Shadow And Bone’s' Ben Barnes And Daisy Head interview
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00:00I think Ben and I actually really focused on, I mean all I'd say about it is in the book, this kind of...
00:10There's a tension between them, but actually we managed to develop something that was actually almost a purer kind of example of this kind of toxic relationship that you were just talking about before.
00:20Yeah.
00:21About why she's staying and...
00:25Yeah, there's a familiality and there's also like kind of, it's not really Stockholm Syndrome, but there's this slightly conflicted juxtaposition to their relationship and it's, you know, he's kind of the closest thing to family that she has until she meets Alina.
00:49And I think, yeah, I mentioned before that there's, she finds safety in the familiarity of it, even though the familiarity of it obviously is very unsafe because of the nature of the relationship.
01:04But it was really fun with Ben to kind of find those moments where we can connect, there's just this simmering...
01:10And having a bit of freedom to kind of explore those themes which I think are...
01:14The nuances.
01:16The nuances of those themes, which I think are like contemporary within the framework of something so much broader sweeping, you know, because fantasy often has this kind of very broad dark versus light.
01:32These sorts of grand themes, but to really kind of, you know, chip away at things that feel very modern, you know, in terms of, you know, toxicity of relationships or, you know, struggles.