1 00:00:00,320 --> 00:00:04,280 Prime big Deal days is coming October 8th and 9th, which can 2 00:00:04,280 --> 00:00:08,680 lead to involuntary deal squeals like the infamous deal on a new 3 00:00:08,680 --> 00:00:13,920 massager squeal. Save big on prime big deal days 4 00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:25,280 October 8th and 9th. Zippers, welcome to this 5 00:00:25,280 --> 00:00:32,000 episode. So the reason I'm I'm laughing 6 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:35,440 off the top like that is because I really mugged myself off 7 00:00:35,440 --> 00:00:36,880 there. I normally have a wee table 8 00:00:36,880 --> 00:00:39,480 beside me. Go to the video version of this 9 00:00:39,480 --> 00:00:43,160 podcast if you don't already watch it for that moment where I 10 00:00:43,160 --> 00:00:46,080 really mugged myself off. I I usually have a wee table 11 00:00:46,080 --> 00:00:51,200 beside the sofa that I recorded the podcast on and I've moved 12 00:00:51,200 --> 00:00:53,680 the table. By the way, this is such like. 13 00:00:53,680 --> 00:00:55,760 Lockdown banter that I'm actually laughing at that. 14 00:00:55,760 --> 00:00:57,600 If this happened normally it wouldn't be funny to me. 15 00:00:57,840 --> 00:00:59,120 But yeah, I normally have a table there. 16 00:00:59,120 --> 00:01:02,560 I forgot the table wasn't there, went to set my tea down and when 17 00:01:02,560 --> 00:01:04,120 it would have been more embarrassing if I had to just 18 00:01:04,120 --> 00:01:05,680 drop the cup and it had a smashed. 19 00:01:05,920 --> 00:01:09,280 But but what happened is I kept feeling for the table and I just 20 00:01:09,280 --> 00:01:12,280 kept going down and down and had to set my tea on the ground And 21 00:01:12,280 --> 00:01:14,800 and I I'll be honest, I wish that hadn't happened. 22 00:01:14,960 --> 00:01:17,160 I really wish that hadn't happened right at the top of the 23 00:01:17,160 --> 00:01:18,720 episode. But we're just going to move on. 24 00:01:18,720 --> 00:01:20,160 We're going to roll with it because that's what you've got 25 00:01:20,160 --> 00:01:22,680 to do in lockdown. You've got to roll with it, you 26 00:01:22,680 --> 00:01:27,520 know, blur guys, it's a, it's, it's a big episode for the 27 00:01:27,520 --> 00:01:30,160 sippers. This is the, the Wednesday 28 00:01:30,160 --> 00:01:32,680 episode of the podcast. You know by now we'll do a 29 00:01:32,680 --> 00:01:34,680 Wednesday episode of Friday episode. 30 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:38,640 And if you're, if you're, if you're a big sipper on a Monday, 31 00:01:38,640 --> 00:01:42,440 you get the Patreon episode patreon.com/T with me podcast. 32 00:01:42,640 --> 00:01:44,520 You get that bonus Monday podcast. 33 00:01:44,680 --> 00:01:49,880 Oh, you greedy buggers, Sip, sip today in, in in this episode, 34 00:01:50,800 --> 00:01:53,760 I've got Jamie Lee O'Donnell from Derry Girls on the podcast, 35 00:01:54,200 --> 00:01:58,280 which is great for a number of reasons #1 so many people asked 36 00:01:58,280 --> 00:02:01,160 whenever I put out the call for guests, so many people asked, 37 00:02:01,400 --> 00:02:03,880 can you get Jamie Lee O'Donnell from Derry Girls? 38 00:02:03,880 --> 00:02:07,120 And we, we have done it. We have done it. 39 00:02:07,160 --> 00:02:10,639 So I couldn't believe, you'll see from the chat I have over 40 00:02:10,639 --> 00:02:11,560 there, but I couldn't believe this. 41 00:02:11,560 --> 00:02:14,760 The first thing, the first podcast that that she's done and 42 00:02:14,760 --> 00:02:18,200 you really wouldn't know. Just very, very easy to chat to. 43 00:02:18,200 --> 00:02:22,160 Do you want, we're just, we're having a great run of guests 44 00:02:22,400 --> 00:02:25,720 that are just so signed, so easy to chat to. 45 00:02:26,040 --> 00:02:30,760 And you know, I think I've said before, I don't prepare anything 46 00:02:30,760 --> 00:02:33,080 from this podcast. I mean, a lot of people listen 47 00:02:33,080 --> 00:02:36,240 and go, no, we're we're acutely aware that that's obvious by the 48 00:02:36,240 --> 00:02:38,840 podcast. But I, I don't like the plan 49 00:02:38,840 --> 00:02:42,760 stuff because like just having a, a chat with a cup of tea, you 50 00:02:42,760 --> 00:02:44,720 know, you just, you just chat about anything. 51 00:02:44,720 --> 00:02:46,640 You find yourself going down different avenues. 52 00:02:46,920 --> 00:02:50,400 So yes, I asked Jimmy Lee some questions about about Derry 53 00:02:50,400 --> 00:02:53,920 girls and and how that sort of changed changed her life. 54 00:02:54,320 --> 00:02:57,760 But but we ended up chatting about a lot of different things, 55 00:02:57,760 --> 00:03:01,040 including Andy Peters torso. And that's that's what I want 56 00:03:01,040 --> 00:03:03,480 from this podcast. You know, ultimately I want to 57 00:03:03,480 --> 00:03:07,000 talk about Andy Peters physique, the TV presenter Andy Peters. 58 00:03:07,560 --> 00:03:10,280 But it was. It was, it was really good. 59 00:03:10,280 --> 00:03:13,320 Just really, really. Down to earth person, very easy 60 00:03:13,320 --> 00:03:18,720 to chat to clearly works hard and and I think people will will 61 00:03:18,720 --> 00:03:21,880 really enjoy this episode. I certainly record enjoyed. 62 00:03:22,680 --> 00:03:24,280 I certainly enjoyed recording it. 63 00:03:24,560 --> 00:03:27,160 OK, and that was a sentence that I found very, very difficult to 64 00:03:27,160 --> 00:03:30,040 say. And that's why I'm I'm not a 65 00:03:30,040 --> 00:03:34,240 successful actor because I can't say words and also because I 66 00:03:34,240 --> 00:03:36,520 think tables are there when they're not all right. 67 00:03:36,520 --> 00:03:41,440 Unless that is, that is what someone needs for an actor, you 68 00:03:41,440 --> 00:03:43,400 know, in a role of someone's like, listen, we've got this 69 00:03:43,400 --> 00:03:47,560 film, but this, this guy, this I'm like, tell me more about the 70 00:03:47,560 --> 00:03:49,400 character. Well, this guy always thinks 71 00:03:49,400 --> 00:03:52,320 there's there's tables and places that there's not, you 72 00:03:52,320 --> 00:03:55,160 know, in which case I'm essentially the a young Mr. 73 00:03:55,160 --> 00:03:56,960 Bean. Young Bean. 74 00:03:57,480 --> 00:04:00,920 That's me. It was it was a real fun 75 00:04:00,920 --> 00:04:03,400 episode. Before we get into before we get 76 00:04:03,400 --> 00:04:07,640 into the episode, which I don't really, I didn't really say this 77 00:04:07,640 --> 00:04:10,960 in the episode because as I say, we go off on tangents and we 78 00:04:10,960 --> 00:04:13,760 ended up talking about a million and one different things. 79 00:04:14,440 --> 00:04:21,160 And Derry Girls is very, very important to someone like me, a 80 00:04:21,160 --> 00:04:26,560 writer, comedy performer from, from Northern Ireland, because 81 00:04:27,440 --> 00:04:30,960 for years, years and years, like I've been trying to get stuff 82 00:04:30,960 --> 00:04:33,920 made like TV and all that for, for so long. 83 00:04:34,440 --> 00:04:37,280 And then and it's, it's, it's on. 84 00:04:37,280 --> 00:04:40,560 Like I think it's on a good path now, but for a long time you 85 00:04:40,560 --> 00:04:43,680 feel like you're banging your head against the brick wall. 86 00:04:44,400 --> 00:04:48,640 And a lot of that was because anything that you saw on TV, you 87 00:04:48,640 --> 00:04:53,520 know, especially comedy, it was coming from middle class 88 00:04:53,520 --> 00:04:58,160 England, you know, like London, the and, and there was very 89 00:04:58,160 --> 00:05:00,280 little, obviously you'd have exceptions like Gavin and 90 00:05:00,280 --> 00:05:04,440 Stacey, but there was very little stuff coming out of what 91 00:05:05,240 --> 00:05:07,280 TV people call the nations and regions. 92 00:05:07,280 --> 00:05:11,640 So like Northern Ireland is considered like a region or 93 00:05:11,640 --> 00:05:15,440 whatever. And there there's not much from 94 00:05:15,440 --> 00:05:19,880 here on like network TV, you know, like Channel 4 or like the 95 00:05:19,880 --> 00:05:22,680 main BBC channels. Obviously we, we have our own 96 00:05:22,680 --> 00:05:24,840 stuff on the likes of BBC Northern Ireland, something I'm 97 00:05:24,840 --> 00:05:29,120 part of, but but there's been nothing that's really broken 98 00:05:29,120 --> 00:05:34,280 through from here in a long time or maybe ever, and certainly 99 00:05:34,280 --> 00:05:37,960 nothing like Derry Girls. So whenever Derry Girls went on 100 00:05:37,960 --> 00:05:42,800 the Channel 4 and and just blew up from from the from the day it 101 00:05:42,800 --> 00:05:45,640 was on TV, it kind of just exploded. 102 00:05:45,640 --> 00:05:49,360 And that's mad because you see so many shows that are out for a 103 00:05:49,360 --> 00:05:52,480 while and then people go, you've been sleeping on this, you need 104 00:05:52,480 --> 00:05:53,920 to watch this. You know, it's been out for 105 00:05:53,920 --> 00:05:55,240 ages. You have to check it out. 106 00:05:56,040 --> 00:05:57,920 Like Ozark at the minute, Like Ozark. 107 00:05:58,240 --> 00:06:00,160 I enjoyed the first couple series and I don't watch it 108 00:06:00,160 --> 00:06:02,200 anymore. Still think it's a really good 109 00:06:02,200 --> 00:06:03,720 show, but I just don't really watch it. 110 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:06,600 But now there's so many people getting into that because of 111 00:06:06,600 --> 00:06:07,800 lockdown. They're like, you got to check 112 00:06:07,800 --> 00:06:10,520 out this show. Derry Girls from the night that 113 00:06:10,520 --> 00:06:15,160 it went out was ahead just in what certainly felt like from 114 00:06:15,160 --> 00:06:17,160 when it was broadcast, an overnight success. 115 00:06:17,480 --> 00:06:21,000 And that was brilliant to see for so many reasons, for the 116 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:25,600 fact that it's from here, you know, written by Lisa McGee, 117 00:06:25,600 --> 00:06:31,760 who's a local writer. It's cast from here as well. 118 00:06:32,080 --> 00:06:33,760 I've been to Derry. You know what I mean? 119 00:06:33,760 --> 00:06:36,960 No, people from Derry. And all of a sudden that world 120 00:06:36,960 --> 00:06:41,840 is being represented on like a global scale because Derry Girls 121 00:06:41,840 --> 00:06:47,000 isn't just big here in UK and Ireland, it's it's big all over 122 00:06:47,000 --> 00:06:49,000 the place. You know, American people know 123 00:06:49,000 --> 00:06:50,960 about it. People know about it in France. 124 00:06:51,280 --> 00:06:54,600 Name a country, Uganda. I mean, I'm sure there's someone 125 00:06:54,600 --> 00:06:57,040 in Uganda who absolutely loves it. 126 00:06:58,040 --> 00:07:01,960 But it's important because for me, like trying to get stuff 127 00:07:01,960 --> 00:07:05,840 made in TV or write scripts, all of a sudden I can go, well, 128 00:07:05,840 --> 00:07:09,080 look, they've, they've done it. You know, they've Derry girls 129 00:07:09,080 --> 00:07:11,440 almost opened the door, I think for a lot of stuff. 130 00:07:11,440 --> 00:07:15,720 And I I definitely noticed from speaking to some TV people that 131 00:07:15,720 --> 00:07:18,840 they all of a sudden are way more interested in the stuff 132 00:07:18,840 --> 00:07:22,280 that's coming out of here. Like we did a thing for Channel 133 00:07:22,280 --> 00:07:24,360 4. The Kieran Bartlett wrote Kieran 134 00:07:24,360 --> 00:07:28,200 Bartlett, AK Bunter castles. Kieran wrote a thing for Channel 135 00:07:28,200 --> 00:07:31,960 4I acted in it. Dave, you know, Dave, Dave was 136 00:07:31,960 --> 00:07:36,080 in it couple other of her friends and and it did really 137 00:07:36,080 --> 00:07:37,760 well. Now coronavirus kind of 138 00:07:37,760 --> 00:07:41,240 discovered its development of it, but they are still hoping 139 00:07:41,240 --> 00:07:43,760 that that could maybe go on Channel 4. 140 00:07:44,160 --> 00:07:48,960 And I don't think that would have happened for a long time if 141 00:07:48,960 --> 00:07:50,880 it wasn't for Derry. I feel like Derry girls just 142 00:07:50,880 --> 00:07:54,480 accelerated all of that and made people way more interested in 143 00:07:54,480 --> 00:07:56,040 what's coming from here. You know, all of a sudden 144 00:07:56,600 --> 00:07:58,960 commissioners and stuff were like, well, what do you have 145 00:07:58,960 --> 00:08:00,520 going on over there? You know, and all of a sudden 146 00:08:00,520 --> 00:08:03,160 we're like, we have all this good stuff and people are way 147 00:08:03,160 --> 00:08:06,040 more interested in it. So it, it really has opened the 148 00:08:06,040 --> 00:08:11,360 door for so many people and, and so many shows and, and it's, 149 00:08:11,640 --> 00:08:14,680 it's great. It's, it really is a cultural 150 00:08:14,880 --> 00:08:19,520 phenomenon, you know, and, and it has done what everybody kind 151 00:08:19,520 --> 00:08:24,040 of wants to do, which is, yes, it is based here, it's filmed 152 00:08:24,040 --> 00:08:27,480 here, it's about here, it's about a very specific place. 153 00:08:27,480 --> 00:08:29,760 Like Derry is almost like its own world. 154 00:08:29,760 --> 00:08:32,080 Like I'm, I'm from Hollywood, which is close to Belfast. 155 00:08:32,320 --> 00:08:34,960 Belfast and Derry are really different in terms of the 156 00:08:34,960 --> 00:08:37,919 expressions people use all that kind of stuff. 157 00:08:39,240 --> 00:08:43,720 They feel like their own their own places, but that humour is 158 00:08:43,760 --> 00:08:48,840 able to translate everywhere. And that's, that's the goal. 159 00:08:48,880 --> 00:08:51,200 I think that that is a serious achievement. 