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When you're a maintenance engineer in a beverage manufacturing plant You keep production lines moving and quality on track because there is no room for slowdowns With Granger's vast selection of high quality motors, sensors, belts, and hard to find parts, you can get what you need fast and all in one place, so nothing gets in the way of getting the job done Call one eight hundred Ganger, click ranger. com or just stop by Ranger for the ones who get it done Hi, my name is Andrew Scott So all his areom being a Brian's friend That means I'm happy in Irish. Irish. Fonies here, hear the yell, back to school, ring the bell, brand the shoes, walk and loose, climb the fence, books and pens. I can tell that we are gonna be friends I tell we are gonna be friends. Hey there, welcome to Conor O'Brien Needs a friendriend Joined by Sona Mosessian. Hello, Sona. Hello. Matt Gorley, How are you, Matt? Hi doock Dom J just let it go Do you guys ever see our videos come up when you're you know Oh yeah. you see the videos come up of us doing the podcast. and I see too when they put out the photo of me with the guest. I'll be with Billy Eyish. I'll be with, you know, whoever the guest is. But I think Billy Eish came to mind because I was looking at the photograph and my hair is insane Yeah. real For years and years and years, I would do a show And I'd, you know, run a comb through my hair and kind of you know, make sure the quff was working. And I don't do that at all with the podcast. and sometimes it's insanity. We have a wall out there of pictures of me with different guests and my hair is all over the map. reallyally It really I mean it's it's mood hair. It's just insanity And I don't know I got self conscious. I think the other day some maybe it was the Billy Iowish photograph popped up on my screen. I don't know what's going on up there. I look like Shemp from the Three Stooges. Yeah. If he were a ginger and then I started to think,, you know, do I need to do something about this? Do I need to get it under control? O is this just what it is now, man? You. It's podcast, man et makeake sure my hair looks decent every time we do you don't. No no, what I'm saying, Sona, I wasn't saying your hair looks bad. it's just I don't think you have any control over what's happening on top of your head. I certainly do, sir. What do you mean? I put so much product in my hair And I have to make sure that it's like kindind of so seeing your hair after it's been treated and cared for.m just And I'm saying this Sony, you know that this is also a compliment because your hair is powerful. It is the source of your strength. I have the most iconic hair on this podcast. I' saying's something. Yeah.'s no But I mean you have abundant luxurious, powerful hair is And but what do you do? What do you do to it Okay, so I get out of You make it so angry and crazy. You taunt it I start up, I put in Argon oil to moisturize. It's Aragon oil. What is that? It's Argon oil. Argon. Isn't Argon a gas? It's a gas No, Agot A R G A N. Oh not O N. Oh N is what is Agon? It's like from it's like Moroccan oil. It's like the it's like really nice oil and it moisturized, you use it on your skin And then after that I put in like seven other products, likeike I put in a leave in conditioner, I put in a styling cream, I put in some gel and then I twirl it, then I blow dry it. And then Th Then you use a defibrillator ar Bang. clear bang. I do so much. Iead of hostage negotiator comp. Yeah, but it's been dry lately because I ran out of I ran out ofait was all that? huh? What would it be like if you didn't? It's horrific. Okay. So this stuff is expensive. It is expensive. Yeah. It's because it's imported. It's expensive. You have to get it from Morocco. That's the best way to do it. Have you been to Morocco to shop for Agon oil haveave not, but I would love to go and I would go just to shop for Argon oil. I think if they knew if the people in Morocco knew you were coming to get more of their oil I think they would try to keep you from showing up Because it's just a massive drain on their oil supply. I just picture huge reservoirs of argone oil being poured over your head just to tame your hair for two hours Well, maybe it'll help your hair too. You think I should put argon on? I think I think Yes. Oh, and then slick it and part it down the middle and put on glasses and go. What's a new look. That biophile. Yeah, would I would love to go to Morocco to just buy some more argon oil. Yeah.. notot gonna to happen. Oh okay. Not on my dime, that's for sure. Hopefully. Do you direct order it from Morocco? No, but you can only get it because they they're, I guess they're just trees that only grow in Morocco. and then they cult cutting down trees in Morocco to tame your hair. No, they're cutting down forest. Forest. Tame your hair. Forest. Yeah. That's why there's a desert. It was beautiful. Yeah. It was like Ireland there once and Selsona started to try and