Nuclear chemistry

Alfie Allen and Shazad Latif chat about their characters' unusual relationship in an explosive new thriller

- WORDS: LAURA CARRENO-MÜLLER

He went to hell and back as tragic Theon Greyjoy in Game Of Thrones but now Alfie Allen is taking on a very different - yet just as action-packed - role. In new thriller Atomic, he plays Max, a free-spirited drug trafficker making runs through the Middle East.

"He's a big believer in the power of love and connection between people," Alfie, 38, said. "But this is interrupted by a crazy stunt that happens in the first 30 seconds of the show."