Hugh Jackman and Jodie Comer's brutal The Death of Robin Hood conditions as film releases months late in UK
Jodie Comer and Hugh Jackman have taken it back to the 17th Century with their latest film; The Death of Robin Hood.
Filmed during winter in Northern Ireland, the cast and crew were subject to some rather ‘tough conditions’.
But Jackman tells LADbible it was all ‘worth it’ as the pair discussed the new flick that’s out in cinemas today (2 September) - having already released in the US back in June.
Also starring Bill Skarsgård, Murray Bartlett and Noah Jupe, the film adaptation of the Robin Hood’s Death ballad follows Robin [Jackman] as he grapples with his past after a life of crime and murder. Taking refuge in a priory, he finds himself in the care of Sister Brigid (Comer) with a chance at salvation.
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The two star’s experiences on set were ‘very different’ as Comer got to shack up at the ‘clean and peaceful’ priory while the Wolverine star jokes he’s still finding mud now.
Amid the gore and violence of the film’s opening half an hour or so, is also a whole load of darkness, mud and to be honest, conditions that just look pretty rough to be knocking about in.
“I can tell you the mud was real – that was not Hollywood mud. It’s still in places in my body,” Jackman jokes.
“So that was real, but a lot of it, my main memory of the shoot was just the beauty of it. We were in some of the most incredible places on the shoreline, in the countryside and the woods.”
Although, the star adds that the mud was ‘so thick and sticky’ that people were often losing their shoes as they walked through it – not exactly ideal during the cold winter.
“That happened a lot,” he recalls. “And the crew were incredible. There was some tough conditions to bring in cameras and you know, it was a lot but it was worth it.”
For Comer, getting to skip out on the rough weather and mud meant she was ‘just as taken aback’ as most viewers will be when she watched the beginning of the film.
“Obviously when you read the script you can kind of project your own imagery into it but then to see what Pat [Scola] and Michael [Sarnoski] kind of brought to life was incredible. I didn’t get in touch with a lot of mud or extreme weather…” she says as Jackman jokes it’s in the Killing Eve star’s contract to avoid it.
And not only was the Robin actor battling the conditions to film, but he was donning a coat so heavy it took two people to get him into.
That was all part of his wild transformation for the role, with Jackman praising Sean Flanagan and Pam Westmore for the hair and makeup magic.
“I came in on the bus and I didn’t notice you,” Comer admits, “I just looked down and seen these grey locks, I was like, ‘I wonder who that is.'
“It was like, such a transformation.”
The voices of The Death of Robin Hood
The pair take on pretty unique voices for the new flick, with accent queen Comer pointing out that if they’d been truly authentic it would ‘have been inaudible’.
“There was an amazing dialect coach [Brendan Gunn] on this film who had just such a breadth of knowledge about the era and all the kind of distinct qualities,” she explains. “Well, this is very different to what it would have been because it actually would have been probably quite inaudible. But vowels were quite a big thing within this dialect that would made it quite distinct, so he was wonderful to kind of have on set he was so present.”
And Jackman opted for paying a lot of attention to Sean Bean. Somewhat similar to how Comer says she watched videos of Cheryl Cole when prepping her Geordie accent for 28 Years Later, the Aussie was recommended to paying attention to Bean.
“Sean Bean for me – Game of Thrones. So I was watching that while we were preparing,” he says.
Well, from playing with their accents to Jackman murdering people as Robin in the mud and cold, the pair have rightly been praised for their performances in the film.
The Death of Robin Hood is in cinemas now.
Topics: Jodie Comer, Hugh Jackman, Entertainment, TV and Film
Jess Battison