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sad, confused, begins.

0:39

Today on HappySec infused, Daniel

0:42

Craig from Bond to Benoit

0:45

Blanc. Hey, guys. I'm

0:47

Josh Harowicz. Welcome to another edition of Happy.

0:49

Say I confused. Man to man,

0:51

we are ending this year with a

0:54

bang, some really great

0:56

guests on the podcast. I am so thrilled.

0:58

And a lot of first timers, whether it's Chris

1:00

Hemsworth, Adam Sandler Kate Winslet

1:02

last week. And now, man,

1:05

Daniel Craig, been on the list for a

1:07

while, have not done a time with Daniel over some

1:09

stuff, but certainly nothing like this. This

1:11

was another one of our great live events

1:13

at ninety 2NYA

1:16

sold out crowd about about eight hundred

1:18

people cheering on Daniel. They had just

1:20

seen glass onion. This

1:22

was a special night. Now first, let me let

1:24

me get out of the way. This is a non spoiled

1:27

conversation. So if you have not seen glass onion

1:29

yet, fear not except. Except.

1:32

There is one moment in the first ten,

1:34

fifteen minutes. I do call

1:36

it out. I say little spoiler

1:38

warning. So just listen up and

1:41

then up ahead about two minutes. It's

1:43

a brief section. It's not gonna ruin the movie

1:45

for you, but there is little spoiler section

1:47

and it's and it comes on relatively early.

1:49

Just keep your ears peeled for that.

1:52

Beyond that, this covers a lot. Beyond the

1:54

knives out movies, which you know I love,

1:57

Glass onion, by the way, is on Netflix December

1:59

twenty third, you'll be able to check it out for yourself

2:01

and enjoy. Of course, we dig into

2:03

James Bond, and he is so refreshingly candid

2:05

and open about mount Bond now. I feel like he

2:08

is more open than ever. Kind of

2:10

without the weight of the world on his shoulders,

2:12

frankly. It also helped that this was

2:15

at the end of the year after

2:17

the press cycle was over he really didn't

2:19

do a ton of stuff like this. This was kind

2:21

of the biggest thing I think he did, frankly,

2:24

for glass onion, and I'm very honored

2:26

to say that. Also cut

2:28

to a chance to dig into tons of aspects

2:30

of his career whether it's the influence of

2:32

his mom on his his life,

2:34

his you know, his extensive

2:37

theater resume, early film

2:39

work, even Tomb Raider, Layer

2:41

Cake Road to Perdition. We touch on

2:44

a lot of things that a Star Wars role

2:46

he had. Do you remember that? He played a stormtrooper

2:48

of all things in the worst awakens. We have

2:50

a lot of fun talking about that. The

2:52

Marvel rumors that were circulating in

2:54

the last year, a

2:56

lot in this conversation. I think

2:58

you guys will enjoy a rare

3:01

extended conversation with Daniel Craig.

3:03

Other things to mention, you guys know

3:05

I'm obsessed with the Avatar ES.

3:07

I hope you are too. I hope you're enjoying it.

3:10

I hope you enjoyed it in a big on a big screen

3:12

where it belongs with the high

3:14

def forty eight frames, the

3:16

whole three d thing. I hope you guys

3:18

dug in much as I did. If you haven't checked

3:20

out the Kate Winslet conversation, please

3:23

do. I'm working on some other stuff. Hopefully

3:25

in January, keep your fingers crossed

3:27

for that if you also wanna check

3:29

out my interview with Zoey Saldana and

3:31

Sam Worthington, that's on MTV

3:33

News' YouTube. Page. If

3:35

you want early info on all the

3:37

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3:52

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3:54

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4:04

Okay. Let me take you back now a

4:07

couple days ago. A lovely

4:09

evening a cold dinner evening, but we were

4:11

staying warm, eight hundred plus

4:13

bodies having enjoyed a

4:15

early screening of a class on you, and and hurt

4:17

that we had Daniel Craig in our

4:19

company. I hope you guys enjoyed this one as

4:21

much as I did. Here's me,

4:24

and Daniel. Hello,

4:33

everybody. Good

4:35

evening, New York. Welcome

4:38

to a very special happy

4:40

second Fuze Live. I

4:42

have been privileged to host about a dozen of

4:44

these this year twenty twenty two, and we

4:46

are closing it out in the

4:48

right way. This is a

4:50

very special night. I hope you enjoyed

4:52

your special screening of glass onion

4:54

guys. How amazing? I'm

5:02

obsessed with this movie. You can hate me if you want. I've seen

5:04

it three times. You're gonna watch it. You're gonna watch it three

5:06

times when it's on Netflix soon. Don't worry.

5:09

As I said, we are closing this

5:11

year out in fine fashion

5:13

with an amazing guest. You

5:15

guys have sold out this amazing space

5:17

for one man tonight and we

5:19

are very grateful for it. It's gonna be a special

5:21

evening. He is an amazing actor

5:23

on stage And on

5:25

screen, he goes by many names.

5:27

He's been known as mister James Bond.

5:33

He is known

5:36

of course as Benoit Blanc.

5:41

Two

5:41

movies down. Hopefully, a dozen more to go.

5:44

No no pressure, Daniel. Please

5:47

give a giant New York welcome, a ninety 2NY

5:49

welcome to first time guest on Hopi

5:51

Sagan Fused, mister Daniel

5:53

Craig. Thank

6:12

you. Thank you.

6:14

Thank you. Thanks so much.

6:16

Amazing. Amazing. Thank you so

6:18

much. What a welcome. That's just incredible. And

6:21

thank you for staying out. It's getting late.

6:24

Good night.

6:25

It's warm in here. It's cold outside. Right.

6:28

Sure. A free movie.

6:30

They're happy to experience it. They're

6:32

free ball. Daniel,

6:35

thank you so much for the time tonight. I

6:37

have a lot of tough questions for

6:38

you. I can just say to you one sentence

6:41

butress your feelings. Butress,

6:45

I will.

6:47

This this movie is amazing, Ricky.

6:49

Get into glass onion and many things. But first

6:51

of all, we're in New York. Can I call you a

6:53

New Yorker? Do you consider yourself a New Yorker?

6:56

Yes.

6:59

I mean, I mean,

7:01

yeah, it's it's been twelve years.

7:03

I mean, it doesn't make me a complete I mean,

7:05

yes, I'm full on New Yorker

7:07

now.

7:07

This is where I raised you as a Yorker

7:10

tonight, and I'm very happy. But

7:12

why why I knew York. Well, I mean,

7:14

obviously, I I would say if you love London,

7:16

you love New York, they are Twin Cities. There's a

7:18

kinship there. Why have you made

7:20

your home here? I

7:22

came to do a play here a

7:24

few years ago, you know, on broadway with

7:26

Hugh Jackman, and it

7:28

was always exactly he deserves

7:30

to. He's still

7:32

doing a play. It's not the same play, but

7:34

it's still going

7:34

on downtown. What a run? I'm having a

7:37

run. And

7:39

I always sort of had a fantasy of

7:41

coming to this amazing city. I'd

7:43

been, I visited, I'd I'd

7:45

played, I'd got into trouble, I'd done also things.

