Hey, Tom, how are you?
Hello, Scott, very well. How are you? Yeah, good. Thank you.
Despite the miserable weather outside, but you know, tis the season
you are you in a loft conversion?
I am.
Yes, you can tell by that from the angle of the roof.
Yeah, with what looks like a very good Christmas jumper.
It's yeah, it's not bad, is it? It's not bad.
I just find not too bad.
So congratulations on the film.
Very good.
Well, congratulations on the film.
But is that what you said? Thank you.
Stay with me.
Yeah, it's great fun for you.
As a performer, it must be great to play great characters,
but then to do it three times over in one film
must have been a great joy for you to do three different things all at once.
It was.
It was a really lovely gig.
It was a wonderful opportunity.
And yeah,
I'm very grateful to Matthew Vaughn for asking me to do it.
Yeah, I don't think I've ever seen anyone credited as cubed before.
I know I think that was much that was quite
there was quite a lot of negotiation about that.
The credit. There was a lot of wrangling.
And one of my agents got very, very into it.
Whether it was going to be three names on a single card,
three separate cards
or times three.
Anyway, it ended up as cubed.
So that's pretty cool.
Anyone else has that distinction.
I know it's a almost unique credit. Exactly.
And obviously the Kingsman which means a lot to Matthew.
He's made two movies. He's come back for this one.
It feels like this is maybe the one out of all the three that he had a bit
more than the one that he wanted to make the most.
You feel the affection for this particular period.
Was that the same that he did?
He kind of imbue that on you that this one was?
Well, I think you're right. That's very perceptive.
I think he did feel like that.
I think because they offered him the opportunity, apart from anything else,
to expand his range as a director, I think he didn't want to.
I mean, he's a creative chap and creative
people are often, you know, they want to be moving on.
They want to do new worlds. They want to.
They're restless.
And so he wanted to keep the the bit of Kingsman that he loved
and put it in a new context and see what that did to it, which is what he's done.
And he does it with great courage and great boldness.
And yeah, and with with a sort of.
Yeah, he's like the sort of kid kid at school
who just sort of does what he wants really and is not intimidated by authority
as it were the authority in this case being what we are all taught
about the first World War.
And you know, the real historical events.
He's going to go, Yeah, but I can tell a story.
I can do this.
I can put Woodrow Wilson in this situation and I can do what I want,
which is amazing, really is truly creative.
Yeah.
And I just just finally before, before you go,
I didn't know this until I looked at your IMDb
that you've been doing lots of vocal work recently.
You've been a family guy and you've been on the Harley Quinn show.
Do you enjoy doing that stuff? I love that.
Yeah, I love doing those things
because because there's very little anxiety involved.
Yeah.
It doesn't matter what you look like,
and it's very freeing
because you can do anything.
And they use the bit that amuses them and the bits that were awful
nobody ever knows about.
Yeah, I didn't.
They're they're they're delightful.
And also, yeah, you can.
I was just this.
I didn't know you were there.
So one of the Family Guy episodes always wondered whose voice that was.
And Oh, really? Yeah, I didn't know that.
It was nice to know.
I couldn't.
Sometimes, because I think people hear your voice
everyday on YouTube because of the audio audible advert, which is you.
As I believe
now, I've got such a bad memory
of things that are audible on, is it?
I don't know. There's a free trial ad.
I'm sure that's your voice, but I genuinely can't remember it.
I don't know
the sorting hat I was in relatively recently,
so I'm amazed that that's come up
because it sometimes takes a year or two for them to come out the episodes.
But I'm doing a sort of Leslie Phillips.
Something like that in the sorting has something that's I believe so.
Yeah, I believe so.
Thank you so much for your time, Tom mine.
Lovely to talk to you.
Thank you so much. Same to you. Same to you. Thanks.