This article first appeared in Radio Times magazine.

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Jack O’Connell has a fondness - and talent - for muscular, challenging roles filmed in remote locations. Five years ago he was in a snowy expanse near the Arctic Circle filming The North Water, the BBC whaling drama that saw him kill, gut and shelter inside a polar bear. Before that, he’d filmed Netflix’s western revenge thriller Godless in the New Mexican mountains, and earlier in his career Angelina Jolie’s film Unbroken, for which he spent almost half a year in Australia, playing the gruelling lead role as Japanese prisoner of war survivor Louis Zamperini.

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