I know this because of the very first thing he said to me.
Jude Law:Are journalists like policemen?
They do seem to, actually.
But yo, go on.
Dont let me interrupt you.
Kevin MacDonald:I think a journalists best tool is to be silent themselves.
JL:Its a little bit of both.
KM:We reached the accent through working at it and trying a number of different things.
JL:It was a process, but the idea was instinctual.
Just felt that he couldnt come from Lewisham, like me.
It wouldnt sound right, I dont know why.
The process started with us going right back to asking Where did he come from?
KM:We talked also about how hes a really clever guy but the Navy is quite classist.
JL:Hell only ever get to a certain level.
Its somewhere that a lot of submariners used to come from.
Then I think you just liked the accent…
JL:I really liked it.
JL:Theres a methodical nature to it.
Thats the word Im looking for.
Theres a great social comment interwoven with the heist and the thriller.
Its not just somebody who sounds, looks and acts like Jude.
It becomes a statement that hes being somebody else.
That was the thing you were doing next, wasnt it?
JL:It already fit in.
KM:That fed into what you were doing here.
By filming on a submarine a lot of your aesthetic choices are already made for you.
How did this work for and against you?
They might want to run around, but they cant.
If youve got a second camera, bloody hell, you cant even breathe.
But I started to see those restrictions as being really positive.
Theyre what makes it feel claustrophobic.
You didnt have any fly walls at all?
KM:No, no.
That was the aesthetic decision.
I hope we made the right decision.
you’re free to sense that the camera could never be where it was.
I think you did make the right decision for this film.
Thank you Kevin and Jude.
Black Sea is out now.
