That Gaby Roslin Podcast: Reasons To Be Joyful - Corey Mylchreest

Episode Date: November 14, 2023

Bridgerton's Corey Mylchreest joins Gaby for a chat about his West End debut in Keneth Branagh's 'King Lear'. He's playing Edmund for a short run at the Wyndams - and is learning a lot from working with Sir Ken. Gaby talks to Corey about his early years at drama school, landing the biggest role of his career so far and what keeps him grounded. He's currently got a little goaty for the West End role and says he's not getting recognised in the street as much as usual (maybe he'll keep it!?)We cover football, books, plays, RADA, Bridgerton and lasagne. Your classic podcast combo! Enjoy! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hello. It's very lovely to chat to you. Let's get, you know, we're going to talk about TV. We're going to talk about stage. We're going to talk about Rado. All of that stuff. But more importantly, Ed, who works on this show. Yes. Yesterday, same age as you, right? Yeah. Yesterday made a lasagna from scratch, including the pasta.

Including the sheets. Do you do the same things? Do I do or can I do? The answer to both of them is, of course, no. You don't cook at all? No, no, no. I do cook. I do cook. But not past a... I wouldn't be... I wouldn't know where to start.

And, yeah, I am ashamed to say that, but, you know... What's your go-to? My go-to... I don't have a go-to. Sorry? I don't like recipes. I... You're just like me. I don't... I just... I will just go to the supermarket and I will just collect things as I see...

Collect things? Collect things? Buy them. Sometimes. Oh, you just walk out of this. I just walk out. Often to a lovely ringing sound of alarm bells.

And then I go back and then I just throw them in at random times and I find out some things were... Throw them in where at random? Into the pan. At random times. Most of all I will start with probably some onions and garlic

but I mean... Okay, you got that? Yeah. And then anything else? And then it goes, yeah. I found out that you don't want to put crisps because they go mushy. You have cooked crisps.

Well, you know, you try things. I don't think Ed is going to be very impressed with that. Did you put crisps in your lavagna? Let's see if he's giving you a no or a yet, no, crisps in lasagna. He's not sure he's saying. He's saying it's not sure. That was the kind of thing that I was going for it.

I was going for the crispy on top. Although I was listening to the radio yesterday, lovely Zoe Ball Show. And somebody said that they were making chicken, coated in pretzels. That sounds great. That's the kind of thing that I would, you know, go for.

I bet you're really pleased you said yesterday in this podcast, aren't you? I am. Yeah, I'm really doing myself in-depth. Yeah. Oh, that's a really intelligent podcast. Corey, okay, so at the moment you're on stage. Should we talk, you choose, okay.

You choose. Stage, TV. Stage is in my left hand. Yes. Television is in my right hand. which are we going for? You choose. Up to you. Which are we going for where I go in my career? No, no, no. Everything.

Your life. Just talk about right now. Let's go stage. Okay, we'll go stage. Why not? Yeah. Okay. So Sir Kenneth Branagh. Yes. Sir Ken. Yeah. Do you call him Ken? We all call him Ken. Yeah. He is, he is, no. I actually, about maybe three weeks ago, I had a question to myself. I thought, is he a sir? I don't know. And the question is, of course, he is.

But I didn't know. I didn't know. I like that. So he's just one of the guys, is he? He's just one of the lads. Massive Spurs fan. Right. And I thought, this was my prejudice going in.

I thought, yeah, you say you're a Spurs fan. You won't be. This guy is a big football fan. What do you mean? A lot to me. Oh, okay. And I just thought, well, you know, you are one of the national, treasures of theatre.

So I, for some reason, in my head, that meant that you couldn't be a brilliant football fan. So did you think it was just stuff that you'd read and it's, yes. And here he goes every game, he knows everything, and Angi Poster Coglu,

I think that's his name, the manager of Spurs. He was at our press night. Oh, I see, I know nothing about football. The other guy knows everything. I know nothing about football. So who do you support? I support Liverpool. Oh, right. Is that, is that good to have Spurs and Liverpool in the same room at the same time?

