-Our next guests are brothers and talented actors.
You know one from films like "Ex Machina"
and the "Star Wars" and "Harry Potter" franchises,
the other from "Peaky Blinders" and "Phantom Thread."
Their show, "Frank of Ireland,"
premieres April 16th on Amazon Prime video.
Let's take a look.
-Doofus, this is your room.
-I know. We be roomies.
-[ Sighs ]
No, silly. That's where my brother sleeps.
You're in with me, buster.
How's that?
-I don't know, Doofus.
What if I'm with a lady? -I don't mind watching.
-Please welcome to the show Domhnall and Brian Gleeson.
How are you, gentlemen?
-Pretty good. How are you doing, Seth?
-I'm doing very well. It's so nice to see you both.
Doofus is the name of one of the characters here.
And, Domhnall, you play a Doofus.
And I'm wondering, when two brothers create a show
and one brother -- I should say one character's named Doofus,
how do you decide who's gonna play the Doofus?
-It's basically an I.Q. test, essentially.
It's a very strictly... [ Laughter ]
...formulated plan where we do an I.Q. test each.
I came out on bottom, and I got Doofus,
and I'm very, very happy with it.
-Well, it works out very well.
It should be noted that, Brian, you basically play a man-child.
It's not like the other character
is a genius or anything. -No, no.
I decided to take an eye test
'cause I didn't read -- read properly.
No, and, yeah, we had to wrestle at the end to sort it out.
-You obviously -- you're brothers.
You are both actors. But do you approach
the way you perform differently?
Have you found that working together?
-I'd say we're probably quite different, aren't we, Brian?
Yeah, I've always, kind of, admired the way that Brian works
and the way he's been kind of able to access characters.
So, you know, I tried to kind of pick up some tips along the way.
There was one scene where we --
His character in the show has lost his mother.
He's drugged her up at home,
kind of trying to be responsible,
so she'll stay in bed while he goes and does the shopping.
And when he gets back, she's gone.
He doesn't know where she is,
and he's really worried about her.
And we were supposed to be running in somewhere
to find where she --
you know, where she'd gone to, and he's worried,
you know, whatever has happened.
And I looked over, and Brian was warming up,
and I was like, "What the -- What's he doing?"
He was muttering something to himself
to get himself in character." I was like, "This is amazing."
And I listened, and he was saying,
"That time I lost Dipper on the beach.
That time I lost Dipper on the beach."
He was remembering a time he lost our dog."
Which, I mean, blew my mind.
You know, that's deeper than I think I've ever --
even than I've ever gone. [ Laughter ]
-Brian, is this a --
This is obviously a very traumatic memory of yours.
-It's Stanislavski. I'm a student of Stanislavski.
You know, sense memory, emotional recall.
But I did lose the dog
when I took him out for a walk on the beach.
And in a very Frank Marth sort of way,
I didn't really look for him, I just kind of shouted
at the sky and just had a meltdown,
and then I went home to confess to mom and dad.
And I really had to tune myself up 'cause I got to confess.
And I went into the kitchen, and mom was there, and I said,
"Mom, I have a confession."
She said, "What is it?"
I said, "I've lost Dipper, the dog."
And she said, "No, you didn't.
He's right there under the kitchen table."
[ Laughter ] So he had at some point
in that walk, he said, "You know what?
I don't like this anymore. I'm heading home."
[ Laughter ]
-My worry is that you never --
that you left with an empty lead.
My worry is you left that house with a lead
trailing along the ground and Dipper was never with you.
-Oh, the dog never even left the house.
-Yeah. He was there the whole time.
-It would explain the shouting at the sky anyway.
-[ Laughing ] -I feel like you might have also
made a very good Doofus, all things being equal.
[ Laughter ] -Thank you, Seth.
And you, too. [ Laughter ]
-You -- You mentioned --
-We saw you trying to pronounce our names.
We saw you trying to pronounce our names
before the show started. -Yeah.
-How dare you call me a Doofus.
You went through Domhnall four times.
You hadn't changed the name on the card.
They'll edit all this out. And then by the end of it,
you finally got it right... -No, I'm gonna leave it in.
-...and then you tripped up -- then you tripped up on "Breean,"
'cause it looks like "Brian." We all saw it, Seth.
-You know what? I'm gonna leave it in.
And my next question is about your brother, Fergus,
who I love, because you say it the way it's spelled.
[ Laughter ]
-It's pronounced "Feyuk," you idiot.
[ Laughter ] -No -- I know.
You know what? We don't have time for Fergus.
But, no -- But, actually, your brother Fergus,
he's a singer. He provided a song for the show.
-Yes, yes, he did. [ Laughter ]
He sang a song that our co-writer Michael Moloney wrote.
-Is he -- Was he a "yes" right away
when you asked him to sing the song?
-Yeah, I think so. Domhnall, no?
-No. No. [ Laughter ]
He wanted -- He wanted a little bit of this.
-Sure, sure. -He's in it for the money.
-You got your dad, the wonderful actor,
Brendan Gleeson, he appeared in the show.
Did he also want the money?
-Oh, yeah. -Yeah.
-Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah. You've got to pay them.
You want the right people, you got to pay them.
-Do you get nervous when he shows up on set,
as either an actor or a son or neither or both?
-No, I think he has so much enthusiasm
and so much love for the craft,
which is what I always loved about him.
And we were on set when he came on his first day,
and he had a suitcase full of his own clothes,
but also costume clothes.
Sometimes it's hard to tell the difference between the two.
[ Laughter ] But he came in with
lots of ideas, and he tried them out for us
as we were having lunch.
You know, he went into the trailer,
come out with a new costume, went into his trailer,
come out in a new costume.
We very slowly found a way where he was happy.
But that kind of enthusiasm is amazing to be around.
-It was so -- It was so weird.
It was like the weirdest "Pretty Woman" montage
of him trying on -- like, coming out of his trailer to us.
Well, you don't know whether to eat.
When your father is changing into sexy leather jackets
in front of you, is it weirder to continue eating
or to stop eating?
It's a real question, Seth -- which is weirder?
-You try to take your bites as he goes.
When his back turns, you try to sneak a bite in.
You don't -- You certainly don't act --
you don't eat when he's looking at you.
-I never spit the food out, either.
That's the worst thing you can do.
-I actually guzzled hungrily while he did his pirouette.
I messed it all up. -That's the worst.
-Of course -- a hungry guzzle, of course, is fine.
-Yeah, yeah.
-Gentlemen, thank you so much for being here.
Congratulations on the show.
It's lovely to see you both.
-Lovely to see you too, Seth. Thank you.
-Thanks. -"Frank of Ireland"
premieres April 16th on Amazon Prime Video.