Back Row and Chill with Jahannah James and Noel Clarke - Stay Home Special Series - Episode 24 - Conor MacNeill, Dan Hutton, Molly Roberts, James Cooney

Episode Date: February 13, 2017

Teej joined Jahannah for another fun packed show! BAFTA nominated Conor MacNeill phoned in for a chat, Director Dan Hutton stopped by to talk about new pay ‘Big Guns’ and cast members of This Must... Be The Place, Molly Roberts and James Cooney, popped in for a chat.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 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. Boom, boom. Hello. We're back. We're in. Are you in? Hello. Speaking to the mic, darling.
Starting point is 00:00:18 I can't. I'm not plugged in. Tj's headphones are plugged in. He can't hear himself. Put it in the hole. Go on in the hole. I don't normally have trouble finding that. well you know it is Friday it is Friday I'll give you
Starting point is 00:00:33 oh he's back he's back in brilliant welcome everyone back row and chill hello people it's Friday it's food bar radio it's Janah James and Teage World we're going to be bringing you today's show got a jam pack show lots of guests we've got entertainment news we're going to be telling you what is cool to watch and what is really shit to watch yes definitely and this time we will be getting around to my kung fu hits
Starting point is 00:01:01 because TJ went Was it last week week before you went to Hong Kong Hong Kong And so he's been culturally enlightened And he wants to tell everyone About the kung fu industry Over there
Starting point is 00:01:12 Yes yes Well the martial art The martial art movies You know the martial art do's and don't The martial art do's and don't And you learnt there all in how many days All of ten? All of ten today
Starting point is 00:01:22 I've always had a bit of a fetish For martial arts films really I do like a Jackie Chan movie I'm a Donnie Yen fan I do love a country film So we'll be getting around to that a little bit later But we have lots of guests Lots of lovely guests in
Starting point is 00:01:36 As you know the Vault Festival Is it on or coming up Oh yeah There's lots going on down Going on down there It's a festival with lots of different theatre comedies and so on And so forth
Starting point is 00:01:49 Stuff's going on It's a whole theatrical festival So do look out for that We have a guest who has a show down at the vault so we'll be finding a bit more out about that later on it is well in London town the weather is god awful it is horrible
Starting point is 00:02:07 it's freezing it's kind of that rain that just like spits in your face from every single angle so yeah basically it's a stay in and watch Netflix or just like leg it to the cinema and get cozy and be entertained and it's not really a night for running out and about it's not it's a back row and chill day it is a background chill all you can for sure. That's it. And remember if you haven't
Starting point is 00:02:28 got Netflix you can always YouTube and Jam. YouTube YouTube and Jam. The cheaper version. The free version, you know. Um, Kudan, Kudu-joo-Yo. Okay. We're also, we're going to be announcing in the next couple of minutes. The second competition winner. We are starting
Starting point is 00:02:44 to run competitions here on Back Row and Chill. And we're asking people if you retweet, it's that simple. Just follow Fubbar Radio on Twitter and retweet a certain tweet. Competition tweet. And then we're going to pick a winner and we already have, this is a second winner so we're going to be revealing them on the phone in a little moment. Yes, we have another winner.
Starting point is 00:03:07 But don't worry if you didn't enter because you were a twat. You can do that again because we have a signed copy, a DVD of Brotherhood, a signed poster and a signed... What? I can't just forget the word, what it's called, album. A soundtrack. A soundtrack. You get music. Mixed.
Starting point is 00:03:25 music with like Stormzy on and and it's a tape. You need a cassette player. We're giving you a mixtape and a VHS and good luck. Good luck and God bless. No, no, we're going to give you all the DVDs and shizzles back. But only if you go to Fubar's Twitter and click that like, subscribe, whatever it is. Definitely. And while we're talking to likes, follows and stuff like that, please check us out on
Starting point is 00:03:48 Facebook. We've got an amazing Facebook. You can also watch stuff so you don't just listen. You can actually see stuff You can actually see us Like how amazing is that So go to the Fubar Facebook page And his like
Starting point is 00:04:02 Because some people don't realize Because we are obviously a radio station But loads of us Outside of presenting radio We act and we sing And we do other things So we've started making loads more content And we're putting videos out
Starting point is 00:04:13 On the book of face And on the Instagram We've got comedy sketches Me and Teage just filmed one today Yes called Rar Island I'm still in my costume Because I didn't have time to change Oh no.
Starting point is 00:04:25 Very sweaty. So yeah, check out the Facebook pages or Johanna James Facebook page or Teage World Facebook page. We're going to be going Facebook live later in the show. So get on the book of face
Starting point is 00:04:35 if you want to see what our faces look like. I thought I was going to go for something good there but I didn't work. Okie-dokey. So I've got a couple of songs from movies. Yeah, yeah, they movie-themed songs?
Starting point is 00:04:49 They are definitely movie-themed. So what's the first song? Where is it from? Why is it? Why are you chosen to them? This song? I've started to go into loads of different genres of movie songs. Oh God, not porn.
Starting point is 00:05:00 Oh, no, we've just been told that we have a competition winner on the last. So let's talk to him or her before we go into that. Let's have a little look. We can announce that the winner is Carl from Stockport. Carl, are you on the line? Carl from Stockport. Yes, I am. Hey, Carl from Stockport.
Starting point is 00:05:19 Welcome to the show. Thanks so much for entering. You have won. The Brotherhood, all the Brotherhood, Kit. Excellent. Thank you. Have you seen the movie yet?
Starting point is 00:05:29 No, I haven't. Brilliant. So you can get loads mates around or just watch it on your own if you want. Yeah. Yeah, I've seen adult horde and adult hod. Okay, so this is the final third and final movie. It's the hashtag the end. The end, the third installment.
Starting point is 00:05:45 Yeah. Are you going to look forward to watching that? Yeah, yeah. How are you going to watch it? Are you going to have popcorn or are you a crisp man? How do you watch your films? Or an entire meal sometimes. A bottle of wine.
Starting point is 00:05:58 A bottle of wine. A bottle of white. Get it. White or red, Carl. White. White. Pino or Chardonnay. It's Pino or Chardonnay. I don't know the difference.
Starting point is 00:06:09 He's Pino Grigio. Yes, Pino Grisio. Always a Pino. Keep it crisp and fresh, mate. Keep it crisp and fresh. Well, thank you so much, Carl. We're going to send those on to you. Thanks for entering the competition.
Starting point is 00:06:20 Thanks, guys. We're going to keep running that. So that will be on the way to you. shortly and give us a tweet if you like it because I'm in the movie as well yes you'll spot me spot Johanna James brilliant all right have a wicked weekend Carl
Starting point is 00:06:33 thanks for getting involved you too thank you okay enjoy bye right that was Carl so again we're now ready to do the next competition so if you want to run to our Twitter page you can go and just simply follow and retweet the
Starting point is 00:06:48 competition tweet that we're going to be putting out momentarily and boom you can be that is easy as that Easy is that. And we will send you the shit. You're not going to answer million questions. You've not got to go into a box. You've not got to open any boxes.
Starting point is 00:07:01 Give a urine sample. None of that, you know? Nothing. There's been some very illegitimate competitions I've ended. I'm realising. Give a urine sample. The stuff they've asked me to do. Oh, gosh.
Starting point is 00:07:14 For PPI? What? They asked you to Pee PPI for PPI. Oh gosh, Joanna. Well, it made sense in the moment. Okay, so back to the music. So the music that I have chosen has come from unusual dance sequences in movies. Right?
Starting point is 00:07:34 I'm going real, like, minority genre here. Niche. Very, very niche. So I've found some research like weird, unexpected dance moves, like sequences in movies. Okay. And this is Rick James' super freak. And it's...
Starting point is 00:07:50 Rick James, bitch! It's from Little Miss Sunshine. So I think we need to... we need to like, it's Friday, come on, let's dance. Friday, let's get that Friday feeling. Friday funk, so come on. Rick James, Super Freak. It's background chill.
Starting point is 00:08:09 That's a super freak. That girl's a super freak. I love that. I love that. I don't know whether I love Super Freak or whether I love, can't touch this. Yeah, I know. It's pretty much the same song, Rived. I was thinking Ghostbusters, but I don't know why.
Starting point is 00:08:24 Ghostbusters. I don't know why it was Ghostbusters. I'd like challenge anyone to listen to either of those songs though and not move. Yes. Have you ever done that at a party where you've put on like a song like that and then it's the rule is it's the first one to dance losers?
Starting point is 00:08:38 No. Yeah, yeah. So you've got to be there like really not moving and it's so hard because you're hearing these like amazing beats and you're like oh I just want to move my hip. And everyone. And then because it like builds up for a couple of minutes of nobody moving when you do get to move everybody puts like crazy moves out and there's
Starting point is 00:08:54 legs and arms and hips and everything it's like. But I think I think some parties now they say hipsters don't dance eh so they just like just like so I hate when you go to really cool a party and there's a really good DJ but everyone just standing around is dunting
Starting point is 00:09:10 looking cool so I love a house party I just any party I don't even have to have a drink I'm up there I'm up there I don't on stage whatever I don't like going to parties and they just talk everyone stands around talking I hate talky parties
Starting point is 00:09:24 I hate small small yeah talkie parties especially when you don't know anyone you're like how well What do you do? Five hours chatting. And you say you're an actor and they're like, oh, what have you been in? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:09:37 And you're like, nothing that you'd say. I say, your mum? Oh. That's probably why you don't get invited to parties, Steve. Oh, man. You know, telling them that you do and their mom. Right, ho. Little bit of entertainment news, I think.
Starting point is 00:09:53 What's going on? It's been, you know, week by week, I'm not surprised anymore when stuff I have. happens in the news. It's just like, oh, has it? Boom. What else? Bring it on. After Bradgelina, that's it. I just give up now. There's no hope. Well, there's been a split, a big sort of a split. But people weren't so in love with this couple, so I don't think, but they were in love with the girl.
Starting point is 00:10:14 Who? Kylie. Minogue. So Kylie Minogue. I don't even knew she was even in a relationship. Oh, yeah. She was engaged to this, I mean, he is pretty hungry. He's like this 28-year-old actor. Shut. I know. And she's 49.
Starting point is 00:10:27 I was like, go, Callie. She leveled up She caught some more life She caught some rings like Sonic Well she actually did Catch a bad fish in the end Because they were like engaged Going to get married and everything
Starting point is 00:10:42 And then obviously his profiles Raised massively since he's been dating Kylie, fucking an ogre And then apparently She's found him cheating With another actress And so she's given him the boot And she kicked him out this week
Starting point is 00:10:56 And she's like apparently You know, she's mortified. She's mortified, you know, she found the lover a lot. Well, she thought, you know, so boo-hoo. Booh. What a epic mess up. Just Kylie Minot, no, dude. It's every guy's dream, man.
