Back Row and Chill with Jahannah James and Noel Clarke - Stay Home Special Series - Episode 1 - Bryan Tyree Henry, Michael Landes, Pussy Riot, Jason Maza, Maude Hirst, Nick Nevern, David Ajao, Tom Meeten, Wall of Comedy and Arnold Oceng

Episode Date: April 27, 2020

In this episode of Back Row and Chill Stay Home Special, Noel and Jahannah spoke to Bryan Tyree Henry, Michael Landes, Pussy Riot, Jason Maza, Maude Hirst, Nick Nevern, David Ajao, Tom Meeten, Wall of Comedy and Arnold Oceng.

This is a Fubar Radio podcast. For more information, go to FubarRadio.com. Back row and chill with Noel Clark and Johanna James on Fubar Radio. So you're, Noel Clark, I'm Johanna James. This is Janaha James, yeah. I don't know who we are, what we do. We act normally. Yes.

So Johanna James, let me just say, is an actress I've known for a lot of years. Everything in her life is down to me, essentially. Pretty much. We've known each other for a lot of years. We've worked together. She's in a few of our films, and now she's become a, I don't know what the right phrasing is. YouTube famous on the Tintanet Tintanet sensation with her

thousands and thousands of subscribers and viewers to her raunchy videos that she does She's always got her bum out and stuff about that really once Only one time only once So that's how this show came about Yeah we love film We love film we make films And this show is going to be about films and TV

We want to talk about it, it's back row and chill The original name I wanted for the show was fingered in the back row Which I thought was good But a little bit I bet you thought it was good Joe That was that was good the original name for the show but everyone kind of outvoted me because I thought it was a bit raunchy but back row and chill means the same thing because Netflix and chill means like you don't even be

inviting no one around the house on Netflix really but my mom didn't know what that meant when I told her that I was like oh got a new radio show back around church that oh that's a lovely name I'm like mommy do know what and chill means and like because it didn't used to mean that even back in my day but chill meant actually relaxing so now I suddenly realized man no one did a librarian called a police on me when I was like yo come show me these books in the back we can just chill and the next thing I'm in handcuffs I couldn't understand it but now I get it Back Row and Chill with Noel Clark and Johanna James on Fubar Radio. We have a guest in the studio.

We do. Premier League on the first day, man. This is unbelievable. Please, everybody, welcome. We have Sir Jason. Jason Mazza. Yo. Woo!

How are we? Good, man. How are you doing? Good, yeah, good. I'm excited to be in your first show. How did you get into producing? What's the trajectory of a young Mr. Mazel? Young Jason playing with his Barbies or Transformers or whatever we had?

Definitely Barbies. What's the trajectory of that young man to produce an extraordinary and well-respected industry man? Well, essentially, it was me starting off as an actor and basically, you know, working and sort of getting by, but just sort of feeling like this is too much out of my own hands. And in my head I was like, oh, well, actually, if I produce my own work, then I'm taking the control into my own sort of destiny, if that makes sense. So that was the sort of main sort of driving force. and, you know, I felt like I could create my own work

and make the work that I sort of believe in. And obviously, when I started, in my head, I was like, well, I'm an actor, I've been on loads of film sets, I must know what it takes to produce a movie. And in reality, I literally knew nothing, apart from having a phone book of contacts. And yeah, I made this first movie with another lad that's in our movie, Brotherhood, Nick Nevin.

We made it for 500 quid, which sounds mental, but it was a true story. It was like mockumentary. And we ended up selling that very small movie, this is even weirder, who's distributing Brotherhood. So people that don't know, when you sell a film, do you make millions of pounds?

Because I'm assuming everyone thinks you're some millionaire. What's the score with that? No, no, I'm very poor. You do not make loads of money. I think over here, we're driven by the passion of film and our craft. And really, you know, if you want the money, you need to be doing US stuff. And basically, even on Brotherhood, everyone got paid. But essentially, we're doing it for the love.

No one's coming onto that movie for the money. It's because they believe in the film and want to be a part. want to be a part of that franchise. So how do you go from 500 pounds film? And weirdly it is full circle. Yeah. You're saying it was Lionsgate there. Literally is.

Yeah. Tell me about the Brotherhood thing. How did that happen? How did that come up? Very mind, you have to pretend this is not me. Yeah. And I'm like not asking you as me. Well, let me ask it then.

So how did it come about with the Brotherhood? Yeah, yeah. Brilliant question. That's very good. Hannah. Great question. Because I have no idea. It would be interesting to hear this from Jason.

Exactly. So essentially, there's a lot of luck that comes into play. but once I announced that to the world that I'm a producer and everyone sees what you're doing over social media, it's amazing the people that gravitate towards you and just opportunities came along, you know, private finances,

and I'm still talking very low budgets to begin with. And then along that journey of me making bigger and bigger movies, I got a funkal out of the blue by this man sitting across me, Mr. Noel Clark, and he said, yo, I've got this movie, it's a romantic comedy called The Not. We spoke about a mentor of ours that we shared the same mentor. And he said, look, you know,

I've sort of seen from afar, what you've been doing, people who've been mentioning you, you know, if you can help and bring something to the table, let's discuss it. So we met our fanboy for a bit, I met the other producer and was just lucky on that instance that I could bring something to the table, and it was like the last piece of the jigsaw, basically. And then fast forward to Brotherhood. Yeah, to Brotherhood and, you know, and then we basically merged companies by that point. We co-run unstoppable entertainment, you know, and then Brotherhood came around, you know, you'd written the script and he was like, well, let's put it together. So, sorry, who wrote, you mean Noel Clark?

No club. No, club of the script. Did you have to audition? No, I didn't, because that was quite lucky, really, because it could have been that awkward moment when no one was like, listen, mate, you know I love you. Right, no, I do, I love you. We're family, but, you know, it's a great part.

It's a really good part, and I just don't want you to fuck it up. That was so funny. Had Noel had done that, it would have been a bit out of war. Well, I had to audition. Let's not talk about your audition. I was quite lucky, really, that I didn't have to, because I probably would have, I might have messed it out. up, been nervous in front of him.

Were you nervous about playing a bad guy? Because you play the proper bad guy in this film? I was nervous about the role just because it was such a well-written part and everyone who read the script was like, this guy's brilliant. So I was very nervous about doing that. And obviously, it's a weird thing

when you're working with friends. It almost heightens the sort of pressure. Like another level pressure here. It's like, can't let knoll down. Yeah, I can't let knoll down. You know, he's giving me this part. It's giving me the dream role. Yeah.

