Black Mirror actor Will Poulter said the two have a close friendship but when they were reunited for a new instalment they had an issue that delayed filming the iconic series
Will Poulter delayed filming for the scenes in the new series of Black Mirror because he kept getting the giggles. The actor was shooting alongside pal Asim Chaudhry and that made it impossible for him to keep a straight face a lot of the time.
They struck up a close friendship when they filmed an episode of the show together in 2018 and when they were reunited for a new instalment, there were plenty of laughs. Hollywood hunk Will said: “We get on like a house on fire. My only issue working with him is that he makes me laugh too much.
“I’ve had to ask him not to even look at me because I couldn’t hold it together. On this, he was making me laugh through doors. I was on the other side of a door, and I was laughing at what he was doing. He’s just got funny bones and with the smallest turn of a dial, he can just crack you up. He’s brilliant.”
Will is thrilled he got to film with Asim again.
He added: “Asim is someone I’m a huge fan of. He’s a multi-talented guy and he regularly cracks me up.
“The chance to work with him again was just a real treat.”
The series will stream on Netflix from Thursday.
Will Poulter recently opened up about h is mental health struggles, including his battle with OCD.
The star, who has featured in A24’s eerie new horror film, Death of a Unicorn, struggled with the condition as a teenager. He recalled having intrusive thoughts from a very young age, he revealed on Fearne Cotton’s Happy Place podcast.
Poulter said: “It just had a different and typically imaginative spin on it for a child. I can remember having this voice in my head, telling me if I didn’t walk on certain paving stones on the way up to my mum and dad’s house, something terrible was going to happen to them.”
The 32-year-old said counselling really helped him in his early teens, but that he felt very alone in his struggle before he knew what he was dealing with.
The seventh series of Black Mirror will air on Thursday April 10, on which Poulter will reappear. The star made his mark in the series in its famous interactive film Black Mirror: Bandersnatch back in 2018.
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