Back Row and Chill with Jahannah James and Noel Clarke - Stay Home Special Series - Episode 21 - Ruby Rose, D.j. Caruso, Peter Stone

Episode Date: January 23, 2017

This week Jahannah was joined by Amber Doig-Thorne! We played out the interviews of when Jahannah met the director of xXx: Return of Xander Cage D.j Caruso, and the star of the motion picture Ruby Rose. Live in the studio we had Peter Stone who talked about his play The Doppel Gang, and Lucy Patterson was back with her honest film reviews.

This is a Fubar Radio podcast. Go to Fubaradio.com for more details. Back row and chill with Johanna James and Noel Clark on Fubar Radio. Welcome! It's very loud. It's very loud. It's Friday. It's Backer and Chill.

I'm joined today by Amber Doigthorn. Hi. I said that right. Yeah, I always panic about foreign names, but you just got to go for it. Right, welcome. Welcome. You're filling in today for Noel Clark, who's still filming his new, his new project, new film, 10 by 10.

Welcome, welcome, welcome. This is the first time that I have been co-hosting with a girl. Exciting stuff. So many vaginas on here right now. It's great. Yeah, girl on girl action today. So we've got a good show on the way. We did have a guest planned,

and last minute, they've had a bit of an accident, and they can't make it this week. I think they literally crack their head open. So hope you get well soon, and we'll have you soon on the show. But we have got loads of other guests coming on. We've got Lucy Patterson on at 530 to do our regular film review slot excited. Every week

Amber, we go away and we do a little like a little film club and we do our research and we see films and then we come back and review them and say if they're shit so they're not. Nice. Very honest. We like honest reviews and same goes for anyone listening if you want to get involved. Tweet us at Fubar Radio

or email in Chill at Fubaradio.com. If there is a film that you've seen that you're raving about or a film that you're like, do not go to this, do not waste your money. It was awful. Please let us know. and we will shout you out. Of course. Right, I got a lot of interviews

to play you guys today from the cast of the return of Xanda Cage, the new triple X movie, Triple X3. Good film, good film. Yes. So I went to see that the last week, and I got the privileged to interview about seven or eight members of the cast,

which was an epic day. I've never ever interviewed that many celebrities in one go. It was like, but we did it. We got Ruby Rose, and the director of the film who was actually awesome. He was one of my,

I think my favorite person to interview out of all of them. He's so on it. So we'll be playing those few later on. So Amber, if anyone doesn't know who Amber Doigthorn is,

you are FAMO on the internet. You could say that yet. I definitely could say that. I mean, not everybody has a couple hundred thousand people follow them on Instagram and whatnot. What is that like? It's really weird.

Like, I never know how to describe myself. People are like, what do you do? I'm like, I'm a Facebook video person. Yeah. I don't really know how to describe it's weird. I'm like a YouTuber, but I don't really YouTube. Yeah, so I'm like a YouTuber but on Facebook. Basically a Facebooker, which is not a well-known term.

People are just like, what does that mean? Sounds like you're very unemployed. I'm just on Facebook all the time. But no, it's legit turning into a job now. It's sort of what I do in the week as well as acting and radioing and whatever. I'm a Facebooker too. So you make comedy content or vlogs and things and put them out on the internet and a lot of people follow them and enjoy them, which is really fun.

And another thing that you get to do, which is really cool, you get to go to loads of premieres. It's awesome. Literally, like, the biggest perk of the Facebook thing is all the premieres, the screenings, like, just the most amazing events that you get to go to and seeing the films before anyone else is sick. Yeah, I kind of, it's quite buzzing.

Yeah. You get to go and see something like, oh my gosh. Even though for no reason, you're only seeing it, what, 24 hours before someone else? Yeah, but still, it makes a difference. Like, it makes me feel special, okay? I feel very included. And you get free popcorn at those screenings. Literally, the free popcorn, free cocktails.

What more can you want? Oh, I haven't had a free cocktail yet. I have one time. screenings. Mate. So what's the most recent thing that you've been seeing? What have you been up?

So on Monday I went to two screenings. One for Lego Batman and one for Sing. So they're both like kind of cartoony films for kids but they're not really for kids. You know how there's like lots of innuendos and adult Joe's like

I was laughing my ass off. They were both really, really good. I like them. Which one did you prefer out of single? I'm going to say that I preferred Lego Batman. Okay. Just because I'm a massive Lego fan and a massive Batman fan.

So if you put them together, I'm just like oh, fun girl. Lego Batman. Yeah. Because I enjoyed the Lego movie, actually. Did you see the original Lego movie? Yeah, I was like obsessed. You know, there's the song, it's like,

Everything is awesome. That's stuck in my head to put like months after. Now it's going to get stuck in my head now. Jesus. Yeah, no, I enjoyed the original Lego movie. I don't know. I'm open-minded, but not that excited about Lego Batman. So I have to maybe give it a go.

If I'm in the right mood. But I did really want to see Sing. Yeah. That's the animation about the gorilla who, it's like, It sounds like an X-Factor parody, isn't it? They get all the animals to go on this like X-Factor. Yeah, it's kind of like a talent competition. It's basically like a show in a theatre.

For all of these different animals, compete and sing. But you've got the funniest character. So you've got the gorilla who's in this family and they're all like gangsters. And then he's like singing like Bruno Mars and getting really like soulful and playing the piano when you're just like, what? He is played by the lovely Taryn Eagerton. I don't know which way around to say it. I'm just going to play both. but he's this gorgeous Welsh actor

who played Eddie the Eagle earlier this year and he also played the main guy from Kingsman and he's in the Kingman too and he was one of the first celebrities that I ever got to interview and oh my gosh I fancied him so much and like it was really the sparks

were flying between us and he asked for my number and I didn't give it to him in the moment and I'm really regretting that and I tried to tweet him after she came back on the show just an excuse to like side your number over you know I have a boyfriend now.

Sorry, dude. Sorry, go. Joking, joking. Yeah, but I know, I missed my chance with Taran. It could have, one of those, he was a, you know, a what if. Never to be. But, no, God, he was really good. So I really, but he's an amazing actor as well.

Because I saw him in Eddie the Eagle, and then I watch Kingsman. And one, in Eddie the Eagle, he put on a lot of weight to play this, like, cute, chubby guy. And I, I fancied him already in that. And then I saw him in Kingsman where he was buffed up. I was like, oh my goodness. I saw it the other way around. And I was like, wow, you've let yourself go. But, I mean, I still would.

Like, he's sort of sexy matter. Still would. Definitely. On the skis, like those glasses, those big glasses. So, Eddie the Eagle was one of my favorite films of last year. I think one of my top would be Eddie the Eagle or Deadpool. Was, like, kind of my top. I love Deadpool.

Top 2016. I just, I enjoyed both of them in the cinema so much. So that would be my top. Right. Let's have a little bit of entertainment news. Like, have really extra fanfare going on. Right. Oh, it's playing again. Why is it going on around?

Okay, we'll just go for a two fanfare. Is there? Oh, we're stuck on the fanfare for goodness sake. Okay, stop. So, triple the excitement. Triple. I've really bigged it up now. This news isn't that great.

It's January. Everything's a little bit low, like, down on the... Everyone's just a bit... Buh, isn't it? Right, so the biggest thing that's come out this week on the Tintranet is... There's a film called A Dog's Purpose. Have you heard about it? No.

It's got Josh. Gad who is, he plays Lafou in the New Beauty and the Beast. He also played Olaf in Frozen. So he's like one of the big animation voices, King of Animation. And he is voicing a dog in this film called A Dog's Purpose, but it's a real life, it's not an animation dog, it's a real life dog.

Oh wow. You know, so like back in the day, it's very 90s where they would put real animals in and then you can sort of, I think they animate the voice the mouse and then it goes like, Anyway, so it's about to come out, this new movie, called A Dog's Purpose, and leaked footage from behind the scenes on set from last year. There's a footage of them trying to force the German Shepherd actor dog

into this sort of choppy water, and the dog is absolutely terrified, and they're pushing him in, and he doesn't want to, and then they finally get him into the water, and because they've got all these motor currents trying to make the water look really choppy and dangerous, the dog is clearly struggling, and goes under and is really, really distressed,

and then everyone's calling cut, cut, cut, cut, cut. Anyway, so someone has leaked this footage just weeks before the opening of the film. That's not good. Well, they're super, super in trouble because obviously in Hollywood they have to stick to, like, health and safety and animal... Because to be able to say

no animals were harmed at the end of this film, you have to actually pass the super strict guidelines. Anyway, so the officer who was in charge of doing that on the day obviously really, really, really failed. And he's been now sacked, and there's going to be this huge investigation but meanwhile, oh my gosh, the PR for that movie is just nose-dived

because nobody wants to watch the film because they made it in a horrible, horrible, cruel way. So I don't know who it was who leaked that out. I mean, high-fived you because I don't agree with animal girls. I was going to say it. I'm not sure I want to watch it anymore after hearing that. But it was just crazy because then I read a little article about how, I mean, Hollywood has come a long way.

So, because in 1959 with that big epic Ben-Hur, literally so many horses were killed in the making of that movie and I think it was after that was like a real pinpoint in time when people went, whoa, okay, we should not maybe not kill animals for entertainment. Not the best thing to do.

So, yeah, so a dog's purpose is sort of everything that's flying around the internet right now. Oh, talking to Deadpool, casting is happening right now for Deadpool 2. And what's funny is that Deadpool has got quite a unique story in the fact that it was so hard to get funded it's been in the pipeline for years to be made

and production companies weren't having it they weren't interested in it and then they leaked a bit of tester footage of Ryan Reynolds and everything in the suit and literally the internet went crazy for it and so it literally got so much a fan base before it was even made. Yeah, I remember that.

So eventually it was made but on a very, very, very low budget and so I loved Deadpool for being the complete underdog of all like the Marvel superhero movies and then now, obviously it was such a huge shit Everyone's trying to clamber in. So they're doing casting and the role of Cable, who I wasn't actually sure, I'm not really down on my comic,

so I don't know who that was, but apparently everybody and their dog is trying to audition for this new, like, baddie in the new Deadpool movie. And we don't know who it is yet. I don't know who it is, but whoever it is, I mean, probably a lot of blow jobs going on right now in Hollywood, trying to get that role from everyone.

