hi my name is ashley walters
hi um my name's ashley walters
and this is
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hello it's kano and ashley walters and
we're going to be interviewing each
other today
you want to go first all right my
question first what was your favorite
scene to shoot in this new season it's a
spoiler in it really how'd you get
around this
um
our scene in the cafe is it the second
one where we have that oh oh oh are you
enjoying that not enjoyed it so much but
i think there was a lot of build-up to
it in it because we were talking about
that scene for months before we shot it
that's why we've been
i was disappointed with myself yeah
there was one moment where you did that
thing all right so we can't say too much
but i know what's wrong yeah so seeing
in the cafe with both of us okay what's
your favorite thing about working with
you
working with you
it's a recipe for disaster i don't know
why you guys wrote these questions
you know i always laugh at when working
with you
when you start um
you start directing yourself
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i remember when we done a scene and then
he was like guys this is what you do
you move him there and you do that and
you do you remember
i think it was on brady's on brady's set
and you just directed this thing
yourself and i was like well that's when
i knew you was going to jump into that
you just was too experienced
oh
bless you man are you ever like
surprised at where you've ended up
you know and becoming the
the person that you are now
just the creator that you are now you're
a director you're a writer you're an
actor you're a producer are you ever
surprised at that
no it was always the goal
i didn't know what like medium it was
gonna be
yeah i'm saying i didn't know but
i know from an early age i always wanted
to like be in entertainment sometimes
and if it was act it wasn't just that
yeah it was yeah acting was never the
main thing for me
music was always from the beginning was
like yeah that's me like that's what i
want to do but similar question back to
you
because you've been acting for a while
now when you first got into it
how did you find it personally i found
it
difficult the lines
were dawned into me
on set i remember being on set with you
and there was a scene we've done
with that bobby rakes
while i wasn't speaking
i was just like froze because i knew i
was miked up and i didn't want to move
because i didn't want to
i didn't want my jacket to rustle on the
mic because i was coming from being in
this like i was recording artists
and then yam was like yo like when you
i know it's not your lines but it's
present you can hear what he says and i
was just like i didn't want to move
because and he started like no you can't
nice not like that so i was like
literally i didn't know what i was doing
you know what i mean but it's people
like yeah and people like you that kind
of helped me for it so yeah
what is the best advice you've been
given
in your career don't be late
stellen scott scott told me that i did a
film with steven scottsdale and i was
lit
and he was like
i got into a car with him in the morning
and he was like listen you need to think
about how you're going to give me those
15 minutes back oh wow and that's that's
sat with me for like my whole career now
you started directing have you
been speaking to other directors yeah
they've been giving you advice 100 yeah
and that and you know as a director it's
like can't compromise
on your vision
and what your vision is you know you
always have to push it you always have
to push it home and it's a sad fact
because i'm not one i'm i'm kind of a
sort of person that i don't like i like
to collaborate
you know i mean i like to be open about
collaborating and i like to delegate or
whatever but in that scenario as a as a
director when you're overseeing so many
different facets of like
one show you have to have the overall
vision that the rest of the people may
not understand what young talent do you
see today that you admire
there's a few young talents i see today
and i'll keep it top boy related i would
say jasmine
yeah
jasmine jobson who plays jack
i think she really
has come into her own she's just got
something in her just in her natural
personality
that allows her to shine on camera i
think she's amazing and the other person
i would say is um
little sims because i'm so proud of and
i've been like you know speaking to her
and watching her for
a long time
in music and now she's obviously acting
as well but just what she's doing and
how she's coming across to the world is
just this all-round
creative force
i'm very proud of what she's doing as
well so um yeah good choices
definitely
how have you found the international
success of top work but compared to when
it came out you know in 2000 and
whenever 11 on channel 4.
yeah it's definitely i mean it's
obviously a global show
everyone knows it all around the world
and
that has been it's been amazing but i
just tend not to think about
it yeah just like for me it's like i
can't think about it being this big huge
thing that it is to the rest of the
world because
you know first of all that plays with my
ego you know i'm saying it's detrimental
to me and then
second it takes your eye off the ball
when it comes to how we make this show
what it is but i love the fact that it's
it's a global thing now and
when we're doing what we always done was
trying to give new people opportunities
non-actors and stuff like that they're
kind of being put on this platform for
for all to see so all the kids in the
show yeah hopefully this is a
you know a major opportunity for them to
go and
crack on and progress in
career and life that's a benefit
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