Starting point is 00:11:11 There's gone hot pants. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, she ain't. She ain't. But in the positive spin on her dramatic month, was that she won this, like, big copyright case in America. Really? Because Kylie Jenner wanted to copyright the name
Starting point is 00:11:28 Kylie and said that nobody else could use it because she wants to use it on like brands and I don't know putting her name on all sorts of shit that she doesn't even make the fudge does she think she is exactly that's what the judge said so the judge said Kylie he she petitioned to say that Kylie Minot couldn't use the name Kylie she's trying to get Kylie Minot ban is she not who the I swear that if I see this girl oh my gosh I'm a shit my Chihuahua on that I know you do that um and so basically she Kylie won and the judge were basically like kind of She's an international artist.
Starting point is 00:12:00 Who the fuck are you? Yeah, like, what do you? Who are you? What do you do, apart from grow your boobs and your lips, Kylie Jenner? Yeah, yeah. I'm calling you out. Trust me. Oh, meet me.
Starting point is 00:12:10 Catch me outside. How about that? How about that? How about that? Can't out. I'd take her on any day. Just have to pull her weave and pop her lips and she just like deflate. Oh my God, I can't believe you whether that little girl.
Starting point is 00:12:24 Oh my God. She's actually got merch out. They catch me outside girl. Oh yeah. So if anyone doesn't know what we're talking about, one of the most things to go viral this year is this young 14 year old girl in America. She was on Dr. Phil and she had such a strong accent. She was trying to shout at an audience member.
Starting point is 00:12:41 Instead of saying, catch me outside. She was like, cash me outside. How about that? And like everyone's memed it. It's gone around the internet. Everyone spoofed it. But do you know, her Instagram went from 60,000 followers to 2 million followers in like a week, two weeks.
Starting point is 00:12:58 Swear? She's got two million followers. Well, I'm following the wrong, I've looked at the wrong one because I tried to find it and she's only got 200 followers. No, no, that's a thing. You're following some other 14 year old.
Starting point is 00:13:13 That's weird. I'm trying to find a video. I was like, oh, she's only got 200 followers. But I don't know if it's that healthy to have two million people follow your Instagram when you're 14 years old. Like, I think it might kind of and she's going to think that
Starting point is 00:13:25 she's going to ride off that forever. I can imagine I being for you. Go outside, how about it? Like 90. Catch me outside. I know. She's going to be that one show pony. It's like, what's this?
Starting point is 00:13:43 One trick pony. That's the one. That's it. One show pony. I just called her one-legged pony. She has done some sketches with like, you know, a few teeny bopper actors from America and stuff like that. Okay. They're trying to like.
Starting point is 00:13:59 squeeze every last dime out of her. Yeah, but I had credit to her for jumping on the merch so quickly. Jumping on that merch. But she might get sued because she's using the champion sign. But, I don't know, she's
Starting point is 00:14:15 a cash-me-outside, girl. She's a catch-me-out-as-at, so... Nobody cares. Nobody cares, isn't it? Nobody cares. And if you do care, catch her outside. But you know what she'd say to the judge they'd be like, you can't use that. She'd be like, yeah, well, catch me outside.
Starting point is 00:14:26 How about that? I can imagine it going down like that. What else have we seen? What else have I seen? Some viral. Some viruling stuff. Well, of course, the two main memes now. I like the Beyonce, that was it.
Starting point is 00:14:43 The Beyonce, they were, because she's having twins. Beyonce's having twins. Oh, and the memes have been absolutely hilarious. I like the one where they did her as twins. The movie, it was her and Jay-Z. and the Twins film, you know, with Danny DeVito and Arnold Schwarzeno. Oh, yeah, yeah. Also, I saw Jay-Z in the floral thing.
Starting point is 00:15:07 I retweeted that, check that out on my Instagram. The way she, Beyonce announced her pregnancy, is she put up a photo on Instagram of herself in a bra, surrounded by flowers with, like, an old lady's neck curtains on her head. That's the way she wanted to do it. And everybody just fell in love of it. And I think it's like the most liked picture on Instagram ever now. I swear.
Starting point is 00:15:26 Which is crazy. I think it's overtaken. it's overtaken Selena Gomez drinking some Coca-Cola. What is this world? What is this world? Celina Gomez drinking Coca-Cola
Starting point is 00:15:36 was the most... That was the most viewed and then like Taylor Swift with her rabbit or something, I don't know. Really? Yeah-ha. How random. It's really random, I know.
Starting point is 00:15:45 And I've taken some very good pictures of my food and I'm wondering, why are they into the most like thing on Instagram? Me, I arrange those carrots. That's brilliant. No, yeah, I do like...
Starting point is 00:15:57 that one where they put Jayzie in the green doily and the flowers that's another one of my favourites as well I enjoyed that. Do you know that she's not the only celebrity to be having twins? Shut up! Who else is having them?
Starting point is 00:16:13 George Clooney and his wife. Oh my gosh. They're going to have a twin off. They're going to pop about the same time and they're going to have a twin off. Crazy. It could be like robot wars or something like that. I know right. little mini,
Starting point is 00:16:29 celebrity twinsies. But people are just popping, there are so many babies being dropped now. George Clooney's, oh, hey, that's a... I know. I mean, I'm not judging, but... I know.
Starting point is 00:16:41 No, but he's always... I don't remember a time where he wasn't grey. I know. George Clooney's always been about 50. Yeah. For like 30 years.
Starting point is 00:16:51 He's been about 50. We're not really... Just, just. Oogie, okay. He's brilliant. He's absolutely brilliant. A little bit. We're about to have our first guest on the show,
Starting point is 00:17:01 so I'm going to go back to another one of my random dance sequence in movies. Okay. Stuff, so let me have a little look, see what I've got here. Well, actually, this one is a dance sequence in a movie, but it's not actually that random, because it's actually the finale of the movie. Okay. You know what it is. You know what it is.
Starting point is 00:17:18 Can you guess? It's one of the best dance movies ever. Well, that's debatable. Is it? Yeah, because I like different... stuff. Okay, I'm going to give you... I'm going to give you a...
Starting point is 00:17:29 If it's footloose, I swear I'm going to kick this table. It is the 80s though, but honestly, this song is the sex. Have you seen a film called Crazy Stupid Love with Ryan Gosling? No, you and this Ryan Gosler. Because honestly, in this movie, there's a part where he says to the girl, she says, what's you move? He plays this
Starting point is 00:17:46 Lothario, picks up hundreds of women, and she said, what she moved? Lafario, good word. I've been reading my dictionary. And he says, well, I played the song from Dirty Dancing and they want to sleep with me. And I was like, what? Exactly.
Starting point is 00:18:00 And I was like, that ain't going to work. And then she said, that ain't going to work. And then he does it. He plays the song. He does the move. And I wanted to sleep with him. So, you know, let's play the song. I'll show you the move.
Starting point is 00:18:10 And we'll see what we can do. So did the move work? Yes. Yeah, when you explained it, yeah, it did work. I'm definitely going to try this Godzilla move. Ryan Gosling, crazy stupid love move. It makes any girl want to have something. sex review to that song. Exactly.
Starting point is 00:18:36 I'm going to learn this. Right, we've got our first guest on the show. A big huge welcome to Molly Roberts and James Cooney. Hello. Hello. Welcome, coming. Yeah, everyone, you can hear everyone. That's all good. Great. Tell us where you're from and what you're doing at the moment to our listeners. Cool. Well, I'm, yeah, I'm Molly
Starting point is 00:18:54 and I run a company called Polaroid Theatre. And we're doing a show at Vult Festival at the moment called This Must Be the Place by Brad Birch and Kenny Emson, which we did at Latitude Festival. 2016. I went to Latitude 2016. Did you? Did you? My first Laotitude. My first Latitude. Where? No. I didn't do this show. I was working
Starting point is 00:19:11 there though. Sure. Is it? Is it? Is this like, the Latitude's like a festival with a difference, isn't it? Yeah, it's got a cabaret tent, a comedy tent and music, a poetry tent. Where does it happen? Norfolk. Oh my gosh, I can
Starting point is 00:19:24 I should know that. Suffolk. Suffolk. Northwick. Northwick. Suffolk. Yeah, yeah. Like South London. It's near Norwich, anyway. It's near Norwich, England. He's from East End. He didn't really go out of the East End.
Starting point is 00:19:36 I don't get out of Bowmatch. I want day he released a foobar. Brilliant. So was that the first time that you did it as your company at Latitude? Yeah, it's the first time we've been going as a company
Starting point is 00:19:47 for five years and we performed at Latitude before the year before with a show called Plastic by Kenny Emson who's one of the writers of this show. But this was the first time we've done this particular play
Starting point is 00:19:56 at Latitude. And then we brought it back. I thought Brad Brinscher's the I'm confused now. So it's been by two writers. Brad Birch and Kenny Emson Oh, okay
Starting point is 00:20:06 Yeah Two of people Collaboration Two of them wrote it Yeah Line by line Line line Line by line
Starting point is 00:20:11 Back to back Yeah It's that edgy That's why it rhymes so much Yeah And James is in the show Yes Yes
Starting point is 00:20:18 What's it about This must be the place What? Well how do we put it into words James So it's about It's like It's two
Starting point is 00:20:29 There's kind of two story strands One of them Is it features Adam Who I play and Adam has like a lot of emotional baggage that he needs to kind of sort out and he kind of goes on a journey
Starting point is 00:20:41 to kind of figure all that out and that's kind of his side of the story and then the other side we have Felix and Hamish who play these two guys who are in this we're not quite sure where kind of but how would you describe it like I don't this a place trying to I suppose trying to escape
Starting point is 00:20:58 their lives and come to the city it's about sort of millennial crisis and as young people in our 20s and 30s where home is and what we're trying to do with our lives, I suppose. Okay, so they're from outside of London and want to move to London. Yeah, so Adam's story is someone trying to escape from the city London. Oh, escape from the city. He kind of wants to go back.
Starting point is 00:21:20 He's like outside of the country. And he's been in London for a little while and now feels like he needs to go home. Okay, wherever home may be. Exactly. Okay, I like this. I like this. So you've got two country people coming in and one, city boy going at?
Starting point is 00:21:32 Yes. Along his lines. Boom. Yeah. Yeah. In a nutshell. I should be a film review. I play Lily, who is Adam's girlfriend trying to deal with whatever he's kind of got going on in his life and the instability.
Starting point is 00:21:48 Don't we all? Our existences as young people with no stability. So you do you direct, so do you run the company, do you direct shows as well as being them? what do you do? What is your involvement? Because you own the company, right? Yeah. So I set up Polaroid as a reaction to kind of finishing drama school in 2011 not feeling like I had, I suppose,
Starting point is 00:22:11 the right exposure for me and some of my peers. And I wanted to explore work that I thought that I would want to see and want to make. And then the company took off a lot more than I thought it would. And now we've been working with some brilliant writers, actors, directors from all over the place. Like, we're recording young writers program. old vickney voices
Starting point is 00:22:32 various drum schools yeah and so now and I act professionally as well and then we work with loads of loads of people to make to make great well we like it good Molly's basically like theatre superwoman like she does all the
Starting point is 00:22:47 all the producing all the acting is it like you write the theme tune sing the theme tune thank you James thank you for that it's good it's really good and you can't see Molly but Monny's really, really young, so for her to achieve all that, it's amazing.
