#now I guess the Captain's flashbacks are a) very tightly focussed on him with no interaction or even observation by the others

[carpe-mamilia]

Nathan: What are some of your favourite Captain moments over the series?

Ben: Well obvi- I think, yeah, definitely the Havers episode, because it was really nice to be... again, it felt indulgent at the time, but actually we were able to kind of put enough story around it to make it sit. But it was a kind of little glimpse, and, um, my friend Pete, who played Havers, did it so well -

Mat: Yeah.

Ben: - that it was so delightful to do those scenes because it felt that we were going into territory that you just look behind the curtain a little bit, and it's like "ohhh that's who he is!"

Nathan: Yeah.

Ben: And - but that's all you need, you just need to see who he is. So you kind of, every time you see him after that, you know that this is a man who has so much, ah, pain and suffering going on under the surface. And we all do.

Nathan: And we love him more for it!

Ben: We're all - every single character, everybody you meet in your life has stuff going on you don't know about.

Nathan: Absolutely.

Ben: And so it's kind of just humanising the character, to a point. But I love those scenes because they had to be quick, they had to be on the money, but it had to get across all of this emotion that wasn't allowed to come out. And, um, lovely to be able to play that, as part of that character, yeah.

(Inside Ghosts, 'Gone Gone')

#bbc ghosts #ben willbond #I was listening to old episodes of Inside Ghosts to tide me over until the new ones come out and I thought this was nice #also this is slightly funny to me because here and elsewhere in the ep he's talking about the need to balance the time spent on scenes #so that all the characters get served by the narrative #now I guess the Captain's flashbacks are a) very tightly focussed on him with no interaction or even observation by the others #and b) in quite a different tone to the light silliness of everything else going on #so I can really see why he wanted the writing to be as lean as possible; and they all did an amazing job #but come on #I'd have watched 2 hours of that story lol