160 00:08:51,520 --> 00:08:53,920 And that's because of the the writing and the acting in the 161 00:08:53,920 --> 00:08:59,480 show and, and Jamie Lee stealing so many scenes, absolutely 162 00:09:00,360 --> 00:09:04,480 brilliant comedy timing, such a such a great character. 163 00:09:04,480 --> 00:09:07,640 That must have been a real fun character to play and, and it 164 00:09:07,640 --> 00:09:09,920 was great to be able to just sit down, chat a bit about Derry 165 00:09:09,920 --> 00:09:12,440 girls because I have my perceptions of what it would be 166 00:09:12,440 --> 00:09:17,040 like to be in a show like that and how I imagine it it it, it 167 00:09:17,160 --> 00:09:19,480 would change her life. So I wanted to ask her questions 168 00:09:19,480 --> 00:09:21,280 about that. And then we talked, as I say, 169 00:09:21,280 --> 00:09:24,040 about really stupid stuff. So hope you guys enjoy it. 170 00:09:24,040 --> 00:09:27,840 I'll be back on Friday with a solo episode and then we'll have 171 00:09:27,840 --> 00:09:30,400 a guest next Wednesday and we'll just, we'll just keep doing it 172 00:09:30,400 --> 00:09:33,240 like that. The Patreon episode is out on a 173 00:09:33,240 --> 00:09:35,640 Monday. Patreon.com/T with Me podcast 174 00:09:35,840 --> 00:09:39,400 for for a bonus episode. I know where the tea is this 175 00:09:39,400 --> 00:09:40,720 time as we go down to pick it up. 176 00:09:41,640 --> 00:09:43,920 Just took me a long time to get it because it's on the floor. 177 00:09:44,280 --> 00:09:47,720 This is the Jimmy Lee O'Donnell episode of the TV Me podcast. 178 00:09:47,880 --> 00:09:56,000 Cheers guys. So Jimmy Lee, when I start off 179 00:09:56,160 --> 00:09:59,120 interviewing guests, my first question is always do you drink 180 00:09:59,120 --> 00:10:01,440 tea? How often do you drink tea and 181 00:10:01,520 --> 00:10:02,520 makeup tea? Do you drink a day? 182 00:10:02,520 --> 00:10:05,640 Do you take sugar with your tea? You're you haven't started with 183 00:10:05,640 --> 00:10:07,480 tea in your hand. I don't know if you're if 184 00:10:07,480 --> 00:10:08,960 there's a tea off camera or whatever. 185 00:10:09,880 --> 00:10:13,440 There's a glass of water. So you're are you not a It's OK 186 00:10:13,440 --> 00:10:14,600 if you're not like, you know, it's not going. 187 00:10:14,600 --> 00:10:17,400 To No, I am because I don't just don't have a cup of tea. 188 00:10:17,560 --> 00:10:19,640 No, no. No, no, no, no, don't worry. 189 00:10:19,640 --> 00:10:21,160 Don't. Worry I'm a Logan like fake it. 190 00:10:22,160 --> 00:10:24,160 Yeah, yeah. I mean, I just. 191 00:10:24,240 --> 00:10:27,280 Natural. I just, I just like to find out 192 00:10:27,280 --> 00:10:30,400 what people's the tea situation is just because. 193 00:10:30,640 --> 00:10:32,880 You know, it's tea with me. I think tea brings people 194 00:10:32,880 --> 00:10:34,600 together. So like how many cups would you 195 00:10:34,600 --> 00:10:37,720 be on a day? So I used to never drink 196 00:10:37,720 --> 00:10:39,640 caffeine. It just wasn't my thing at all. 197 00:10:41,280 --> 00:10:44,040 So I've started drinking just like a cup of tea in the 198 00:10:44,040 --> 00:10:45,400 morning. It's like a wee routine. 199 00:10:45,760 --> 00:10:48,360 I want to say morning obviously is a term very loosely. 200 00:10:48,400 --> 00:10:50,840 Let's be honest, it's still, it's still daytime. 201 00:10:51,520 --> 00:10:53,440 You know what I mean? Cup of tea and then I might have 202 00:10:53,440 --> 00:10:55,760 a wee coffee on there to see because I'm, I'm doing a lot of 203 00:10:55,760 --> 00:10:58,280 writing at the moment. Again, I want to say a lot. 204 00:10:58,560 --> 00:11:00,040 We're using these these time frames. 205 00:11:00,120 --> 00:11:04,360 I do a page today. So you do a title, you put it in 206 00:11:04,360 --> 00:11:06,760 bold on the line that you're like, bang, it's practically 207 00:11:06,760 --> 00:11:08,520 scrapped. Put your name at one side. 208 00:11:08,520 --> 00:11:10,320 You're like. 810 words. Number the. 209 00:11:10,400 --> 00:11:12,600 You just number the pages. You're like done. 210 00:11:13,080 --> 00:11:14,800 So when I'm doing things like that to have like a coffee, 211 00:11:14,800 --> 00:11:17,280 because I think I feel snazzy. And at one point I thought I'd 212 00:11:17,280 --> 00:11:18,760 love a pair of glasses just do this. 213 00:11:18,760 --> 00:11:21,280 And then I thought, right, it must be really bored from trying 214 00:11:21,280 --> 00:11:23,400 to sort of compromise me eyesight just so I look smarter. 215 00:11:23,560 --> 00:11:25,520 Yeah. So that's that's where I'm at 216 00:11:25,520 --> 00:11:27,320 with the the tea and caffeine situation. 217 00:11:27,600 --> 00:11:29,560 So are you like, are you nudity? Like what? 218 00:11:29,560 --> 00:11:31,040 What was the reason for not drinking caffeine? 219 00:11:31,040 --> 00:11:32,720 Was it like a religious thing or anything? 220 00:11:33,200 --> 00:11:37,560 It's obviously religious, No, but I I think years ago used to 221 00:11:37,560 --> 00:11:40,200 drink a lot of coffee, like was it Yuri and stuff like that? 222 00:11:40,480 --> 00:11:42,080 Because it's sort of things do you're like, I'm going to get a 223 00:11:42,080 --> 00:11:43,560 coffee. So you just feel like a bit of a 224 00:11:43,560 --> 00:11:45,600 GAK a bit. Of a what? 225 00:11:46,000 --> 00:11:48,200 Bit of a gak. Is it a dairy thing? 226 00:11:48,920 --> 00:11:51,520 Yes, what it must be a. Gak. 227 00:11:51,760 --> 00:11:54,160 Have you never heard a GAK? What does it mean? 228 00:11:55,160 --> 00:11:57,960 Well, gak can't be like if you're a gak, you sort of. 229 00:11:59,160 --> 00:12:01,080 Why can't I never explain these things and I always use these 230 00:12:01,080 --> 00:12:04,920 words a gacs like like an Egypt? OK, Yeah, I'm with you. 231 00:12:04,960 --> 00:12:06,080 I'm with you do. You know what I mean? 232 00:12:06,240 --> 00:12:07,520 Yeah, GAC. I like it though. 233 00:12:07,560 --> 00:12:09,880 It's a very specific dairy Egypt, I suppose. 234 00:12:10,480 --> 00:12:10,840 OK. OK. 235 00:12:10,880 --> 00:12:13,000 Yeah, Yeah, I guess. But I get again, like with all 236 00:12:13,000 --> 00:12:14,920 phrases of that, you can use them endearingly as well. 237 00:12:15,040 --> 00:12:16,680 Do you know what I mean? Right, right, right. 238 00:12:18,360 --> 00:12:21,000 So I I just stopped to just drunk too much. 239 00:12:21,000 --> 00:12:22,800 I have a tendency to wrap the OR sort of everything. 240 00:12:23,200 --> 00:12:25,040 Like if I like it, I'm like, right, I'm going to do it every 241 00:12:25,040 --> 00:12:26,640 5 minutes for the rest of my life. 242 00:12:26,680 --> 00:12:29,080 And then a weekend. It's the worst. 243 00:12:29,080 --> 00:12:31,360 I don't know, with green tea I tried to drink 8 cups a day 244 00:12:31,360 --> 00:12:34,040 because I had some really bad advice online. 8 cups a day. 245 00:12:34,320 --> 00:12:35,520 Yeah, don't do that. Yeah, who? 246 00:12:35,960 --> 00:12:38,480 Is the advice from because I feel like it wasn't a doctor? 247 00:12:38,880 --> 00:12:42,200 The Internet. So it's not weird that sometimes 248 00:12:42,200 --> 00:12:44,120 you read something on the Internet and you go, God, that's 249 00:12:44,120 --> 00:12:45,360 like good advice, I should do that. 250 00:12:45,680 --> 00:12:47,920 But sometimes it's just on a forum, you know what I mean? 251 00:12:47,920 --> 00:12:51,000 It could just be, it could, could just be some guy in the 252 00:12:51,000 --> 00:12:52,840 shed, you know? And I'm like, oh, fair enough. 253 00:12:53,120 --> 00:12:55,600 I've got to take vitamin D now. You know what I don't know? 254 00:12:55,600 --> 00:12:57,880 Why oral Day? You're like, I've never, ever. 255 00:12:57,880 --> 00:13:00,120 I've never had it my entire life, but suddenly if I don't 256 00:13:00,120 --> 00:13:01,960 drink 8 cups a day I'm going to collapse. 257 00:13:02,080 --> 00:13:05,280 I mean, I didn't think we'd get this quickly into like you 258 00:13:05,280 --> 00:13:09,680 clearly have a problem passed with tea, but 8 cups a day, what 259 00:13:09,680 --> 00:13:11,640 what was the what were the side effects? 260 00:13:11,640 --> 00:13:13,880 Though so it doesn't actually quite make it to 8 cups a day, 261 00:13:13,880 --> 00:13:16,880 because who could? I'll be honest, I just thought 262 00:13:16,880 --> 00:13:21,160 it was a really easy way to like, lose weight as most people 263 00:13:21,160 --> 00:13:22,600 think they do. You know, this is years ago 264 00:13:22,920 --> 00:13:25,360 without having to get off my arse and off the couch, like 265 00:13:25,360 --> 00:13:27,000 just like 8 cups today. Anyway, it just falls off. 266 00:13:28,480 --> 00:13:33,640 That doesn't happen obviously, but I just know if I drink it I 267 00:13:33,640 --> 00:13:36,040 just instantaneously vomit. It's just it's. 268 00:13:36,120 --> 00:13:38,960 Oh, well then, yeah. I mean, this is what is it's 269 00:13:38,960 --> 00:13:42,480 apparently someone told me there's something in it that it 270 00:13:42,480 --> 00:13:43,640 can do something to your stomach. 271 00:13:43,640 --> 00:13:46,960 I don't know what it is, but but just I'm still, you know, just 272 00:13:47,240 --> 00:13:50,080 if I have it, it's just like I did it on set one day years ago 273 00:13:50,080 --> 00:13:51,920 on the job. I was on cup of green tea and I 274 00:13:51,920 --> 00:13:54,160 was just sat there and it was just me on in the shot. 275 00:13:54,520 --> 00:13:56,640 They lined up and obviously it takes ages and blah blah blah 276 00:13:56,640 --> 00:13:59,520 and they're just sitting there and I was like and I could just 277 00:13:59,520 --> 00:14:01,440 feel it common. I was like ha and had a run 278 00:14:01,640 --> 00:14:05,720 vomit and just smiling. So I had a a problem on set 279 00:14:05,720 --> 00:14:07,720 once. I was doing a thing for CBBC, 280 00:14:07,720 --> 00:14:09,640 right and. OK, terrible place to have a 281 00:14:09,640 --> 00:14:12,760 problem on set. Yeah, yeah, 'cause everyone's so 282 00:14:12,760 --> 00:14:15,280 like, everyone's so happy and loving life and so enthusiastic. 283 00:14:15,280 --> 00:14:17,080 And I was like, no, we need to panic here. 284 00:14:17,200 --> 00:14:20,440 So I had AI had a problem because of something in 285 00:14:20,440 --> 00:14:24,360 catering, but it wasn't, I wasn't going to bring it up, you 286 00:14:24,360 --> 00:14:25,960 know what I mean? Like it was a different, it was 287 00:14:25,960 --> 00:14:27,720 a different situation. It was a different problem, 288 00:14:28,480 --> 00:14:30,480 yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, 289 00:14:30,560 --> 00:14:32,720 yeah. Green tea can do that as well. 290 00:14:32,720 --> 00:14:35,000 It's a nightmare. Well, I don't think I I think 291 00:14:35,000 --> 00:14:37,800 I'd had like a soda with like bacon egg and something else. 292 00:14:37,800 --> 00:14:41,160 And like I, I remember being halfway through a scene and mail 293 00:14:41,160 --> 00:14:44,000 it on. No, and it was it was in an old 294 00:14:44,000 --> 00:14:45,680 house. It was in this castle in Killie 295 00:14:45,680 --> 00:14:49,120 Lay. And the weirdly, the toilets 296 00:14:49,120 --> 00:14:50,960 didn't have like walls at the top. 297 00:14:50,960 --> 00:14:52,880 Like you were going to those toilets and it's like a wall up, 298 00:14:52,880 --> 00:14:54,240 but the wall doesn't go to the ceiling. 299 00:14:54,240 --> 00:14:57,600 So there's a gap you get. A castle. 300 00:14:57,920 --> 00:15:01,520 In a, in a, in an old castle. And I was in there and then 301 00:15:02,040 --> 00:15:04,120 there was someone else from the production. 302 00:15:04,120 --> 00:15:06,200 I didn't say what I was going to do was like, oh, can you excuse 303 00:15:06,200 --> 00:15:06,880 me for a minute? Yeah. 304 00:15:07,240 --> 00:15:10,040 And the director came out and said who? 305 00:15:10,040 --> 00:15:12,560 Who's someone in there? And, and I lied and said I was 306 00:15:12,560 --> 00:15:15,960 another actor. Who he was, He was a guy called 307 00:15:15,960 --> 00:15:17,760 Lee from Bolton. And I put on a wee bit of an 308 00:15:17,760 --> 00:15:22,560 accent and I was like, yes, Lee met and to to this day that the 309 00:15:22,560 --> 00:15:24,240 rest was. Passed and he's like. 310 00:15:24,560 --> 00:15:27,320 Lee I I told Lee about this and he was he was kind of OK about 311 00:15:27,320 --> 00:15:29,360 it. He was kind of what's your, 312 00:15:29,800 --> 00:15:31,280 what's your like lockdown situation then? 313 00:15:31,280 --> 00:15:32,640 Are you? I mean, I just presume you live 314 00:15:32,640 --> 00:15:34,760 in Derry, but you may what you could live literally anywhere in 315 00:15:34,760 --> 00:15:35,920 the world. I have no idea. 316 00:15:35,920 --> 00:15:38,120 I just. Well, let's just say I love 317 00:15:38,120 --> 00:15:40,800 somewhere fancy in in our minds. But no, I'm in. 318 00:15:40,800 --> 00:15:45,840 I'm in Derry at the moment, back home I because my sister has had 319 00:15:45,840 --> 00:15:48,160 a baby as well. Oh nice, what you have. 320 00:15:48,880 --> 00:15:51,480 Should it be geared? I know I'm well, can't say under 321 00:15:51,480 --> 00:15:52,920 instruction. Instructions did not talk about 322 00:15:52,920 --> 00:15:54,640 my family and friends. And then as soon as I'm on, I'm 323 00:15:54,640 --> 00:15:57,080 like, by the way, here's all those two sentences. 324 00:15:57,360 --> 00:16:01,040 Yeah. But yeah, so I mean, I haven't 325 00:16:01,040 --> 00:16:02,360 actually physically seen her properly. 