
Director Petter Naess about how essential social background play a part in the way these characters act, about Robert Smith (played by Rupert).
Naess: The part that Rupert Grint plays is a streetwise, very firey guy. He’s a champion in darts, in the pub. And he’s pissed with being there (in the cabin) because he has a date with Sheila, the bartender who beats him at darts. So she’s even better than him. So that night, when they were shot down, the first night in the cabin, he should’ve been back at the airbase and met her. So it’s all about that, it’s all about human beings. That, ‘I met the love of my life and then you shot us down.’ And he’s streetwise, he just speaks his mind. He doesn’t care. He uses Mein Kampf as toilet paper. He just does that, to provoke them. ‘What are you going to do, shoot me? Shoot me, fine.’