Hey, Rhys how are you?
I'm alright, thank you very much. Congrats on the film.
Thank you.
It's great fun as ever, and you seem to be having a ball playing this character.
How much?
How much fun was it to go to work every day to play best you and great fun?
I mean, just I mean, it's quite a long time ago
because I'm sure you know this.
We've be we've been delayed.
And it's so great fun.
And you know, we've been recording it this week while we've been promoting it,
you know, and it's all, you know, we shot it.
For me, it was the last kind of film I shot before COVID, you know,
so we shot it with all the freedoms that we so took for granted.
Then, you know, and it was a really joyous time
working with this cast, you know, all of whom are exquisite actors.
Matthew Vaughn, of course, is somebody I've always wanted
to work with and never dreamt that I'd worked with him
on this playing this role, you know, it really was a dream come true.
And and to be and to shoot a film that is such a
that is so innately cinematic, you know,
it is a big cinema movie , you know, with with huge landscapes
and a vast emotional canvas, deeply entertaining,
moving, funny, thrilling
all these things in a beautifully balanced by Matthew.
And I think it's finally having waited all this time.
I think the films coming out at a perfect time for us all
we need, we need to be thoroughly amused
and entertained and moved at this time as a species.
We certainly do.
But also, you get to add to your CV that you've had a sort of sword fight
with the great Ralph Fiennes which oh, absolutely.
I've even I've even got to spread
Bakewell tart on his groin
as a yeah, do you have the sword fight?
And then you have the lead up to it, which is very strange , very funny.
Yeah, a little bit of foreplay, which is literally in some respects.
Exactly.
So, yeah, definitely a career highlight.
Somebody asked me before what Ralph's leg tastes like?
And I said Oscar.
Of course, it's all Oscar is, and that's his goal.
And it's been a busy time for you.
Obviously, you've been a part of another big
franchise, Game of Thrones, which you can't talk about, I'm sure.
But what was the experience like of going from one to the other?
Because I imagine there's
so much fandom with Game of Thrones that people want to know.
The thing is I I was a fan of Kingsman.
I watched Kingsman, but Game of Thrones.
I mean, it's not that I wasn't a fan.
I never really I'd seen it.
I hadn't. I knew of it, of course, but I hadn't seen it.
It wasn't a series that I that I followed, so I was coming into it
with with fresh eyes, if you like.
And like you said, I'm I'm not allowed to say
anything about it other than again, it's a prequel.
Yeah, yeah.
And I know it's like, I'm sure you've been us all day that there's
the reemergence of a certain Spider-Man foe.
Yeah, I mean, what's going on with that?
I don't know.
I don't know. Again, no one will say anything.
But I like the fact that for fans, as a fan, I just want to see the film.
You know, I don't know exactly. I think, you know what I used.
What I say about the film is like, like all the best Christmas presents,
you don't know what's in them until it's time to open them. So
Spider-Man...
Yeah, a busy Christmas in the Rhys Ifans house.
Lovely to talk to you.
We'd say, Merry Christmas.