American Horror Story actor Danny Houston stranded deep underwater in claustrophobic thriller ‘Pressure’.
Danny Huston
has confessed filming new thriller Pressure felt like an eternity and he
couldn’t wait for it to end.
The
American Horror Story actor stars alongside Matthew Goode and Joe Cole in the
film about three oil rig workers trapped in a diving bell at the bottom of the
ocean. Stunt scenes for the movie also involved donning heavy diving equipment
to film in a water tank at Pinewood Studios.
Danny
revealed: “Everything I loved and like
about the script I hated and despised about making it. And although my fellow
actors in the film were wonderful I prefer to see them in wide open spaces in
the future.
“It was so complicated getting in and
out of it, it was this sort of bubble in this tiny little water tank. And then
the bigger tank – that was an experience I didn’t want to extend time-wise.
“Those big helmets and get-up are
incredibly uncomfortable and absolutely claustrophobic. It’s not like diving
where you feel you’re light and free, you’re bolted into this gear, and it
takes time to get it off. The water was tepid so you also get hot and the glass
steams up, you can’t hear and you can’t wait to get out of that.
“It did feel at times like an
eternity. I love the water, I like to dive, even though I surf really badly, I
love to surf, but it’s the claustrophobic element that those helmets have which
is something I’d really rather not experience again.
“It really was torture!”
After
weeks at sea, the men are all missing their families, an experience the
53-year-old actor admitted he can relate to from his many trips away filming on
location.
Danny
said: “One is removed from one’s normal
life and family so I can relate to that sort of longing.
“But I suppose actors are more
gypsies – we tend to create our own mini sometimes brief families when we go
off to locations, however fickle some of those relationships can be.
“Whenever I leave a film everyone
says, ‘Give me your number’ and you hope to see them again, but you usually
don’t. I always kid around and say write me a postcard.”
Matthew
Goode and Danny bonded in the confined space (Pinewood Pictures)
But
the Big Eyes star has become good friends British actors Joe Cole and Matthew
Goode since working on Pressure.
He
said: “I feel like we were in the
trenches together, so I know them possibly better than I would wish to, but I
feel like I know them well and I see them from time to time.
“Especially Matthew, we’ve become
close friends, he’s just had a child and he was working on a film in New
Orleans the same time I was doing American Horror Story in New Orleans so we’ve
become quite close.”
“PRESSURE”
is released and distributed by CAPTIVE CINEMA.
SHOWING ON OCTOBER
21.
NATIONWIDE!
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