Troy McFadden Interview

How did you get the role?

It's very interesting, actually. I was fresh out of a ten day silent meditation retreat, heartbroken over a recently failed relationship, and on my way to India to seek solace in the Himalayas for a while. I had a week in Bangkok before my flight departed, so I was making the rounds, including connecting with the editors of FARANG, an Asian travel magazine that I write for periodically. I asked them if they knew anything about the local movie biz, and they referred me to a locally based British director. Understand that I was just sniffing out the possibility of doing some extra’ing for fun, so I wasn't expecting much at all...but sure enough, a week later he referred me to Paul and Carole who flew me down to Koh Samui to audition me for the role of Oliver Davenport. In its own small way, it was like being discovered!

What did you find interesting about Davenport?

I loved that he was very out of his element, ill at ease in his surroundings on Ladang Geta...here was a guy that was a bit smarmy, even arrogant, in his rather well heeled ex-pat life in London, where he was famous...so it was fun to play him as a bit wimpy and uncomfortable.

I enjoyed bringing out his dark side just as much, at the end where he had been soiled and darkened by his involvement with the painting. It was fun to play against character a bit during my last few scenes.

 

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