Warning: The following includes spoilers from Sunday’s episode of The Time Traveler’s Spouse. Proceed at your very own chance!
Tragedy drew numerous Henrys to the past in The Time Traveler’s Spouse‘s second episode, in which Theo James’ character relived his mother’s horrific loss of life in a auto incident when he was just eight years outdated.
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Younger Henry time traveled out of the vehicle to just seconds ahead of the crash, sparring his individual lifetime, but his mother was tragically beheaded in front of Henry’s very own eyes. Drawn to the pivotal moment like gravity, Henrys of different ages converged on the heartbreaking memory. Portraying all of them in just one sequence “was the much less tough bit mainly because it’s a great deal of Henrys at diverse points,” James tells TVLine. “We shot individuals practically over the study course of the full thirty day period we were there. We’d do a minimal bit below, a minimal little bit there.”
Rather, the “tricky bit” for James was the episode’s closing scene, in which 28-calendar year-old Henry listens to an audio recording of his opera singer mother answering a concern from Clare, which a a lot older Henry shipped to his mother in the previous. “That’s a significant second for him,” James suggests. “Through this conceit of time journey, he’s capable to manipulate just about the study course of activities. So his mother then speaks to Clare, who’s now the most important man or woman in his lifestyle. Imagining somebody that has died a lot of, many many years ago, when he was eight, type of echoing back by means of the ages is very sad and exceptionally emotional. I wanted to do that justice.”
To provide authenticity to Henry’s heart-wrenching journey and how he copes with his mother’s dying, government producer/director David Nutter tapped into his possess previous. “What was definitely important there was to truly perform out what that need to be like for a boy or girl that definitely professional these an outstanding loss at such an intense time,” Nutter shares. “My father died in a motor vehicle accident when I was a year and a half previous, so I was way too younger to type of really feel that. But I type of tried to carry that out in truth, and also definitely deal with the point that a little something like that in no way leaves you and it hardly ever gets softened or under no circumstances turns into a distant memory, especially with Henry, who essentially relives it each and every single day of his daily life.”
Discovering the suitable younger performer to tackle the character’s childhood trauma together with James as grownup Henry was also critical. “This youthful kid, [General Hospital vet] Jason David, arrived in and he seems to be like a spitting image of Theo,” Nutter recollects. In fact, the resemblance in between the two actors is so sturdy that in a library scene, “there’s a image of young Henry, and just one of the pictures is in fact a young, younger Theo and not a younger Jason, and I wager you can not explain to which a single it is.”
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