Thank god, with this particular one, they took great pride in taking it back to form, and building everything. Which meant you [had] something right in front of you, you have something to look at, and take in. Of course, it’s not a real alien. But bloody hell, it’s built just like one.
Andy switches between an American and English accent. I know it’s par for the course with Alien, but I find it so funny that Hollywood movies still tend to think of British accents as short-hand for evil. As soon as they want this menacing, emotionless android, it’s just like, Have him speak like a Tory MP.
That is really funny. You know what, we did try to nuance that a little bit. [But] I did think that. There is something about the form of Alien, which is that, you’re absolutely right—look at Fassbender with David, he talks completely like a Tory MP. You take him out of the suit, and put him into some blues, and yep, he’s running for office. [Laughs.]
But we did speak about that, by the way, and we did say that at moments—because of the nature of Andy’s switch, and him having the original chip put inside him—we wanted him to have that [accent], but at times, Ray looks at him like, Is he still there? That meant that you kind of had to have a different inflection, and not make it so sterile, so we played a bit with that as well.
I’ve just watched all of Industry season three, and I was a little disappointed not to see you in it at all—how come you weren’t in it?
Oh, well, I think if I’m honest with you, a lot of it boiled down to scheduling. Let me just be very, very clear: I love that show, and [before it] all I did was theatre. It was very deliberate. I got some offers to do TV, and then the first show that I actually really wanted to do was Industry, and then we did it, and it becomes its own thing, and it has its own fanbase, and I love that. And the people on it, I love—they’re my real friends.
But I think it’s also quite important as an actor, especially a young one, y’know, you’ve got to spread your wings a bit. You’ve got to try new things. As much as I love Gus, I had to… It’s very easy, isn’t it, for people to just see you as a character, and then you move through your career, and people go, that’s— yeah, it’s that character. And I’m like, no, no, that’s not the kind of actor that I am. So as much as I loved it, and I think it was down to scheduling, I think it’s important to do new things, and that’s what this is.
Would you be open to Gus returning if they do another season?
