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Grease, Grit & Gallantry: Inside Chris Black’s Sword-and-Sorcery World · Cinema Yūgen

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G'day. That's right. It's that time again. Time for... CINEMA! YOOGEEEAAAAAAA!
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Yes, welcome back, Eugenite's Chris Black, Scottish Steel and a Storyteller's Soul.
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From the shadow depths of the Guardians of Loch Ness to the brutal myth world
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of the Slave and the Sorcerer, Chris commands the screen with intensity,
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presence and raw cinematic power.
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A leading force across six feature films, warrior,
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hero, survivor, his performances fuse physical precision,
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tactical mastery and grounded character-driven truth
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trained in armed and unarmed combat forged in
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choreography and action his work spans film
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animation and acclaimed audiobook narration this is craft this is commitment
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this is chris black where myth muscle and storytelling collide let the wind
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blow high let the wind blow low through the streets and his kilt he'll go and
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all the lassies say hello.
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Chris Black, where's your cruisers? Welcome to Cinema Eugen,
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Chris. Well, thank you very much.
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I'll leave the Scottish accent to you from now on. My cruisers are great they should be. On my fat ass.
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How are you doing, Chris? I'm doing awesome, man. How are you doing? Oh, fantastic.
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Listen, I really loved you. You've probably heard me talk to Laurie and Megan already.
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But I really loved your flick, mate, and I'm glad that you'll be back for more. Oh, thank you very much.
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For me, I've already been back, you see. All right, yeah, I know you've technically
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already been back, but for our listening audience who are yet to see you come
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back, you are coming back.
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It's always good, and I'm glad to be back at any point past future or present.
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Days of future past. You're like an X-Men.
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An ex-man well yeah it could be at some point yeah yeah i can see with the claws and and uh yeah.
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It's been known to be said no i listened to your interview and it was lovely
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it was great to hear i listened to on my way to work i was working off the coast
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of england and english channel.
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And i was taking a train down through some of the darkest parts of
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kind of norwich area right these rickety
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old trains and i thought yeah i've got to listen to this and
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i had the time and it was great it was lovely to do
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well it's a great look it was
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a great flick i couldn't believe that i hadn't seen
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it or heard about it and if it wasn't for a friend had
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posted i can't remember what he posted it
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was an image or the poster or something like hang on what's
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this is this like a remake or a reboot but
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no it's its own thing but it it it's more
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of a valentine than like one of those cheap as as
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i said to laurie one of those sort of cheap oh let's
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cash in on the old source and sword and sorcery thing
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and make a fortune yeah no
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and we certainly did not intend to make a fortune but it's funny you say that
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as well and the origins of the film didn't come from anything like that at all
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either all right i found it quite interesting the way the film came around And
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I got brought on as an actor.
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And within about a week of me, so Laurie sent me, he put out a call for people
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and I was one of the folk that put in for it.
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And they had all sorts of not normal actors.
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All sorts of normal actors.
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So he went for the weirdest person I could find, I guess. So you're saying that
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the call didn't come out for really buff tattooed Scottish dudes.
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Well, it did, yeah, but, you know, I brought some extra traininess.
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Not to put too far in the point on it.
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I wasn't actually that buff when it came around. I was more. Oh, okay.
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So you had to bulk up for this role. You had to do a Hugh Jackman and bulk up
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for it, did you? Well, it was a bit of bulk and a bit of cut at the same time. I had to.
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In the second one, you'll see that I've managed to get a bit more dryness on
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the go. We didn't have long to prepare for it.
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Parallels to Hugh Jackman, actually. Yeah, I had about four weeks,
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four or five weeks to get ready for Slave I. Wow. And I was looking fluffy.
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I was on an oil rig, and I did the self-tape for this shirtless in my cabin.
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Sweet as. For lobby and silver. I bet you mates gave you hell.
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Were they walking past the door going, hey, what are you doing?
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I can't do that anyway. They're used to it.
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Never a dull moment at all, Rego.
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Lots of seamen around, so it's never a dull moment. it's like the navy,
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our old advocacy the american navy.
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Yeah and that was,
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I didn't know he sent out this thing and I didn't know I looked at it and it
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wasn't the same script at all it was a very straightforward I don't know if
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he told you this it was really straightforward yeah
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No, no, we didn't. Yeah, please tell. Oh, man. That was serious. Yeah.
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Not totally serious, but it was not anything like what we just did for the sequel, man. Right, wow.
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For the one you've seen, it was like, he put his own character into it. I'll tell you why.
