MARTIN FREEMAN!
IS ON THE SHOW TONIGHT.
THERE HE IS.
HOW WONDERFUL TO SEE YOUR FACE, NOW MARTIN, YOU WERE ACTUALLY
HERE IN STUDIO AND MARCH 20 20RBGS AND THEN OBVIOUSLY, WHICH
WAS, YOU KNOW, THREE DECADES AGO.
WHAT HAS BEEN-- HOW HAVE YOU BEEN OVER THESE LAST 14 MONTHS,
WHAT HAS BEEN KEEPING USAIN.
>> MY KIDS ARE KEEPING ME SANE AND GETTING BACK, GETTING BACK
IN-- IN BRITAIN, WITH COVID, AMONG MANY OTHER HORRIBLE THINGS
ONE UPSIDE WAS THE WEATHER WAS NICE, IT WAS STILL VERY, VERY
LOVELY WEATHER FROM MARCH TO AUGUST, AND I AM LUCKY ENOUGH TO
HAVE A GARDEN AND I WOULD SIT OUTSIDE A LOT READING BOOKS.
AND IN MY ADULT LIFE I HAVE DEVELOPED A PATTERN WHERE I
START ABOUT 18 BOOKS AND DON'T FINISH.
>> James: ABSOLUTELY.
>> 15 OF THEM.
AND IT WAS JUST A NICE WAY OF ACTUALLY JUST COMPLETING BOOK
AFTER BOOK.
IT WAS LOVELY.
SO RECONNECTING WITH HOW MUCH I LOVE READING WITH WAS A REALLY
SANITY SAVING THING SWRZ THAT'S GREAT.
BECAUSE YOU ARE RIGHT, I HAVE READ THE FIRST THREE CHAPTERS OF
A LOT OF BOOKS.
>> AND I THINK THAT SHOWS WHEN I TALK ON THE SHOW.
THAT WON'T COME AS A SHOCK TO ANYONE WHO HAS MET ME.
IT REALLY WON'T.
BUT YES, YOU'RE RIGHT, KIDS WERE A WONDERFUL SORT OF DISTRACTION
AND FOCUS DURING THAT TIME.
AND YOUR KIDS ARE A LITTLE BIT OLDER THAN MINE.
ARE THEY-- HAVE THEY SEEN ANY OF YOUR WORK, HAVE THEY SEEN YOUR
SHOWS AND MOVIES?
ARE THEY FANS OF ANY PARTICULAR THINGS THAT YOU PUT OUT INTO THE
WORLD?
>> THEY HAVE SEEN QUITE A LOT.
GRACE DID NEARLY 13 AND JOE IS 16.
THEY LIKE A BIT OF SHER LOB.
THEY LIKE A BIT OF HOBBIT.
THEY LIKE FARGO, ACTUALLY.
>> James: REALLY.
>> A BRITISH FILM I DID WHICH YOU MIGHT KNOWN BUT AMERICANS
DON'T KNOW, CALLED NATIVITY, A CHRISTMAS.
>> James: YES.
>> THEY HAVE SEEN QUITE A LOT OF MY STUFF.
BUT I THINK THEY'RE BIG FANS OF THE AMERICAN "OFFICE."
>> James: RIGHT.
>> NOT SO MUCH-- I LIKE THE AMERICAN OFFICE AS WELL.
>> James: SURE.
>> BUT I'VE ALSO SEEN THE BRITISH ONE.
>> James: YES.
>> SO I CAN'T, I'M ABLE TO ENJOY BOTHK THEY HAVE ONLY SEEN THE
AMERICAN ONE, THEY DON'T GIVE MUCH HOOT ABOUT THE BRITISH ONE.
>> James: ARE YOU EVER ATTEMPTED TO SAY ABOUT THE
BRITISH OPINION AMERICAN OFFICE THIS WOULDN'T EXIST WITHOUT ME.
>> I DO, ALL THE TIME, YEAH, YEAH, I AM THAT MINDY AND
SHALLOW, DO I DO THAT.
> James: WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT SOME OF YOUR PROJECTS, DO I FIND
IT QUITE ASTOUNDING, I THINK SO INCREDIBLE, SO MUCH OF YOUR
WORK, IN A WORLD WHERE CONTENT IS CONSTANTLY JUST PUSHED OUT,
SEEMINGLY ALL THE TIME, YOU HAVE SO MANY PROJECTS THAT HAVE SORT
OF PENETRATED CULTURE, REALLY.
THEY THINK THAT REALLY GOT DEEP INTO CULTURE, LIKE WHEN YOU TALK
ABOUT FARGO OR THE HOBBIT.
YOU KNOW, THE OFFICE FOR ME, CHANGED MY LIFE I THINK IN MANY
WAYS.
THEN SHERLOCK CAME OUT AND PEOPLE ARE-- I KNOW CONSTANTLY
ASKING YOU WHETHER THERE WILL BE MORE SHERLOCK.