Starting point is 00:23:06 I can't believe it. God on you. It's hard to put on. Because I attempted with some friends to put on two plays, and we just kind of hit so many roadblocks, especially in London. It was just so pricey to get almost any corner space or get anyone to say. Yeah, I suppose that's what we want to do with Polaroid, particularly now. We found our focus a bit, and we want to provide the space for emerging and established artists.
Starting point is 00:23:29 We want to try out new work and give them a space. to make sure that they can reach the next level I suppose which I think that's what's missing for us so do you so does Polaroid have like a home is like like that you attach to a theatre or do you just go into different
Starting point is 00:23:45 theatres and stuff like that? We go all over the shop really it depends where our what play we're developing and where that's place but we've developed a lot of stuff in London and we're supported by the Camden Collective which is great it's a creative space it's kind of a big arts hub which supports
Starting point is 00:24:01 businesses and they give us space and offer space to operate from which is amazing. Amazing. Yeah so you need that space so you can't rehearse on the street. And we're supported by the Old Vic New Talent Department as well which is really helpful. Great. That's amazing. That's a really cool
Starting point is 00:24:17 name up there like yeah. The old Vick. Clans. Kevin Clacey. Basically is my manager. So tell us a bit more about this Vault Festival. It's a festival, a theatre festival. Where's it happening and tell us a bit more about it
Starting point is 00:24:32 yeah how do you get involved in it it's a Waterloo Vaults it started what like midway through Jan maybe so or like the end of January and it goes through till like mid-March yeah it's a really long long program it was only just like a couple weeks no no it's six weeks
Starting point is 00:24:49 they've been running for I think about four or four yearsish it's run by Matt Burtt Tim Wilson and Andy George and they are doing such amazing work it's like the amount of opportunities they give to emerging companies and established artists to showcase a work in such a central London space is amazing.
Starting point is 00:25:07 It's so cool. And there's parties, the bars, the bands. And it's such a good time of year for it as well because it's so dreary. Exactly. Get in the vault. Into the damp vault. And sometimes I've got art and immersive stuff in there as well.
Starting point is 00:25:22 I remember I'm walking into this art space and it's like in the art and stuff like that. There's always something called at the vaults, right? It's great. You can meet amazing. need to drama. Yeah, it's inspirational. So how would anybody, they have to Google
Starting point is 00:25:35 Walti Volts? And they're going to get their tickets. Yeah, it's vault festival.com and then everything is on there. And we've actually, Shakara sold out this week for our show. Go on. Go on.
Starting point is 00:25:49 But we've added an extra matinee tomorrow at 4.30. Oh, wicked. Oh, for like last minute people. So people get in it Saturday. You don't want to be outside. I do think weather's like this. 4.30, bars are open.
Starting point is 00:26:03 Great. And they've got a big, the artful badger. Do you know the artful badger? I know the artful dodger. It's not Oliver. But yeah. Same person, different thing. They're doing a really big party tonight and tomorrow.
Starting point is 00:26:18 So it's their good nights come down Friday in Saturday nights. The artful badger, what is that? They're just like big. I genuinely don't know who you told them. You're looking to me like I know. They go, like they have, I, they have, I, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, They hosted all the lay night parties at Wilderness Festival. Oh, nice.
Starting point is 00:26:33 Yeah. So where's this party? At fault. At fault. So the Artful Badge is not the place, it's the person. It's the people, the collective. The event, the company. The party.
Starting point is 00:26:44 I'm confusing you. I don't know. I've heard about these. I've got a couple of friends that do them and it's like a theatre company, but they're like an entertainment part. They do parties. What? So basically it's a collective of dancers,
Starting point is 00:26:59 entertainers, you might be like fire eaters or... What? Like, yeah, and it's like a circus and you get hired by these big events to go in and you wear elaborate costumes and you basically, you make the party atmosphere. What? They're amazing.
Starting point is 00:27:13 That sounds like a party. I need to be at. You need to go. Hold on, hold on. When's this again? Tonight and tomorrow. Tonight and tomorrow night. Only.
Starting point is 00:27:21 How much? I'm on this. I don't know. I'm not running this. Is it? I don't know. I'm down for that. I want to see people.
Starting point is 00:27:27 Yeah, but make sure you're Come to the play first. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, all that, all that, all that, all that. Which one's free? I'm joking, I'm joking, I'm joking. I'm joking, I'm joking. I'm so joking. I will, I, well, I can't believe you sold out so quickly.
Starting point is 00:27:46 Like, I'll say congratulations to you. But it's going to be running until March your play or is it? No, no. We've just been doing it this week because, Volt, because they want to make sure that there's a lot of turnover of artists. they gave kind of a week max to people. But people can still get in tomorrow.
Starting point is 00:28:03 Yeah, tomorrow at 4.30. Brilliant. Yeah. And so did you guys meet through the company? How did you get to be involved in the company? Because of you agreed it. I think so I did a play up in Edinburgh called Bottleneck back in 2012.
Starting point is 00:28:18 And then I think Molly had heard about that through recommendation. And then I first did a play with her called The Allotment, which was we did like a research and development a couple days where we ended up doing a reading of it at the old Red Lion
Starting point is 00:28:30 right and that was kind of like an ongoing thing and then I did plastic last year at latitude and then came along with this as well
Starting point is 00:28:39 so yeah what was plastic about I like the name of that Plastics great play James you can explain that so plastic's written by Kenny who wrote one side of this must be the place
Starting point is 00:28:49 and plastic again was about four four people four young people looking back at a certain day in their life and how that's like affected the rest of their lives. And it's great.
Starting point is 00:29:00 With Kenny and Brad's writing, they, I think they've got such a, they're just so good at dialogue, basically. And Kenny's writing is kind of half-spoken word, and it's kind of the way that it's been presented by both our directors on this show, Justin Norderbert and Josh Roach.
Starting point is 00:29:17 It's kind of gig style. So it's just really exciting. And I think it should really speak to, to the people that it's about, I suppose, and for. That sounds interesting. Now you've gone in front of Spanish. Now, now you've got me. Yeah, I'm hurt.
Starting point is 00:29:32 That sounds different. I'm more of a film actress or film TV and internet. That's an hour thing. Internet actress. Doesn't sound good, does it? But then I, weird the other day, I just got this huge urge. I was like, I want to see a play. I really want to see something, like, real life that, like,
Starting point is 00:29:50 we can't re-record this or we can't edit this out or put a filter on it or whatever. I want to see, come and see this. We want to make, yeah, we make fast-paced, exciting, eclectic theatre that kind of blurs the line between, I suppose, theatre and gigs and parties. And, yeah, it sounds like, it's exciting. What I love about Kenny and Brad's writing similarly is that it has to be seen in the theatre. You have to be there in that space because the way that they write is so lyrical that it's actually really lovely to be in a space with lots of people and all hear that together.
Starting point is 00:30:21 It's because we don't usually do that now. We don't really have any spaces where we all come together. and sharing a thing that is live with people on stage. We're always behind screens. We're always behind TV. You used to have assembly every day of your life in school. You'd always be in a room with someone. Or back in the day, everybody went to places like churches and stuff,
Starting point is 00:30:38 so you'd have this big communal thing. We don't have that anymore if I was just behind the little computer screens. That's so secular. Yeah, exactly. That's what this play particularly is about. I suppose it's the disconnection that sort of world creates. And what's the plan sort of after next week? Are you going to go and do more projects, Polaroid?
Starting point is 00:30:54 Do they do anything else? Yeah, well, plastic that Kenny's of the play. That we're hoping to tour this year. That's in development. So keep an eye out for that. Hopefully that will come to London as well. And then we're going to see what happens to this must be the place because it's had a lot of nice attention and buzz around it,
Starting point is 00:31:11 which has been really exciting. Brilliant. Watch this space. I'm watching, I'm watching. Well, thank you so much for coming on, guys. It's brilliant. Is this your first radio or you radio pros? My first time.
Starting point is 00:31:22 My first time. It's done Italian interviews. Radio clan. We took their radio virginity. Thank you. Thank you. So where can we get you up? Have you got like a twin Instagram?
Starting point is 00:31:34 Yeah, yeah. We're not on Instagram, but Facebook and Twitter at Polaroid Theatre. Polaroid spelled with an E. Polaroid. Polaroid, not Polaroid. How did you get the name Polaroid again, Molly? Let's not speak about that, James. How did you?
Starting point is 00:31:47 Yeah, how did you? Why is it called Polaroid again? Well. Was it a typo? Initially, been seen as a typo but then you know turn into a real thing yeah yeah yeah five years ago but you know we don't want to get confused between the camera Polaroid and oh yeah no that's true that's true you don't want to get sued or shut down
Starting point is 00:32:09 well exactly yeah they probably might have copyrighted that name yeah yeah so there was a very smart forcied move it was a smart move by Molly Roberts thank you go Molly Robbins right we're gonna go back into the music um this This is from the karate kid. Yes. This is one of my favorite. This is one of my favorite, the new karate kid.
Starting point is 00:32:31 Oh. This is one my favorite. Actually, Jackie Chan's good. Sorry. Yeah, I know right? He's great. Yeah. I don't mind Will Smith's little boy,
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Starting point is 00:32:51 You're back listening to Back Row and Chill with Johanna James. And myself, Teage World. T-J-K-K-Tage World. Right, talking all things, sort of theatre. The Valtz Festival at the Waterloo Vaults sounds awesome. We're just talking about we really want to get down there. Yes, there's so much going on down that place. I love a good festival.
Starting point is 00:33:11 I've been down to the vaults. I haven't, yeah. A couple, I think. Here did I go. Not last year, the year before, I think it was. It's really, really cool. There's just so much going on there. It's literally the old arch is kind of underneath.
Starting point is 00:33:26 The arches by Waterloo, yeah. It's so cool. So yeah, do, do, do, go check out the vaults to December until March and check out their play as well. This must be the place. And, yeah, I did like a festival last year. I hadn't ever been to a festival and I did three last summer. Is it? I just jumped straight in there.
Starting point is 00:33:47 I did Latitude, Islewai and Secret Solstice in Iceland. Secret Solstice? What's that? A secret solstice festival. It's in Iceland and it's on the summer solstice. Which where in Iceland there is no nighttime for that week. So it was the daytime, which was absolute, a complete mind fuck. Because it was three in the morning and I was coming back to my tent.
Starting point is 00:34:08 Everyone, like people were drunk and stumbling around. But it was the daytime. There was no nighttime. And trying to sleep in a tent when it's the day. Because like tents, like they're so bright. You can't speak it. So I was so happy when I got back to England and it became dark. like when he cried.
Starting point is 00:34:23 I was like, I miss the stars. Do you feel like you should just constantly be awake? Yeah, yeah, you do. You just kind of like, it doesn't feel like it's the evening because it's, and it's the middle of the night
Starting point is 00:34:35 and there are people walking around and stuff. This is brilliant. But there are some really cool festivals to go to this year as well. One is Standon Calling, which Fubar is an official partner for. It's going to be happening 27th to the 30th of July, which 30th July is my birthday.
