- [Josh] Why, look who I have here!
Natalia, Tom, it's good to see you guys. Welcome.
- [Tom] Wonderful to see you again, mate.
- [Natalia] Hello. - Handsome as ever.
- Always a wondrous experience,
and even more wondrous to have Natalia--
- Aww! - Here in the middle.
- Welcome to Comic-Con.
So set the scene for me first.
I assume you guys have been here
with the Potter shenanigans over the years.
Have you been to Comic-Con before?
- I haven't been to here, no.
Not this convention, no.
- Okay, what about you, Tom?
- I came once for, I wanna say, The Half-Blood Prince,
when no one else wanted to go and I was really keen to.
(laughter)
- I'll go!
- And then I came with The Flash a couple years ago
and then here for this time, yeah.
Definitely feels different this time 'round,
coming with a, well, a brand new show for starters
rather than being part of something
that's already been there.
And the fact that it's on this new format of YouTube,
YouTube Premium, I think it's a really
exciting bunch to be with.
- So as of this morning, I knew honestly,
like next to nothing about this show.
It's one of those shows that feel you guys kind of shot
just sort of under the radar, out in Cape Town
as I understand it, right?
And then I watched the trailer that just hit.
'Cause I think, did you guys do your panel?
- [Tom] We just dropped the trailer, yeah.
So what's the review?
C'mon let's hear it.
- You're still here. I would have canceled it
if I didn't like it.
Like, boot 'em out!
No, it looks really cool, and evocative,
and still very mysterious.
I'm still trying to get it.
Give me a sense of what is the central mystery
that this show, Origin, sets up.
- I can't tell you much.
Obviously!
But I think, what's great about this show,
is yes, there's space, and there's kind of a destination,
which is this planet, Theia,
but it's why all those people are on that ship,
and why these strangers are stranded on the ship.
They're all tryin' to - it's like they're early colonizers,
they're to find a new life
and they're trying to leave their past behind.
They're trying to escape their past.
- Essentially it's an opportunity for people,
such as yourself, to leave behind the terrible--
- The life that I've created for myself?
- You say the wife?!
(all laugh loudly)
- [Tom] Oh my god! You heard it here first!
- I've gotta go! I gotta make a call.
- Cracks are showing!
Leave your terrible wife or terrible life.
- [Josh] I didn't say that! - Any of it.
- Even watching in the short clip that was released
it doesn't seem like this trip goes so well, though.
It doesn't seem like this is necessarily the best idea.
- Well, yes. Essentially, we start by finding out
that 490 of the 500 passengers have been evacuated,
and all 60 of the crew have left the ship as well.
- But not us.
- Yes. There's just 10 that are left without any explanation
and without any idea of how to fly a spaceship,
or what the hell is going on.
- Or deal with a kind of malevolent ship.
It's not a nice ship. - No, it's not!
- It's not friendly. - It's not a nice place to be.
It's not space travel as I envisioned.
- It's not San Diego. - No.
- And you've been shooting this in South Africa?
- Yes. - Uh-huh.
- So give me a sense of what that's like.
That must be a gorgeous, amazing place to be in.
As far as locations you've shot in, how does it compare?
- I don't think there's anything you can
possibly say bad about it. - No.
- The people, the obvious beautiful scenery--
- The landscapes! I climbed Table Mountain
four times with my dog.
Lion's Head, that's amazing.
The coast, like Camps Bay, it's just beautiful!
The food and the wine is - yeah.
- Nat went full, like, ranger, outdoor--
- Like, I'm here. I'm doing it!
- I took my dog with me, and we just went. Yeah.
- For you guys, generally, is location a big factor
when you take on a gig?
- That's a good question! It plays a factor.
- It does! But then, if you read a script and you're-
I've done something in a really cold place in winter,
and you're like, I do love the script,
but this is gonna be - this is hard.
- [Josh] Right, cause probably the first read,
you're not necessarily thinking that,
you're just thinking the material -
Oh, this is a great part. This is a great story--
- And I've got a job! Yes!
- [Josh] Then you go practical. You're like, wait.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah. Exactly.
I've got to live in bloody, well,
I'm not going to list any names.
- Yeah, what's the places you hate?
(laughter)
- That's where I was like (gasps) Yeah.
- I think to me it's more the people, obviously.
We were very lucky to have Mika and Paul Anderson,
setting the tone, setting the bar really high.
And not only are they both really talented,
they're both really lovely and approachable people.
