Games Of Thrones star Dean-Charles Chapman has praised Richard Madden after starring alongside him in the new Sam Mendes movie, 1917.
Yes, the Baratheons and Starks have reunited on screen and we’re forever grateful to the director for bringing the duo together again.
While attending the red carpet at the film’s London premiere, the 22-year-old, who played Tommen in the fantasy saga, spoke to Metro.co.uk about the comparisons between GOT and his latest project.
After calling the Robb Stark star ‘amazing’, he explained: ‘With Game of Thrones I had the privilege to come back every season and play the same character and get to know them more.
‘Whereas with this, it’s a film so you only get one time to play the character and it’s got to be right and that’s it.’
The actor added: ‘But that’s so completely different projects. Game Of Thrones is medieval with dragons flying everywhere, whereas this is the first world war, a very real human story that actually happened.’
As well as Richard, Colin Firth, Benedict Cumberbatch, Andrew Scott and Mark Strong all make an appearance in the World War One hit.
‘This cast, the detail that they bring to their characters honestly blew me away every single day,’ Dean-Charles gushed over his co-stars.
‘They’re also friendly and lovely, and I’ve learned a lot from every single one of them and George [MacKay] as well.’
The movie sees the actor take on the role of the soldier Blake who is joined by Schofield (George MacKay) on a mission to save 1,600 men – including Blake’s brother.
And it turns out they recreated trenches from the time – which the leading man called one of the most challenging things about the filming process.
‘It was tough,’ he confessed: ‘But it’s how it would have been and it was very realistic. I never really felt like we were making a movie, it was like we were actually in that time period living as those characters and trying to survive, I’ve never had an experience like it.
‘The hardest thing was probably the condition we were in, the mud in No Man’s Land, the trenches it’s very much like ice, it’s so slippy. You have to focus on how to walk let alone act, but that’s what the men had to put up with and that’s what we were doing.’
Challenging conditions meant the boys made a number of mistakes, which made the final cut, as cinematographer Roger Deakins filmed the flick as if it was one take.
‘That’s the thing, some of the scenes last nine, 10 minutes long, you know, and you sort of pray that nothing goes wrong, but if it does go wrong it doesn’t matter because that makes it authentic,’ he laughed: ‘So there’s a lot of slipping and tripping in the film, but it looks realistic.’
1917 arrives in UK cinemas next year on 10 January.
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