Starting point is 00:34:52 anybody wants to send new some flowers. Okay. When does that say that again? When is it? 30th of July. Okay, just because you're gonna hear this. 30th of July, okay, okay. It's in Hertfordshire.
Starting point is 00:35:00 It's about 40 minutes from London, so it's not fine. I have to travel the breadth of the world to get to it. The breadth of the world. Because you know when you're at a festival and you just want to get home at the end of it,
Starting point is 00:35:09 you're like, I just want to go home and have a bath and, like, sleep. Yeah. Scrub my body. You feel sticky. You don't want to travel to, like, coming back from the island of white, you have to get, like, a boat,
Starting point is 00:35:17 and then the bus and then, oh. And you just feel like just jumping in the sea. So, but this one is not far from London at all. Yeah. Right, okay. And so we've got, so Orbital and our Clean Bandit have been announced. What? My God.
Starting point is 00:35:34 This is amazing. Nadia Rose, fickle friends. Oh, this is really, really cool. Stand On Calling. And it's Stand & Calling. So you can go to get tickets from the site from stand and calling.com. And it's a bit different to some of the other festivals because it's got comedy as well. And there are other like interactive things to do, not just music and burgers.
Starting point is 00:35:57 You know what I mean? Yes. I love that. But they got a DJ set from Faithless and Jack Jones. Oh, Faithless played Isle of Wight. And that was one of the most, you know that famous Faithless song? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It was like an out-of-body experience.
Starting point is 00:36:10 There were thousands of people just raving to that song. And I felt like I've been transported back to the 90s. and I got to live it again what I missed because I was only like free when that came out but um brilliant porn again raver
Starting point is 00:36:26 I was a born again raver on the island wide so I want to go down there mate just for I'm loving Jacks Jones at the moment and Faithless would be like amazing there's hot chip
Starting point is 00:36:35 this is cool I thought Jack Jones was a a YouTuber no this is Jack's Jones Jack's Jones Jack's Jones is the new guy's got that number one at the moment and Jack Jones is a, he's a Facebooker.
Starting point is 00:36:50 He's the guy that goes up to people and tickles them and then gets pizza thrown at him. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it's like to putting himself in trouble. You're nice to get himself in trouble, definitely. So yeah, if you're interested in stand and calling, get on the website and you've got those like early bird tickets.
Starting point is 00:37:10 Oh no, they've sold out in record time. So now it's tier one tickets. But I want to go to that so much. It looks so cool. My God, let's do some festivals. We should do some festivals, teach. We should. We should.
Starting point is 00:37:23 We need to do it. I'm going to get spandex shorts on there. And glitter. And glitter. And glitter. And glitter. Rolling glitter. A vest.
Starting point is 00:37:31 You're done. I'm going to put my short shorts on that. I love a short shorts in the summer. You know, like a proper 80s short? You do, don't you? Yes. Hot pants. Hot pants.
Starting point is 00:37:40 Almost. Almost. I don't mind. Get my legs at. Get them out. I've got sexy pins if I. I must say. Well, they're very tattooed, don't they?
Starting point is 00:37:47 Yeah, they're heavily tattooed. So, like, financially, you should really show them off because you spend a lot of money on your legs. Yes, technically, sort of. It was free. But, yeah, I got the done down at Dharma Tattoo is my friend is the boss there, one of the best tattoos places in London. That's why you got so many hats.
Starting point is 00:38:08 That's why I got so many. I just thought you were loaded. No, my mate owns Dharma Tattoo, London. so yeah, check those guys out as well. Tell them T.J. sent you, you might get a discount. Not! Maybe. Maybe. Maybe me.
Starting point is 00:38:22 I'll see what I can do. All right, okay. We've got our second guest of the show coming up soon. I'm going to go back to some random movie moments where you can dance in a movie where you didn't expect it. Yeah, because you kind of threw me off there because Karate Kid wasn't a dance film, yeah? It wasn't a dance film.
Starting point is 00:38:39 So I don't know why you went off theme, darling. Well... Are we moving away from dance, theme songs? No, we're coming back in the theme, We're coming back. There was a couple of odd stragglers. Because I started feeling weird, you know what I mean? This is definitely from, seeing in a movie where you didn't expect was coming.
Starting point is 00:38:52 This is in the film Beetlejuice and it's the banana boat song. Deo. Are you ready? Yes, I love that film. I love this song. Let's go for it. Food Bar Radio presents. Today I have Juno Dawson with me.
Starting point is 00:39:07 My mum once, oh my God. She got out her photo album. Oh, sorry, mum. She got out her photo album of her gap year. So this is when my mom was like 18, 19, flicking through and pictures of men. She was like, yeah, shagged him. Did him. I was like, oh, and it's like, why you have to have therapy now.
Starting point is 00:39:28 No, it's just why I am the way I am. Like mother like daughter. Oh, God. Every Wednesday. The Hannah Witten Show. From 6pm on Fuba Radio. Boom. You're listening to Backrow and Chill with Johanna James and Teage.
Starting point is 00:39:48 Teage. in the building. Teage World. We've got our second guest in the building. In the studio, it's Dan Hutton. Welcome. Hello, thank you for having me. Welcome to Backrow and Chill.
Starting point is 00:39:59 We're like a film entertainment show trying to talk about what's good to see at the moment and also what's not. And you are directing a play. Yeah, it's called... I am. Well, we've got two weeks before we actually start rehearsals. But we're sort of in the process of like just trying to get our heads into the thing.
Starting point is 00:40:16 Into the thing. Getting our heads wrap around it. And yeah, we start in two weeks time And then we go up End of Feb Where is he going to be popped on? At the yard in Hackneywick Oh, yes, I know that.
Starting point is 00:40:30 Hey, it's all right here, you know It's not too bad They throw a good party there as well Don't they? Yeah, absolutely You come down to see the show And then have a party afterwards Oh my gosh, no, that's a really cool space
Starting point is 00:40:40 It's good It's intimate, but I've seen like Like really new, different types of theatre Like, you know, like, different. I like it because it's not your regular stuff that you get on at the yard and stuff like that. Yeah. How does your play fit in there? How's it?
Starting point is 00:40:58 Ah, good question. How do you got it set on? Well, it's a play about, like, the moment just before something awful happens. And that space does sort of really big ideas really well. Because, as you say, it's sort of got this beautiful atmosphere. Yeah. And it's built in an old warehouse. And so when you go in,
Starting point is 00:41:17 it sort of got this layers of history around it and then you watch a play there and it's not like watching a play somewhere like a dark room where the audience where the actors pretend that the audience isn't there like you're there with the actors and you know they're totally in the space and so you can explore these like massive weird strange ideas in a way that you probably couldn't do elsewhere
Starting point is 00:41:35 yeah and have I use on the floor the audience no I mean no they play is on the floor because sometimes people don't have a stage yeah so there's no stage there But we're currently working on our design and it may not be all on the ground, is all I will say. Because I don't want to jinx. No, I think we've already decided. And the play's called Big Gun.
Starting point is 00:41:57 It is, yeah. It's a good name, right? Yeah. I can't take credit for that. That's Nina's title who wrote the play. Nina Siegel. Oh, she's, what else has she written? The name is sparking a little thing.
Starting point is 00:42:08 Yeah, she did a play at the gate theater last year called In the Nighttime and then Brackets before the Sun also rises or before the Sun rises. Oh, okay. And that was a play in a similar sort of context. It was a two-hander. That was in a far smaller space. And this sort of explode some slightly bigger ideas. So this is a two-hander. Big Guns is a two-hander.
Starting point is 00:42:30 It is, yeah. Man and lady and lady. No, two women. Debra and Jessie, who are both brilliant together. How did you find them? We sort of met with a few people, and they were the people who sort of stuck out and who felt really exciting to us.
Starting point is 00:42:44 They've both got this amazing sort of presence and they feel like they really respond to this like deep violence that's in the play. Really? Yeah. Jesse, because I know Jessie, she's really lovely person. Yeah, she's great, isn't she? That she's violent. And she does modelling as well.
Starting point is 00:42:59 She does. She's quite striking as well. And, like, for her to, it would be interesting to seeing her be violent or being, like, so she's so nice. So I can't imagine that. Well, one of the conversations that we've, we had a workshop a couple of weeks ago, and her and Deborah are just so lovely and they're such sort of wonderful souls. and then we were just sort of trying to get them
Starting point is 00:43:17 to talk about these horrific things like men coming into rooms with guns and trying to get them to feel some sort of like just the violence that's in there and trying to get them to feel like they're taking ownership of these really horrifying ideas because as you say if you're nice
Starting point is 00:43:34 it's really hard to do that. Yeah, I really like the picture of them two there. Like it's really captured a moment there. It's like quite a cinematic photo. The promo photo. I don't know if you can see from those pictures you've got as well but they're
Starting point is 00:43:47 Deborah's like holding some massive sausages and she's got like health juice yeah massive sausages that is a massive sausage yeah that's like party in my house sausage party at my hand sausage I got a sausage
Starting point is 00:44:02 I got the sausage bring the vino so yourself so you is this your have you done many plays before or is this one of your directorial debut yeah I've done a couple of shows nothing on this sort of scale
Starting point is 00:44:15 like nothing in a room this big and that's really exciting to do something in an auditorium where the audience sits separate from the actors and they sit end on and they sit down in their seats and there's this big space
Starting point is 00:44:31 because I haven't done work in really a lot of big spaces so it's really exciting to try something with a bit more room and that has a bit more air around it because normally I'm used to doing shows in quite smaller spaces is a bit stuffier
Starting point is 00:44:43 Is it indoors the odds? Yeah, it is. Okay, so even it rains, you can just, you know, you're fine. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's good. Maybe they should take the roof off and do summer seasons. I know. Roll it back like Wimbledon. There we go.
Starting point is 00:44:57 It's a great space. It's a great, it's a great place to be around there. It's quite, there's a lot happening and quite a buzz in and around that happening. Yeah. And it's like a few bars and restaurants and stuff. There are. And the yard was one of the first things that was there as well, I think. A few years, like a good five years ago now.
Starting point is 00:45:14 Yes. and a half years old and one of the first it was around when the Olympics Park was being built and they needed to find some way of creating artistic spaces and for young enterprises and things and the yard is one of the first spaces there and now there's this as you say it amazing wealth of stuff there is it's good it's so good it's so good so this play is two two hand are you saying two hand or what's the running time it's an hour we hope yeah with a break without a break just straight through and then you can go home go have a pint and then get to bed
Starting point is 00:45:44 An hour of like tension. Yeah. That is nuts. And how long have they had to rehearse? Is it going to? Yeah, we've gone to rehearses in two weeks time. And then we've got three weeks before we start. Because it's on, if anyone's interested, just like in the salad list, it's the 21st of March as it's out.
