- So this is your second time on the show.
- Yeah.
- And last time it was, you know, over Zoom.
- [Jamie] Virtual, yeah.
- Yeah, it was virtual.
So did you like this time better?
- I like it better. You've made me a promise on the first
- [Kelly] I did.
- Do you remember what that was?
- Totally, totally.
(audience laughing)
- She doesn't know, she doesn't know, it's okay.
- [Kelly] I totally remember.
No, I do remember.
It had to do with food.
(Kelly laughs)
- It did.
- Yes. All right. Well, I think we have that tape.
I love In-N-Out. No offense. I'm just a Texas girl.
So I'm like a Whataburger person at heart.
You don't know what that is, but next time,
when you come in studio,
See, I see people clapping.
You know what I'm talking about? Whataburger's good.
It's in the title.
It's Whataburger, people.
But, anyway, when you come here, next time,
I'm gonna have you try one, hopefully.
- I'd love that.
- You know what I did for you?
- No.
- Well, I brought you some.
(audience clapping)
- You did?
Oh, wow.
(Kelly laughs)
- Thank you.
- I love you right now.
Every, oh a napkin? That's so kind, Justin.
You know what the best part is, Justin?
Is the sock game. Your socks are amazing.
Whataburger even makes amazing socks, it seems.
Oh, they got us a double! What?
Okay. You want to take a bite of this?
It's real good. Be prepared.
Come on now.
And the crispy bun that's been lightly toasted, crispy bun?
Come on.
- That's amazing.
- It really is!
- That's amazing.
- Yeah.
Do you have a favorite burger? Like back home?
- In Belfast?
I don't live there anymore. When I go back,
there's a place called Bunsen Burger.
- Oh.
- Bunsen Burger. It's not like a chain
or anything, it's just like one of them.
- Oh, that's kinda cool.
- Yeah, brilliant, really good burger.
- Not as cool as Whataburger, but it's cool.
(Kelly laughs)
No, I'm just kidding.
- You're bite was too small, I feel.
- You know why? Because, here's the thing.
I'm going to let you in on a secret, and the world.
I have the perfect amount of space in between my teeth.
So every time I eat on this damn show,
I have food.
- Okay, yeah.
- Yeah, and I don't want to do that to you, Jamie.
(Kelly laughs)
I'm in the process of flossing right now.
Did you ever have any, like, service jobs,
like, when you were growing up?
What were your jobs? I'm going to ask you a question
right before you take a big bite.
Just so you can feel real 50 Shades of Grey sexy.
- I did, yeah.
I worked at a pub, in a bar, yeah.
- Does everyone do that in, like, Ireland?
- It's kind of a rite of passage.
- That's what I mean, I feel.
- And I also genuinely think it's a really
important thing to do.
- Service jobs, yeah.
- To experience people like that.
Some people are awful.
Like some people are so rude to you in that industry
and I can't stand that.
- And you can tell,
they've never had to be in that industry.
You can tell someone that's never been a server.
I've been a server.
- Totally agree. Totally agree.
But yeah, I did it when I first moved to London.
I didn't really have any prospects.
So I worked in the pub for six months.
- Yeah.
- It was great.
I went back there this year for the first time in 19 years.
I had like a pint there and brought my wife.
It was nice.
- Isn't it kind of a cool, like full circle moment?
Like from whenever you started, and never knew that
and then you back and you're like, I did it.
- Yeah. It's so nice.
Cause I used to be out at the back,
bringing the trash out at the back
and there was a very, very like
expensive sushi restaurant near the back of the thing.
- Yeah.
- I mean, I used to see all these, like,
famous people and like, you know,
famous soccer players and stuff come out
while I was just, like, covered in, like, bin juice
is what we call it. Like that juice, that water,
you get the bottom of the bin.
- Yeah.
- I'd be covered in that and just watch his elegant people
will pass and think, I want a taste of that.
And then, so, when we went for a drink with my wife,
we came back, we then went to that restaurant
after and I was like, oh, this is nice, yeah.
- That's so cool!
Oh, I love that.
And it makes you appreciate it, I think, too.
- Totally, yeah.
- That you had to earn that. I think so.
But, well, the movie is based on a writer-director,
Kenneth Branagh's childhood.
So did, was that kind of,
I don't know, is that,
I always find if I was an actor, like,
that would make me a little nervous to play someone's story.
- Yeah. You would think so.
But it was actually kind of the opposite.
Ken was amazing at just sort of
imbuing us with a real freedom,
a real confidence that we were the right people
to be telling the story.
It wasn't too much of,
in fact, it wasn't any of, like,
you're playing my parents.
This is how they would have done it.
I don't want you doing that.
He very much was cool with us
bringing your own sort of flavor to it
and trusting us with that.
And so it ended up being like the opposite effect where we
felt totally free. And you know,
we had the access to ask him
whatever we felt appropriate to ask him about
certain aspects of his parents' character.
But for the most part, he let us do our own things,
which was great.
- [Kelly] I love that,
when people give you a bit of freedom.
- It's special.
Is it true that you and a bunch of your other dads.
You said soccer, I'm going to go with.
Do you form like a soccer team?
- Yeah, we did.
- [Kelly] What's that like at almost 40?
(Kelly laughs)
- Well, it's a lot of limping.
- I was gonna say.
- A lot of injuries.
- Is it fun? That's kinda cool though.
- It is fun.
We started, I started at like, during the,
one of the first lockdowns, I think.
You know, we were all just sitting around so much.
And I'm someone who needs to be active.
And so I was like, let's start a soccer
match between me and a load of dads
from the school.
- Well, is it true that
you also keep in shape by doing push-ups,
like randomly, because why?
(Jamie laughs)
Cause just as like a workout all the time.
- A long time ago, no, I always have a lot of energy.
I struggle with sitting still.
- Me too, but I don't do push-ups.
(laughs)
- Maybe you should. It's a good way to just.
I apparently have very high levels
of adrenaline in my system.
So I just feel like I just,
I go crazy if I don't, like, exercise
or I just go crazy.
- Mine's just more projects.
I like to be doing stuff all the time.
- Yeah, well that usually will satisfy me.
But if I'm going through a period
where I'm not preparing anything
and my kids are at school and I've just got
space, and I need to. Yeah,
so I'll just, like, drop down and do.
It's also good just to get your blood flowing, I think.
- I know, Jessie does this crap.
We go on a girl's trip
and all of a sudden we'll see her over here.
We're like at the beach, like having a good time.
We're all watching some documentary
and all of a sudden I'm, like,
what the hell are you doing behind me?
She's like doing squats, like, behind the couch.
Like, while she has a glass of wine in her hand.
- No.
- I'm like, yeah, I'm telling you.
- Squats is too far.
- But, but if you look at her,
I should probably start squatting.
(Kelly laughs)
I should probably do push-ups and squatting.
I'm going to get on this in January.