Toby Jones: Berberian Sound Studio is intense and claustrophobic
Toby Jones: Berberian Sound Studio is a tense watch Toby Jones
was surprised by how ‘rich’ Berberian Sound Studio is (Picture:
Rex)  Actor Toby Jones tells Metro what drew him to
psychological drama Berberian Sound Studio, which focuses on a
Foley artist working on the audio track for an Italian giallo
film.  Berberian Sound Studio is a very unusual proposition for
a film. What attracted you to the project?  I really wanted to
do it because it was so unusual. There is something about the
technical challenge of playing somebody who speaks so little but
has to convey everything, despite being very shy and a loner.
It’s eccentric, weird, obsessive and set in 1970s decadent
Italy.  How would you describe your character?  He’s someone who
is used to hearing things in his job and begins to hear things
in his life. Normally, he hears everything that is there and he
starts hearing things that aren’t there. He lives a very quiet
life with his mother, ma