Well, there was actually a very controversial. Look, I mean, it's not why we're here, is it, I'm honest. But there was a very controversial match. I think there should be a replay. But I'm not whining. Lots of people think that Liverpool fans whine. We're not whining. Okay.

I'm not going on a podcast talking about it. Yeah. Anyway. So, Sir Ken. And Spurs and Liverpool. You're in the room. You didn't know he was a sir. No, but you're working with him.

I am working with him. And, yeah. He's King Lear. He is. King Lear and he's directing the whole thing. And you're in it as well. And I am in it, yeah.

I turn up. Okay, so how, so what is that like though being directed by the person that you're playing opposite? Does he give himself notes at the end of the day when you all sit down? Well, there are he...

Did he say, right, Ken. Yes, Ken? He snaps his fingers and the mirror appears and he talks to himself. No, there is, we have a The associate director, wonderful Lucy Skillbeck, and also a lovely man called Michael Rouse, who has now finished with the project,

because we're a week and a half past press night or something. But he will step in for Ken, and he knows all the lines. And so he'll do Ken. So he steps in as the director or as the actor? He steps in as the actor, as the character. And then Ken will take a back seat and have a little look. and then yeah and then um but then then then then then then then then's not directing himself no because and that's where lucy comes in so ken will have a look at the

scene and that's when he wants to that's when he can be director of the whole scene in a scene that he's in and and so that's when mike goes in who is amazing we love mike and then uh he's not a sir he's not a sir okay no but that's okay that's okay uh and then when ken is on stage lucy will be watching and then lucy will give ken lads That's, do you know, I've never, I don't think I've ever asked that question before. And what a clever way to work? I'd never thought about it. I'd never, ever, ever thought about it.

And I thought, that's, that works for me. That would be how, yeah. All right, I'm on board. It's a really brilliant choice for you to, to go from TV, one of the biggest, most watch things in television history and all the rest of it. And I love, I love, when I was doing my research, search on you. There's a lovely quote that says, I had 50 followers and I was, we'll talk about what you're doing before of that. And then suddenly two million people and it's hello. And I love

that. So I love that you're going back to your roots because training at Rada. There you are in Shakespeare doing what you love. Yeah. And what's also so lovely about it is everyone's from Rada in the production. And so. On purpose? I think on purpose. Yeah, I mean, so Ken's the president of Rada. and I think it was he's worked with I mean he's so kind and is so I mean in the last films that he's made

there are so many people that have just graduated from Rada and you know he's like really trying to give a put down the ladder what's the phrase I don't know You had a step on the ladder Yeah there you go Put down the ladder That's when you finish you're decorating

That's a whole other conversation Yeah Although I'm I imagine he'd be pretty adept at that as well. He's probably good at everything. But what's so lovely about it is that there are, so, for example, there's someone else who was in my year in the play. That must be nice.

There's people that are in the year below me, a year above me, two years above, two years below, whatever. And so it is so, it's gorgeous. It's so lovely because a lot of them I know already, and it feels like going back and doing some training. So. But you're doing a... I actually really interesting.

There we are talking about RADA. So for people who don't know, it's the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. And it's always sort of seen as the top, the leading acting school. And when we say school, it's actually college because you do it after your A-level. And you only just left. Yeah, yeah. So what is it like going to somewhere like Rada?

Obviously, you have to audition to get in there. And then you are totally, were you focused on, this is what I want to do, I want to be an actor? Yeah. Did that come before Rada? or Turing Rada? I think that came before. I think that came before because I, there were a lot of people that were also,

that I knew that were auditioning for different drama schools that had also, I remember in sixth form, you had a career advice and people telling you which you needs to go for. And there were people that were auditioning for drama school that were also interviewing. I don't even know, I don't even know what you would do for an university.

But I didn't put any universities on my thing and I was like, okay, this is, I'm really, I'm going down. And my A levels, I can tell the world now suffered as a result. What A levels did you do? I did history, drama and English. Okay. Yeah. Perfect for King Lear.

Perfect for King Lear. It really is. Yeah, I just had it all planned out. Drama was the one that I got the worst grade in. Oh. Yeah. Oh, dear. But anyway.