Yeah. Oh, you know the Lego movie? Yeah, I think we're talking about. There's going to be an emoji movie. Yeah, yeah. I saw that. Not keen. I didn't, I don't even,

I got an emoji movie. Come on. Like, I like using it on my phones, but at the end of the day, I'm like, have I used too many emojis today? Probably let's have a day off.

Like, don't think I need to, a film about that. I mean, sometimes I can do, you can have a proper conversation. Exactly, like, I regularly do this thing with my friends,

and they're like, okay, give me a song. And I'll give them a song in emojis and they have to guess what it is and that's like the peak of my day. Oh, mate. It's great. I just normally,

I mean, And also there's a couple of emojis that you just, you overuse, you know. 100%. It's like the monkey emoji. The monkey emoji with eyes over, yeah, I'll just use it too many times. But a whole movie, I mean, there are got to be, it's kind of a bit of a, it's a bit of a slap in the face to all these artists who are making these amazing stories and all this like trying to get funding for these amazing movies that means something to everyone. And then it's like, the emoji movie. I heard it.

And I was like, oh, this is really funny. It's a really good joke. And then I realized it wasn't a joke. I'm like, wow, that's what 2017 is going to be like. They're really serious about it. And apparently, Sir Patrick Stewart, who plays Xavier in X-Men. He's not in it. He's playing.

Guess which emoji he's playing? I want to say eggplant, but that doesn't work. The monkey with the hand? No, he's playing the poop emoji. I mean, come on, Sir Patrick Stewart playing the poop emoji in the emoji movie. That's a bit dumb for. Come on, come on. And goosebumps.

I was a massive fan of goosebumps as a kid. I used to read the books and sneakily watch the TV show because my mum didn't let me, but I used to like sneakily watch it and scare myself. And then I couldn't tell her why I was having nightmares because she didn't know I was watching it. But Jack Black made, he made a Goosebump's remake, which I didn't actually get to see. I kind of wanted to see it because I'm a fan of Jack Black and a semi-fam of Goosepumps, nostalgically. But I didn't get to see it, but apparently it's been given a massive green light for a number two,

and it's coming out next year, January 2007, 18, 18, 18. 2018 where are we where are we and I read that and I was like next year 2018 I went no and I was like yep I'm still stuck in 2013 not gonna lie I know I'm just way back in the past I've been trying to do my tax recently and I'm finding all my like tax receipts and I'm like yeah that one for 2014 no not relevant not relevant um okay and finally final bit of entertainment news the new trade well another new trailer uh for the new power rangers movie I am come out super excited and I'm weirdly excited about this because I was a fan of this like the original little shit series. Yeah. I mean, I say shitty,

it was brilliant, but really low, low, low, low, low, budget. And someone said, right, let's remake this. Let's make it

really urban and cool. And let's just shove so much money in it. And I've seen the trailer and it looks quite good. It looks insane. I like the artwork. I saw something on Instagram

today and it was literally like the individual character artwork. And someone's realized it looks the exact same as Drake's latest cover artwork. Oh, really? Yeah, they're copying Drake,

man. Or maybe Drake is designing the Power Rangers. You know, I haven't thought that. That would be so. was sick. Maybe that was.

They'd drape behind the film. And then he's going to come out and like, I designed the whole thing. Well, one thing that I was like, I'm not sure on, was you actually finally in this trailer got to see the actual Power Ranger suits. And they've gone for the whole muted design. So there is a red Power Ranger and a green and a pink. But they're like very subtle. It's like a very subtle pink, a very subtle red.

And I'm like, come on. If you're going to be a Power Ranger, you got away. Yeah, you know. Like the brightest thing. You have to be top to toast yellow spandex. Right. Which power range were you? Oh, I was always the red one. The red one.

Yeah, I wanted to be yellow or red. I had no interest in being pink. Oh no, the other ones didn't even exist. There was only red. You want to be the red one? Yeah, I want to be red or yellow, I think, were my favourites. Didn't like all the... No, no, that was it.

Yeah, no, literally just red. Yeah, and the other day, my boyfriend was like, no, you have to be the pink one. I was like, why? Just because you're a woman. You be the pink one. You be the pink one then. Dick.

Right, so... Well, that's the end of my entertainment news. We'll pop to you a little song. So last week I tried to end the show with a remix from the new triple X movie and we ended up playing the wrong the wrong remix. So I found the right remix and this is all the way

up by Fat Joe, Remy Moore and David Gretta. It's all the way up. So we're going to enjoy this and we'll be back. You're on Back Row and Chill with Johanna James and Amber. It's me trying to like smoothly transition back into talking. You're listening to Back Row and Chill with Johanna James and Amber Doythorn today. Right. We just had entertainment

News. Got a little bit more a smidge of entertainment news, more, more actual news. If you're a cinema lover and you're in London. Do you like Kurz? Have you ever been to a Curzon cinema? I have. Yeah, I normally go to the Shaftsbury Avenue one.

It's where a lot of people go for meetings and if you're in the whole film industry, you'll have a meeting of coffee and you'll see someone there talking. If you sit, just sit down in the cafe area, you'll listen to all these weird conversations around you, being like, no, we need to end the script with her dying. And you're like, okay, fine.

such a film world. But the Curzon Cinemas are opening a brand new cinema in their chain, which is going to be in Oldgate. So near the sort of short itchy, well, of course they are, you know, it's very hipster. I'm surprised they don't have one there already. Hips are trendy. And it's going to be opening on the 20th, which is, what's that? That's Sunday, right? I don't even know what day we are on today. Yeah. Yeah. I'm pretty sure that's Sunday. It's the Curzon Altgate. They're doing a fun promotion over the weekend at the opening. They're calling it The Wild Goss Chase, because they have printed 30 mini Ryan Goslings on a 3D printer from his pose in the La La Land poster.

And they're going to be hiding them all over the cinema over the opening weekend, which is January the 20th to the 22nd, for a wild gosh chase. And they're each going to have each little goss has got a coloured base that corresponds to a prize. And the top prize being a Curzon Cult membership, which is worth like $350. quid. It's all free tickets for a whole year of cinema which is just crazy. And yeah, so there's also

going to be DJ sets and stuff from Cherry Stones and Johnny Trunk along with cocktails in the bar. So probably go and check out the website for the Curzon and go down and you know grab yourself a little mini Ryan Gosling for anything else I'd just like a little mini Ryan Gosling in my room. Even without the prize

I'd quite happily take so. I just who doesn't love Ryan Gosling? You know what? I fell in love with Ryan Gosling when he played Noah? Well actually, I didn't fall in love with Ryan Gosling. I realized,

it's taken me a while to realize I fell in love with Noah, like the character. Because I've seen Ryan Gosling in other films and I haven't really felt anything so I realized it was that he was the character that

I just fell in love with Noah and I got a bit obsessed with finding a Noah. And then I'd managed to get over that and then I went and saw La La Land and I saw his Sebastian and I was like, damn it!

Flying in Love All right. It's Ryan Gosling like dancing and playing the piano and he's got this really, nice voice and these little like puppy eyes and a mate mate I think anyone if you're a musician if you can like play the piano

or play the guitar that's like you're one step in yeah 100% that's like a cheat code and then if you look like him I mean you're soft if you look like him you play the and then you start dancing and dancing's my third cheat code like if you dance with me you kind of I fall in love really so I was like in the cinema like damn it did it again I've been Ryan

God damn it Ryan but I really no I enjoyed his performance in Everyone's talking about Emma Stone in her performance, which was amazing if you haven't seen La La Land. But I've got to say Ryan, he's an equal partner in that film, and everyone's applauding Emma, but I think Ryan was really good too. Have you seen it yet? I haven't had the chance yet, but I want to,

so they've just won, like, two Golden Globes? Yeah, and it's up for, like, all the Oscars and everything. It looks insane. I've watched the trailer, like, 500 times. I need to go and see it. It's very, it wasn't actually what, the film that I thought I was going to go and see. I won't say too much because I'm going to review it later on the show with Lucy Patterson. But it's weird when someone has all this buzz around a film like you have to go

and see it's amazing. I kind of went in and I was a little bit disappointed because it wasn't it wasn't the film that I was picturing. But it never lives up to the hype if people are hoping it that much. Exactly. So I'll explain a little bit later but I still think it's worth a, it's worth a, it's worth a, it's worth a hollabaloo that's going around at the moment. But I did enjoy the music. So I thought I'd play a little song, well, one of my favorite songs from La La La Land because it does feel feature John Legend. He plays a character in the movie. And then he also sings and stuff. And so I thought I'd play one of my favorite songs, John Legend, from La La Land. It's called Star of Fire.

And yeah, I'll just play it in you guys and see if you like it a lot. Love a bit of piano playing. Love a bit of piano playing there. Right, so yeah, that was from La La Land, John Legend. And you just told me the most amazing little bit of a bit of behind the scenes info. about La La La Land. So what was it? Just to repeat what you just said. So obviously in La La La Land,

Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling play the two leads. And in Beauty and the Beast, obviously Emma Watson is playing the lead. Yeah. However, Emma Watson was actually meant to be playing the role that Emma Stone is,

but she turned it down. And Ryan Gosling was up for playing the beast, but he turned it down. So the cast could have been like the complete opposite way around. Oh my goodness. Which would just like, I can't even imagine

what that would be like. Yeah, so if it was Emma, ooh, I think, well, see, the thing, I love Emma Stone. I've always loved her work. She's an amazing, comedian, a really good actress, and she's just really weird and cool, and I like her.

So I'm a fan of her and I'll happily, I'll applaud all of her work. But Emma Watson kind of bugs me. I can't see her with Ryan Gosling. That just doesn't work for me. Like Emma Stone and Ryan, like the perfect couple. Oh yeah, yeah, they've got really good chemistry. But I see what, I know what you mean about Emma Watson. But Emma Watson just kind of bugs me.

