[gentle piano music]
[Claire screaming]
- Am I looking at you or the camera?
[actress exhaling]
[upbeat music]
- Um.
- My favorite question.
- Rolling. - Okay.
- God. [actress giggling]
- Huh.
- Fuck off. - Fuck you.
[Hugh laughing]
[actress exclaiming] [actress laughing]
- Hello. - Hi.
- Hmm.
[Kate laughing]
- I quite like the color when it fucks about.
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- [Director] Recording.
Mark, are you recording? - Recording.
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- It's like the kind of job where when it's good,
it's great.
- They keep doing your makeup.
- And then when it's not good, it's really not great.
- Professional liar.
- Professional pretending.
- Well, sometimes I find it so weird
to say that I'm an actor so I say I'm an impressionist.
- Well, I refer to my job as show off business.
- I pretend to be other people for a living,
and I have to make full use of my short term memory.
- My niece asked me this recently
and she's like four or five,
and I just said, "We get paid to dress up,"
and that's about it.
- It's all about curiosity and openness.
If you're not curious, you can't do that job.
- If you tried to really explain it to somebody
who doesn't do it, it sounds absolutely insane.
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- At one point, and you can laugh.
You're allowed to laugh.
But I wanted to be a boxer.
- Playing Gaelic football.
- I would like to work in radio.
- Probably would've broken many more bones in my body.
- I'd probably be like a makeup artist.
- Well, I studied education so I think maybe a teacher.
- I would be a kindergarten teacher hands down.
- A French teacher.
- I can't really do anything else.
- A travel agent or, like, a psychologist.
- I would be homesteading on a coastal farm.
- I love working with wood,
so maybe I would just be a carpenter.
- I always thought I was gonna be a footballer.
- A Pokémon masters for sure.
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- Oh, I pissed my pants once.
- When I was filming a series called "The Retreat" recently,
I had my wisdom teeth coming through
so they put me on really strong U.S. painkillers.
And I was so out of it that I thought
that I was being attacked by bees constantly.
And so they had to send me home
'cause in every take I was swatting bees away.
- Shooting "Normal People" with Daisy,
we used to be covered up with this thing called
Egyptian Magic, which makes it look like,
makes it look like you're sweating.
The way our bodies kind of
were in contact, it sounded like we farted.
[actress laughing]
- I stabbed [Hugh laughing]
the stunt double [Hugh laughing]
with my,
one of the claws.
Now to be fair, it was, it was not my fault.
But regardless, one of the claws went directly
straight into the arm of this woman.
Of course, that was horrifying,
until [Hugh laughing] she grabbed and she ripped it out.
There's blood pouring out.
And she holds up her arm like this.
She goes, "I've been stabbed by Wolverine!"
- The most recent one, "Woman Talking,"
we had to hysterically laugh.
Rooney very cleverly bought in, without us knowing,
a fart machine.
We all sort of went, "Oh.
Oh, someone's just had a terrible accident!" [laughing]
The reason why it was so funny
is 'cause Rooney is the last person you would think
who'd be there going [Claire imitating fart noise].
- In "Everything Everywhere All at Once"
because I had this frigging dildos being swung in my face.
[Michelle exclaiming] my God!
And then there were butt plugs.
[jazzy music]
[Kate giggling] - Hmm.
- I'm still searching for that moment.
- Don't think I have.
- I don't believe in "I've made it."
- I don't think that the point of life
is to say you've made it.
- Three days ago I arrived to an hotel in New York
and there was a cookie with my face.
- I think the point of life is to say
you haven't.
- I dunno if there's ever a "made it" moment.
- The first moment when I thought that I had made it?
- I bought a farm.
I've always wanted a farm.
- It really was when I was going through immigration,
going to London.
And the officer asked, "What are you doing here?"
I said, "Oh, I'm here to work."
He was like, "What are you working on?"
"The Bond movie."
"Oh my God!"
- When I was able to go into Apple store and buy a laptop.
- With my first International Emmy nomination.
- I was in a play at the National Theatre
and I walked across Waterloo Bridge.
- Walking across Waterloo Bridge.
- I was like, "What is happening?"
- And I just stopped,
and I was looking at the National Theatre.
And I was like, "This is one of my dreams."
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- What I love most about acting is the community.
- Telling stories.
- I love the freedom of it.
The sort of absurdity of it, the silliness of it.
- I can learn so much about other people's lives.
- Acting is very useful because I get to
express myself a lot.
And I think that in ordinary life
you don't really get to express yourself.
- I'm always learning from my characters,
never judging them.
And they're always teaching me great life lessons.
- Building a character from the page and just, like,
chewing on what it means to come to know this person.
- I get to work with people that I fan girl about.
- I feel like it's a really good release.
It's kind of therapeutic for me.
- It's the only time in my life where I don't, like,
criticize or be talking to myself.
- It's just fun to not be yourself for a little bit.
- And then when you say "Cut,"
then you're like back to reality.
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- I don't love night shoots.
- You basically have no control.
- I, in fact, hate them.
[actress exclaiming]
I mean I hate 'em.
- Early mornings.
- Once you leave the set and you're finished the movie,
it's not really in your hands anymore.
There's an editor that's gonna chop up your performance.
And they're either gonna do a great job with it,
or it's not gonna be,
you're not gonna know what happened.
- Getting up at three o'clock in the morning
and waiting.
- Waiting.
- They make me roll in the mud.
Or if I have to get in, like,
a river with really murky water.
- It's really lonely.
- When they put fake blood on me.
- There's all these people
and it's a great energy, energy, energy.
And it's back in a hotel room by yourself.
- What do I dislike the most?
- Everything around the acting.
- I don't like the hullabaloo of it all.
- There's people thinking they can have an opinion
about your personal life.
- All of the publicity I dislike very much.
- Particularly today? - Particularly right now.
[interviewer laughing]
[lively music]
- I think stealing something from set is
A, part of your job.
And B, I think we avoid the word stole.
I think we just
maybe used the term liberally borrow.
- Some props, some clothes. [actress laughing]
- No.
Have I ever stole? [Gabrielle stammering]
- Yes, I've stolen.
- One of Diana's necklaces from the set of "The Crown."
- I think I have a souvenir for every set I've been on.
- No, I haven't stolen anything from set.
I'm too much of a law abiding citizen.
- The clicker that Stephen Hawking used
to make his computer speak.
- I feel like I always run off with a bunch of underwear
that I'm not supposed to have.
'Cause you just leave the end of the day
and you still got panties on, and they're not yours.
But they are now.
[jazzy music]
- Remember to stand still.
- Don't listen to the noise.
- Don't laugh.
- It's very important to know the way back home.
- Remember to breathe and it's okay to say, "No."
- It's a pretty basic one,
but just treat others the way that you wanna be treated.
- Elevate everything that you do.
- I wish I received advice.
- Honestly, the one that's sticking with me today is
that I am enough.
- What is for you won't pass you.
- Don't take advice from people
who have not done what you're trying to do.
- As long as it's true, and from you, it will be new.
- Stop trying to be cool.
- Denzel Washington walked in and sort of room went quiet.
And he locked eyes with me, and walked over to me.
And he was like, "Hey man, lighten up."
- Leave the competition to others.
- When I worked with Jane Campion, who I love very much,
and who's a friend,
she just told me to stop trying so hard.
- Always remember that
the work can never be taken away from you.
- My go-to is don't be a dick.
- And cut! [playful music]
- Who would I like to play me in a movie?
Julia Roberts.
And if she were not available,
because I know she's a very busy artist,
then Scarlett Johansson.
And if none of them were available,
then maybe,
I don't know,
maybe
Zac Efron.