Okay, moving on. Yeah, moving on. But yeah. So I think I was dead set. And I remember, I remember going for my first day, because I also did the foundation there. So they do a foundation course. And so I actually spent four years and I graduated in 2020. But because of COVID, I actually graduated in 2021.

Right. So really, I spent five years of my life there. So I was very ready to leave at the end. But that's nothing bad about the place. Okay. So because of COVID then, did you, were you allowed in studio still? Were you allowed to go? Sorry, the drama.

as opposed to television studio. You were allowed to go into the drama studios to work because you were doing that course. Actually, so I... It was March 2020, I think, that we were all pulled out. And that meant that we had done just enough to officially graduate. Ah, okay.

And a lot of people went back and did some stuff over Zoom and that was all that was available. And to be honest, that stuff didn't connect with me. And I said, is it all right if I tap out? and they were very supportive with that. You've done four years? Yes, yeah, yeah. I get that.

Yeah. So then after that, and we will get to that TV show, that Netflix show. But after that, you didn't just walk straight into acting straight away, did you? Oh, no, I didn't, no, no, no. I mean, I, oh, God, what happened first? I did a short film, student for short film. Which was great for it, great experience.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And, you know, it was my first time on a set. It was a student set, but it was still a set, and it was my first time, and I learned so much. And there was a lovely older actor there who was working on it, and it was the first time that I'd acted with someone really that was older than me, because you act in school and then you got to drama school and everyone's the same age, really. And that was cool. That was lovely. And then I did some work in the middle of the New Forest.

I did Romeo and Juliet and amidstam. night's dream. Just randomly in the middle of the new forest? It was a theatre company. Oh, okay. You didn't just go on your own in the middle of the new forest. It felt very much in the middle of nowhere and we were staying in like a

kids adventure camp like base. It sounds wonderful. And so well I was in like a single kid's bunk bed with about two foot above my head and I would bang my head every month. Anyway.

That doesn't sound so wonderful. We rehearsed in tree houses. That was cool. Oh, how fabulous. It was really not. And I remember in the interval of one performance, it was in mid-summer-at's dream. And I was playing Demetrius, and I meant to be asleep.

I've been fooled by Puck, and I'm magically asleep. And we'd be asleep on stage. On stage, I say, in the forest. It was literally in the middle of the forest for about 15 minutes. And I remember hearing, I was right next to two children and hearing them debating for 15 minutes. for 15 minutes, whether I was actually asleep or not. And that for me was the highlight of the whole thing.

But I learnt a lot. I learnt a lot. And then I didn't work. So there was about eight months between leaving rather and doing those two things, which overlapped. And then I didn't work for about a year and a half, maybe two years. Were you doing things? I was doing bits of, I was working in a call centre.

It was COVID. There was, you know, whatever. But I didn't do any acting work. And I must have sent about a thousand self-taped off into the Ibis. So that's the thing, the very beginning. So when I asked the question to the older actors and musicians and everything, and you know that the fight is there and the dream is there and the drive is there. But what keeps you going straight out of drama school?

Because I went to GSA and there were so many people who pretty instantly just went, no, I don't want this. Yeah, yeah. There was someone in our year that... So what made you keep doing it? I mean... In the call centre, in COVID. But I remember in first year, we were told...

The brilliant acting teacher, John, went around and said, why do you do it? Why do you do it? And I said, I love telling stories. I love seeing the change in people's faces. And he went, no, that's not it. Next. And then he went on. And I felt so...

I remember... getting all red and feeling like, what do you mean? What do you mean? But he was right. And then I came up to him right at the end. And I'd been thinking about it all lesson. And it was a really, you know, like drama school's quite intense. But I came up to him and I remember I felt tears coming into my eyes.

And I was like, I don't know why. It's just, it's the only thing that makes me want to get out of bed. It's the only thing where I feel like the time can be five minutes and it's actually been seven hours. I feel the most myself. I feel the most alive. I feel the most connected to the people that I love, the world, anything. and I don't really still, I don't really know why. I think maybe something about you can lose yourself.

