guys congratulations on the show oh thank you thank you it is great fun uh i actually did the
premiere last night and the lovely Kelly Macdonald was there and she was i told her that i'd watched
the show and she was very excited so i had to ask you Prasanna uh what was that smoothie was that
smoothie tasty that she'd done it's really good that's really good it's really good for curly hair
yeah the the um i had longer hair than this and it really it really brought out the lustre i'm told
what was the crucial kiwi it was kiwi and banana uh so it's it's really all i use now
scott it's yeah yeah no no no we did it twice um you know because usually i mean that's all that's
all i've got really got me here two shirts yeah they only two shirts and two smoothies
so uh yeah it was so great for you i'm gonna say it wasn't it was not unpleasant
not unpleasant that's that's that's that's perfectly reasonable that's good
there's worse things you could have dunked on your head let's be honest
there absolutely are you absolutely on that rabbit hole shall we it's really kind of
it's a funny day though that because that we that was a that was a day of genuinely sort of um just
directed a film in Northern Ireland what they call irish weather it was four seasons in a day and
we there was whole bits of that scene that we really couldn't shoot because it went from sun
to rain to hail sort of half hour by half hour so um yeah luckily we managed to get that smoothie
on and anyway like this is not a [ __ ] there is i was i will say this is an apropos nothing
but there is a hilarious tic toc someone made from like two weeks ago of them going outside
their house and they went they were filming and it was like sun turn over here clouds turned
over here snow it's like british weather it's like everything all at once madness um do you guys now
have a greater appreciation for agents having now done this or has it opened up a can of worms
in terms of now you know maybe some secrets that you maybe should maybe i think i've got a greater
appreciation for agents i think yeah i always quite fancy the idea of being an agent when i was
younger um and i still think it looks like a fun job uh and yeah no i think obviously we've
been we've had agents in our lives for uh quite a long time now um so but yeah you still i didn't
realize quite how much sort of turning on a sixpence they have to do because when
you call them and expect them you know moaning about something and you expect you assume they
know what you're talking about because they've got so many things going on clients problems uh
things to overcome that half the time they're probably maybe occasionally faking it there's
quite a lot of white lies or oiling up situations that goes on behind the scenes i think that's
quite fun for everyone as there's probably a certain amount of interest in uh looking behind
the curtain of this very front-facing industry and seeing those kind of that side which a lot of
people don't really know a lot about how it works uh and yeah and despite having one of
my all my life i wasn't really as clear as i am now or yeah i i mean i've been
with i've got agents in a number of sort of areas of work and so i've i've i had on aggregate
quite a few but i've never left one i've been sacked twice and and two agents that
i've had have retired one of them quite young which was um not a great review
um which is great and and i think one of the things that i have realized i think from this
or it's it's lovely to be immersed in it is how much an agent really needs to love what you do
in order to take you on because it really is a commitment for them it's a kind of an emotional
commitment it's a massive time commitment as well like every new client is an enormous amount of
work i guess to you know phone round and put that person out there and then you know you're i mean i
know one a a friend of mine who was in a show in the west end for 12 weeks and his agent came 16
times to that show uh and was a single m a single parent of a of a very young baby at the time
and so it was a kind of and i remember hearing that and thinking blimey that's
that's that's someone working really hard but it's also someone who's saying to the world i you all
have to know about this person you have to know about this person it's really important there's a
kind of like and that energy i think is something that um would be a really lovely reminder i think
for actors to to hold that that's what agents are doing and that's what they need to feel in order
to get into a working relationship with you yeah as an actor you have a very good crying face i
may say i must say the episode of you crying is very very very uh very powerful i will say very
powerful moment i mean as is traditional in tv we shot that in five minutes at the end of the day so
um but uh actually uh the hugest props i think to to follow who um is playing uh zoe in the show
and i just kind of i knew that she would be incredible in just that little moment of her
at the end of that that bit and um so i just sort of sat in the dressing room while they shot all of
the stuff looking at the stage just waited and because i didn't want to see it because i knew
that that kind of that would be enough i think yeah and luckily otherwise we'd have been screwed
but thank you i appreciate that yeah it's good and you have a there's this fantastic ensemble
uh all of you in this environment but i wanted to touch on the wonder that is Maggie Steed because
she's just honestly every single thing she does i've only seen two episodes
is so so good what's it like being around her because she's just oh my goodness it's just
she's made for something like this it's insane incredible isn't she and um you know she's not
a spring chicken can you say that but anyway but doing that kind of uh very very quick dialogue
is is hard at any uh yeah age and maggie is yeah maggie's extraordinary and um great fun
she lives around the corner with me actually so we uh good mates now well we all are so um uh
incredibly hard-working always knows the lines um put up with an awful lot with uh with that
with our dog yeah um spent most of the shoot with some duck patty smeared across her chest um yes
she is brilliant and i mean this is this is big talk i think but for me she has the sick
the funniest line in the show for me what is it i i won't tell you oh okay um but she is
acidic and brilliant and all of those moments where the americans don't quite know what to do
with her are really really fabulous and the level of kind of i've been here longer than
anyone has sort of been alive talking to um and so you know she and she actually i mean
in the very best possible senses she really does remind me of an agent that i used to have
so i whenever i see her in you know and and everything like her kind of bearing
a certain way in which actually she's been costumed and some of her
sort of personal styling and stuff in the show um is quite sort of lovely and nostalgic for me yeah
as a final question before i go and you might have been asked this already but do you guys have a
like a dream client you might like if you get to do a you get to do a season two there's a
plethora of people and there's a plethora of amazing people in this one but yeah even bigger
is there someone you'd like to pluck out i think ray fines would be good because he's so funny yeah
yeah yeah um um get riz on maybe that's good maybe he's kind of emerging interesting space
honestly if you've seen the lost city you know if you haven't he's so good it's hilarious
that's uh that's i put on my list Gary Oldman i thought that was oh yeah yeah
this was actually quite a fun part of the first season because it was everyone was cast
those uh parts were cast quite late in the day because obviously schedules and everything are
just moving and uh and it was weird so there's a lot of offset kind of fantasy casting yeah for
each role and uh and actually credit to Rachel Freck who stopped muslim such a complicated job
but every time someone you know was finally pinned down to play each part it was always
like oh yeah perfect and they and they all brought such great generosity of spirit to the thing so
we were very lucky yeah i will say you got i haven't seen the episodes yet but you've got
one of the nicest gentlemen i've ever interviewed which is david who is literally wow but i look
forward to i like seeing these people doing like these little kind of comedy cameos because
sometimes they don't get to do kind of things it's yeah exactly interesting and jessica or
as well i've seen it as well is she as well oh interesting i presume they're in the same they are
absolutely brilliant i look forward to watching that guys congratulations on the show again thank
you very much for your time thanks scott good to see you ladies and gentlemen you're watching
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