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It's all right. Yeah. The Goonies.
How you guys from The Goonies?
Yeah, I know that it never go.
Congratulations on the show.
Thank you. Thank you. First off, I wanted to start with you guys.
I mean, streaming has become such a big thing.
Where do you guys sit on binge universes?
Watching episode every week. I'm of the old school.
I quite like the one a week kind of deal with people
who like to just sit and watch a whole series in one afternoon.
Where do you guys watch your viewing habits?
I think I really feel like I want ownership over my show now and
I want to watch it when I want to watch, and I get very angry when I'm not allowed.
Yeah.
Even when it's dropped in two parts, I'm so annoyed.
But then I might watch it for ages. Yeah.
If I had it all. And
yeah, having autonomy over it, then you can decide when you want to watch it.
I think that's. That's fantastic.
Yeah.
Because this show, a completely different show.
But I used to love 24
and I used to love kind of the cliffhangers
and we've this show felt like it's, it's kind of good to watch one
and then percolate and stuff, but you get the double bill of movie
in terms of length.
It's like going to the to a matinee
and an evening and getting the whole thing in one big night.
Absolutely.
When you guys got the script for this,
I would say there's a hell of a lot going on.
Some fantastic characters in there for you guys to dive into.
Did it take much convincing in your brain to want to say yes?
Was there something specific when you read it that you thought,
I've got to try and see if I can go with this one?
Yeah. I was dying to to
be a part of it.
The second I read the scripts as I was reading the scripts,
unless it was like turning it with dread, going well,
like, just this is just getting better and better.
I can't not unsee it now.
I need to try and be a part of it.
So yeah, it's a convention.
There's a lot in there, isn't there? Basically.
I mean, you've done a lot of these big you've done big movies,
you done some movies and other TV shows and stuff, but this one feels like it's.
Did you feel like it was something different? Like a string?
You hadn't? Yeah, very different.
And actually, people approached me about this
like you would approach a horse slightly
from the side, like, try not to scare you because the bigger
the subject matter because but weirdly, it was everyone else's trepidation.
And I was like, What's the problem?
Like, Oh, it's going to be quite revealing.
I was like, Well, let's just look at the story and
the idea
of, you know, it's always appealing when a character
is going to be kind of torn apart or stress tested.
And yeah, I put a lot of violence on screen in my life,
but I haven't really touched too much on the area of human infatuation.
And I just really interested in it.
Yeah, and I've received a lot of violence on screen, so it was fantastic to be
the architect of that kind of consensual world.
So that was fun.
Yeah, it feels like these these series are kind of a gateway back into.
I remember in the nineties when I was a teenager,
there was a lot of these kind of people call them erotic thrillers,
but they had great characters and great stories, and I wanted to be
one of the best ones is Basic Instinct, where Michael Douglas was a big star,
but he was so drawn to the character and everything else.
Can you see why that still has an appeal for you for adults?
Because even though there's intimate moments, the story and the character
and the kind of gripping nature of it is quite compelling.
Yeah, the forbidden, the road not taken, the Yeah.
To to live your fantasy that's quite long.
And also just I think I feel like the departure from that period is more
about making the intimacy less decorative and more essential to the story.
And you know, it is something that,
I mean, not this particular circumstance, but in maturation, an overwhelming
feeling is something that most of us may experience in our lives.
If you don't, you know, we're sort of hoping that that person comes along,
but hoping that it's the right person that you're allowed
to be in a relationship with because this is so forbidden.
Yeah, I remember I listened to Samuel L Jackson on Graham Norton talking about
sex scenes and how to, like, break the ice and all that kind of stuff.
Did you guys have a way of kind of, you know,
obviously you have the on screen personas, but the off screen,
I guess you have to have a comfortability with each other.
Was that something that broke the ice? Something fun in between? That
was the conversation about cheese, probably.
I think we were quite hungry.
Yeah. We talking about interior design?
Yeah. And cheese.
There were icebreakers. Yeah.
French cheese.
Yeah. We got.
There was an intense week of physical acting, wasn't there?
Yeah.
And then Friday night, we were both given
Lisa and Glenn, our directors, the great cheese boxes.
They gave us cheese boxes, so we ran home.
I didn't even get home.
Ate mine in the car on the way.
I think it's What was the favorite in the cheese box?
Something stinky, of course.
Of course. The best cheeses. Just.
Just finally, before I go, obviously people have obsessions.
This is a TV show.
I know. People obviously. Tell us more during lockdown.
Have you got a show that you've had that you've been obsessed
by, that you've had to consume, whether recently or over the years?
Because again, for me, when I used to watch 24, I couldn't wait a week.
It was just like I was just so obsessed with trying to find out what was going on.
If you had that recently, did you spend something during lockdown?
It became a bit of an obsession.
We did.
And then I realized so many people that are to Breaking Bad,
I watch it is gone and we watched it
and then we watched Breaking Bad and then we started Better Call Saul.
And yeah, that was great.
That was amazing. It's quite a journey. You're like, Yeah,
I think mine was Schitt's Creek.
Oh my God, I'm not even watching it again for the third time.
It's so, so good.
He wasn't anywhere in the building until, you know, you watch it
it So when you saw me with the dog in the stilettos.
Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
How we bonded over that. Bowfinger.
Bowfinger. Brilliant. Brilliant things.
Did you picture the dog in the shoes and you went?
I knew you'd let them.
Yeah. See, that's only murders.
And now, season three, Meryl Streep did it.
So that's how.
How big it's become. So that.
So dear friend Amy.
Okay, so.