hello mark scott from how you guys let me see how you're doing hey guys how you doing good we
always love talking to you all yeah you can go on our roster of all these famous people saying hey
you guys congratulations on the film thank you love a good spy thriller love a good world war
story particularly stories that we don't know too much about was one that i didn't know too
much about was it kind of a history lesson for for you as well i knew about the story but it's
like all these these sort of soe stories are just incredible and ben mcintyre has made an amazing uh
brilliant career out of disinterring really and i mean most of them like with agent zigzag
you know you you wouldn't believe it was true if it weren't true they're just so extraordinary and
this is the most audacious trick it's a trick and the whole idea of um of you know divisions within
the secret service who were sort of um practicing sleight of hand you know jasper mescaline was the
magician was involved in this and it's just it's just brilliant you know and you can imagine why um
immediately after the war the big stories the coldest stories were told and then afterwards
these other stories have sort of eventually sort of leaked out people who weren't supposed to
speak started talking it's just extraordinary but it's also very moving i was just saying it's uh
it's a terribly moving story about a you know a waste a life that was a sort of pointless and
wasted becoming immensely important post-mortem you know remarkable what those i mean these kind
of stories do you always draw a fantastic cast this one plethora of talents what's it like to
go to work with with colin firth every day the two of you are awful i can imagine the two of you
together playing this brother relationship must have been fun as well as trying to make sure you
tell the story yes it was a delight i mean he's every bit as delightful as you imagine it was very
interesting an awful lot of of sort of interesting wartime conversations i know colin was very keen
to to say in the uncertain world that we're living and we made the film what feels like 100 years ago
before the pandemic but he's very keen to say nazis are not germans you know it's the nazi
ideology it's not the germans we there's enough division in the world without sort
of re-stoking old wounds like this and it's kind of we had a lot of interesting
chats about that about the whole notion of spying and my character what was it communist spy
they were absolutely right and he was at the heart of this thing but they didn't do anything
about it and he got away with it and uh invented table tennis at the same time sadly there are no
no scenes of me playing table tennis it's maybe a good thing yeah i know i mean this is a spy thrill
and you've you've just jumped into the one of the modern spies in ethan hunt aka Mission Impossible
which you've done which i know i spoke to simon pegg a couple of weeks ago he's very excited
people to see it but obviously the pandemic and everything else what was your experience like on
on that because it was a tough shoot for everybody but the proof will be in the pudding i'm sure it
was amazing i i mean that was last this time last year it was it was joyous it was utterly
terrifying because the scale of the film is so overwhelming it's like bond films just but
and uh i had a lot of friends that india obama have known for years was it we i didn't know
she was in it until the day i got there and we looked at each other across the room and she went
we sort of clung to each other terra but then everyone was so nice tom tom is so incredibly
approachable and fun and it just took care of itself you know we had a chris mcquarrie director
was a dream and it was really good fun and after a while you sort of forget that it's the biggest
franchise in the world and just have fun and it was it was great i really enjoyed it yeah i know
people obviously ask you the sherlock question but it seems as if the marvel universe is kind of
you're not enemy but it's becoming more marginal more difficult but have you guys i mean would you
be open to doing something if it was even 10 20 years down the line you two guys you guys have
come back together until hopefully sooner but we we always used to say right at the beginning that
one of the one of the joyous things about starting with holmes and watts and sherlock and john much
younger than they're usually depicted is that one day we can do them the way they the age they
usually exactly yeah yeah and we're getting close to it now yeah that's a good excuse now isn't it
yes no we'd love to but it's uh you know ben and martin are both immensely busy we've lost yoona
obviously which does make a huge difference but i mean we'd certainly we certainly came for it but
um time will tell time will tell love to soldiers thank you pleasure thank you so much
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