I really liked her as Hermione, but she just bugs me in any other role. I feel like that's because she is Hermione. Yeah, maybe because she is Hermione and not really like. an actress but maybe I'm just jealous a little jealous green monster here being every role she gets on like could have been me but no no so sorry Emma if you're listening

oh they both called Emma well that's weird Emma Emma Emma well Emma Stone actually isn't called Emma Stone she had to change it to Emma Stone because she was Emily Stone before but there was already an Emily Stone actress I don't see her as an Emily she suits Emma better I know but that's not a real name

she's also not a real ginger she's blonde she's blonde so she's just there's all sorts of falsities going on. Maybe you've got false teeth too. We don't know. You've got false everything. Probably in Hollywood. Everyone's got fake boobs and fake lips and fake everything,

aren't they? So we don't know. But no, okay, right. And oh, are you excited for the, about the Beauty and the Beast film? I'm really excited. Because that's my... I'm really excited.

It's one of my favorite, favorite, favorite Disney. So I'm kind of going in there with like this horrible, like, don't ruin my favorite childhood film. I'm so scared they're going to ruin it just because I literally grew up with the film and it was one of my favorites. But I've seen it.

the trailer, it looks good, I've heard some of the audio, like, have expectations. Emma Watson, apparently, she had kicked up a big feminist fuss and she refused to wear corsets. I read that. And I was a bit like, come on, Emma, like, it's in, you're playing bloody bell, just wear the fricking corset, you know? It's like Cinderella, do you remember the tiny corset that she had to wear, but it looked insane. It's like a historical movie with historical clothes, just wear the freaking, you know, I wouldn't, imagine her being in another film and being like, now I'm going to wear trousers, like, no, women didn't wear trousers then, stop it. I feel like we should have directed.

to the film. I think, you know, would have been great. We should have been in the film. And who was it that I found that is playing Lumiere? Ewan McGregor. I can see that. It's playing Lumier. I could definitely see that. I mean, a bit annoying that didn't get a real French guy.

I always feel that, like, if you can, always cast within reality. So if there is a, if there's a French character, get a real French person rather than someone trying to put on a French accent. If there's a real... I feel like they don't do that anymore. Like, did you hear all of the drama around,

you know, ghost and the shell? with Scarlett Johansson. Yeah, exactly. I'm like, didn't get an Asian girl. Like a white person for an Asian role and everyone was really annoyed and I'm like, you know, I agree with them. That'd be so weird. That doesn't make sense?

I read that as well when I was like, whizzing through the internet and I read this week they've opened a play in London and it's based, it's an old fable which is based in China. So everyone's, the character's names are called like Mrs. Wang and director Wong and stuff. And they've cast an entirely white cast. That just makes no sense to me.

And then, well, the reason being what the director said or the theatre company are saying is that it's just a fable. And it's not literally set in China. They're just telling the story of the fable. I'm like, no, no, no. Just be honest. Be honest. You just wanted white actors. And you didn't want to get an Asian castle because you didn't think an Asian castle's going to bring in the money.

Let's be real. So it was a bit like, it just bugs me. It bugs me. Get real French people to play Lumiere. That's it. That's my rant over. I've had my little film rant. Okay.

we're going to come up soon and have our first guest. We've got Peter Stone. He's from The Dopple Gang. He's going to be telling us all about his new show at the Tristan Bates Theatre in London. So we're going to pop to a song and then we're going to get in the studio. We're going to have some fun.

We're also going to be going to Facebook Live. So if you want to see what we're doing today and we're going to be playing some fun and games. And we're trying something new today. We've got a prop box and we're going to get in some funny wigs and stuff out. So go on to Johanna James Facebook page probably in the next 20 minutes or so we're going to be going live

so you guys can leave us a comment and we'll say hello right I'm going to pop to another song this is by System of a Down it's Lonely Day it's from the film Disturbia have you seen that with a shy buff Is it Shia or Shire? I say Shire I kind of go to Shia

Shia Rha just hope it's a buffing is what I call him because I've really funny it before we went properly mentor in fancy it now but weirdly this film was directed by the same director as Triple X. Really? The one that I love both films. The one we just saw, so amazing. Anyway, this is a lonely day.

We'll be back. It's back row and chill. James and North Clark on Subar Radio. Boom, we are back, back from show. We've got our first guest in the studio. Welcome, welcome very much. Peter Stone, you've come in, a Thespian.

To talk about your new show, The Doppel Gang. So what is it? What's going on? There's a lot to explain about it, I suppose. But I'll do it quickly, I'll do it quickly. So it's set in the Second World War in a theatre during the height of the Blitz. It's got three performers that aren't very good at the time. We're good, we're good, we're good.

But you're playing not good. Layered. Oh, so many layers. So it's like a trifle. And then we've got a theatre manager who, theatre isn't doing too well because it's the end of the vaudeville sort of their period

and we basically we go through these ideas series of events and we stumble across these unproduced Marks Brothers scripts and we stupidly decide to impersonate them and it's the second act really focuses

around whether or not that works for them or not and there's some other stories about the characters along the way and who do you play I play a guy called Tommy Dock Whether or not that's his real name, you find out in the play.

A bit more of a story there. But I also play Harpo Marx. And so it's going to be playing in London. I've got the Tristan Bates Theatre in Tower Street in London. And you haven't started yet. No, we have. You have, you have. I've got my dates wrong.

I'm still in last year. It's fine. You started this week, but you go on until the 11th of February. So you've got quite a run. Yeah, we've got a four week run there. Nice. That's good for London. It's nice, yeah.

It's nice because we toured it a year or two ago. and this time around we sort of just we built the set for the space and we're quite ambitious as well we do everything ourselves it's crazy and how did you who wrote it so it's a guy called Dominic Hedges who we knew when he because he initially trained as an actor at the University of Central Lancashire and he was the year above us but then he went and did a MA at Goldsmiths and we sort of contacted him and we said look you know we've got this idea we can't do it please can you make it happen and he's made it happen. It's brilliant.

Amazing. And so he said he's toured. So did you play the same character as you did on the tour? I did. I did. No, no. Yeah, because we, the initial idea came from myself and Jay Curry when we were at university together. And we did a module about classical comedy

and we did these marks with the scenes from the Duck Soup. And we sort of have never forgot how much we really enjoyed doing that. And he played Chico Marx in that. I played Harpo Marx. It's just because I don't like learning lines. you know, he's the mute, so it's easy for me. Oh. You can express with your eyes.

That's amazing. And so how long do you, did you, because you've done it before, how long was your rehearsal process to get, like, sharpened back up again? Well, a lot of it got rewritten and reworked and a brand new set, and there's quite a lot of scene changes that we do, and we like to make that part of the action. So we had a, I suppose it's a bit of a luxury, a three-week rehearsal period again. For the tour, we had four weeks, then, for this, we've had three weeks

just to sort of get it back to where it needs to be again. And just about yourself, where did you sort of train and why did you become an actor? We talked about this when we were doing rehearsals. And I became an actor because I played a female cow when I was younger in the Nativity. I had a great song. It was like, I've got big brown thighs and lovely eyes. I was in year six and I was singing this song and I looked back at it. I'm like, how did I get away with that?

and it's madness. So that's why I became an actor because I loved performing that. I'm saying this on radio, what am I doing? You know what, that's going to be stuck in my head now. I'm going to be like a little bit drunk later on being up. It'll be number one next week. Great, yeah.

We all trained, the whole cast, trained at the University of Central Lancashire impressed around the acting course there and the course leader actually directed this play. So yeah. I do love like the Blitz. era really fascinates me. And actually, weirdly, yesterday,

London came to a standstill. Yes. Because they found a World War II bomb. Yeah. In Embankment, which is literally where I just moved from there. I lived on the street opposite Embankment Station, and I went past Impecment every single day,

there and back. So I was just like, all of the last year, I've been next to this huge bomb and, like, had no idea. Well, no one's known for 70 years. Exactly, yeah. That has been there. And I was thinking, I was talking to my friends, He's a sort of policeman.

I thought you know a little bit more about it than me, like bombs. And I said, you know, how long can these things last? Like, is there like a safe period where after like 100 years we're kind of, they're never going to explode. And he was like, no, that's the thing about bombs. There isn't really a sell-by date. They can just sit there. That's terrifying.

So he was like, in theory, you know, in theory, they can go off any day. They can go off whenever. So I was just like, oh. We didn't know about it. And in the play, there's bombs going off. I mean, so people must have been panicking, you know, outside. I thought what's going in there? Is it real?

Is it real? Like the shudder of the blitz. Yes. But no, I did that. I find that whole era just like really fascinating. And anything about that movies and whatnot. And there's a party company who do sort of blitz parties in London. And they find underground bunker spaces.

And then it's a struck, strict dress code. And it's almost like a piece of immersive theatre, but you get to do it because you're partying. And they have like a mess hall for the soldiers and stuff. Like, oh! Sounds amazing. Hello. Let's go.

So have you done anything before in London? Or is this your first time on the stage in London? No, yeah, we have where the company, because it's our theatre company, we did a speculative piece about Life from Noel Coward. We did that at the White Bear Theatre. We did that, I think, three years ago now. Okay, so it happened out. Yeah, and that was a three-week run.

And we thought, you know, let's do another week, an extra one for this one. So, yeah, and we wanted to get more central as well, because it's right in the heart of the West End, really, where it is at the moment. So, brilliant. Crazy cool. And so you're from up north, ordinarily. And do you get a lot of acting work up north,

or do you find you're gravitating towards London? It's a mix, because obviously you've got things like Media City that have moved. Oh, yeah. And, you know, you've got that. So there's, I've got a lot of friends that sort of find work there now as well. But it depends what type of work, really. You sort of have to move around quite a lot, don't you? But, yeah, there's still loads in London.

in the afternoon down for. Are you a theatre actor, or have you done film and whatnot as well? Haven't done much film and more theatre-based, yeah. Just because we create our own work, basically. So, yeah, instead of waiting for the phone to ring, we're the ones ringing it instead, you know? Well, that's what, ringing yourself. Yes.

