'‘The Crown’s Prasanna Puwanarajah on Martin Bashir, ‘Ballywalter’
Puwanarajah on Martin Bashir, ‘Ballywalter’
Puwanarajah is
of Tamil Sri Lankan heritage and has used aspects of his background to inform both
In “The
Crown,” Puwanarajah plays British journalist Martin Bashir, who conducted the infamous and now disreputed 1995 BBC “
“It was
actually an unusual thing for me to play a person who is brown, who you
“And it
was really nothing to do with it being Martin Bashir, it was actually just to
Puwanarajah says
he appreciated being “hyper aware of heritage
And I
don’t think those things have really massively changed, sadly
If you
don’t have to reach for those things, if you just know those things are
And once
you start inventing less, you’re getting closer to what a depiction of a type
For his
preparation, besides learning the script and the physical work needed for the role, Puwanarajah did
” He also
studied the motivations for Bashir’s actions — Bashir forged bank statements to gain access to
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