(melodic jazz music)
- Hi, I'm Emma Corrin and I play Princess Diana.
- And I'm Josh O'Connor and I play Prince Charles.
- And we're both from Netflix's
Emmy nominated series, "The Crown."
Today, we're going to ask each other 20 questions.
Josh, this is your last time
doing press with me for "The Crown."
Cry.
How does it make you feel to say goodbye to this role
and working in this capacity together?
- It makes me feel sad,
but also excited,
that the next time I see you,
it might be just like hanging out, that's quite exciting.
Quick fire, now it's my turn to ask you
exactly the same question.
This is your last time doing press with me for "The Crown,"
how does it make you feel to say goodbye to this role
and working in this capacity together?
- Sad, as you said,
but also excited, because yeah, A, next time I see you,
we'll probably just be hanging out,
but also hopefully we'll get to work together again
and that could also be super fun.
- I am so excited about that.
Sorry, that sounded like that was an announcement,
there's no announcement, but one day we will.
- Okay, Josh, what's your favorite breakfast food?
- Marmalade on toast, thank you.
- Great. - Emma,
what's the first thing you do,
when you wake up in the morning?
- Like normally wake my dog up,
he's always snoring next to me and hasn't woken up yet.
Josh, where do you feel most at home?
- Gloucestershire, my home.
What's something that inspires you, Emma?
- Oh my God.
- [Josh] And you can't say me.
- Oh, that's so sad, because I was going to say you.
(Josh laughing) What inspires me?
Nature, I think, yeah, like green spaces.
Josh, what's been taking up your days as of late?
- Well, as of late, I've just moved to New York
and so my days have been spent like unpacking
and walking around New York,
trying to get to grips with what life means.
Trying to make friends actually genuinely,
mostly just trying to make friends with anyone in New York.
- With random people on the street? (laughing)
- I'll take anyone.
Okay, if you have a rare day off, what would you do with it?
- Try and sleep in, which I'm really bad at
and try not to do anything,
'cause I'm bad at not doing things,
I always like try and jam pack my day.
So if I have a day off, I try and stay as like in one place
or I'll go on a really long walk,
so I can like be with my thoughts.
Josh, what is one word that you think best describes you?
- Oh, my goodness,
optimistic.
- I feel like you're very charismatic
in the way that you're very funny and friendly
and so you're a very people person.
- Wow, I mean, I couldn't say charismatic though, could I?
- No, that would be, yeah.
- That wouldn't be charismatic, that'd be irony, so.
(Emma laughing) Okay, Emma,
how would you describe your personal style?
- Like- - Again, quite hard.
- That's getting quite hard.
Eclectic, as if like a 10-year old boy,
who has raided the wardrobe of their quite kooky aunt
and then sort of appeared in whatever that is, yeah.
- That's really good actually.
- Thank you.
Josh, what's something that people may not know about you?
- That I have a very interesting relationship
with hot air balloons,
I'm very fascinated by hot air balloons.
When I was 18, I was living in Bristol and I joined
the Clifton Hot Air Balloon Appreciation Society, thank you,
and once wrote their newsletter,
so that's quite interesting, yeah.
- I can really see what you're gonna be like
as an older person. - Yeah, yeah.
Basically exactly the same as I am now.
- Yeah, basically the same, yeah, hm.
- What attracted you to do "The Crown?"
- There was this really cool guy in it called Josh O'Connor.
- That is correct. - Yeah. (laughing)
What was your first thought when you heard
you would be reading for Prince Charles on "The Crown?"
- Actually my first reaction.
- I was like me. - My first reaction,
Yeah, well, this is like way before you,
actually, yeah, it was, Emma Corrin.
I heard rumor of this girl,
that I didn't know playing Diana.
Actually my first reaction was no chance, I can't do that,
I would be rubbish and so when they first asked me to read,
I said, no, 'cause I was terrified.
But then I did and I loved it and thank God I did,
because I had the best time.
- Yeah.
- Did you do anything out of the ordinary
to prepare to play Princess Diana on "The Crown?"
- Oh, I went and got my nails done for my audition
in the same color as her wedding ring.
- That is pretty weird, that's pretty weird.
- Pretty weird, isn't it, yeah.
- Yeah, but not that, I mean, it's not that weird.
- If you could have starred in any role in history,
what would it be?
- As you know, one of my favorite films,
the Todd Haynes Bob Dylan film, "I'm Not There."
I actually thought a version of that about Woody Guthrie
would be pretty cool, I'd like to play it.
I don't look like Woody Guthrie,
so I probably wouldn't get cast, but that'd be fun, yeah.
