STACK Issue 151 May 2017

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28 MAY 2017
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John Silver’s journey from self-serving scoundrel to pirate legend comes to an end in the fourth
and final season of Black Sails. Star Luke Arnold reflects on the epic conclusion with Scott Hocking.
Luke Arnold is in Santa Fe shooting a
western when STACK speaks with
the Adelaide-born actor, who recently
returned Down Under to work on the second
season of Glitch .
“Now that Black Sails is all done
and dusted, I’m trying to take
more Australian jobs so I can get
more time back home,”
he says.
Having played Robert
Louis Stevenson’s iconic
pirate John Silver in
Starz’s hit series for
the past four years,
Arnold admits that life
after Black Sails has
been somewhat
bittersweet.
“ Black Sails is
the best job I’ve
ever had, or can
imagine having. It
was such a great
group of people
and the most
exciting and challenging role. And at the same
time, that was most of my life for four years. It
was the best job ever, but it’s nice to have life
open up a bit more."
Arnold notes that there was a sense of
closure when going into
the fourth season. “At the
beginning we thought this
might be the end, and once
we were a couple of episodes
in and things began to progress, it started
becoming clear that the characters were ready
for this part of the journey to end, and starting
to overcome the things they’ve been struggling
with since the very first episode. As much as
the actors were probably ready to take a break
from the tough pirate life, I think the characters
were more so than us.
“We were all so sore and exhausted by the
end,” he adds. “There’s so much action in the
fourth season, let alone for me when I’m on
one leg, so by the time the finale came around,
I think we were too tired to be sad about it.
There's so much
action in the fourth
season, let alone
for me when I'm on
one leg...