ONE THING THAT YOU ARE-- I THINK CAN I SAY, THIS IS DEFINITELY
COMING BACK, IS BLACK PANTHER, RIGHT.
THERE IS GOING TO BE-- THERE WILL BE ANOTHER BLACK PANTHER
MOVIE.
IS THERE ANYTHING THAT YOU CAN TELL US ABOUT THAT FILM?
>> YES, I'VE WRITTEN SOME NOTES.
AND I HAD A ZOOM COOL WITH THE DIRECTOR AND COWRITING ABOUT
SEVEN OR EIGHT WEEKS AGO AND HE TOOK ME THROUGH AND TOOK ME
THROUGH ALL OF MY CHARACTERS IN THE FILM.
INCORPORATING MY CHARACTERS AND SOME OF IT WAS REALLY, SOME OF
IT WAS VERY ODD AND I THINK YOU CAN SEE BY THE REACTION ON MY
FACE, SOME OF THE THINGS HE WAS SAYINGK MY FACE MUST HAVE BEEN
GOING, LIKE THAT.
BECAUSE HE KEPT ON STOPPING AND GOINGK I COULD SEE WHERE, SAY
WITH ME BUT THIS GOING TO WORK.
I THINK PEOPLE ARE IN FOR A-- I HOPE A REAL, WE HAVE NOT DONE IN
T YET, WHO KNOWS, MIGHT MAKE IT AWFUL BUT I'M HOPING HE WON'T.
AND I HOPE PEOPLE ARE GOING TO BE IN FOR A TREAT.
I MEAN OBVIOUSLY IT IS A VERY STRANGE THING.
>> James: SURE.
>> CHADWICK, AFTER THE INITIAL SHOCK OF THAT, AND JUST AN
APPALLING THING TO FIND OUT, THE NEXT THING WAS OKAY, I GUESS
WE'RE NOT DOING-- THAT FILM WON'T OR CAN'T HAPPEN AGAIN.
AND SO MARVEL CAME TO US REASONABLY SHORTLY AFTERWARDS
AND SAID LOOK, OBVIOUSLY THIS IS A DREADFUL THING.
BUT WE'RE GOING TO GO ON.
SO THAT WAS THE-- THAT WAS THE PLAN FROM AWHILE AGO.
AND OBVIOUSLY THE HOPE IS THAT WE DO THE FIRST FILM JUSTICE AND
WE DO CHADWICK'S LEGACE ON IT JUSTICE AND MICK IT HOPEFULLY
ANOTHER GOOD FILM.
>> James: I'M CERTAIN YOU WILL.
NOW YOU ARE IN A PLACE IN YOUR CAREER WHERE YOU KNOW, VERY
BRILLIANTLY YOU HAVE A PROJECTS YOU WANT TO DO YOU ARE ABLE TO
CURATE, IF YOU LIKE, YOUR CREATIVITY.
LET'S GO BACK TO BEFORE, BEFORE MARTIN FREEMAN WAS THIS YOU KNOW
SUPERSTAR.
I WANT TO KNOW ABOUT AUDITIONS THAT YOU WERE GOING TO FRESH OUT
OF DRAMA SCHOOL.
WHAT KIND OF-- WHAT KIND OF AUDITIONS WERE YOU DOING AROUND
LONDON BACK THEN BEFORE YOU KIND OF GOT THE BREAK IN THE OFFICE.
>> MY EARLY COMMERCIAL EDITIONS WERE PRETTY EMBARRASSING.
AND THEY HURT, ACTUALLY.
THE VERY FIRST TIME I WENT FOR A COMMERCIAL CASTING, IT WAS AN
EARLY INDICATION OF LIKE FEELING LIKE YOU-- THEY CALLED IT THE
MEAT MARKET, OCCASIONALLY I WOULD BE IN COMMERCIAL AUDITIONS
WITH-- I REMEMBER GOING WITH THE COMMERCIAL AUDITIONS, I
RECOGNIZE AT LEAST TWO OF THE PEOPLE FROM FASHION MAGAZINESK
WOMEN AND MEN, WHO WOULD JUST, GORGEOUS CREATURES.
AND FRANKLY, JAMES, I WASN'T ONE OF THEM.
I WAS AN ACTOR.
I WAS OKAY.
BUT I WAS NOT KNOWN FOR MY LEGGY BEAUTY.
SO IT WAS THE WRONG PLACE HERE, ONE OF THE WORST ONES EVER, DO
YOU REMEMBER TANGO, A FIZZY DRINK COMPANY.
THERE WAS A PERIOD IN THE '90S WHERE THEY DID THIS ALMOST
ANTI-ADVERTISING SCHPARTICULAR WHERE THEY WOULD MAKE IT
HORRIBLE AND SORT OF YOU KNOW, ALMOSTOFF PUTTING THAT IS HOW WE
WILL SELL FIZZY DRINKS, MAKE IT ALMOST DISGUSTING.
