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"So you're an actor, dancer, singer, triple-threat kind of guy?\n\n \"I can't sing anymore, that's the only thing. I grew up and it just went out the window!\"\n\nAre you serious?\n\n \"Yeah, I'm being dead serious. I'm literally tone-deaf with singing. It's unreal.\"\n\nOh, no! Well, what a great role for your first big part as Billy Elliot in London's West End. That in itself must have been the training for The Impossible, in some ways, right?\n\n \"Yeah it was, especially physically. The whole tsunami sequence was very tiring and with Billy Elliot we had all this fitness training every day. We had all this hardworking stuff so I was really ready for the fitness side of things. But the emotional side of The Impossible was something I hadn't really ever experienced before so that was a real dive in to unknown territory.\"\n\nHow did you get the part?\n\n \"I got the part because I was playing Billy in the West End and there was a video of me doing an interview on YouTube and the casting director saw it and said, 'Hey listen, you're about to leave the show, how about you come and meet us for an audition?' About three or four auditions later, he cast me. After about 6 weeks of leaving Billy Elliot, I was drowning in a water tank so it was a quick first step.\"\n\nHow did you prepare for the role? Did you work with the real life Lucas?\n\n \"Yeah, definitely! I had probably four or five meetings with him before we even started shooting where he just described his experience. He spoke about the feelings and the emotions he was going through, throughout his experience and as an actor that is so helpful because he is the person that understands this story most. To have him there to answer your questions, to give you advice, to give you different sort of ideas about a scene is really, really helpful. And, obviously working with Naomi was incredible, on set and off set, she was amazing.\"\n\nHow did you guys film the underwater scene?\n\n \"We filmed it in a really big water tank. It was probably the size of a football pitch in Spain. They had these\u00A0cups that were on a railway track that was under the water, and we would sit in these sort of like big cups and then they would get dragged along the floor and they would have pumps to create the affects of the current and that would then create the effect that we were getting dragged along by this massive tsunami.\"\n\nSome of the scenes were filmed in Thailand, right?\n\n \"Yeah, everything that was in the water was filmed in Spain and everything that was filmed out of the water was in Thailand.\"\n\nHow did you wind down when you were done shooting, being in Thailand?\n\n \"I was thirteen, and getting distracted is like the easiest thing in the world, so it was so easy to disconnect from the idea of losing your mum as soon as you get home to this luxurious hotel which you have a beach, you can go surfing, scuba diving, all this kind of awesome stuff so it was really was like paradise. And getting away from the filming, which was not so much like paradise, was really nice. It was a really good way to balance the two emotions.\"\n\nWas it scary to be there after the tragedy did indeed happen?\n\n \"Every night before I went to bed I always thought, 'Oh god, this could happen tonight!' I had this awful experience where I was given the day off so I was sleeping in, and they were filming in the swimming pool outside of my room and I didn't know this. All the extras had to run away as if the tsunami was coming and the director, to help the actors on set, would play this horrific noise which sounded like the tsunami. I suddenly thought that the tsunami was happening! I ran outside, and I looked over the balcony and everyone was just standing around. I was like, 'What's going on?' It was one of the scariest things I've ever been through, but then afterwards, it was kind of funny.\"\n\nAre you in school?\n\n \"Yeah, I'm in school at the moment. I'm studying theater and media. I don't really know why I took media because I'm so useless with technology, though it's fun. But, I do love theater and am having a great time learning about all the practitioners and getting to perform with my friends.\"\n\nIn the film, you're the eldest son of such a big family. Do you have a good relationship your real-life family?\n\n \"Yeah, definitely. I completely and utterly rely on my mum. Without my mum, I would not be anywhere at all. I'd literally just be a couch potato. And my friend Katherine at school! Literally, she rings me up every day before deadlines saying, 'Have you done this?' When it comes to school, she's my savior.\"\n\nSo what's next for you?\n\n \"I have no projects outside of school at the moment. I'm just reading scripts, meeting directors, auditioning and just waiting for the right projects to come in. But school is my main focus at the moment because I've got two years left.\"\n\nWhere do you go to school?\u00A0\n\n \"I go to The Brit School, which is where Adele, Amy Winehouse, and Jessie J went. I'll\u00A0finish in two years and then I'll be in the big wide world.\"\n\nWhat advice do you have for younger people trying to make it big?\n\n \"The most important thing, in anything you do, is always trying your hardest, because even if you try your hardest and it's not as good as you'd hoped, you still have that sense of not letting yourself down. The harder you try, the better the impression you set on the people around you. A lot about this industry is about who you know. If you set a really good example for yourself and someone likes that, then they might recommend you to someone else. It doesn't matter what job you're in, any profession, it's always the same. My dad has always told me, 'I don't mind how you do, just as long you try your best.' 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