One might expect any actor to have a special place in their heart for their breakthrough role.
But Angus Macfadyen’s connection to his goes deeper than most.
“It just wouldn’t let me go.
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Robert the Bruceis far removed fromBraveheart’s epic scope, however.
And there’s going to be a showdown, but the showdown is completely one-sided,” Macfadyen explains.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Talk about the road this film took to the screen.
Well, just for that reason.
It’s something which I think people can connect with on an emotional, visceral level.
How is Robert different as a character here than the person we saw inBraveheart?
I think the arrogance, the ambition, the flush of youth, by this point, is gone.
And he goes into a cave to basically die.
And in that moment I think he has an epiphany, and comes out a changed man.
How did it feel for you to return to the role after so many years?
He’s faced life, and it’s knocked him down, and he keeps getting up.
You bring your life experience to that.
I’ll walk around in these."
And so that’s what I brought to it.
We had to start very fast because we had to shoot it in winter.
What was that shooting process like?
We were taking dumps in the snow outside because we couldn’t flush a toilet.
So we were basically living like medieval characters, as it were, throughout the whole experience.
You just have stories to tell afterwards.
you’re able to’t believe you got through it in one piece.
I’m not sure if I have completed it.
And I do have a third script, which I’d like to finish the story.
