moss. “But we really wanted it to be – this is a real man, with a real way of becoming invisible, this is a real relationship with a real woman fighting against this thing. When you ground a story like this in reality it becomes all the more terrifying. You can really see that this could happen to you. When you watch a horror film and you think, ‘Oh my god. I could be that girl in the house. I could be that girl in the woods. That could be a real killer who is after me.’ That’s when it gets really scary.”

Elisabeth Moss talks The Invisible Man, her friendship with Margaret Atwood and why she wants to play a bad guy