David Jonsson And Tom Blyth Discuss Playing Cellmates, Body Transformations, And All Things “Wasteman”

Being cellmates is such a specific relationship. What did you do to make that dynamic feel real between you?

David: Yeah, I mean, Tom and I are decent mates. [smirking] Really good friends. We have the same agent who introduced us, and I’m a big admirer of his work, and we just really get on. But then, obviously, making this movie, you bring that base of trust and extrapolate it into this feeling of chaos, and it makes or breaks you. If anything, it just helped us continue to find that bond, which meant that we could do more of the work. Every single day felt almost like a building block for us.

Tom: For 14 hours a day, we were in this tiny little room. Very quickly, you’d start to feel the claustrophobia. I’m bringing a lot of energy, David’s receding from the energy, and very quickly, the dynamic became quite real. We’re kind of dodging each other in the space. It’s a testament to the production as well, the designers, and everyone who made it feel like we were in that space.