Thomas sees himself as a renowned poet. The truth is that he wasn’t renowned at all. He saw himself as a rival to [Lord] Byron, but the world has not remembered the poems of Thomas Thorne. If you see the ghosts as a family, in our family he’s like the moody teenage son. He’s very much caught up in himself and his own feelings, and he died heartbroken, and so he latches onto, in our version Allison, in the American version it would be Sam. So he latches on to the woman who entered the house and decides to project all of his unrequited love onto her. He spends a lot of his time just either pursuing her or feeling heartbroken and rejected by the fact that she doesn’t return those feelings. He’s ridiculous and great fun to play.
I’m literally rolling through each of them and thinking. I think maybe he and Flower would get on. He’s probably too similar, it’s tricky because Thomas is one of our characters that doesn’t really have a direct proxy in the American version. He’s probably too similar to Isaac to get on with him, but maybe they’d be peas in a pod. I think he wouldn’t get on with Thorfinn as he’s [loud and] crass. Thomas is artistic and aesthetic. He wants life to be full of poetry and art, and Thorfinn is [the exact opposite]. But they’re all multifaceted.