Don't mess it up, Mazza. Don't mess it up. Well, I spoke to Mr. Clyde earlier. He said you were brilliant in the, film he's always doing that he's so sweet was he was he easy to work with was he easy to work with god he was a nightmare got he was absolutely mental i've heard that about him as you swearing and he's kicking up you know and he just come up to you with notes like jace can have a word do it better just more give me more but a bit less yeah that was my yeah yeah you know

them notes that just are not very decisive which ironically is a complete like because he's the most decisive person he knows exactly what he wants and to be honest i think all of the actors appreciated working with you mate because it was just you know you come from the acting background you understand other actors and also it's just really nice to to have someone who knows what they want and be like look it's funny sometimes when he will be at a meeting or something and he'll go listen now i've got four options for you and i'll go that one before he to finish the sentence and yeah but no no no that one i'm sure i'm sure anyway done i prepared the whole word speak i said no no this is the one let's do that okay yeah great now mate it was a pleasure

obviously to work with you as well and we've been doing it for many many years now people don't know if they don't know in many years to come yeah hopefully touchwood we met no about the same time because i met him around the knot as well that was a i worked on one of your friends no you met me before the not my day no story's 24 oh was that the right order okay yeah yeah all right story 24 yes oh yeah because i came on like i did a little bit behind the scene stuff which is that's the day that i met you there you go i was filming some sort of like you were recording a voice over or a little snippet of something and I talked over your

take and you got really angry and you're like, who is in the room? He makes me quiet. Sounds like something that both of you guys would do. Did I do that? Was that the genuine story? Genuine story. News Justin, Jason Madder, shouting diva. The first time you ever met me is because I'm massively fucked up your take, which is bad for me

because it should have been silence on set and it was bad for me. And you shouted. So I had my very own Christian bowel moment from you know that. Let's see if we can find the footage of that. Let's see if we can find the rushes for me. Let's see if we can find the picture of Jason Mazza having his Christian by and you were like, hurry, I'm quiet please.

And I remember being like, oh, I have not made friends. This is not a way to introduce myself. I know. And the first time I ever met you, you know, funny story. It was on your film, Storage 24, horror film. And I was working on it. And I went to go and introduce myself. Well, oh, that's no cool.

That's Sam from Brotherhood. I mean, kiddoughhood. And then I went over to introduce myself because you were, and I said, hi, you were talking at me. And I was just like, yes. And I'm trying to have this weird one-way conversation. with you and then you turned around you were on the phone. You didn't even see me.

I was just talking to the back of your head and you were on the phone. And then I just walked out, I just walked straight off. That's quality. And decided to introduce myself a bit later. That's hilarious. I know, realistic. That's such an honour to meet you still. Yeah, not bad actually, yeah.

The thing that I was talking about, you know. Yeah, I've just met you, yeah. That's jokes. That's funny, that is funny. Back row and chill with Noel Clark and Johanna James on Foobar Radio. Hey guys, I'm here today with a very special guest. It's Michael Landis in the building, everybody.

I actually don't have an applause thing, so I'll just do myself. That's good, thank you very much. That's a bit lame, actually. It's Joe Hela. Joe Hela. So, busy time for you. You are American, but you're currently in London, England. How are you finding? I was going to do a bad English accent. No. Oh, can you do? Can you do an English accent?

I can do the woman at the airport at the magazine that goes cashier number five, please. Are you acquainted with England? Like, do you know? Yeah, I've come here quite a bit. Yeah. wife's dad is Scottish. I did a couple series here. I did a series here. I did a play. Occasionally, you guys invite me over and I love it. This show was

made for Sky, but we literally filmed Huton and the lady all over the world. Yeah, I've just been checking out the trailers and stuff. For me, it reminded me a little bit of like the sort of Indiana little homage to the sort of 80s. It's just a big fun action adventure. It's got humor. And we

literally did film all over the world. We were in Russia. We were in Cambodia. We went to Rome, Africa, Which is your favorite country? We ended in Cambodia, which I didn't anticipate myself going there. So to watch the sunrise at Anchorwat is kind of awesome. But I'm half Italian, or my grandfather was, so I loved Italy. We started in Rome.

We were in Russia in the dead of winter, and I got to bring my kids to Moscow. We're one of the only shows that's ever filmed in the metro system in Moscow, which is cool. People might remember you, because you were back in the day. You were on Superman, weren't you, the new adventures of Superman? I was on a superhero show when it wasn't cool to be... It wasn't cool to be a fucking superhero show. But for me, that is the only, like, Superman series that I register as real. Like, that was my childhood.

I love that show so much. I wanted to be Terry Hatcher. You did. You know, it's dangerous when you're a kid and watching that show because you're like, I'll just jump out of window. I can fly. I can do it. I'll do it. I want to be a reporter.

That didn't happen either. But you do a very good English accent. That was very good. I want to do a little challenge with you. Are you going to do an American accent? Do you want me to? Yeah, you can let me hear her. What do you just say?

Do you want me to go for a yogurt? Okay, let me just say, and I'll try to do it in an American. I'll tell you a word that everyone always says, like, it's tomato, tomato, you know what, the word that we don't do together? What? The same? Yogurt. You say yogurt. Yogurt. Yogurt.

Yogot. Yogurt. Of yogurt. Why do you say yogurt? I just say yogurt. But you go to Valley, girl. Is that way you can, can you do a valley like that? What, like L.A.?

Like, California? Like totally like that. Yeah. I spent a little time in L.A. last year, so I kind of thought that way out. That's great. That's very good. But English, let's go back to English, because I'm in London, I'm from South London. South London.

From South London. Broccoli. I am from Brooklyn. Get out. How do you know broccoli? Shut the front door. I know broccoli because I did a show here when we filmed in broccoli. I've laughed.

I'm from Brooklyn. Isn't there like an old dance hall there or some old? Yeah, the Rivilly Ballroom. Oh my God, we're like old schoolmates. Boom. Well, I was going to, yeah, I grew up in Brooklyn in South London. So you were trying to test my London knowledge. I want to test your London slang.

So if I'm going to throw you some slang words, and I'm going to see if you can translate what you think that they might mean. Minge. Sorry. Do you know what that is? You know what I love that in? What was it? The in-betweeners. That kid with like the clunge bags and sorry, I'm being naughty. No, Minge is one of like my favorite words. Give me a word.

Okay, what about pink? Peak. Yeah, what do you think peak means? Like we've peaked, it's, I fuck, I don't know. It's an uncomfortable situation. Peak. This is peak. This is peak.

You can bring these back to American. You can teach everyone. Maybe not. Okay. I'm joking. Yard. Yard. Well, a yard in America is like money.

What do we call a yard? It's like a thousand bucks or something, right? A hundred thousand? A yard. A couple of yards. Well, yard here is your home. Your yard. Your yard. Your crib. Your yard.

You're hitting me with some young good. Yeah, this is like the current. High through hinge. Okay, what about if something's dead? No, if something's dead, it's not happening. It's not going on. Nothing's happening right now. It's poor quality.

Poor quality. This is dead. This is like, you know, yeah, sorry, mate. Jacket's dead. Wow, give me some more. Shit. What is the, what's WIP? Your ride. Your whip. Your car, right? Yeah, okay. Okay, okay. Maybe that's the same one. Okay, cool.

All about fam. What is a fam? Your family? No. Your friends. It's a close friend. Your close friends, my fam. Final one, what does peng mean? P-E-N-G, ping. What we call pang is if you have a moment that you go, fuck, I shouldn't say. There's like a pang in your stomach or like a pang. No, it's a nice looking. So if you see it,

like a really hot girl. Oh, she's paying. She's paying. Explain that you just made that up. I did not make that up. Why is the good looking girl paying? What makes her peng? I don't know.

These kids on the street, they just like twist words. Look at her, she's pang. Or she's paying for dinner. Paying. That's how we would say. She's so pang, I'm paying. She's paying. Fuck.

Yeah, no, well, then. Those are very, I didn't do well at all. I did extremely. I was so impressed that you do Minge. That's amazing. That's a bit naughty. That's amazing. There's an actress in Hollywood who got Minge tattooed on her foot.

