Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth. Sooner or later that debt is paid. That is how an RMBK reactor core explodes. Lies.

CHERNOBYL, 2019

That is how an RBMK reactor core explodes. Lies.

and if i refuse?

why worry about something that isn’t going to happen?

it’s the beginning of the end.

“Here’s a difficult task. You have to ask someone to portray someone who is intellectually brilliant. Who has an instant, easy command of an enormous range of scientific facts that are difficult for other people to understand at all. He has to be someone who can portray a man who is thrown into something that is far beyond his capacity to deal with, and then he has to deal with it. While he’s doing all of that, he has to find himself increasingly facing impossible decisions where there is no good answer, and he has to go from being a comfortable academician who used to sit at an institute and study chemistry and nuclear physics to a man who has decide who lives and who dies.
That requires an actor who is intellectually supreme but also remarkably vulnerable and capable of expressing tremendous emotion even as his own character tries to repress that emotion. It’s a nearly impossible task, and Jared just did it.
It was almost as if he didn’t have to try, and I know for a fact that he did. So there’s an enormous amount of effort that goes into a part like this, and he put it in, but like anyone who is great at their job, he made it look effortless. It is a remarkable performance, and I’m in awe of it to be honest with you.”
- Craig Mazin, the ‘Chernobyl’ Showrunner, on Jared Harris’s Valery Legasov
Source

1 hour study of a screenshot from Chernobyl(HBO)
(speedpaint - soon)

-i went willingly to an open reactor. i’ve already given my life. isn’t that enough?
jared harris as valery legasov in chernobyl (2019)

because it must be done.

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