326 00:16:02,360 --> 00:16:04,960 She came past in the car with the window up. 327 00:16:05,080 --> 00:16:06,960 Yeah. Yeah, so it was about, it's a 328 00:16:06,960 --> 00:16:09,240 bit strange, but but it's nice to be home. 329 00:16:09,600 --> 00:16:13,280 And again, I suppose it's just nice to be somewhere familiar 330 00:16:13,280 --> 00:16:15,680 with all the madness that's going on because actually I was 331 00:16:15,680 --> 00:16:19,480 filming in South Africa about four days before the lockdown, 332 00:16:19,480 --> 00:16:21,560 actually, well, about a week before the lockdown happened. 333 00:16:22,040 --> 00:16:24,880 So I was doing a film there and I came back. 334 00:16:24,880 --> 00:16:27,120 It was all sort of talked about. It was, I think it was in China 335 00:16:27,560 --> 00:16:30,000 and I think it just was coming towards Italy. 336 00:16:30,760 --> 00:16:32,600 But there wasn't any big measures in place and everybody 337 00:16:32,600 --> 00:16:35,600 was, it was so sort of like, is this going to spread? 338 00:16:35,600 --> 00:16:37,160 Is it that big of a deal, blah, blah, blah. 339 00:16:37,160 --> 00:16:39,600 They were still concerned. We'll come into like SARS and 340 00:16:39,600 --> 00:16:41,720 stuff and saying we didn't go that bad. 341 00:16:42,120 --> 00:16:44,600 And then I got home and about 5 days later the lockdown 342 00:16:44,600 --> 00:16:45,840 happened. I was like, jeez, thank. 343 00:16:45,880 --> 00:16:47,880 God, at that point you're talking about everyone was just 344 00:16:47,880 --> 00:16:50,840 on the Internet taking advice from forums, being like, I know. 345 00:16:50,840 --> 00:16:52,920 They. Say if you if you cut a potato 346 00:16:52,920 --> 00:16:54,760 in half and rub it on your elbows, you're not going to get 347 00:16:54,760 --> 00:16:55,760 it. And then that's it. 348 00:16:55,840 --> 00:16:58,560 After the potato, what was the What was said Africa? 349 00:16:58,560 --> 00:16:59,800 What was said Africa like? Was that cool? 350 00:16:59,800 --> 00:17:02,000 Going out and doing a film. It was amazing. 351 00:17:02,040 --> 00:17:05,200 It was absolutely amazing. I stayed in like a wee town 352 00:17:05,200 --> 00:17:08,240 outside Cape Town. It was called Stellenbosch and 353 00:17:08,240 --> 00:17:10,839 it's one of the best wineries in the world. 354 00:17:11,000 --> 00:17:15,480 So so. So I've just got into wine in 355 00:17:15,480 --> 00:17:20,240 the last maybe six months again, somebody told me for health 356 00:17:20,280 --> 00:17:24,839 benefits and I know this guy who's like APT and I met him to 357 00:17:24,839 --> 00:17:28,040 like get like a bit of a consultation and he goes. 358 00:17:28,040 --> 00:17:30,560 And there's like, wine. The two things, he said, he 359 00:17:30,560 --> 00:17:33,120 goes, I would really consider getting into wine. 360 00:17:33,120 --> 00:17:36,480 And there was, it was something else like like that, you know, 361 00:17:36,640 --> 00:17:39,400 and, and he's like, honestly, red wines really good for you. 362 00:17:39,400 --> 00:17:41,920 Just start wine and coffee. That's how I got in the coffee. 363 00:17:42,400 --> 00:17:44,280 Right. So I just started drinking red 364 00:17:44,280 --> 00:17:47,040 wine for health reasons and I love it. 365 00:17:47,840 --> 00:17:52,080 I love, love, love red wine. Like I really want to try and 366 00:17:52,080 --> 00:17:55,400 drink white because it just like you don't get that, you know, 367 00:17:55,400 --> 00:17:58,520 that sort of red wine go, you get that and that's usually 368 00:17:58,520 --> 00:18:01,160 about 3/4 down the bottle when everything's getting a bit and 369 00:18:01,520 --> 00:18:05,080 then you're like, hey, and it's just like, sit over there, but 370 00:18:05,080 --> 00:18:07,000 you're too sort of sloshed to care. 371 00:18:08,160 --> 00:18:11,120 But I, I got into it myself because I was a big beer drinker 372 00:18:11,120 --> 00:18:14,080 for years, beer and Guinness and still would be a wee bit. 373 00:18:14,960 --> 00:18:17,280 And then a few years ago, then I switched, I switched to wine 374 00:18:17,400 --> 00:18:18,400 because I thought it was all the same. 375 00:18:18,400 --> 00:18:19,760 But it's it's really, really lovely. 376 00:18:19,800 --> 00:18:22,160 So I'm still at the point where I can't tell the difference 377 00:18:22,160 --> 00:18:24,600 between wine. Everybody's at that point. 378 00:18:24,600 --> 00:18:27,040 I'm sorry. Most people, I would say, are at 379 00:18:27,040 --> 00:18:29,240 that point. I pretend that I know what I'm 380 00:18:29,240 --> 00:18:32,400 talking about. Like if I I pick a wine, I'll 381 00:18:32,400 --> 00:18:35,000 go. I'll have a little amalbic, very 382 00:18:35,000 --> 00:18:36,920 fancy. But then if I'm at the house and 383 00:18:36,920 --> 00:18:38,640 somebody was to pour me something else, I wouldn't know 384 00:18:38,640 --> 00:18:39,480 the difference. I wouldn't go. 385 00:18:39,600 --> 00:18:42,440 That's the one I chose. Yeah, I think, I mean, I feel 386 00:18:42,440 --> 00:18:44,360 like I should have eat a bit like you with the green tea 387 00:18:44,360 --> 00:18:46,440 should ease myself into it. Like I think I should have gone 388 00:18:46,440 --> 00:18:49,440 Lamborini. Like I didn't really, you know, 389 00:18:49,440 --> 00:18:51,200 like I didn't do like Prosecco and stuff. 390 00:18:51,200 --> 00:18:53,520 Like, I could definitely see myself getting into that scene. 391 00:18:54,120 --> 00:18:58,000 But you know I didn't either I I just went straight for a red 392 00:18:58,000 --> 00:18:59,160 wine. I had one glass and then the 393 00:18:59,160 --> 00:19:01,040 next time I tried it I had like 3/4 of a bottle. 394 00:19:01,520 --> 00:19:05,400 But to be fair about she says it was years and years ago. 395 00:19:05,400 --> 00:19:07,440 I don't have one attempted wine and put me off. 396 00:19:07,760 --> 00:19:10,560 My cousin brought up with me, my sister, my cousin and it was 3 397 00:19:10,560 --> 00:19:13,160 bottles for a Tanner because you know what? 398 00:19:13,160 --> 00:19:15,080 I'm saying you know it's going to be from, you know it's going 399 00:19:15,080 --> 00:19:16,880 to be a vintage, a vintage bottle. 400 00:19:16,880 --> 00:19:18,560 Yes, you know, in Tuscany somewhere. 401 00:19:18,560 --> 00:19:20,880 I think she got it, but it was. Or Twin Brook. 402 00:19:22,560 --> 00:19:25,560 It was she was had one bottle of white, a bottle of rosy and a 403 00:19:25,560 --> 00:19:27,840 bottle of red because my sister didn't really drink wine either 404 00:19:27,840 --> 00:19:30,120 at the time. So like, oh, that's, I mean, 405 00:19:30,120 --> 00:19:31,880 we're going to like one of them. Let's give it a go. 406 00:19:32,520 --> 00:19:34,640 I had the rosy, but obviously because I was so used to 407 00:19:34,640 --> 00:19:37,600 drinking beer, I was just drinking it like a pint. 408 00:19:37,600 --> 00:19:40,080 So I was just. And I with 45 minutes, the 409 00:19:40,080 --> 00:19:41,920 bottle was gone. And I remember, I'll never 410 00:19:41,920 --> 00:19:43,600 forget that she was talking on the couch and I was chatting. 411 00:19:43,640 --> 00:19:48,600 I remember just going like the room just, and then I was like, 412 00:19:48,600 --> 00:19:51,320 Oh my God, it was just like an instantaneous, just hammered. 413 00:19:51,680 --> 00:19:53,080 And I never threw up as much in my life. 414 00:19:53,080 --> 00:19:55,240 I threw up so much that I went into work the next day and the 415 00:19:55,240 --> 00:19:57,960 girl rubbed a glass over my face because it's so many blotches 416 00:19:58,360 --> 00:20:00,320 she thought I had. She thought I had meningitis. 417 00:20:00,520 --> 00:20:02,360 I was just there. I was just there and I rubbed 418 00:20:02,360 --> 00:20:05,480 the glass like you don't want to say I got hammered in a bottle 419 00:20:05,480 --> 00:20:07,280 of wine. Yeah, it's not a good level of 420 00:20:07,280 --> 00:20:09,600 drunk when someone's like I'm hungover. 421 00:20:09,600 --> 00:20:11,840 No, I think you're full blown meningitis. 422 00:20:11,920 --> 00:20:14,200 I mean, that's not a good I'm. Gonna call someone I know but. 423 00:20:14,760 --> 00:20:17,200 I like your sister's attitude of just showing up with one of 424 00:20:17,200 --> 00:20:19,040 each, you know? Definitely like, don't mix your 425 00:20:19,040 --> 00:20:20,400 drinks. Your sister's just got the full 426 00:20:20,400 --> 00:20:22,680 range. I mean, you just have to try 427 00:20:22,920 --> 00:20:23,880 your best and that's what we thought. 428 00:20:23,880 --> 00:20:24,880 We thought we'll try one of them. 429 00:20:24,920 --> 00:20:26,480 How do we step with the red too much? 430 00:20:26,480 --> 00:20:29,680 Doesn't like the white, but funny, grey, rosy, sweet. 431 00:20:29,680 --> 00:20:32,160 We'll try now. That was years ago, before 432 00:20:32,160 --> 00:20:34,440 actually drunk. Drunk actual wine. 433 00:20:35,080 --> 00:20:36,680 I had about a five year break. After that. 434 00:20:36,760 --> 00:20:39,480 I was physically traumatised badly. 435 00:20:39,880 --> 00:20:44,200 I mean, yeah, the the, the like, the the red mouth is definitely 436 00:20:44,200 --> 00:20:48,000 bad, but I've noticed with with red wine I get, I get so bitchy. 437 00:20:48,000 --> 00:20:51,520 Like I get really I am not a bitchy person but whenever 438 00:20:51,720 --> 00:20:54,640 whenever like expect the bigger the glass the bitchier I get. 439 00:20:55,160 --> 00:20:56,720 And the more your arms are folded, you're going. 440 00:20:56,880 --> 00:21:00,640 Yeah, all I, all I do is look out the window and just any 441 00:21:00,640 --> 00:21:03,640 neighbours that go past and you know, pass comment on their 442 00:21:03,640 --> 00:21:06,360 fashion on, on, on everything. She's. 443 00:21:06,720 --> 00:21:08,680 Yeah. And like you just used to make 444 00:21:08,680 --> 00:21:12,960 noises and library raises. Just must have come back into 445 00:21:12,960 --> 00:21:16,520 fashion. Yeah I mean, I I definitely 446 00:21:16,520 --> 00:21:17,920 enjoy wine. Like I was thinking for a while 447 00:21:17,920 --> 00:21:20,640 of changing this podcast to just like wine with me podcast, but. 448 00:21:20,880 --> 00:21:22,840 I think you should. But if I record 3. 449 00:21:22,840 --> 00:21:23,920 Episodes a week, you know what I mean? 450 00:21:23,920 --> 00:21:24,960 We're going to, we're going to develop. 451 00:21:24,960 --> 00:21:26,280 We're. Going to develop a problem. 452 00:21:27,120 --> 00:21:29,680 Usually pick a few people that just stick with you so then 453 00:21:30,000 --> 00:21:31,480 everyone's the same and it's like the norm. 454 00:21:31,680 --> 00:21:34,640 Yeah, yeah. So the the film that you were 455 00:21:34,640 --> 00:21:37,040 doing, were you were you able to fit like was that scheduled to 456 00:21:37,040 --> 00:21:39,480 finish when it finished or did you have to just like wrap it up 457 00:21:39,480 --> 00:21:42,000 and get out of there? No, that's scheduled to finish. 458 00:21:42,200 --> 00:21:45,720 There was a few more days I think after I I finished with 459 00:21:45,720 --> 00:21:47,800 the other actors, but they got it done and everything so 460 00:21:49,040 --> 00:21:51,680 luckily enough. What is the can you tell me like 461 00:21:51,680 --> 00:21:54,080 a bit about the film or is? It Yeah, they just have to. 462 00:21:54,160 --> 00:21:57,080 Kill you if I tell you. They just released it or 463 00:21:57,080 --> 00:22:00,920 released not released the film released the the promo for it. 464 00:22:00,960 --> 00:22:04,040 It's called Redeeming love. It's an adaptation of a book and 465 00:22:04,040 --> 00:22:08,080 it's set in late 8 hundreds in America during the gold rush. 466 00:22:08,680 --> 00:22:11,040 And I play a prostitute. Oh nice. 467 00:22:12,360 --> 00:22:14,840 Do you know, actually when they got the part, I was telling the 468 00:22:15,040 --> 00:22:16,720 friends and stuff, I was like, I'm playing a prostitute. 469 00:22:16,720 --> 00:22:22,200 And they were like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, this sort of crack. 470 00:22:22,200 --> 00:22:25,440 And I was like, thanks. Shows up with every scene with 471 00:22:25,440 --> 00:22:27,280 three bottles of wine. Red Rosie. 472 00:22:28,200 --> 00:22:31,560 Hey boys, did you have to do? Did you have to do that when you 473 00:22:31,560 --> 00:22:34,280 did an American accent in it? No, they wanted a dairy accent, 474 00:22:34,280 --> 00:22:38,160 my normal accent. They because I done the audition 475 00:22:38,160 --> 00:22:42,160 with two, with the American one and then a dairy audition and 476 00:22:42,160 --> 00:22:43,880 because of the sort of range of people there, I think they 477 00:22:43,880 --> 00:22:45,760 wanted to keep me Irish because it's somebody from just no 478 00:22:45,760 --> 00:22:47,240 different parts of the world and stuff like that. 479 00:22:47,240 --> 00:22:50,240 So just to round it off, and obviously it's such a naturally 480 00:22:50,240 --> 00:22:52,240 beautiful accent and so easy to understand. 481 00:22:52,360 --> 00:22:55,120 Sure, you know, I, I don't, I don't know if I told you this. 482 00:22:55,120 --> 00:22:59,840 We, we, we met about two years ago doing ABBC show very 483 00:22:59,840 --> 00:23:02,360 briefly, but I don't know if I told you this at the time. 484 00:23:02,360 --> 00:23:04,640 Maybe I was too embarrassed to tell you this, but Speaking of 485 00:23:04,640 --> 00:23:09,280 like accents and and working working on productions, I I 486 00:23:09,280 --> 00:23:11,920 auditioned for for the first series of Dairy Girls. 