You're both adults, you're experienced.
You've been in many great shows on stage and screen. Played many a character,
but there's still something innately exciting and a childlike way
about playing characters who get to ride dragons?!
Oh, come on.
That's you. Don't.
I didn't get to ride a dragon,
but there are other exciting things that happen.
But tell us more about the.
Oh, the dragon.
I mean, they said when, when, when I got the audition
and they said, well, it's interesting stuff about my character,
which is we're really great on paper.
And then they said, Oh yeah, and she gets to ride a dragon.
And I was like,
So please, please,
please, I would do anything.
So, yes, that is quite that's quite a nice thing
to dispel the magic of of the movies.
But I want to talk about dragon riding how does one by the Dragon
would you have to do as an actor in that situation?
Well, you I mean, do you actually quite fit?
Actually, because I'm not it was billed to me as like
a mixture of a bucking bronco and a roller coaster ride.
It was like a fairground ride.
They built a they built kind of a moving machine.
That's because, you know, I never saw
it's a big, big old thing.
And they need you need a ladder to climb up to it.
So. 724 I'm really bad
heights, but anyway, it was large
and you had to be strapped in twice.
They were doing loads of safety tests, which is always a little bit alarming
when people tell you what's going to happen.
So I was expecting it to be this kind of,
you know, huge hanging upside down
and going, it's 90 miles an hour and really come dangerous and scary.
Actually, it was quite sedate and I was kind of wanting to go a bit bit more.
Yeah, but it was still fun
and I was quite bruised the next day. Oh,
pretty quiet, please. You didn't want a dragon?
No, no, I. Yeah, I didn't know about the bruising.
Yeah, it was a little bit sad.
It's all right.
Yeah, but it was a nice feeling.
It was a good feeling.
I mean, obviously, this is littered with so many wonderful performances.
It's a real kind of ensemble.
But there is one I just want to highlight,
which is Paddy Considine, because he is one of the great living actors, I think.
And how is he sort of like like I'm just having someone
because he gives such intensity to this kind of causes
some having someone like that on set really raised the game.
You think of of those around him.
I think, yes, it does.
I think that the funny thing is and that's true about Paddy, but
I think it's true of the cast in general.
There were people on it, from my point of view anyway, who I'd heard of.
I was a fan of Eve's way before we met.
There's a thing that happens.
We were
we were able to rehearse beforehand, so a lot of us got to meet beforehand
and we all sat around and we did read through and talked about the,
the characters with the director and and Ryan, the two showrunners.
And one of the things that struck me is
you look around and you go, Oh, my God, all these people are just so good.
These don't let the side down.
Steve Smith This man, we all feel this funny.
Yeah, everyone feels like that, right?
So of course, when your so, for example, when we're doing the small
the small council and I'm sitting opposite Paddy
and you look into his eyes and he's giving it
whatever and look to the left and there's Reese's fans
and there's Matt Smith and there's Bill Paxton.
And his David Horovitz is wonderful performers.
It's a joy, you know, and it really does.
I mean, look, you come into everything trying to do your best work,
but anything that will give you an edge, anything that'll make you
that much more alert is a is a is a help.
And certainly having people of this caliber and caliber and paddy oversee
and a bit like you say and all of them and these amazing amazing two
veteran actors who come in to do a quite a small
relatively small moment
but they're just so so that's constantly
the game is always being raised actually by by so many.
But Paddy's phenomenal.
He's also very naughty. Yeah,
yeah.
Yes, he is a lot of misses
but and you know, but the great thing about him
and everybody else, of course, is because I didn't know him.
I knew his work, you know.
And so you had this idea of these people that like, oh, my God, he's elevated.
And then you find out that they are just as naughty just as
insecure
as just as scared as the rest of us.
And that's that's a joy that he let you see on his phone.
No. Oh, God, no, no.
He took out.
It was very, very, very proprietorial about that.
Yeah, very possessive.
Yeah. Who?
I think Matt got to seize on it today. Yeah.
Well in the in the show he had to in the show as a character.
Yeah.
Woe betide anybody even if he's went up the steps.
You were just where are you going. Yeah.
Because that's one of many kind of iconic things.
The item did you guys get to take anything?
And I don't just sense no not so same stadium but you know,
like like a souvenir.
We need something because I know you had that
sort of massive machete freak outside that on the bus. Hollywood, not enough.
Are you able to take just something small, even an item of clothing or something
just to commemorate? I wanted to take some of my rings.
Did you? Yeah, but I want something.
I was. I was.
I was very above board. And that same pat.
No, I would have loved to have taken, you know, ring a wig, jewelry.
Would you love to take a wig? Yeah.
Would you take it with that round the high road?
That's why this may back. Yeah. Okay.
But no, unfortunately not this time though.
I mean, with these shows, there's so much fan anticipation and fan involvement.
Are you both kind of prepared for what's to come,
the kind of fan conventions, the online series,
and also probably an increase in people wanting to say hello to you on the street?
No, no, I don't think so.
You know, this is this has come up a few times.
I think people have asked that. And
people that who are around to saying, you know, be prepared for that.
I, I don't know about you because for you, it's just like
we still see your face, but it's just different hats, different hair.
But I think it's pretty different.
I mean, I think lit and, you know, I'm very, very different.
So I think you still go really?
I don't know.
I think when people I just think, oh, really?
Oh, my God.
You know, I think when people see my character, for example,
they will see the wig and the beard.
I don't really think that they register everything else.
So I think I'm going, okay.
You on the other hand, I mean, just look, look,
I, you know, who knows, you know, is but also.
Yeah, I can't do that.
I'm always to be honest, I'm always really delighted for anybody
who's ever seen anything. I'm always surprised.
And, you know, it happens to me very rarely.
So it's always a real treat.
I mean, there was an amazing woman at Comic-Con who was just so
just like you, just as my character, which was absolutely amazing.
She looked brilliant.
Yeah, she's coming. Yeah.
She stunts and stuff on Instagram all the time.
It does.
And yeah, anyway.
But yeah, you need little toy figures next of your characters.
I reckon they might do that.
We well I do.
They do have I have you know I've got one there's a
there's a brand called something like funk something like that.
Oh yes.
And I have mine now.
Oh yeah.
He's pretty hard to turn pretty than mine.
I don't have one.
You know why don't I have one?
You'll find out that one.
Yeah. Thank you so much. Your time today. Much appreciate. Thank you.