Hi, Cara. How are you? I'm well.
How are you, Scott?
I'm very well.
It's a bit warm in London today, but that's maybe a good thing.
I don't know. It's quite humid. Well, we're not good.
We don't like humid in London.
I was going to say, like, that's usually not the case there, but
is it a nice change or.
Not really.
The sun being out is always a nice change.
The humidity,
we don't like the humidity.
So, I don't know.
5050, I guess.
Congratulations is on the show.
Thank you very much.
I'm someone that doesn't like to binge watch.
I like the old school one week time kind of deal.
But we've this it was very compulsive viewing
given the subject given everything else.
So I wonder, was it are you someone like that, you someone that enjoys
the binge watching or do you enjoy kind of episode by episode
because you're part of two shows that are doing kind of a bit of both?
Right.
You know, it's interesting because both the shows,
I guess the latest trend now is to do half and half.
Right.
Like we do four and then five.
I think that's sort of maybe that tries to satisfy everybody.
I it's frustrating, right?
Because like I, you know,
if you watch something once a week, it gives the opportunity to talk to people
and, you know, the anticipation and connect with people online
if there's any kind of fan theories about shows and things like that.
So I enjoy that.
But sometimes if I really love a show, I'll just wait till they all air
and then know, try to like I kind of do that
with Game of Thrones because I knew I couldn't wait.
I do think that's the thing that is like social media, everything.
People just can't wait because of I guess because of spoilers.
People don't like things being spoiled in the same way that they were
when I was a kid.
You know, I thought when I was a kid, it was very, very different to go.
Yeah, very different.
Some of The Girl from Plainville I mean, it's a subject matter that's
that's quite, quite new.
You know, it was it's a case of in the last ten years and all that kind of stuff.
So when you had the script
for the first time, were you at all hesitant that maybe it was too soon?
Or did you think, Oh, actually this is maybe the right time to tell this given
the subject matter and given, you know, the people involved and what what they've
what they've been through with all of this.
Yeah, well, frankly, I when I, when I heard of making a show,
I knew about the case and I thought, well,
in a way, why?
And I was not I was curious because I thought,
well, it's such a dark it's such a tragic situation.
How can the story be told in a way that, you know,
I had my preconceived notions, right?
So I think most people would come to this story having their preconceived notions.
And I think what the writers had done in a beautiful way
was to really peel back
the layers of what each of the Gail
Carter and Conrad "Coco" Roy were going through in their families, in their life.
From a perspective of mental health, technology, social media, these were like
in the earlier days of that before we know, now we know
there've been studies about, you know,
the problematic it can be.
So I think I was drawn to it because it did a really beautiful job of
showing the complexity
of each of the characters and not every.
There's I would think these are the good guys and the bad guys.
It's, it's they really were able to draw a really thorough picture of everybody.
And I think it just speaks to people's
humanity about what everyone's going through.
We just never know what people are going through.
Yeah.
And for you guys, obviously, you're playing dramatized versions,
but you are playing real people who have been through these real things.
Does that change your the way you go about your job?
Does it change, you know, because obviously you're dealing
with people's lives.
And while, as I say, it's a it's a fictionalized version in some respects,
you're still having to play the real people in some respects.
Does that change the way
that you approach
a character or the material particularly, or something like that?
Well, sure. This was
the first time I'd played a character
based on a real life person and Joe Carter did not get any interviews.
So there were
there was nothing for me to watch, even if I would have wanted to watch it.
I saw the documentary and I familiarized myself with the case.
But my character is a kind of creation.
The showrunners, the writers.
And I kind of said, Well, who is this person we're going to?
It's a fictionalized idea of who she is in relationship to her daughter
and kind of creating it based on the dynamic as opposed to anything
we know from real life because we don't have anything.
So I think it was like easier for me because I think there is a responsibility
you have when it is a real person, especially to the subject matter
on the sensitive subject matter of the show.
Yeah.
And you obviously you've had a long, illustrious career and you've been around
kind of younger performers and seeing them,
you know, come to come to and, you know, mature everything else.
Obviously with stranger things, you're surrounded
by these kids that you kind of grown up in front of your eyes.
And Elle Fanning is someone that's kind of done that.
She's grown up on screen, and now she's become this formidable actress.
Well, why do you think she's so kind of revered at the moment?
Because she's making such kind of amazing choices in what she's not afraid
to take on roles that maybe not everybody would have would have gone for.
She is absolutely remarkable.
I think she's perfect.
I think Elle Fanning is perfect. I
watching her work
is a lesson for everybody.
People, you know, 40 year olds like she is professionals.
She's down to earth. She's prepared.
She's her.
Her work is like otherworldly.
She's exquisite.
I mean, I'm so impressed with her.
I love to, you know, watching her on The Great, which is so different.
You know, she's she's a naturally gifted actress.
You know, she's obviously not very talented, but she works so hard
and she cares so much.
I mean, I'm just totally fangirling on her.
I mean, I'm so impressed by her.
But I mean, it seems like
from the bottom of my heart, I just think, like, she's just
astonishing and everywhere.
And she's so young.
So this.
I can't wait to see what else she does.
Yeah.
And just as a final question, we've just seen the trailer for,
as we recall, this volume two of Stranger Things.
Are you as a performer as excited to see what is going to happen
in these last two, you know, film length episodes as everybody else?
Because everyone is just like so, so excited
to see what's going to happen next for you in volume two.
That's coming out July 1st.
Yeah, yeah, I've already seen it.
So it's intense.
So I'm very excited for people to see it.
It's, it's I'm always blown away by it.
I just think, you know, in a fourth season of a show to maintain
that level of surprise and a telling and commitment to
authenticity of the era and
watching I love watching all the actors grow up, like you said.
Like I love, you know, I started acting when I was really like when I was 12.
Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I was a different time.
There weren't as many opportunities then.
It wasn't like an adult world of acting.
But, you know,
like when no one and I
kind of started around the same to sort of when she was really young,
did a lot more stuff.
I did like a lot more TV and theater, so I was like, these kids ages and
I didn't know how long I would keep acting.
And I just love being around them and watching them grow up and
and just seeing the amazing performances by everybody.
Sadie Sink... Millie Bobby Brown....
Every year is amazing.
Everybody, all the kids.
It's just so beautiful. Yeah.
So we're excited.
Congratulations on the show again.
And thank you so much for your time because done really well.
Thank you so much. Thank you so much, you say.