Did she? She maybe didn't know well. No, she, yeah, she didn't quite... It was Amanda Seafrid. And she said she was on set with Colin Firth, and he kept saying Minge. She kept swearing, Minch. And so she loved it so much, she got it on her foot. And then now she does red carpets and there's Minge on her foot. Well, we have a lot of swear words over here that maybe don't translate. We say bugger a lot.

Bugger, like, oh, bugger. That's like a Hugh Grant movie as well. Oh, yeah, he's a lot. You say bullocks. Oh, bollocks. You say the C word a lot. The sea word in England seems very normal and it's less offensive, but in America, people get offended by... No, it's still pretty offensive here.

Is it? Yeah, not really used much on TV or anything. But going down a pub, it's everywhere. They don't even say it. They go, you fucking, whisper it. What about minging? That's an Irish thing. Yeah, oh, that's so mingin, yeah.

I'm from New York City, so if you're not in, like, a posh, you know, thing, I think you come up with your own little slang or is. I invent words sometimes. I said horrocious once, and I meant, like, horrendous. seriously ferocious and it just came out as Horrocious. But Horrocious is a good word. So I kept that. I was like, oh, it's just horaceous that situation. It's like Shakespeare. He made out words, ooh, the time.

Back row and chill with Noel Clark and Johanna James on Fuba Radio. I'm Johanna James, and I'm here with Marien. And... Natalia. Just so we can explain to all my listeners on the radio show, you're a member of Pussy Riot and you're a founding member of

the Belarus Free Theater. Pussy Riot, it's much more easier to pronounce than Belarus Free Theater. Yeah, in England people know the word pussy more. I had heard of Pussy Riot before, like in news. It was on my kind of circle of knowledge, but I didn't understand what they were until I properly Googled it and looked you up because I thought like many other people

that you were a band, which is not true. So we want to make sure that everybody understands what Pussy Riot is and it's not a band. It's a punk collective, actually. Yeah, collective. Which is doing political art. The story is very easy when President Putin decided to go third time to president's chair. We started our, let's say, activities in Russia,

after one of them, which was in the so-called cathedral. In Moscow, we were put into prison for two years, two of us, me and Nadia. And after that, we were released and we started a human rights project and now we're helping other prisoners succeed several times. And also, we are doing art projects. For me, it's a chance to firstly show the very inside of my prison experience. Yeah, so two years you were inside for standing up for yourself. Yes, but also to reflect and to show some parts of my story, which I think most problematic. One of the goals is to show what can happen if you're doing political art. And one of goals is free, or like sense of who actually had.

just like think 20 years of prison for nothing. 20 fucking years in Russian prison means death, actually. He's now in the middle of Siberia, in the mostly total isolation. He's still there? Yes, he's there. My radio show is all about entertainment and movies and TV show and Netflix. Oh, Netflix. Yeah, and I read up about you and said, oh, you were on a Netflix show?

Yes, I was. What show are you on? Cars of Cars. It's a huge American Netflix show. And you were playing yourself in the show? Yes, we were us as Pussy Riot. That's really cool, though. So do you watch Netflix?

I've watched House of Cards. Do you have a favorite movie? I really like to watch movies, but I like classics. I like Odyssey 2001. Oh, yeah, Space Odyssey 2001? Cool. Sci-fi girl. Back row and chill with Mel Clark and Johanna James on Feebar Radio.

We've got Maud Hurst in the studio. Thank you for joining us. We're really good. How are you guys? Very good, I'm good. We're Mord. For all our listeners, just to explain who you are and what you do, you're an actress and you are on The Vikings. I am. The TV show, which is quite exciting.

I love that time period in history. I should have listened more in history, but I do actually like the Viking era. My brain was all over place in school. What we read in the history books is really quite different from the show. So even if you had read up on it, you know, you can still learn something else by watching it. Thank you very much. How did you get involved with the Viking?

So it's been like, oh God, like four and a half years, I think, since I auditioned. And I just been travelling around Thailand and I came back to London, terrified that I wasn't working. And I was like, ah. And my agent was like, God, it was really cool show, do you want to audition? I was like, sure, great. So he went in, met the director and it was a really last minute casting. And I think within like three or four weeks, I was told, and then flew to Ireland and started filming. That is scary.

The actor's fear, I call it. You know, after university for me, I just want to go and act. And you get this fear where you just don't know, audition-wise or work-wise. Yeah. I hate it the first time you get to set, normally the first thing people was going, hi, so what you do next? And you're like, I'm just really excited about this job, actually. You don't think you focus your mind on the day.

Day to day. That's so true. Well, okay, I've got something to admit. I've never been on a, oh, actually, no, I'm lying. I have been on a Viking themed TV show. But when I was a teenager, I used to do something really, really, really geeky, and I used to do medieval reenactment. Did you now?

It's like, oh, you're weird. Don't not for me, Joe. I was laughing at a joke I've written down for later. Okay. About you. been medieval I used to be such a geek I used to spend a majority of my weekends

going all over the country and we'd put on this show you know you go to castles or historical fairs or whatever I didn't know this existed for example in Nottingham every year they've got the Robin Hood Festival and then hundreds and hundreds of medieval reenactors go

I have heard of these and I played maid Marian in the Oh well done congratulations It was the role of my career They specialised in Viking up to Robin Hood So I spent most of my favourite teenage years running around being a fair maiden. So you're a fellow Viking.

Fellow Viking. Hey. Do you be a fighter? I was, yeah. I learned to use a broad sword. I wish I was. Helga was not. She's a lover, not a fighter.

Oh, they didn't fight. I don't fight, I don't ride horseback. No, missed all the fun things, but I didn't get muddy. Viking women were actually quite independent. If you look at women in history in the last sort of thousand years or whatever, you could divorce the men, which was like a power to a Viking woman. Like if you're a Viking women, like if you're a Viking, you're a Viking, you're a Viking, you man got home and drunk and was like whatever you could be like that's it

i divorce you fuck it my viking man is home yeah they were really progressive wasn't they was yeah it was crazy and i think it regressed a lot in different other parts of history but vikings yeah the women were fierce and some of them were actual like warriors the pagan women were like and they had these huge ladles it was like completely legal to beat your husband up with a ladle yeah with a big iron ladle yeah you could say you didn't want to be late you would not want to piss off your woman don't want to be late in the ladled we should have reacted that today we should have done every enactment I should have done that.

I should have done that. So what was your favourite part about playing your character in the Vikings? I think working with Gustav, who plays Floke, my husband, in the show, he's amazing. So it was kind of like a master cast every day being on set. He's acted since he was about five. So his whole life has been immersed. So that was brilliant. But also just being on the sets, it's so epic in the middle of Wickler Mountains and Ireland.

It was amazing. And on my wedding day, I think it's probably my favourite scene that I filmed, but they hadn't told us how we were going to get married. and we turned up in this lake and they'd built a boat of flowers and they were like, so you're just going to enter on in this? I was like, what? That's beautiful. It's great, but it kind of stuffs up

your real life wedding because you're like, I've never got the boat and the flowers. You're never going to beat that. It looked really pretty on TV. Yeah. That's super cool. And so do you get, because obviously your face has been out and about because you were in the Tudors as well, won't you? I love that TV show.

Anything historical with the corset and a bit of sex, I'm like, I'm in there. I've got your sard and you ready to watch. I'm ready at home, just ready. And then your face has been out and about quite a lot. Do you get recognised around? I look really different to Helga. They completely got rid of my eyebrows and so it changes your face a lot.