7:48

And I realized - and I just - it

7:51

was a fantasy. It was - and

7:53

I came to play and stayed and

7:55

I never really went

7:56

home. Yeah. And you've well, we'll get to I

7:58

mean, the amazing way you've balanced theater

8:00

with a very busy day job, if

8:02

you can call a bond being the bond the last

8:04

fifteen years a day job. But it's amazing

8:06

the amount of output you've been able to

8:08

do on our stages here. It's amazing.

8:11

Okay. Let's talk last onion first of all because

8:13

this this is fresh in the minds of this audience.

8:15

This is a great

8:16

movie. This is exactly I

8:18

don't know. I was just say, 0II was just

8:21

standing back stage and the fact that you guys

8:23

were getting this is just makes me so happy. I

8:25

was just like, Oh, just Really?

8:27

You know, when

8:31

when the gag's land, there's nothing

8:34

better. You know you have

8:36

literally the best job playing

8:38

Benoit Blanc in the universe. You get

8:40

every day to act with a

8:42

different set of amazing actors. You get

8:44

to go to the greatest locales in the world. You get

8:46

to recite Ryan Johnson's amazing writing.

8:49

Mhmm. You get a fun

8:51

actor accent. I mean, what more can you want in a

8:53

character Daniel? A

8:55

hump. I don't know. Some of the false

8:56

teeth, maybe. I don't know. I know. I don't know.

8:58

True actor I you're right. Would I

9:02

listen. It's I I can't

9:04

believe my luck. I can't believe that I've

9:06

spent seventeen years in my life.

9:08

Doing that other thing and it's like it has been

9:11

glorious and wonderful and all of those

9:13

things. And for this to

9:15

fall in my lap, I just couldn't

9:18

have expected it. And it's, you

9:20

know, I have Ryan to thank for that and

9:22

his faith in me and

9:24

you know, he he showed me the script

9:26

and I was I laughed

9:28

for knives out. I read the script and laughed

9:30

out loud and and

9:31

said, really, are you sure? And he was like,

9:33

this is it. And here we are. We have

9:36

one number two. And there's definitely

9:38

gonna be a third. We know that. And perhaps more,

9:40

we'll see. We'll see. So A

9:45

no trepidation because at that time, you were

9:47

obviously still playing that other character we we may or

9:49

may not mention. Of jumping

9:51

into

9:52

another ongoing carrot. Well, I I

9:54

wasn't we didn't know. We

9:56

genuinely didn't know. We had a movie

9:58

when we were filming

10:00

in Boston. I think there was a

10:02

day where we had this little fantasy about where

10:04

would we go next? I said somewhere warmer.

10:09

But it was purely fantasy. You just

10:11

– you don't know. I mean, and we're

10:13

all too long in the tooth to

10:16

to make those sort of predictions you can't expect.

10:18

I mean, the movies just, you

10:21

know, the failure you don't do another

10:23

one. That's how it works apparently.

10:26

One of the fascinating things about this

10:28

character and and the role that Benoit

10:30

plays in these films is he's not

10:32

necessarily the protagonist really. Right. He he

10:34

really isn't necessarily the hero of

10:36

these stories would all do respect, sir. You

10:38

want a hero to me. But

10:41

keep that Yes.

10:45

Just say more. Yes. But

10:48

-- and it's interesting we don't know much

10:50

about his story. It's being build out

10:52

very, very small increments. I think

10:54

that's important though, don't you think?

10:56

I feel like with all of

10:58

those, I mean, you know, I'm watching Peter

11:01

Eustopla, who hercule primarily the name

11:03

on collateral. French

11:06

accent's useless. He he sort

11:08

of appeared from somewhere -- Right. --

11:10

and, you know, solved the

11:11

case and then went to somewhere. And

11:14

we didn't really know where that was. And I think

11:15

the audience can make that imagine. Yeah. And I think

11:17

that mystery is important. I don't think it's he's

11:20

not the center of attention, but is

11:22

And it's like it's that. And I think you

11:24

know what Ryan does

11:26

so brilliantly is

11:29

that apart from writing it, directing

11:31

it and all sorts of other things. He casts

11:33

it so brilliantly -- Yeah. -- and gets

11:35

these bunch of people who we want to watch,

11:37

despicable though they may be.

11:39

They're glorious and delicious

11:42

and just we want to spend time with

11:43

them. And Ben was there to

11:46

sort of I suppose

11:48

wrangle them in some way. Yeah. Listen to

11:50

them. But it's funny because it is counter to a lot

11:52

of what I've heard from actors over the years who

11:54

like. Want to write the back story and

11:55

want, like, just extends it. You don't need you

11:57

don't need want that Wait too much to do

11:59

to figure that out. Tell

12:02

me what the fuck is that accent

12:04

is a night. That's enough for her.

12:06

Doesn't that say everything? I mean, it's

12:08

I I yes. I mean, then there's nothing

12:11

wrong with that, but it's like it III

12:13

kind of you know, he's he should be

12:15

an enigma. I don't think we should just

12:17

don't want it. I don't think he's I don't care what he

12:19

did when he twelve years old. I

12:21

mean, you know, the adventures of young

12:24

people can make it up. I'm very happy for people to sort

12:26

of make it up. So let's let you know

12:28

but I'm I'm good. One

12:30

spoiler alert for those that are listening to this

12:32

podcast. Now if you haven't seen the the

12:34

film, watch it before you listen to this, but

12:36

We do see a partner in

12:38

his life played by another

12:41

great actor. I

12:44

guess my first question is, was his

12:46

sexuality ever discussed on the first nine's

12:47

side? Was that important? Did it matter? No. It

12:50

didn't. It just kind of came about in a

12:52

very net away and, you know, and

12:54

then you said yes and I

12:56

mean, I wouldn't wanna live with, you

12:58

know, him. I mean,

13:01

whose idea was Hugh? Was it Ryan's?

13:03

Did you mention it? I think it was Ryan's. Yeah. I

13:05

think it came up. And I was,

13:07

like, if I you know, he said it mentioned I

13:09

was at pleased if he'll do it, that'd

13:11

be great. And of

13:13

course, it was sort of COVID, so I don't want to kind

13:15

of give it away, but we kind of we had to

13:17

shoot out, clearly shoot out sequence. I

13:19

couldn't, you know, he it was

13:21

shot on green screen. It was shot all over the

13:23

place because It was last minute thing. So but

13:25

it works. And he's so good in

13:27

it, doesn't matter. He's always brilliant. So

13:29

perfect.

