11 min read This article was featured in MH Flex , our monthly newsletter recommending the one in-depth interview you need to flex your pop culture knowledge. Sign up here to get it first. TOM BLYTH NEVER thought this interview would happen. During the U.K. press cycle for his latest project, director Cal McMau’s prison drama Wasteman, he told a reporter , “I was never going to have Men’s Health magazine being like, ‘Here’s [Tom Blyth’s] Wasteman prep.’” Blyth did prep to get physically big for the role of a live wire inmate named Dee—but if he’d had his way, Blyth would have been even bigger , with a physique to match Dee’s outsized personality. When a surprising start date crept up on the film’s production, the actor turned to his drama school toolkit to craft a character rooted in realism rather than sensationalism. He makes up for the difference in his body size with the gargantuan scale of his performance. Dee seeks to command every room by force, even as he begins to lose his grip on that control.…