A true knight always finishes a story...

"Everybody… everybody blames me for his death, don't they?" "I don't."

A powerful and nuanced portrait of a man being denied his happiness while his brother finds his. Phil lashes out and manipulates in an attempt to regain control over his environment. Only to suddenly find something more hopeful along the way. 💔

A KNIGHT OF THE SEVEN KINGDOMS

“His arc is hugely brilliant. In Richard III he gives a speech about how he’s going to go and kill the king, Henry, and how this ties into his feelings about himself as a disabled man. I think that humanises him. As an actor you have to flesh out your character. You can’t pantomime with the daggers and the looks, because that gets really dull. There’s such humour in other moments where Richard relishes his plans. He’s an antihero because he lures us in. He’s very funny, hopefully. Audiences don't necessarily side with him but they revel in his villainy! I also don't want to burden Freudian analysis onto him and make him more understandable. I don’t want to say, ‘Oh, he’s just a victim of this cruel world. Oh, what other choice did he have?’ Of course he had choices. He very clearly makes the wrong ones and suffers the ultimate downfall for that.” - Benedict Cumberbatch via BBC.