What did he say when you said that? He looked at me and he said, yep. Yeah. But it wasn't anything that I'd said. I could think if you just feel the nuclear reaction. I wonder what his reaction was, see it. Do you know, have you heard from him since? No, no, but he does a class now.

He's not a Rada now, but he does a class. does a class with another one of, he was a head of acting there, and he does a class with another one of the heads of acting that used to be at Drama Centre and then worked at Rada, Annie Tyson. And they're both brilliant. And loads of us still go to those things. And I wonder if he's watched you. Oh, I don't know.

I'd be very scared. Yeah. I mean, this man, like, you know, he really, really changed my life. Oh. Absolutely, like, you know, love him, love him to pieces. Teachers are important, so important, because they don't realize the power that They have. The ones that don't necessarily aren't that kind, but also the ones who

just believe in you. Yeah, yeah. And he was so, he taught me meditation just on his own time, just like to... Really? Yeah, yeah, yeah. How lovely. I know, yeah. So you met, do you still meditate? I do still, yeah, yeah. Good for you.

But, you just, you know, really... Yeah, and so drama school was really, really amazing and for many different reasons, you know, it's sort of like covers all bases. It's very interesting though, because you, I mean, you were suddenly, shot to world fame. Yeah.

Yeah. That noise says everything. No, that says it all. It's weird. Nothing can prepare you for that because you didn't want to be famous. No. You didn't even say that word and I applaud you for that.

It's fantastic. You can go on a reality show if you want to be famous. But you knew what you wanted to do and then suddenly you went stratospheric. I mean, it's, it, it, it, I sound silly. People

work really hard. Yeah. People have got life tough. And me saying to you was that tough, feels ridiculous question to ask you. But it must be very weird. Let's use the word weird. Yeah, strange. Yeah.

Strange. It's definitely strange. And of course, everything is, what's the word? Relative. Relative. Thank you. Exactly. So it's, you know, it's not.

I mean, there's so much going on in the world right now. So it's not a struggle. Let's not say it's a struggle. But it is strange. It's strange. It's exactly strange. Exactly strange. Okay, so you're in a call centre, and then you got that phone call.

Am I right? You got it at some weird hour of the night to say you got... I did, yes. Daniel Richard. Yeah, I've done it. Yeah, you have, yeah. And, yeah, it was about 1130. No, I'd know.

It was 1154, I think. I think I remember... Wow, that's very... I love that. Because, you know, I saw, you know, live, my agent, come and, you know, call it, and I thought, right, it's this late. She doesn't want to call me on the weekend, because she knows that I want to know, right? Now, bearing in mind, I was meant to have found out on a call about three days before.

So I thought I hadn't got it. And I'm thinking, this is either a yes or it's either a no. It's pretty much one of those. Well, as in, you know, usually sometimes if it's a no, there's no need to call or, you know, whatever. But because sometimes you see the live call and you go, it's a yes. But because I was meant to have known already, it would have been a call for a no anyway. So it was like, oh, and I just remember, look at my phone. And I remember sneaking out into the stairway of my girlfriend's place at the time.

And I quite literally crumpled, you know, like, you know, and I had no idea. And I just kept, I remember, I kept going, oh my God, oh my God, oh my God. And it was like, I know, I know, I know. Yes. But that bit wasn't weird. And then we worked on the thing for like eight months. So that couldn't have been weird. I mean, there you were doing a show

and playing King George and so you're just working in the profession that you wanted to do. So that's not the weird part because you're doing what you love. Yeah. Did you enjoy it actually? Absolutely, I did. Oh, good. So please.

Like beautiful people. That's what all actually say. You all say that. We were like a family. Oh, but we were. Oh, no, we said it. No, we weren't like a family. We were a family.

No, I won't ever, no, sorry. But I did, I met some really, really, really lovely people. How long did it take to film it? Seven months, seven months? So you're a long time together? Yeah. And you have good days, bad days, you get stressed, you get, you fly through it, whatever it is. And you were there with the same people, kind of.