Starting point is 00:46:03 Is that right? Yeah. 21st of March to the 8th of April. Oh my goodness. It's so scary that we're talking about like those kind of months now. It's like, where is the year going? Where is it gone? Oh my God.
Starting point is 00:46:12 It was only just Christmas, right? It was only just Christmas, right? It was only just last year that Donald Trump was being elected. Oh my gosh. Oh my God. But that is a good thing. If the years whizzing by, then, you know, only three and a half left. If the planet still still.
Starting point is 00:46:27 Yeah, exactly if we're all still here. If and when. So it's like it's the underlying sort of theme of big guns. Is it Donald Trump? Well, something you should say that. Because we, it was really funny. Nina, I think, wrote this play a couple of years ago in its initial version. And we met up about it sort of in autumn before any of this kicked off,
Starting point is 00:46:49 although it was sort of after Brexit. And at that point it sort of felt like a reasonably, not jolly, but at least it felt like it was sort of just about vague threat, vague violence. And then Donald Trump was elected, and suddenly the play feels like it's really real again. And like actually we're all scared. We feel like we're on the edge. We don't know how long the world is going to last. And this play sort of speaks to that really real threat.
Starting point is 00:47:14 idea of fear that we're currently feeling. I'm intrigued by this playing. I am. I'm sitting there. I'm staring at you. I'm not staring at you because you're weird but I'm just like it's interesting. You've got me hooked. There are questions that have been
Starting point is 00:47:30 asked that I need... Yeah. I understand what you mean about at the moment. Everyone sort of had a bit of a joke about Donald Trump and a bit of a joke about this and then it's actually it's like we're sort of sitting there laughing like that's not funny. and the other day
Starting point is 00:47:45 when Russia announced that they were going to decriminalise beating up your wife and the battery within the family is completely, you're not going to get... It's okay. Yeah, totally fine. Wow. And it's like going, it's like backwards steps to
Starting point is 00:48:00 which is just terrifying. And the fact that at the heart of them there's this like bubbling sort of violence in that case. And the play speaks to this as well of the fact that there is in some relationships a real fear of violence that some people may fear. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:48:14 And all of us just going around on daily lives we might feel like we're scared in a way that maybe we didn't before. I was deeply,
Starting point is 00:48:21 when Trump, I was got deeply affected and I said, remember I was saying to my boyfriend, like, I'm really actually quite scared like this is actually happening.
Starting point is 00:48:27 And he was kind of like, oh no, nothing, you wouldn't, don't worry, it won't really affect you. And then he went and did the Muslim ban
Starting point is 00:48:34 and my boyfriend's from the Middle East and I was like, well, we're not going to America, are we, babe? And like, I've got a little friends from like Iran and,
Starting point is 00:48:41 and it's just crazy it's crazy so actually people saying oh Donald Trump doesn't affect you yet does it does it does totally totally and I mean what is what comes to you I mean also I read somewhere
Starting point is 00:48:52 I don't know how true this is but I read somewhere that Russia are going to do a real life battle royale swear down the Hunger Games has begun
Starting point is 00:49:05 yeah if you don't know battle royale and before the Hunger Games there was a battle royale Japanese film really good. The American remake is crap. Don't watch that.
Starting point is 00:49:15 But I say that because it's about how, if that is to be true, you know, where's the world going with violence? Like, like, and you know, saying about this, like, violence becoming so acceptable in today's world. And also, like, we're fed it. You fed it all the time. I mean, it kind of, I think it de-sensitizes.
Starting point is 00:49:35 Totally. It desensitizes. And we see in films all the time. Yeah. And I see you talk about it, like, it's violence in. TV in cinema I was discussed and in politics and stuff like that so are things like that all addressed
Starting point is 00:49:47 Yeah Yeah they sort of all They're all They're all somehow mentioned Or that we feel that they're there Like I've been watching dozens of horror films Over the last couple of months
Starting point is 00:49:58 Like sort of one point I was doing sort of one a week Why? Because this is because they're about tension And threat right The horror films are sort of You watch them and you're like Oh I'm waiting for the violence to happen
Starting point is 00:50:08 And I know it's going to happen That's the expectation exactly of a tickle that is why you have a tickle you know what because the actual someone touching you isn't tickly it's someone going I'm going to so it's like a psychological thing as well as a physical I like that yeah I like you think I hate horror movies but a sound guy once told me a secret and he said that what they do is they will remove the sound before a big jump so you know when exactly you know when something's coming when it goes silent yeah they'll take the sound
Starting point is 00:50:39 a way to make the even bigger. So the fact that he told me that, I just listened and I just go down when it's quiet and I know it's coming. I'm just going to stay out here. I've been warned by the and you might even wait. You might know that the jump's coming and you just sort of hide away and then it doesn't come and then you
Starting point is 00:50:55 open your eyes again and then ten seconds later then it brilliant. So did you come from an acting background or are you always a director or like? Yeah, I definitely didn't come from an acting background. I definitely can't do that. I've been directing for the last few years, really. How did you get, just going, oh, I was like a work-al-life?
Starting point is 00:51:15 Yeah, exactly. I think it was actually when I was at school, I first had the idea. And then when I went to uni, I auditioned for something. And everyone else in the room was just so good at acting. And I was like, well, I'm shit at this. So I'll tell them what to do instead. That sounds all right. Well, I think I'm still working it out.
Starting point is 00:51:32 I haven't realised that shit I am. I'm joking. But no, that's so cool. Do you ever think that as a director You should be able to experience acting Right? Because so you know how your actors feel I think some directors who have acted They have a different way to directors who's just directed
Starting point is 00:51:54 Yeah Do you know what I mean? Yeah, totally I work with a company called Barrel organ as well And we made a show a couple of years ago called Nothing Yeah And in that I perform But I feel like I'm not really acting in that
Starting point is 00:52:05 I'm sort of working as like someone Who's just saying lines to an audience and but that's a really helpful thing because we have to negotiate those things with an audience and so you better understand how to ask an actor to make certain choices if you've as you say had to be on the receiving end of those things yourself
Starting point is 00:52:21 under the thought light it's very testing and yeah it's hard their actors are just extraordinary people and it's well thank you you're full of compliment sight now
Starting point is 00:52:32 no one I do I like you you can come again I think yeah it's crazy how the different spectrum of directors. I think they're crazy. You can get one that will cut. You could get the same script and you get two directors probably doing the same play in the same space and you'd have two completely different. That's how different.
Starting point is 00:52:50 It's so true. With the same actors and everything and you'd have two completely different things. Absolutely. So true. And it feels odd because if everything you do is a choice. So for example, this play when written wasn't necessarily two women. But we sort of decided, you know, there's something there feels an interesting story to tell there because they're just called the characters are called one and two and as you say that every choice that you made yeah the characters called one and two
Starting point is 00:53:15 serious yeah well 11 was taken by changing things exactly can't go that high so and then you have to miss out you know you have to go straight to 12 nuts yeah so they're called 12 they're called 12 yeah together that's their celebrity
Starting point is 00:53:29 their celebrity name the celebrity relationship name I quite like having numbers for names I used to I don't know how I feel about that on my CV I played number one Yeah and I play number two Listen to what you said No no no no you want to be number one right
Starting point is 00:53:43 Yeah Number two you have something to complain about Yeah I mean unless you're R2D2 But at least that's got some letters in there Yeah true I had a friend who we used to Instead of discussing his exes
Starting point is 00:53:55 We didn't call them by name We just called them by the amount of years They were together So I was like oh you saw six Oh how's four Yeah like What would be good as if they were numbered By the exes that you had sort of previous
Starting point is 00:54:05 So the first boyfriend was number one, second one was number two and then it goes and then you're like, you know how high it is that it's like, oh yeah, how's 25? 25. 25's good. Oh, you're just bump to the 53. You're just be there like, oh my goodness. You're only 22.
Starting point is 00:54:21 How did you get less money? Oh, mate, that's crazy. But yeah, no, the number game. That's crazy. We've all played the number game. What's your number? Don't know. Oh, numbers.
Starting point is 00:54:34 There aren't enough numbers in the world. Okay, so, me. Living on Swin. Brilliant. So just to rehash for anyone's joined us, we're talking about big guns. Big guns. Not the actual guns,
Starting point is 00:54:43 the play, which is going to be on at the Yard Theatre in Hackney. And we're in with the director. We're in with the director, the bad man himself, all right? He's been watching lots of horror films.
Starting point is 00:54:54 Lots of horror films. Yeah. And do you have any sort of plans after, I don't know at the moment you haven't even started this one, but have you got any sort of goals for 2017? Kill Donald Trump when he comes to. of the UK. I can't say that one now.
Starting point is 00:55:09 You can't have you fucking kill him. He's going to get egged, didn't he? Oh God, more than he. I hope he gets egged. I'm doing a show with Barrel organ actually. We're doing one that later in the year that we don't quite know where it's going to be or when it's going to be yet, but we're
Starting point is 00:55:24 working on it at the moment. But we're going to do something. We think at the moment it's called anyone's guess how we got here. And it's sort of about debt and childhood and nostalgia. Everyone can relate. Yeah, exactly. More depressing things. Yeah, it sounds cheery, man.
Starting point is 00:55:40 Yeah, exactly. Don't respond to the world. We're going to pop to some music and then maybe we're going to play a little game afterwards just to end on a high. So I'm going to pop to a little song. I'm going to go for because today I'm picking music
Starting point is 00:55:56 majority that has been in an unsuspecting dance sequence in a movie. So I've heard. I'm going to go for the mask and this is Cuban people. I love that film. So now... That movie is absolutely amazing.
Starting point is 00:56:14 The mask. I love Jim Carrey. Well, I don't love him now personally because of what's gone on recently, but I love his old movie. I liked him in the night. What? What's happened? What happened?
Starting point is 00:56:23 Oh my gosh, so his ex-girlfriend committed suicide. And she wrote in the letter, it was because he had given her a lot of STIs on purpose. He knew that he had, like, hepatitis and all this sort of stuff. Shut. He cheated on it. He gave it to her, and she obviously was a bit fragile, and she committed suicide and put it on the letter to his fault.
Starting point is 00:56:44 I was like, what, a bit of a nasty move? What? Don't give your girlfriend's SDIs. Come on, Jim, Kerry! Okay, that's it. Childhood ruined. That's it, now. You like someone and you hear something bad.
Starting point is 00:56:58 The Grinch, dumb and dumber. You know what I mean? Now, I just hope that, what's it, the chuckle brother. I hope they're not pedos I didn't want to say it I didn't want to say it I just hope I was going to say I hope they don't play the fiddle But okay
Starting point is 00:57:14 Right we're going to play a little game quickly Well I've still got down on air So we're going to play guess that soundtrack so as long as the technology keeps up with me I'm going to be playing you little clips From movies and each of you Just make up a buzzer You choose yours first
Starting point is 00:57:30 Okay Commit to that That's that's that's a That's it. I've got to beat that. No, that's easy. So it can be anything. Brilliant.
