Dashing year-old actor Jamie Bell is everywhere these days. He paid us a visit during a whirlwind press tour in New York last week.
I think the line has been blurring between movies and television the last 10 or 15 years. Shows like The Sopranos have really changed everything. A repressed heroic character who has huge flaws and huge conflict.
This guy sounds more straightforward. He gets that way toward the end of the first season. When you dive into Revolutionary War period history, I think you often lead people in slowly. The wigs and the muskets and the accents and the horses. I had read pilots before, not many of them, though, honestly. Now I do, I understand how it works.
You had just come off shooting a Lars von Trier movie. It's hard to imagine there's anything harder than that. That was just an intense experience. But the actual workload was obviously for me incredibly light. It is a stressful situation, yeah. What did you learn from working with von Trier in terms of stressful situations like that? Just stress management. You started acting really young, and male actors can have a hard time getting taken seriously until they get older.
It never really felt like a position of power, it just felt like this is what this guy is good at. I might have said good morning. I did not speak to her at all. Nothing, I ducked out of the grocery store and ran away. It was a very strange experience. How was that different? Every single person is doing their job really well. We did all the key art stuff, for the promotional stuff, early on, when we were shooting episode three.