487 00:23:12,520 --> 00:23:16,000 I think you did tell me this. And I had to do a dairy accent 488 00:23:16,200 --> 00:23:20,760 and up until I got to the place to do the addition, I was 489 00:23:20,760 --> 00:23:23,040 killing it. You know, if I'd, if I'd a walk 490 00:23:23,040 --> 00:23:26,360 around, if I'd a walk around the Richmond Centre, people would 491 00:23:26,360 --> 00:23:28,400 and just said hello to people that have been like that man is 492 00:23:28,400 --> 00:23:29,600 from Derry. Why have we never seen him 493 00:23:29,600 --> 00:23:31,960 before? Got to the place, started 494 00:23:31,960 --> 00:23:35,240 talking far more South African than it was. 495 00:23:36,440 --> 00:23:39,520 I absolutely butchered it. I eventually got it being 496 00:23:39,520 --> 00:23:42,720 somewhere OK, but I think when it cut like I, I feel like I can 497 00:23:42,720 --> 00:23:46,000 do any accent, but when it comes to like somebody going, you 498 00:23:46,000 --> 00:23:48,360 know, one-on-one, like we're recording with the cameras. 499 00:23:48,800 --> 00:23:50,640 I just, I just, it's nerves as well, isn't it? 500 00:23:50,640 --> 00:23:53,840 It's just, it's proper nerves. It's it's I, I done an audition 501 00:23:54,200 --> 00:23:58,520 years and years ago as well in London and I was so nervous. 502 00:23:58,520 --> 00:24:00,320 I was, I just have a big problem with nerves anyway. 503 00:24:00,680 --> 00:24:03,640 But I offered to do a different accent. 504 00:24:03,640 --> 00:24:06,040 Like I offered it because I was like, nailed it. 505 00:24:06,040 --> 00:24:08,800 Got this my part and they went, go ahead. 506 00:24:08,800 --> 00:24:11,600 More people came under the room and I was like, oh, shit. 507 00:24:12,360 --> 00:24:15,080 And then I was trying to do like a like a cockney accent and it 508 00:24:15,120 --> 00:24:17,160 went really, really Australian South Africa night. 509 00:24:17,720 --> 00:24:19,520 And you could see, you know what, you can like rate, you can 510 00:24:19,520 --> 00:24:24,000 send someone going, yeah. And you're like, ah, I've 511 00:24:24,000 --> 00:24:25,360 wrecked it. And then I walked out and I was 512 00:24:25,360 --> 00:24:27,400 like, no, I have double wrecked it because I offered to do the 513 00:24:27,400 --> 00:24:30,440 shit accent. Like I offered shit. 514 00:24:30,880 --> 00:24:32,720 Was. Like. 515 00:24:33,760 --> 00:24:35,760 But you should have just added to the character's back story, 516 00:24:35,760 --> 00:24:38,560 even though it didn't need it and just been like, no, she had 517 00:24:38,560 --> 00:24:41,920 spent time in Australia for. Australia, South Africa and New 518 00:24:41,920 --> 00:24:43,200 Zealand. Yeah, yeah, yeah, she. 519 00:24:43,240 --> 00:24:44,840 For a while it's really complicated. 520 00:24:44,840 --> 00:24:45,920 You can't really talk about the moment. 521 00:24:45,920 --> 00:24:47,560 It's like. Is that is that the worst? 522 00:24:47,560 --> 00:24:49,600 Is that the worst additional experience you've ever had? 523 00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:51,720 No, my worst additional experience. 524 00:24:51,720 --> 00:24:54,880 But The thing is I didn't go to drama school or anything, so I 525 00:24:54,880 --> 00:24:56,520 was winging a lot of this at the very start. 526 00:24:56,520 --> 00:24:58,600 You know, I do come from a very working class background, which 527 00:24:58,600 --> 00:25:03,160 I'm very proud of, but there is sort of avenues you just sort of 528 00:25:03,160 --> 00:25:05,640 figure out yourself. And I had, I had like a few 529 00:25:05,640 --> 00:25:06,840 different types of different agents. 530 00:25:06,840 --> 00:25:09,400 Some were struck off or terrible, like just, it was just 531 00:25:09,400 --> 00:25:12,760 a nightmare at the start. There was 2. 532 00:25:12,880 --> 00:25:16,800 So I know nightmare. Thankfully I've got amazing 533 00:25:16,800 --> 00:25:18,040 agents now. I am, I'm delighted. 534 00:25:18,040 --> 00:25:22,000 But I, so I was sort of, I felt like I didn't have the right 535 00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:23,880 people to give me advice and saying this is definitely worth 536 00:25:23,880 --> 00:25:26,760 going or try this or knew you had that support system, which 537 00:25:26,760 --> 00:25:28,960 is really important doing this job. 538 00:25:28,960 --> 00:25:30,800 You'll know yourself and just having someone to call and say 539 00:25:30,800 --> 00:25:31,920 is this worth doing or blah, blah, blah. 540 00:25:32,360 --> 00:25:35,200 So I was living in Manchester at the time and I had to get the 541 00:25:35,200 --> 00:25:39,560 bus down to London, which is 5 1/2 hours because I was a bit 542 00:25:39,560 --> 00:25:40,360 scent. So I was like. 543 00:25:40,480 --> 00:25:42,280 Megabus. Megabus. 544 00:25:42,280 --> 00:25:43,720 I think it was a Megabus. Whatever. 545 00:25:43,760 --> 00:25:46,760 No, I was a coach. Got fancy, I know. 546 00:25:46,760 --> 00:25:50,000 And I thought I'll treat myself to the coach Got down there. 547 00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:54,320 I was really nervous, obviously just, and they had, they had me 548 00:25:54,320 --> 00:25:57,280 prepare an English accent, like a posh London accent. 549 00:25:57,760 --> 00:25:58,840 That was fine. They lived on. 550 00:25:58,840 --> 00:26:02,800 The boss got in there and they handed me the size like, no, 551 00:26:02,800 --> 00:26:04,720 I've got, everything's fine. They're like, actually there's 552 00:26:04,720 --> 00:26:06,920 been a bit of a change. We need you to do your own 553 00:26:06,920 --> 00:26:09,280 accent. And I was like, all right, OK. 554 00:26:09,280 --> 00:26:11,560 And I was like, that's fine. She's actually, can you do a 555 00:26:11,560 --> 00:26:15,160 West Country accent? I was like, sort of, and she's 556 00:26:15,160 --> 00:26:16,880 like, OK, and this is can you do a mix of the two? 557 00:26:16,880 --> 00:26:20,240 And I was like, Irish West Country, that doesn't exist. 558 00:26:20,240 --> 00:26:22,320 It's not a thing. But of course, a young actress 559 00:26:22,320 --> 00:26:23,960 was like, yes, of course I can do it. 560 00:26:23,960 --> 00:26:26,160 It was born to do it. And then when they're like, I'll 561 00:26:26,160 --> 00:26:27,840 try to. So you get into the audition. 562 00:26:28,080 --> 00:26:29,720 I was doing it. There was the cat, this 563 00:26:29,920 --> 00:26:31,920 assistant was there with the camera and the girl who was 564 00:26:31,920 --> 00:26:33,480 cast, it was there. And I'm sure they were very 565 00:26:33,480 --> 00:26:37,000 lovely people, but I obviously was doing a terrible job because 566 00:26:37,000 --> 00:26:40,200 the only thing I was focusing on was this weird alien accent. 567 00:26:40,680 --> 00:26:43,080 And I was doing the audition. And then she, her phone rings in 568 00:26:43,080 --> 00:26:44,320 the middle and she could stop and walks out. 569 00:26:44,320 --> 00:26:46,200 She answers it. She's like, hi, babe. 570 00:26:46,200 --> 00:26:47,240 Yeah. He just walks out. 571 00:26:47,440 --> 00:26:52,560 And I was like, my heart and the guy behind the camera goes, keep 572 00:26:52,880 --> 00:26:55,880 going. You might as well just went, 573 00:26:56,080 --> 00:26:58,280 you're shit. Can we just stop, just get out, 574 00:26:58,720 --> 00:27:00,240 you know? And then it was a 5 1/2 hour 575 00:27:00,240 --> 00:27:02,880 truck back. Yeah, I I think you're right 576 00:27:02,880 --> 00:27:05,720 about whenever you first like. And I'm, I'm probably still at 577 00:27:05,720 --> 00:27:09,520 the stage where it's like, you know, figuring a lot of a lot of 578 00:27:09,520 --> 00:27:13,120 things out for myself. But I remember whenever I was 579 00:27:13,120 --> 00:27:16,320 18, me and my mate and I'd done like no acting At this point. 580 00:27:16,320 --> 00:27:18,200 I still haven't done that much, but I hadn't done any. 581 00:27:18,400 --> 00:27:21,640 And me and my mate got the bus to London from Belfast, you 582 00:27:21,640 --> 00:27:24,760 know, like the ferry and then the bus to audition for Skins. 583 00:27:24,760 --> 00:27:27,560 Remember Skins was I love. That I That's right. 584 00:27:28,480 --> 00:27:31,240 So you go over, they put you in the like groups of eight. 585 00:27:31,440 --> 00:27:34,840 Basically everybody is from England and most people are like 586 00:27:34,840 --> 00:27:39,360 acting school trained, which I'm also like, if you can tell if 587 00:27:39,360 --> 00:27:41,120 you've seen me in anything, I'm not. 588 00:27:41,280 --> 00:27:47,160 So shut up. They go, they go, they go right? 589 00:27:47,160 --> 00:27:49,040 We're going to put you in the groups of like 8. 590 00:27:49,160 --> 00:27:51,560 So I feel like everyone knows each other. 591 00:27:51,560 --> 00:27:53,360 Nobody can understand my accent as well. 592 00:27:53,360 --> 00:27:55,280 It's one of those things where I feel a bit left out. 593 00:27:55,520 --> 00:27:57,280 I'm also like a wee bit older than everyone. 594 00:27:57,280 --> 00:27:59,160 I'm 18. Everyone's maybe like 1617 595 00:27:59,720 --> 00:28:03,560 anyway during this scene. They go, OK guys, it's a house. 596 00:28:03,560 --> 00:28:06,800 Party and remember the Klaxons, the band, the Klaxons. 597 00:28:06,800 --> 00:28:09,200 There are some golden scans to turn that up. 598 00:28:09,720 --> 00:28:13,160 And everybody, there's about 200 people in the room and they're, 599 00:28:13,160 --> 00:28:14,720 you're watching everyone else audition. 600 00:28:14,880 --> 00:28:17,720 They turn it up and go, all right, guys really get involved 601 00:28:17,720 --> 00:28:21,360 in the music. I, I don't, I don't, I don't 602 00:28:21,360 --> 00:28:23,920 dance right. Well, like I, I do. 603 00:28:23,960 --> 00:28:26,120 If they'd have told me to prepare a choreographed routine, 604 00:28:26,120 --> 00:28:27,200 I would have blown them all away. 605 00:28:27,200 --> 00:28:33,080 But I ended up doing like very like dad dancing, which as an 18 606 00:28:33,080 --> 00:28:35,680 year old. And the worst thing is being 607 00:28:35,680 --> 00:28:38,320 halfway, halfway through a bad edition and knowing that you've 608 00:28:38,320 --> 00:28:41,480 got to get a bus 21 hours back to Belfast. 609 00:28:41,800 --> 00:28:44,640 It's just such a but we had it like we had a good time on the 610 00:28:44,640 --> 00:28:47,640 trip because we, me and my mate enjoyed how shit our auditions 611 00:28:47,640 --> 00:28:49,880 were. But like, yeah, I've done some 612 00:28:49,880 --> 00:28:52,000 really, I've done some really, really bad ones. 613 00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:54,760 I mean, but yeah, I would have gone in for anything. 614 00:28:54,760 --> 00:28:57,320 And I think you're right. You need, you need people to go 615 00:28:57,320 --> 00:28:59,760 look what is it you actually want to do and then push you 616 00:28:59,760 --> 00:29:02,960 towards that. Or can you even do this accent 617 00:29:02,960 --> 00:29:05,400 or they might throw something else at you or blah, blah, blah. 618 00:29:05,600 --> 00:29:07,320 Like I had no one really to ring and go. 619 00:29:07,320 --> 00:29:09,560 They've met like they've changed the accent or there was probably 620 00:29:09,600 --> 00:29:12,560 there was an issue with the, the sending out the the casting 621 00:29:12,560 --> 00:29:15,200 notes or whatever it was. There's nobody to ring. 622 00:29:15,200 --> 00:29:18,520 They would just like just do it and obviously spend 5 1/2 hours 623 00:29:18,520 --> 00:29:21,960 in Boston going to go in for the world's worst audition, mostly 624 00:29:21,960 --> 00:29:25,320 on my part, and then back. I mean, everybody lies like on 625 00:29:25,320 --> 00:29:28,840 their on their acting CVS that I mean every actor in the world 626 00:29:28,840 --> 00:29:30,400 can horse ride. Everyone can horse ride. 627 00:29:30,400 --> 00:29:33,560 I've definitely put myself forward as like a fencer like 628 00:29:33,560 --> 00:29:34,640 she. Was fighting, Yeah, that's 629 00:29:34,640 --> 00:29:35,760 another one. Anything. 630 00:29:35,760 --> 00:29:38,720 I mean, I don't know what I would be casting for fighting, 631 00:29:38,840 --> 00:29:40,640 but I've done some real bad ones. 632 00:29:40,640 --> 00:29:44,360 I auditioned for this sci-fi thing in Belfast 12 times. 633 00:29:44,720 --> 00:29:47,240 Like they kept, I was saying that as a compliment. 634 00:29:47,240 --> 00:29:49,200 That was like, they keep getting me back, they must want me. 635 00:29:49,360 --> 00:29:52,400 And then my name Dave was like, no, they've had you in 12 times 636 00:29:52,440 --> 00:29:54,560 and you haven't got it. Like, there's no, there's 637 00:29:54,560 --> 00:29:55,960 nothing good about this. Yeah, yeah. 638 00:29:56,000 --> 00:29:58,520 Yeah, love yourself more. And I was like, I'm never going 639 00:29:58,520 --> 00:29:59,600 back. And they were like, look, we 640 00:29:59,600 --> 00:30:02,080 need like space Guard 4I went, I'm your man. 641 00:30:05,280 --> 00:30:07,800 Zippers, let me really quickly interrupt the podcast just to 642 00:30:07,800 --> 00:30:10,680 bring you our quick charity message for this week. 643 00:30:11,160 --> 00:30:13,880 We normally have a sponsor for the podcast, but with lockdown 644 00:30:13,880 --> 00:30:15,800 it's obviously a really bad time for that sort of thing. 645 00:30:15,800 --> 00:30:17,240 We don't have sponsors at the minute. 646 00:30:17,800 --> 00:30:20,480 It's a tough time for businesses, but it's also a real 647 00:30:20,480 --> 00:30:22,320 tough time for charities and fundraising. 648 00:30:22,320 --> 00:30:25,080 So we thought we'd give a platform to a different 'cause 649 00:30:25,080 --> 00:30:27,800 every week. Last week in the podcast I 650 00:30:27,800 --> 00:30:30,320 mentioned that I'd gone to the hospital to get my regular 651 00:30:30,320 --> 00:30:33,960 infusion for having Crohn's disease to get my medication and 652 00:30:33,960 --> 00:30:36,600 I was up in the Royal, met some brilliant nurses and doctors in 653 00:30:36,600 --> 00:30:39,480 there. One of those brilliant people 654 00:30:39,480 --> 00:30:41,920 has emailed me for this week's charity appeal, which is 655 00:30:41,920 --> 00:30:44,120 brilliant. This comes from Lisa who was 656 00:30:44,120 --> 00:30:46,400 working on reception when I went to hospital at the time. 657 00:30:46,840 --> 00:30:52,840 She is a volunteer for Extern which is a a charity and very 658 00:30:52,840 --> 00:30:55,320 quick bit of info about them. They support people who are 659 00:30:55,320 --> 00:30:58,160 homeless, people living on mental health issues, and young 660 00:30:58,160 --> 00:31:00,200 people and families with difficult challenges to help 661 00:31:00,200 --> 00:31:01,680 them begin to change their lives. 