I'll tell you what a week you have had with the premiere in London and every
true it's true how did you enjoy sitting there with all those people watching
yourself on the screen well I was kind of thrown into it because I was I was
playing with my friend my little cousins were there and I'm so playing with them
and they said oh we've only got 20 minutes to get ready so I kind of had to
rush off to my hotel room and get ready and ready and ready in Palma clothes and
stuff and I was thrown into this white Merc and drove off and all of a sudden I
got this car noise right it's big massive screams all over the place
Lords of flush and all of this talk it's got Jamie you can't do anything but it's
really weird it was really mad it's crazy there's a strange feeling I guess
who did you have there that maybe your room and or Hugh Grant Jonny Lee Miller
mmm Kathy Burke people like that yeah did you get a chance to talk to some of
them I did yeah got a chance to talk to most of them this was they were all
queuing up to talk to you they were yeah Jonny nice feeling I should think it was
now clearly this film is all about a young boys I mentioned who wants to be a
dancer and this mirrors your life because what what age did you start to
dance I start dancing no six uh-huh because you wanted to you because your
mother well because dances have been in my family for ages because my mum my
auntie and my sister dance and so when I was very little I used to get dragged
with my sister to the dancing school and competitions and things like and I just
saw this girl dancing on the stage and she wasn't doing it properly and she was
out with beating out with rhythm and stuff and and I kind of turned to mum
said well I can do better than that and she said well fine I'll buy your parrot
options you can go inside there you're on still have you done tap and ballet
and what did you make say at school when you told them you were taking up I got a
better hustle when I was it yeah they kind of said ballerina boy to a girl
things that it's it's hard for eight-year-old boy on his own to kind of
handle that because you can't really tell his mom because you'll just get it
and twice is worse and but I eventually I kind of plucked up the courage and
kind of thought it's more of a challenge for me because I'm gonna prove to them
they're not just for girls and for boys as well and of course when you go back
to school on Monday I mean everybody at school they've had a special preview at
their school the house so they'll all have seen that - willow still have to
get all the the probably surf changed that your
stars actually were they impressed when they heard that you'd got the part well
they actually got told when I was actually doing rehearsal so I didn't
know what their reactions were again oh I see so it's all gonna be fresh yeah
go back you know I've seen it they've heard about in certain the reviews I
adored Julie Walters she is she's great so how did you find her to work with
well she's great I thought and when the first said you work with Judy what I
thought she was gonna be sunglasses star-studded I was in a trailer all time
and standing in the corner on her on and stuff but she isn't she was like really
real and she's really down to earth and she's funny all the time we had a great
time she said she worked hard during all the rehearsals not really knows that
quite a bit of dancing is there is yes very hard for us both and there was
actually a two-month rehearsal period before we actually started shooting and
where me and Julie learnt the dances fantastic addition a lot seven auditions
uh-huh seven yeah what's the first two and I didn't hear anything for two
months and so I kind of thought well I even got the part but then eventually
the casting director formula said that the still holding open auditions for
Billy Elliot and so I went to about another five and the last audition
lasted for about two weeks and the last edition that's what two years just it
was just they were kind of grid didn't how far I got on with him at Dancing and
my standards and things and then eventually Steven the director for me up
and said that he'd like me to blow the part but he had likes out of thousands
of people 30,000 boys huh mm boys that must've made you feel good when you got
the plan well I was watching the football at the time so I was wondering
the football than what Steve not to say oh so tell me about it then so you get
the phone caller here I used to go because it was penalty it was a
nightmarish match right it was a classic old game Middlesbrough and Sutherland
it's a kind of wonderful and I'm saying yeah yeah yeah there's penalty kick
something like yeah yeah of course yeah and of course he scores I'm like yes
cheers and he kind of passes the phone over to my mom and he actually said you
never guessed I've just offered him a partner phone with you and I've said now
and has your mum being with you throughout all she actually yeah she was
on sale all the time she's been travelling around with me when we've
been to American things art so she's getting to travel and
wanted to get her to come on the program today but you wouldn't come now she's a
bit shy she said she's happy and pride but exhausted she is yeah we had a long
long night well listen when he went to America this limo treatment give me the
the scene as to how they treated you we arrived in JFK Airport in New York and
all of a sudden this big massive black limo pulls up and the kind of guards not
ours and we're just expecting a little yellow cab but no of course it's big
massive black limo turns up and they say well this is for you so we can't go over
so we're getting this big massive thing and we're like really surprised and
stuff and we get drugged everywhere in it though I mean not just in one city
everywhere we went to Chicago or San Francisco LA all in limos and people
looking to see who yes yeah and it's kind of gives away the kind of feel when
a little boy pops his head up with a video camera and stuff wow yeah no
because it's my first time yeah San Francisco did
how many weeks a month to be there was about three weeks you know how exciting
this was great I mean do you think it's a bit of dreamland at the moment you
know that it's all happened so quickly in a way wait has something quickly yeah
but I've been setting off a lot of time with school which is about thing as well
I'm straight back to school I just say on Monday and I've got my GCSE Stein so
I'm not looking forward to them but it has been great they've cheating me very
well I think you'll be able to settle back down to school work now probably
not hard isn't it is after last night