Your character plays in a number of very intense scenes, how have you found playing the role physically?
The last few days of the shoot were challenging. I spent a day smashing up the bathroom and I spent the next day soaked in blood, crying and breaking down. But it feels that the stuff we’ve done is good. It’s been quite intense, there has been a lot to do in a day, they’ve been long scenes. But for both Ashley and I, they’re great parts, there is a lot to get your teeth stuck into. Andy Serkis’ character ‘Hoodwink’ is interesting in terms of the energy of everything, his is such a psychotic character.
How have you found developing your character’s relationship with Ashley’s character?
I think the scenes between me and Ashley have been working really well, I mean we look totalling different, we are chalk and cheese, and I think that’s been really important. Our energies are completely different in character and it feels like it’s working really well.
What has been the highlight of working on this film in this role?
Smashing up the sinks, the bathroom, the loo, it was quite a odd day but strangely cathartic. People ask me about these kind of things before and I think its because in real life if you behaved like that you’d probably get locked away or something, but you get the chance in these work situations to kind of let rip and smash up some porcelain and people go that was fantastic, do that again! So it felt great, and the bathroom it looked completely wrecked, and I was swimming in water and in blood, and Gary was going, more blood, more blood, more water, more water, and it was insane. It was one of those moments, where I was lying there in a pool of water and blood, going, am I really doing this?! This is my job then, is it?! So that was a particular moment, and apart from that it has all been a good wheeze!