Legend tells of a scene in crime novel The Cleaner so graphic that one reader passed out while reading it on a plane and, when he finally came to, vomited all over his pants and shoes. The queasy moment in question involves pliers, a scrotum and a lot of blood, and those watching the TV adaptation wouldn’t have missed it at the start of episode two. “You’ll be like, ‘I cannot believe what I’m looking at’,” Cleave laughs. “‘I can’t believe someone put this on TV’.”
You might also have a question that Cleave is very used to hearing by now: “what kind of person writes this stuff?”