Why didn't they take your eyebrows off? That was a weird. I think they were kind of going Scandinavian. It's a liking thing. Really blonde. Yeah, they wanted to give it like a look the show to kind of have a different feel and dark eyebrows are in right now

so they wanted to make it completely different I guess. But it's not a good look and I really would never try it. Eyebrowless. Yeah, it's not good. You know, you look like a weird, like an egg, wouldn't you? Literally like an egg, yeah. One of my friends was like, you look like an alien.

I can't see if you're angry. Happy, dad, yeah. So, just sexy alien. You're a sexy alien. Thanks, thank you. But so, yeah, in a group, when all the Vikings are together, we do get it, but very rarely in London

do I get it, which is a nice thing, actually. Yeah, you can go incognito to wherever you want to go. I know, drunk and nights out, are good. Nobody knows. Until someone covers your eyebrows up, hate to you!

There you are! What is your sort of favourite thing that happened behind the scenes? Travis, who plays the lead guy, Ragnar. He is like a complete joker all the time. He's always misbehaving. And one day one of the other actors used to drive himself to set every day and he parked his car.

And Travis just went missing for ages. No one knew where he was. And eventually at the end of the day we realized what he'd done. We've got opened Bob's car and about 50 chickens just jumped out and he'd like filled. Yeah, his whole car was just covered in chicken poo

and he just filled this whole car. Yeah. That was Travis. Now that's a different... That's a different level. I know. Just sometimes he reads someone else's lines. I'm a bit of a laugh.

No, he fills a car with chicken. chicken and chicken poop. Yeah. That's like a pretty medieval joke isn't it? It's like I'm get ye chickens, put ye chickens in you can't. And it's also educational. There you go. Lovely. Prank me again. Thanks yeah. Wow. Does anything ever go wrong? Yeah, for me the thing that always goes wrong is I get the giggles, I can't. And once you go and you really got go and giggles on set. In a death scene. Well that's the other thing that, yeah, somebody, one of the other actors that died, everyone was really emotional on the day that they died and he was supposed to be dead and he

couldn't stop crying. He was like, actually. weeping while he was, I was like, you can't, yeah, you can't cry while you're a court. Not desirable that, but yeah, lots of things go wrong because it's so huge, in the battle sequences, there's normally like three or four hundred extras. So things are definitely going to go wrong when people are like flying around with weapons and stuff. There's lots of injuries and people falling off horses. Yeah. Medic!

Yeah. Some of the extras are probably medics, just ready, close, ready to go. Medic slash extra. They're just like multifunctional on set now. It's a Viking thing. I have been tempted to bleach my, you know. Remember that? Don't.

What were you just about to say? I've intended to bleach my eyebrows. I have because I saw that a dragon tattoo film, the girl with the dragon tattoo. Oh yeah? And Runei Mara had no eyebrows and I was like, she's the sexiest thing ever. But then I realised that I would not look like Runei Mara.

I just don't recommend doing it. It's just not good. It's not good for the ego. Did you have to die them back again? Yes, straight away. In fact, like even sometimes after the end of the day, I just say to my makeup artist, like please just draw them on for tonight.

Can't go home to the mirror. I can't do it. I just want to sleep in. my own eye. I don't stand when girls die their hair, but die in your eyebrows. Is that the same? Some people die their pubes. Okay, dokey. Anyway, back to the backyards. They do. They fall off. They die everything. No. And they grow really quickly. Who knew?

Yeah, eyebrows grow like my... Oh, I thought my boobs. I'm not talking about pubes anymore. I'm like, my poves do go really quickly, yeah. TMI. TMI. Back row and chill with Mel Clark and Joanna James on Foo Bar Radio. Nick Nevin, welcome to studio.

Hey, how are you? I think I should have a little... Nick Nevins and that bell day Yes Now bow Bow before me You Peasants, peasants? Yeah, go on

We'll go with that one We should probably warn the audience That Nick is hanging today He's proper hanging Okay, man So I'm going to mess with your mind Throw you some real hard words And some questions

Obviously we arranged this last week or whatever And I just, I'm not going to lie to you babe I fucking forgot I forgot And then I see the tweet this morning. And I was like, oh, no. Oh, crap.

Oh, God. I gotta perform. But it's showbiz, baby. It's showbiz. You're used to this. This is what you work. And you are an actor or director? Or is it a director actor?

No, actor first, I reckon. Actor first, director second. Director second. That rhymes. Actor, I reckon. Actor first, director second. I mean, to start. I'll just get a beat.

Let's spit it out. Just do it, man. So when did you start acting? Fuck. millennia ago. Yes, yes, long, long time ago. Ages ago, I guess I got into it as a kid. I used to go to these, like, little drama classes

in my church. At one point, I was a good Catholic boy. Okay. Not doing anything with priests, I'm just saying, I was a good Catholic boy, yeah, like, what the fuck? Where's this gone already, isn't it? So you did the nativity?

Yeah, yeah, I did the nativity. Yeah, I did West Side Story. I did Bugsy Malone. Who did you play? In West Side Story, I played riff. Bugsy Malone, I played... Well, you were. No, no, no, he was like, he was one of Dandy Dan's gang.

He was like, so he was, it was shit. It was just a shit part. You're still Dandy Dan's gang now, aren't you? Dandy Dan's hang. Definitely. Definitely. And then I kind of, obviously, went off the rails a little bit, did some other stuff. And then I ended up in drama school and I did it properly, you know?

You sound like like you just woke up in drama school. Yeah, yeah. What? Pretty much. Like, I remember my mum was saying, look, if you're in trouble one more time, like, that's it. I'm disowning you. You've got to go and do something. Yeah.

And then I was like, okay. And there was this drama school literally around the corner from me. I walked in there. And you got to remember, them times, I was like 18. I thought I was proper badass, yeah. And I walked in there. And I was like, how do I get into your drama school, would it? They were like, who the fuck are you made?

And I was like, yeah, come back with a Shakespeare play and a modern play, right, for your audition. I was like, oh, that's sweet. And that day, I went out, I stole the complete works of Shakespeare, yeah? I proper bulls did, yeah? but was the complete works of Shakespeare. Like that, the thing was like that thick, yeah. The folios. Yeah, do you know what I mean?

You can kill someone with that, yeah? And then, yeah, I learned it all on my own. Anyway, I went there, ended up getting a place at drama school, and it ended up being Lambda. Like, one of the most prestigious drama schools in the world. I didn't even know what it was. I didn't even know what it was. Like, literally, all I went there for was to, like, meet pretty girls with daddy issues,

as all actresses, like, yeah, and just get pissed. And, yeah, that was it. And it worked out. And it worked out. On TV and all the stuff. It ended up on TV. Yeah, cry watch for that fucking... For that Shakespeare.

A regular on Crymoid. Recently, you were in Brotherhood. I was, yeah, with you. With myself. Yeah, we actually had... We were even in the same scene. We were in the same scene. What glorious scene that was.

What an amazing scene. I still cry every time I see it. I think it should be nominated. Do you reckon? Just that one scene? Just a one hospital scene. I think it should go off. To be honest, that's why the box office is so high.

I think so. I agree. I think so it was us. You play a detective. Yeah, Detective Parkinson. What a lot of people may not know is that he was actually... Sorry, I'm moving around because it's the only way I can stop myself from being sick. So yeah, Detective Parkinson, he is...