662 00:31:01,920 --> 00:31:04,680 You can go on their website, whichisextern.org to find out 663 00:31:04,680 --> 00:31:08,520 way more about what they do. They've got a Corona coronavirus 664 00:31:08,520 --> 00:31:12,600 hardship appeal, which is easy for me to say on extern.org, and 665 00:31:12,600 --> 00:31:14,720 they were wondering if I can include it in one ipodcast. 666 00:31:14,720 --> 00:31:19,560 Well, we've just done that. They are trying to raise funds 667 00:31:19,560 --> 00:31:21,800 to support people who are homeless and offer them basic, 668 00:31:22,560 --> 00:31:25,520 basic things so that they can stay in like phones, so that 669 00:31:25,520 --> 00:31:28,680 they can stay in touch with families and help them ride food 670 00:31:28,680 --> 00:31:31,680 hampers and electric or heating for vulnerable individuals and 671 00:31:31,680 --> 00:31:33,680 family. Lisa, cheers for that 672 00:31:33,680 --> 00:31:35,640 extern.org. And if you want to head over 673 00:31:35,640 --> 00:31:38,560 there, have a look if you're in a position to make a small 674 00:31:38,560 --> 00:31:40,760 donation, I'm sure they would really appreciate that. 675 00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:42,360 Back to the pod with Jamie Leo Dong. 676 00:31:50,560 --> 00:31:52,800 So what what, what else are you, what else are you like working 677 00:31:52,800 --> 00:31:54,440 on? Did you, did you do much stuff 678 00:31:54,440 --> 00:31:57,200 before lockdown that's maybe like in production or? 679 00:31:58,200 --> 00:32:01,480 Well, the movie and before that I had to take away the time off. 680 00:32:01,480 --> 00:32:03,120 It wasn't well for a while. It wasn't about sick. 681 00:32:03,480 --> 00:32:07,360 So because I was doing a play in Dublin and then I took sick down 682 00:32:07,360 --> 00:32:08,880 there. So it was off for ages last 683 00:32:08,880 --> 00:32:10,680 year. So I had to turn some stuff down 684 00:32:10,680 --> 00:32:13,560 and and just sort of take about time for myself to get better. 685 00:32:13,840 --> 00:32:16,280 It's a very long, depressing story, so we'll not get into it 686 00:32:17,160 --> 00:32:19,160 now. It's very present, but as. 687 00:32:19,160 --> 00:32:21,200 Long as as long as you're feeling better now, but. 688 00:32:21,240 --> 00:32:23,040 I am thankfully. See what you're saying about 689 00:32:23,040 --> 00:32:25,720 like, you know, like you need to take a bit of time off and 690 00:32:25,720 --> 00:32:26,880 stuff. Did you? 691 00:32:26,920 --> 00:32:28,960 From. This is just outside and kind of 692 00:32:28,960 --> 00:32:32,440 thing, but once Derry girls kind of started, have you just been 693 00:32:32,440 --> 00:32:35,000 like on the go since then? Was it kind of like? 694 00:32:37,120 --> 00:32:39,240 It was a bit of both. I think after it came out 695 00:32:39,240 --> 00:32:40,960 initially, I think all of us found it. 696 00:32:42,320 --> 00:32:43,720 We assumed it would be right away. 697 00:32:43,720 --> 00:32:45,840 And I think it was sort of different times for the for all 698 00:32:45,840 --> 00:32:47,480 of us. And I think there was actually 699 00:32:47,480 --> 00:32:50,440 another actress was telling us, you know, was saying you don't 700 00:32:50,440 --> 00:32:53,120 be disheartened if it's not straight away because these are 701 00:32:53,120 --> 00:32:55,000 such big characters and it's going to take people a bit of 702 00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:58,840 time just to see slightly separately and to see in 703 00:32:58,840 --> 00:33:01,840 different roles and things like that, which is which sort of is 704 00:33:01,840 --> 00:33:03,920 fair enough. But I'm thankfully everybody's 705 00:33:03,920 --> 00:33:05,680 been busy and everyone's doing bits and pieces. 706 00:33:05,680 --> 00:33:11,200 And we were due to film the third season today, No, next 707 00:33:11,200 --> 00:33:13,600 week, next week. But that's obviously been put 708 00:33:13,600 --> 00:33:15,720 off. But we're all really busy 709 00:33:15,720 --> 00:33:18,200 enough, thankfully, doing all different all sorts of things 710 00:33:18,200 --> 00:33:19,560 and different bits and pieces, so. 711 00:33:19,680 --> 00:33:23,200 What, what, what kind of thing is it you you do is, is there 712 00:33:23,200 --> 00:33:24,320 something like you do want to do? 713 00:33:24,320 --> 00:33:26,560 Is there something like you're working towards or, or a certain 714 00:33:26,560 --> 00:33:28,960 type of role where you're like, yeah, this is, this is what, 715 00:33:29,040 --> 00:33:30,200 this is what I really want to do? 716 00:33:30,880 --> 00:33:33,200 I think I really want to eat. I really love to do some sort of 717 00:33:33,200 --> 00:33:36,440 kitchen sink drama, some real sort of gritty drama stuff. 718 00:33:36,440 --> 00:33:40,320 I do think because for years when I'd done like theatre and 719 00:33:40,320 --> 00:33:41,640 things like that, it was always drama. 720 00:33:41,640 --> 00:33:42,960 I never really did a lot of comedy. 721 00:33:43,200 --> 00:33:45,880 I just was naturally sarcastic in the house and just being told 722 00:33:45,880 --> 00:33:47,040 to shut up. So I was like, that's not going 723 00:33:47,040 --> 00:33:49,480 to go anywhere. So you just kind of you put that 724 00:33:49,480 --> 00:33:52,880 in the back burner. And now obviously after Derek 725 00:33:52,880 --> 00:33:54,920 gets, I'm getting a lot of comedy auditions, which I 726 00:33:54,920 --> 00:33:57,080 appreciate as well. But I think I would love just to 727 00:33:57,080 --> 00:34:01,160 really get stuck into some proper, proper drama as well. 728 00:34:01,160 --> 00:34:03,520 Just just especially on the level of Jerry Girls. 729 00:34:03,520 --> 00:34:07,040 That would be a dream, so and thankfully I've got just signed 730 00:34:07,040 --> 00:34:09,960 with an agency in LA and a management company in LA. 731 00:34:09,960 --> 00:34:12,360 So when this is all over, I'm probably going to head out there 732 00:34:12,360 --> 00:34:13,880 for a while and see what the crack is. 733 00:34:14,080 --> 00:34:16,360 I couldn't. I I mean yeah, like I. 734 00:34:16,360 --> 00:34:18,840 I first knew about you from from Derry girls. 735 00:34:18,840 --> 00:34:21,880 And the I couldn't believe you said you, you, you have like 736 00:34:21,880 --> 00:34:23,800 with auditions and stuff, you have a confidence problem. 737 00:34:23,800 --> 00:34:28,280 Because I guess if I think of you as that character, you know, 738 00:34:28,280 --> 00:34:29,920 it's just like supreme confidence. 739 00:34:30,199 --> 00:34:33,159 But then you have to realise that, yeah, I guess that that 740 00:34:33,159 --> 00:34:36,000 that is a that is a character. Yeah. 741 00:34:36,239 --> 00:34:41,639 When when you've is it weird doing Derry girls But and and 742 00:34:41,639 --> 00:34:44,600 also being from Derry? Like are you the only main cast 743 00:34:44,600 --> 00:34:47,719 member actually from Derry? So you're just from Derry, who 744 00:34:47,719 --> 00:34:49,360 plays Aaron? She's from Derry as well. 745 00:34:50,600 --> 00:34:54,040 It's at the start, it was very surreal because it's like 746 00:34:54,040 --> 00:34:57,080 growing up and, and having this accent and being from here and 747 00:34:57,080 --> 00:34:59,080 wanting to be an actor. You're like, we're constantly 748 00:34:59,080 --> 00:35:02,240 told to get rid of our accent or soften it or, you know, just 749 00:35:02,240 --> 00:35:04,800 always like, you know, even if you're good, you know, that 750 00:35:04,800 --> 00:35:06,200 accent might hold you back or blah, blah. 751 00:35:06,200 --> 00:35:08,320 So I, I was always told things like that. 752 00:35:08,680 --> 00:35:12,080 So then for the show to be so successful and to be from here 753 00:35:12,080 --> 00:35:14,080 and have this accent that it was really overwhelming at the 754 00:35:14,080 --> 00:35:15,520 start. It was brilliant and it was 755 00:35:15,520 --> 00:35:19,000 brilliant, but it was very like, it was just mad, was a mad sort 756 00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:21,840 of a mad feeling. I'm like me and Suitable said. 757 00:35:21,840 --> 00:35:24,000 When people try and do your accents to us now, it's like 758 00:35:24,520 --> 00:35:26,480 it's just so weird. Usually it's, you know, the way 759 00:35:26,480 --> 00:35:29,040 around or whatever, but it's, it's brilliant. 760 00:35:29,320 --> 00:35:32,320 Was it a wee bit suffocating in a way the the quick success of 761 00:35:32,320 --> 00:35:35,440 Derry Girls and the fact that you were still living in Derry? 762 00:35:35,440 --> 00:35:38,000 Like I can tell you, you like, you love being from Derry, love 763 00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:40,440 the city. But I imagine for the other cast 764 00:35:40,440 --> 00:35:43,440 members, you know, going away and then and then coming back 765 00:35:43,440 --> 00:35:45,800 must be great. But but you're kind of always in 766 00:35:45,800 --> 00:35:48,240 it. So like, I'm sure you get like 767 00:35:48,480 --> 00:35:50,480 so many people sort of coming up to you. 768 00:35:50,680 --> 00:35:55,400 And I will, I think it is, it is overwhelming. 769 00:35:55,400 --> 00:35:57,120 It can be overwhelming. It can be, especially at the 770 00:35:57,120 --> 00:35:59,720 start, it was really intimidating because everybody 771 00:35:59,720 --> 00:36:01,640 thinks they're meeting Michelle. So they think they're meeting 772 00:36:01,640 --> 00:36:04,320 this mad 16 year old that's going to start a conversation 773 00:36:04,320 --> 00:36:06,680 about fingering and shots and all sorts. 774 00:36:07,080 --> 00:36:09,400 So whenever they meet me, I think there's a few people have 775 00:36:09,400 --> 00:36:12,960 been about like they're sort of waiting for Michelle to come out 776 00:36:12,960 --> 00:36:14,720 and I'm like, hello? And they're like, oh, this is 777 00:36:14,720 --> 00:36:16,760 what's disappointing, but you know what I mean? 778 00:36:16,760 --> 00:36:17,840 It's just, it's one of those things. 779 00:36:17,840 --> 00:36:20,360 And I can understand why people think that people love the 780 00:36:20,360 --> 00:36:21,760 character. And I'm, I'm really delighted 781 00:36:21,760 --> 00:36:24,640 with that, but it can be overwhelming sometimes, 782 00:36:24,640 --> 00:36:28,440 especially if I'm with the family and friends or maybe 783 00:36:28,840 --> 00:36:31,040 boyfriend and right, people sometimes can just put 784 00:36:31,040 --> 00:36:32,840 themselves besides, you know, in a restaurant or something. 785 00:36:33,240 --> 00:36:35,160 And they're not forgetting up. They're just want to have a, 786 00:36:35,360 --> 00:36:37,400 they're really excited and they want to have a chat and they're 787 00:36:37,400 --> 00:36:40,240 sitting for the chat and you're about like, do you know what I 788 00:36:40,240 --> 00:36:41,560 mean? So things like that, I think 789 00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:43,720 people get, obviously there's a lot of people who are really 790 00:36:43,720 --> 00:36:46,280 nice, but there's people who get really excited as well and, and, 791 00:36:47,160 --> 00:36:48,280 and do things like that. What's about? 792 00:36:48,600 --> 00:36:53,520 Like having a having a mural in your own city dedicated to you 793 00:36:53,720 --> 00:36:56,640 must be a bit mad. Has the the novelty of that worn 794 00:36:56,640 --> 00:36:58,120 off at all? Like do you ever sometimes go 795 00:36:58,120 --> 00:37:01,920 past that and not look at it? I try not to go past it because. 796 00:37:02,320 --> 00:37:04,760 In case people think you're hanging about at it. 797 00:37:04,920 --> 00:37:07,760 I'm just like, oh wow, how weird. 798 00:37:07,760 --> 00:37:11,800 I'm just standing here. But I don't actually. 799 00:37:11,800 --> 00:37:13,800 Whenever I say whatever. The first one, the first I saw, 800 00:37:13,800 --> 00:37:16,560 I saw it, my sister was driving and it was at night and I come 801 00:37:16,600 --> 00:37:19,360 out and I just came back from Dublin, go to the car and I got 802 00:37:19,360 --> 00:37:21,080 a couple of pictures and we went to get back and these people 803 00:37:21,080 --> 00:37:22,480 were coming down to get pictures beside it. 804 00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:23,960 And as they were driving, I felt bad. 805 00:37:23,960 --> 00:37:26,160 I should have stopped and, and got out, but I was driving away 806 00:37:26,160 --> 00:37:28,760 and they were like, as I was driving, I was like, Oh, they 807 00:37:28,760 --> 00:37:30,400 just, they just saw. I should have got out. 808 00:37:30,400 --> 00:37:33,760 But they were we were way on the car, but but it was mad. 809 00:37:34,360 --> 00:37:37,040 I walked past it. There was one time a few months 810 00:37:37,040 --> 00:37:42,240 back and my friend's son, Jax with a hand and he's four. 811 00:37:42,280 --> 00:37:45,160 And we were like just run past quickly because you know, we 812 00:37:45,160 --> 00:37:46,760 don't want to cause any, any bother. 813 00:37:46,800 --> 00:37:49,280 And he went Jamery. Jamery is really loud. 814 00:37:49,280 --> 00:37:52,880 I was like on the way past, so go take children back. 815 00:37:53,240 --> 00:37:56,480 Yeah. And was the first thing you'd 816 00:37:56,480 --> 00:37:59,360 done on TV was 6°? 