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What attracted you to Anthropoid?
I think when I first read the script, the
fact that I didn’t know about the story –
something like that, which had such a
massive knock-on effect on an entire nation
– I found it kind of mad to have not
known about that. The heroism involved,
the sacrifice involved...they felt – particularly
Jan – like someone you could relate
to. Guys who were fighting for
something that they truly believed in, but
who were normal guys.
What do you like about the part?
You always need a drive in everything
you do and a reason to tell the story. As
an actor, you’ve got to have something
that drives you every day on the set.
Could there be any stronger drive needed
than the opportunity to assassinate someone
so horrific. There’s nobody in the
world now who can’t see that Heydrich
was evil... So to have that, to bring that to
work every day, I’m so excited about the
idea of having that as my drive....
How will you be preparing for the
role?
People have different ways and means
of researching characters and getting into
the mindset of whoever they’re going
to play. Sometimes you do things that
you feel are right to embody a character,
and sometimes you push limits. The way
I prepared to play someone like Spector
in The Fall – you take yourself to dark
places. You find out a lot about yourself
that maybe you don’t always want to find
out and it’s quite an interesting process.
For this particular project, I don’t think I
have to go to those similar kinds of
places. I think there are things about Jan
that will make sense to me more personally
rather than having to really dig too
far. He’s a man with a mission to carry
out and it’s a mission for the right reasons.
It’s not someone like Spector who
is murdering people just for no good reason...
This is murder in a sense, but it’s
for a greater good.
And what’s your view of Jan Kubiš?
I feel that Jan’s the closest character to myself that I’ve played. And so that means that there’s parts of the research that I’ve done for other characters that don’t need to be done. They don’t make sense just as long as you have a very strong idea of why they are doing what they are doing and the situation at the time. I think that is enough.
And what’s your view of Jan Kubiš?
I feel that Jan’s the closest character to myself that I’ve played. And so that means that there’s parts of the research that I’ve done for other characters that don’t need to be done. They don’t make sense just as long as you have a very strong idea of why they are doing what they are doing and the situation at the time. I think that is enough.
You’ll be playing a Czech national
hero. Will you be trying to “humanize”
the man behind the myth?
I think you said it there [it’s about] trying
to make him someone people can relate
to...These were just normal guys
who were fighting for something they
fiercely believed in. A lot of that work,
thankfully, is done for me on the page.
All the human flaws and all the things
that make him a tangible person, the
everyman you can relate to are on the
page, which is great. They’re heroes in
the sense of what they did, but very much
on the page you see that they are flawed,
and have very human aspects to them
that would hinder trying to carry out an
exercise like this.
Some people say that the Heydrich
assassination was pointless. And that
it only resulted in horrible reprisals
like the Lidice massacre. What’s your
take on this?
I guess it’s not really my place to say.
People are going to look at it from both
sides. Ultimately, I think it sent a very
strong message to show that the Czech
people were up for a fight and weren’t
willing to be treated in that way. For me,
I see it as a very heroic act. I think if I
was in that position myself, I probably
would have done the same thing. I have
a strong understanding of why people
see it the other way, based on events afterwards,
but for me personally, I think
they ultimately had to do what they had
to do.
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