Hello, I'd love to play that part. Yes, you've got it. Good. Nailed that audition. Brogaret. Well, that's kind of what happened with me, because I didn't do much theatre. I did film,

and there was such huge gaps in between jobs. I was like getting so bored creatively. I was like, I need to do something. So then I started just like filming myself and writing my own sort of little quick stories and sketches and then popping them online. And that's how it really started rolling.

And then now that's sort of more, I'm doing that more than doing anything else, just doing like online comedy. So yeah, I think it's really, I really like power to the people who decide to sort of sit there. Make it happen. Oh, it's really slow this year.

It's like, well, you can, you know, put on your own play. Yeah, exactly. I did try to put on a play, but I just was, I didn't even know where to start. And it's quite hard. You have to start with a bit of funding. It's just so hard to get in the door of. Well, I say we work with the Arts Council. So we get funding from them, project dependent.

And, yes, they've funded this, because they funded the tour. They funded the research and development of it. And they've funded this bit of it as well. That's how it's done. investors and funding councils yeah I didn't I was I was just I didn't know really where to start with that it's a lot of paperwork it takes the fun out of it a bit at times

but it's all worth it in the end because you're doing what you want to do and you get a little bit of kick because you got yourself there exactly you know that's really cool I'll sleep at the end of it all are you hitting London hard in the meantime well yeah well we've gone out every night so far so I suppose yeah

everything's open much later here as well down here sorry yeah up down you're up you're I know I'm so confused right now okay right we're gonna pop to a song and then afterwards we're gonna do a Facebook live and we're gonna play some games and we're gonna let's just have some fun and I'm gonna audition you for my movie that I'm gonna make up right now right I'm gonna play a little bit of bond I thought let's go let's go back to a bond so I went for the most recent bond writing on the wall by Sam

Smith so here we go a little bit of sexy bond time on back row and chill and we're back so that actually wasn't a Bond theme I really wish it was there was a slight technical malfunction and we ended up playing to Michael Jackson but I love that song anyway so what the heck

don't even mind it should have been a Bond theme that's all I'm saying sorry about that right so we've still got Peter Stone in the studio we're about to go Facebook live we are Facebook live

so hello everybody we're about to play a game called mock audition where basically I play a director I'm going to be a director and I'm going to make a movie and I want to see whether or not you or you can be in my movie

so I'm going to not think up on the spot exactly what it is so it's the deep south okay it's 1850 in the deep south and we've got

Curly Sue you can play Curly Sue and we've got Colonel You can't say kernel mustard now. Okay. There we go. You look more like Mr. Teens.

Right, so we're at a lawn party picnic in the deep south in 1850. I'm loving it. Popping all those chains. Guys, if you want to watch this, you're listening in, pop onto Johanna James' Facebook page. And you're going to find us now. Oh, guys. So, okay. Ready. So it's a party and it's a lovely Sunday afternoon and you're looking for a wife.

Hey. How are you doing. And you guys are going to be introduced to each other. So we're just going to see how this goes. And I might throw in bits and bobs along the way and we'll see what's going on. Deep South. Right. I don't know what this voice is, but we'll go with it. How do y'allam are doing the right accent here? I don't even know. It sounds more convincing than mine.

Thank you, sir. So, can I buy you a drink? I would love a drink, sir. Can I have some of your mighty fine joint? You're actually a teetotal. Oh, I mean, recovering alcoholic. You don't want a drink. I'm an alcoholic.

I'll just have some of that fine joint, please, like the whole thing. I like that you've given up alcohol, but not a joint. I mean, you've got to have something. And suddenly, the sun goes down. Whoa. Where has the light gone? I don't know, but it's hell of romantic. It is.

Curly Sue turns into a werewolf. Oh, my dear Lord. It's strangely attractive. These feelings, I just don't understand. Oh, who. Has me the joint still. Weirwolves like joints. Colonel Love Song loves it so much, but his nose, I think that's a nose.

Yes. We're going to say it is. nose. Oh dear. What has happened to me now? This is madness. I love it. The sun has gone.

The wolf is out and my nose has become larger because I'm attracted. Clearly. No, actually, guys, cut, cut, cut, cut, cut. I'm not feeling it. I'm not feeling that one. I think we're going to change the location of the movie. Let's set it in the future. In the future.

Maybe in. be in space? Are we Curly suing or not? I'm thinking I'm thinking in space. Let's go in space. I've got to think of a space accent now. Oh God. Oh God, this is definitely going to end up racist. I can feel like. Guys, you're going to be

vampires, but you are vegan vampires stuck in space and you're very hungry. Are we putting in the teeth? Let's just see. Oh, we can go. Okay. Okay, go. And you can go for it.

So, can you have Crust a salad? Here's the salad. Do you want to make the dressing? Yeah. Can you crush the tomato sauce? Here it is what you like to more. Cucumber?

Oh, yeah. Can you press the radish? Oh my God, no, that's meat. Oh, no. Oh. You put the steak there. I don't know. I need it, though.

Give it here. Give it. Oh, no. No, no. No. No. Nolly stuff is really good. Oh my god

I'm not I would need you on I'm still Why are I still So an American It's better now Than it was earlier It's the truth

Yeah You're really hell Then guys Your spaceship is about to hit an asteroid And you're going to confess Your undying love for one another But you don't have to have to have teeth in Oh

All right I'm dribbling everywhere Astroi Sandra, even though you're dribbling everywhere I need to tell you now Bruce, I have something to tell you too You go first I love you, almost as much as I love veganism

Vigan... What? Almost as much? Almost as much! I've never said that to any man before. I don't know why I'm so camp right now It must be the pressure, it's just getting to me You're changing accents make me love you so much more They make me make me more

All right, cut, cut, cut, cut, brilliant, brilliant. And this is where I get no acting laws. Do you know what? I will never get an agent now, that is it. The talent that was coming out of that, I think. Shocking? No, no, I loved it. I loved it.

I felt like you were torn between your love of veganism and your love for each other and your love for yourself, I think. Apparently, yeah. So it was so layered, you know, I'm thinking like, you know, I don't want to, I don't want to jinx it about after, you know. Maybe. So I'll definitely be putting you in my movie. So thank you very much.

And thank you very much for watching everybody at home. Thank you. And listening. I'm forgetting that was recording. I'm just like feeling it. You were in the moment, darling. You were in the moment. So I'm going to pop into a bit more music.

Well, we don't know what it's going to be because the last one was wrong. So let's just see. I'm hoping this is going to be David Bowie Golden Years. But we'll let's just see. And I'll have a little boogie to the Bowie. Oh, it is. It is. There we go.

A bit of Bowie. Love it. Brilliant. Love a better bowie. I saw a really good documentary on the BBC. They're running, they're doing a lot of Bowie documentaries at the moment. And because I wasn't,

I wasn't like a huge Bowie fan. I appreciated him and I knew sort of of him, but I wasn't of the era of the Bowie. So I didn't grow up with him or anything like that. So I'm learning more and more. Like, oh, he did this song and this song and this song and this song and this song and this. Yeah, he was cool. He was a cool character.

Oh, I was a fan. I was a fan. I didn't even know it. And I was watching interviews with him and he was saying like he had a huge, stage fright. And the only way that he could overcome it, he did not like being himself on stage. He didn't want to be, he didn't want to perform the songs.

He wanted to write them. But he was kind of forced onto the stage. So he thought, right, I'm going to create a alternative character in Ziggy Stardust. And then he found that he could just like psychologically just, you know, switch that on. That's like what Bionte does. And it's a bit like Beyonce with her Sasha Fierce. And I was like, yeah, so like, you know, if you got a stage fright, just like somebody else.

Do you do that? When you get nervous? I used to get panic attacks and everything. I was like it kept getting put in hospital because it's just like I couldn't breathe properly. They're like, what happened? He tried to think. Yeah, because of breathing exercises.

But no, like now I am, I sort of, I go a little bit crazy. I just talk to myself. I go to a wall and I just give myself like a pep talk. But I argue back at myself. I'm like, oh, it really doesn't matter. Yes, it does. No, it doesn't.

And I do that. And it works. I go out and I'm like, yeah, it doesn't matter. I do that. I do that. I forget, well, especially with things like live, like live theatre, because I don't do it so often. I'm so used to just filming myself and retaking and retaking and retaking,

so I did this like piece of live theatre, maybe a year, two years ago. It's like it was a short, it was a scratch night shorts for the Royal Court. And it was two-hander. And I remember like just waiting to go on stage before. And we were the last one of the whole thing. So I felt a bit like, uh-uh, headline. And I just remember going then, I was very calm, but inside going, what do you do this isn't for you what are you

you can't do this just leave now just walk out the door I just felt like being like so sorry this would have massive than so I felt like I'm just no what I'm doing this isn't even fun and then like and then I felt bad because obviously my my scene partner had worked really hard so I was like I'll just do it for him and then I'll never do this again and then I got on stage and I remember that I enjoyed it it's kind of like it's like that sitting at the beginning

of a roller coaster you're like I can't do this and then you're on it like woo You go, I'm never doing this again. A week later, I'm back out of. It's a new play. But, yeah, it's weird how people deal with their stage fight. And I remember, like, initially as well, before I went on camera, I used to get camera fright.

And I used to have this weird twitchy lip or a twitchy eye. I used to have a twitchy eye. I'd be like, yeah, you get on the camera and suddenly, and be like, I'm so... Everyone just thinks you're winking at them. They think you're, like, super attracted to everyone. I'm like, no, I'm just nervous. I know.