- Great answer.
- Oh, Emma, if you like that question,
you're gonna love this, because it's the same question.
If you could have starred in any role in history,
what would it be?
- Oh, I really want to play Patti Smith.
Yeah.
- And you could, unlike Woody Guthrie,
you could very easily play Patti Smith.
- I would love to play Patti Smith.
Josh, what's your dream role?
Kind of the same, well, yeah, sort of same.
- Dream role, I don't know.
I honestly don't think I have one.
I just have lots of people I'd like to work with
and I guess it's that thing of like
roles that just sort of come up and you're like, oh my God,
that's my dream role, do you know what I mean?
- Hm. - It's not like I have one.
Anyway, that's my answer.
Emma, what traits in Diana did you most identify with?
- Ooh, her sense of like wondering where she fits in
and the increased feeling of that, I suppose
and also like relying on people
and like reaching out to people to find comfort,
I feel like I do that a lot.
Like my friends are like my most important thing
and any time, yeah, I don't know if that makes sense.
- That makes sense. - Yeah.
Okay, Josh, if you could spend the day
with anyone in the world, who would that be?
Obviously it's me.
- [Josh] Yeah, apart from Emma Corrin?
- Apart from me.
- Actually probably would be my girlfriend.
She's pretty cool. - That's really nice.
- And she's just over there, so can't say anyone else,
can't joke. (Emma laughing)
Emma, what's been the hardest role for you to prepare for?
- "The Crown," yeah, for sure.
- Great.
- Josh, what's one thing that you would love to master?
- Ceramics. - Yeah,
I knew you would say that.
- I've got a couple over there, look.
- That you made?
- No, I did not make them.
- Okay, I was gonna say what?
- Yeah, yeah, imagine, Josh has got so good.
- Churning them out, wow.
- Yeah, I'm doing a course in New York though,
so you know, that's good. - Oh, sick.
- Emma, what three people, dead or alive
would you like to meet right now, three people?
- Oh!
- Patti Smith?
- Maybe Patti Smith, Mary Oliver, my favorite poet
and the author of the book that really helped me,
a guy called Paul B. Preciado,
called, "An Apartment on Uranus," which is an amazing book
and I think, yeah, he'd be a great person to meet, yeah.
Josh, what do you look for in a good script?
- Character and kind of,
yeah, character and something that is poetical.
I read something recently that Willem Defoe said,
he was actually describing the difference
between television and film,
but which isn't helpful for this answer,
but he was describing the differences,
in television more often than not, it's narrative driven
and in film, it can be narrative driven,
but it's also more sort of poetical
and I think regardless of television and film,
I think poetry of a character's arc is always kind of cool.
What's your most favorite piece of clothing you own, Emma?
- Oh, actually this plain, gray hoodie,
that I've had for ages and it's my favorite thing ever.
It's like that thing that you put on
and you're most comfy in and it's like, yeah,
makes you feel safe and warm.
- Isn't there quite a nice, gray jumper that I nicked,
but also- - Yes!
- Your friend nicked off you
and then I nicked it off him, I think, yeah.
- And you, Josh, yeah, you walked into the makeup trailer
one morning on "The Crown" and I was like, that's my jumper.
- My jumper. - Why are you wearing this?
(both laughing)
- That's so good. - Yeah.
- Yeah, that's good.
- Josh, who's your favorite actor?
- David Thewlis, I quite like.
I have a few people off the play,
what was when he was around.
I also love Cate Blanchett, anyway, there's loads.
Emma, who's your favorite author?
- Oh, Murakami is like next level.
- Yes, nice. - Yeah.
Next level, I just feel like stands out from the crowd,
you know, Maggie Nelson as well, "The Argonauts."
- Oh, Maggie Nelson, very good, yeah.
- That's Maggie Nelson. - Yeah.
- God, so many, yeah, yeah.
Josh, what's your favorite book?
- My favorite book I would say,
this is the most kind of nostalgic book for me
is "Brooklyn Follies" by Paul Auster.
But partly because it was one of the first books
I read in full, because I'm very dyslexic,
it took me years to get good at reading
and my dad gave it to me and it's a very important book
to my dad and me, so, "Brooklyn Follies."
Emma, what song gets you excited?
- "September,"
who's it by?
♪ Do you remember ♪
♪ The very first time, da da da ♪
- I don't know who that's by,
but that gets me excited as well actually.
- Yeah, that one, Josh, is there a moment on camera,
that has truly shaken you?
- [Josh] A moment on camera, that's shaken me?
- Hm. - There were so many,
there were a lot of moments with you and I,
where I felt kind of shaken,
but in a sort of good way.
