Servant star Toby Kebbell grateful for ‘little moments’ he shared with M Night Shyamalan while filming final season 4-Sabrina Barr-Entertainment – Metro

Servant star Toby Kebbell has opened up on the joy of working with M Night Shyamalan as the show comes to an end with season 4, stressing the ‘realism’ that the filmmaker strives to capture in his work.

The psychological horror, which first premiered in 2019, follows a couple called Sean Turner (Toby) and Dorothy Turner (Lauren Ambrose), who hire a nanny named Leanne Grayson (Nell Tiger Free).

Leanne’s role is to look after a reborn doll – named after the son who Sean and Dorothy lost in real life when he was just 13 weeks old – with her arrival sparking a series of mysterious happenings in their household, including the child seemingly coming back to life.

Ahead of the release of the fourth and final season, Metro.co.uk spoke to Black Mirror star Kebbell, who opened up about how special an experience it was to star in a production by the The Sixth Sense director.

The 40-year-old outlined a ‘weird compliment’ he once received from Shyamalan, who was ‘impressed’ with him going above and beyond in the background of a scene.

‘M Might’s one of those people where you get weird – weird, I say that as an Englishman – you get a weird compliment, where he did a scene which is between Lauren and Rupert [Grint], and I’m in the background cooking,’ he recalled.

‘It’s so nice to get somebody who’s watching every detail like that,’ the actor said (Picture: Apple/Rex)

‘He watched and he was like, “It’s really, really a beautiful scene,” but he said, “The fact that you’re just blurred in the background but it really looks like you’re cooking.” I said, “I really did!”’

It turns out that Kebbell wasn’t just acting as though he was cooking – he was literally cooking up a storm in the kitchen, making a delicious-sounding dish thanks to the amount of time it took to complete the sequence.

‘We made a lamb ragu, which sounds ridiculous, but that’s how long it takes to shoot scenes,’ he shared.

‘We cooked this whole time in the background and he said that element ties this whole thing together so well, because the end of the scene is literally me putting plates down.’

Kebbell’s character Sean works as a stay-at-home consulting chef. (Picture: Apple TV Plus)

Kebbell expressed how ‘nice’ it was to have somebody like Shyamalan ‘who’s watching every detail like that and he finds those compliments’.

‘There’s the big ones and the grand ones and the big emotional scenes we do and how supportive he is there. But it’s those little things I’ll remember going forward. It’s those little moments where he was so impressed, he was like “Man, it looked like you had done that 1000 times or it just looked so confident and honest,”’ he added.

‘I think that’s what Night’s always looking for. He’s looking to almost capture [a] documentary version of the scene he’s playing at, that’s the realism level he wants.’

Harry Potter star Rupert Grint plays Dorothy’s brother in the show (Picture: Apple TV Plus)

Kebbell admitted that it was sad that his time working with Shyamalan on Servant was coming to an end, but acknowledged that he was able to spend more time with the director than other actors who starred in his movies might have done.

‘I know I’ll probably not go on and shoot a bunch of movies with Night, but in a way I guess I feel like I’ve probably shot more with Night than a lot of people who’ve got to work with them on a movie have,’ he said.

Servant is streaming on Apple TV Plus, with new episodes of season 4 released on Fridays.

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