The three main actors of the film are on the boat where all the last part of the Sea teeth. And they are patient. On the ocean. Impossible to go and shut himself up in a lodge. So here they are in an involuntary closed session. We see them in turn impatient, accomplices, annoyed … We see in particular the tense relationship between the old actor Robert Shaw and the rising star Richard Dreyfuss. The tone rises steadily and they are not far from coming to blows, on several occasions.
People who find themselves in an unexpected promiscuity and longer than expected, this obviously recalls the confinements of recent months. The play was written three years ago and yet there are moments in it that we have all experienced very recently. A happy unexpected for the piece finally, according to Liam Murray Scott, who plays Richard Dreyfuss: “This brings a whole new reading of the play after the two years we have just spent. It makes her even closer to people. It was already the case because we can recognize ourselves in these characters, but it connects us even more. Nicely connected!“
We navigate with these three actors who do not really know what to do, how to occupy the time. And who wander while the star of the film, the shark, is repaired somehow.
What makes this piece even more special is its co-author: Ian Shaw, the son of Robert Shaw, who plays in the film Quint, the old sea bass who takes the other two on his boat, to monster hunting. He says he avoids references to his father, who died when he was still a child and whom he has known little, since he embraced the same career as him. For Ian Shaw, writing this play and this role in particular was obviously walking a tightrope. “I was still very worried about the tone. Because he drinks, he is irascible, moody. I didn’t mean to be unfair but I wanted to tell the truth. “
And the real hero of this play, the one who provokes all these situations, we never see him. Obviously, it’s Bruce, the broken shark.