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But the sequel, my goodness, just had permission and went wild.
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So they made a film called Dragon Knight, which I don't know if he told you
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about. I've heard of it, I've heard of it, I've not seen that one though.
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Yeah, it was great it's a really good thing, but it's you know someone came
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to them and says, can you make us a Game of Thrones style film,
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so you can stick it on shelves, looks like a Game of Thrones Right, right.
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Knights and Dragons, and he did it, he did it during Covid, he took the contracts,
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it was during Covid time and all the rest of it, it was a three picture deal.
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For picture two he built an internal set and he thought,
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you know, having had done that film He learned some things He thought,
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I really can't do it So similar, I want to do a dungeon crawler And I got this
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script for a very straightforward dungeon crawler And in the interim time There
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was problems with Where it came from But he spent a fortune on this set, man,
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So So when the problem started up He thought,
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you know what If I'm going to do this, I'm going to do this my way
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And then he rewrote The whole script within about a week So everything you see
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like I'm just a man and all that sort of stuff most of that came from this rewrite
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so I've read a script and I was like oh this is this is a lovely heartfelt story and then I read it,
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Tyrol talking to Princess Mera so we'd be like right okay so it started off
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it was going to be roughly the same age Mera looks a little bit younger than
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Tyrol as you can see in the film and like I'm thinking that's more paternal
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than anything else all right,
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whatever and some of the dialogue interactions i read them i thought this is
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pure han solo and princess leia to a certain extent especially when she's like
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you can be my bodyguard type of thing.
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And so the original intent was also for me to do it in a scottish accent i believe
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and we tried it we did both scottish and american by auditioned in an american
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accent because I just thought that's where it went.
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And day one, we did the first three scenes in Scottish and American,
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and Laurie's like, you're going to have to do American.
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I don't know. I kind of want to see a version with the... The version, yeah.
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So they originally thought, dude, I don't know. I mean, Christopher Lambert
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played a Highlander, and he didn't sound anything like...
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You know, he didn't sit down like a scottsman, but we're still proud of him. That's the thing.
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You look like a woman, you stupid haggis.
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You have the manners of a goat and you smell like a dung heap. Yeah.
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You know, people hate, people hate a lot on Highlander.
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I'm sorry for breaking away from the conversation, but you know,
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people hate a lot on Highlander too.
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But I think the price of admission is where Connery gets to say on that stage
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when he rematerializes on the stage and these people are doing Hamlet and he
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gets to say farewell, farewell, dear shithead, farewell.
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I rewatched that recently as well and I just realized, so I read about how they
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made Highlander 1 and Sean Connery, he helped the director a whole lot because
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it was the director's first time and this came out after his death.
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And then as he watched the second one, and the parallels between Highlander
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2 and our little film, because it's clearly one single set. Like, you know what I mean?
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It's a very low-budget set of the units. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But it's gorgeous.
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It was all filmed out in Argentina and all that sort of stuff.
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So it was very prime-y. Yeah.
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And ironically, ironically, where all of the great sword and sorcery films were made.
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Deathstalker 2, Wizards of the Lost Kingdom, you name it. The Warrior and the
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Sorceress all filmed in Argentina.
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The same castle set is in all of those movies.
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That is the same castle in all of those movies. If you look closely,
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the most beautiful thing about it is if you watch that castle set in Argentina
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is used in at least 10 movies.
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They tried to distract us with the scantily clad ladies, but they can't fool us.
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We know about the cast. I know. They couldn't fool you, Matt.
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The steely look on your face while those girls were caressing your greasy chest.
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Oh, it's that day. Everyone said to me. Were you on some sort of pills,
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or are you really that zen?
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No. I was terrified.
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No, I'm not. I'm so right so naturally worried about anyone taking any offence
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to me or anything like that right right and so oh man what a day that was man.
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Terrible Laurie's like a snake charmer
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for the ladies yeah no he's got those
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eyes doesn't he and he keeps
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saying he keeps saying you might not think you
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know that much or something like that yeah he
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always alludes to it being surprising but it's not it's absolutely not surprising
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and it was so nice to everybody so we
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had a closed set and i don't
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know if you know this right but there's only a certain amount of
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points of contact on your body especially when you're
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oiled up in baby oil and the girls are too you get
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to and you can't understand what's
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where anymore oh because because
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there's no friction or is that what you mean i don't know
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i don't know if it's like you're nervous but say like there's like five hands
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on you right and you can't tell you can't tell that
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there's five hands because it's so greasy yeah whereas it's like right i can't
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it's like almost like over not overstimulation but over saturation right right
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because because there's something covering your skin so the the sensation that
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we feel oh yeah there's a hand there there's a hand there there's a hand there
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it's gone because of the baby oil,
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yeah they're just i just know that there are hands plural and hands and until
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something other than a hand contacts you and you go it's in shoulders knees
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and toes knees that's yep that's not a hand.