Starting point is 00:57:39 So if anyone thinks they know it, just do your buzzers. Okay. And I'll score which ones. Okay, so coming up. Listen, this and night and having such a good time. Udu Lolly, golly, what a day. Yeah. Is that like Song of the South?
Starting point is 00:57:56 No. No, it's a Disney film. Yeah. Never dream in that a scheme and sheriff and his posse was a, watching them and gathering around Robin Hood It's Robin Hood Robin Hood, oh
Starting point is 00:58:09 Robin Hood, oh my God, that's one of my favorite I feel like I'm disappointed I didn't get that I knew it Yeah Dumbow Yes Oh what
Starting point is 00:58:22 One point to Dan Thank very much Damn done Damn Dad Dad Damn it. Alright, cool.
Starting point is 00:58:30 Alright, number three. Are you ready? Wow. Oh, he got in there. Aladdin. Yes, second to down. You've got to get in there with your buzzet. I'm testing it.
Starting point is 00:58:44 It works now. Okay, cool. Have you seen the meme? It's like, I'll show you the world apart from America. Yeah, I've seen that. It's funny, but it's funny. Number four. Okay, cool.
Starting point is 00:59:04 Yeah. Frozen. No. Ha! Beauty and the beast. No, you can't just hazard guess. I'm not.
Starting point is 00:59:10 Listen to the words. It's a Disney movie. Of course. It was Hercules. I knew that. I know. Number five. He's got big guns.
Starting point is 00:59:24 Yeah. Like no light? Yeah. Dan's got free. Come on. Sabotage. things right it's a problem for you
Starting point is 00:59:38 I love this one such a good song okay number uh six we're on now you can still catch up ha
Starting point is 00:59:50 but wind in the willows no what's it what's it um the one where she wears the white dress thing the the clue
Starting point is 01:00:04 she bang bang no once in a dream it's sleeping beauty oh man I'm so not good at this If she doesn't 101 Dalmatians
Starting point is 01:00:15 Yes, Dan is coming in To see her is to take a I haven't seen that I forgot to I forgot to sing a long I was enjoying it I haven't seen 101 Dalmatians In so long
Starting point is 01:00:26 Yeah, me neither Right The film is good Number eight Yeah Snow Wax No, Pocahontas No, Pocahontas
Starting point is 01:00:43 No Pocahontas Why is it's no white Of course Yes it's Pocahontas Give that as a Dan Bye Thank you
Starting point is 01:00:49 Damn This is great I love this game I don't like this Cinderella Yes Gasca I don't know it
Starting point is 01:01:05 Was that the mice Yeah I can see it now I'm losing any credibility I ever had I'm getting all the Disney I wish I had little mice
Starting point is 01:01:14 To help me like Get ready in the morning It'd be brilliant I don't know if you would Number 10 Yeah Mulan Yes
Starting point is 01:01:27 What is it Lurin I'm getting in there I've got This is most one of the best gym songs you can ever have. Yeah, I can imagine. What? Great.
Starting point is 01:01:38 Just like proper punchy song. Amazing. Can you reckon? Last one. Go on then. Now. Little Mermaid. You have got eight.
Starting point is 01:01:50 Thank you very much. And I got didliddley, dizz. Yeah, you kind of did. Sorry there. Man. Sorry. Damn, Dan. I apologize.
Starting point is 01:02:00 It's okay, babe. Next time. Maybe next time. You've got to go and do your homework. Oh. It's all right, babe, it's all right. Well, well done, Dan, that's like a top score. Great.
Starting point is 01:02:12 For the Disney quiz. I'm going to go away and try and find some more for next week. Yes, yes, yes. Thanks so much for coming on the show. Thank you for having me. We're going to pop away now to another song. What we're going to do? What we're going to do?
Starting point is 01:02:22 What we're going to do? I think we're going to go for a bit of crisp brown popping. Yes, this is for my favourite dance film. Stomp the Yard. Stomp the Yard. Stomp the Yard. Stomp at the yard. Stomp at the yard.
Starting point is 01:02:35 Big guns. Make sure you go and see it. Big guns down at the yard. Thank you so much, Dan. This is Back Row and Chill. Back Row and Chill with Johanna James and Noel Clark
Starting point is 01:02:44 on Subbar Radio. You're back with Backrow and Chill. Johanna James. And Teage. Teage World. Chege World. The link for Noel Clark today. Right, so, well, that was amazing.
Starting point is 01:02:56 We've had a lot of sespians in the studio today. A lot of, a lot of thespians. Yes. We had a lot of spespians. I'm looking at you like, Why? Well, not a theatre.
Starting point is 01:03:08 I call theatre actors Thespion. I like it. I like it. Yeah, I do love that. You're very wordy today, Johanna. I like it. I have been reading. I've been reading a bit.
Starting point is 01:03:20 Loaring to be ABCs. Finally got your head out of a Now magazine. Finally. Just like off the book of face and finally read something valuable. Right, we have our next guest on the line. So if technology lets us speak to him, we've got Connor McNeil, who's starring in the film The Party and he is BAFTA nominated.
Starting point is 01:03:40 Let's see if Connor is there. He is here, yeah. We can hear you. Brilliant. Hello, Connor. Hello, hello. And congratulations. Thank you so much. Thanks, William.
Starting point is 01:03:52 A BAFTA nomination. So you're going to be there on Sunday, are you? Yes, I am indeed, yeah. And have you ever been before to the BAFTA? No, first time. Bafter Virgin. First time. Nervous.
Starting point is 01:04:05 excited at the same time. Oh my gosh. What are you going to wear a shorts or a suit? Short, I killed maybe. I don't know. I'm wearing like a nice, a nice, copper black suit. Oh, wait.
Starting point is 01:04:17 Did you get given one? Yeah. Someone gave you one. That's what it's all about. You have to give it back, though, don't know. I think so. That's not fair. It's a rental.
Starting point is 01:04:27 It's all right. Don't worry about it. Get as much pictures for the gram as you can. Exactly. Okay. Exactly. So, you're starring in the film, the party.
Starting point is 01:04:37 Is this the film that's been... Oh no, it's the short film that's been nominated. I'm not starring in that I wrote it. Oh, you wrote it? I'm an actor as well, but I wrote the party. Ah, you straddle both sides. I see. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I like that. All right. So, are you nominated
Starting point is 01:04:51 as an actor or as a writer? The film's nominated as a whole, like... As a whole thing. I've got the whole... Wow. And what's it about the party? I'm assuming a party. Yeah, it is about a party. It's about a party in 1970s, Belfast. where a young man's on the run
Starting point is 01:05:07 and he brings back sort of, he comes back from being on the run to party with his family and it ends not so fantastically. And why the 70s? That's a cool era.
Starting point is 01:05:21 Why the 70s? Because I think we have an image of what Northern Ireland was in the 70s and about what the conflict there was like and we have a sort of, you know, big scary men and balaclavas and actually the reality of it is you've got an incredible amount of the young people
Starting point is 01:05:36 were involved in that period of time and so I wanted to write something that was like skins but set against the backdrop of the conflict because that's how young people were living like that. Oh, I love that. 70 skins. Are you... Where can we
Starting point is 01:05:49 see this film, huh? So Curzon Online are doing all the BAFTA shorts they're screening them all at the minute so you can catch them on Curzon Online so like... Ah, Carson, good... And they're doing a few... I can't remember what cinema is off the top of my head,
Starting point is 01:06:03 but they are doing a test in a matured at the minute as well. Yeah, probably... Yeah, probably the main... Checking out the main cursons in... Oh, there's a new Curzonon in East, in East London. No. In old gates just opened. And then there's obviously Shaftsbury Avenue, the main one.
Starting point is 01:06:18 Yeah. East London's my neck of the woods. Do you come to London much? I live in London, yeah, yeah, yeah. You do live in London. I'm an East Londoner, essentially. I've been in East Londoner for, like, about four or five years now. Woohoo!
Starting point is 01:06:28 Oh, wow! I live in East London. Let's be friends, dude. Write more small After film Yes And so how did you get Did you write and then act
Starting point is 01:06:39 Or did you act so much That you wanted to write your own stuff Yeah I've been acting for a very long time I'm like since I was 14 maybe And then I just had a story to tell So I wrote it I wanted to And with the party A friend of mine to producer
Starting point is 01:06:54 She wanted to work with me We just sort of knocked about a few ideas And the party was the one that came out of it And then here we're a year and a half later, maybe two years later, we're here. Wow, I mean, it does take that amount of time, doesn't it, from writing to production? And how did you get funding and find funding?
Starting point is 01:07:15 Because I find that's also really hard. So there are some amazing ideas and stories to be told, but it's really hard to get through. It is, it really is. And we were kind of incredibly lucky with ours because the Irish Film Board had an incredible initiative that was to commemorate the independence of Ireland. and we went through that scheme
Starting point is 01:07:35 so they were looking really unique stories that identified the island as a whole, you know? So they, we just got really lucky. We entered into it. It was kind of like a lottery, to be honest. Yeah. They gave us the money, so it was pure potluck, but it is a difficult,
Starting point is 01:07:47 like I have lots of mates trying to make sure to say it's a hard thing, and I think a lot of the time you have to kind of do it off your own back and get out there and just beg borrow and stay. Begmore and stuff like that, you know? And end up at the Bafters. I mean, this is like a little mini story in itself.
Starting point is 01:08:00 You can make another movie about the making of the party. and then where it goes. So is this story staying as a short or like a lot of shorts then get sort of they get written as a taster of an expansion that could be made? So could the party be extended?
Starting point is 01:08:15 It could be. And it was never a massive plan at the beginning but it's starting to maybe become more of an idea that's growing slightly more because there is a huge scope. I mean, I think one of you said both sides of the story is really interesting. In the beginning, what happened before
Starting point is 01:08:29 but also what happens after. So it's about finding what that story is, I suppose, but there's definitely room for maybe doing that, but nothing immediate at the minute. I love period. Well, yeah, I guess it's still cool period drama if it's not modern.
Starting point is 01:08:43 I absolutely love it. Anything in the sort of, because even if you only knock back to the 80s or something, it is still so different. Just like politically or... It's so cool as well. Like even just like we had the faint,
Starting point is 01:08:55 and it was quite difficult for Andrea, the director, she had to find a street that didn't have satellite dishes that didn't have, you know, like, sort of modern. An original, yeah. But they made it look incredible. And the costumes and the soundtrack, everything was so cool.
Starting point is 01:09:11 It was good fun from that side of things. Oh, amazing. Was it hard to, um, was it hard? Like, do you do in, like, you have exterior shots, right? Yeah. Or is it all shot indoors? Is it absolutely? There's a good idea.
Starting point is 01:09:23 So is it hard, was it hard to, um, make the outdoors look 70s, you know? Yeah, big time. Big time. Because everyone has a sky dish. You know, everyone had like a different thing. It was, it was finding we managed to find this street that just worked. It was but it was our locations person just doing an amazing job.