I got the nervous eye. And I used to get, like, a nervous sort of twitchy lip. but it's hard to just stay calm breathe and okay I might be trying and pep talk to myself just argue with yourself that's it just been like

having go to it's fine who you're talking to I'm talking to myself I'll try that with my boyfriend I'm not arguing with you I'm arguing with myself okay but has anything ever gone wrong

because I find that's one of my favourite things as an actor as well when talking to other actors and being like right what is your biggest fuck up because I love that about anything on set on I My first questions, I ask any celebrity or anything I meet,

I say, what went wrong with the film? Or what went wrong with the play? Because that's my favourite. Yeah. If you never had a... Well, we... When we did Coward, we had these, like, flats, and they had, like, these little triangles on,

that, like, they then, like, domino effect down and changed the walls completely. Oh, nice. And... But they had to be, like, shunted from behind. So it was, like, it was jolting you into a different scene. And one of the actors, Jake, I think it was him. So I'm on the...

on stage doing this lovely scene change. It was lovely, I promise you. And I turn around and I see this flat falling. And it's like in a really intimate space so everyone can see it. So I like dive over and throw myself against it. In a really dramatic kind of like,

and you know, pulled it off, I think. But you know, they knew, they knew. When the set falls apart. Yeah. Have you seen any of the play that goes wrong or anything I want to see it

because I've seen that four times it tickles it is absolutely like piss yourself in your seat funny anyone who's ever put on a performance or done anything of that kind you get it on another level to what anyone else does

and then I went over Christmas I went to see Peter Pan goes wrong by the same theatre company and they put on they're trying to put on like a really good production of Peter Pan and everything that could go wrong goes wrong

Tinker Bell gets electrocuted like the one of the actors forgets his lines so it has to wear this massive headset which keeps picking up radio signals of other things so his lines are coming out like mental and you know people there are fights there's backstage love affairs going on and it's like the whole thing is just absolutely brilliant

and I think so I paid all this money to go and well technically my mum did because it's a Christmas present thank you mum but paid all this money to go and see it and then the very next day the BBC played it so if you do want to see it if you missed it in London and I think you can see it on that BBCI player or something now. But oh my gosh. So, yeah, things that go wrong, because I've, you know,

I've had that way you're on stage and I've come out at the beginning. All the lines are gone. There's nothing there in my little pouch of bag. I'm like, anything? Say something. I kept, I did that on one of the nights. There's a bit where I get picked up. And Jake picks me up.

And for some reason, all my lines just go out of my head for a split second. I'm like, I don't know what I'm going to say now. And I started, the other night, I started saying lines, but they were from a different scene. Different play, different country. They just got bigger and bigger. I started monologuing all of a sudden. Brilliant. I used to have this thing when I was at drama school where we would have to perform.

We'd have to, we do a work in the week. And then every Friday we would perform to the school and the head teacher and the staff would come and watch your work. And I don't know. I would just always mess up on the final. I'd be fine in rehearsal and my teacher said like I don't understand it like you nail it in rehearsal there's nothing wrong as soon as you get in front of every like the as soon as there's an audience you just do crazy things and it all goes out and it was like almost like because I thought I was going to forget my line yeah I then did yeah and but sometimes it can work in a good way I remember this one time I was I was working on this speech Shakespearean speech and it was like me pleading with the king for my life and I was there and I just I was halfway through it. and I just forgot. Or like three thirds and I forgot and then I was just sort

I think I let out this like like, oh, ah, because I was like, the standard scream. I was so angry at myself. And then I started crying because I was upset at myself

but like failing it or whatever and then I think I might have made up a line or anyway, I ended it. And like the head teacher then like stood up and was like, now that is like a performance.

And then I was like, yeah. Like extreme method acting, crying for the role, dedication right there. But then I would nearly got away with it but then my actual teacher went no she messed it up she forgot half a bit

she's just generally upset but I was like oh damn it nearly got like a point there but never mind never mind so oh what the joys of being a thespian right so just to go back to why you're here and what you're doing one at the moment if anyone's just joined us you are promoting your new play The Doppel gang

is it anything to do with doppelgangers well I suppose we sort of we dress up as then we impersonate them in that sort of sense, Jeremy. So in that sense, yes. Okay, I see one of us there.

Right. I don't know if it's a story about people, you know, looking like someone else. It's just us basically, in the second half, the characters that we play are impersonating them and they're trying to basically pretend that they are the real Marks brothers to get all this theatre packed

so that they can get a bit of money behind them for the theatre that's failing, but also because of one of the characters Tommy needs to. sort himself out. So it's a theatre play, within a theatre play. Yes, it's a play within a play. It's an exception.

It's a play with a theatre. That's so good. Well, brilliant. And it's on at the Tristan Bates Theatre. It's on now up until Saturday 11th of February. So go check that out if you want to. Where would people go if they want to find tickets or whatnot? Go to the Tristan Bates Theatre website.

And yeah, just Google them or just go straight on. Brilliant. Search sites are available. Just in case, you know, product placement wise. I don't know. Get your checkers. Well, thank you so much for coming on. To stick within the theatre world,

my next song is from one of my favourite things I've seen at the West End this year, which is School of Rock. I saw it on the opening night in New York, and then I happened a year to the day later, I saw it at the opening night in London. So it was really cool. So this is a song called Stick It to the Man.

So it's basically like the Jack Black movie, but I actually prefer it to the movie because the kids all play and sing their instruments live on stage every night. At the end they came out, I went by the way, the kids just all perform life to you. Wow.

Mind blown! So jealous. These little tiny things that are more talented than you'll ever be in a lifetime and you're like, oh, you have no idea, no training or anything. And it was, yeah, it was absolutely brilliant. So this is, stick it to the man from School of Rock.

Thank you so much. Rug it out, back around chill. I'm totally singing along with that. Love it. So, yeah, that was School of Rock. If you're into your Jack Black, comedy style rock, see that in the West End right now.

I'm not sure what theatre is that. It's in, it's in, oh, I don't know. There's too many theatres. I know where it is. It's near Drury Lane, but I can't remember right now. So, going back a little bit into what's going on in the world right now in terms of entertainment, we had the Golden Globes, which was now the week before last, which was, so the Golden Globes sort of set it off,

and then we've got People's Choice Awards, which has just happened. which actually I wrote down I quite like because the Golden Globes and the Oscars and the BAFTAs which are yet to come they are obviously selected by a panel

or by memberships or whatever and there's a slight little large ad dar essence around them but the People's Choice Awards obviously it's voted for by the people who actually watch this stuff so I feel that it's maybe a little bit more representation of what the general public

actually think so the winners were Melissa McCarthy won Best Comedic Actress which I'm agreeing with I love that I love that woman Like if I could get in her brain Or a film or her knickers or whatever I would

And so yeah she won comedic actress Robert Downey Jr. one favourite movie actor He's my favourite actor Is he? Yes I don't know what my favourite actor is I love a Denzel Washington But Robbie Downey Jr. is fantastic Big Bang Theory

One favourite network comedy Which again I mean they're just smashing it They're on like 10 series now I think they might be doing more series than Friends did They will never stop Yeah that's just crazy

They get millions per episode So they never will Now Justin Timberlake won favourite male singer Which was an odd I mean I can't remember him releasing anything really big this year last year I swear he does more acting than singing now

I know that was a thing And Jennifer Lopez won Best TV Crime Actress so not for her singing but for her acting. Bit weird. Bit weird. And then what was a bit of a controversial one, which was Johnny Depp one favorite movie icon,

which I agree. I think Jack Sparrow is one of the most iconic, one of the most amazing characters ever to be created and is still going. Pirates of Caribbean 5 and possibly 6. That's another one. It's just going to go forever. It's going to keep going. We're going to be taking our kids to the Pirates from Caribbean 20.

And yeah, so he won, and it was a bit emotional because obviously he's just come out and finalised his divorce and whatever. And I don't know where I stand. It's really hard on this one because he was accused of domestic violence. So on the one hand, I don't really want to, you know, continue following or applauding someone who does domestic violence. But on the other hand, if it's not true, I also don't want to condemn someone. My opinion is that there's two sides to every story.

like he's a celebrated actor for a reason and when they like give out these awards they don't take into account everything else it's literally just pure talent so he should be rewarded for that. No matter what's going on at home you can never know what's true or what isn't so I'd still be like you go Johnny we love you just don't beat anyone up. It's just it's a heart

because like yeah obviously she there are people saying she she made the abuse claims for the divorce to get more money and then on the other side she actually had photos of her with a smashed up face and it's like so does that mean that she's smashed herself. Like it's kind of... Yeah. And I just feel really bad

because I really like Johnny Depp and then it's one of those Catch-22 or it's that thing where if somebody is there of a rumor about you, whether it's true or not, are you still stained? Like if someone says the word, Peter Thiel. I think you are because... Stick to you. For you. Like once it's like a seed

of doubt in your mind, you can never get rid of that and it's just going to grow. So I'm going to like see... Now I've got a seed of doubt about Johnny Depp and, you know, because obviously Jack Sparrow, amazing character. but maybe the man is a little bit more crooked. So that was people's choice of awards. And obviously the Golden Globes. And now Meryl Streep won.

She won like a lifetime achievement award. And she absolutely just flew around the internet with her acceptance speech. And actually it made me tear up a little bit. It was a very, very powerful speech. So I've wanted to play it. I didn't get a chance to do last week. So now we've got a little time to this week. So this was Meryl Streep accepting her award.

And just I'll just let you decide. She decided to choose this, because she got a couple of minutes, instead of talking about herself, she decided to talk about, without mentioning him Donald Trump and sort of the effects of that. And she just did it so well without sort of really hate shaming. Anyway, shut up, Johan. Let's just play the bloody Meryl Streep thing. Here we go.

I've lost my voice in screaming and lamentation this weekend. And I have lost my mind sometime earlier this year. so I have to read. Thank you, Hollywood Foreign Press. Just to pick up on what Hugh Lorry said, you and all of us in this room really belong to the most vilified segments in American society right now. Think about it.

Hollywood, foreigners, and the press. But who are we? And, you know, what is Hollywood anyway? It's just a bunch of people from other places. I was born and raised and educated in the public schools of New Jersey. Viola was born in a sharecropper's cabin in South Carolina, came up in Central Falls, Rhode Island. Sarah Paulson was born in Florida, raised by a single mom in Brooklyn.

Sarah Jessica Parker was one of seven or eight kids from Ohio. Amy Adams was born in Vicenza, Veneto, Italy. And Natalie Portman, was born in Virginia, was born in Jerusalem. Where are their birth certificates? And the beautiful Ruth Nega was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, raised in London, in... No, in Ireland, I do believe. And she's here nominated for playing a small town girl from Virginia. Ryan Gosling, like all the nicest people, is Canadian.

