What about the shoot? Were you guys actually in this huge house or were those just exteriors and you shot on set?
No! So we filmed in Ireland. The first week of it we were on location filming all this stuff in town and then for the rest of it, we were in the castle. So, there’s the scene where a couple of times you’ll see we walk up and out of the woods the whole manor’s there and that’s the actual house. There were so many rooms we didn’t use, but the main, the kitchen and this and that. We just used the house for the house, it wasn’t like there were stages built or anything.
Yeah, I was wondering about that because a lot of the times that does happen where you can’t film inside a place for one reason or another.
Because you can’t film in this room or this is too fragile or it doesn’t look exactly like what you want. Even though the trailers they had for the cast for our downtime, it was a good five-minute walk away. So when they say we’re gonna roll again soon we were all just hanging out in one room. We’re all just hanging out buddy-buddy, just living in a house together, essentially.
From what I’ve noticed about a decent percentage of the roles you play are kind of dark. And I’m wondering if you use that as kind of like a therapeutic outlet for yourself.
As you were asking the question, that word outlet came to my mind.
I’m a very happy person. I’m very joyful. I like to smile, like to laugh. I am a very light-hearted person usually, but my roles are usually the opposite. Yeah. Don’t know why. I’m assuming it’s because I like to get that out there. And then in my normal life, I can just be who I am. I know every so often after I had this huge emotional scene on the set and I cry it all out, I feel so much better in general. So it’s almost like an excuse to get out some of these emotions. It’s just what I’m drawn to. It’s not what I like to watch. I love to watch comedies. I like to watch the lighter things, stoner comedies, anything. But when I play things I’ve always been drawn to something with a little bit more weight to it. Uh, but yeah, we’ll see how long that lasts.
That’s something that I’ve talked to a bunch of people about and I find that the people who play the darkest roles are the most emotionally healthy and perky.
Well, some people like to get a little bit more method and they really drawn to the characters and I find if I do my prep work and I do it enough that I’m able to fall out of character, fall in and out of it easily. So, like when I’m filming a harder or a darker scene, I don’t have to sit in it all day. I can go joke around with the crew and then when they give the two-minute warning, I’m like, okay, let’s get back into it.
“…through acting as you push yourself (when you get a new role) to draw out this part of you to be able to play the character…”
That’s good to be able to like kind of turn that on and off. It’s a really good skill in my opinion. It’s funny because you and Crispin are both here and you guys both kind of came from families that were involved in acting and the arts and stuff like that. Did you always want to be an actor or how did that happen?
I never wanted to be an actor, well it’s not that I actively didn’t want to, it just never crossed my mind. It was never something that really interested me. My sister Vera has been an actress for over 20 years and it was always her thing. I thought like, oh, cool. She makes movies. I’ve always loved math and numbers and logic.
