Gentlemen. How are you? I'm good, thank you.
How are you? Good, thanks.
Good, good, good, good.
Congratulations on the show.
Thanks, Scott. Appreciate it.
It's pretty epic thus far.
And he was the first two because I like I don't like to, like, blitz everything.
So I'm taking my time to kind of myself.
And in this in this world.
Maybe I'll chuckthis to you, Leo.
First this question I've asked your costars this.
What's it like for you guys as actors and as people to be outside
and your mobile phone?
With the air, with your great food and all the things that you get in 2022
to then go into set and step into this world?
It must be a bit of a kind of a culture shock in some ways
and then put on the garb and everything that must be
it must be a culture shock, but also loads of fun culture shock for sure.
Loads of fun.
And as an actor, really helpful to to be able to immerse yourself
in the world if you're trying to portray a character truthfully
and to be surrounded by such believable sets,
breathtaking scenery, it makes your job a lot easier.
And as you say, it's, it's fun at the same time.
Yeah. Sam, how about you?
Yeah, certainly.
Our head of production design Tom Conroy
He picks the most amazing locations that just like...
I was saying that it's almost distracting.
How beautiful the world is that we get to play in that?
Yeah. No, it's a gift.
I always leave my phone in the
in the dressing room and just try to commit to being present
and also the process of making a TV series of this scale is such a pleasure.
With like... people, who are the masters of their craft
you know,
the crew that worked on
the original Vikings is the same crew that we have the opportunity to work with.
And it was like joining a family, you know, and as such, a well-oiled machine.
And, yeah, it was.
Yeah, we just had to show up and
and do our part.
Yeah.
And speaking of your filmmakers, I was so excited
when I heard that it was Jeb Stuart doing it
because he praised the action film of all time.
Let's be honest.
That's, that's, that's a mark of approval right there.
He he wrote Die Hard.
That's right.
Yeah.
I mean, he's he's such a legend of of screenwriting
that must have been so much fun and an amazing collaborator as well.
And he was from very early on in the process,
he was very clear that this was going to be a collaboration and a team effort.
And the way he helped us
and guided us all through through this story was was really about invaluable.
Yeah. I was very grateful for that. Yeah.
Collaboration is definitely the word out associate, which added openness
like we spoke very deeply about our own experiences of life, our own families and
and some of the scenes, you know,
directly reflect some really intimate moments in his life.
And to be gifted, the opportunity
to honor those and honor, you know, the legacy of this show
was it was certainly a gift.
Fantastic.
Now, I've been scouring... but and spoken to some of your costars,
I've been scouring the Internet thanks to the History Channel
for give me some fun facts about your show and about Vikings in general.
So I'm going to chuck a fact to you.
And I want you guys to tell me if you think it's true or false.
I feel it's 50% so far.
So you guys go get the score up.
So the question is apparently, oh, gentleman preferred being blond.
Do you think that's true or false?
It's true.
Gentleman preferred being blond. Yes.
Had like I didn't mean Viking.
Viking times apparently preferred plain blonde.
True or false?
Sure. It's very true.
I'm gonna stay true. Oh, it jumped the gun.
A fun fact because also they didn't wear horns either.
That was another thing.
I didn't that was that's kind of a historical inaccuracy, but
I thought it was quite telling that gentlemen preferred to be blondes
in those days. I thought that was quite well.
Where are you getting this info, Scott? He's told you this.
The History Channel told me this
it's gonna blow up to the History Channel.
Or have you ever. Yeah,
I just wanted to have more fun.
Indeed they did.
Indeed they did. And they did.
What's the word? Skol. Is it Skol right?
Oh, yeah.
Brilliant. Gentlemen, thank you so much for your time.
Cheers.