There’s a family unit in the midst of all this and people trying to deal with what’s around them the fear and the evil. There’s a bit more to it than people getting chopped up for the sake of it. Is this reflected in Silent Hill: Revelation 3D? His tastes suggest a leaning towards the Gothic, and the subtlety of horror, rather than straight up slasher gore. It makes you jump quite a few times.”īean is a self-confessed horror fan, citing everything from Edgar Allen Poe to Frankenstein to the Saw franchise as personal interests. What horror is, it’s a bit more subtle than that - you can’t quite pin it down. “There are a lot of things in there that are fearful…things that people are scared of and they don’t know why they’re scared of them. “It’s more psychological I think,” he says. Silent Hill: Revelation 3D has in turn been called horror, thriller, psychological - which would he describe it as? The psychology of his character is what he finds the most interesting aspect then, rather than the horror value. “His daughter has become a teenager now and things have changed and moved on, you wonder what’s ahead… I was really pleased to be a part of it again.” I enjoyed playing that character (in Silent Hill) and I thought why not play him a few years on? “I read the script and I liked the premise of it,” he says, “and the disturbing, surreal quality that it has. What was it that attracted him to the project? The prospect of playing a ‘goodie’ for a change, perhaps? It is, Bean says, “quite refreshing to be playing someone who stays alive.” I can’t complain because some of those roles, Patriot Games and GoldenEye, were great opportunities for me.”īean’s new film is Silent Hill: Revelation 3D, a sequel to 2006’s Silent Hill, where he plays Christopher Da Silvia, a father struggling to protect his young daughter from forces beyond his control. “I suppose that’s what you get when you’re playing a bad guy,” he says. Constantly being killed off must have been quite demoralising, though? It is true that Bean has regularly played the villain - from GoldenEye to Caravaggio to Lorna Doone, his many deaths have been arguably justified. It’s nice to be in a position where I can pick and choose a bit more.” He adds: “There was a point where I was playing villains a lot and I had to change it round because I wasn’t doing anything else. “There was one point where I was dying in everything, probably because I was always playing the bad guy.” “I’ve stayed alive in more recent films,” he says. How does he feel about that? Would he at some point prefer to play a character who manages to stay alive?īean laughs. More than anything else, they want to help.A couple of minutes of research at TNS HQ told us that Sean Bean has died a grand total of 21 times during his 26 year career. Without trying to push things down people's throats, they're counsellors, an ear to listen to people's problems. “They provide a real anchor for the community. “In Broken, Jimmy is saying, ‘If I were a priest, this is what I’d do.’ He’s very radical in what he suggests the Catholic Church might do to make it a much more approachable place for the community rather than something strict and inaccessible.”īean says he was helped a great deal every day on set by Father Dennis, a real life priest acting as an adviser: “I have found the people associated with the Church very helpful. He doubts what he’s doing at times and thinks, ‘Is this making any sense?’ He questions himself – which is a good thing. His community is largely jobless and poverty stricken, but he can’t do very much about it. “He feels very frustrated,” Bean confirms. The drama also emphasises the restrictions that Father Michael is operating under. This deals with the vast majority of people today. That’s a good show, but it only represents one part of society in the past. “Broken is a bit more representative of our country than Downton Abbey. The actor passionately believes it is vital we tell the stories of those marginalised people who otherwise have no voice in society. So Broken is a fitting title for those communities – and also from my character.” This is what’s happening in cities across the country. "But it’s also about the state of the nation. I don’t quite know what that says.”īean thinks that this drama – and its title – will resonate: “It’s about this priest trying to draw people in. I’m going from playing a transvestite to a Catholic priest. He says he is delighted to be reunited with the highly-regarded writer of Cracker, Hillsborough and The Street: “Jimmy and I have a great history together. The actor, who was also starred in Sharpe, Troy, Patriot Games and The Martian, was quickly convinced.
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