Hi, Scott.
How are you?
Hey, Tom.
How's it going? Good, thank you.
Excellent. Congratulations on the show.
Thank you.
done some pretty, quote unquote, scary things in your career thus far.
Is doing the chequered flag at Monaco, one of the scariest things you've had to do?
because I know that would be like the scariest thing in the world to me.
No, actually, the scariest thing I've ever done in
my life is I went swimming with killer
whales two years ago, and that was terrifying.
It was amazing.
I would never do it again.
It was a once in a lifetime opportunity.
There's no video evidence or photo evidence,
so people probably won't believe me. But we got in the water.
We saw them there. And it was it was pretty wild.
For a second, I was going to say it was being a Spurs fan...
That is also terrifying. Yeah,
this job is absolutely
extraordinary.
You, you know, coming off of Avengers the fact that you've done
this for the right moment, which is actually something about this,
because it's very complex and you have to do some things
in this that people kind of maybe won't be expected of you.
I wouldn't necessarily say it was the right moment.
I don't think there is ever a right moment to take on a job like this.
I think as an actor, you know,
jobs like this, they don't come along all the time.
This is an opportunity unlike anything really I've ever had before
in terms of being able to showcase what I believe I'm capable of.
And I was delighted when I spoke to Akiva Goldsman about the crowded room
because I'd never really come across anything quite like it.
So to get to take it on and to, you know, give it my best shot and,
and to try and do something unique and different
and to leave my mark in this crazy world was really exciting.
So I'm delighted that I'm here today talking about it and I am so proud of it.
If it was very old school, in that now with streaming you can
blitz through, but this feels like a show that needs to marinate every every week.
And that's something that you've done with that.
But was that something that was in your kind of producer
had as well, that that that was something that was key to this show
Yeah, I mean, I think everyone sort of unanimously was in agreement
that this was a show that we wanted people to talk about week in and week out.
You know, we're asking a lot of people, it's very intense.
It's very emotional.
You have to really focus.
And we want people to go into each episode ready and raring to go.
And had you just binged the show, I think that we would lose audience members.
So for me, I'm so excited to kind of watch
it week in and week out, experience it with the world,
see what they think, see their theories as to how the show is going to transpire.
And ultimately, I think that we all made the right decision to
to release them weekly.
Obviously, we dropped the first three June 9th and then following
that each week, one episode will come out for an additional seven weeks.
And I just want to ask you about Spider-Man,
because he's a year and a half since No Way Home, and it seems I was a bit
worried early press screening and the excitement was just on my mind.
Yeah, I was afraid of that kind of stuff.
Are you still pinching yourself?
Not just that the fact that you're successful
at a time pandemic, but that you managed to pull off what you pulled off, not just
all the other extra stuff that we say, but the fact that you have to make the movie
that you guys wanted to make Yeah, I mean, it was a huge achievement.
And that said, it was a massive undertaking.
You know, keeping that all under wraps and finding a way to make it work
and working with Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield and, and bringing the other villains
into into this amazing universe that, that Marvel have set up.
It was a wonderful experience.
I still kind of can't believe that we pulled it off and it did
as well as it did.
Really proud of everyone involved.
It was, you know, it feels like years ago now that we did that.
But it was an amazing time.
Yeah.
I can't tell you how many times I've seen Willem Dafoe
on social media saying, Norman's on sabbatical honey
, it's one of those places you couldn't live forever.
Yeah, I think they'll be there for ever.
Yeah, that's always nice to talk to you. I wish you all the best.
Likewise. . Thanks very much.
Thank you.