Last year's BAFTA Rising Star Award winner Jonsson stars as Taylor, an inmate nearing the end of a long sentence. When we meet him, he's in line for an early release, but that situation is put in serious jeopardy when his new cellmate Dee – played by Blyth – arrives and immediately starts exhibiting extremely volatile behaviour.
Speaking exclusively to Radio Times at last year's London Film Festival, Blyth admitted that his view on the prison system had "definitely" changed by taking part in the project.
"Before doing this, I liked to think that I had some elevated empathy or at least a nuanced way of seeing the prison system," he explained. "But I was very naive, I think, without even knowing it."
"I think it's not really rehabilitating people, it's like sequestering them away, shoving them all in a small space and hoping for the best," he continued. "And then the problems from outside follow everyone inside, except they're amplified, because it's like a pressure cooker."
It was clear to him now, he added, that a system had to be put in place that was about genuine rehabilitation, one that adopted a more humanist approach.
View Green Video on the source website"And I think that's the thing. My big takeaway is, if someone like Dee had had infrastructure around him and investment in him as a young man way before, he wouldn't be where he ends up."
"But making this movie wasn't easy," he continued. "And I think that's the wonderful thing about art, sometimes it can really spark a conversation. So if this movie does that as well as thrill people and make them feel a little bit sick, that's great."
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