Good evening, gents.
Scott from HeyUGuys. How are you guys?
How are you? I was just about to say that. How are you doing?
Oh, yeah, I saw this coming.
This is wonderful. Thank you.
Tell me about this disco.
Disco moves - because I'll be honest, I can't dance very well.
And I now look up to you as inspiration.
This is a northern soul right here.
See that? And that that we had an amazing dance trainer.
Darina actually incredible.
Seven hours a day, seven, seven hours.
You are saying I think we really
underestimated it when we got the part, we thought.
I don't think you could start.
You know what I mean? We'll be fine.
And then they're like no northern soul, like proper spins and like....
You know, I won't do it now in the Double-Breasted.
But you had to do these spins very cool and fell a couple of times. That was fine.
And then also the real James Flitcroft, who I was playing,
had the pleasure of meeting.
He was a great source of like knowledge on it.
We spoke to him on the phone for two hours.
Tell us all these different moods.
He's traveling spend, but he's still got it, by the way.
He can still move.
So simply put, it is not as easy as it looks. No, no.
It really is a go.
Losers gold. Exactly. Tell me about this one.
So one of the points.
Oh, my gosh, it was so much fun, we felt like a family
instantly because of Mark [Rylance]and Sally [Hawkins] and how comforting they are.
And there are times in which we were told to just laugh
and we were genuinely laughing with them.
You know, it was it wasn't very hard to act.
I always said that with Mark, especially, it's like you. You are.
He demands you act.
Well, because of how good he was by just being just being.
So you really feel like you're just being. And it's very natural.
There was a lot of improv on set
So we just felt like I know it felt like a family, honestly.
You know, we'd be with Sally going. Have you made any sandwiches tonight?
In between takes just talking about normal things.
And and that that is really conducive to such a lovely environment to work in.
There's such a lovely people.
We felt like if when we're in between
takes in our little trailer, we'd argue could almost feel like you're in.
You could have a tea, you know.
Yeah. Yeah. So
they consider this a good model, so many cups of tea
Oh, I think that's why we were able to come into London Film Festival.
How much sandwiches did you take the ball?
It's such a special movie
to premiere at this festival because it's so quintessentially British.
And I think it's going to be so nice for the world to see that
and also to see the world to be uplifted by some British cinema.
You know, and I just think it's a unique thing that hopefully
I think will stay with people just because
he's so kind of distinctive in his way that he made two amazing movies.
I what was it like being part of him?
Because he's a real kind of magic on his direction.
First thing I'll say, being directed by an actor has never happened before.
And it's the best thing for an actor because he knows what you need to say,
what you don't say, you know.
And so that was first thing that blew me away. He's such a great director.
I mean, that's one of the issues.
We've worked with some amazing directors, but sometimes it's translating
that to an actor's brain is difficult, but Craig [Roberts] just gets it.
So he'd come up to you, he'd say one thing and you get it.
You just get it because he's an actor. He's been there.
But the main thing we said about Craig and his directing is that he's so calm,
like there's on sets, a lot of things to watch the car won't work or the lights, work,
know there's nothing was a problem.
And so when the captain isn't stressed or worried, you're not stressed or worried.
So that related in in a very calm atmosphere is a lovely lesson in that
some directors feel like they have to be like a tyrant
and they have to, you know, boss everybody around to somehow
get the perfect balance
of being everybody's best friend , but keeping everybody working
and that what they're meant to do and everything happened on time.
And it was the most fun I've ever been.
I didn't feel like, look, you walk on set
and you just have an laugh and then you go the scene
and then you want to say, it's all like this. Had a big laugh. Yeah.
Yeah. Good to show this to an audience.
You know, a year and a half ago, that was impossible.
Now you get to come to the festival.
I'm sorry. How excited are you to show it to everybody?
I mean, the royal festival hall,
you know, such a big venue and it just really quite emotional.
Actually, we weren't really sure what was going to happen with it.
We shot this in the height of the pandemic.
And the fact that we're here with everybody, this isn't virtual.
You know, this could have been on zoom,
you know, so I feel very grateful and I can't wait for everyone to see.
This is you know, we have had a tough year, a tough, tough couple of years.
This is a movie you want to watch to pick you up, make you feel, you know, some
love and family is important
and loving. So to pleasure.
Have a good evening. Thank you so much. You say.