Charles Dance Interview & Exclusive Clip: NatGeo's Savage Kingdom
For the lions of Botswana, Africa, the fight for survival means they must hunt mercilessly and make the most of every kill. Their daily struggle is chronicled in the Emmy-nominated Nat Geo wildlife documentary series, Savage Kingdom, narrated by Charles Dance.
Game of Thrones is about the species that preys upon itself, of course. We are the only species that does that. These animals are killing for food. There's a bit of sport wrapped up in it as well, by the look of things, but this is the way they survive. Nobody comes along with a tin of cat food and puts it down for them at 5:00 every afternoon. They've got to go out and get it. Same with the dogs and the hyenas and the leopards.
I would hope so. I mean, there was more on the page than what ended up on the screen. But you're dealing with a franchise. A lot of people are very protective of a franchise and feel they know the way it should go. It was Fincher's first film. I was really impressed, then, and that was 30 or so years ago. And I just finished shooting with Fincher again. I thought, then, he was a very clever guy. I think he's a genius, actually. He's a demanding genius, but I don't mind that, because the end result is a good movie. And the film I've just done with him, I think, is going to be sensational.
Oh, you're in the Citizen Kane one, Mank?
It's a wonderful evocation of Hollywood in the 1930s. It's shot in black and white, and what Fincher was trying to do was to shoot it in the same kind of style that Orson Welles shot Citizen Kane. Ostensibly, it's a biographical film about Herman Mankiewicz, who wrote the screenplay for Citizen Kane, but never got the credit he should have had for it.
I just like working, Zak! (Laughs) You know? And I'm very lucky. Actors living in London are lucky. Well, apart from this terrible situation we're in at the moment, we can move from theater to television to film to radio, you know, it's all confined here in one place. Whereas, if you're in L.A., you're a film actor. If you're in New York, you're a theater actor, and the two don't very often mix. But here, we kind of jump around and do lots of different things. That's the way I like it. Variety is the spice of life, Zak.
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