And Dev Patel was born in Kenya, raised in London, and is here for play for playing. is here for playing an Indian raised in Tasmania. So Hollywood is crawling with outsiders and foreigners. And if we kick them all out, you'll have nothing to watch but football and mixed martial arts, which are not the arts. I'll be three seconds to say this. An actor's only job is to enter the lives of people who are different from us and let you feel what that feels like.

And there were many, many, many, many, performances this year that did exactly that, breathtaking, compassionate work. But there was one performance this year that stunned me. It sank its hooks in my heart, not because it was good. It was, there was nothing good about it, but it was effective and it did its job. It made its intended audience laugh and show their teeth. It was that moment when the person asking to sit in the most respect seat in our country imitated a disabled reporter, someone he outranked in privilege, power,

and the capacity to fight back. It kind of broke my heart when I saw it, and I still can't get it out of my head because it wasn't in a movie. It was real life. And this instinct to humiliate when it's modeled by someone the public platform by someone powerful. It filters down into everybody's life because it kind of gives permission for other people to do the same thing.

Disrespect invites disrespect. Violence incites violence. When the powerful use their position to bully others, we all lose. Okay, go up with that thing. Okay, this brings me to the press. We need the principal press. to hold power to account, to call them on the carbon. Every outraged.

That's why our founders enshrined the press and its freedoms in our Constitution. So I only ask the famously well-heeled Hollywood foreign press and all of us in our community to join me in supporting the Committee to protect journalists because we're going to need them going forward and they'll need us to safeguard the truth. One more thing. Once, when I was standing around the set one day, whining about something, you know, we were going to work through supper or the long hours or whatever, Tommy Lee Jones said to me, isn't it such a privilege, Merrill, just to be an actor?

Yeah, it is, and we have to remind each other of the privilege and the responsibility of the act of empathy. We should all be very proud of the work. Hollywood honors here tonight. As my friend, the dear departed Princess Leia said to me once, take your broken heart, make it into art. Thank you for him. Amazing, amazing, balls. One woman got all goosebumps.

So, yeah, really true what she said. Amazing that she had a Lifetime Achievement Award, and she decided to use it for that, which I saw a funny meme sort of saying, like, Donald Trump really must feel like shit. If Mel Street used her lifetime achievement award to call him out, It's like, dude! Right, yeah, so that's that.

And I think the next awards ceremony is going to be the BAFTAs, which we are going to have, I think Noel Clark is going, I'm not sure if I'm going, but we're going to have loads of inside gossip about that. So make sure you tune in around the 12th of February because we're going to have all the BAFTA news and gossip and whatnot. And I'm like, can you imagine the BAFTA?

Everyone's at the BAFTAs. Everyone. There'll be some mad drama going on there. I know. Can you imagine the after party? Like, twirking with. of Emma Stone. Literally, you need to have that as like the title

of a video, just get it out there. Just as a vlog, imagine the vlog. I'll just wear a GoPro on my head. It would be amazing. Right, right, right. So as I was saying earlier, I got to interview a lot of the, who are they?

Well, the celebrities and also the director of the new triple X movie, which came out last week. So I thought I would show you my interview first with Ruby Rose and then DJ Caruso because I really enjoyed talking to the both for them. I mean, meeting movie Ruby Rose was like, amazing for me. I'm so jealous. Huge girl crush on her, huge girl crush. Um, although I was a little bit bad. Um,

when I sort of met her in person, she wasn't quite what I was, and that always happens though when you have an image of what you think someone is. So when you meet your hero, never lives up to its expectations. Yeah, she was more, I think I really fancy Ruby when she's, when she's kind of being like a boy. And, uh, and she plays like a feisty male and it works for her. And I met her and she was so feminine. She, more feminine, she was wearing these thigh high leather boots, this mini skirt. I was just like, oh, hello. This is Lady Ruby Rose.

Anyway, so let's play what I got chatting to her about. Right, so first of all, just how did you get involved with this movie? I was really lucky to get involved super early on. I had, Vin had always sort of had me in mind for the character of Adele. He's really hands-on because this is his baby. He loves Zander, and he's a producer on it as well. So he got the script sent to me via Joe Roth, another amazing producer. And I read up to kind of my opening sequence to find out that she was animal activist in her spare time.

And I was like, I'm absolutely doing this film. Done. Yeah, done deal. And knowing that Sam Jackson and Vim were doing it, that's all I needed. And as the cast grew, I realized that I'd made a wonderful, wonderful decision. It was so refreshing to see a girl in this kind of movie, which I could relate to, which wasn't, you know what I'm trying to say? Yeah. She's so badass.

and she doesn't have to use sexuality to be super cool. And I was just like, every man's sister in the cinema. I was so happy to see such a kick-up. Yeah, one of the coolest parts of the film is having these three, you know, really different, wildly different, unique female characters that are really strong. And, you know, like Adele doesn't use, you know, sexuality to accomplish anything

because I don't think she knows how. I just don't think a brain is wide like that. She's pragmatic and she's super skilled at, you know, being a sniper. And I don't think it kind of really enters her mind as opposed to being a decision. I think she's just like, what? And how, had you ever shot a gun before or was it literally like from scratch? Yeah, I was really gun shy. I'd never seen one or touched one before.

My first film, you know, in the States. And I did two, but they were with much smaller handguns. And to move to a sniper is a completely different kind of machine. and they're like 20 pounds and you can't make them many. I was like, can we get this but like a lighter version? No, that's not a thing.

And learning how to, how to, you know, aim and how to take shots and you really have to learn how to slow down your heart rate and take your breathing really seriously and, yeah, and the wind and everything matters because you're taking shots from so far away. And learning all of that was really fascinating because I didn't know how much went into it.

And remembering your lines and hanging from a tree. Yeah. That's like multitasking women. Yeah, that's why they need a woman in this film because men couldn't have done it. I think I'd probably start off with a water gun and be like, guys, can we just build up? Yeah, right?

It should be really deadly with that. And now you're all wet. Just like, you're in the Dominican Republic. It's boiling. We actually quite like the wet. Now, I heard from Nina that there was a little bit of like sort of pranking or some fun going on like behind the scenes, but she wouldn't like fully tell me what was happening.

What was going on behind stage? Was they like... Well, she made the mistake of saying to me one time that she was like notorious for being this prankster and then, you know, like, she was the best prankster on the world. And I'm like, come on now. Come on. Let's see.

Let's see. And then, like, that day, she scared me. But she just hit in my trailer and she had her iPhone on, like, slow-mo, which I was like, thanks, because nothing looks good in slow-mo. And she just jumped out, and I was like, ah. But if it wasn't in slow-mo, it would have been, like, two seconds. But in slow-mo, I was like, whoa! And I was like, you are, that's it.

You are gone. And so then it proceeded to be, like, hundreds of photos of me, like, in her trailer. So she looked obsessed with me. I took out her actual costume and put in like an outfit that I got from a sex store. I like bought this little like nurse outfit and put it in there and had it steamed by like wardrobe. And she was like, what? She didn't know. She was like, why on earth is this in my costume?

And costume were like, no, it was Ruby. So we had a lot of that happening. And that was kind of one of the joys of working on set with Nina. Nice. That's super cool. Do you like that this was a role that you got to fully display? Because tattoos were part of this movie. All the cool characters had like.

There was lots of shots and they even talked about it in the movie like, oh, this is from this, when, this is from here. Are you happy that you finally got to show your art? Well, yeah, but I actually, you know, I made a decision to cover, so I went through the makeup process of covering all of them, or most of them, and then putting new tattoos on top that I thought would be more relevant to Adele because some of them worked, but others, you know, I didn't really think Adele would have like an Ninja Turtle tattoo, for instance. And I kind of was like, maybe I'll change that. So I got things to do with, you know, sniper, had things to do with that kind of the technical side of that, like my kill count and the wind and all the mathematics sort of on my knuckles and just had it changed a little bit.

That's cool because I did not notice that, so thank you. The must look real then, I should thank the makeup team. Yeah, no, seriously. I was like, oh, they used her own tetties. No, okay, cool. This film is literally a punch you in the face, adrenaline rush. Yeah. What is your process from, like, reading a script to then actually creating that?

I think the process is, you know, you always dream up a movie in your head as you're creating the sequences and then you start to imagine the cast members you're going to have in there. And then ultimately in the action sequences, and because you have a character like Xander Cage who goes out 120 miles an hour all the time, as a filmmaker, I wanted that energy and that sort of kinetic feel to be in the action sequences. And not to shoot the action sequences from like a distance, but to put you in the middle of the action sequences. Like you said, it punched you in the face and that. So I think the process is just making sure that you as a filmmaker put the viewer in there with the characters. Mm-hmm. That was the chair, I'm just going to say. My leather trousers are squeaking on the chair.

Yeah, yeah. Okay. Are you super involved with the design and the edit as well? Do you go? Oh, yeah, yeah. You're super design. You know, I lived, you cut the movie. On the weekends, I'd go in the editing room and cut the movie.

and then after you wrap, you have 10 weeks, and, you know, every little design element I worked with John Billington, the production designer, to design all the sets. And so, yeah, you're heavily involved with all that. And you're going, do you also get to choose where you're going in the world? Because you go to some lushly.

Yeah, you know, yeah, you get to choose. Well, you know, you write certain things, and sometimes the studio is like, you can't afford that. But we sent units out all over, so we went from Africa to Brazil to the Philippines to the Dominican Republic, London, Toronto. Yeah, we did a lot. We had a lot of fun.

Yeah, I like the Londoner was in the film. I was like, huh, yeah, there you go. Yeah, I felt like, yeah, last night, as I was sitting there, I'm like, yeah, this looks like exactly where we were when we shot this. Oh, you see, had the premiere last night. Yeah, we had the premiere. Did it go down well?

Yeah, it went really well. Yeah, it's cold. I think people were saying it's cold. Yeah, it was cold, but it wasn't that bad. And you have a really diverse cast, like, first 10 minutes, I was like, this is amazing. There's people from everywhere. Was that something that was really important to you,

or did it just sort of happened? You know, it was important it happened because what we thought was, like, the first triple X, the first two movies, Triple X was very sort of USA-centric, you know, and now that Zander Cage has been gone for 15 years, we thought, like, why don't we just make this global? Sam Jackson's character Gibbons would be pulling all these amazing people from all over the world and make this a global agency. And so from the very onset, that was our goal. And then you go, great, let's get Donnie N. Let's get Deepika. Let's get Ruby Rose.