AND I REMEMBER BEING ON ALL FOURS IN A REHEARSAL IN LONDON
SAYING SOMETHING HUMILIATING, WAY BEYOND SELF-DEP REKAITION
INTO SOME FORM OF SADO MASS CHIS STICK ON ALL FOUR PROBABLY
BARKING LIKE A DOG OR SOME SORT OF ANIMAL.
AND THE DIRECTOR WHO WAS QUITE A BIG CHEESES IN THE ADVERTISING
WORLD, BUT I REMEMBER AS I WAS ON ALL FOURS THINKING YEAH, THIS
IS A-- I'M A YOUNG MAN BUT I ALREADY KNOW THIS IS A LOW.
IF I-- PLEASE, IF I LIVE TO A HUNDRED, THIS WILL BE ONE THAT I
REMEMBER AS YEAH, THE NADIR OF MY CASTING EXPERIENCE.
>> James: THE AMAZING THING APPROXIMATE ABOUT THIS, IS I
THINK AND I'M NOT SURE BECAUSE THEY DO QUITE A LOT OF
COMMERCIALS.
I THINK I MIGHT HAVE GOT THAT COMMERCIAL.
BECAUSE I AM NOT EVEN JOKING.
I WHAT WAS IN A TANGO COMMERCIAL THAT GOT BANNED.
THEY BANNED IT FROM-- BECAUSE THEY SAID IT ENCOURAGED
BULLYING.
WHICH I WASN'T SURE HOW IT WAS.
BUT IT WAS SIMILAR.
IT WAS A VERY, VERY SIMILAR PROCESS.
>> SO YOU GOT A PART IN A TANGO.
>> James: I GOT KATION AND IT WAS-- YOU KNOW THAT THING, IT
USED TO BE THE WAY YOU GOT COMMERCIALS AT HOME, WERE YOU
CAST IN AN ADVERT AND I DIDN'T HAVE I IN MONEY, AND I STARTED
THINKING OH MY GOD, THEY'RE GOING TO SHOW THIS ALL THE TIME.
AND IT CAME OUT ON A FRIDAY AND WAS BANNED BY THE MONDAY, SO I
DIDN'T MAKE ANY MONEY.
I HAD JUST BEEN TOLD, WE'VE GOT A PHOTO.
HANG ON, SHOW THE PHOTO, THERE YOU GO.
THAT'S ME.
>> I'M TAKING THE DIRECTION OF ORANGE TANGO, WELL, JAMES, HE
KNOW WHERE YOU LIVE.
>> WHAT ARE YOU DOING, A TO MY HOUSE.
>> James: THERE YOU GO.
THERE YOU GO.
>> WOW.
>> James: TELL YOU WHAT THOUGH, I LOOK BETTER NOW, DON'T
I.
LET'S TALK ABOUT YOUR BRILLIANT SHOW BREEDERS FOR ANYONE WHO
HASN'T CAUGHT UP WITH IT YET.
TELL US WHAT IT IS ABOUT AND WHAT IS NEW IN THE SECOND
SEASON.
>> BREEDERS IS A FAMILY COME DE, MOSTLY COMEDY.
BUT I THINK A BIT OF A DRAMA AS WELL.
CREATED BY MYSELF AND CHRIS ADD ISON AND SIMON BLACKWELL.
AND IT STARS MYSELF AND-- DAZEY AS A HUSBAND AN WIFE, OUR
CHILDREN WERE FOUR AND SEVEN AND NOW THIS SERIES WE'VE MOVED ON
SEVERAL YEARS SO OUR CHILDREN ARE 13 AND 11.
AND IT'S ABOUT THE TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS OF FAMILY LIFE,
REALLY.
MY PLAN WAS ALWAYS GETTING TO SHOW ALL OF IT.
ALL BITS OF FAMILY LIFE, THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY,
EVERYTHING.
MAINLY IT CAME OUT OF A DESIRE ON MY PART, I CAN'T SPEAK FOR
SIMON AND CHRIS, I COULDN'T GO GO ON ANY MORE LONDON SOIREES
GOING ON ABOUT JUST HOW AMAZING BEING A PARENT WAS WITHOUT ALSO
BALANCINGK THE HONEST THING WHICH IS IT IS THE HARDEST THING
YOU WILL EVER DO IF YOU LIVE TO A THOUSAND YEARS OLD.
IF YOU WANT TO DO IT WELL.
IF YOU WANT TO BE A GOOD PARENT AND PRESENT AND YOU KNOW, THERE
T IS HARD.
IT IS VERY, VERY HARD.
AND I DON'T THINK THERE SHOULD BE SHAME IN THAT.
BUT I THINK IN OUR CURRENT LAST TEN YEARS, CERTAINLY, WITH
SOCIAL MEDIA LIFE, I DON'T KNOW, I THINK WE ARE ALL PRETENDING,
LYING A LOT SWRZ YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT.
WELL, I THINK THE SHOW IS GREAT.
I LOVE THE FIRST SEASON.
I'M REALLY EXCITED TO DEVOUR THIS SECOND SEASON AND ALL OF
ITS HONESTY IN PARENTING.