13:29

Yeah. Can we talk about the physicality

13:32

of this character because so many of your roles

13:34

rely on a very unique physicality. Obviously,

13:36

again, that other character will mention maybe

13:38

later, relies on physicality. Every

13:41

time I watch this movie, one of the times, I

13:44

hope so. It's available if you need

13:46

it. Wow. One

13:49

of the the moments that makes me laugh so much

13:51

is just you scampering by a cool. Just

13:53

the way It is

13:55

a scamper. It is a scamper. You're right.

13:58

How is it

14:00

refreshing to kind of play somebody that's

14:02

isn't as short as short of themselves

14:04

vis physically speaking this time

14:06

around, like, what do you I usually need no debates.

14:08

I'm not sure of myself physically. A

14:10

real life. So I didn't bond. It

14:12

was just like like I just closed my eyes

14:14

and over the best. Yes.

14:18

It's I'm a huge I mean,

14:20

there's a certain bit of with the

14:22

costumes, Jenn Egan's costumes, which are

14:24

just glorious in this movie.

14:27

And yes, I

14:31

mean and I just said to her

14:33

I said to catch

14:35

a thief from Jack Tati into you wear.

14:37

Yep. And that's where it kinda started,

14:39

and I'm the big fan of Jack Tati. See and

14:42

not that I'd ever get anywhere near to that,

14:44

but it's just that kind of sort

14:46

of physicality I enjoy

14:48

a bit, little bit of and certainly,

14:54

it becomes part of and the costume kind of

14:56

helps. But yes, I mean, in answer to your

14:58

question, yes, I like scampering. That

15:00

was

15:01

said, hard work. There's a big

15:03

headline of the night guys. You

15:07

guys have just seen glass onion, but let's take a

15:09

look back at a scene from Knives Out, one

15:11

of the many wonderful moments from that

15:13

film that involves a

15:15

conversation about a donut. Let's take

15:18

a look at knives out, shall we?

15:23

It

15:24

is an immovable fact that I killed

15:26

Heartland. Yes. You did. Yes. He

15:28

did. Yes. You are all my butt.

15:30

I spoke in the car about the

15:32

hole at the center of this donut.

15:34

And what you and Harlan did,

15:36

that fateful night seems at first

15:39

glance to fill that hole perfectly. A

15:41

doughnut hole in a doughnut hole,

15:43

but we have to look a

15:45

little closer. And when

15:47

we do, we see the doughnut hole

15:50

has a hole in its center. It

15:52

is not a doughnut hole, but

15:54

a smaller doughnut with its

15:56

own hole. And our doughnut

15:59

It's not whole at all. Look, look, I understand

16:01

that this is amusing for you. What was

16:03

a heart? What's

16:06

so an army? Someone fishing

16:08

for a crime to reverse the will. Long

16:10

gone. It was hard before the sealed will. It

16:12

was red. So so yes. The

16:14

person must have known the contents of

16:16

the will. Once get further,

16:18

that same person must have known a

16:20

crime was committed. And further,

16:23

if the intent was to reverse

16:26

modest inheritance. They

16:28

must have known the motto was responsible

16:31

and intriguing combination

16:33

of factors. Someone who knew what Marty

16:35

did, wanted to expose it, but could

16:37

not reveal how they knew.

16:39

Friend. She was

16:41

blackmailing me. She knew what I did. To help

16:43

her friend wanted money. Ugh. She

16:45

did not want the chromics quote. Was it someone

16:47

in the family had observed Martha doing

16:50

some this so they would have had no reason not

16:52

to speak up. The

16:55

answer is not

16:57

so simple. K? So

17:03

what

17:07

is made of the accent. Did you

17:09

feel out on a whim the first day is on

17:11

set? Did you feel like this fucking

17:14

terrified?

17:16

Jamie Lee Curtis. Standing

17:19

in front of me and the rest of these brilliant

17:21

actors and they're just all in, like,

17:23

come on then. Usually, okay. Here

17:25

we go. And, you know, yes.

17:28

That part of the game isn't it? That's what I'm

17:30

gonna step up and do does the

17:32

comfort level ever kick in? Like next

17:34

two movies

17:35

in? Does it

17:35

feel like I've got this and obviously the

17:38

audience response? I would do

17:38

it. It works

17:39

with a character. It's at

17:41

to a level, but at a certain level, but I I just I

17:44

was really nervous when we came back to this

17:46

one that it was sort of I'd be doing an

17:48

impression of that. And

17:50

and I was like, oh, god. That would just be terrible and it

17:52

would be just like a pastiche of what I'd

17:54

done. So I just got back to work. I just

17:56

I'm at three months out. I just

17:59

have a great voice coach, Daniel, who just

18:01

basically we just sit and get back into it and

18:03

just sort of get it back into my body. So

18:05

– and then I tend

18:08

to speak it. That

18:10

vodka is terrible. But

18:14

Nal video, obviously, clearly. Some

18:18

terrible awful brand. Is

18:23

is I speak it on set most of the time? And then everybody's

18:25

speaking it. I mean, so so we're all speaking

18:27

like Benoit. Who does the

18:29

best? The second best

18:30

Benoit Banc concert. Clearly, thank you. Yes.

18:33

Okay. I covered Katherine

18:35

Hahn.

18:35

Ah. The

18:36

brilliant, brilliant, Katherine Hahn. I

18:39

mean,

18:39

it's A beam

18:42

of light in the universe -- Yes. -- a a delight.

18:44

Yeah. So there's a lot of

18:46

talk about films or projects early in your

18:48

career that could be considered the big

18:50

break. I feel like I consider Oliver,

18:52

obviously, your big breakthrough as a child. Right?

18:54

That's what really all of

18:56

that. Yes. God Jesus.

18:59

You're amazing. Were you

19:01

were you I first line on stage.

19:03

There's no one in there now.

19:06

was second policeman. Oh.

19:08

So If it's

19:08

a roll, pretty great, naturally. And

19:12

then I I think mister Salisbury, which is

19:14

like had to sing a song as well, which is for

19:16

anybody who's heard me singing is like really not

19:18

very fun. But anyway, was that the

19:20

first and last

19:20

musical? Have you No. I then did a

19:23

musical when I was in the thing called the

19:25

National Youth Theatre in London when I

19:27

was sixteen yes.

19:30

Sixteen. Which was a musical version

19:32

of night or called Night Shriek, which

19:34

was a musical version of McBeth --

19:36

Uh-huh. -- which was yeah.

19:38

But it

19:41

was so bad. It was great. It

19:44

was like it became a bit of a cold hit because it

19:46

was not good.

19:47

Flush that out

19:48

of your system, the musical.