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Hang on where's your head it's between two pillows those are pillows.
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You laugh mines were firmly placed on the help of my sword actually,
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Excalibur was buried deep in the stone He who draweth the sword shall be king.
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You know, you have to say things like that to yourself in these moments The
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pleated skirt thing that I wear is very heavy as well which comes in very useful,
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and I had to focus on the O in the word Sony the entire time.
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Yeah so a lot of his direction was just yeah just look
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catatonic you know like in conan at the start where
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he's all messed up on alcohol and stuff like that right right
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yeah i'll give that a go and it turned out that being dead scared was a great
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motivation for that really yeah i'll tell you what one thing i noticed in you
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about your hero as opposed to all the other sort and sorts heroes that I've
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seen is your reactions when people get killed.
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Like you are you are you seem like genuinely crushed when
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everyone and when anyone dies or whatever because you're like oh no
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yeah john was that a choice or
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was that in the script like he was crushed when he saw him die you know oh no
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it wasn't this yeah no it was it was totally a choice and it was because we've
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been chatting the whole time there's so many the thing is like you can play
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tired all right and if you assume if you assume that the person is like the
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character but it's not much of a stretch,
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this is not like the character it could be so at the same time as maintaining
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a physique and maintaining a pose because they're all single shots,
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one shots, two shots and all that sort of stuff they're all like photoshoot shots,
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you have to also deliver this line but the words aren't necessarily important,
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it's the intent that you're getting over which is.
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More so true for Tyrell than anybody else of plays.
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The acting for different characters can look more challenging but because Tyrell
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could literally be saying anything and what he's meaning is something completely
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different it makes it a stretch.
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And so what we were doing was whenever one person's providing a bit of comic
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relief we had to have a serious part in the same scene.
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And with Tyrell bringing quite so much comic relief, I was trying to balance
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that over the piece with his emotions to show that it could potentially be a real person.
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And then also when we did the scene and we thought about it,
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films are really condensed things.
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But if you really were on a quest with all these people and the wee Viking guy
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popped out and he's the one that seems to relate John.
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And John Amass isn't it yeah yeah he's a doctor he was fantastic,
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this place is a fucking night he
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was right he was right as well it's a
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fucking nightmare I've been through like two weeks worth
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of nightmare when he screamed that in my face it really resonated with me so
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anyway we really bonded and I thought that's what these characters would do
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and Tyrell for all his worth for all his swashbuckling I wanted to show that
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he cares, he's the leader of mercenary guard,
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and so you don't get to be captain of the Berencian guard unless you care about
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people and he really cares about loss of life especially when it's someone honourable,
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he's probably not going to care well he does care when it's,
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Prince Lanham as well, so that makes sense so it values life and you want your
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heroes to value life because I think they all do and that's kind of what I was trying to show there No,
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it was interesting it was interesting, it's just something that you don't see,
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i'm too much of i mean normally i mean in the case
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of the death stalker movies death stalkers kind of worry about saving his own
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skin most of the time i mean he's i mean yeah he's concerned about stuff but
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i mean he's yeah they don't you don't really see him when someone gets killed
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like girl like you're like oh god like when that guy gets like cocooned by the giant spider and.
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Because he's not yeah okay he's inspired by sword and a sorcerer and death stalker
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but he's not either of those characters or it's one of those characters but not that one,
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and it was nice to inspire other people to make another Deathstalker movie that was cool,
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I haven't seen it yet a lot of people have asked because I am an avid Deathstalker
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fan well Deathstalker 2 but specifically but everyone's asked me if I've seen
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it I haven't seen it yet I'm probably going to have to wait until the physical
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release or unless Film Threat review it and I get a chance to look at it there.
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But I know that there's no TNA in it. I know they didn't go the full Monty,
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you know, because we live in that age now. It's just, you know, I mean.
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People have a problem with breasts. That's a shame. That really is.
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Yeah. It's terrible. They're such wonderful things.
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They are. And I wouldn't say that in any way I have two of my own.
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But, yeah, I don't see why you should shy away from what feels natural when I come.