6° yeah. 817 00:37:59,760 --> 00:38:04,440 So I, I remember loads of people talking about 6° whenever I was 818 00:38:04,440 --> 00:38:08,400 younger because I was probably well around the same age as the 819 00:38:08,400 --> 00:38:11,280 characters in it. But I think at that age I 820 00:38:11,280 --> 00:38:15,400 probably wasn't watching a lot of television the way the way I 821 00:38:15,400 --> 00:38:17,680 would know. And obviously it was kind of 822 00:38:17,680 --> 00:38:22,040 before social media. So 6° was this like everybody my 823 00:38:22,040 --> 00:38:24,560 age and like a bit younger knows 6°. 824 00:38:24,880 --> 00:38:27,920 But it totally like like only now that I see bits of it and 825 00:38:27,920 --> 00:38:30,120 recognise so many people, you know, I'm not kind of that 826 00:38:30,120 --> 00:38:32,120 person and I didn't know that person was in it. 827 00:38:32,400 --> 00:38:34,760 That must have been really fun. Like what age would you have 828 00:38:34,760 --> 00:38:41,760 been with that? I was, I think I was 2323, so it 829 00:38:41,920 --> 00:38:44,000 was quite a while ago, but that that was brilliant. 830 00:38:44,000 --> 00:38:46,640 That was my first ever experience of of TV. 831 00:38:46,640 --> 00:38:50,280 And I remember one of my very first days on set and the way it 832 00:38:50,280 --> 00:38:52,560 was all set up and the camera was here and was my turn. 833 00:38:52,560 --> 00:38:54,760 It was my line. So they were get my shot. 834 00:38:55,120 --> 00:38:56,840 So I was walking, but I was walking kind of facing the 835 00:38:56,840 --> 00:38:58,040 camera. It's up behind me. 836 00:38:58,040 --> 00:38:59,960 Like I was on stage and they were like, sorry, what are you 837 00:38:59,960 --> 00:39:01,240 doing? I was like, well, just because 838 00:39:01,240 --> 00:39:03,120 the cameras and they were like, we'll just move the camera and 839 00:39:03,120 --> 00:39:04,640 it's like. What? 840 00:39:04,640 --> 00:39:05,520 You what? Yeah. 841 00:39:06,120 --> 00:39:09,280 It's like the only thing I'd done before that was theatre, so 842 00:39:09,400 --> 00:39:11,200 it was a great experience, great experience. 843 00:39:11,600 --> 00:39:14,080 Yeah, that. I mean, that must be so much 844 00:39:14,080 --> 00:39:17,280 fun, like being your first thing because you're also working with 845 00:39:17,280 --> 00:39:20,840 people your own age as well. There was, do you ever remember 846 00:39:20,840 --> 00:39:23,400 a thing called Shakt, which was like an Irish? 847 00:39:23,400 --> 00:39:26,240 Yes, so Killian was on that, wasn't he? 848 00:39:26,320 --> 00:39:29,240 Killian, who played Connor in 6°? 849 00:39:29,240 --> 00:39:33,120 I think the TG Kaher, yeah. Yeah, it was on TG Kaher and 850 00:39:33,120 --> 00:39:36,000 filmed in Belfast and they put out a call for extras. 851 00:39:36,000 --> 00:39:38,760 Me and my mate went down in our college, they put it out. 852 00:39:38,760 --> 00:39:41,880 So we went down and I was in the background of it and someone 853 00:39:41,880 --> 00:39:45,640 said, guys, we need someone do a couple of lines, Does anyone 854 00:39:45,640 --> 00:39:47,880 speak Irish? And I was so tempted to be like, 855 00:39:48,640 --> 00:39:52,000 yes, yeah. Again with fencing and horse 856 00:39:52,000 --> 00:39:54,160 riding, do not know the language was. 857 00:39:54,160 --> 00:39:57,440 Fully prepared to try and be fluent in the six minutes it 858 00:39:57,440 --> 00:39:59,560 took to set up the shot. But I'm, I'm really glad I 859 00:39:59,560 --> 00:40:01,880 didn't. You said that you're earlier on. 860 00:40:01,880 --> 00:40:04,000 You said that you're like you're, you're writing some 861 00:40:04,000 --> 00:40:07,480 stuff, but just like at a slow pace, which is I think what 862 00:40:07,480 --> 00:40:10,800 everybody is doing. Like I have so many great ideas 863 00:40:10,800 --> 00:40:14,600 in my head that are very slowly going down, going down on paper. 864 00:40:14,760 --> 00:40:17,000 Have you been writing for like for a long time or is this 865 00:40:17,000 --> 00:40:20,080 something that? I've always written, I've always 866 00:40:20,080 --> 00:40:22,440 done bits and pieces and I really enjoy it. 867 00:40:23,120 --> 00:40:26,800 But recently I've sort of, I don't know, you just want to 868 00:40:26,800 --> 00:40:29,200 doubt yourself, don't you? Especially I'm so lucky to have 869 00:40:29,200 --> 00:40:32,680 the platform of Dairy Gears and, and the agents and stuff I have, 870 00:40:32,680 --> 00:40:35,400 they're really supportive people and they're, they're really keen 871 00:40:35,400 --> 00:40:37,280 to be like, as soon as you get something, we'll try and work on 872 00:40:37,280 --> 00:40:39,520 this and blah, blah, blah and get other people involved. 873 00:40:39,800 --> 00:40:42,160 And I remember hearing that it was a few months back and I just 874 00:40:42,160 --> 00:40:44,360 panicked and was like, and then you relate. 875 00:40:44,360 --> 00:40:45,800 You're like, Oh my God, everything I've done is shit. 876 00:40:46,000 --> 00:40:47,360 Oh my God. And then you just sort of have 877 00:40:47,360 --> 00:40:48,440 that. It's like, that's sort of 878 00:40:48,440 --> 00:40:50,240 learning Irish in 6 minutes saying you're like, I can't do 879 00:40:50,240 --> 00:40:51,640 it, I can't do it. Why did I say I would do it? 880 00:40:52,040 --> 00:40:55,280 So finally getting rid of all that self doubt and everything, 881 00:40:55,680 --> 00:40:58,840 I've started to focus ideas. And it's not because I've I be a 882 00:40:58,840 --> 00:41:01,680 bike sort of I write that down like BP dialogue, piece of 883 00:41:01,680 --> 00:41:03,880 character. So when I've got these notepads 884 00:41:03,880 --> 00:41:06,640 after notepads full of just, it's just so it looks like 885 00:41:06,640 --> 00:41:08,920 somebody's just had a meltdown. And they're just getting. 886 00:41:09,160 --> 00:41:11,080 You know what I mean? That's, that's probably the same 887 00:41:11,080 --> 00:41:14,440 process as stand up writing. You know, it's, it's just, it's 888 00:41:14,440 --> 00:41:17,120 just like bits and pieces notes on a phone when they come into 889 00:41:17,120 --> 00:41:19,680 your head. Like some, like I always write 890 00:41:19,680 --> 00:41:21,920 down notes on my phone and then by the time I go to write them 891 00:41:21,920 --> 00:41:25,120 down, I like 2 days later, I'm like, what on earth does this 892 00:41:25,120 --> 00:41:25,920 mean? What's Alien? 893 00:41:25,920 --> 00:41:27,680 Baby, that's not what's. Alien baby bowling ball. 894 00:41:27,680 --> 00:41:30,520 You know what is that? I am but, but I think that's 895 00:41:30,520 --> 00:41:32,680 nearly the best way to write stuff because you're you're not 896 00:41:32,680 --> 00:41:34,080 fortunate. You know, you're just writing 897 00:41:34,080 --> 00:41:37,600 down at your own pace. And I think if I sat down at a 898 00:41:37,600 --> 00:41:41,360 laptop and was like, I'm going to start this script and I would 899 00:41:41,360 --> 00:41:44,400 just be forcing it too much. I mean, I probably should like 900 00:41:44,400 --> 00:41:46,200 because there's. There's probably no structure. 901 00:41:46,280 --> 00:41:48,560 Yeah, definitely do right at some point. 902 00:41:48,560 --> 00:41:52,680 But but it's, I don't know, like at the start of lockdown, I was 903 00:41:52,680 --> 00:41:55,360 all like, I'm going to churn out five pages of script today. 904 00:41:55,360 --> 00:41:59,600 That's that's the minimum. But but like, like I reward 905 00:41:59,600 --> 00:42:01,760 myself too easily, you know? Totally. 906 00:42:02,160 --> 00:42:05,960 Just for having the idea break off enjoy yourself. 907 00:42:07,160 --> 00:42:09,080 Like a glass of wine? Yeah, when? 908 00:42:09,080 --> 00:42:11,240 The good weather, when the good weather comes out, I'm getting 909 00:42:11,240 --> 00:42:13,520 nothing done like I'm getting nothing done. 910 00:42:13,520 --> 00:42:17,320 Borrow, borrow sweet pan. Like that's the only thing, only 911 00:42:17,320 --> 00:42:21,480 thing that's happening when you when you write, do you write 912 00:42:21,480 --> 00:42:23,880 with yourself in mind? Like do you write things that 913 00:42:23,880 --> 00:42:27,880 you see yourself being in? I do sometimes, but I wouldn't 914 00:42:27,880 --> 00:42:29,040 write. I wouldn't let that limit what 915 00:42:29,040 --> 00:42:30,320 I'm writing. If I was writing and the 916 00:42:30,320 --> 00:42:32,400 character was developing, which has actually happened at the 917 00:42:32,400 --> 00:42:34,280 moment, obviously I give myself the main part. 918 00:42:34,680 --> 00:42:37,640 But as I'm writing, it turns out that that person actually isn't 919 00:42:37,640 --> 00:42:40,120 that interesting. And I'm like, oh, OK, just food 920 00:42:40,120 --> 00:42:42,120 for thought there for me. But that's not the most 921 00:42:42,120 --> 00:42:44,080 interesting of the characters, I think. 922 00:42:44,080 --> 00:42:46,400 And as you're, as I say, like you're doing a character 923 00:42:46,400 --> 00:42:48,840 development and you're sort of bringing these new people and 924 00:42:48,840 --> 00:42:50,440 new aspects and you're really following them out. 925 00:42:50,440 --> 00:42:54,280 Just people, you realise that it, it doesn't matter if I'm on 926 00:42:54,280 --> 00:42:56,560 it or not because it's not for me. 927 00:42:56,560 --> 00:42:58,040 And we can't go on it with an ego thinking. 928 00:42:58,040 --> 00:43:00,000 I mean, you go and do it with an ego, but it doesn't work out 929 00:43:00,000 --> 00:43:02,520 that way usually. And if you go on thinking, I'm 930 00:43:02,520 --> 00:43:04,360 just going to put like a dance number on here and get somebody 931 00:43:04,360 --> 00:43:06,960 to teach me hip hop, I'm going to just clarinet solo. 932 00:43:06,960 --> 00:43:08,680 Do what I mean. If you start that, you're just 933 00:43:08,680 --> 00:43:10,440 going to end up with the biggest piece of shit that no one's 934 00:43:10,480 --> 00:43:12,080 going to want to watch or something. 935 00:43:12,280 --> 00:43:13,560 Oscar winning. You know what? 936 00:43:13,640 --> 00:43:17,160 I mean, I, I struggled to, I love the idea of just look, 937 00:43:17,160 --> 00:43:19,360 don't write it for yours. Even if you're like an actor, 938 00:43:19,680 --> 00:43:23,120 don't write for yourself. Like, I really struggled to go 939 00:43:23,840 --> 00:43:26,360 what if, what if I wasn't in this, you know, like, ever pitch 940 00:43:26,360 --> 00:43:28,200 an idea to someone and they're like, what if they went with 941 00:43:28,200 --> 00:43:29,440 someone else? Would that be a problem? 942 00:43:29,600 --> 00:43:32,760 Like, you know, I'm like, yeah, yeah, no, it would be a problem, 943 00:43:32,760 --> 00:43:34,320 yeah. You're like, we're not doing it. 944 00:43:34,360 --> 00:43:35,960 You just took like taking your ball back. 945 00:43:36,480 --> 00:43:38,360 Yeah, they're like. I'm like, why am I not getting 946 00:43:38,360 --> 00:43:39,920 this role? They're like, well, it's it's a 947 00:43:39,920 --> 00:43:41,800 film about LeBron James. You know what I mean? 948 00:43:41,800 --> 00:43:44,160 Like you can't. And I don't know guys, I'm 949 00:43:44,160 --> 00:43:46,520 perfect for the role. I can play basketball and also 950 00:43:46,520 --> 00:43:52,160 be 6 foot 7, you know, and chat to me then about about the off 951 00:43:52,160 --> 00:43:58,840 the back of Derry girls and I I noticed so much like so much fun 952 00:43:58,840 --> 00:44:02,000 stuff around it. So many people feeling like they 953 00:44:02,400 --> 00:44:04,800 they know the character. You talk about people thinking 954 00:44:04,800 --> 00:44:09,640 they know the character. Just the amount of like fan 955 00:44:09,640 --> 00:44:10,800 account. I was just having we look 956 00:44:10,800 --> 00:44:14,040 through Twitter before we started recording fan accounts, 957 00:44:14,040 --> 00:44:16,520 all that sort of thing. Like I noticed that when I did 958 00:44:16,520 --> 00:44:19,240 the episode a couple of weeks. So with Jimmy Dornan, Jimmy 959 00:44:19,240 --> 00:44:22,880 Dornan Brazil fans paid these people met. 960 00:44:22,880 --> 00:44:25,080 You know, when he's on the podcast, people are messaging me 961 00:44:25,080 --> 00:44:27,320 being like, can you get me access to him? 962 00:44:27,400 --> 00:44:29,280 I'm like, he's not a five side pitch. 963 00:44:30,680 --> 00:44:32,960 But and I'm also like, yeah, if really quit for sure. 964 00:44:33,000 --> 00:44:39,080 And yes, but but that must be scary in a way when when people 965 00:44:39,080 --> 00:44:42,080 feel they know you and with social media and stuff, I 966 00:44:42,080 --> 00:44:45,160 imagine it's great because you see how many people just love 967 00:44:45,160 --> 00:44:50,760 the show, love your character. But does has there been any like 968 00:44:50,760 --> 00:44:52,800 without any way of getting personal, but has there been any 969 00:44:52,800 --> 00:44:55,320 like weird experiences? Like have you ever just been 970 00:44:55,320 --> 00:44:57,320 like, I need to delete Twitter or anything like that? 971 00:44:59,040 --> 00:45:00,440 There has been a couple of odd ones. 972 00:45:00,440 --> 00:45:04,960 I mean, to be fair, it's mostly people, you know, saying we're 973 00:45:04,960 --> 00:45:06,840 big fans and we've a lot of people draw us. 974 00:45:06,840 --> 00:45:09,640 There's a lot of fan art, a lot of people who followed their 975 00:45:09,640 --> 00:45:11,080 followed. I don't know what happens in 976 00:45:11,080 --> 00:45:14,000 other shows, but the Derry Gear fans are very artistic and very 977 00:45:14,000 --> 00:45:15,120 creative, which is lovely to see. 978 00:45:15,360 --> 00:45:16,760 I don't think I like. That I have the ego for. 979 00:45:16,880 --> 00:45:17,960 It I wouldn't know, I don't want. 980 00:45:17,960 --> 00:45:19,360 To be but do you know what though? 