Jeremy Irvine On ‘The Railway Man,’ Colin Firth [VIDEO EXCLUSIVE]

Jeremy Irvine plays a complex role in Jonathan Teplitzky’s film The Railway Man, the younger version of Colin Firth’s Eric Lomax. The film tells the true story of Lomax who was captured and tortured by the Japanese during World War II, and over the years following, suffering from PTSD and with the help of his wife Patti (Nicole Kidman) and lifelong friend Finlay (Sam Reid, Stellan Skarsgård) goes on a journey to find and confront his former torturer. “It’s a story of, I suppose, about the effects of post-traumatic stress and forgiveness, and it’s a story I think that is very relevant today,” Irvine told uInterview in an exclusive video interview. “We still have a lot of people coming back from fighting in foreign lands, suffering from the same problems, and I think this is a story about that before post-traumatic stress was really realized.”