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Talking about your chest, you didn't just have ladies rubbing your chest in
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this movie. You had Laurie rubbing your chest in this movie.
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And let's talk about that commando scene because it's fantastic.
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You're getting slow, Tyrell. You're getting slow, Tyrell.
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You're getting old. I love that. But I loved how it started off like sort of
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sensual, which was weird.
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Yeah. What was that like to actually do, I suppose?
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I don't want to keep giving you the same answer, but it was terrifying.
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You didn't know what he was going to do? You weren't sure that was a dagger behind you?
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You were like Macbeth, you know, is this a dagger which I feel behind me?
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I'd assumed it was a dagger, but I couldn't be 100%. He'd been prostrating with
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a dagger for quite some time.
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Laurie when he's acting is a thing to behold it's really funny and it's lovely
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and the nicest he's very quiet like when I saw him acting I thought he would
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be like but he's very like soft spoken and measured in real life but,
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when he gets a take out it's absolute gold and I love it and I love working
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with him although he's mostly directing but one funny thing he does is whenever
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he finishes a take and you know that he thinks it's a good take right because
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he can't he makes his own cut, right?
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And he comes and goes, cut! And then he grips his little hands to his chest
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and does this little childish look like he's all happy with himself. That's fantastic.
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It's like, yeah, he's quite a big guy as well. So it's funny to see somebody
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look quite so cute and childish and happy with themselves.
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Especially, I can picture that now in his Arlo attire, as it were.
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But yeah, no, fantastic. Like,
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man and then of course you've got the what would you call it the the obligatory slow motion,
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wedding of the of the the washing of
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the chest or the yeah that
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so they handed me and it's and you've got that great rock and roll track to
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to do it too or what so did you actually have that playing on set while you
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were doing it or do or were you forced to like hey just pour water over your
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chest release right right they've slowed that down right right and,
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So when we first went to do that scene,
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I can tell you this, but it might ruin some of the... No, please. Go.
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Spare me no details. He said to me, if you're going to kill yourself off after
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this thing, and I'm like, okay.
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Now, bear in mind, we're filming in Kirkcaldy, Scotland, in November or something
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like that. Coldest charity, isn't it?
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Cooled off, yeah. so I'd warmed up and I.
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But Megan was doing her opposite scenes at a very similar time to me,
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which was cool to do on the day.
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Because we were both able to see and laugh at each other a lot.
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Yeah, because you were both wearing little.
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Yeah, exactly. We were doing that most of the time. And the thing is,
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someone comes in to you like one of your best mates when you have to go through
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that wearing very little together.
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But for the water boarding day, they handed me a cantina.
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And he says, you're just going to cool yourself off. and they put it straight
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down your throat. I was like, put it straight down my throat?
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And I started to try to have a look at it and with the wig and my beard and everything.
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I'm like, Gloria, you know, and then you get a little bit, it wasn't necessarily
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actor's block, but I'm like, we started being a little bit stupid about it.
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I'm like, I don't know what.
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Yeah. Well, how can I do this and make it look natural? Yeah. How do I human here?
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And I was really, so the first day he was like, just go for it.
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And I was like, yeah, fine.
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So I went, I chucked the canteen above my head, opened my gullet,
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and it hit the back of my throat.
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And then it all came firing right out of my mouth across the room.
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So you did an unnecessary spit take.
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Yeah, I literally waterboarded myself in the first break.
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And took care of makeup or on set. It's a shame there's not outtakes on the DVD.
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I know. that would do same with same with
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someone capturing laurie doing his little hands thing i kind
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of wish there was like footage of this now next time
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you make a movie with him like snap a photo and send it
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i won't
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i won't share it online or anything i won't laurie i
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won't tell anyone it's just you know he would share it yeah he should he should
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share it if that's a beautiful little quirk it's like it's like anthony hopkins's
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character in remains of the day and emma thompson says she loves the way he
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pinches his nose when he puts pepper on food,
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you know it's beautiful it is it really is and it's funny enough it's not just
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him that does it another director I've worked with a female director oh I could,
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they get very happy with themselves,
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Louise of Warren yeah so whilst we
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were doing Slave in the General because it was kind of in shape I got contact
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and was like would you like to come down to this part as a man and hot that
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so I went down and did this thing on Wizard of Oz and did Walk and Louise of
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Warren does the same thing that Laurie does after the end of the set it's like
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like this, when it's good.
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It's just an act when she sees someone. Yeah, yeah. It's like a little squirrel
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getting the best nap. Just like, yeah, like that.