And did you know it was magic when you were doing it? I mean, that, you know, the season finale when you were, I suddenly think I'm giving spoilers. There's no spoiler. It's been out. The world has seen it. But with all the two generations together, you know, just, you know, amazing. Absolutely amazing. Did you know that it was special? No. I knew that I was working very hard and I knew that the people around me were working very hard and I knew that there was, everyone gelled and everyone was having fun. And I think that's kind of it, right? That's how it should be. Yeah. But the bit after that was the strange bit. So when did that bit start? I remember there was a teaser for the thing that got released. For the thing.

I love you, pulling it. The thing. The thing. For the show. And then people started to find me online and then increasingly offline. And I've got, I don't know if these roll it. Yes, we've got cameras. So I've got this quite...

Goatey. Awful. I mean, it makes sense with the whole thing on stage, but it's really bad. Yes, because you're in King Lear at the moment. Yeah, sorry. Winden. But this is proving to be quite the mask. I used to, you know, in London especially, you get recognised quite a lot. But I mean, with, with this. You don't, you look so different than you did in which. I haven't been recognised in. I mean, obviously at stages all those people. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So that, so the weirdness of that, because that's the bit we're talking about. Yeah. Yeah. Did you want to run and hide? Part of you really does. I mean, look, I don't know whether, do you know what?

I will be honest. I mean, of course, there is a, and this lasted genuinely maybe about half a week. But there is a part of you, your ego, that goes, way, maybe I'm really important. Maybe I am, maybe I am the stuff. And that go, that, that mountain forms and crumbles pretty quickly. Probably with family I don't know if your family Are they just put you like

Go on just get on How would work It's such a brilliant You know people always say like in situations like this Because again no one No one ever prepares you Because there's no point in preparing it It's never going to happen

And then it happens And then it happens and you know They always say You know have brilliant people around you And I've got the best people around me That's not to say I would be flying up And they'd have to be

pulling me down And that's not also to say That's what they're there for I just happen No, I get. Really, really amazing people around me. And then after that... So you say that lasted about half a week?

Yes, and then it's embarrassment. Right. I always see... And I still get this. I always see, because a lot of people nowadays do... I guess it would have been signing stuff in the past, but nowadays it's a selfie. And because it's a selfie and it's not a picture,

you can always see yourself. And I can always see how red I am. Because I'm always thinking, oh, boff. You're blushing. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, especially if I'm around someone else that is my friend or, you know, whatever, I find that incredibly awkward. And I bet your friends take right to the piss out of me. Yes, they do.

Good. And that's how it should be. It should be, exactly, right? Because, like, you know, it's just that's what it is now at the moment. And it probably won't always be like that, but it is at the moment. And if that was happening to one of my mates, I would make sure that I was ripping the, yeah, they're. to pieces. With love

though. Yeah, no, but that's lovely. You say you've got all those people around you. And also there's the thing about when you're starting out, it's not taking yourself very seriously. Because if you do, then it all get, you can get carried away. Yeah. And we all see

it happening. So then you get, then you get used to it and you get invited to the fashion shows and you meet up with the lovely picture of you and Kit. But, you know, Oh, what a lovely person. Came to my press night, didn't know.

Lovely. He just got a ticket and he was like, man, no, I needed to be there. That's so lovely. Yeah. Like, Kit is such a lovely, kind, wonderful person. I cannot believe how young he is. Because he has the demeanour and the physicality and the brain and the heart of someone about 10 years older than me.

And I, you know, and I'm about six years older than him. He has his wise head on very young shoulders. Lovely, lovely boy. But all of that and then you get invited to the fashion shows and the this. But I love the way on your social media as well. You just get on with it. And I mean that as a compliment. No, no, no, no, yes.