A lot of people don't know that he was actually in adulthood for one scene again. It was my one scene cameo. But he was a PC, me and David Ajaula, who I went to drum school with as well. Oh, you guys were proper buddies before. Yeah, yeah. Old school. Old school. Big up, David.

And then we were in adulthood for that one kind of one scene bit. And then Noel obviously liked it and wanted us to come back, you know. I've got a bone to pick with Noel, actually. Where is Noel? I just, because someone recalled at the premiere, yeah, when he was going down the line. Yeah. Obviously, I didn't realize this because I was there and it was all kind of happening. Ooh, so quickly.

But someone filmed it, right? And then I played it back. And he goes, so this is blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. This is Nick Nevin. No one likes him. Like, I was like, what? Like, I don't remember him saying that. He's like, no one likes him, but I put him in the film anyway.

That's the way he said that. Like, I was like, did he fucking say that? Like, I don't see that on someone. Someone just showed that to me. Yeah, because Noel, it was very nice. He introduced the entire cast at the premiere and sort of said a little bit about us. I think all the producers at the time were like, what are you doing?

Let's play the movie. But Noah's like, we want to make sure everyone. But that's a bit, all right, well, you have to come back on the show and we'll have to get him back at some point. Oh, 100%. No, we should just prank call him. Should we just call him? Like, Noel prank me the other day, so I need to prank him back.

So I'm still thinking about. So maybe he could tag you and. We'll get something going. Back room. and chill with Noel Clark and Joanna James on Feebar Radio. We've joined for David, and I said, didn't even wrong before, didn't I? I said, I corrected her. What did you say?

Ajao. My man. That's right. You know? I said Ajao. No, I got a friend that calls me a jail. She's the only one that can do it, though, I'm sorry. Ajo?

A joe. That's the one. Nice. For everyone who's listening, you are an actor. I am indeed, yes. Like all of us here. Oh, yes. And you're in a BBC three.

Yeah. Well, BBC 3 and BBC 1, you know you have to put that in there. By law. 3 and 1. When you say BBC 3, a lot of people come through and are like, oh yeah, but that's on Lennel. But it's on BBC 1 as well. It's the fake BBC.

We're going to be talking about some unusual film facts that I've been researching this week. Let's get it. Let's do it. So, okay. One of my favourite films ever, Jurassic Park, the original. Yes. The sound of the velociraptans in. the kitchen scene

was actually the sound of tortoises mating. I knew that. No, I didn't. When velociraptors, they communicate with that, like, it's actually tortoises have insects. That's going to ruin that film for me.

I know. I'm going to watch that scene and be like, ah, that's just tortoises boning, man. Come on. You ain't scared nobody. I know what Ninja Turtle sound like. Fact number two, the scene in Pulp Fiction, where Vincent stabs Mia in the heart, was shot in reverse.

He actually pulled the needle out of her chest and then they filmed it so it went back in. Why would they do that? Because I think it was too dangerous to actually stab someone even with a fake needle box. Oh yeah, that makes sense. So they reversed, shot it. That's pretty intense, yeah.

In the hangover, Ed was actually missing a tooth that, you know, when he knocks his tooth out. Yeah, I believe that. The actor, he had a false implant. He got it removed for the film and then put back in again. That is dedication. So you reckon that they knew beforehand that he had a fake thing and then wrote that little.

And that's why they did. Yeah, maybe they wrote it in. Or they wrote it in and he was. like wait guys committed the movie scream was based somewhat on a real-life 90s Florida murder spree I knew that did you know that no no no no that's dope though you don't know nothing I don't know the movie the Titanic cost more to make than the actual Titanic cost to make wow it was 200 million to make the the movie and with inflation about 125 million to make the boat so the movie goes more than the

Titanic. Wow. That is intense. And it made more. It did. It made so much. It probably made more money, to be fair. It could make three Titanic's with that one film. Spielberg, nicknamed the mechanical shark in Jaws Bruce.

Do you have the reason to that? It looked like a Bruce. I think, I think, Spielberg. I thought he looked a bit more like a Barry, personally. I don't know, it was a bit Bruce to me. He's very, you know, Bruce. Bruce. Bruce. Bruce. But then, in finding, Bruce, Bruce. But then in finding,

Nemo years and years later in honor to the original Bruce they called the shark Bruce that is amazing fish are friends not phone the producers tried to give Harry Potter green eyes but Daniel Radcliffe's eyes was so allergic to the contacts they had to scrap that idea were they green in the book in the green in the book and he has blue eyes so they were trying to keep to the book but he couldn't they couldn't do the contacts so they they thought it at Miami they were going to fit her with false teeth but Emma Watson couldn't talk properly with them in so again they they fight that as well what like buck teeth Yeah, because in the book she got buck teeth.

Oh, right. You reckon that there were some nerds that fully watched that film. This isn't Harry. His eyes are blue. Her teeth should be more buck than it. They're not buck enough. No. No, daddy, it's not the real Harry Potter.

Don't like it. Disney was originally called Delizny, like D-A-Postrophe, L-S-I-Dilisney. It was like French because of his French ancestry. Delizny. And people were like, people are not going to say, I'm going to go to Delizney World. So they were like, call it Disney and we're buying. Delizny. Also, they just moved the apostrophe over.

They got rid of the apostrophe and they chucked out the random L and they were like Disney. Nice. That works though. Deluzn. That's good. Oh, here's a weird, creepy fact. The voice of Lilo from Lilo and Stitch is the same girl who was in the ring. No.

Yeah. She's called Dara Chase, I think. And she's the same girl plays Lilo and the girl from the room. That is crazy. It's fucked up. She was terrifying in the room. So scary. So scary.

And so, like. He's so harmless. Early Disney films are pretty much a mother-free zone due to the fact that Disney's own mom died around that time. Okay. That's why my childhood was filled with so much death when I watch TV because his mom died. Do you know how she died?

How she died. So he bought her a brand new house off the back of Disney making money. She died of carbon monoxide poisoning from a faulty gas works of this new house. So I think he must have felt, so then he banned mothers from the early film. all the films like the mother's not there or in Bambi she died so like he makes the mother free zones that's cold. That's real cold. That's never. Everyone's mothers. No, my. No, my. No, that's dark. Sorry. No, I was going to go so, okay. Don't you even there? I'm sorry. The mainstream of Disneyland is set in 1910 America, which white goes all old school. And then

Tomorrowland was set in 1986 because the park opened in the 50s and they thought, whoa, in the future in 1986. It's going to be like crazy. Playing cars and shit. So now, Tomorrowland set in 1986, which is like, Yes, you're land for us. Think bigger, think bigger. Did you watch that film? No. I saw it, I saw it, yeah.

It was a bit, yeah. You're not missing a thing. I mean, ah, you know what? If the director hears this, cast me in something, but I didn't enjoy the film. I think there should have been a young black dude from London, Peckham, the exact. Did you know that it would take 68 years to sleep in every room in the hotels in Disneyland?

68 years. 68 years? So you could probably, you could, if you could afford it, and stay in every different room in all of the parks in Disneyland because it's the size of San Francisco, the whole Disney resort. That's insane. I want to do it, I want to try it. But have naps in each room, like little naps going around.

It's power of five minutes. Beat the world record. And finally, in 1967 on the Pirates of the Caribbean ride when it opened in Disney World, the skeletons looked so rubbish, the plastic skeletons, that they went and they got real-life dead people skeletons from the medical centre, because they were getting rid of them after the medical experiments.

