the
from when responding was the movie that kinda introduce you to American
audiences and
maybe a broader audiences did you have a sensible when it came out that
0 this is this is the thing now this is what I'm gonna be doing II was always
Clarion about myself before I mean that those
a alongside feeling like I'm I won't be able to do it out there's a
absolute bloody minded kind of self-confidence the cause
up with it as well the hand and that that age when I was quite young I just
fell absolutely
the this is it here I'm exactly where I should be in and this film is it a
I I never doubted I still don't really actually and doubt that films won't work
or
I'm convinced that they'll be they'll be but not that they'll be huge box office
successes but they'll be
absolutely the film we're trying to make and I'm and strain spotting was that
experience was
was getting reading that role and and
being involved the film making was just like clockwork it was such a I was like
a well-oiled machine everything was so smooth
and and that was an amazing cast and you know one of the
world's best directors I think and the best
some the best writing I'm about to work with them I was just a passing situation
really
and that this the that we were all absolutely flying
while we were making it now on trucks Bonar I'm
yeah of flying on on ourselves
all love our mutual energy you know on and
and and belief that this was going to be extraordinary
and and it was you know it was it was it an incredible phone
Parow and to be to be in it
when it came out in the mid-nineteen you know the night early nineties mid
nineties and
to be part of the south it was very very cool to be in London at that point
by the way says and Bill are and and poll
and that movie and to be right in the heart of a lot was
was an quite dangerous and also
really exciting I did you make a pro and cons list about
about being in Star Wars when you knew right away that it was going to be a
franchise that was gonna change your career that you were gonna have
fanboys other different variety coming up to you
yeah I'm did you worry
yeah I did I worried about it that it wasn't me
you know that it wouldn't it wasn't me about the closer I got to it the more I
want to date
and I took advice from everyone I spoke to Danny Boyle about us but my uncle
dennis is
always been my and he's an actor and he's always been my
inspiration as an actor he's finally found enough he was in the first three
he played
a character called wedge in the first three Star Wars films I was the only
non lead to survival three movies
and them i'm just still need him for the new ones that they're about to make may
be the only
maybe he'll get a call I but I enjoyed it
I mean I joined II they were very difficult always been very honest about
how they're very difficult to make
because they're all cuz there so and they became increasingly difficult
because
as we went through the 3somes I made three star sums
they became more and more green screen movies the first time we did we had SATs
quite big sets and them you know I remember walking with Joanna got up our
george showed me around the studio and we saw the first one in London
I me walking round we went into this we went into the San
our departments huge bedroom and there was guys with chain saws shaving
a huge used block of polished Irene into the shape of the submarine
and that was the they were lowering the and the printed one but I remember
this that they were lowering the kinda perspex canopy onto the top the summer
rain and
I look to the lilac we go under water would be underwater
I and he a look to me like I was not so that what and I said well let go
will go under water will be on the water in it and he just laughed when it's not
it's not really you know but and that
and he was right it was not really but
and the little boy in me the love Star Wars The loath to your machine
but but I'm it's hard it's hard to do
I've love being in them I really do as the first films I made the kids could
see really
they weren't watching the Pillow Book Transpo second but Sam
they could see that and so I this new relationship with children
and sometimes that was good because they were really excited nine Sun
another friends in mind a member judsen wouldn't speak to me for three years
just
whenever I came and he would hide behind the sofa lives terrified
he couldn't deal with obi-wan Kenobi being in the room
no yeah I was too much for him I'm that so another relationships that children
was about things but to
I've always enjoyed being in them and I think the
I i think people think the idea I'm not happy with them and i'd on I
the truth is that I am the extraordinary and
fantastical things to be and then and the
and to be that role is really special to me you know because by
if you'd asked me when I was a kid I was so I love them so much I we warm in my
brother and I war 0
the videotape literally War II watching Star Wars a because my uncle was in it
the first film I've ever seen on the big screen with my uncle and aunt
be a Star Wars is blew our minds I was six or seven min the first became a
and and I still solve and I think and people want it if they guys in
government guys
many probably who felt that way that I did
watching the first one in 1972 60
7 wanted to feel like that again
and and they didn't because there are no in the thirties you know neff
responsibilities and adults and that sucks
so they didn't feel any more and that's why I think the film's came in for such
criticism for
I'm I was always happy to be in them wouldn't get outta doing like a
an action series or a big you know grand musical like my room yeah
like that that's a different kind of acting all together in some way I'm
enough done big fella but there's just a whole different feel this
this an iced thing to turn up on a huge set sometimes
but is more satisfying to turn up on a tiny one usually
because it's nice to know everybody in the crew and Evans names and
and and you can turn a lead the
the the island the island or I'm
angels and demons or there's just so many people in the crew you turn up in
its
as a massive massive in
military operation from going from one place to the next week on
possibly shoot see should much livings much slower
and I like to shoot really quickly I'll I like them the
like when we to transport if we did you know 45 locations today we discuss jumbo
we'd jumbo vans you know they would be the proper they are gonna be my had a
bus
and they just be literally pain to the last lamp post whatever is made
I go with to shoot a scene jump back in advance me somewhere else or other stuff
eggs I just painting stuff I
but that was really thrilling it's really exciting and and
and it's something witty and either you can sense in the work you could feel
that role
you have money to destroy problems you have to solve them creatively
when we did shallow grave you know cake when the designer adele is
this extraordinary said but the you know I remember my bedroom was the wrong
color summit two bullet the blue wasn't balloon offer something
and another movie you just go okay well we'll just take this break we'll come
back to this tomorrow or
and and there we just literally were the acting the scene with
you know the paint fumes and then because they just literally painted the
walls and
I the something really that bad and a dike II with I remember always seeing
Danny Boyle with
Brian Tufano are RDP a Berlin Berlin lighting cameraman
and and pop harkin who's a prop sky
and they was all often the three guys who when the worst
man that shit hit the fan would be standing together the some the coming up
with ideas and done is a brilliant articles
he'll listen to other people he said he's L of direct to suffer from the need
to
be in charge of everything and danny is up true filmmaker cuz he stands amongst
all these down to people and
will listen and take you know people suggestions
and that's a very exciting place to be your plans really intimate scene
yeah how do you feel them to have to have something that intimate and that
emotional
and you have to come do with the gods cambia tell me about your technique for
I love that I love about something I think the mutts the source in the most
thrilling thing
love all for me is that it's those two
very separate things this to sizes the brain
are two very different things happening one is that your
you have to inhabit the emotional life love your character in this given moment
and and to the point where feels real
I think that's the best it can be if it feels real to you and then
the other part of your brain is making sure that that performance is going
on camera or and seats are going at
to the audience and that's a technical thing and
when those two sisters world's come together as so thrilling I love that
because in this situation can be playing a sink where they come for the cameras
far away on a very long lens
and when the comes following a long lenses it's beautiful
it's a bit is that the things that make close-ups beautiful in
as the the thumb backgrounds very out of focus on your
at the focus puller has got tying the
depth of field like this so if you move like that you're a focus
so if you're doing an emotional moment like this
and you're crying and you you gonna this is your you gonna that
while this great emotion they are dredging up will not be in the movie
because
you'll be our focus. so I'm when you're doing those two things and you're aware
that the focus is very
narrowing so you working with him to working with the focus puller
and you're working with a camera crew and yet you're still completely wrapped
up in the
emotional moment that's really gets thats what's wonderful about film acting
I think for me I love that the most us
that's where it makes me excited 0 them
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