I mean, I just don't really know what to do with it all. And so... Oh, please stay like this. Stay like this always. please always don't know what to do with it it's just and always blush when somebody takes your photo because it is weird it is weird and I know what you mean because there is a small voice in the back of my head

that goes yeah yeah as you should yeah as you should blush mate yeah as you should not know what what the hell you're doing on on your phone um carry on doing that yeah carry on doing that okay so live is live still your agent live is still my agent okay so can we talk

about Liv. And we'll be forever. Oh, that's so lovely. Yeah, absolutely. That's so nice. Okay, so when Liv calls you now and you see Liv called, yeah. Do you feel the same when you see her name and that she's called? No, no. It's a good feeling. It is, and a much calmer feeling. Oh, that's so lovely. And Live actually, I mean, there's actually someone in the play right now who Liv has just signed. And we were talking about it.

how brilliant she is and I just I just remember and I think this goes for all agents you know it's I remember when we were first in drama school we were meeting agents we were told it's like a relationship and you know when you meet these people it's like a date because it really is just about how you get on and because that's going to be the thing that keeps the longevity of the professional relationship is how you get on as people and you know at the time I thought oh live and Sally is is the big big cheese um are brilliant and I feel like I get on with them. But I didn't really know them.

They didn't really know me. But they wanted to sign with me and I wanted to work with them. And then about, you know, years go by. And I would say live as a mate now, you know. And we can talk about worries and whatever. And she's just so accessible. That's what you want. But that's exactly what you want,

and an agent and manager, what you want to call them, I think. But now the calls obviously come in. And I love that you're doing King Lear to rave reviews. Congratulations on that with Ken. Yes. I'm going to go to Ken now. Why not?

And so let's go back to that now. We'll talk about what's next, but let's just talk about that now. So there you are on stage in the West End. This must be just pinch me moments with Sir Ken. Yes, yeah. I mean, sadly, I only have one scene with him, but I milk that scene. it's completely surreal and again

I think I think it just the only way through it is to just go well it's work I got you know just do my bit just do my job but I and what's strange is that so the character that I'm playing is Edmund and he a lot of the time spends

his time talking to the audience and it'll be hey here's my plan, watch me do it, aren't I great? Then he does his plan and then he reacts to his plan with the audience and then he does a different plan, whatever. So it just means for me that I am constantly staring my fear

in the face because I'm having a lot of the time on stage. What's your fear? The fact that there's a thousand people there and I could say anything. You know, sometimes I go, what if I just did a star jump or did a fart sound?

You know, there's like I don't know what, there's a name for it, but like those thoughts that you're like, well, I could just, what if I just sat down with, you know, I don't know. And you go out there and there's a thousand people and you have to talk to them in Shakespearean. It's just very scary, I find. And it's what I have to do when I first go on stage. So I look at them and I face it. And then after that moment, it gets all right.

And do you still get nerves every night, though, because you've got to go and do that. Still get a little bit nervous. Yeah. Love that. Yeah. That's how it should be. Yeah. Again, it's not being blazé, and I forget that you're not being blazze to any of it.

Yeah. So you've got the run of that, and it's impossible to get tickets. I don't know if you know that, but that's... That's lovely. No, because I've been trying to get tickets for my mates and family and stuff. Well, you can't get tickets. Well, no, well... I know somebody you can speak to.

Oh, you ready? Yeah. She's in there. She's behind there. Oh, really? Okay. No, it's packed. Yes.

Which is wonderful. Which is brilliant. And what a privilege to do Shakespeare to a packed audience every night. Yeah. And people, I'm passionate about live theatre, I think. Yeah. And also it has to be accessible. I do worry about the prices of tickets being for some shows. My younger daughter wanted to go to see a show recently and she called me and said,

oh, I'm going to go with my friend. Are we going to go and we're going to just go and get the cheapest tickets, Mom. And then I called Rob and said it's £87.50. How are you going to do that? Yeah. What? It is £87.50 a lot of the time, actually, isn't it? That is like the cheapest.

I looked at that. It was for a particular show. It's not on now. But I just thought that that's just... And that was the cheapest. I know. It's really... And also, I mean, to be honest, some of our tickets are very expensive.