Starting point is 01:09:42 But then one day we were filming and there was a house having a full blown rave going on. Played proper, like, heavy techno music. And we're supposed to be shooting a thing in the 70s. But excuse me, could you possibly play some queen or something? Yeah, exactly. Oh gosh, that's crazy. And what about, like, cars going by? like you see like a like a what's it called a hybrid car going
Starting point is 01:10:06 yeah yeah exactly a smart car just rolling a smart car rolling through like oh amazing well this sounds really exciting so people can go and they can check out cars on and they can be watching obviously they'll be watching the bafters um brilliant and you're gonna be there have so much fun that sounds so exciting dude are you gonna be writing any more films now you now you've done this do you think this would be like a gateway into writing like a full length feature film Yeah, exactly. I have another feature of sort of modern days.
Starting point is 01:10:34 Modern day that's in development at the minute. Hopefully we'll be shooting later in the year. Perfect. Oh, so you've got one lined up? Nearly there, yeah. Congratulations. Go, dude. Go you, Connor.
Starting point is 01:10:46 And if anyone wants to check out your socials and stuff, where would they find you? I'm on Connor McNeilio, just my name and an I-O at the end on Twitter. Connor McNeilio. Oh, well, thanks so much for talking with us and have all the best. Cross? Conall, Thank you so much. We're going to go for a beer to celebrate
Starting point is 01:11:05 since we're both living in East London. How about that? Indeed. Definitely, let's do it. Sweet. Congratulations, buddy. Oh, wait. Bye, Connor, thank you.
Starting point is 01:11:13 Wow, he's off to the BAFTA. I can't believe the BAFTAs are already. I can't believe they're ready. And we had, who did we have, what's his name again? We headed the, the head of the BAFTA film committee.
Starting point is 01:11:26 Come in and, I'm trying to look for his name. Anyway, he promised us a ticket. Maybe she should just roll up I'm just gonna roll up I'll be like yo Yeah we know the BAFTA guy Yeah
Starting point is 01:11:36 You what I mean Jim Bradshaw that was his name Tim Jim Bradshaw that's it Jim Bradshaw I mean Dude I want my I want my ticket
Starting point is 01:11:45 Otherwise me and Johanna Are gonna come there And gate crash yet Get Crash yet We're gonna roll up Like Kanye West did At the The Finger Awards
Starting point is 01:11:56 Yeah When he had all the hoodlums Come on He wasn't invited No no no No, no, no, Kainé West, he did that show, and then he had all the people dressed in black, all the UK rappers just come on and whatever.
Starting point is 01:12:07 So I'm going to roll through like that. We're going to just have a big squad of people dressed in black. Let's find matching suits and let's do it. Probably ninja suits. Right. Let's wear ninja suits. So, the song that I've next chosen is from the 70s. Is it?
Starting point is 01:12:20 Whoa! I like how you linked it. Right, this is Queen. We will rock you also appearing in the film A Night's Tales. Backroom and Chill, we've got Lucy Patterson coming on, and we're going to give you the most up-to-date film reviews that we possibly can right next.
Starting point is 01:12:42 Oh, it's finished. Okay. Well, that was one of my favorite Queen's songs ever or so. Good choice. Lucy Patterson's back in the studio. We've got a film review section. I'm going to be talking all things, Phil.
Starting point is 01:12:54 What's coming up? What's coming out? Yeah. Oh, brilliant. Okay. What have we been seeing and reviewing? And what's good? What's the word on the street?
Starting point is 01:13:11 Right. The down low. Well, I'd like to say, say, like, last year was a good year for kids' films. So, and we were talking Disney films earlier in our game and stuff like that. So, I'm going to give
Starting point is 01:13:21 you my rundown of the greatest kids' films that I think that came out. And a lot of them aren't just for kids, there's some of these for adults, I think. You've found a lot of them are funny. Yeah. There's adult humour in it. I love an animation. Yeah. Animation. Definitely. So, um,
Starting point is 01:13:36 obviously, there was fantastic beat, fantastic beast and where to find them. Absolutely brilliant. Yeah. We also had Angry Birds. If you haven't seen Angry Birds, go on and see Angry Birds. It's not even because there's an adult film. And also, the soundtrack's amazing.
Starting point is 01:13:52 It's so funny. It's good. That film is bad. If you're like the game, you'll absolutely love it. And even if you don't, it is so bloody funny that film. Yeah. The life and the character, you believe them. Totally.
Starting point is 01:14:03 I know. So that's a great one. Storks wasn't too bad as well. I've found Stokes hilarious. Yeah. I'm stupid. I'm amazing. I want to watch Storks, but I haven't.
Starting point is 01:14:13 Is it out yet? Yeah, it's been out. Go on, done. No, I mean, like, is it all out of DVD? I think it's coming on Sky soon, so DVD's probably imminent. Yeah, because I can't, I can't, I have the only version, like, because I missed the cinema and I can't find a really bad download version. I was like, nope, not doing that.
Starting point is 01:14:27 No, no, don't do that. We don't download films, guys, we don't do that. We don't do that. All right, also, um, Cubo. What's that? Is that the two strings thing? Yeah, basically, it's like a, it looks like a stop motion animation, yeah. It's like based on like Chinese
Starting point is 01:14:45 I think it's Chinese monophology Yeah No it's not anime It's actually just said stop motion as well Sorry Yeah So it's really good It's really good
Starting point is 01:14:57 It's very stylised The style of it is really good It's like about You know Far East mythology and stuff like that But it's a really lovely film It's sad but really interesting And it's artistically beautiful
Starting point is 01:15:11 I'm not really seeing any animation It's called C-B-O C-U-B-O So go and see that Obviously Miss Peregrine's home for peculiar children I didn't actually see that I saw it twice because I saw it I reviewed it and then I took my little sister who wanted to see it
Starting point is 01:15:27 It was good, it was good I really enjoyed it It was really quirky Yeah it was quirky I struggled to follow it Well it's time travel to eat you would have problems So I was like I don't know but I like
Starting point is 01:15:41 it as well. It was... I understood it more the second time I watched it because it's very weird and it's all about time travel and these... These children, really weird children, they live in 1940, or two.
Starting point is 01:15:54 And they're stuck in a loop. And they're stuck in a time loop. So they live the same day over and over and over and over again because a bomb from the wall was going to drop on their children's time. So in order to save them, they can live in a time loop. And they watch, they get to all go outside
Starting point is 01:16:07 and they watch the bomb drop and then the time loop stops and it goes back and then they start the day again. So they do the same date again and again and again and again, groundhog date until this boy turns up in 1942. Yes, and everything changes everything. It's so good. I say go and see that, yeah. So they're my recommendations for kids' film because, yeah, it was absolutely brilliant.
Starting point is 01:16:28 And also check out Mona. Mona's good. I've not seen that yet. People want hit and miss with it. What's Mona? The vampire? No. I remember.
Starting point is 01:16:37 I know. It's not Mona. Moana, sorry. Oh, Moana. Moana, sorry. Marana, sorry. It's like, it's kind of like a New Zealand,
Starting point is 01:16:47 Maui, kind of based on that, the new Disney installment, Maui. The Rock, Dwayne Johnson. Yes, I think, yeah, he's involved in producing
Starting point is 01:16:58 or something like that as well. Supposedly, he was heavily involved in that. It's a really good film. People are hit and miss. They're saying it's not traditional, but it's fun. But then they've got to go, you know, away from tradition at some point,
Starting point is 01:17:09 or they're making the same story. over and over again and again frozen 50 9. Yeah, yeah, exactly. And they're saying that, you know, like the mythology isn't bang right, you know, but it's a cotton, it's not meant to be... It doesn't really matter, you know what I mean, it's fun. Yeah, the historical...
Starting point is 01:17:24 The historical accuracy on most Disney movies is not right. Exactly, exactly. It's a story. It is fun, so do go check that out, but I highly recommend angry, but do go and see that. If you're feeling miserable, go and watch that. So that's my review for kids' films, okay?
Starting point is 01:17:38 Cool. Lucy, what have you been seeing? Well, as you said before on the show, I tend to find somebody that catches my eye and then stalk them all the way back through their filmography and things like that. So my latest stalky was, yeah, totally. My lady stalky was George Webster. Okay. You may have seen him in Versailles, and my name is Emily, tripped, that little mini-series that was on E4. What's his name?
Starting point is 01:18:01 George Webster. I've seen Versailles. Who do you play in Versailles? William of Orange, I think. Oh, okay. He, in 2013, made a film called Further Ed. He wrote, directed it, looks like he got his friends to star and it's him,
Starting point is 01:18:14 David Fricker and Sophie Reed. It's about two university students who, to make some money, decided to make their own LSD, in a bathtub. Now, that alone, I was like, this sounds amazing. And I found it on Amazon Instant Video.
Starting point is 01:18:30 Yeah. Because I'm a prime member, I watched it for free. It's only 90 minutes long, and it is every bit as ridiculous as it sounds. And you can tell that it was made for about a fibre, but that is why it's so charming.
Starting point is 01:18:40 And it's so funny. You know, it's like British humour at its best. There's sea bombs dropped everywhere. There's, you know, full-frontal nudity and there's sex jokes and this, that and the other, you know. And it's just a real charming film and hilariously laugh out loud, funny. A bit of animation going on in there as well. And it's bravo to him for getting it made. I mean, yeah, he made it in 2013.
Starting point is 01:19:02 And it's now 2017. But, you know, people find it on Amazon and watch it. It's really, really funny. A lot of people say, oh, you know, it's laugh out loud, funny, when really I'm sure they probably didn't laugh at all. But this one, I was actually cracking up on my own in the living room. What was the name of it again? Further Ed, it's called.
Starting point is 01:19:17 Further Ed. Yeah, it's another end. Further Ed. Further Ed. It's very good. I can't find George, sorry. I found curious George. I can't find that.
Starting point is 01:19:27 I'm trying to get your face. George Webster. George Webster. I, this week, I started to, I was like, let me check out the Netflix scope. And I started watching Santa Clarita. Me too. And it's very weird because I saw the adverts and I was like,
Starting point is 01:19:46 what in the world is this? Is this woman who's like all this blood and she's eating body parts? I was like, this does not look. Okay, let me check this out. I need to have an opinion on this. But I found myself really enjoying it. And I wanted to watch the next one. And the next one, the next one and I watched the entire series.
