As illustrations of raw physicality and sheer barbarity go, forthcoming BBC Two drama The North Water is a fine depiction. Starring Jack O’Connell, Stephen Graham and a near unrecognisable Colin Farrell, The North Water tells a tale of grit and survival aboard The Volunteer – an English whaling vessel packed full of brutish men on course for the Arctic. He is incredibly intense to read and to play, in a joyful way, but he doesn’t consider himself to be intense at all. Colin Farrell in The North Water with Stephen Graham and other cast members. God, it was cold, to state the obvious, a dip in the Arctic ocean, but it was terrifying.

Source: Irish Examiner September 09, 2021 07:30 UTC