19:49

I I mean, the thing is I can't count. Well,

19:51

I so I was here

19:52

you say that. What does that mean? Well, it well, it's

19:54

important to music. So

19:57

I'd have this I'm

19:59

I'm singing I mean, I'm so nervous. It was

20:01

just like the most, I mean, the most terrified I've

20:04

ever been and I had to do this big

20:06

walk down and we

20:09

had an orchestra underneath

20:11

the stage and we had these little monitors

20:13

back in the

20:13

day, which these black and white monitors, which would

20:16

just like this big. And

20:18

I'd have to sort of walk down and and the

20:20

pocket that the conductor would just be

20:22

like, Now, and I go, oh,

20:24

and if I missed it, I'd have to kind of walk

20:26

around the stage three or four times till I could

20:28

get back to the same, but it was just

20:29

awful, awful, awful.

20:32

But it's good to know your women's. It's good to know your

20:35

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20:37

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about you, you mentioned that your

24:10

mom was pursuing acting. Like,

24:12

she she she had

24:13

an interest in acting. Yeah, she didn't she

24:15

didn't I she only told me this

24:17

about maybe ten years ago that she

24:19

actually got to rather when she was eighteen.

24:21

Which was incredible. I

24:24

mean, back in a day, but

24:26

she didn't have any money to

24:27

go, so she couldn't go. So but she

24:30

know she'd never mentioned that to me. She never

24:32

expressed when you were pursuing it because, I mean, you

24:34

would think, that's amazing. Mhmm. What

24:36

did your what did your parents take the most

24:38

pride in when your career took off? Was there a

24:40

moment that you remember them? You paying my

24:42

rent? Yeah. I

24:44

get it. Yeah. They

24:48

were always incredibly supportive. And

24:50

I think they saw I mean, I

24:52

left school at sixteen, and my grades would I mean, I

24:54

didn't have any grades. So It didn't. So I

24:56

was just a lost cause, but I was very

24:58

I wanted to act. Right. So

25:00

as much as they could give me support,

25:03

they did. My

25:05

mother kind of sort of kicked me

25:07

out the door really. I

25:09

grew up in and around Liverpool

25:11

and this is sort of the early eighties and

25:13

it was incredibly depressed that like many

25:15

places were and there weren't a lot

25:17

of opportunities. So she said you've got to go to London, you've got

25:19

to go and do this, so this is what you want to go and

25:22

do. So without, you

25:22

know, she could have gently kicked me

25:24

out. You you mentioned National Youth Theatre, which

25:27

and what I gather was an important part of your

25:30

Very yes. You're you're a development

25:32

of an actor. He've also talked about

25:34

how you had a problem perhaps with

25:36

authority as a young man. How do we

25:38

talk

25:38

about? I guess what my

25:40

question is, how did that drive with

25:43

I assume a rigid kind of

25:46

teaching style actually wasn't teaching

25:48

but what it

25:49

did. Was it just

25:51

a part of being

25:53

an actor is turning up on

25:56

time because if you're sitting

25:58

here waiting, it's not great if

26:00

someone's late. And

26:02

it instilled a discipline in me

26:04

that I wouldn't have gotten very early on

26:06

a discipline, but also a collaborative, the

26:09

collaborative effort that goes into make doing

26:12

theater, which I've still to

26:14

this day. I mean, this is one of even now with

26:16

this movie. It's an ensemble piece

26:18

as it really is an ensemble. When they

26:20

say that, it often isn't, but this

26:22

really is a novel piece. And

26:24

it's just about – I love

26:26

the collective

26:27

effort. it gives me great joy to work

26:30

with everybody involved, the technician at

26:32

the crew and they access everybody.

26:34

So one of the many ensembles you were a part

26:36

of, I was just looking through different

26:38

theater credits. We have a photo actually from an early one.

26:40

This is angels in

26:41

America. Right? I believe. Can I

26:44

close

26:44

on? It was made up of most

26:46

of it. We see the photo from Angela's in America,

26:49

please. It's coming. I

26:51

feel it.

26:52

That's you. And -- Oh, Jason. --

26:53

it's like four old Jason Eiser.

26:55

He looks terrified. Was

26:59

that

26:59

that an important production? Obviously, a hugely

27:02

influential play, a massive

27:04

-- Yeah. --

27:05

undertaking. And then I just was so I was at

27:07

the National Theatre in London. I just couldn't

27:09

leave it. I mean, and doing this

27:12

amazing play, which is some in Italian Christmas

27:14

writing, isn't enough

27:16

bad. So yes,

27:18

it was amazing. We did the

27:21

millennium approaches and then post stryker, which is

27:23

doing. We did them together. Sometimes we

27:25

do it. In one day, like nine hours

27:27

of theater, which is quite

27:28

intense, but amazing. It's just amazing, amazing

27:31

stuff. Making

27:33

a stab at a feature film acting career.

27:35

You do a film called The Power of One with

27:37

John Appleton, a filmmaker directed

27:41

that one. It wasn't like a straight shot. It

27:43

wasn't like a like that set

27:45

you off on like an amazing run

27:47

immediately in film with all due

27:48

respect. Right? Like did you feel like you still had some

27:51

I was trying to just keep control

27:53

of things. I mean,

27:55

in that movie, I

27:58

played nazi with a chip

28:00

on his shoulder, which

28:02

is a career. And

28:04

I went to a

28:06

member go flying out to LA

28:08

And I went up for jobs. I was doing castings,

28:10

and I was going up for Nazis with chips on

28:12

their shoulder. And I thought, oh god,

28:14

that's not good. Is it? Because that's that I'm, you

28:16

know, that's what I don't ever want to happen.

28:19

Right. So I left LA and didn't stay and

28:21

I could have easily just sort of hung out and done

28:23

that thing that everybody does, I

28:25

suppose. I've actually got a job or whatever. And I just was

28:27

very trying to remain in

28:29

control of what was going on.

28:32

And came back. Unfortunately, in

28:34

England, there wasn't much of -- I mean, unless it was much

28:36

a diary, there wasn't much of a

28:38

film industry going on. It was

28:40

of some really great amazing movies coming

28:42

up, but they were few and far between.

28:45

But I wanted to make movies and

28:47

that was – so I I often

28:49

went to, I mean, movie in Germany, I

28:51

made a movie in Hungary.

28:53

I mean, there were European movies

28:55

going on. So I wanted to -

28:57

that's what I wanted to do. This this whole kind of thing of

28:59

coming in and, you know, sitting in a

29:02

cinema and looking at something

29:04

thirty feet across. I'd always had

29:06

the dream being up there. Yeah.