I actually felt, I remember when we first rehearsed
the Australian sheep station scene in episode six,
where Diana and Charles tell each other
they love each other, do you remember the first rehearsal?
I kind of felt I got shaken,
just 'cause the energy was so incredible.
It all went downhill from there.
- And also like, yeah. (laughing)
- In that moment, it was like really great.
- Yeah, I remember that.
- Emma, what's the best concert you've ever been to?
- That's a great question.
I had the best time at Glastonbury,
which isn't really a concert,
but that was like a few years ago
and I think it was just like-
- [Josh] And we were both there, weren't we?
- We were both there, yeah and it was just after
I got "The Crown," I was with my mates
and it was the first time I'd ever been
and it was just like, I had the best time.
Yeah, Josh, best advice you've ever received?
- There was a guy who came at drama school,
we had all these like theater practitioners come
and do lessons in character and character development
and whatever, all sorts of things
and Meisner and Stanislavski, all these things
and the best bit of advice I ever got
was from an accountant, who came in and said,
he said, "Save half," I was like, oh great
and it's sort of done me well.
- Oh, that is actually the best, yeah.
- It's so good, whenever a job comes in, you save half,
because as an actor, everything could be going very well
and then you go like a year, two years with no work.
- Yeah. - So always save half.
- Always save half, yeah.
- Emma, if you had any superpower, what would it be?
- I used to be obsessed with like Matilda
and also Merlin and how they can move stuff
with their eyes and their minds
and I used to spend ages thinking that I could do that
or like trying and so I'd really like the satisfaction
of being able to do that, yeah. (laughing)
- That's lovely. - Thank you.
What track always ends up on the playlist,
the Josh O'Connor playlist? - Josh O'Connor playlist?
Maybe Bronski Beat.
- Hm. - Look it up, very good.
- Look it up. - That'd probably go on,
always like a set piece.
What advice would you give your younger self, young Emma?
- Oh, chill out. (laughing)
- [Josh] Chill, yeah.
- Chill, just chill.
I was, I was a lot.
Chill out, yeah.
- I could do that advice now.
I feel like we'll be saying that for the rest of our lives,
chill, do it.
- It's like take a beat, yeah, look around.
Josh, what's the best advice you've received
and advice you've completely ignored?
- Oh, actually this is quite sad really.
Someone quite close to me once said,
"Don't go into the creative arts,
because you'll never be satisfied,"
and I ignored it, 'cause I'm here.
- Yeah, to be fair actually, I've had that as well.
- Did you have that, yeah? (laughing)
- Being like don't do that. - Don't do it?
- Yeah. - But here we are,
so definitely ignored that.
What are you most passionate about?
- People, I think, people I know, people I care about.
Like there's not much else that brings me more joy, yeah,
than that, apart from what I do,
but I feel like that's an obvious one,
that obviously I'm very passionate about that.
- Yeah, yeah, you can't say acting, can you?
It's too much. - No.
But also it's one of those things, it's like you can't,
you can be passionate about what you do to an extent,
but like it's got a roof,
what is it called, when it was like a limit?
- Ceiling. - That has a limit,
yeah, it has a ceiling.
I feel like the people you care about
and the people you love, like there's no ceiling to that.
What's been the most rewarding project
thus far in your career?
- Most rewarding project,
this has been in so far as just seeing, you know,
learning off the other actors,
the Tobias's, the Helena's, Olivia's.
- Hm-mm. - You.
But I think, you know, "God's Own Country"
was a very particular time, it's like so good for my career.
I like made a best friend on that
and I sort of worked out a way of working,
a process that I continue to use now
and so that was probably the most rewarding.
If you could do a cameo on any TV show, what would it be?
That's a good question.
- Oh, "RuPaul's Drag Race," I'd love to be a judge.
- Yeah.
- I really want to do that, yeah.
- Yeah, you will.
- Josh, what do you want to be known for?
That's such a deep question.
- Yeah, just a bit of a cliche,
but I would like to sort of bow out of my life
feeling like people like, "Yeah, he was a kind guy.
He was a nice guy."
That would be not like boring, but just like kind,
I think would be the one.
- Yeah.
- Emma, what do you want to be known for?
There you go.
- Hopefully not remembered, (laughing)
in the sense that like,
but the theory is if you're remembered,
it's for something like not great.
- Oh, yeah.
- You know what I mean?
I kind of want to just be like,
I just want to do my thing
and be nice. - Imagine that.
How do we know Emma, she just did her thing.
(both laughing)
Did her thing. - She just did her thing.