'Spiral' took a big emotional toll on me
Canadian actor Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman said the horror thriller 'Spiral' took an psychological toll about him as the film intersected with various personal areas and traumas of his lifestyle.The film was shot in a small farm town in Alberta, Canada, just an hour away from where in fact the actor grew up in a little, white farm town. Bowyer-Chapman recalls being followed as a baby by a white family and developing up as a queer person of colour. He said he faced homophobia, racism, as well as emotional and physical misuse.
"Heading back to the scene of the crime, it raised so a lot of it. So lots of the traumas and the triggers had been just so immediately there. It took a big mental toll on me, and then I came back house to LA after filming and it had been still really lingering with me. But because I was so natural after coming back," Bowyer-Chapman said.
He added: "I was so aware of what could stay in my entire life and what could no longer remain in my life because whatever was even remotely painful if you ask me prior to going and filming this motion picture was unbearable when I returned it was a chance for me to kind of revamp my expereince of living."The actor said that he ended a long-term, incredibly emotionally abusive relationship that had allowed him to stay in."So as challenging since it was, it finished up being a personal evolution that was important," he added.