29:08

And that so that drove

29:09

me, drove me on. And

29:12

I'd made lots of small, very interesting

29:14

movies, some better than

29:16

others So and then when you start to do some of these larger

29:19

clinical Hollywood

29:19

films, like, is that you know, is it an

29:22

exciting moment when you're in something like

29:24

tomb raider? Or is it like, okay, this is a job. This is like

29:26

this is what you do to kind of You

29:28

want to kind of I

29:32

I mean, I had a lot of fun

29:34

making Tumoradia and we'd spent time in

29:37

Cambodia and it was just, you

29:39

know, I look back at it as a

29:41

sort of in a bit of a

29:43

haze really. I had no idea what I

29:45

was doing. I mean, I still don't actually. They're telling you

29:47

the truth. I'm just all kind of like just stab

29:49

in the dog, but I

29:51

just was like, I got this opportunity. It

29:53

was in a big movie. And and the trouble is

29:55

in in the film industry, a lot of people just said this is gonna be a

29:57

good one for you. Mean, it's like how many potines people

29:59

say that to you, and this is going to be the one. This

30:01

is the one. This is going to be And

30:04

it really is and the way that

30:06

actually Korea's work is is

30:08

so much to do with what maybe you did

30:10

twelve months ago, and somebody

30:12

sees you, a director sees you in something

30:14

that at the end of America,

30:18

a political Charlie Patterson

30:20

was who did a thing called our

30:22

friends in the North, which was a

30:24

big eleven hour series on

30:26

the BBC. He went to the National to

30:28

Cast and he saw me there and I

30:30

got this part which went on to something

30:31

else. So it's never kind of, you know --

30:34

Yeah. -- it's never one thing I

30:36

remember around this time, one of the maybe

30:38

one of the first films I saw you in,

30:40

and an important collaboration for

30:42

you is in a film called Road

30:45

Prodition. Right. Samendes directly. Tom

30:49

Hanks, the Great Paul Newman, of

30:51

course. I wanna show

30:53

a clip Go ahead with mister

30:55

Paul Newman. So it's Young

30:57

Gun. Let's take a look

30:59

at road to production.

31:05

Connor, is there something

31:08

you would like to say about last

31:10

night?

31:12

I'd like

31:16

to apologize

31:18

for what happened.

31:22

Especially to you.

31:23

Two weeks in a

31:25

month. What can I say?

31:30

We lost a good man last night.

31:32

You think it's funny?

31:36

Try again. I'd

31:41

like to apologize. You

31:47

would like to

31:50

apologize. Try again.

32:06

Gentlemen, my

32:09

apologies.

32:20

We're in the same suit. You

32:24

stole it from the set. How dare

32:25

you? I guess if you're gonna be

32:28

dressed down by anybody, you might as well be

32:30

Paul Newman. No acting required

32:32

or when he's I mean Yeah.

32:34

I mean, funny

32:36

enough that was a long night. I think

32:38

that was, like, five o'clock in

32:40

the morning. And Paul been night He can't I mean, he

32:42

just turned it in. It just it

32:44

was he was very very very

32:47

very very special. Did

32:49

you

32:49

I mean, yes. I mean, I don't know if you that

32:51

that folks that haven't seen that documentary, Ethan Hawk

32:53

did recently about him and his watch, Joanne.

32:56

Amazing. I mean, talk about the

32:58

combination of movie star actor, all the right things,

33:00

a good human being. Mhmm. What

33:03

do you take away from an experience like that? When you

33:05

go into a job like

33:06

that, is it do you focus just on the work

33:08

or do you try to glean something? So

33:11

hard when Tom Hanks and Paul Neumann is saying,

33:13

obviously, you have to say. Yeah. So it

33:15

does. But you have to get over that.

33:17

And again, thing if you have to sort of step up to the plate and just get on

33:19

with it. What I loved about Paul is that we

33:21

immediately started talking about acting. And

33:23

as soon as I realized that he was an actor, which

33:25

I know sounds probably

33:27

not at some of a bit crazy, but

33:29

I realized that I could talk to him because

33:31

it was he started talking to me about

33:34

his his racing team. And

33:36

I was like, don't.

33:38

So I didn't

33:41

When he was telling me how many how he told trying to

33:43

tell me how many Indeed,

33:45

the Indy five hundred series was better

33:47

than F1I was like, if you say

33:50

hello.

33:53

So, yeah, we can't we can't cover everything, but obviously then

33:56

there are things like Layer

33:58

Cake Munich, which is another extraordinary

34:00

film collaboration. Yes, receiving

34:02

Spielberg. Have amazing

34:04

career going on, these amazing filmmakers you're

34:06

working with. And for those reasons, you

34:09

were a reluctant James Bond,

34:11

it is fair to

34:12

say. Was that fair to

34:13

say? It's fair to say. It's fair to

34:15

say. I'm kicking and screaming.

34:18

Yeah. It worked out for

34:20

everybody. Clearly, But what were you what was the top of the

34:22

con list? The pros and cons? What was what

34:24

was your greatest fear going into

34:26

accepting that

34:28

role? I

34:31

suppose it's on the say it was it was on the

34:34

pro and the con list. It was on the pro

34:36

list. It would change my life. It was on the con

34:37

list. It would change my life. Yes. And

34:39

that really was something

34:40

that I knew that I had

34:43

a certain level of anonymity

34:47

I could still kind of go out, I could

34:49

still travel, I could go to an airport, I could

34:51

do these things. And I knew that that would

34:53

just sort of disappear. But

34:56

it was also on the pro list. So and

34:58

and it worked out for the best. I mean, that's

35:00

the thing. I just couldn't, you

35:04

know, I

35:06

went my closest friends, that's

35:08

who I went to for advice. That's what

35:10

I did, and they were just like,

35:13

you've got to do this. You'll regret this if you don't

35:15

do this, and that was

35:16

it. So here we are.

35:18

So, spoiler alert those that

35:20

not seen no time to die. I'm sure everybody's seen no time to die now. Yes.

35:29

James didn't make it. Sorry, guys. But what

35:31

an ending? James Bond

35:34

will return to Orange will get Yes.

35:36

A James Bond will return just a

35:38

one. You told me we did a Q and

35:40

A, I think after it came out that, like, that

35:42

was in the plan for you

35:45

right from the store. Like, I don't know. I don't wanna put you on the

35:47

couch, but what does it say about a new James Bond that

35:49

has before they've stopped before the film

35:51

says, and here's the thing. I want you

35:53

to kill me. True.

35:56

I don't know. You got me.

35:59

I had oh,

36:02

god. You

36:04

know, And you again, I'm a control freak listen.

36:06

I can't hands up. I just I've always

36:08

tried to kind of push

36:12

my career in the way that I thought was right

36:14

for myself and that what I needed to

36:16

do. And it's not that I've had

36:19

some grand plan, but because, you know, you do

36:21

the jobs that come come come

36:23

to you.