Starting point is 01:20:00 Did you? I only got up to five because I fell asleep. But the, well, they are very small. They're only 25 minutes per episode. So it's really easy to like just like get through. but basically the premise is it's just so wacky it's like this woman
Starting point is 01:20:12 who with her husband and she's got a teenage daughter she is a realtor and she's showing the people around this beautiful house and she suddenly starts vomiting up her entire guts over the whole house like you've never seen
Starting point is 01:20:26 like so much of vomit and then she dies and then she instantaneously comes back and she's an undead but she's not an undead zombie as in the movies where they're like she still looks the same which doesn't quite act
Starting point is 01:20:38 the same because she's she like lives really impulsively like she loves life um and but the only problem is is that she now can't eat food and she she has to eat uh raw meat and humans so so her husband and her teenage daughter decide they're going to help her in killing people so they can keep feeding her while they're looking for a cure it's that it's that wacky that's why i love it that much it's so wacky but they take it with serious and do you know what the best thing is it a comedy or horror. Yeah, it's total comedy. It's total comedy. And the best thing about it, I think, is the guy
Starting point is 01:21:10 who plays the husband. I love him. I think he, I don't know, I haven't seen him anything before, but I recognise and he is brilliant, and Drew Barrymore plays the main woman, and she holds her own. Oh, she's the undead woman. She's the undead. Oh, yeah, I like a bit of Drew Barrymore, I do, I do. Yeah, and so she plays the mum
Starting point is 01:21:27 and, um, zombie mum, and I just love it, I think it was so wacky, and I thought this, on a script, I imagine, this script would have been turned down a thousand times because it's just like she vomits over the room and then she soles off the neighbour's leg and then she eats his fingers and blah
Starting point is 01:21:43 blah blah yeah she eats them like finger snacks literal finger snacks but it's so kooky and yet it's like modern and the references and stuff is it's really really fast-paste and it's so bright and colourful and lovely like I seen like suburbia and all the sunshine and everything
Starting point is 01:21:58 and she's just eating people it's like it's so eclectic and weird I just love it it was just profound I need to see this. It's comedy. It's just like a roll-on-roll comedy. So Santa Clarita Diet on Netflix. It's a Netflix original.
Starting point is 01:22:11 So if you've got Netflix, it's just, it should be, they're really pushing it at the moment. That's why I saw it. I saw loads of adverts for it. But I really recommend it because it was just really weird. I'm going to go and watch that, you know. Yeah, Santa Claus. Just get through the, we don't even have to get through the first episode. Like the OA, I found that on Netflix, you had to really get through the first episode.
Starting point is 01:22:29 I didn't. I didn't make it through it. I know. Exactly. You fell at the first post, mate. Oh, it's just one of the loveliest things ever the I-A. I love the OA.
Starting point is 01:22:37 But Santa Cruz to die. I'm sad that I whizzed through the whole... Is it a series? It's a series, yeah. It's a series, yeah. 10, 25 minutes. I think, I hope that there better be a second. Although they left.
Starting point is 01:22:48 I've got to be. I'm down for it. And is Drew Barrymore really good? She's not failed. But she's good, but she's, she's already got her comedy, like, bad. She can do that. And she kind of, she does... It was almost like it was written probably for her.
Starting point is 01:23:01 Probably. Because she, it's just, Drew Barrio doing her thing. Yeah. Being like super quirky and wet, but she kind of steps it up a little bit in this one because she's never been allowed
Starting point is 01:23:09 to properly swear as much. No, she hasn't actually that, yeah. Yeah, she's been, it had to be sort of PC'd on it, so now she can just totally effing jeff. Yeah, she can effing death. Yeah, so was anything else that you...
Starting point is 01:23:21 I went to saw rings yesterday. Oh, the horror. Yeah. I mean, like I said before, remakes and things are just a bit boring now, but this wasn't really a remake. It was just sort of rehashy. the story and also giving us a bit more detail into the background.
Starting point is 01:23:38 Obviously, the ring, which was the remake of the original Korean, Japanese film or whatever, you watch a videotape and then seven days later, you die apparently. You get a phone call after you've watched it saying seven days and you die after that. So what they wanted to know was obviously the story behind it. So they fleshed it out this time. And, you know, it wasn't particularly scary. or particularly gory or anything but it was a beautifully shot film
Starting point is 01:24:07 there was a lot of close camera and a lot of dolly work and you know it was really really good in that sense I would go to the cinema to see it because it was beautiful to watch but if you're a true horror fan and you want something to scare you I wouldn't bother yeah it's not that horary no it's not that horror and if you've seen one ring film
Starting point is 01:24:23 you've seen them also I didn't even know they were more than one yeah because there's the ring there's ring the first Japanese one then there's the ring then there's the ring then there's the ring too yeah that's all speaking I get confused from that and I always get confused between the girl in there
Starting point is 01:24:37 and the girl from the grudge. Me too. Because they're all just the kind of... Yeah, yeah, yeah. They're both basically the same person. But I do remember finding out that the girl from the original ring, the actress,
Starting point is 01:24:47 was she was playing young, but she was actually like 20. Creepy. Because they couldn't find an actress to do the role. Yeah. I don't actually quite agree with when they get really young girls
Starting point is 01:24:58 to play like these kind of like horrid. I think it's a bit like... It's fucking up in the hit. Yeah. You don't know what it's going to do. I think it's just not the, let's pretend that you've got a devil inside you, Susie. So they get, when they can, they can cast older. So the girl in it, she looks like super, super young.
Starting point is 01:25:13 But then if you see her in real life, she's like, she was like 22 or something. You can correct me on that, people, if that's wrong fact. You can, like, call in or email in and correct me. But I just remember being surprised how old she was. It's like the girl from the orphan. Do you remember that horror? Oh, that was what popped in my head as soon as Johanna said that. That is good.
Starting point is 01:25:29 She was good. That was crazy. Was she a woman or was she a girl? know. I don't know. I'm thinking probably she was a teenager. Do you ever? She must have been. For her to be able to portray that so creepily and so well, I hope she was older. Otherwise that is one demonic child.
Starting point is 01:25:49 That movie was good as horror movies go. Well, on the theme of horror movies split. Anyone seen it yet? Yes, I've seen it. I've seen it now. Oh, you went to see it? It's not as scary as I thought it may be. I don't know. I don't really think you can think a bit of a horror. It's not a horror film. It's a psychological thriller, in it?
Starting point is 01:26:10 And also, I don't know, I felt that split was a bit of a bioproduct. Of? Of these girls being trapped. The film could have been called trapped. It could have. You're absolutely right. You know what I mean?
Starting point is 01:26:25 You are absolutely right. Do you know, it weren't enough. I don't know it was enough about, and I know you do get to see a lot of him, but not enough. I don't know. He wanted more about the psychology of his sister. I don't know if...
Starting point is 01:26:37 I thought it could have been... But I like that he played all the different characters. I didn't get to see 24 characters. I'd disappointed. You only get to see... About seven? Yeah, you see about seven characters. And then the rest are just on a computer screen.
Starting point is 01:26:54 Right? And she clicks through them. But she don't click through all of them. So that piss... Yeah, that's right. Anyway, he acted good. He did a good job, yeah. Good job.
Starting point is 01:27:03 but not scary enough and I wanted more. I think I had to, maybe my expectations were set too, right? Maybe. Maybe you thought it was going to horror, but I didn't go in, well, I'm seeing it, but I wasn't going to go in thinking it was horror because I don't do horrors. I was, I did a horror accidentally last year. I thought I was going to see Suicide Squad and I was actually going to see the cundering two. Oh my God, that's so fucking scary that film. I know.
Starting point is 01:27:28 Is it? I was pranked by the wall of comedy. That's not funny. I know, they told me I was going to a screening of suicide squads. I got so excited and I went down. Oh, those horrible boys. And then I thought, I sat down and I went, why is there a camera?
Starting point is 01:27:42 I'm watching the audience. I was like, this is weird. And then it started and I was like, this doesn't look like suicide squad. And then, oh my God. That is a naughty thing. That's brilliant. And then, yeah, the results.
Starting point is 01:27:55 Did they film it? Yeah, and the results of me screaming my head off went on Facebook. Yes, I'm going to go watch that. All of comedy for conjuring 2. Brilliant. Oh, that's so, yeah. Right, so there's some stuff that's coming out this year. Like, this year I was looking up the lineup of the films that are coming out,
Starting point is 01:28:11 and I'm so excited. Good stuff. So, obviously, Blade Runner. I know. I'm really intrigued about what it's going to happen. It's like, it's got Ryan Gosling and Harrison Ford. What is with this Ryan Gosling? Why is it so popular at Lama?
Starting point is 01:28:26 You have to be a girl to fully appreciate it. I don't get it. You need to be female to understand me. He's not that pretty. I don't know. I don't get the appeal. He's just got a coolness to him. He's in drive.
Starting point is 01:28:38 I think once you've seen that film, it goes to another level. If you think he's pretty anyway, watch that and it's like, oh. It's like the Michael Blumee-Bublier effect. Yeah, I don't get him. You're not a bubbly fan? No.
Starting point is 01:28:50 A bubbly fan. So Blade Runner's coming out. And weirdly, I auditioned for, not a character of Blade Runner. I auditioned for what I was assumed going to be a standing or a robot or something because I remember like two years ago
Starting point is 01:29:06 I went to this audition and I had to walk like a robot and they filmed every single part of my body because they were trying to find a body match for someone or there was a particular costume or you had to look like a particular thing anyway obviously I didn't
Starting point is 01:29:19 act well enough as a robot you weren't stiff enough I know that was a really hard thing for me because I was so animated so for me to be still and they were just like doing all this stuff I was just like, I'm moving my eyebrows.
Starting point is 01:29:34 But I was really intrigued and it's also got the actress from House of Cards Robin Wright. Robin Wright, or Robin Wright, what she is. The main lady from House of Cards
Starting point is 01:29:47 and I'm really excited to see what she is in that. So Blade Runner is in my like, oh my God. Beauty and the Beast is coming out next month. I'm really excited for that. I don't know how I feel about that. Well, I'm excited.
Starting point is 01:29:57 Well, I'm excited to see what's going on. Yeah, so it's a, Was it a film, in it? The live action, the live action remake. Pirates of the Caribbean. Yeah, I've seen the trailer.
Starting point is 01:30:09 They just dropped the trailer. Really? I haven't watched the trailer yet. And it did get me a bit excited actually. I was buzzing when I watched that. My initial fault is, can you stop it now? No, not this one. I'll watch the trailer. See, this one, because I think they went off with the last one.
Starting point is 01:30:24 This one has got Johnny Depp. It's got Orlando Blue back. Yeah. It's got Kira Nile. The original... That's what I'm saying. It's back. Because I love the original Pirates of Caribbean.
Starting point is 01:30:36 I think I saw that film three times in the cinema when it came out. This feeling looks wicked. I was so excited. I can't. Right. So that's what's coming out. And also I saw a thing of... I haven't even seen the trailer, but I just saw a poster for The Mummy and Tom Cruise. So I don't know what that is.
Starting point is 01:30:50 That's another one. I don't know how I feel about that. But it's coming out. The Mummy, another one. No, la. Right. So, I hope everyone has a great weekend. We're coming into land.
Starting point is 01:30:58 Tonight, me and Lucy, we're off to go and see. John Wick too. Oh yeah and also yeah I was meant to do my Kung Fu review I swear I'm gonna do it next. You forget again? Every week. No I swear I've got it here yeah I'm I'm gonna it's going to happen and we can discuss further on my Instagram as well. Oh I hope everyone has a great weekend remember to go to the Twitter and retweet to be in the competition we'll be announcing the winners next week. Have a brilliant time, brilliant time, brilliant day, bye bye bye bye bye!
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