Josh O'Connor

But I think Stephen has that too, as you rightly say.

He's interested in wonder and he's interested in the kind of childlike curiosity to a subject.

Yeah, I did.

I mean, it took a slightly different form.

I mean, the scrapbook thing comes right back from...

when I made God's Own Country.

So it was a good like 12, maybe 12 years ago now.

And the director of that film, Francis Lee, was really kind of formative for me in terms of what my method was, how I wanted to work.

I think I was still figuring that out.

And one of the things that we did together was

to create this sort of, you could call it a scrapbook or a kind of character Bible, a kind of a manual for how to access this character's memory.

So if you're sort of struggling with a scene,

trying to get into the psychology of this fictional character.

It's like, well, let's look at this scrapbook.

Let's look at the character Bible.

Let's choose a memory that we've created together that can kind of help us access something.

So...

I've used it for pretty much every character I've played since, but the form of this one was slightly different because we were shooting here in New York and I had an apartment on Manhattan and the day I moved in to the apartment to start pre-production, I had this huge wall and I just started sketching images.

I mean, I had this idea that Daniel...

had a sort of memory somewhere lodged in the kind of recesses of his mind of visions he'd had when he was a child.