Damian Lewis has told how he cooled off from his violent character in new film The Silent Storm by jumping into the freezing sea.
The Homeland star plays an erratic church minister in the period drama, set on a remote Scottish island, which residents are abandoning in droves to go and live on the mainland.
Lewis was joined by his real life wife Helen McCrory and Andrea Riseborough, who plays his wife in the film, at the premiere at the BFI London Film Festival.
Lewis said of filming: "It was a pleasure from start to finish. It was a dreamlike experience being out on the westernmost tip of the wilds of Scotland, some of the most beautiful landscape I've ever been in. We had a lovely hot summer last year, it wasn't quite like that in Mull all the time, got a bit of rain, as you'd expect.
"Having a sort of roll your sleeves up, put your wellies on experience of filmmaking, which these smaller films are."
And asked how he wound down after filming such emotional scenes, he revealed getting back to nature in the surrounding countryside played a part.
Lewis said: "Walking up Ben More and some of the other surrounding hills. Went out to sea. We swam quite a lot. People were always stripping off and jumping in the ocean which was actually lovely."
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