Oh, we got Chris Wu, Tony Jaws. So it was just amazing, you know, get Michael Bisbing. And so it was just, it gave us, it allowed us to go out and, like, pull all these characters from all over the world and put them all in one agency. And there was also some really cool roles for girls. Yeah. Which I was very thankful for. I think Nina and Ruby's roles especially. Yeah.

Because there is an element of triple X films that can be quite. It's teenage boy. Yeah, yeah. We're dream. And I was just really happy that there were some characters in there that really got to kick butt in. Yeah, yeah. No, I mean, you'll see there's, obviously in Zander's world, you have the girls and

you have some bikinis and you have certain things. But the most important element, the biggest surprise in the movie is, like, I just think Ruby, Deepika, and Nina are these incredibly beautiful but talented, smart characters that literally are, you know, equal to Xander Cage. They're not like his little sidekicks or anything. I mean, when Deepika and Vin are standing there, they're looking, she's looking at the mirror, in the mirror of her version of him, and she's looking at his version of her. and then Ruby is just such this dynamic, amazing creature.

She can do anything. And Nina, the biggest surprise about Nina for me was her timing and sense of humor of comedy. Her comedy, yeah. I know, yeah. She told that one out. This physical comedy, like, she had this Lucille ball kind of thing. And so from the very first take when she came out,

I was, like, really blown away, but, like, the humor. Because that's something I hadn't really seen in Nina's work prior. Yeah, she's never done that. I said to when I met her, I was like, you need to do more comedy. exactly and how did you get involved with it well Vinn and I for the past few years have been trying to find a project together we developed a few things but they didn't really kind of come to get come together and then Vinn said I want to reintroduce Sandra Cage and he called me

one day and I said yeah man I'm on board let's do that down down all of the world and just really quickly what's next what's your next I'm working on a little movie called God is a Bullet which is a really kind of extreme character piece about a girl who was an ex-heroine addict who was taking over by a cult who sort of escaped that cult and she helps the father get his daughter out of this cult and it's a crazy, crazy drama and really great relationship story with some really cool action. That's mental. That's literally my life. Is that your life?

Yeah, you're doing my biography. Well, good. We're going to audition you later, so just hang out. Totally. I'm your girl. That was amazing. Nice to meet you. Thank you so much. So that was my previous interview with DJ Caruso.

He was such a nice director guy. So yeah, yeah. Lovely. Right, it is the time. We've got our second guest on. We're not really a guest. Not really. Regular.

Lucy Patterson's back on. Hello. It's time for some film reviews. So we're going to talk about what we have seen, whether we liked it, whether we didn't, and just basically let you know whether or not you should waste your time on it. Or invest your time and money and everything in it. So what has everybody seen?

What have you seen, Lucy? Well, today, I actually had a double-bill cinema day today because I slacked all week and just didn't bother going anywhere. So I've got it in. I saw Manchester by the sea today first. And I would say, I can understand why everyone's going so mad about it and why everyone's got millions of awards and this, that and the other. The acting is absolutely flawless from everybody.

It's absolutely amazing. so understated and natural and I love that sort of acting you know you can be hilarious if you want and you can stab someone in the face and do this and do that and you know of all the special effects but when it's stripped down to a drama like this one it really does show

who's talented and who isn't it's quite a heartbreaking story actually it's Casey Affleck he stars in it Ben Affleck's little bro yeah and at times you think is that Ben or is that Casey you know he really does look like him his brother dies and he ends up having to go back to his hometown to make arrangements for his

son and the funeral and things like that. And it turns out that something in his past happened that was really, really heartbreaking that made him move. And it's basically just the story about that and him trying to deal with it and things like that. And like I said, I can see why everyone's gone so mad. Don't know whether you should go to the

cinema though. It doesn't need to be seen on the big screen, you know? That's what I said. My parents said to me, oh, we want to go out? What do you suggest? La La Land or Manchester by the sea? And I was like, they're both brilliant. Definitely make sure you see both. But out of the two, I would say La La La Land

Make sure you see it on a big screen because it's got all of that. But Manchester you could easily watch that at home. You could like snuggle up on the sofa and be just as engrossed because it will blue it. I mean it's such a love, it's not a lovely story but you know the resolutions you kind of get at the end. It's quite rewarding

to watch. I did cry a couple of times I must have made it. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Usually it takes me to the end of the film to cry but I cried a few times through this one. I really hope that there is some more recognition for the guy who played the son, Lucas Hedges. Yeah, the young boy in it was brilliant. He was so good. The chemistry

them two had as well, like just bouncing off each other. It was absolutely amazing. So the Affleck plays his uncle and because his brother died, he's now sort of in charge of this teenager. which is interesting because they've done a lot of stories where people have become in charge of children or small children and they've done that story quite a few times. But this one is like when you're in charge of a teenager nearly an adult. He's just about to be an adult but he's not quite. It's like, um, um, troubling age. Yeah, yeah, exactly.

Um, and he is a proper teenager, just got two girlfriends. Yeah. I thought that character was absolutely amazing. Yeah. So well written and so well acted. You could tell a lot of it was improv. They obviously just let the camera roll and just, you know, go. I love that.

I love watching that. And there's a scene as well with, um, Michelle Williams and Casey Affleck. And it's like, it's meeting an ex. when there is so much history and things haven't been apologised for and that, oh my God, they nailed it. It's so much left to say. I mean, they were talking over each other

and everything, but it just didn't matter. It didn't look messy. It looked absolutely amazing. I think they're both brilliant actors. And I was just sitting there like, you didn't even want to eat popcorn at that point. It's like open mouth. Yeah, like, oh my God, I feel you.

I've been in that, we've all been in that situation for the next way you've got to have that awkward. And they just nailed it. They did. They did. So Manchester, mostly, yeah, huge thumbs up. Yes. Absolutely.

And I went to see La La La Land on my own on Saturday Night. Brilliant. It was great. But I had one of this, because so many people had, like, you know, laud-di-da about it. Yeah. No, pun intended. Lard-da-da. And then, you know, how fabulous it was, fabulous it was.

And it was, like, technically beautiful film. But it wasn't the film that I thought I was going to see. I thought I was going to see more of a happy film. Yeah. Yeah, I know what you mean. When actually. It's quite devastating. It's quite down.

And I found myself crying. I wasn't in the best mood when I went to go to see it. And I went going, oh, I'm in a rubbish film. I'm just an argument. I'm going to go in and cheer me up. And then I felt worse. I could see why. It's not the, without giving away spoilers,

it's quite a sad story. But I really felt, being someone who's an actress and I've been through years of, like four or five years of auditioning and stuff. And Emma Stone just absolutely nails. It was literally like taking a bullet every time. I think you're like, I know that feeling.

I know that feeling. This is horrible. And apparently, she wrote the opening scene of the film, which is her in an audition room, I was in an audition room, actually happened to her. She suggested it to the director and said, actually, can this be written into the film?

Because I feel this actually happened to me. And as soon as they did that, the film opens, and she's at an audition, one of those LA ones, and there's a panel of people. And she's having to do this really emotional scene on her phone, or pretending to be on her phone. And she's just actually getting into it. She's quite good.

She's absolutely nailing it, isn't she? And then so, suddenly the door swings open behind her and some assistant runs in and says, oh, someone's on the phone and then she just freezes and she doesn't know whether what's the protocol. Does she just wait and then continue her emotion after or does she start again? And she's just there, poor little thing with her phone up and gets so weird. Tears in her eyes. Like, oh, do I do I carry up or not? You know. And they're having this conversation just over her and then they're like, oh, look, we've seen what, we've seen

enough, thank you. And from that moment on, you had her heart. Yeah, totally. You just were with her. You invested in her. Totally. It was fine. But the fact that that actually happened to Emma, and whoever actually did that to Emma Stone all those years ago will be kicking themselves now.

She's probably going to win the Oscar and they would have been like, but that's how mad it is, isn't it? And someone who can win an Oscar can also be in an audition where they're just kicked out and overlooked. So that gives me so much hope. Good. I hope it does. Sometimes people, they don't see what they want to see.

People see different things in different people. And you've just got to wait for the person that does. and the people that don't, you know, like we saw in the film, they'll be sorry. Yeah, exactly. Auditions, I mean, I heard a thing about Kira Knightley when she was first starting, and she had a bit of buzz around her

because she did the Parks of Caribbean, well, a lot of buzz, and she was getting different offers, and she went in, she was put up for this film, I think it was the jacket. It's quite a dark, dark, dark indie film, yeah.

And initially the director went, no way, no way, am I going to have Kieranightly in my movie? Like, she's a little princess from, Disney Prince. Yeah. She's like, no, no. And they were like, so she went into audition and she had a vomiting virus.

And she can't go in. They were like, you need, this is your one shot. Yeah. This director's not fond of you. So you need you turn up or whatever. So she went in like with Sick Bucket and apparently like nailed the performance because she was so ill and like she had no makeup on. She had really grungy and she was like vomiting in the bucket. And the director and the director changed and said, yep, you got the role.

So she got her first like indie role from vomiting. Nice. Stomachmug, so they... Stamuckabug, so she probably pretends she had a stomach bug for the rest of the movie. But that's an interesting little... I love his little tip bits of why people get things and why they don't. So, yeah, overall, Lola was beautiful,

and initially I didn't love the songs. And they weren't super, super catchy. And I was like, do you even need the songs? Because the film's strong enough without everyone bursting into song every now and then. But then, having said that, I have what's been on my Spotify, has been the Lala Land Sound Chalk.

