Chi Lewis-Parry might portray the deadliest infected of them all in 28 Years Later, but the star has revealed that one scene was tough to handle – and it’s not in The Bone Temple.
28 Years Later and The Bone Temple were filmed back-to-back, with Nia DaCosta taking over Danny Boyle as director for the sequel. As was established in the first movie, the infected have evolved over the years, and the Alphas are the ones to fear.
But just like the original 28 Days Later, the biggest threat is mankind. In The Bone Temple, Spike (Alfie Williams) is set to learn this the hard way through Jimmy Crystal (Jack O’Connell) and his gang.
Early reactions have indicated that the sequel is the most brutal entry to the horror franchise yet, but one scene from 28 Years Later still sends shivers down Lewis-Parry’s spine.
28 Years Later scene was too realistic for Chi Lewis-Parry
Ahead of The Bone Temple’s release, Dexerto caught up with Williams and Lewis-Parry to ask, “Were there any moments while filming where you felt, ‘This is too far’?”
The Samson star replied, “ I don’t know if it’s relevant as it’s not in The Bone Temple, but there was a moment in 28 Years Later when I felt a little bit like [that], and that involved a deer.”
To jog your memory, 28 Years Later saw Spike and Jamie (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) coming across the brutalized remains of a deer in the woods.
Flashback scenes show what happened: Samson tore the head and spine off the animal (his signature move) and impaled it on a tree branch to mark his territory, while other infected feasted on its remains.
For Lewis-Parry, this was disturbing to shoot as he’s a “big softie for animals,” so anything animal-related he finds hard to film.
“There is some deer involvement here, but it wasn’t quite so visceral. I was being a bit cruel [in 28 Years Later],” he continued, with Williams stating, “I had to see the aftermath.”
Although it was a grim scene, Lewis-Parry praised John Nolan Studio for making the deer and its carcass so realistic. “John Nolan Studio did such an incredible job in creating the deer that it was hard to not see it as real,” he added.
“Especially as I’m doing it with lenses in. I can hardly see, so everything’s distorted. So it just felt real and the way it moved was real.”
Lewis-Parry then quipped, “I would never do that to a deer, just to make that clear.”
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