36:24

But in my mind, I felt like

36:27

the story is I was driving away

36:29

from the burning Premier with

36:31

Barbara Rockley in the back

36:33

of a car. And I couldn't remember how many I I can never

36:35

remember how many films I've been contracted to

36:38

do what the contract was. This is how many of these

36:40

are

36:41

we doing? And she sort of said four, I think, and I

36:44

went, oh, okay. I

36:45

said, did I do four? Can

36:46

I kill him off at the end? And

36:49

she went,

36:50

yeah. And then

36:54

seventeen years later, I

36:56

reminded her

36:58

that's what she said. I

37:01

felt like for me selfishly, it was a way

37:03

of walking away. Yeah. It

37:05

was also I

37:08

felt like they'd had this amazing opportunity

37:10

because we did Casino Royale, which was resetting the whole thing, but we went back to that

37:12

in the beginning of of

37:16

of of the story and, you know, introduced reintroduced

37:19

me. I thought, well, that's what they need

37:21

to do next time. And I felt that that would

37:23

be good, the right thing

37:26

to do. Reset it, and there's no going

37:27

back, no backsies. When I

37:30

think back to casino,

37:32

which was such a great start

37:35

by Martin Campbell. And there's

37:37

so many scenes that really

37:39

humanize this larger this often larger

37:41

than life character when you whether you think of

37:43

the black and white pro vlog. You think of you

37:45

and Vesper in the shower.

37:48

You being tortured. Like no

37:50

pod has ever been tortured before,

37:52

but that's all in

37:54

the book. So it's great. But is that part of

37:56

the – was that part of the ethos the mandate

37:58

to you – for you and the

38:00

filmmakers

38:01

to bring a little bit of reality to kind of make him a little bit

38:04

more relatable even as a kind

38:06

of a superhero character as he can

38:08

be

38:09

or What? I just

38:11

I can't I'm terrible at

38:13

impressions. So I knew that I couldn't come

38:15

in and do something that

38:18

was something that had been brilliantly done before.

38:20

And I had and I was I

38:22

don't know how I was to do it.

38:25

I mean, I'm being completely honest, I didn't know any

38:27

other way of doing it. I felt that we had to I

38:29

felt that I wanted to reset everything.

38:31

I felt that some of the

38:33

gags had got old. And

38:36

I won't always desire to

38:38

bring them back in. I think we managed

38:40

to do it a little bit, maybe not as much as

38:42

we could have done, but I think we managed to do it a

38:45

little bit And I I felt

38:47

that I wanted to reset everything. I just

38:49

felt that was otherwise what

38:51

was the point. And I said

38:54

to Barbara and Michael when we first did it, I said, look,

38:56

if I can have a say, can I

38:58

have an opinion? Can I have a name like

39:00

you? You can. And they gave me this sort of free

39:02

reign to do that. I mean

39:04

Martin did a magnificent job. And but

39:06

it was a

39:09

tone that was set

39:12

that we did in the movie at. I

39:14

don't know. I I just was I

39:16

had to go for it. That was that's

39:18

the simple answer is I had to

39:21

go for it somehow. I couldn't be what had

39:23

gone before. I had to do something with

39:25

it. And I was more than happy if

39:27

it failed to walk

39:29

away. I was just it a I gave it a

39:31

go. It also seems like it came at such a

39:33

perfect time in this collaboration with the producers

39:35

that they were willing to take

39:37

big swings with filmmakers. With all due respect, there have

39:39

been some amazing filmmakers over the history of

39:42

Bond. But working with the

39:44

likes of Mark

39:45

Forster, Martin Campbell, Sam Mendes, Garifuca Naga, you

39:48

guys really

39:50

went for

39:51

I mean, in a week just – and again, casting, I

39:54

mean, you know, Sam came in and

39:56

cast Rafe

39:59

and and and and

40:01

and Ben and just the actors

40:03

that came along and and did it. And I always also this

40:06

I had this thing I felt I

40:08

had a duty. We had all this money. I

40:10

mean, it's a lot I mean, it's

40:12

really rare to make those movies

40:15

people don't get a chance to make films like that

40:17

very and I was very aware of that and

40:19

felt that that was such a privilege. We had to

40:21

spend it in the right place and we had to get

40:23

the best people we could. And that's all I

40:25

ever shouted about was just like, let's get the best if we can. We've got to afford

40:27

it. Let's do it. And people came and said

40:29

yes, which was

40:31

beyond Do you pay any attention to I mean, this is gonna be you're

40:34

gonna be asked about this every day the rest of your life. Who's

40:36

the next bond? What do you think? Who should be the next bond,

40:38

etcetera? Like, today, as we sit

40:42

here, There are all these rumors about Aaron Taylor Johnson, a great

40:44

actor. Like, to you, like, oh, have

40:46

you even heard that? Is that something like

40:48

that you

40:50

I don't really pay any attention. Yeah.

40:52

I

40:52

just there's a lot of noise. I mean,

40:54

I'm not I don't go on the Internet and

40:57

I don't have social media account or

40:59

whatever. So I don't I'm like Separate TikTok.

41:01

You're touching TikTok. Master

41:04

one too. So

41:08

I just you

41:09

know, I I it's it's what it

41:11

is. Will be fun

41:12

to watch just as a Yeah.

41:14

Cool. Yeah. So I'll be

41:17

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41:17

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41:18

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43:40

One of

43:44

my favorite characters that you've played is, of

43:46

course, FN 1824

43:49

and Star Wars: The Force Force -- Was that the character?

43:51

-- thank you. Yeah.

43:52

What am I very dear to

43:55

me? Is that what the character was

43:57

called? It's all for time. Might

44:01

be. Do you see

44:02

a future for FM 1824 Is

44:04

there a spin off series? Yes. I tried

44:06

to get into the next two, but it didn't happen.

44:08

Do you feel like your Star Wars eligibility is up?

44:11

Like, can you still play a Jedi

44:13

if you've played FN1824? Good

44:16

question.

44:17

I don't

44:18

know. We could throw it out to the audience,

44:20

send it out again. Are

44:25

you are you

44:25

star wars guy? That was just happenstance that

44:28

it? Yes. Yes.

44:28

Yes. Absolutely. Big time. Yep. Big time. Yeah.

44:31

No. I love it. I love

44:33

it. Of course, I I know. I'm so sure of you right now. I

44:35

wouldn't have asked to be in them if I hadn't, wasn't being a fan.

44:37

I've just played around and people have asked me and I've told them I'd

44:39

I mean, III

44:42

would Ben Dixon who's an

44:44

AD on the movie, who's on ADR

44:46

movies and I was on

44:48

Pinewood and I

44:50

said, because I was

44:52

doing fittings. I just said, can

44:54

I get a get a part in

44:56

this and

44:57

he went, yeah. I

45:00

was like, like you can get me to

45:02

ask, I mean, it was

45:04

like our next day, I'm

45:06

in a fucking

45:08

suit. And the thing is, at least, they

45:10

they do not fit. I mean, that is I mean, that is

45:12

a terrible story. All I remember is that I had to

45:14

wear a suit all day. And I I couldn't feel my hands at the

45:17

end of the

45:17

day. And I thought, god, well, people have to wear them

45:19

in the desert. It's just like I

45:21

mean,

45:21

who dostered these people? Yeah. You're very lucky

45:24

then. That's at 121824I just

45:26

like saying the name. Yeah. Yeah. Did

45:27

not have to go to

45:27

Tunisia. You could just do it on a sound stage of

45:30

managing. That could have just

45:31

I would have been all for I wouldn't have

45:33

done that. I've gone to tune as a Queenie. Fair enough. Yeah. In his rider,

45:35

no 2BH No. No 2BH This is

45:37

the nerd part of the conversation in case you couldn't

45:39

tell. I'm doing great.

