nice to meet you thank you for being here oh it's a real pleasure exciting at times the big movie's
about to open up yeah i can't wait can't wait for you guys to see it really exciting uh and uh
are you fairly new to making major motion pictures this major yes
very very new to making this major film picture type thing no i i was in war
horse which was quite a big film um but not with as big a role so yeah i'm very excited
as a as a kid i don't know how old you are now but as a kid david at heart yeah um
me too yeah uh but you had to begin auditioning and going out to for movie parts and stuff
memories of that yeah i mean well you know like any actor when you start out
you're you're very very lucky to get in the door and the first door i got in one
of the first doors i got on was for a computer game to play james yeah display james bond and
uh so i thought well great you know i got a shot at one of those sort of great british iconic movie
heroes and uh so i sort of went along and uh when i got to the audition there were men in their sort
of late 40s in full dj where like rather like i am tonight unfortunately but overdressed a bit but i
had a respect for you well thank you very much you look great i wish more people would take a hint
from you i agree it's just people are sloppy what can you do jack hannah never even took his hat off
i know that guy seriously i mean you know i'm gonna come on with a lizard this is how i'd
like to dress that was amazing anyway so you're auditioning guys in their suits in their 40s yeah
and i so i go in sort of in casual where and i get into the room i thought wow i'll shake it up i'll
do you know because i thought there's going to be lots of movement in action because it's a bond
character so i started to throw myself around the room and dive over sofas and do lots of kind of
walter ppk type poses and that's not a euphemism um
i didn't get a call i'm still waiting so yeah it didn't work out well the video game where they
going to use your likeness as well as your voice or just your voice i think in that instance they
probably would have used the whole package yeah yeah yeah well now the heck who needs those people
right i didn't say that no people and you tell us everything we need to know about these photos okay
right there at the thing yeah now what is that what's
what's going on there well that was me and mr hannah backstage earlier and uh what i what i
what i failed to do was he could train his otter no one could train me as well as an author so it's
a massive discrepancy the author correctly has its things steepled underneath his chin whereas i have
it above my chin in front of my mouth so um all right this is a shot number two explain this one
this was better we rehearsed this one had a bit more time to both get into characters so
um what is that an otter is that what we're looking at it's an order yeah
darn yeah yeah okay and then there's the one on the left i mean yeah yeah look at that uh
yeah he flossed that's that morning look he's got proper hollywood teeth that often
uh did to tell us about you you and was even a buddy went to nepal we're hiking trekking
through nepal i was teaching there but we went i was teaching actually in india oh
my god what a wonderful experience it was an incredible experience in the tibetan buddhist
monastery um and and in the exiled tibetan community that live in sort of uh that part of
how did this come to you why did you want to do this how did that happen incredible woman came
to speak to my school and i was really inspired by it and uh in england sometimes if you're lucky
enough like i was to have the option you can take a year between school and going to university and
i decided to take a gap year as they call it and go to india and teach um in this community it just
talk fascinated me and that that alone was an amazing experience and then we had a we had a bit
of a break in a holiday so we went off tracking didn't have much money didn't have a guide
really didn't have a clue and uh there were four of us then three then two because the other two
got um altitude sickness i started to get altitude sickness um with the last remaining foundation
remember what the elevation is you're talking about here i can't no and it wasn't spectacular
we just did it too quickly and you really need to you need to take your time and do it properly
yeah acclimate and uh i didn't and i had crazy hallucinations and realized that i was in trouble
really actual hallucinations from the altitude section yeah what sort of things visually you
were seeing well yeah like sort of um i i had this whole hallucination that somebody had come in and
stolen stuff from us and then i went outside and there were these stars and they sort of started
exploding like fireworks it turned out a new group had actually arrived that night in the lodge where
i slept and they didn't steal anything but they did think our possessions were there so it was
like it was reality mixing with crazy paranoia yeah so now when you spend time at altitude does
that do it brain damage or is it just a temporary don't i i've been i wondered about this myself
i'm not trying to be cheeky here i'm just the good people be the judge
is that nice i thought for that but now uh one hopes that you and your teaching experience
made a difference for somebody in in those classes i doubt it
i wasn't a very good teacher and i think i was more to be fair to them they taught me
a hell of a lot more than i could ever ever teach them in return but i think it was a
fantastic cultural exchange yes absolutely and i think you're probably uh being modest about this
i'm sure some part of that experience benefited those kids for the rest of their life well i hope
so i hope so it might be a kick if you know one of them now is sort of going oh sir sir he's in big
film i mean that'd be great yeah hopefully i'll speak better english than that by now otherwise
now let's uh you're in the big star wars uh film uh the uh star wars star trek
altitude 60s breaking news breaking news you heard it here first on david's show yeah into darkness
uh and it opens may 16th now tell us about the character in in this there's a bit of mystery
here is there not he is secrecy he is basically a one-man weapon of mass destruction his name is
john harrison and he's a he's a terrorist and he has good reason and you'll you'll see what that
is in the film good reason for him a justifiable justifiable cause exactly one man's terrorist is
another man's freedom is he somebody that we know from the uh star trek films he's someone that you
will get to know in this film and i can't wait for people to discover who he is and what he does
and why so there will be a discovery unveiled in the film of what i do in the film yes yes
and the identity of uh your character is john harrison right he's a terrorist i thought i
just said did i say this i think i've got altitude sickness again i'm hallucinating let's take a look
at this uh into darkness that's a clip here do you know what we're going to see no okay take a look
all i can say is that was
your legs are like yeah that was that was a big split that's 3d because i'm telling you
no offense to the rest of the cast but you really don't need much more than you i mean
wow that's very sweet i don't do such good high kicks oh you're fine benedict
the cumberbatch ladies and gentlemen star trek into darkness pleasure to meet you good luck to
you sir thank you hope you come back that's it thanks for watching good night everybody
now stay tuned for great ferguson this is adam calver speaking