What exactly happened to certain characters afterward. I worked extensively and very closely with Andy McNab and the writer, Laurence Malkin, and when you are all sitting around the table at night having dinner, you can’t help but start to discuss what that would look like. Hopefully, if people watch this one and enjoy it, we can turn this into a franchise. I think it’d be fascinating to go further into his psychopathy and the added twist that he also has emotion. Only by the end of the movie does he realize why he is the way he is. Knowing this story, or this first episode of Tom Buckingham, we’re really at the beginning of his discovery of his psychology. Heughan: I was very aware that there’s the potential there. Did you look at it as a potential franchise? Thompson: There are three Tom Buckingham stories. Sam Heughan is Tom Buckingham in 'SAS: Red Notice.' Vertical Entertainment It was a meeting of minds, but obviously, he was able to fill my head with anecdotes and stories and information and training that I couldn’t have accessed otherwise. He’s candid about his psychopathy, and that was very interesting to engage with. When it came to my character, we had our own ideas, and we met in the middle. It is interesting to think that this man has done the things he has done and had the experiences he has had. He’s very upfront and on the level, charming and disarming at the same time. If you sat down with him in a pub, you’d think he was your local plumber or plasterer. Serkis: There’s a great sense of normality about Andy McNab, but he’s lived such an extraordinary life. He also gave me great freedom to explore Tom and play him how I saw the character. He would always be there and give great advice on practical things or if I had a question about what a psychopath would do in a particular situation. As someone empathetic and uses their emotions to portray characters, to sit with someone who doesn’t have that, to have this amalgamation of both sides, was unique and rare. I think it’s interesting that acting is quite alien to Andy, who is a psychopath himself. Thompson: Did having him available and involved in the production make it easier for you to get a handle on things?
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