Chris 'C.T.' Tamburello Is Ready To Play The Most Dangerous Game

I definitely feel like that came across. Like you were talking about, he's a character who has this PTSD that he's going through. What was that like for you?

The guy didn't know it because back then, they didn't have that [term. It was] shell shock. They were more like, "I'll give you something to cry about" back in the day. "Yeah, yeah, yeah. Throw some dirt on it."

What was that like for you to try to connect to that to play him?

I loved to be able to dive into him. I try to become him as much as I can. It's like I'm playing adult pretend. I do that with my son a lot, where we have theater, and he always comes up with a big, crazy story that we have to portray, so maybe he's my acting coach. 

I tried to understand Sanger's situation and tried to make it my own, the best I could relate to it. From there, I would do research on whatever I felt he was going through, like PTSD and that kind of stuff. I would do a lot of research on that, everything from mannerisms to outbursts to anything I could that would help me. 

There's also a sense of [what it was like] back then ... Even though the original story, I believe, was based in the late '20s or early '30s, this is a [later] rendition of it, so it's in World War II. What was the culture like? What were people like? They were generally ... they had a tougher outlook... they were harder.

Today, it is a good thing that people are more open and vocal to letting out your emotions and how you feel, and it doesn't make you vulnerable. It doesn't make you weak to be vulnerable. Back then it was more [about how] you suppressed what you were going through, and maybe it'll go away.