While knowing what you're talking about is, on some level, crucial to grounding something and making it feel truthful, I don't think a knowledge of what it's like to have lived what the characters are living has to be literal.
He'd often tell me: 'My character wouldn't say this' or 'I'm not trained to do this.'" He can only play a scene, Macdonald soon realised, if it genuinely feels truthful: "Not many Russian actors, or actors, actually, have his sensitivity or awareness.
Wyatt explained to Billboard, "We really liked [director] Andreas's images and I think they go together in a way that feels truthful with what we do... and you can read into it in different ways".
That feels truthful to me.
And he takes a lot of chances and is willing to experiment and do a lot of crap to figure out what works and what's right and what feels truthful, and I felt very protected being around him.
Line of Duty doesn't do it for me because it doesn't feel "truthful".
It feels terribly truthful in the way that the ever onward, undemonstrative drabness of life is truthful, every returning, day in, day out, until it just doesn't any more.
It is spare, unshowy and it feels utterly truthful.
Frankly it feels more truthful, ecologically harmonious, and abundant than my old life.
It feels like a truthful piece of writing and it gets a truthful performance from Sion Pritchard who, quite rightly, doesn't try to make the initially unappealing Tom attractive.