So Disney World, the ride was full of real dead people. See, Disney's messed up. These facts are just showing me. Disney's dark. It should boycott Disney unless they cast us and stuff. Exactly. You know, I mean, I'll always be up for doing the parents. Real skeletons, though, that's fuck, man.

You could get shut down for that shit, no? I mean... But I do love Disney World. So that was my unusual movie facts in the week. Let's plug what you're doing at the moment. So Sonny D is out now on BBC 3. and Mbc1. Yeah, yeah, let me get to that.

My bag. I'll practice this spiel. Don't mess up my name. Just because we're friends. Don't we know. Don't mess up a spiel. Okay, go on. All right, thank you.

I appreciate that. It's a great show. I mean, I play the best friend to the lead, Dame Baptiste. He's an awesome comedian. So it's a wicked show. And I'm in every episode, and you can tweet me and say how cool I am and funny.

In real life, I look much hotter than I do in the show. So, you know, they put some grizzle on my face. That's the best way around, because you don't want it to be the other way around when people are like, Oh my God, he's so hot. Oh, that's what real life looks like. I had that with like Tinder dates and stuff.

Where they were like, you know, they saw my picture. And then when they met me in real life, they were like, oh, you actually really, really handsome in real life. I was like, so what does that mean for the bottle? One time I put my head shop up there and I was like, oh, but that's how I'll get my money. So if this ain't working, then I don't know what's happening. Back row and chill with Noel Clark and Johanna James on Fibar Radio. All the way from America.

From America, it's Brian Tyree Henry, who has played. Paperboy on the new FX show Atlanta so let's see if this works I'm loving Brian are you there I am can you hear me oh I am perfectly thank you how you doing sir thank you thank you you thank you guys for having me thank you no problem at all we were just telling the to all the listeners that you play paperboy on the new show Atlanta we're on episode three over here in England oh good man you guys got a lot to catch up on we can't wait good that's great how you liking it so far I'm loving it like I'm loving it Like, for me, sitting down watching a show, you know, you didn't really know what to expect.

Because, obviously, I mean, I don't know if you know, I create as well, and I write and I direct and make movies and stuff like that. And, you know, when someone's doing it abroad that you admire, you kind of want, you know, I hope this is going to be good. I hope this is going to be good. And it's so good. And you guys are doing such a great job. How is it being received over in America? Oh, it's received unlike anything I've ever seen before, honestly. I mean, the fans and people, they want this, you know, they really craved it.

And we're happy that everyone is received it for that. Yeah, yeah. And for anyone who hasn't picked up on the show yet over here, if you could explain a little bit about your character, Paperboy, who's one of the rappers? Yeah, well, Paperboy is really known as Alfred, and I play The Cousin to Earn, who is played by Donald Glover. And my cousin is a little down and out. He drops out of college and he moves back to Atlanta where we're from,

and he hears that I'm an underground rap station, and decides he wants to become my manager, and hilarity and all kinds of craziness. too with us trying to get bang, notoriety, and paper. You know? Yeah, yeah. It's just about us. I'm trying to make it.

So the track, the main track, because obviously Donald is also the rapper himself, Childish Gambino. Was that track one of his tracks, or was that specifically made for the show by you and Donald? That track was specifically made for the show. And actually, that's not me rapping in the song. That's his brother, Stephen Glover, who's rap. I'm trying to be as cool as them, you know. I take it until I make it. Yeah, yeah.

So, yeah. But they produced it and arranged it and everything. Came out kind of fire, I think. You know, it's great. So, listen, speaking of trying to be as cool as Mr. Glover. So I have a love-hate relationship with Donald Glover. I have a love-hate relationship. Oh, no.

Well, I've never met... No, nothing. I've never met Donald, and he's a... I consider him a genius. I consider him a genius. So my love-hate relationship is this. You know, I act and I write and I direct and I make movies and stuff like that. So my love with Donald is, when I see him doing this stuff as well,

I go, this guy is brilliant, and I like, I love him. Donald Glover and everything. And then I go in for auditions and stuff like that. And then two months later, I see the job's gone to Donald Glover. And I'm like, this motherfucker. If I ever see this guy, if I ever see this guy, I'm going to ring his neck. And then I come home and Atlanta's on. I'm like, this show's so great.

And then I go for another audition. He gets, what is it like working with the genius that is Donald Glover? Essentially is the question. Okay. I can go into that. Great, man. Like, instantly when I auditioned for it, he was in the room and it was like sitting sitting next to a buddy that I've known for years, you know what I mean?

We played and we ad-lifts and we joked around and it was just instant man and he is a genius I think that's the best word to describe them you know he's really really aware of what's going on in the world and how to relate to people in the world or he's done really well assembling this theme of just coming together and telling this story of these people in the town he's just great man like he's really like a brother to me and i really love him so i hope that that changes your bipolar love no man it's all it's all love man i genuinely think he's a man amazing because, you know, over here, like I said, I do the same sort of thing, so I, you know, I get it and I see how Hardy's working and stuff. It's just I want to get some of them

damn roles too. That's all I'm saying, you know? Hey, man, we got a second season, man. That's wrong for everybody. He's got a second season, you know. Yeah, great, great. Brian, how did you get involved with the show initially? Were you, was it like full audition process or? Well, it started because I bribed everyone in the city. If I know it's not. My manager, saw the project called Atlanta. I went to college in Atlanta. I went out of college and she was like, you know, I really feel like this show is something that'll get you. And I opened it and I read the first five pages and I saw Alfred and I was like, done, this is it.

Yeah. Got to be it. Like, I got to do this. It kind of just came to me and I went for it, man. I was like, if I'm going to be in a show called Atlanta with Donald Blubber, I've got to kick his ass. Yeah. I'm glad it worked out that way. No, it was awesome.

So you were the general right in the Book of Mormon, like when it first started, right? General butt fucking naked, man. Oh my God. I've seen that show four times. This is the original. This is the original day. Oh, my gosh. I did it on Broadway. Amazing.

I love that role. That's a scene stealing role to have. I never saw you in it, but I'm sure nobody does it as good as you, bro. I'm sure. Oh, come on you guys. Who's on the payroll, man? I love it. Thank you.

That means a lot. Thanks a lot. That was a great time for me. To work for Chick Parker in that zone was like destiny fulfilled. I watched South Park since I was like in the ninth grade. Yeah. And to be in the room with these two guys who was so smart and so funny. and so political and so their geniuses as well i think you are but maybe genius inspires genius

you know so you must be kind of genius as well for these guys to be gravitating towards you and vice versus because that's kind of how the world works energies and stuff you know you're obviously doing the right thing i'm going to love with you guys i'm in love with you guys right now like this love affair is amazing i'm going to give you a little tweet later i'm going to tweet you later on say what's okay do it man i will what have you got in the future obviously a second series coming up are there any other projects, anything that you want to shout out or excited about? Yeah, changing the world. That's what I'm trying to do.

Yeah. Like, I really want to focus on changing the world. Man, we've got a lot going on and a lot to think about and a lot of things that we have to do to bring each other together. So I'm going to go out there and I'm going to change this damn world one percent at the time. How relevant do you think shows like at Lanzar, you know, in the current state that Americas are in with your new president and stuff like that? It's so necessary. It's so necessary.