981 00:45:19,360 --> 00:45:22,200 But even ones like that, I just think like you've got off your 982 00:45:22,200 --> 00:45:23,840 arse and went and drew that because you feel really 983 00:45:23,840 --> 00:45:25,760 passionate about our show, passionate about us as people. 984 00:45:25,760 --> 00:45:28,560 I think that's amazing, even if some of it makes you look a bit 985 00:45:28,560 --> 00:45:32,200 strange, like that's amazing. I I would never draw anybody. 986 00:45:32,200 --> 00:45:34,840 I couldn't burst. Like, I don't care that enough 987 00:45:34,840 --> 00:45:36,760 about anybody, I don't think. Which one makes me feel a bit 988 00:45:36,760 --> 00:45:39,920 sad, but you know what I mean? But it's so amazing. 989 00:45:39,920 --> 00:45:42,320 The artwork and people take loads of time and and they send 990 00:45:42,320 --> 00:45:44,160 it to us and stuff like that and it's always great to see and 991 00:45:44,160 --> 00:45:48,360 there's so much of it. But there has been a couple of 992 00:45:48,360 --> 00:45:50,360 odd ones. There was a guy who kept 993 00:45:50,360 --> 00:45:52,000 mentioning me and Dylan specifically. 994 00:45:52,040 --> 00:45:54,360 I'm asking for pictures of her fate and he'd pay us. 995 00:45:54,840 --> 00:45:56,920 Oh, I I so last. Week. 996 00:45:58,600 --> 00:46:00,720 Why is this right? There's a market for this. 997 00:46:00,920 --> 00:46:02,040 And I'm just letting anybody know. 998 00:46:02,040 --> 00:46:05,600 Watching. Yeah, I give me a shout because 999 00:46:06,040 --> 00:46:09,040 I have, I have fate that I'm willing to, I'm willing to take 1000 00:46:09,040 --> 00:46:11,800 pictures of. I had last week on the podcast 1001 00:46:11,800 --> 00:46:16,160 Liam McCourt, who's an MMA fighter from Belfast and kind of 1002 00:46:16,160 --> 00:46:19,240 had the same question. You know, what about like social 1003 00:46:19,240 --> 00:46:21,080 media? Like, what about weird fellas on 1004 00:46:21,080 --> 00:46:23,120 social media? She said the number one thing 1005 00:46:23,120 --> 00:46:26,080 she gets is fellas saying, any pictures of your feet? 1006 00:46:26,320 --> 00:46:27,000 What is this? A. 1007 00:46:27,160 --> 00:46:31,040 Is this a new thing? Do you know what it's I don't 1008 00:46:31,040 --> 00:46:34,040 think it has a Muslim baby thing, but it was it was very 1009 00:46:34,040 --> 00:46:36,840 weird to us that it was just specifically me and Dylan like 1010 00:46:36,840 --> 00:46:39,720 it was in a cousin thing that they want like family feat. 1011 00:46:39,800 --> 00:46:45,200 Well, you know, TV family feat and you know how much like what 1012 00:46:45,200 --> 00:46:47,440 are we don't don't start coming up at like what? 1013 00:46:47,480 --> 00:46:50,600 Are we talking also fate? They're like fate or. 1014 00:46:50,800 --> 00:46:52,960 Stick feet are faking. They are thinking and. 1015 00:46:53,160 --> 00:46:55,800 Also, yeah, like what's the price like, don't say. 1016 00:46:56,000 --> 00:46:59,840 What was your price be? Honest like what do I need to 1017 00:46:59,840 --> 00:47:01,720 do? And by the way, can I just take 1018 00:47:01,720 --> 00:47:03,960 one picture and use that for different people or does it have 1019 00:47:03,960 --> 00:47:05,720 to be like? They might be like. 1020 00:47:05,920 --> 00:47:11,280 They might want them flexed. Specific to flex my feet. 1021 00:47:11,760 --> 00:47:13,760 Well, you don't know who these people might want to Won't get 1022 00:47:13,760 --> 00:47:14,720 creative. Want to get creative? 1023 00:47:14,720 --> 00:47:18,600 And OK, I would be, honestly, I'd be willing to like take a 1024 00:47:18,600 --> 00:47:21,960 picture of my feet, send it to like a middle-aged guy in Asia 1025 00:47:21,960 --> 00:47:28,400 or wherever. Not a problem £50. £50. £50. 1026 00:47:28,400 --> 00:47:29,520 Yeah. Oh, I'd be going well. 1027 00:47:30,280 --> 00:47:33,360 But here's the thing, I think if you, if you really had a high 1028 00:47:33,360 --> 00:47:36,120 price, yes, you're going to get like some people look in the 1029 00:47:36,120 --> 00:47:38,120 pictures, but I'm going to do way more. 1030 00:47:38,280 --> 00:47:41,240 I'm going to do I'm quantity over quality, you know? 1031 00:47:42,360 --> 00:47:46,560 I think I would give a ridiculously high price and then 1032 00:47:46,560 --> 00:47:48,520 see if they go for it because you might as well just shoot for 1033 00:47:48,520 --> 00:47:50,960 the stars because people that are under really specific 1034 00:47:50,960 --> 00:47:53,240 fetishes I assume have a lot of money because I can't imagine 1035 00:47:53,240 --> 00:47:55,320 stuff's cheap like that. My mate. 1036 00:47:55,320 --> 00:48:02,280 I would assume. My mate is does stuff on on like 1037 00:48:02,760 --> 00:48:08,360 comedy stuff online right? And about 10 years ago, maybe a 1038 00:48:08,360 --> 00:48:11,920 wee bit less, this guy messaged my mate. 1039 00:48:11,920 --> 00:48:15,400 My mate was putting up a series of wee videos and this guy 1040 00:48:15,400 --> 00:48:19,640 messaged my mate guy in Belfast and he said I would love to buy. 1041 00:48:19,640 --> 00:48:21,960 He started off with a bit of like chat at the start and then 1042 00:48:21,960 --> 00:48:24,280 the guy went listen mate, there's no easy way to say this. 1043 00:48:25,520 --> 00:48:28,960 I'd be really interested in buying a pair of your boxers and 1044 00:48:28,960 --> 00:48:32,200 my mate sort of laughed and the guy went, no seriously mate, 1045 00:48:32,200 --> 00:48:34,040 I'll meet you in Belfast to get them off you. 1046 00:48:34,360 --> 00:48:36,720 I'm willing to pay a good price and I swear I think this guy 1047 00:48:36,720 --> 00:48:40,560 paid like £200 and my mate he did it, why wouldn't? 1048 00:48:41,080 --> 00:48:43,640 He and then stick him in the wash it away. 1049 00:48:43,920 --> 00:48:47,760 No, and then he goes about a about a day later, he texts me 1050 00:48:47,760 --> 00:48:50,120 and my other friend and he goes the guy's on to me. 1051 00:48:50,120 --> 00:48:51,640 He wants me to do like naked videos. 1052 00:48:51,640 --> 00:48:53,520 And I was like, oh, shocker. He came back for more. 1053 00:48:53,520 --> 00:48:55,600 Like you're not just going to leave it at that. 1054 00:48:55,600 --> 00:48:58,960 That's what you get. What's what's like so you're 1055 00:48:58,960 --> 00:49:01,480 like, say your inbox at the minute, what's the number one 1056 00:49:01,480 --> 00:49:03,160 message? What's what's like the most 1057 00:49:03,160 --> 00:49:08,840 common message that you you get? It's probably it's my sister's 1058 00:49:08,840 --> 00:49:11,120 birthday or my grannys birthday. Can you send a video? 1059 00:49:11,280 --> 00:49:16,240 Is probably the one of the OR I get a lot of the random ones 1060 00:49:16,240 --> 00:49:17,600 people go on. Hey, you're hot. 1061 00:49:17,600 --> 00:49:19,920 I like your eyes. I like the way they see actually 1062 00:49:19,920 --> 00:49:22,320 that I like your eyes like the way they see someone. 1063 00:49:22,320 --> 00:49:25,120 That was his accent like oh, thanks. 1064 00:49:25,200 --> 00:49:27,040 When do you know how your eyes say you know? 1065 00:49:27,280 --> 00:49:29,080 They see great, it's fine, is right. 1066 00:49:29,440 --> 00:49:33,320 Yeah, I mean, you know, the idea of art, like, I like it because 1067 00:49:33,320 --> 00:49:36,640 if I would like, I would like to be drawn really well, like, like 1068 00:49:37,200 --> 00:49:38,960 Kate Winslet and Titanic, Like, really. 1069 00:49:38,960 --> 00:49:40,080 Really. Yeah, You're like perfect or 1070 00:49:40,480 --> 00:49:42,440 fuck off. Yeah, because I'm scarred. 1071 00:49:42,440 --> 00:49:44,520 I remember going Tenerife whenever it was about 8. 1072 00:49:44,520 --> 00:49:46,840 And this the character, you know, the guys that draw you on 1073 00:49:46,840 --> 00:49:49,880 the street, this this guy drew me and he really fucking, he 1074 00:49:49,880 --> 00:49:53,760 really crushed me as a child. Like he, he exaggerated every 1075 00:49:53,760 --> 00:49:56,320 feature I have. Oh, fuck that guy. 1076 00:49:56,320 --> 00:49:57,920 Still really, really pissed off with that. 1077 00:49:59,400 --> 00:50:01,600 So you've just done the film in South Africa. 1078 00:50:01,600 --> 00:50:05,360 The trail of that's come out. What I was going to say, do you 1079 00:50:05,360 --> 00:50:07,400 know what like the next like year looks like? 1080 00:50:07,720 --> 00:50:09,600 Is it a case of like no one knows at the minute? 1081 00:50:10,280 --> 00:50:14,120 I think no one knows. I think it's just going to. 1082 00:50:14,120 --> 00:50:16,080 It's just the play by ear. There was stuff that was on the 1083 00:50:16,080 --> 00:50:19,960 cards that I don't know if it is anymore because I would assume 1084 00:50:19,960 --> 00:50:21,560 now I have no way of knowing this, but I would assume 1085 00:50:22,240 --> 00:50:25,200 priority would be to things that are have been missed schedule 1086 00:50:25,200 --> 00:50:27,360 ways and things that have been cancelled and maybe things that 1087 00:50:27,360 --> 00:50:30,800 are ongoing series or ongoing movies and things like that. 1088 00:50:31,240 --> 00:50:33,080 Emmerdale straight away, things like that. 1089 00:50:33,440 --> 00:50:34,600 I would assume. I don't, I don't know. 1090 00:50:34,880 --> 00:50:38,000 You know, I write a bit if you're looking for projects post 1091 00:50:38,000 --> 00:50:40,760 lockdown, like would you consider for example, that's 1092 00:50:40,760 --> 00:50:44,360 just off the top of my head, would you consider space 1093 00:50:44,360 --> 00:50:46,480 detectives? Space detectives? 1094 00:50:46,560 --> 00:50:48,400 Yeah. Do you have to get my feet out? 1095 00:50:48,400 --> 00:50:50,480 Because it's going to be really expensive for you if I do. 1096 00:50:50,800 --> 00:50:54,400 No, because you're you're kind of going to be in a space suit. 1097 00:50:55,280 --> 00:50:59,400 Space detectives would be you in space. 1098 00:50:59,400 --> 00:51:02,600 I'll be honest, it's the first time I see myself being in it. 1099 00:51:02,920 --> 00:51:05,120 But if it was the difference between a Commission or not from 1100 00:51:05,120 --> 00:51:07,280 like Netflix, I'll let someone else play the part. 1101 00:51:07,280 --> 00:51:09,640 But you're going to have to just like we don't know what's in 1102 00:51:09,640 --> 00:51:11,080 space. We don't know if there's crimes 1103 00:51:11,080 --> 00:51:13,520 going on up there. There should be. 1104 00:51:13,840 --> 00:51:15,680 Get the space detectives on it so. 1105 00:51:15,720 --> 00:51:17,400 Right. I mean, it's a. 1106 00:51:17,600 --> 00:51:19,840 It's a solid idea. I mainly have, it's mainly the 1107 00:51:19,840 --> 00:51:23,160 title of the minute that I like, but I don't really have the 1108 00:51:23,160 --> 00:51:26,400 thing yet. But or underwater cricket? 1109 00:51:26,400 --> 00:51:30,520 Would you be? I'm a bit more inclined to do 1110 00:51:30,600 --> 00:51:33,560 the space detectives just because. 1111 00:51:33,560 --> 00:51:35,080 Put you down for space detectives. 1112 00:51:35,080 --> 00:51:38,360 Put me down for the lead or nothing lead or you can F off. 1113 00:51:38,760 --> 00:51:40,840 It's how it's how I'm going to approach this. 1114 00:51:41,040 --> 00:51:42,640 And if you want fate, you're we're going to have to have a 1115 00:51:42,640 --> 00:51:45,560 different conversation. It's going to be very expensive. 1116 00:51:45,760 --> 00:51:47,240 Yeah. I mean, do you think I should 1117 00:51:47,240 --> 00:51:50,080 just, like, start putting pictures on my feet up to just 1118 00:51:50,080 --> 00:51:52,160 like, really like just speed the process along? 1119 00:51:52,160 --> 00:51:54,560 Because I don't know how long it's going to wait for me to be 1120 00:51:54,560 --> 00:51:57,480 like a star on like TV or film or whatever. 1121 00:51:57,480 --> 00:52:01,280 Is that I think what you should do is put up a toe or two, don't 1122 00:52:01,280 --> 00:52:02,840 give away the farm. Do you know what I mean? 1123 00:52:03,000 --> 00:52:04,840 Definitely not my baby toe it really. 1124 00:52:05,480 --> 00:52:06,920 If it's gross, don't do that. Oh. 1125 00:52:07,040 --> 00:52:10,360 It's so bad. Like every other toe I have is 1126 00:52:10,360 --> 00:52:12,560 spot on. Like, spot on. 1127 00:52:12,720 --> 00:52:15,440 Yeah, not by the way, some people be loving this chat. 1128 00:52:15,440 --> 00:52:15,880 Some. People. 1129 00:52:15,880 --> 00:52:17,840 Oh my God. Keep I've been waiting for this 1130 00:52:17,840 --> 00:52:21,640 for so long. All my toes are fine, right? 1131 00:52:21,640 --> 00:52:22,760 And I don't want this to put people off. 1132 00:52:22,760 --> 00:52:26,560 All my toes are fine apart from my baby toe, which is kind of 1133 00:52:26,560 --> 00:52:29,520 like leaning in to listen to what the rest of talking about 1134 00:52:29,520 --> 00:52:31,800 like it's not good. It's just better on your shoes 1135 00:52:31,800 --> 00:52:35,120 for years, like you've wore the wrong size shoes in skill. 1136 00:52:35,640 --> 00:52:37,720 But The thing is that's like the Nisha could be your thing. 1137 00:52:37,720 --> 00:52:39,680 That's your that's your calling card, that's your trademark. 1138 00:52:39,680 --> 00:52:41,320 They're like, well, that's Shane Todd's fate. 1139 00:52:41,320 --> 00:52:43,160 I know because of the weirdest toe is. 1140 00:52:43,320 --> 00:52:45,400 No, I mean, you're starting to that's you're basically calling 1141 00:52:45,400 --> 00:52:47,320 me a freak is what you're doing at the minute. 1142 00:52:47,320 --> 00:52:50,320 But I could also be your I could be your manager. 1143 00:52:50,320 --> 00:52:51,440 I feel like that's what's happening. 1144 00:52:51,440 --> 00:52:53,000 I'm going to get you absolutely loads of doughy. 