With his latest role, Bill Skarsgård had the task of delivering a terrified and tortured performance with no scene partner.
The Locked star recently opened up about the “quite torturous journey” of playing a carjacker locked alone in a vehicle and subjected to the deadly whims of a mysterious sociopath (Anthony Hopkins) intent on teaching him the consequences of his crimes.
“This was a very solitary experience for me in terms of performing it because it’s just me and a camera for most of the movie, stuck in this f—ing car,” he told Entertainment Weekly. “So I really missed my castmates because so much of what I love about acting is dancing with a scene partner. And there’s a little bit of dancing towards the end of this with Sir Anthony Hopkins which was just for sure an incredibly cool experience.”
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Skarsgård continued, “But it was awkward being alone for so long. You’re like, ‘Okay, where do I look? The camera’s here, and I’m not looking at a person.’ All of Anthony’s dialogue is spoken through the car. And it got to the point where there’s some really intense stuff happening throughout the movie. You have to perform it. That’s not always easy. It literally can be a quite torturous journey when your character’s tortured throughout the journey.”
Such torturous scenes include one in which Hopkin’s William remotely “dials up the cold in the car, and it’s supposed to get freezing, and then he dials up the heat, and it’s supposed to be really sweaty, and he’s using the thermostat as a torturing tool. But the car was never actually on, so it didn’t have a functioning AC. So when I’m pretending to freeze, I’m covered in layers of clothes, and I’m actually sweating. And then, in the scene where Eddie is sweating profusely, I’m actually freezing.”
“That sort of summarizes the whole experience,” added Skarsgård of the film, now playing in theaters. “It was some real acting gymnastics.”
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