You know, when we started the show, we didn't want to feel like the show was important. We don't want to make the show on this pedestal and hold it up to this thing to say that we're speaking this, we're trying to say this thing, we're trying to preach this thing, we just wanted to tell the stories of these people. But then it in itself became a thing,

it became a fortier. Yeah, we all needed to hear these stories and we all need to see different sides of life, and I think that Atlanta does that. And we're not going to stop, man. No, don't know, because we're loving it. We're loving it in the UK, brother. Good, good.

We got you. Thank you so much. We might be shooting a movie in Atlanta in February, so I'm going to come check you. Well, you better call me, dude. No, I will, bro. I'm going to Insta you or tweet you later on, and then I'm going to hit you up before coming,

but I think we are. I think a bromance has started over the phone. It's a good bit of watch. In fact, we might be doing a reckey in a few weeks. I might holly you then. Hey, man. I may get your name tattoo on my neck. I'm bad in love with you.

Oh, thanks, brother. Back row and chill with Noel Clark and Janah James on Fee Bar Radio. We are joined by the Wall of Comedy Boys. Hello. Hey, just want to say hey again. Yo, y, y'all. I didn't know if that was a dog.

No, yo, yo, you're all meal. Yeah, yeah. I'd like to play a game. Oh boy. This is the name of the game. Right. So basically, I've got a movie quiz. I'm going to ask each individual questions.

And if you get it wrong, if you get it right, then you pass. Well done. 10 points. If you get it wrong, you're going to have to try a bean-boozle bean, which, if anyone doesn't know what they are. What is it? They're jelly beans that are either a gorgeous flavor or a disgusting flavor. Why we've got the sick buckets? Some of them taste like dick. I was hanging out.

Yeah, literally. They've got moldy dick, I think, is on there, or caramel corn. You said, deep through it. What are some of the horrible flavors at a bean show? So, right, so let's have a look. So you've either got coconut or spoilt milk. Spilt milk. Buttered popcorn or rot a leg.

Peach or vomit. Oh, gosh. Juicy pear or bugger. Tootie fruity or stinky socks. Strawberry banana smoothie or dead fish, berry, blueberry. Or toothpaste. And that's not too. Chocolate pudding, canned dog food.

Oh gosh. Caramacorn, mouldy cheese, slash dick, and lime and lawn clipping. All right. You miss that one thing there, though, Joanna. We're not going to eat them because we're going to get them all right. Oh, my God. So how is it working?

Is this our team and that's your team? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Should we do team and team? Let's do team and team. Okay, team and team. Because he's shit. He's really. Oh, man.

Team divided all right. Yeah, yeah, divide and conco. Guys, I just opened this. And I got a woof and vomit. Okay, let's get in there. Let's get in there. Oh, I just realised I can't play because I made the questions up. Oh, so I've got back in for the whole team.

But to make it fair, when someone takes a bean, I'm going to take a bean too. How about this? You're going to ride with me. You can ask you your question, though. You could ask me. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. All right.

We come up a question. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, we can improvise on this show. Can we confer with each other, like, you know. Chase clinging onto that bin to like. Oh, God, I've got this. I see the fear in your eyes, bro. Okay, right, guys.

The first round is movie quotes. So I'm going to say a movie quote. Yes. And if you can get it right, then you say. Okay, so the first question to your team is, I think we're going to need a bigger boat. What film is that from? I think we're going to need a bigger boat.

Are you going to give us, like, any voice to help us out a little bit, or is it? I think we're going to need a bigger boat. There's a clue. There's a bear boat movies. Yeah, yeah, exactly, exactly. Ding, ding, ding, ding. I think we're going to need a bigger boat. Ding ding ding ding ding ding ding

Don't give them a fucking clue Dillin Dillin Yes Answer is Joel Question number two I'm king of the world I'm king of the world

We need to know what guy is Yeah go like Titanic Oh fuck thank you He was gonna say lying king of a minute Yeah Tell you what you can ask a question to him Because he don't know these So you can ask a movie question to TJ

Come then I'm a badders at this game If anyone's just joined us we're playing my movie quiz challenge with bean boozled, disgusting jelly beans. Trust me. The movie goes on my side. I've got a question.

I've got a question. It can't be like, what's your shoe size? Because me and you don't share a bed and that. All right. A shoe one, yeah. All right, cool.

A shoe one. What color were the slippers in the original wizard of us? Ruby. Red in here? Ruby red. Is that your third and final answer? Wait, this is a trick question.

Wait, which slippers? The original? I'm going to repeat the question. and that's all I'm going to do. Okay, go on. What colour were the slippers in the original Wizard of Oz? Ruby slippers, come on. Everybody knows this thing.

She originally had black shoes on. No, I've seen the old school movie yet. Now you're just saying the remake. In the original Wizard of Oz. I've seen it. Silver, guys. How? Silver.

Shut up. No way. Silver. I'm DJ through the bin. I didn't know that. I want video evidence. Men's got to eat a sweet. Okay.

Man's got it in the street. This is either... Oh mate, I just know this is going to be a bad one. So this one is either... Oh my god, this one doesn't look. Chocolate pudding or canned dog food. Yeah, same here. I bet you get the chocolate pudding.

Three, I don't leave my life. Two, one, go. Oh! Are they already nice ones in there? I just had dead the look. I actually might like guys on live radio. I'm sure there's any good ones in there. What are you know?

Right, I'm giving you a bloody hard question now. Go on. And you guys are going to get it. Okay, hold on. Okay. In Hunger Games, which district was the character Thresh from? Thresh. Isn't that like a condition?

No, not thrush, guys. It's not a yeast infection. It's a character. He's called Resh. Yes. What district? Come on, you got 12 districts. Come on, 12 district.

Yeah, but I'm saying was that a main character? Stop asking questions and start answering. He was in. All right. What color was he? What? No, no. No, no, no.

Do you don't get clues? Look, stop on man, you got... I feel the beans coming. I'm going to guess. How many were there? 12. 11? I trust my brother.

Are you googling underneath the table? No, what? Okay. The answer actually is... Oh, I don't know that. It's fucking 11. What? What?

What? How did you get that? Oh, I was so scared. How did you know that? I was so scared. I was so scared. I didn't know that one. No, the whole one.

He was 11. He was from the black dust. I was so scared. Is there a district? Well, it's not officially called, though. Oh, he's a black guy? Yeah. Back row and chill with No Clark and Johanna James on Fuba Radio. We have got Arnold.

Oh, thank. What's up, what's up? How do you do it, man? I'm good, man. Listen, I need to ask you something. Talk to me. How do we actually pronounce your last name? Do you know what?

Just so people know? It sounds Chinese, but it's not. So it's O-Cheng. It's O-Chang. Oh, Chang. You know, there's an age. I know I know I don't I need to talk to my mom It's crazy man, it's O-Cheng yeah

Bro I'm good man I'm just on a cloud nine right now things are as you don't know things are going so well with the film and everything and And I'll respond listen so you have to pretend kind of yeah, I'm not me Okay, okay, so when I say what was it like working with? I'm okay, I got you, I got you got you got what's happening for you right now man, it's cloud nine business tell us what's going on? Yeah, so I got this film called brotherhood I sound excellent it's amazing My character comes back from adulthood. Yeah, because you were in the second film as well. Yes, I was in adulthood.

With Brotherhood, people get a sense, a bigger sense of Henry. He gets to show his character a bit more. Am I correcting saying, you're also in another film that's coming up. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm also in a movie called United Kingdom by Amara Asante, starring David Ouello and Rosman Pike. Jana, isn't that the woman that you speak to? I spoke to her this week. No way.

