When asked to describe his character in the virus-ravaged world of 28 Years Later, Ralph Fiennes (Conclave, The Menu, The Grand Budapest Hotel) would say that Dr. Ian Kelson is, “above all, a survivor.” His constant reminder of memento mori – remember death, is a mantra that keeps him going. “He’s accepted the fact of death – that it’s so present,” Fiennes says. “Rather than run away from it, pretend death doesn’t exist, or live in fear of it, Kelson is honoring death and the dead. In a way, he’s a rather clergy-like figure and a humanist.”
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Dr. Kelson, and the other survivors are living in the world of 28 Years Later, where the rage virus from 28 Days Later has lain waste to the UK. A group of survivors has made a haven off an island, protected by a single defended causeway that floods during much of the day, leaving the land inaccessible by the infected.
