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Darci like shit.
Please, don't, guys. That's not what I say, okay?
Director was like, "Okay, guys.
Guys? Guys? Guys?"
"Calm your tits."
Just go with it [indistinct].
FIRST MEMORY AS A GROUP?
I think my first day was the registry office.
For some reason, the only thing I remember about it
is that everyone was chasing a pigeon,
trying to throw coats on the pigeon,
just trying to catch it somehow.
You'd be doing a scene. The camera's here
and there's a flag for the light here,
and the pigeon would just come and, like, rest.
I realize it looks like
I'm giving you the middle finger.
The pigeon would just come sit on the flag
and, like, watch you.
Our first read through
was actually the first time we met,
before we even got onto set. I remember I ran in.
I'm, like, sweating.
I've got, like, a guitar on my back
and, like, five different bags,
running in.
Sit down. Totally unprepared.
Sit down. First time ever I meet Harrison.
I had my, like, highlighters.
I'd highlighted all my lines.
I had rulers. I had pencils.
I was, like, proper prepared.
Jojo just turns to me and he's like,
"Oh, we've got a nerd over here.
-Nerd alert." -"Nerd alert."
And, like, I've never met any of these people before,
in a room of about 30 people,
and then after the first episode,
he turns to me and he's like, "Hey, mate.
Can I just borrow one of those highlighters.
Is that all right?" So...
The nerds ending up winning.
But that's just a normal act of being prepared.
Yeah.
TO PRANK OR NOT TO PRANK?
We never really did any pranks
because, like, McKell would come in
and be like, "Oh, shall we do some pranks?"
And everyone would be really behind it.
We were, like, "Yeah. Let's give it a go."
McKell would just, like, telling them,
and you'd be like, "McKell, I don't even think
you should tell them to anyone,
because I think they'd be seriously worried for you,
and for the rest of the welfare
of the cast and crew."
We can't do that, bro.
And thank God for these guys,
otherwise I would have ended up
doing one of those prank things, you know.
Probably wouldn't be sitting on your Zoom call.
MOST EMBARRASSING MOMENT ON SET?
We were filming somewhere next to a kids playground,
and there was, like, this swing.
The only way I can describe it
is, like, you hold on by your handlebars,
and then run, and then your feet come off the ground,
and you, like, spin round, which, for me, isn't ideal
because I had extensions in,
so I could feel them slowly, kind of, coming out.
I'd finally convinced Harrison
to come on it with me,
and then a few minutes later, he got this photo,
and there's just a photo of me and him on the swing,
and his make up artist is texting him going,
"I am furious."
-So literally, it was... -[indistinct].
ANY MORNING RITUALS?
When you're getting picked up, like, six, five, seven
in the morning, and it's, like, really early
and you're really tired and that,
I just need a pump to wake up,
so I'd go in my trailer and either put on some Drill
or some Travis.
And the lucky thing was,
that the walls of these trailers are quite thin.
So if McKell was doing his morning routine,
we were all doing his morning routine.
We all got involved.
And the next thing, you know,
boom, boom, boom, boom,
and then the whole trailer starts going.
[indistinct] shaking.
FUNNIEST MOMENT ON THE SET?
My make up artist Jen
told me that she saw the horse groom
go round to the side of the horse,
like, literally, hold the reins
and look at the horse dead in the eyes and go,
"Calm your tits," and the horse is like, huh.
Maybe way through to see in.
We had... There was a scream
and then we had to react to it and then run off.
And one of our runners on set
got asked to do the scream and I kid you not,
it literally sounded like a cross
between a Wookiee and Mr. Bean.
I could not even start to replicate that scream.
It was literally ridiculous.
And then we couldn't stop laughing,
and then we kind of ruined the scene a little bit.
Was it Sam doing the scream?
-I think it was... -I think Sam,
he was doing the scream, ruined the scene.
WHO'S MOST LIKE THEIR CHARACTER IN THE SHOW?
Oh, Harrison.
I was gonna say you, to be fair.
-Me? -I mean... Yeah, you.
You've got, like, a bit of the gift of the gab
and, you know, like, making stuff happen.
Yeah. I can do a bit of that,
but look at that face on Harrison.
That is a prince there.
He is just so lovely and kind,
and really, like, well spoken.
Maybe that's just me thinking,
oh, he's got an English accent.
Jojo is a... a very, very good actor.
After the first meeting, I was like,
"This guy's crazy."
WORST HABIT?
Falling in love, too fast and too easily.
What?
I think my worst habit is eating Five Guys.
I must have had Five Guys at least 200 times
when I was... when I was in Liverpool.
There was a lot of guys there, yeah.
That's like 500 guys.
It is. Yeah.
FAVOURITE DOWNTIME ACTIVITY?
We had loads of fun times, I think.
We... we watched a lot of funny shows.
-Like, we watched... -I Think You Should Leave.
Oh, I Think You Should Leave is fantastic.
That was really funny.
Netflix, make another series of I Think You Should Leave.
Let us make the third season.
If you can take anything away from this interview,
it's just another season of that.
Yeah.
It's coming back. Run. Run.
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