45:42

You ever am I doing? Doing great. And that's sort of how you're gonna do with this

45:44

next one.

45:44

Okay. Have you ever heard

45:45

of the character Baldor

45:48

the Brave? No. There

45:50

was a report Daniel that

45:52

you were going to be in doctor Strange.

45:54

I believe

45:55

it, but,

45:55

wasn't it? Don't you hide

45:58

behind that mug, Daniel

46:02

Craig?

46:05

I don't

46:05

know what you're talking

46:08

about.

46:09

In theory, would it be interesting to be in a

46:12

marvel movie? Oh, take any job. I'm good. I

46:14

have to slow. If the hours are good, I'd take any

46:16

job. I mean, of course, it's like

46:19

sure. Sure.

46:21

Absolutely. Yeah. Absolutely. Okay. Yeah.

46:24

He's good. He's

46:26

too good

46:27

for me, damaged. I

46:30

think we

46:31

have some questions from the audience if you guys

46:33

want to run them out, I'll ask them because I've

46:35

run out of important things to

46:37

ask them. Do you miss? Thank you very much. Thank

46:39

you. Do you what's the last

46:40

time? I wonder where

46:41

there is. Very good. They're all about

46:44

FN

46:44

18240 it's very good.

46:46

Right.

46:47

It's got a very long night. Yes. We're

46:49

here for two more hours.

46:51

Yeah. When's the last

46:52

time you had to audition? Were you a

46:55

good auditioner? Terrible. I would

46:57

know. Road to petition is a

46:59

is a prime example. Sam

47:02

flew me to Chicago to go and

47:04

read for him. III would still read today. I have no problem with that. I mean, I

47:06

think it's kind of important to kind of get to know whether you

47:08

can do it or not. I mean, I but but

47:10

he's flew me to Chicago, and I

47:14

did the reading and he went, stop. Stop. Stop. He

47:16

said the job's yours. He just let he just got it.

47:18

It was so terrible to let my reading.

47:21

Just because he couldn't say he said, I know you

47:23

can do this. It's alright. It's

47:25

fine. So, you know,

47:28

III don't know. I just I'm I'm like, I mean, I never took exams,

47:30

so I couldn't tell me whether I'd I would've been terrible

47:32

in exams, but I just kinda get

47:34

too nervous about these

47:36

things. I'd And yet you weren't

47:38

nervous filming with Tycho

47:40

YTT recently. A

47:41

Albert, can we can we Oka. Let me tell

47:44

you. Can we skip

47:44

I hope for to sell it, but

47:46

I just it's Yeah. There's a here's can we just

47:48

look up the image from the Belvedere vodka app? You

47:50

just look up the head. There it is. So

47:57

how much vodka was consumed to

47:59

get you to be in October? I was sober

48:01

for some of it. It's

48:04

important to be said that

48:06

for some of that. Yeah. Is that

48:07

just a good release that day? Well, I see what day

48:09

is shooting. How long

48:11

was it? We did it. Well, it was one of those things I've done a few

48:14

commercials before and they're usually so quick and

48:16

you kind of literally spend like three or four

48:18

hours and then you're gonna do a photoshoot and they're gonna

48:20

do this said, look, we're gonna do

48:22

it. I need to get I need to I

48:24

need to I need to choreographer and

48:26

and, you know, I mean, I because I can't

48:28

really don't. And we probably

48:30

tell. It's a bit very carefully edited. But it's so

48:33

brilliant choreographer called

48:35

Jackal Knight who came to

48:38

my home when we basically danced for two days

48:40

and just he just loosened me up and

48:42

got me and then we went and shot it in

48:45

Paris on the pontoon. It was amazing,

48:48

really.

48:48

And

48:48

exciting news,

48:49

Daniel has agreed to do a dance on the way out

48:51

of this conversation tonight.

48:55

Your idea would be would be

48:58

not a good way to in the east. Not

49:00

really. You think you

49:02

want it. Alright.

49:05

Some questions from our wonderful audience. This is

49:08

from Meghan. You've Hi,

49:10

Meghan. Hi.

49:13

You've done some incredible roles on

49:15

stage. Is there one on your bucket list that you

49:17

haven't tackled yet?

49:22

I mean, I've sort of done a bit of Shakespeare

49:24

now. I mean, I'd love to do King Lear,

49:26

so I don't know, maybe

49:29

sooner rather than later. I don't know. Yes.

49:32

Kigler.

49:33

Kigler. Fine for Weir. You've done the whole -- Yeah. --

49:36

rest of your life

49:37

to do Weir. That sooner. I don't

49:39

know. I've always started doing it as gonna I mean, he wasn't he

49:41

was sort of my age. Wasn't he? And I kind of fancy

49:43

kind of something about that that might be interesting

49:45

that so

49:47

he's not sort of dodgery -- Mhmm. -- to it, you know.

49:50

Anyway, we are -- Mhmm. -- we are --

49:51

Mhmm. -- we are --

49:53

Mhmm. -- shout out Sam

49:55

Zimmerman, film student at the University of

49:58

Alberta. Sam Shai.

50:00

What is the most important thing you look

50:02

for?

50:05

He's not dancing.

50:06

I'm out of here. What

50:08

is the most important thing you

50:11

look for?

50:12

Hey. Go

50:13

ahead. Thanks, Mac. What's the most important thing you look for to screen

50:15

play to decide whether or not you're interested

50:17

in the project? Is

50:19

there one intangible thing or tangible? Is it

50:22

good? Good. I mean, it really

50:25

they're rare. I

50:28

mean, good scripts are

50:30

very rare. There's some scripts that have

50:32

potential and you go, yeah, this is good. We can work on

50:34

this. Most of

50:36

them aren't. Good. And, you know, when you get something from

50:38

Ryan Johnson, which is like, unread it

50:40

from start to finish, and then reread it

50:42

immediately

50:43

because it's like so great. It's like that's

50:46

just Elliot wants to

50:47

know you've worked with such amazing

50:49

director, Spielberg, Gavan,

50:52

Mendes, Spokenaga, etcetera.