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And I thought, I need to link those two guys up and they need to hang out because
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their mannerisms are so similar. It'd be great to see them do a movie together
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and if they both see a take, that they both log at the same time and do that thing at the same time.
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Yeah, no. You've got to get that photo. That would be classic.
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Look, it's really, look, it is beautiful to see. One of the most beautiful portraits
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of a filmmaker out there is this film. It's not, I don't think it's released on physical media.
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I think it's still streaming somewhere, but it's called He Dreamed of Giants.
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It's a film about Terry Gilliam when he finally got to make the man who killed Don Quixote.
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And there's a scene in that near the end when the camera is just on Gilliam
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watching the monitor, watching what's going on.
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And like you say here is this old man who's the film industry has really liked,
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for lack of a better word buggered for
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most of his career and he's sitting
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there old and tired but as he watches the take you
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watch all those years soak away and here's this little kid who just loved movies
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and he's right there he's seeing the dream come alive and all of the pain in
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the shit and trust me if you watch the documentary all of the shit that he there's
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two documentaries He went through so much shit.
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There's two documentaries about the shit that he went through making this movie.
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But in that moment, all of that disappears and he is right there.
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And he talks about it in the sort of the epilogue of the documentary.
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He talks about it as the zone, the creative zone, wherever, whatever you create,
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whether it's an actor like yourself getting into a role or whatever,
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when you're in it, that's the zone.
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And it's the most potent drug that exists on the market because when you're
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in that place where you're doing what you love to do and it's all working and
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you're holding your chest because you've done a really good take.
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That's the juice, man. Tell me I'm wrong.
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No, you're absolutely right, and I couldn't agree more. I experienced a little
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bit of that myself on a much smaller scale.
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When we did the proof of concept video for CACO, I did.
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It ended up being a book and stuff like that but I remember standing there and
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Chris Capaldi was part of that as well and some other people,
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and I just remember being so overly emotional you can see some of them just
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looking at you like oh he's really grateful that we came along and did this
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but seeing these characters that you kind of put your heart into come to life
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and then you see a new dimension especially when people do them really well which they all did,
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It means so much that someone else believes enough in what you've tried to create
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to do it justice and usually give it something more than what it had when it was just on paper.
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Yeah, yeah. It's beautiful. Well, that's also the juice too.
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I mean, this is coming from myself who writes screenplays. I mean,
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writing is a fun thing and it's fun to make believe, but the juice is getting
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to see finally when an actor does it, whether it works or not.
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And then plus, like you say, what else they do with it is also cool.
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Yeah, it's really big for me.
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And the same thing as well, when we were doing Slave in the General,
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know one of the one of the guys that was mistaken part in it he'd,
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become a producer and he was there and I forgot that people were contributing
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towards this because they'd seen the first one right yeah hi Chris you know
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and you're thinking he knows me already,
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and someone someone came in with my book Capo it's like oh can you sign this
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I've read it it's brilliant and I'm just Laurie stood back beside me when this
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happened and he's doing this thing as well and he's like,
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That's it, isn't it? Yeah. Yeah, that's it.
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That's beautiful. It's worth more than money. It is.
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It's a beautiful thing. It's a beautiful film. I really love that the guy plays.
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Wait, there's one thing you'll be able to tell me.
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I've watched this film a few times now.
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Before you get dragged off to Arlo, the torture room, do you say at the end,
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you're screaming like at the king, do you say dude right at the end?
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I think so, yeah. You go like, King, dude.
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And then it's a cut. I'm pretty sure you say. Come on, man.
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I've watched it a number of times a day. I'm pretty sure you say,
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dude. Like, right at the end, dude.
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I had a Bill and Ted's came through me doing that. Is that Richard?
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Yeah, Richard Pate. Is that his name? Michael. Yeah, me daughter.
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Me daughter. He's fantastic. I can't wait to talk to you, man.
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I love his whole. He's such a nice guy. I love his whole like Ted Theodore,
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Ogun meets William Shatner delivery.
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He's got something for everything. We did another film together,
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which will probably be two parts.
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And we had such a great American trapper in this thing. All right,
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yeah. Oh, no, no, he's not a trapper.
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He's brilliant. He's absolutely fantastic. I'm hoping to have him on.
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Because Laurie said there's more of him in the next movie, because I really
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wanted more of him in this one.
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Just to hear him say the lines the way he does, like, you know,
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take him down to Arlo, the torturer, you know, and you need to find a purveyor of magic.