- And fun! With Paul, I don't know,
I could hear from the way he said "Cut!",
that we'd nailed that scene, or nailed that take.
Just so excited, "Cut!"--
- He's a big personality.
I've been on his sets before and he's a big,
he's a big presence, right?
- [Natalia] There's an enthusiasm.
There's like this childish enthusiasm,
which you get with sometimes first-time directors,
but obviously tempered with a huge amount
of experience and talent.
It's great!
- Unlike Felton, who just walks in
and is like, "Let's just get this over with, guys."
- [Tom] You know, we just do one take.
I don't even do that for any off-screen lines.
I put a tennis ball there with a--
- Do you draw on your face, at least?
- Good luck!
(laughter)
- And funny enough, the other actors seem
to prefer it to my actual performance.
- [Josh] Well, I mean, - Not sure what that says.
- Has it's benefits.
So it must be said, it is kind of an odd, kind of
thing of fate that you guys are together, again, you know.
So, are you a package deal?
When you learn that the other was involved,
what was your take on it?
- No, I didn't know!
I found out when I got to my apartment.
I got given my phone, and there was the list,
and I was like, "You're joking!"
'Cause we didn't work together actually in Harry Potter.
It's actually, I've got to know him through conventions
and press stuff and like, years after.
- We'd realized, we never spent a day on set together, ever.
I never saw you in costume, ever.
- [Josh] (laughs) That's amazing!
- We just made fun through all the junkets
and various different bits and pieces.
- Who suffered from more Harry Potter PTSD,
you think, in the years?
- Well, this one actually has PTSD in the show.
I'm not sure if it's Potter-related.
- You can use it, yeah!
(laughter)
- Funny, still hasn't really sunk in. I guess to me -
I don't know about you, but it doesn't feel
like it's really going anywhere anytime soon.
And it's a fun, like - it's amazing now!
Most of the fans that come up weren't born
when we started making the films.
So it's a little scary how quickly time's flown.
But yeah, excited by the passion and love still.
- Have you guys seen Cursed Child, on Broadway--
- On stage? Yes! Okay, so, I've never done this,
but I had a friend who came to London,
it was his birthday, and he's like,
"Why don't you get tickets to the show?"
And I was like, "I can't." He's like,
"You're in it! You're in the film!"
I literally went to my, I was like,
"I want two tickets to the Cursed Child."
But all in the same day, thinking like she'd go,
"Nat, shut up. You're not getting them."
and she's like, "Of course! Would you like four?"
and I was like, "Are you--
- You got tickets to the Cursed Child?!
- Yes!
- Is the reason you haven't seen it you can't get tickets?
- Yes! - I don't believe that.
That's not true. - It's amazing!
- I don't want to reach out to Jo.
Cause it's just like pestering her--
- [Josh] (laughs) "Hi!"
- Although I heard the Malfoys have quite a presence in it.
- This is what I'm saying.
- Yeah. I'd be very excited to see it sometime--
- I think you would dig it.
So do you know the story at all?
We're not gonna act it out for you now,
unless, Natalia, you wanna just, you and I--
- I would love to see your rendition of both parts.
How long have we got, lads?
- You have seven and a half hours for me to do it?
- Seven? Done! - Yeah. Let's do it!
I've got my wand. Here we go!
(laughter)
- I am very excited to see it.
My mum took my niece the other day,
and she said she was really, really impressed.
Not only with the story, but also the--
- [Josh] Oh, the production's insane.
- Yeah, so I'm excited.
- The magic tricks they do are like, what?! What?
Ah, do it again!
- I'm also talking again.
Yes, you're right.
Potter's never going to leave any of us,
but the Fantastic Beasts cast is coming by over here.
Is that a unique kind of perspective for you guys,
to see that new cast enjoy the spoils
of this rich mind of Jo, and sort of see them go through it?
Has that been a fun kind of vantage point?
- [Natalia] I like it being in America.
I really hope they do something around World War II.
I think that'd be very interesting to see like,
wizards and that kind of universe.
- Yeah, the world is expanding.
Do you know, is it David Yates again?
- Yeah.
- I just love seeing Yates-- - He's so great.
- And Heyman and Rowling together.
- They're still at it, yeah.
- Those three are a force to be reckoned with!
And even though, I do definitely separate the two,
as completely separate franchises really,
it's nice to see that world is still
being brought to life so brilliantly.
- Yeah, that's amazing.