Tom Blyth is opening up in regards to the roles he’s been enjoying in movies. Though he’s drawn to the complexities of dangerous guys, he thinks it could be time to play some good guys.
In a brand new interview, the actor who performed Coriolanus “Coryo” Snow in The Starvation Video games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes talked about why he’s drawn to those kind of characters.
“I’m actually drawn to dangerous guys for some purpose, or to morally complicated characters. I feel that’s as a result of I see the world that manner,” he stated in an interview with Vman journal. “I have a look at individuals and suppose, nobody’s actually good or dangerous. Everybody’s this enormous mixture of ambitions and aims, they usually’re all type of clashing each day. I’m fascinated by the gradients between the 2.”
Blyth says he appears on the characters as an “final train in empathy, attempting to know the opposite.”
The actor additionally performed the lead position in Billy the Child and stated he “might by no means pull the set off” like that character and “might by no means do what Coriolanus does in that film.”
Blyth stated that to arrange for the 2023 Starvation Video games prequel, he “went down a rabbit gap studying about Vladimir Putin when he was a younger man earlier than he joined the KGB. As a younger man at school, he in all probability didn’t know he was going to be who he’s now, you understand? And I did the identical with Benito Mussolini, identical to all these dictators.”
Though Blyth’s final two characters have been “dangerous guys,” he stated he lately talked to his agent about diversifying his roles.
“I truly lately mentioned with my agent that possibly it’s time to play some good guys for a bit,” he stated. “Simply because the final two movies I’ve finished, together with the one I’m doing proper now, they’re very morally complicated characters, if not verging on evil.”
He continued, “It’s a lot enjoyable attending to do stuff that you’d by no means do in actual life, and I attempt to discover what’s so scrumptious about it. But it surely does take a toll. I get extra uninterested in enjoying these guys. On the finish of the day, I’m emotionally taxed.”
