Do you enjoy the dragon stuff? I’m sure there are lots of computer graphics involved.
Yeah. Unfortunately, all the dragon actors are unavailable at the moment, so they have to green-screen one in. [Laughs] All the dragon scenes I’ve got are physically looking at a dot or often some kind of cross. Sometimes I make up my own eye line on a big green screen, and that’s really all I’m talking to, with the voice of John Hurt being played. So I actually get his dialogue, which is recorded in a studio in London. So at least I’ve got that – you can’t ask for a better voice to be playing against, really.How much does something like that, where you have to act against a green screen or a wall, really test you as an actor?
It really does test you because it involves your imagination and creating things in your mind that aren’t there. What could it possibly be like to speak to a 30-foot dragon? The answer I’ve kind of come up with is, if you’re acting against something as big and fantastical as that, you can’t really be too big yourself. You can really just go for it, and not be embarrassed or think you’re looking silly doing it. You have to absolutely 100% believe in it. That’s how I approach those scenes where I’m either being chased by something or attacked by something or talking to something that isn’t there.
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