There’s a real bromance element to our relationship.” HBOĪgrees Skarsgård: “Jared is an amazing actor, and he’s not about showing off.
We understood it almost like a double act. “Sometimes-not often-there’s an insecurity between actors where the grass is always greener in what the other person has to play. In Chernobyl, he adds, both Legasov and Shcherbina get the goods. Harris notes that actors are inclined to play Shylock in The Merchant of Venice, rather than the title character himself, because Shylock has the meatier part. It’s not so much in dialogue, except for that final speech between them.” That’s what creates this growing bond between the characters. “It was something that developed on set, where Johan Renck and Craig were sure to capture what was happening between the lines, in the way we look at each other, the way we move together. “And it’s not just on the page,” he says. Skarsgård reveled in the moments the two men shared. The rest-the divine inventions-comes from what happens when you act alongside someone like Jared.” The information you get about him is very diverse, but I knew more about him from the script than from other sources. “As soon as I saw a picture of Shcherbina,” Skarsgård notes of his own character, “I immediately gave up trying to look like him. It was a page-turner right from the off.” HBO “Everybody I knew in London was talking about it, because they were casting in England. “Actors know a good part when they read one,” says Jared Harris, who plays Legasov, of the scripts he was handed. 'Chernobyl's Fares Fares To Star In Warner Bros' Swedish Drama 'Partisan' For SVOD Service Viaplay