I know. Small world. I went to the BFI Festival launch. opening basically I got to see all the films that are coming out at the festival but watch them no no I got to see all the trailers oh sorry okay there was so many took two hours just to sit in the theatre and let's to square see all the trailers but the first film the opening film of the whole entire festival is a united kingdom and then i got to go and interview the director of it and i saw you i didn't even know you in that film and then i looked up and there was your face and i was like there's

like oh what took up to do you yeah because you have an accent i've got an accent in that one yeah you know i can't do the accent now we're doing interviews you cannot ask me to do We're doing these teams now. I love it. I love it. I love it. It's a period drama set in the 1940s. It's basically a love story

between David Oywello and Rosamine Pike. It's a true story about Sorette Carmar who is heir to the throne in Congo, but then he's sent to England, Oxford University to study and get prepared to, you know, become king. But then he falls in love with Rosam Pike. I love this and I love you. And I think something very important here that people might have missed.

There's black people in this film. And you said it's in the 1940s. 1940s. A lot of you young actors out there, especially the black ones, to know that we were about. We've been about. Don't feel like anything previous to 1975, you can't get roles, man. You can get it. Let's hope that people are opening their minds and making films like this where you can prove that we were hearing. And at Oxford University. And that's the good thing with Amma, because Amma loves to tell stories, you know, black stories of our culture that haven't been told before. The good thing with the United Kingdom is when David's character gets sent to Oxford

University to study it was sort of a time where like it was like a rap pack of educated black very intelligent men all in Oxford University like my character that I play his name's Charles and John Joe Kenyon but he later on after obviously Oxford University he became the Attorney General the trailer's amazing and it's a true story true story man still can kind of resonate today you know sort of interracial yeah yeah couples and the struggles they face definitely you know about that don't you John I do I have it from the other way around because my mom is desperate for me to have a black boyfriend.

No way! She literally... Your mom's listening now as well, isn't it? Hey, mum, listen. I was going to say something. No, mom? But mumsie, like, seriously, you don't have to fight it any longer. You don't have to fight it anymore.

The don't meet his righteous. See, look, she's smiling there, she knows. She knows. That's Natalie outside. She's one of our producers. She knows. You know about black don't crack in it. baby.

You're not by the dot me. She's nodding. But many people today do have, you know, parents maybe would still have really old school prejudices. So this film, I think, is going to be, I'm so excited for this one. Yeah, I'm so great. Yeah. You've got to had a big surge in the last couple of years in your career. How have you found it?

How have you adapted to suddenly being able to afford things and getting things for free? Yeah. Do you know what I mean? You work for your life to afford it and then they give it to free. Yeah. What's the coolest freebie you've ever got? You know, I'm going to say something, but it's going to sound dumb. A kettle.

A kettle. That does sound dumb, but I mean, here you up. Hear me out, though. Hear me out, hear me out. Do you know where I got the kettle from? No. Toronto. All right.

You know the gift and sweet? Yeah. Tell me it makes you pancakes with metal syrup in the morning and I'll like the kettle a little bit more. I don't want to get my pancakes, but you know. Tea is on point, man, I'm telling you. You're so British. I'm too British, man.

You got some free segways, because I remember I got the only time I've ever tried one was on the Brotherhood set and we were just like going up and down the costume. Oh, did I bring it? Yeah. I couldn't. Bear in mind. You had two of them running around and we were all having to go on them.

Yes. I think the director was very, I hear he's a lovely man. I don't think he was too chuffed about you guys running around on a segue in case anybody fell down and got... To be honest, you know, the director, God bless his heart and everything. But I think, you know, he just doesn't have the balance to be on those sort of things, you know, so, yeah. Is he too old?

He's maybe too old. I feel like he stepped on it and he broke his tail. He did, he did, he nearly did. But let's not name names on who it was, you know. It's not name names. I feel he's a wonderful man, though. No, he's cool, he's cool, he's cool. Rhymes with Schmol Schmark, I think.

Schmolzmour! You could have said rhymes with Noah's Ark. That one about that? Or Treebock. Maybe that's a sign. That should start building a boat or something. Noah's Ark, tree bark. Yeah, tree bark.

All right, so what... Johanna Fart. Sorry. Oh, you're so good at it. I ruled by shop. I think that was Tosy for that one. Back row and chill with Noel Clark and Johanna James on Feebar Radio.

We are joined in the studio by actor Tom Meetin and the executive producer of the film, Deraja Mahay. That's right. Woo-hoo! Woo! Okay, for people who are listening who haven't come across the goal so far,

we just give everybody a rundown of a synopsis of what... The name is a little bit misleading... It is a little. Some people might be like, ooh, goblins and stuff like that. I know, I assumed it was like a horror. Yeah, yeah. I guess the insinuation is it seems like it might be a full-on horror. Exactly.

It's more of a mental horror. I play the lead in it called Chris. who ostensibly starts out as a detective, but things, including his own mind, unravel, and it becomes more about a mental horror, like he's been manipulated by people, and he's basically in the process of a breakdown. And the film itself unravels as his own mind unravels, if you like.

We actually shot it two years ago. Oh, really? So we're taking a little while to... We're quite low budget, don't mind of meeting. It's a very small film, so it's taken a while. I've been there. I know about that stuff, and I feel like what we're doing this show some is, We want to school these people and the audience that want to get into the business about the process.

So Kidot, for example, was made in 2004 and didn't come out to 2006. So very similar journey to you guys' films. So just explain the pros. Tell us exactly what happened in that process quickly. As I said, we were low budget. We actually shot the film a couple of years ago in 10 days, most of the dialogue have you seen. Very quickly, very rare. For people that don't know, that's kind of, you know, almost unheard of.

We had a few days of sort of pickups of following me around the streets, around Hackney, in places like that wandering around. But that was a small setup. And then because we're a low budget, we had to drive a lot of this stuff ourselves and a lot of favours and help from people, which is why it took longer. A lot of films with a bit more money can just sort of pay for these and push these things through. Underdogs. Yeah, exactly. Fight in a fight. Because as you know, if you're working with a low budget, everyone has to put more effort in.

Tom, as an actor, so when you're playing a part like that, where you do have to kind of have, without giving too much away and not necessarily literally dual realities and all that sort of stuff. What's your process when you were doing that? I have usually done quite a lot of comedy in my career. So this is sort of the first serious role I've been sort of titting about on stage many years, getting my balls out and all sorts of things. Well, you can get them out here, you know. It's a free show. You've got a webcam though, right? Yeah.

Yeah. Hey, stage, webcam. 10,000 people, a million people, eight. I mean, it was amazing opportunity for me to do a serious. A serious choice. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, yeah. Because you're exactly right.

That sort of dual reality is just sort of, I mean, to be a lead in a film and almost a play to separate characters is sort of, you know. and heard of him in a way. Yeah. Just for the people that listen, when you make a film like this, obviously you have the process now, you've waited two years, but have you guys yet got your distribution?

So we're in the process. I think the honest answer is no, basically we're still in discussions. So I think for us, we're really proud of the film and we think it will definitely get pits up and have a life, but we're not worried about it

being a commercial film so much. I think for us, it's just finding people who get the same vision that we have for the film. I know some people. Okay. We'll talk after. we're talking.

Business meeting going on right now. Back row and chill with Noel Clark and Johanna James on Fubar Radio. You've been listening to a Fubar Radio podcast. For more information, go to Fubbar Radio.com.