Really? Oh, see? And Ryan Gossi. playing and yeah so um i'm loving the soundtrack and the film so yeah have you seen anything uh yeah so like i said i've seen um lego batman sing super recently oh which were great i'm going to see thing tomorrow with my nephew you're gonna love it it's amazing i was so many ups and downs i was like laughing the other parts where i was like almost crying oh i love stuff like that like it's just so relatable even though it's singing animals but super relatable like there's just

so many things going on and it's not that often that i watch a cartoon that i'm like wow like yeah that made me feel so much much to say I'm not a child. I love an animation. I do too. You were really like Oh, I'm so excited. And what else did you see, Lucy? I saw a bye-bye man today. Which is the horror yeah, it's the horror film

and it's, you know, you're standard formulaic they move into some creepy old house and some urban legend bullshit. It's an ugly head and it was just so atrocious. And I sometimes don't understand how things get to the cinema.

Yeah. How did they get funded? I don't get it. You know, I could have written that in my bedroom and gone to somebody, there you go. And would they have produced it? Probably not. So I don't know how the hell this happened. But it was just, it was nothing new. It was not refreshing.

We've had lights out recently. We've had don't breathe. They've been twists on different, you know, they've been refreshing, newer ideas, things like that, not just the normal. There's a hooded figure in my house. And it had this really weird CGI. Oh, I see. Yeah, CGR. Dog with it.

They had no skin. and it was just, you know, it's the usual herbal energy stuff, don't say his name, don't think his name, whatever, bit like Candyman, don't say it five times in the mirror, and it happens off. Or Voldemort. Exactly. Or Bloody Mary and things like that. Not new. A bunch of teenagers just getting murked, basically.

But yeah, it was also a little bit of a rip-off of certain things. Set in London? No, America. It was American. It was on a college campus. They decide that they want to live off campus now. It's a couple and their friend, and they go and live in this creepy old house that's, you know, on the outskirts of their campus.

Funny things start to happen, like they hear coins dropping the night, they hear doors slamming, you know, standard horror film, boring stuff. And then they find some writing in this drawer in a nightstand and start saying it out loud or whatever. And obviously you're not supposed to say bye-bye man or even think it. And it tells you in flashback the origins of the story and what happened at first. And it's about, you know, researching. to it and where it came from and what to do to get rid of it and they basically just stole

the ending of a recent horror film that I've seen before ripped off the score from it follows it was I was sitting there going what is this and there was some patchwork horror film it was just me and this 15 year old it was sitting like a few rows behind me hot date it was actually so far away from me so I was like so I could hear him and at the end I was like it was fucking terrible he was going on no it wasn't that bad but yeah if you want to just I don't know have a Saturday night in with a film you can ignore

and you like a horror then watch it if you want to chill with someone exactly but it's out in the cinema at the moment but don't bother going to see it I'm going to pop to a quick song and then we can get back to our film reviews what have I got left to play oh I'm going to go for let's

I'm going to go for Rhythm of the Night by DeLaj it's been many many many movies but most recently was in the new Ghostbusters so let's have a little bit of a boogie Lovely. And then come back. Back Row and Chill with Johanna James

on Fubar Radio. You're listening to the very last part of Back Row and Chill. Got Lucy Patterson, Amber Doigthorn. It's all ladies for the first time ever on the show's history. So exciting. It's a full fanny show.

So exciting. So exciting. We have just sort of closing down our film review and one thing that I did get to go and see last week was Fences, the new film with Denzel Washington and Viola Davis,

which again, I didn't know anything about, I just went in because I knew that I was interviewing Viola, so I had to see the film. And again, that one, it's been crying, it's feel like I've been crying everything that I've seen, La La Land and everything. But, oh, wow, wow. I saw the trailer again today and I'm so excited to see it.

Yeah, and what was interesting was, so obviously I didn't know what it was or anything about the history, and I went in, and I clocked, like, sort of ten minutes in, I went, this feels like a play. Really? I was like, this, because they don't leave the house or the garden. Isn't it based on a play? Yeah.

And then it's based on a play right here. It's based from a play, which is why I was like, okay, so they don't go anywhere other than the house or the garden in the film. So, and they do very, very long, long takes. When I was talking to Viola, she was saying that they did it. They filmed it all in linear as well, which they don't normally do it in film. So they filmed it like a play. And it became more intense because, obviously, you don't get to go.

and you're just stuck inside this little house which made the drama more. So to set the scene, it's set in the 50s in America in this about, it's about this black family and she, Viola plays the 50s housewife and he plays a guy,

he works in a dump, in the sort of the dustbin man. He's a dustbin man and he wanted to play in the baseball when he was younger, but he wasn't allowed on the team because he was black and he's got this vendetta against sort of the sports industry because of that, because he never got the chance to play.

And but now his son, so years and years later now in the 50s, his son has been invited onto the football team and getting a football scholarship and he won't let his son do it because he's like, so it sort of starts off around that and then, you know, things heat up and then basically their marriage seems really solid between the really nice relationship,

they're really playful and quite sexual with the husband and wife. And then, this huge bomb gets dropped on them, he's been unfaithful. No, Denzel. And he's about to have a baby with someone else. Oh my God. That's pretty serious.

Wow. So it's like this kind of drama, it's this drama which has got racial tension and then like now this huge like, and because it was in the 50s and there's this amazing scene which is why Viola, why she won the Golden Globe and why I think she could win the Oscar.

So it's going to be a tough thing between, I put it against Emma's and I was like, oh, Emma's performance in La La La Land. And I didn't know which, if I was on the committee, I don't know which one I choose because Viola, oh my gosh, this just came flying out. Well, it comes flying out of nowhere from an audience perspective, but you get the news a second before Viola does. So you're a little bit like, oh, I know.

And then you're like, ooh, yeah. Car crash, about to happen. But she gets the news and it's like even though it was set in the 50s or whatever, it is just as relevant as if someone told you they've been cheating on you today. Like she did it like, I was in tears. Anyone who's ever had their heartbroken, you're just like, boom. And she, but then also the horribleness of in the 50s,

you can't just storm out and be like, F you and off you go. She's stuck because she doesn't have a job and he provides. And, you know, she even asks the question, so what are you going to do? Are you going to continue to see this woman? Oh my God. Because you're just stuck.

You literally cannot go anywhere. Imagine that. Oh, my God. It's like the worst thing that could happen. So I was sitting there, like, being really engrossed in the film and it really affecting me so obviously it worked but then also me sitting there going

oh my God what would I have done what would I have done I probably would have killed him or chop something off if I can't she can't but it was it really made me think about it it was not that long ago

it's only within the last century 50 years ago of a generation or a generation of us and I was just like whoa so it was kind of yeah the film touches on really sensitive but in a really good way on like the theme I would say

the overall theme of fences is becoming your parents or repeating the past he talks Denzel's character you don't like him he's like he's so good at playing an asshole and he really is but then you also understand through

these big monologues that he has and that his dad fucked up with him and he's been desperate to not do what his dad did but then in the way that he's parenting his son he's fucking up again And it's about like, are we all destined to still be our parents?

To repeat these patterns. Yeah, or like, you know, if you try so hard to be away from your parents, do you go full circle and really powerful. And Vyla was amazing. And it was really, yeah. So it was good, but I thought it did things quite long. Yeah. It definitely was the length of a play, but there was no interval.

So he literally got numb by the end. Yeah, exactly. And also, you know, you didn't get out of the house or the garden and you were a bit desperate to be like, I just need to get out of the house. Which is, you know, it's like having a drama under a premoner. pressure cooker, so it's brilliant. So I definitely go see it.

And everyone's talking about Viola, but I would say Denzel, amazing. That man is always amazing, isn't he? No matter what he does, he's just amazing. And I don't care what Noel says, we've had this argument before. He's aging beautifully. Yeah, he is.

I don't care what he looks like in that film. He's still got that thing about him. He is. Yeah, no, he is. He must be... 70, I don't know. 60? I thought it was like 50. No.

Is it dumb? I know. I think he's older, so I know the, yeah, we're all saying, yeah. We love it. Anna, a name like Denzel as well. It's a sexy name. It's all about the name.

Yeah, no, so I saw Fences and that was brilliant. And next week's show, we're going to play my interview with where I look. I got to have five minutes with her. And what was crazy was, obviously, I saw the movie where she's dressed up, like this sort of Diddy 50s housewife and she's got grey hair. And I'm pretty sure they padded her out. Because then when I went to meet her, she looked like 20 years younger. And I always thought it was the wrong woman for a minute.

She looked amazing and had like red lipstick. It was just like little like leather dress and stuff. I was just like, oh, you're not the person. And then she was saying that they did do a big physical transformation for her. But I was like, wow. I think she is in her 50s, but she looks like in her 50s. Wow. Amazing, yeah.

Oh my God, she's beautiful. That'll be happening on next week's show. Right. So did you see anything else or was that the end of? Well, I did a little blog post a few days ago about horror remakes. And how they're all right. If I go and see them and like them. If they're on my list, then they're fine.

You know, but sometimes they can be absolutely pointless. Remaking a classic from, you know, the 60s where they didn't have all these advances in special effects and things. Brilliant. Breathe new life into it, make it more bloody, excellent. But when a film was probably made about four years ago and then you remake it again, what was the point? Cabin fever has been remade.

Okay. That's quite a recent film, you know. They've remade it. They've released it on Skyre recently. It came on yesterday, actually. And I thought, okay, well, I'm going to give this a, a look because of the post I've recently written. And it was terrible.

What is going on with horror lately? So basically, if anyone's thinking you're making a horror movie, you've got run it past Lucy. Run it past me first. And she'll be your green light or your red light. I don't enjoy horror films, but I kind of think that I would like to make one. Like I'd like to make a jumpy. I would enjoy playing.

I'd love to be one. Nothing too devily, but more sort of like, just sort of spooky jumpy. Spooky jumpy. Basically a child's horror film. I would like to be in. Okay, brilliant. So we're at the end of the show.

Now, thank you so much, ladies. This is, oh, I'm liking having girls in the studio. Thank you. I'm feeling like this is a last. So I hope you have a fantastic week. We're going to exit now on the opening song to Kickass, because I just love this, butch, Podgety. Nice.

So we're going to end. So thanks for listening. Backcountry, we're going to be back next week with guests and games. And we're going to be having prizes this year as well. We've got some signed stuff from Brotherhood, DVD soundtrack, all signed and whatnot and maybe even my knickers. We don't know. Who knows? We'll see you guys next week.

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