captain-flint:

For Flint, what is great about the story that we’re telling is that although it’s on this huge canvas, you know, he’s exacting this war on England, he’s trying to emancipate in some way these people. But really is he doing it for altruistic reasons? Is he doing it for honorable reasons? Or is he doing it because it’s really playing out his own psycho-drama and his own slightly sort of demented thing of wanting revenge on England for what they did to him? And I think that’s what’s so satisfying about this. Because, yes it is about pirates, but in the end it’s an incredibly personal story. These characters are very personal and they’re complex and sophisticated and it made it incredibly rewarding for me as an actor to bring that to life. – Toby Stephens