The Pogues have a behavior of discovering the treasure… after which dropping the treasure. They actually wanted a win this season, however truly discovering El Dorado is wild. At what level throughout manufacturing did you discover out that John B was truly going to put eyes on the town of gold?
Fairly early on we knew the arc of the season, [but] most likely in direction of the latter half, just like the fifth episode was there a actual actuality of us figuring it out. Our writers have a reasonably attention-grabbing strategy of writing scripts. We by no means actually know precisely how the season’s going to finish. We have now form of an concept, however for me it was extra alongside the traces of, “OK, this seems cool on paper, however how will we pull this off in actual life?” It is fairly cool to see all of the onerous work that it took to make El Dorado, the town of gold come to life in our little present.
Do you imagine in El Dorado?
I am an enormous believer in misplaced legends, and I have been capable of join with this character and be part of the Routledge household, [and] you sort of grow to be a little bit bit obsessive about their world. Treasure searching and issues of that kind have undoubtedly grow to be extra of a subject of dialog in my life than they’ve previously.
After you wrapped the season, what did decompressing appear like for you?
I shaved my head. I completed this season on my thirtieth birthday, which was a Friday, and we did an in a single day and I wrapped at 2:30 within the morning on Saturday. I shaved my head, I believe the video was at like 2:47 AM? After which I went on Monday morning to Vancouver to begin my subsequent mission. So I did not actually decompress in any respect. I sort of used all of it and dove into the subsequent mission. I hoped I might decompress after that, however then 4 days after I completed that movie I went and did a movie with one among my favourite administrators of all time, Nick Cassavetes, who directed The Pocket book. I completely couldn’t flip that down. After which I completed [that] a pair days earlier than Christmas, and I went straight to my mother’s home, and stayed at her home all over the second week of January.
Please get some relaxation.
I am engaged on it.
Let’s speak about John B’s reunion along with his dad. You’d suppose it will be the factor that completes him, but it surely virtually breaks him on a number of events as he begins to study who his dad actually is, or who he’s grow to be.
With each excessive there is a low. One in every of my good buddies Jeremy Pope mentioned in The Hollywood Reporter’s Actors Roundtable [that] he was speaking to his therapist and so they instructed him that you have to see your life as a heartbeat on a monitor. The highs and lows imply that you simply’re alive and if there’s an excellent really feel, meaning you’ve flatlined. And I believe John B and all people in life must really feel the highs and lows of feelings with a purpose to perceive what actually speaks to them inside their household or their discovered household or inside their little world that they stay inside. John B has spent the final 20 episodes attempting to navigate what he is truly trying to find: Is it the gold? Is it the connection to his father? Is it a connection to the world round him?