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And it all happens again. It's fantastic.
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I kind of just want to see a movie with just him in it doing that.
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Okay. Yeah. He would do it as well.
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Or read an audio book. We'll read a whole audio book that way.
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I could listen to him do that.
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Because speaking of audio books, you do audio books too, don't you?
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You're an audio book. You do audio network. Yeah.
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I've narrated my own one. Oh, okay.
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And that was a really cool studio. Canongate Studios in Edinburgh.
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Yeah. And the producer there was, oh, yeah, Hugh McGregor was in that chair
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last week or something. I'm like, oh, great.
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Hugh McGregor. He's a really good actor.
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Thank you. Thank you very much. He's so cool.
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I really needed a confidence boost of walking in here. So you've really... That's great.
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When did you park? I was like, oh, just down the road to the guy or the whatever
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shop is. He was like, oh, yeah, Ewan just had his bike out in the courtyard.
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No. Hey, fun fact. I've got a friend whose godfather is Ewan McGregor, actually.
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Yeah, no.
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Lovely. Yeah, he, oh, they went, him and Ewan went to university together,
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and my friend played, it was playing rugby, but him and Ewan were there.
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And so, yeah, they're actually friends and Ewan is his youngest son's godfather, I think.
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I believe. Well, I don't know if you know this, but I got to sit on the same couch as Ewan McGregor.
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You sat next to Ewan McGregor. No, I didn't know it, but he'd been on it a week
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earlier. I thought that was good as I can do it.
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I've only had that once. I actually sat in the same chair that Steven Seagal once sat in.
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Oh, really? In a restaurant in a hotel. hell i came
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down for breakfast and the lady actually when she came up to me with
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my coffee she said you know steven seagal was just sitting here so
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yeah you're very close to danger having done something like that oh this was
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this was a long time ago before he went crazy but um yeah this was when that
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was in australia filming a beer ad he was in a beer ad yeah or uh.
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Now Carlton dry and it involved a sheep.
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And he, he saves the sheep. I think you can still see it on YouTube.
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He saves the sheep from being slaughtered.
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And then in the end he's in trouble and he looks at the sheep and telepathically
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you hear Steven Seagal say, brother sheep, I saved your life.
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Help me. Yeah.
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Drink Carlton dry,
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I'll drink nothing else I'd cry if I met you and the other,
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I'd done one other audio book but I did half of it,
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and my agent made me take a pen name I said no I had to be called Jameson Black
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but because it was read half and half and it had to be called Jameson Black
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because it was an audio book for the ladies excuse me.
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A bodice ripper and then Leopold put his hand across her corset and then lightly
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stricked her hair caressing her neck with his tongue yeah,
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it's not the half of it, me and a gentleman who looks very much like yourself
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also called Christopher though sat right across from me and you know these audio pods,
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they're face to face and I'm having to talk about bulges and trousers and all
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the rest of it this eye conflict with each other come Lady Havisham don't you
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want me to inspire womanly feelings in you.
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Where she was Gina Martinez my god she was gorgeous I was hard already we should
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read 50 shades of grey together 50 shades of grey it can be a sandpaper audiobook 50 shades of grey,
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and it comes with some sandpaper 50 shades of grey yeah It takes off all the rough edges.
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Listen, Chris, before we run out of time, mate, tell our audience where they
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can check out all of your good stuff or follow you and all the cool things that you're up to.
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Oh, well, most at the moment, my Instagram, ChrisBlack underscore 83,
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is probably the best place to get me.
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I have a Facebook actor page, but hopefully I will soon be launching a free
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patrol and I don't intend to charge to give updates to all my authorly writings
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and stuff like that for people to follow.
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And I'll include a bit of the other movies that I'm doing. The Guardian's Nest
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thing should be on there.
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And the unnamed horror film from British Horror Studio, which is on the way.
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Very good. Bit of spiral into madness.
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Very good. Very good. Whatever else. So that'll be on the way.
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But Chris Black underscore 83 on Instagram is the best place to check it out,
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should you be inclined to do so.
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Sweet as Chris Black, the mighty barbarian covered in baby oil from the highlands
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of Scotland down in the wee podcast underneath the stairs.
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Chris thank you for being on cinema you can make we look forward to all of your
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future exploits oh thank you likewise i look forward to all your exploits cinema
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you can and uh have me back if you like yes chris black scottish steel storyteller
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so what a great bloke what a top bloke what a.
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Greasy baby old beautiful barbarian he
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