I read the script and I saw this man in conflict with himself, reaching, pulled, sort of compulsively toward the future. He’s an engineer, he’s an industrialist, he’s an inventor, and he’s actully deeply gifted. He could have been one of the great industrialists that changed the world, and he wants to, he has an innate gift for that. He’s open-hearted and curious and wants to explore his life and his work, but he’s weighted down by the past and the past is haunted in one respect, it’s haunted physically and emotionally, and he’s accountable for that. And so there’s this amazing tension between escaping his inheritance physically in Allerdale Hall and emotionally, and rushing towards who he wants to be. So I found that fascinating and we talked about that and we explained that even bigger and made his struggle to take control of his destiny even stronger, in a way.
Tom Hiddleston on Sir Thomas Sharpe, his character from Crimson Peak, at The Nerdist Podcast (via the-haven-of-fiction)
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