Sean Bean was delighted to be playing such a “twisted” outlaw in The Isolate Thief, which marks his debut movie in the Western genre.
Sean Bean embraced getting to play such a “twisted” character in his Western debut.
The 67-year-old actor plays the role of outlaw Fiddler in The Isolate Thief as he makes his bow in the genre and explained how he relished getting to portray a “b******” in the flick.
Bean told ScreenRant: “I was delighted to finally get the part in a Western.
“Especially this particular part, because he’s such a f***** up b******. It’s not very often you get the opportunity to play people like that. I’ve played them in the past, but this one was particularly twisted, but his dialogue, and everyone’s dialogue, was so naturalistic and so powerful and so gripping.
“To play a kind of outlaw who, towards the end of the Civil War, was fighting for survival with this bunch of crazy guys, on horses firing Winchesters. It was a dream part, it really was.
“You see Westerns, they (can be) quite tame, but this certainly wasn’t that.”
Bean detailed how he took a “larger-than-life” approach to his scenes with co-star Mackenzie Foy towards the end of the movie.
The Lord of the Rings star explained: “It’s a wild journey for me, and I thoroughly enjoyed it, especially the scenes towards the end, where I kind of went into Cape Fear mode.
“I got Mackenzie on the ground, and I’m hurling out these religious, kind of sermon-type (diatribes), twisted. I just let rip on that, and I thought, ‘I’m really gonna thoroughly enjoy this scene’, and I did.”
He added: “It was a part where the dialogue was such that it demanded the kind of larger-than-life reaction and performance. I think those kind of scenes are quite difficult to imagine until you get on the film set, you see your surroundings, and it’s only then that you realise how epic and powerful these things actually are.
“To do them justice, you’ve really got to let loose and give it everything, and it’s so satisfying and so liberating, even though he was doing a pretty bad thing.”
Meanwhile, Bean also revealed that The Isolate Thief’s “unusual” plot meant that it took several years to obtain financing for the project.
The Game of Thrones actor said: “Everybody persevered, the producers and Hideout Pictures and myself.
“I kept calling them and saying, ‘Look, you think we might be getting it together?’
“It took two or three years, but eventually, they managed to pull it together, and I was delighted to be a part of it.”
Bean lauded director John Suits for his “strategic” approach to making the movie amid budget and time constraints.
He said: “John was very strategic and very disciplined at the same time. He had some very brilliant ideas and some great suggestions.
“He wasn’t afraid to experiment with things, which I always enjoy, so we had a good working relationship where we could discuss the possibilities and the potential of my character, in this case. We had quite a lot of freedom in that sense.”
Sean Bean relished ‘twisted’ role in Western debut The Isolate Thief
