i thought how dare you i'm a good movie yeah i like dark ah i got really like si
i'm 16 year old about it i've made a list of things that i'd like to get through number one
i perform oral sex on you number two you perform oral sex on me number three we do a 69 if that's
what it's still called i just fell in love with your characters they're just amazing i loved it
so fresh and unique there are so many intimate honest scenes in this what were your first
impressions of each other well i thought he's tall daryl came to mind and we went for a long walk
and talked and my first impression was of someone immensely thoughtful that was my first impression
i mean obviously tall and gorgeous and all of that yeah but the actual sort of soul impression was of
of this deep thinking profound thinker i felt very safe around emma very instantly and i think that's
something you can't really work for i think it's something that emerges has she was very inviting
in terms of collaboration and she really wanted to know what i thought about this i felt really
well like respected and encouraged and seen and um i felt as as a film goes in terms of how much
these two people are intimate and vulnerable with one another but also as actors
the amount of relying we would have done with each other it just felt super exciting um that
was my first yeah and the other thing actually that's that i felt that i haven't said this before
but it's really important is that um i didn't feel as though i was going to have to look after
cheryl i wasn't going to have to mother him or worry about him worrying about being younger and
less experienced i didn't feel that at all we met a couple of hours later we were two actors
attending to these two people and our all we were thinking about was how do we make these two people
really really alive because we knew they had to be so bloody real realer than real
you know and they were and the chemistry between you both is just so genuine i think so many
people would benefit from spending time with leo grant emma out of the previous characters you've
played who would you love to see spend time with leo oh that's such a great great question well
um well eleanor dashwood yeah that would be tricky wouldn't it um in her empire line with
her very tightly guarded morals um i don't know how well that would go i'm not married
no
it would be great for alan rickman's wife in love actually to to hire daryl at leo as a kind of
you know some sort of rebalancing in the equation my expectations are not that high
after 13 years of mr oh but you always love scarves it's a very very funny question this
could be the perfect sequel i'm calling it okay yeah we've got to make this happen now okay
um daryl it must be the dream though getting to work with the emma thompson
what are your favorite emma thompson movies this interview is all going to be all about me
yes just wanting to let you know right now rightfully so i thought you know one one thing
that moment pops out to me that didn't make it into the film and it's a very cliche film that
you did but um it's as in it's like it's a big film so the harry potter character you played
yeah but i just thought the joy and the fear and the kind of i don't know i thought especially
in those worlds when those characters can be so annoying you're only saying that because that's
the only film that you're old enough to remember together we shall cast ourselves into the future
i've wanted to talk to you both about your dancing that dance scene because i loved it do you enjoy
dancing when you're filming because i would find it just so embarrassing is there music
playing like what was going on i like your dance i think we felt perfectly free we had
done a little rehearsal of what that dance was for the camera movement because the camera was kind
of wrapping around us at the same time um but that actual dance became came quite organic we actually
just played that song in rehearsal and that was more or less the first take kind of was what you
kind of see in the film yeah we set it and then we did it with a steady cam many times with the music
um and then sometimes with the music in our ears which was kind of weird
remember and that was kind of a little bit odd and not not quite so much fun but i love dancing
i mean i really love dancing i give a dance party every year which is just dancing because i love it
um so so the song was interesting because we didn't have access we couldn't choose a wonderful
song that we loved because it's too expensive the performing rights etc so we we were given a few
songs to listen to and there was a sort of jazzy one and there was a kind of 1940s one but that all
felt wrong for them and then this song was just so wonderful and when i hear it now it just brings
back this sense of two people and i think nancy could relate to it because it was a little bit
eighties you know yeah it's kind of the blues a little bit kind of
you know poppy yeah so she could understand it it's not like it was suddenly yeah
alien chemical my chemical reaction you know blink h182 you know i don't know how to answer this
in fact this is traumatizing me this song is actually traumatizing me yeah exactly
you know what i mean it's the moment nancy realizes leo's terrible taste
yes he's got terrible taste and he plays something horrible you both had moves are you aware that
the internet went wild for your dancing at the adele show i was informed about that
i think the word that somebody used was mumsy which i was extremely offended by i thought how
dare you i'm a good movie yeah i like dark ah i got really sick i'm 16 year old about it mumsy
the word is iconic the word is iconic not mumsy there are nuns out there with more
sexual experience than me it's embarrassing drop me to brush my teeth i love how nancy
makes you brush your teeth because she doesn't like the smell of mars bars
i can't be in the same room as my boyfriend when he's eating fish balls i honestly have a tantrum
when i see them in the fridge do you guys have any icks oh that's such a you i think maybe you