50:54

Do you take lessons from previous

50:56

collaborators for future ones? You're

50:58

the best bonged by the way. Thank

51:02

you. Elliott underlined

51:05

Best Bond. He

51:08

underlined that. Thank you. Really cute. Thank

51:12

you, Edith. Hello? Do I take

51:14

it every day is I

51:17

mean, I know it's a sort of old kind of

51:19

thing, but going back to school when

51:21

you go I I try and do that every day on

51:23

set because it's you

51:26

know, there's always

51:28

something new to learn and and as soon as I

51:30

I don't wanna be a call about this business. I

51:32

love it to death. It's given me so

51:34

much in life personally

51:37

and everything else and I just –

51:39

I don't want to be cynical about it. It's really important.

51:42

And you've got

51:44

to kind of just have

51:47

an open

51:47

mind. I've

51:48

had a friend of mine said, well, I was at

51:50

an act of an act of an arthic fence and someone

51:53

asked him what, what's what's the most important thing you

51:55

take to a set? Or what does he take to every set? He

51:57

went in my sense of humor. And I

51:59

kind of think that's funny. You have to have a

52:01

kind of keep things

52:03

you know, it's a good job.

52:05

Yeah. Yeah. Is there any

52:07

filmmaker that you chased for bong that

52:09

you wished you would have gotten?

52:11

A filmmaker. Yeah. Don't know

52:14

what Danny Boyle was -- Raul. Raul. -- I can imagine.

52:18

Amazing.

52:22

I assume that's facetious. No.

52:24

No. He was down. I

52:26

mean, he wasn't around. I know he was around. Right.

52:27

Yeah. Yeah. He would

52:29

just he he just was. No.

52:32

I

52:32

mean, it sort of was

52:35

a bit always

52:38

there's listen, there's lots of filmmakers I'd still love to

52:41

work with and not

52:42

everybody it's a it's a huge

52:44

machine -- Yeah. -- not every director wants

52:48

to do a Bond movie as much as it may sound like every director

52:49

would. A lot of people are, like, gonna stay

52:52

away from it, you know. Right. And keep I I

52:54

wanna see the Christopher Nolan Bond movie. He's a

52:56

big Bond Yeah. For a while

52:58

about It might happen.

53:00

Did you get along with fincher? He's my spirit

53:02

about animal. I love that. I did. Of course,

53:04

I did. Yeah. I have lots of laughs

53:06

with

53:06

him. Yeah. And yeah, I mean, that was a dream of mine

53:08

to work with him. So that was I had a great time.

53:10

Yeah. This does not have a

53:12

name, so we can't give you a shout out

53:15

but of all the characters you played, who would be the one

53:17

to be murdered, and who would be the one to solve

53:19

who lost that.

53:22

Show

53:23

yourself. What was it? So what was

53:23

it? Of all the characters you played, who would be

53:25

the one to be murdered and who would be the

53:27

one to solve the crime in a murder

53:29

mystery party? That's

53:31

a challenging one. That's -- Wow. -- who would be murdered?

53:34

Who's the most oh,

53:36

god. I

53:37

don't I don't answer I

53:40

mean, in any funny way.

53:42

Yeah. I just I

53:44

don't know who would be

53:47

murdered. You have a lot of people that could solve the crime, whether -- Yeah. --

53:49

I think I'll probably maybe or look then while

53:52

how could a detective James Bonders,

53:54

really? It was like smash it all

53:56

down. Who did it?

53:58

It's a very quick

54:00

movie. Very short movie. Yeah.

54:03

Fine. And I'm like an old guy very well.

54:05

That's okay. Did you know the twist in glass

54:08

onion prior to shooting? Well, you had the script, I

54:10

hope. I had the script.

54:11

Yeah. So I was I mean, I never read them for the

54:13

twist though, and I hope you don't have to kind of I don't

54:15

think you need to watch the movie for the

54:17

twist, although they're

54:20

there. And I know kind of this probably like people

54:22

say this all the time. Please watch it again.

54:24

But it really does bear watching

54:26

a second time because Ryan

54:29

is such a good writer and so

54:29

generous. Everything you see pays off and then there's

54:32

other layers that are going on underneath.

54:34

So it's worth it's really worth a

54:36

second look. I

54:38

believe this is Brit,

54:40

Brit

54:40

j. Brit. Brit.

54:42

Brit. Oh, Brit or Brit.

54:44

Hi, Brit. Hello. Brit wants to know if James Bond

54:46

and Benoit Blanc were to meet in real life,

54:48

what would they think of each other? It's

54:52

a sweet and quite

54:55

sick question. Yeah. I

54:57

think they would share a

54:59

drink. Don't you? They'd share

55:01

it. They'd have a

55:02

drink. Yeah. Yeah. I

55:02

think so. I think they'd kind of compare

55:06

notes. Benoit would

55:08

scamper, bond would break real wall. Yes.

55:10

Yeah. It might arrive

55:13

in different ways. Exactly.

55:15

So looking ahead, I know Ryan has said

55:18

he's he's starting to write. He's starting

55:20

to come up with an

55:21

idea he

55:21

says. Yeah. I know. Do you

55:23

get involved in the process, or do you just wait for the script to comment? I don't wanna get

55:25

I mean, we discussed things and we've had

55:27

he's had some ideas and I just I let

55:29

him go with

55:32

It's so nice. It's so lovely just to serve. He goes away.

55:34

I mean, last time we had lockdown,

55:36

so we couldn't go anywhere.

55:39

And he just sort of sat and wrote this, so hopefully

55:41

we can, like, in time. He'll go away to some

55:43

place. I don't know where he he has a sort of

55:45

secrets either way. Where he goes and

55:47

sort of writes it down. So I just I will look forward to reading this script when it

55:49

comes. I mean, again, the the com full circle

55:51

on our conversation, the beauty of

55:53

a Catholic Benoit you

55:56

could conceivably play

55:57

Benoit, like in your eighties. Like, you could play

55:59

him to the end. I mean,

56:02

listen, if if people still

56:04

laughing and liking it. Maybe

56:06

we will. So, you know, that

56:08

would be.

56:10

So when we're back

56:13

here in thirty years,

56:16

we're more likely to be talking

56:19

the return of Benoit. We're not going to see

56:21

Harrison Ford style return to the bond

56:23

in thirty

56:24

years. Never say never

56:26

again. Another guy said once. Who

56:30

knows?

56:30

I

56:30

don't think so, but

56:31

you know you know how it sound and god

56:33

knows what, the future holds. For

56:35

for his role. As

56:38

I said, these events are really special.

56:40

Happy second Fuze, the live is really

56:42

to do at ninety 2NY It's been a great year

56:44

of events. I wanna wish this audience happy holidays. You, Daniel,

56:47

happy holidays, and thank you for having me. And

56:49

thank you for coming

56:51

out. A lot. Thank you, guys.

56:54

Please.

56:54

Brad is a good word.

56:57

Last onion. Last

56:59

onion is on Netflix. December

57:02

twenty third, couple days from now, spread the good word of

57:04

this amazing movie, and give it up one

57:06

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57:08

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57:10

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