STACK #151 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. L uke Arnold is in Santa Fe shooting a 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

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

There's so much action in the fourth season, let alone for me when I'm on one leg...

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

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.

the best job I’ve ever had, or can imagine having. It was such a great group of people and the most

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

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