This was a personal shoot in my continuing series of portraits working from the shadow.
A few years ago I took a film directors course; in it we discussed the idea of asking the actor to base their performance on a real event that made them feel a certain way to drive the emotional response in a scene.
Having an opportunity to work with an actor that works in film I thought I would work with him using this as a base for the emotions that I wanted him to convey in my portrait.