But I think there's 20% of them are 20 quid. Yeah, they do do that. Which is... Lots of the theatres do that, which I think is really important. And also to get Shakespeare out to the masses. Yes. it's not scary. There were a lot of people who were terrified

of watching or reading or having anything to do with Shakespeare. I'm not going to understand it, but it's not like that. And actually, I think that's, you know, that's what Ken has been trying to do throughout this particular process is let's cut it down to two hours,

which a lot of like, you know, old school Shakespeare fans will really hate and have loads of problems with, which is fine. But my dad, for example, who would be, you know, self-professed not a massive

Shakespeare fan in any way came and saw it and he said I understood it all and I loved it and I know that's my dad so maybe not the best example but it is a good example but that's exactly who this is for

and it's you know it's fast-paced it's action-packed it's like you know it's almost like commercial Shakespeare not for necessarily although hopefully enjoyable to

the people that watch Shakespeare all the time. So then from that, and I don't, I'm not going to say what's next because I hate anybody that ever says that. Well I don't know anyway. Yeah, but I hate anybody that says that to any performers because you never really know because you get that phone call

and you never know that can change your life as that phone call did for Queen Charlotte as well. Yeah, yeah. But you're taking all of these experiences and you're going home and you just must, you just, I'm going to say, pinch me again. And I know I used it already, but you must have those pinch me moments because you've only just graduated. This is fantastic. I'm so delighted for you. Honestly, I think you're such a delight.

You really are. You're so lovely. But I'm so pleased for you because you're really humble about it. It's like, God, this has happened. Well. You said when you got the job, oh, my God. Oh, my God. Oh my God.

But I mean, I think anyone would be like that. You know, I know quite smug people that would be in that moment. Oh, my God, oh, my God, my God. And sometimes I'm one of them. Anyway, yeah, I don't know really what the point of me saying that was. No, I love that you said that. I love that you speak before thinking as well. Yes, I do.

Please always long make you, no, long may you do that. Now there's something about you privately that you told me before. Oh God, yeah. Can we talk? Yeah, no. Don't worry. It's not that one. Everyone was going to wonder what that one was.

So am I. You don't drive. I don't drive. I don't drive. So is this because you're environmentalist and you really care about our planet? Option A is. Yeah. Option B is I grew up in Liverpool.

In Liverpool. Sorry, I was thinking about my dad still. My dad's from Liverpool. I grew up in Liverpool. You're all supporting. Yes. Oh, right, okay. Yeah, sorry.

Do you know where you grew up then? I think I grew up in London, I think. But, I mean, we might be in the Matrix. I don't know. I could be being fed. What am I? I'm sorry. Quickly get him some lasagna.

Yes, yes, please, with crisps on. I was born in Leightonstone. I grew up in Leightonstone. So I've been in London my whole life. And, you know, all my men. mates, there are lots of my mates that were in North London, which is like an hour cycle away. But I would still cycle. Love that you cycled everywhere.

And yeah, I mean, even in COVID, I started, I didn't use the tube at all. And I would cycle for like two hours to, you know, Westbourne Park or something. Fantastic. So you're still doing that now? Not in the winter. Not in the winter. So you're a fair weather cyclist. I am a fair weather cyclist.

I would, yeah. And it's, I'm not, am I proud of that? No. I'll be honest with you. but it is who I am and I am being honest there. And are you going to learn to drive? I would love to. I would love to.

I think what I'm going to have to do is one of those intensive. I'll teach you. Really? I love driving. Let's do it. But I also, I walk everywhere, but I'll teach you to drive. And why do you love driving? Because I enjoy it.

I like speed. I like all of that. It's the speed. Yeah, I love all of that. But no, I walk everywhere. Okay. So you cycle, I walk. Yeah.

But I'll still teach you to drive. Can you imagine? All right, I'd take coming, bringing you home, we'd say to my daughters, I'm just teaching Corey, to come for his driving lesson. They'd be like, what? What are you doing?

Here she goes again. Here she goes again. Corey, you are such a completely lovely person and I just, you're going to go from strength to strength, and I don't think you're going to change at all because you're just a good person inside. So thank you for being on the podcast. Thank you so much.

What a joy to meet you. Yeah, so lovely to meet you. And break legs. Thank you. Thank you. That's so kind of.