Afgelopen nacht is in Amerika het derde seizoen van Black Sails verschenen, en als je bekend bent met deze serie, dan weet je dat er weer een hoop spannende dingen gaan gebeuren. Nu had de website Collider een interview met Toby Stephens over zijn rol als Captain Flint in de TV serie en daar van kan je hier onder alvast een stukje lezen.

With as big as things get this season, including that stunning storm sequence, how many times did you wonder if you were actually going to make it through?

STEPHENS: There were a couple of points where I was very beaten up by it, but it's so worth it. Where else would I get the opportunity to do this stuff and be involved in something that's so satisfying? It would be one thing, if the special effects didn't match what you were doing, but it meets that and it's even bigger than you could imagine. But, there were some times when it was really tough. There's a sequence towards the end, and there was that storm sequence, which was very arduous and painstaking for me, but great.

Where is Captain Flint at now, especially mentally?

STEPHENS: His struggle to try to make some kind of sense of it for himself is part of his journey. It's about, "How do I do something with this that will satisfy my need for revenge, but also make something positive?" In the end, that's the thing he's on. In the beginning of Season 3, he's gone inside himself. Anybody he becomes close to gets killed and he can't cope with anymore of that pain, so he goes inside and blocks out all of that stuff. He wants to create enough chaos to bring England to him, so that he can take it out on them somehow. That's really where we meet him, at the beginning. He's closed himself off and he's taking his crew with him on this very dark journey, which is only going to lead to his death and the death of everyone else, but at least he'll go out having exacted some kind of damage. Through the season, he weirdly finds his humanity again through a purpose. That's really his journey. In the beginning, he's lost. I think (showrunners) Jon [Steinberg] and Robert [Levine] were trying to find his odyssey. He is Odysseus, trying to find his home again and trying to find his center.