![]() I don't like to weigh on that too heavily, if you've got power, you've got power. STRIKE: It's a cliché, but I think it's because it's something people can exploit. So that's interesting, why does his telepathy make him vulnerable? It's nice in the future they're still using the slang. My character will say like, “bruv” and stuff like that. But, I've been getting scripts, and they've started writing my vernacular into the script. ![]() I was scared at the beginning that they were going to tell me to pull it in, because it's for an American audience. I've not actually got to work with all of the cast, because I'm quite contained from everybody else, but I believe so, yeah. I've been doing American accents for a while, but it's nice to do it, yeah. STRIKE: No, this is the first time in years I've been able to do my own accent, which is really nice. I don't think it's like “I'm a telepath”, but yeah, it's something I can do. It's just, I have a cup of tea every day, he's a telepath every day. We don't think that our eyes are blue, or I have a cup of tea. And the telepathy thing, he's had it his whole life. He reminds me of the kids that grew up at the end of my street. I kind of was like, he's been in prison, he's a bit mischievous, a bit evil, a bit cheeky. So in the U.K., a chav stands for council-housed and violent. I don't know if you guys are familiar with the term “chav”. I think, to try and keep it grounded, I was like, who would this guy be today? And the fact that he has powers and that he's in space is just an add-on. I'm not going to try and feel like a telepath because it's totally impossible. I'm not, I don't know how it feels to be one. I think there's just a lot of bullshit surrounding acting about, “I really thought I was really there, I was really in the groove, you know?” I'm not a telepath, and this is a point I made to someone yesterday. STRIKE: I like to look at acting as kind of more of a science than an art, as time's gone on. So how do you go about kind of getting into that headspace, and going through all of that? Presumably, you aren't a telepath in real life. I look like a crackhead, I look like a junkie, yeah. They paled me up pretty good, and pulled these veins on the side of my head, I think, to lend to the fact that there's a lot going on up here. STRIKE: Yeah, they put quite a lot of makeup on me. I enjoy it.ĭo you have to go through any kind of transformation to play Thale? Whereas these guys, you can kind of just show up and be creepy, where I don't have to look at my female co-star with smoldering eyes and shit, I don't have to do any of that. I've done leading man stuff, and I've done a lot of these guys, and there's less baggage to be likable in a sense of, your hair's got to look good, that kind of shit. I think they're more fun, there's less baggage. Villainy is a good way to describe them, absolutely man. I've started to carve out a sort of career path playing these sorts of characters now. I think his general demeanor is that he's a menace. How does he redeem himself from just setting someone on fire? So I guess the answer to the question is, I'm not even sure yet. My character can beat you with his mind, no need to set the guy ablaze, but I did, which is pretty evil, do you know what I mean? So that's what's interesting for me at the moment, trying to figure out how he comes back from that. STRIKE: That's the thing, I set the bloke on fire, right? For no reason. So, I guess it depends how the series unfolds, I very much saw him when I started out as being pretty evil. ![]() But I also think sometimes you just are what you are, I know people that are just inherently bad, with no redeeming features kind of thing. Which I think is right, because it gives the character some color. I think a lot of the time, for the sake of entertainment purposes, they'll make the bad guy vulnerable. this is a debate I've been having with myself. But we never hear really if he's an actual good guy or not. He's basically an antagonist to Murphy, when we first meet him. STRIKE: I mean, I imagine I'm going to agree with what Philip said, really.
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