know you shouldn't really be with someone who eats fish balls thank you can you please tell him that
he could give fish balls fish balls fish balls from the deli okay okay because i don't like
them but well my husband likes some you know pickled herrings literally can't cope they're
in the fridge big reaction yeah don't like that what about you um i don't really have any smells
icky i mean apart from the obvious ones hey bad breath oh yeah i can't cope with that at all
that's hard you know but i even that i don't know yeah no no particular food types that i
can think of no i think i'm quite intolerant yeah we'll go through that later i think that
the way somebody smells is so important when you get a compliment saying that you smell good it's
the best coffee compliment isn't it it's true no i simply don't understand why
you're doing this this to save up for our college oh how wonderful are you really no
leo grande is really a persona and he lies about what he does for a living and everything
have you guys ever lied on a cv when you were younger to try and get a job i'm sort of horribly
honest it's a great way really well no not really i wish i had a really good story about yeah once i
really lied i feel like if i was a really cool person and iconic as you said not mumsy
um i but i'm about to be so mumsy because i just totally would have i would have loved to be able
to say yeah i can drive i'm very very good with a maserati um i could do like three point you know
wheelies and everything and i can ride horses and then actually done it and had a horrible accident
because i got it wrong if i were a really cool person i would have that answer but no
i'm really like not cool so i haven't really ever much lied because it would be a pretty
damn stupid thing to do yes i can fence and then you get on set that'd be like those no sorry
but then you get on set and they give you a fuzzy yes and you lose an iron b you look like a [ __ ]
and then you've wasted everyone's time and you get fired so i wouldn't recommend it but have you ever
lied no not really would work i mean like white lies but not in a sense of like um i can do this
yeah no not particularly lied about our age lied about our sex lied about our sexual proclivities
i mean i suppose you know well maybe i'll take to it talking to honest people that's what we like
i've always been ashamed of my body your body's beautiful i wish you could see that that final
scene when you're standing in front of the mirror is so beautiful it's just the perfect way to end
the film how empowering and liberating did that feel it was interesting it was very interesting
um i'd made a decision about how i wanted to stand i wanted to stand like um there's a very
old medieval picture by jira and there's another one by an article cranach of eve adam and eve and
eve's just standing there and they're you know there's odd medieval bodies which are sort of all
bits strange shapes they're not shapes that we we used to yeah but she's standing there with one leg
slightly bent and completely relaxed and i thought that's how nancy should stand and i i realized of
course that i had never ever ever stood in front of a mirror completely relaxed ever i always since
since girlhood had done something to make myself look like the thing i thought i ought to look like
nancy doesn't do that because she's way past that way way past it she's in a space that she's never
been in before which is she's not looking at her body and saying i like my body i don't like my
body for me it wasn't a moment of she's not yeah she's not judging it but she's not particularly
going what a great body it's not that it's not that kind of empowerment it's just finding herself
in a safe space on her own and knowing that she can access her body's pleasure centers and that's
why it's relaxed and that's why she smiles because she's been given such a gift by this
young man but it's a gift that she can keep he she doesn't need to keep seeing him to access it
you know it's such a beautiful gift it's and it's a great freedom and um that for me is what
i was trying to achieve but for on a personal level it was very hard it was just very hard
because i judged my body very harshly like people do as we're taught to do we're taught all taught
to do that we were speaking about earlier how women don't talk about pleasure and how it's sort
of frowned upon to talk about these things what this film does is it addresses that and i think
it's really important did you have conversations with women in preparation for this about female
pleasure i've had lots of conversations over the years about female pleasure because you
know obviously so examine it really it was a question of imagining not ever having had pleasure
you know that's what's the that's the the dialect between these two people is so fascinating she's
never had pleasure and leo has always somehow understood it and accepted it and that's what's
so remarkable about him is that you know when he describes that scene with his mum coming in and
there we were we were just exploring each other he's going that's a perfectly innocent thing to
do and it's like a scene a pre-lapse aryan scene it's before the fall of adam and eve it's like
an innocent enjoyment of you know but we've been fed this myth the apple you eat the apple and
then you have sex and then you're evil and you get cast out of the garden and you never get
to come back and then you all you get to do is have children get in and die that's the story
that's the story in our lives that comes from christianity you know it's a really tough
brutal story and you know leo seems to me to be kind of innocent and yet his mother who's
catholic interprets this as the ultimate sin and and he's dead to her instead of what an amazing
young man and that's what she's able to give him i suppose she says there's nothing
disappointing about you you're a marvel i just fell in love with you both in this
thank you so much for talking to me in huge congrats it was absolutely brilliant i can't
wait for everyone to see it thank you very much and we're thrilled that you like it
you