>> James: NOW PATRICK, I DON'T KNOW IF PEOPLE KNOW THIS ABOUT
YOU, YOU STARTED OUT YOUR CAREER, BEFORE YOU BECAME AN
ACTOR, YOU WERE A JOURNALIST.
I DIDN'T KNOW THIS, WHAT SORT OF STORIES DID YOU COVER?
>> WELL, JOURNALIST IS A RATHER AGGRANDIOZE TERM STO DESCRIBE
WHAT I DID, I WAS 15RBGS MY EDUCATION WAS OVER BUT STRINGS
WERE PULLED IN THE ROTARY CLUB AND I-- MY HEAD MASTER HAD GOT
ME A JOB BECAUSE SHE KNEW THE EDITOR ON OUR LOCAL WEEKLY
NEWSPAPER.
I WAS A JUNIOR REPORTER.
BUT I HAD MY OWN LITTLE DISTRICT.
BUT THE PROBLEM WAS I HAD ALREADY STARTED ACTING.
>> RIGHT.
>> James.
>> I WAS SO OBSESSED WITH AMATEUR THEATRICS AND I WAS
WORKING WITH THREE OR FOUR COMPANIES SIMULTANEOUSLY IN THE
EVENING.
BUT JOURNALISTS HAVE TO WORK IN THE EVENING, SO I GOT INTO THE
HABIT OF BEING A LITTLE CREATIVE AND INVENTING STORIES.
>> FAKE NEWS, THAT IS WHERE IT STARTED.
>> AND ONE NIGHT.
>> James: WERE YOU THE FIRST FACEBOOK.
>> YES, HEY, THAT COULD BE MY BYLINE.
>> James: THERE ST. >> ANYWAY ONE NIGHT THE EDITORS
PHONE RANG AND THEY SAID THERE IS A HUGE FIRE IN A MILL, I
LIVED IN AN INDUSTRIAL TOWN.
HUGE FIRE IN THE MILL IN THE MIDDLE OF MEURFIELD AND WE HAVE
TO SEND SOMEBODY OVER THERE RIGHT NOW.
AND SOME EDITOR SAID OH NO, PATRICK IS AT A COUNCIL MEETING,
RIGHTS THERE ALONGSIDE THE MLKER IS HE ON THE JOB.
WE DON'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT ANYTHING.
SO I WAS AT A REHEARSAL.
AND SOMEBODY WAS GOING TO CALL ME IN THE EVENT, SO THE NEXT
MORNING I WAS CALLED INTO HIS OFFICE AND HE SAID PATRICK,
OKAY, YOU GIVE UP THIS STUPID ACTING LARK YOU ARE ON AND YOU
WORK AT BECOMING A JOURNALIST OR GET OFF MY NEWSPAPER.
AND I WENT UPSTAIRS AND PACKED UP MY TYPE WRITER AND WENT HOME
AND SAID TO MY PARENTS I'M GOING TO BE AN ACTOR.
>> James: AND THANK GOD YOU DID.
WE'LL BE RIGHT BACK WITH MORE OF THE SHOW.