You just block all that out, as you do with acting, and the sort of amazing amount of work that goes on around you to capture whatever you're giving as an actor. They were remotely directing by video, so there were echoes of thoughts coming through, which is quite tricky to take in when you're in the water and you're being knocked about by the waves near a boat. Well, in fact, all the calm that's in the film required a crazy effort, a lot of frenetic activity. There’s a tremendous sense of meditative calm in the film, a sense of escaping the world. But sometimes in the evening before sleeping, I've been working with the ideas of what the subconscious can dredge up with dreamscapes and what sort of things bubble from the kind of pond of that and ripple to the surface. It's just a good place to begin the morning. One of the rituals of the day, if I'm going in to film something, is that I try to meditate for starters. And then along came this pitch for the advert.Īre there parallels in the breathing process with your acting? Not at any great depth, but just how to maintain that kind of discipline and use it underwater. I got to learn something new.Īnd then it had weirdly coincided with meeting someone in Italy who is a free diver who took me in a pool to teach me how do the breathing.
It was misinterpreted, in fact, but I'm thrilled about that. So diving seemed like the natural option, but I meant scuba diving. Originally this was pitched as an idea to incorporate things that I enjoy doing and the environment that I was in at the time. Sometimes with flippers, but never with weights. I'd done free diving in the way you do with it with a scuba mask, to get something on the bottom.
I just love the submersion, the quiet, the isolation, the sort of focus and sense of achievement. I've always been interested in it, ever since watching The Big Blue and, you know, trying in a vain, kind of amateur attempt to just go deeper and stay under for longer, just to get something off the ocean floor-or just for fun.īut your experience is more with a scuba tank on your back?
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