Shadow And Bone’s' Ben Barnes And Daisy Head Discuss How General Kirigan And Genya’s Relationship Differs From The Books In Season 2

Shadow And Bone’s' Ben Barnes And Daisy Head interview

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00:00 I think Ben and I actually really focused on,

00:04 I mean, all I'd say about it is in the book, this kind of.

00:08 - There's a tension between them,

00:10 but actually we managed to develop something

00:12 that was actually almost a purer kind of example

00:16 of this kind of toxic relationship

00:18 that you were just talking about before.

00:21 About why she's staying and.

00:25 - Yeah, there's a familiality

00:28 and there's also like kind of,

00:30 it's not really Stockholm syndrome,

00:32 but there's this slightly conflicted juxtaposition

00:37 to their relationship.

00:41 And it's, you know, he's kind of the closest thing

00:45 to family that she has until she meets Alina.

00:48 And I think, yeah, I mentioned before that there's,

00:54 she finds safety in the familiarity of it,

00:57 even though the familiarity of it obviously is very unsafe

01:02 because of the nature of the relationship.

01:04 But it was really fun with Ben to kind of find those moments

01:07 where we can connect.

01:09 There's just this simmering.

01:10 - And having a bit of freedom to kind of explore those,

01:12 those themes, which I think are.

01:14 - The nuances.

01:15 - The nuances of those themes,

01:16 which I think are like contemporary.

01:19 - Yeah.

01:20 - Within the framework of something so,

01:25 so much broader sweeping, you know,

01:29 'cause fantasy often has this kind of very broad

01:31 dark versus light, these days of grand themes,

01:33 but to really kind of, you know,

01:36 chip away at things that feel very modern, you know,

01:41 in terms of, you know, toxicity of relationships

01:43 or, you know, struggles.

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