- Do you think Romeo is a bit of a stalker,
particularly going to Juliet's balcony?
(laughs)
- Right, who wrote that?
- These are excellent!
- What is the biggest mistake you've ever made on stage?
I forgot to bring a prop on, and I had to adlib
for about five minutes about the prop that
I was supposed to bring on that I'd left,
but it will come on eventually.
- Oh no.
- Yeah, sad times.
- I did blank.
It was a monologue,
there was no one to help me,
so I gamely just tried to carry on
and then thought, "What is going on?
The lights are different. They've changed the lights,
lights have gone down, it's a disaster."
And then came off stage and asked what happened there,
and thought they were going to say, "Yeah, really sorry."
But they said, "No, you jumped a whole scene."
(Lucian laughs)
And then I sat there thinking,
"How much would it cost me to reimburse everybody
in the theatre?"
(Lucian laughs)
- I've laughed on stage
at a point where I wasn't supposed to laugh.
We were doing this Restoration play,
and towards the end, there's a big dance number we do.
One of the other actors slipped
and fell and hit the back wall of the set,
but then tried to carry on with the dance.
So all of us lost it
but there was a whole other scene to do after the dance,
and I stood on stage and just cried laughing.
- Oh wow.
- Didn't try and hide it, just stood there.
- Wow.
- It was awful.
- Once I brought on a sandwich.
- Just because, or...?
- I was eating it in the interval and I hadn't finished it,
and I had to go on stage, and I was like,
the scene's in a living room.
Sometimes I eat a sandwich in my house.
So I just went on eating a sandwich.
- I'd come off stage, I'd changed costume,
and I was waiting to go on.
The lights came up and I looked around
and was like, "Where is everybody?
This is, I'm going to have words with the guys after this.
This is so- oh (bleep) it's me!"
And I was on the wrong side of the stage,
so what the audience saw was this blob,
this lump, went
(long bleep)
and I appeared on the other side of the stage.
(gasps for breath)
(Tamsin laughs)
- What's the maddest thing you've ever done
because you like somebody?
That's such a good question.
I actually, with my current partner, on our first date
she was coming in to kiss me and I panicked
and kissed her forehead.
(Jessie laughs)
And that was my, that was our first kiss.
I kissed her on the forehead.
And, because she was there, she kissed my chin.
(Jessie laughs)
And the rest is history.
- Imagine your character was on Tinder,
what would their bio say?
- "Hey, er,
(Fisayo laughs)
just a nice guy, looking for someone
to have some good chats with.
Don't mess me about though."
- That's really adorable and a bit pathetic.
- That's Benvolio.
- Desperately in need of love.
No, but that seems too needy. - That was a bit too keen.
- Romeo, I think, would love it.
- "A mean dancer,
likes silk,
looking for a partner who can also dance,
with a sensitive side."
- Romeo's would be "Heartbroken".
At the beginning of the play, it would be,
"If Rosaline is out there
then here I am, swipe right, swipe right."
- "Swipe right"
- "Swipe right if your name's Rosaline."
- Why does the Friar
feel like he needs to get involved with everything?
(Lucian laughs)
He sees two young people, who are unparented,
and because he is their holy father,
he sees himself as a conduit for something bigger than them.
However, his own humanity gets in the way
of higher possibility.
It's a terrible collision of human desire
and holy possibility.
- Thank you, Tamsin.
(Tamsin laughs)
And now on to the weather.
- The Nurse and the Friar, would they be a good couple?
- Definitely. Yeah.
(David and Alex laugh)
- The Friar has had a bit of a shady past, hasn't he?
- What, with the plants and stuff?
- Yeah. So maybe the nurse would like
a bit of danger in her life.
I think they'd be a cute couple.
- Yeah.
- I think the Friar is balanced,
and the Nurse is a bit excitable.
I think they balance each other out nicely.
And actually I think, as a couple, they'd be great parents.
- I think that there would be a lot of tussles,
a lot of emotional and psychological and spiritual
battles between them.
- Did you come the top of the class in Drama?
- No.
- I did.
- I had a great time. I did quite well, yeah. I think so.
I think if you enjoy it and you have a nice time then, yeah.
(Lucian and Tamsin laugh).
- No. - No.
- I didn't actually do Drama in school.
So we just used to do school plays.
It was an all-girls school,
so all the girls had to play like boys' parts,
and I was always the lad.
The lad version of Jessie was French plaits
and two red dots and huge monster, huge suits.
- I definitely did get good marks,
and my drama teacher used to take me
to see Complicité shows and Royal Shakespeare Company shows.
I'd come away so excited but I'm very dyslexic,
so I couldn't really write down what I was thinking.
I would talk and talk,
I could talk for hours about what I'd just seen,
but when it came to writing it down, I wasn't very good.
So yeah, no, I wasn't top of the class for sure.
- In drama school were you then the favorite,
or still bottom of the bottom of the pile?
- Not bottom of the pile, just, you know.
- Just left behind, out to dry.
- Not left behind, just like, bang on.
- Just out there.
- Just one of the lot. - Abandoned.
- That's really sad. We should move on.
- How do you pretend to be in love with somebody
you don't like in that way?
- Aw. You don't have to pretend.
- I feel like an agony aunt.
You shouldn't be pretending, I don't think.
- You don't have to love.
- Oh. Right. - Oh. Sorry, sorry, sorry.
- You're taking on the agony aunt character
way too much. - You shouldn't be doing that.
- You're like "Pah, Romeo's dead, I'm now agony aunt."
- Yeah.
I think you use what you know in real life.
Jesse and I are lucky because we're friends
and so much of how we work is allowing each other
to love and be open and responsive,
and allowing yourself to be in love in those moments
and just being, like, "Go for it".
- And you can love someone in a million ways.
There's not one way of loving someone.
- Just like, love 'em.
- Which is more fun, acting in plays or in films?
I've done mostly plays.
So I, I'm going to say, I don't really know,
but I love plays,
and this experience here has been amazing.
- Yep.
- Acting in plays is so different to acting in films.
It just requires a completely different set of muscles.
- They are both equally fun,
but actually it's more about the people.
If you've got people that you're working with
whom you get on with and have a laugh with,
and it's good material, it's always going to be fun.
- I've always said the grass is greener on the other side,
because whenever I'm doing a film, I'm like,
"Ah God, I just miss being on stage."
When you're doing a play, and it's like
the hundredth performance
(Fisayo laughs)
and you're doing the same thing again
for the eighth time this week,
you do sometimes go,
"It would just be great to just
get a really sexy camera angle on this scene
and just be done with it forever."
- I prefer plays.
- Yeah, I prefer plays.
- Every audience gets a completely
different experience every night,
and that's really fun to share with people.
- Plays are very much part of a team,
films are like just on your own, solo warrior.
- How come Romeo gets over Rosaline so quickly?
Because he meets me.
- Yeah. This one just strolls in.
It's unrequited love
which can be blinding and toxic in it's own way,
but then for someone to walk in,
you're just like, actually I think helps me a little bit,
is to go from a sort of sad lost soul
from "I love someone who doesn't love me back"
to perfect alignment.
- [Producer] Thank you so much.
- I loved those questions.
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