1145 00:52:53,000 --> 00:52:59,160 Are we dodgy fate because my feet, my feet are just are small 1146 00:52:59,160 --> 00:53:01,560 and sort of stumpy. My equipped with stumpy toes. 1147 00:53:02,120 --> 00:53:03,840 Right. I mean, I don't think we put 1148 00:53:03,840 --> 00:53:05,680 that on the ad for your pictures. 1149 00:53:06,280 --> 00:53:08,760 Short and stumpy, Short and stumpy. 1150 00:53:08,760 --> 00:53:11,240 I think that's that just describes me just in general, 1151 00:53:11,240 --> 00:53:14,000 but I think go with the feed thing. 1152 00:53:14,000 --> 00:53:15,720 Don't give away the farm right away. 1153 00:53:15,760 --> 00:53:16,880 Yeah, yeah. Get the. 1154 00:53:17,560 --> 00:53:20,720 No, I'll give the for for £80. They get the, they get the whole 1155 00:53:20,720 --> 00:53:22,160 ranch. They get the whole ranch. 1156 00:53:22,920 --> 00:53:25,880 Do everything. All right, that's definitely 1157 00:53:25,880 --> 00:53:27,640 weird. Yeah. 1158 00:53:27,640 --> 00:53:29,960 Weird and important. Weird, weird. 1159 00:53:29,960 --> 00:53:32,440 And I mean, if I don't, if I get known for anything, if it's my 1160 00:53:32,440 --> 00:53:36,160 fate that gets me in the door. Yes, that's great. 1161 00:53:36,480 --> 00:53:38,560 Great story, great origin story. That's all. 1162 00:53:38,560 --> 00:53:40,040 That's all that matters. I mean, I feel like we've 1163 00:53:40,040 --> 00:53:42,560 covered a lot of that's what This is why it was difficult for 1164 00:53:42,560 --> 00:53:44,360 me to let you know what kind of things I'm going to ask you on 1165 00:53:44,360 --> 00:53:47,440 the on the podcast. Yeah, I'm going to, this is my 1166 00:53:47,440 --> 00:53:50,640 final question. What's your most hated question? 1167 00:53:50,640 --> 00:53:53,440 What's the stock question people ask in interviews? 1168 00:53:53,440 --> 00:53:55,880 And you're like, I just can't, I can't answer this anymore. 1169 00:53:57,720 --> 00:53:59,760 There was A to be fair, after Derek here comes out, there's 1170 00:53:59,760 --> 00:54:01,520 like a stock 5 or 6. It's around. 1171 00:54:01,520 --> 00:54:02,800 You're asked in every single interview. 1172 00:54:02,800 --> 00:54:05,520 And I ended up was almost like you'd be like robotic mode. 1173 00:54:05,520 --> 00:54:07,480 I'm just answering and then I don't even know it's coming out 1174 00:54:07,480 --> 00:54:10,720 of your mouth. But one of them is always so 1175 00:54:10,800 --> 00:54:13,560 something along the lines of like whose career do you really 1176 00:54:13,560 --> 00:54:17,080 want to emulate? Or what sort of, you know, who 1177 00:54:17,320 --> 00:54:20,160 is really successful now that you want to be, you know, like I 1178 00:54:20,160 --> 00:54:22,120 always want to be like, I just want to be the first me. 1179 00:54:22,840 --> 00:54:25,040 But you don't sound like an absolute twat all I just want to 1180 00:54:25,040 --> 00:54:26,280 be me. But that's true. 1181 00:54:26,760 --> 00:54:29,320 Like there's a lot of careers I think are brilliant and I will 1182 00:54:29,320 --> 00:54:31,920 be lucky to have them. But you sort of want to pave 1183 00:54:31,920 --> 00:54:33,080 your own way and do your own thing. 1184 00:54:33,080 --> 00:54:35,320 And and also I think you don't want to set yourself up for 1185 00:54:35,720 --> 00:54:37,280 failure in any way. Do you know what I mean? 1186 00:54:37,960 --> 00:54:39,440 Because you check the option because they come. 1187 00:54:39,440 --> 00:54:41,200 But that's one that I always get asked. 1188 00:54:41,200 --> 00:54:43,280 I never know how to answer. I never have somebody in mind 1189 00:54:43,480 --> 00:54:45,680 that can go bang. Maybe just think about it more. 1190 00:54:46,320 --> 00:54:50,800 What about Julia Roberts? Great career. 1191 00:54:50,920 --> 00:54:52,840 I'll take that, no problem there's, but that's the thing, 1192 00:54:52,840 --> 00:54:54,440 there's about a million of them. I'll just be like it. 1193 00:54:54,600 --> 00:54:55,760 That's great. I'll do that do. 1194 00:54:56,440 --> 00:54:59,480 You know who I'd like to be is a bit niche, this one, but Andy 1195 00:54:59,480 --> 00:55:02,080 Peters. A man and a. 1196 00:55:02,120 --> 00:55:05,240 Peters on Good Morning Britain every morning, just doing the 1197 00:55:05,360 --> 00:55:08,280 all he does is the competition. He's he's right, he's round the 1198 00:55:08,280 --> 00:55:11,360 way he did. He did Blue Peter. 1199 00:55:12,040 --> 00:55:15,680 He did Blue Peter and I think he might have done live and 1200 00:55:15,680 --> 00:55:16,760 kicking. Maybe. 1201 00:55:16,760 --> 00:55:19,680 Do you know what else he does? I think he does the voice over 1202 00:55:19,680 --> 00:55:22,640 stuff for whenever you're flying with Emirates, do the We on 1203 00:55:22,640 --> 00:55:24,960 flight TV, He does the voice for that. 1204 00:55:25,920 --> 00:55:28,120 I was come back South Africa and I was like, I'm sure I know that 1205 00:55:28,280 --> 00:55:30,640 voice. I mean the emirate like the 1206 00:55:30,640 --> 00:55:35,120 emirate family or like the own the the Emiratis like they are. 1207 00:55:35,120 --> 00:55:36,600 I don't know if that's the Emiratis. 1208 00:55:36,800 --> 00:55:38,960 Is is is a proper term, right? It is. 1209 00:55:38,960 --> 00:55:40,840 It's fine. The royal family of the 1210 00:55:40,840 --> 00:55:42,680 Emirates, I don't know if they're royal right, but 1211 00:55:42,760 --> 00:55:44,920 essentially the the lads that own it, let's call them that. 1212 00:55:45,280 --> 00:55:48,720 They're like they're one of the richest groups of people in the 1213 00:55:48,720 --> 00:55:50,560 world. I just I mean, I'm not slagging. 1214 00:55:50,560 --> 00:55:53,240 I Peters off like as I said, I want to be him but I just think. 1215 00:55:53,240 --> 00:55:57,000 It's weird that they would go. We need a, we need a real voice 1216 00:55:57,000 --> 00:55:58,400 that. People are going to know here. 1217 00:55:58,400 --> 00:56:00,200 I mean the real guy, the people who can. 1218 00:56:00,480 --> 00:56:02,520 We would get Morgan Freeman. No. 1219 00:56:03,600 --> 00:56:06,160 Let's get my man Andy Peters. I would I would love to be Andy 1220 00:56:06,160 --> 00:56:07,880 Peters. He's he's he's great. 1221 00:56:08,000 --> 00:56:11,320 What what about? OK, space detectives, You and 1222 00:56:11,320 --> 00:56:15,120 Andy Peters, the Leeds. I'll just, I'll play like fifth 1223 00:56:15,120 --> 00:56:17,480 leader, 6th leader, whatever. Are you worried it's going to be 1224 00:56:17,480 --> 00:56:18,680 too sexy though? You know what I'm saying? 1225 00:56:19,640 --> 00:56:21,080 With you, Andy. Andy Peters. 1226 00:56:21,160 --> 00:56:24,640 I'm going to say this, Andy Peters is in phenomenal shape. 1227 00:56:24,640 --> 00:56:26,160 You're not going to believe me, so I'll show you. 1228 00:56:26,600 --> 00:56:29,040 By the way, I don't have it saved or whatever I'm going to. 1229 00:56:29,040 --> 00:56:31,400 Screensaver. But I'm just going to show you. 1230 00:56:31,520 --> 00:56:35,560 Like boop boop boop or Googling. You probably get this in 1231 00:56:35,560 --> 00:56:38,480 interviews all the time people people showing you Andy Peters 1232 00:56:38,480 --> 00:56:42,960 physique but Andy Peters is absolutely ripped like the man 1233 00:56:42,960 --> 00:56:44,800 is in serious shape. Would I? 1234 00:56:44,800 --> 00:56:47,320 Would I Google Andy Peters body? Yeah. 1235 00:56:48,400 --> 00:56:51,040 Why not? OK, I swear you're not going to 1236 00:56:51,040 --> 00:56:53,280 believe this, right? Let's go, Let's see it. 1237 00:56:54,480 --> 00:56:58,640 What do you think of that? Well, well, well, Mother may. 1238 00:56:59,440 --> 00:57:02,080 Speaking of competitions, if the competitions for the for the 1239 00:57:02,080 --> 00:57:05,000 sexiest guy on earth, Andy Peters has just won it. 1240 00:57:05,400 --> 00:57:06,960 Fair play. I see why you want to be him. 1241 00:57:06,960 --> 00:57:09,560 I want to be him now after that. Space detectives. 1242 00:57:09,640 --> 00:57:14,240 You, me and the players. How's top off my socks off and. 1243 00:57:14,960 --> 00:57:17,720 And just my freak face. Just you in the background. 1244 00:57:17,720 --> 00:57:18,600 Do it. Speak in Irish. 1245 00:57:19,040 --> 00:57:23,000 Yeah, hello. Just Irish accent, that's what, 1246 00:57:23,000 --> 00:57:23,840 That's all. I was going to do if. 1247 00:57:23,840 --> 00:57:25,720 I can get there, yeah, just that. 1248 00:57:25,960 --> 00:57:29,160 Yeah, man of three words. Thank you very much for doing 1249 00:57:29,160 --> 00:57:30,440 the podcast. You really appreciate it. 1250 00:57:30,800 --> 00:57:31,920 Thanks very much for having me give. 1251 00:57:32,000 --> 00:57:35,680 Give green tea another chance. But slowly but surely, I think 1252 00:57:35,680 --> 00:57:37,800 you just went. I think you just sold the farm. 1253 00:57:37,800 --> 00:57:39,200 You just. Went there, wrapped the hole 1254 00:57:39,720 --> 00:57:40,960 straight on it. You did. 1255 00:57:41,400 --> 00:57:43,840 Cheers. Thank you so much for doing the 1256 00:57:43,840 --> 00:57:45,760 podcast. Thanks very much for having me. 1257 00:57:51,560 --> 00:57:54,040 Dippers there will have it. The Tea with Me podcast episode 1258 00:57:54,040 --> 00:57:57,480 with Jamie Lee O'Donnell. That was that was a lot of fun. 1259 00:57:57,560 --> 00:58:01,360 We've been, we've been lucky to have such brilliant guests on 1260 00:58:01,360 --> 00:58:05,640 the on the podcast and that's another one and I appreciate 1261 00:58:05,640 --> 00:58:08,840 every, every guest that comes on and gives up their time and 1262 00:58:09,200 --> 00:58:13,040 it's, it's really appreciated. I, I enjoyed that episode, love 1263 00:58:13,040 --> 00:58:15,320 talking to Jamie Lee. Hopefully she'll be up for doing 1264 00:58:15,320 --> 00:58:19,040 the podcast again at some point because I think the zippers will 1265 00:58:19,040 --> 00:58:22,160 will have enjoyed that one. If you did enjoy the podcast, 1266 00:58:22,160 --> 00:58:24,720 you want to subscribe on the likes of Apple podcast, that 1267 00:58:24,720 --> 00:58:27,000 would be great. That really helps us shoot up 1268 00:58:27,000 --> 00:58:30,120 those charts. You know, we're at the Top 40 in 1269 00:58:30,120 --> 00:58:33,920 the in the Apple podcast charts, which which is incredible 1270 00:58:33,920 --> 00:58:36,040 because still a fairly new podcast. 1271 00:58:36,040 --> 00:58:40,360 So all all the love that you give it is, is really, really 1272 00:58:40,360 --> 00:58:43,360 appreciated. I am excited to do these 1273 00:58:43,360 --> 00:58:45,920 episodes every couple of day. I think every couple of days I 1274 00:58:45,920 --> 00:58:48,080 think you can tell that, you know, I get a wee bit giddy when 1275 00:58:48,080 --> 00:58:51,680 I do these and, and it's just like chatting to friends, you 1276 00:58:51,680 --> 00:58:53,600 know, it really is. Even when I'm doing the solo 1277 00:58:53,600 --> 00:58:58,240 episodes, solo episode on Friday, as always, just me 1278 00:58:58,240 --> 00:59:02,040 talking nonsense. And then on Monday the Patreon 1279 00:59:02,040 --> 00:59:04,800 episode, patreon.com/tea with me podcast. 1280 00:59:04,800 --> 00:59:06,880 That's how you can support the podcast. 1281 00:59:06,880 --> 00:59:10,680 You sign up for that, you get some nice benefits and and you 1282 00:59:10,680 --> 00:59:14,840 also get a whole bonus episode on a Monday with me and producer 1283 00:59:14,840 --> 00:59:17,440 Dan. This week we are talking about 1284 00:59:17,440 --> 00:59:19,920 stand up. So Dan, we're kind of turning 1285 00:59:19,920 --> 00:59:22,200 the tables a bit and the hunter is becoming the haunted 1286 00:59:23,040 --> 00:59:24,680 producer. Dan's kind of interviewing me a 1287 00:59:24,680 --> 00:59:29,040 wee bit about stand up and, and, you know, with, with LD, with 1288 00:59:29,040 --> 00:59:31,680 LD, I think it was a it was a good episode. 1289 00:59:32,280 --> 00:59:34,360 Thank you very much for listening or watching. 1290 00:59:34,360 --> 00:59:35,880 Thanks to Jamie Lee for doing that. 1291 00:59:35,880 --> 00:59:38,400 What a what a star. Absolutely brilliant, great 1292 00:59:38,400 --> 00:59:42,280 person to talk to. I have no doubt that anything 1293 00:59:42,280 --> 00:59:44,080 she does will be, will be brilliant. 1294 00:59:44,280 --> 00:59:48,120 And it'd be really cool to see see how, how the writing goes as 1295 00:59:48,120 --> 00:59:50,760 well. You know, someone who likes to 1296 00:59:50,760 --> 00:59:55,440 write comedy and, you know, things for TV or film. 1297 00:59:55,440 --> 00:59:57,000 And that's something I'm getting more into. 1298 00:59:57,000 --> 00:59:59,000 And I really have to get the finger out and do more in 1299 00:59:59,000 --> 01:00:01,560 lockdown. And it'll be great to see her 1300 01:00:01,560 --> 01:00:02,200 writing. So. 1301 01:00:02,200 --> 01:00:05,440 So hopefully we can hopefully we can all have stuff that we write 1302 01:00:05,480 --> 01:00:07,640 turn into turn into actual things. 1303 01:00:08,000 --> 01:00:10,160 That'll be great. But yeah, Jamie Lee, absolutely, 1304 01:00:10,160 --> 01:00:13,320 absolutely brilliant sport. And then, and I hope you enjoyed 1305 01:00:13,320 --> 01:00:17,120 that episode. See you on Friday for the solo 1306 01:00:17,120 --> 01:00:18,280 episode. Wednesday. 1307 01:00:18,280 --> 01:00:19,560 We'll be back with another guest. 1308 01:00:19,560 --> 01:00:22,320 I actually don't know who it is. I do know who it is. 1309 01:00:22,320 --> 01:00:25,000 I do know who it is. And, and yeah, it'll be good. 1310 01:00:25,320 --> 01:00:27,000 Cheers. Thank you very much, Sippers. 1311 01:00:27,280 --> 01:00:29,960 Keep drinking tea. Keep supporting the podcast. 1312 01:00:30,040 --> 01:00:30,640 Sip, sip.