I snuck right into a screening of it in my hometown, and it was unbelievable. I haven’t been in a film like that since perhaps I noticed the primary of the brand new Star Wars motion pictures in theaters. It was form of surreal seeing it with Saltburn as a result of there’s no IP or something. It’s a brand new story, and to see folks invested within the storylines and to listen to them gasping and yelling and listening to folks within the drain scene go, “No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, God, no.”
Why did you’re feeling like Felix can be an attention-grabbing character to tackle?
I had met with Emerald, a few years in the past now, in LA, and we had a basic assembly and he or she was so obscure about what the film was. I used to be simply so intrigued. After which I acquired the script and I simply knew that I needed to be in it. So then I occurred to be within the UK a few months after that and I acquired to audition for Emerald, which was my first audition exterior of type of COVID instances. It was the primary one again, so it was simply terribly nerve-racking. It introduced me again to what efficiency was like, what it truly is to be within the room and work for a job.
I’ve talked to Emerald on this podcast, and he or she particularly stated you introduced one thing that quite a lot of the opposite actors who auditioned didn’t, the place Felix can seem to be this object of want and he’s charismatic and all of this, however that you simply type of confirmed that he’s additionally type of weak. I’m curious what you discovered within the layers of who Felix was?
It’s form of uninteresting to type of play tropes and concepts in movies, and I feel I’ve achieved them earlier than. So it was the identical factor enjoying Elvis—I attempt to form of discover, like, a again door into the character. I attempt to type of discover them after they’re 10 years previous, 11 years previous, 12 years previous. I attempt to discover, like, the little boy in them. And I feel…the clearest factor to me with Felix was he’s born with an immense quantity of privilege, however he’s not born with this swagger and strut. You need to form of develop that and be taught that, and quite a lot of the time the folks that you simply meet which have that form of sensibility, it normally comes from a spot of nice insecurity or misunderstanding of their place on the planet.