tame her hair. Oh my God, it was like the Shire There were monkeys around goingoing from tree to tree. And then Sona was born We need these trees. You thought I've been using it since I was born? I think I was an infant putting on argon oil. I don't think you were born with all that hair. I really do. I don't think you were a ball baby. I wasn't. No I didn was not a ball baby. I didn't think. Your hair was born maybe two months before you came out Your mom was beding it Well, she'll be here soon. Yeah, that's right. That's the image I want all of you to have. you're actually born with a handle. Yeah When it was ay A rip cord A rip cord. Yeah And swoop Wh Wh. So anyway, that's insanity Anway. So're it's dry now because you're no argon Yeah. Yeahah, yeah, yeah. I've runad out so I gotta go get some. All right, we gotta get you some. All. inssane in just insanity. And one of the most disturbing images out of hundreds and hundreds of episodes we've done. Yes.. Sona's Hir coming out months before she comes out and then her mom combing it and braiding it before Son is born is freaking me out. I feel like this is the second time he's done you've done a whole bit about my birth. We one time You were talking about my mom crushing me Do you guys remember?ound? You just kept yelling, I crush you. I crush you, I crush you Yeah, with her strong pelvic muscles she was pushing. don't talk about my m pelvic m sho Yeah, it was I don't know why she was crushed you. I don't remember. but I do remember the phrase, I crushed you when crushed my mom an apology. I don't think so U your mom, She's fantastic. Yeah. because this is like a show expense though, like based on like the Blay way of doing things, can I use my corporate card to buy Argon on? Absolutely not. No, because that's just gonna to encourage Blay to buy more, you know, whatever Star Wars gloves and Ironman assholes and then charge us for them. So no kchen strays in this Because you know what you did and it was wrong. And your mother's been implicated as well Um No, no, you cannot buy Argoon oil on our dime. It's not going to happen. All right. Okaykay. I'll stop you All right, we've gott to get into this because we have an amazing show today. My guest today is a fantastic actor who has starred in Sherlock, Fleabag I mean, so much more. I adore this fellow. Me too. I think he's one of the greatest actors alive. I'm serious about that. Now you can see him in the new movie, Pressure. I'm just on Coud nine that he's here today because I have not met the man. Andre Scott welcome You may not be aware that there is an Irish television show that's in Irish language exclusively they make in Ireland. Yes. It's called R Ros Naroon. Ros Naroon. I was on Ros Naroon I was on Ross Naroon. And then it got cancellled. Yeah, ye. You were in the last season of Ross N Maroon. I was closed I was the one that ended it. It was flourishing. But no, I went, I did some taping in Dublin. we found out that There was a possibility I could be on Ros Neroom. I said yes All my lines are in Irish What we used to call Gaic, but they're all in Irish. So did you have to learn it phrenonetically? youn? Yes, I had to learn it. They had cQue cards a horse could read. I mean, literally, it was ha B N. It's the most insane language. It completely It's completely insane. It'sam. And I thought, well, this is gonna be cool and I get there. And I talked to this very cool woman who's the producer suuper efficient, super smart kids sense of humor and I said to her, well, what's my part? You know, I'm comoming in am I the dashing You know and she went, No, you're an idiot who delivers balloons to the bar Yeah. And I said to her, listen, as a joke, I said to her, listen, there there's a good chance that before the day is out, you will fall in love with me. This is what happens when I work with and she said, I'll fall in love with you if you get this done in half an hour. D donon't burst the balloons. Yeah, yeah, yeah and don't touch the balloons it occurred to me that I've been to Ireland a number of times and what always occurs to me is that My formative experience was performing. There was a show I did once with a bunch of other Irish comedians years and years and years ago. The show's over we werere at the American Ambassador's Ridence in Phoenix Park we get into a cab The cab driver' funnier than all of us. Yeah, of course. And it's just you throw a stick and you will hit seventy five of the funniest people you've ever met in your life and they'll tear your face off. No they're vicious. Yeah vicious. but you grew up you grew up in grew Dublin. Yeah, ye Yeah. My father was from the West of very rural Ireland and My mother was from Northern Ireland so but yeah, Irish one hundred percent Irish. Have you confronted your Irishness? Oh it's like I think it increases. I think it increases get Well because when you're in Ireland, you just you don't think about it. but if you're an Irish person outside of Ireland, you're much more aware, I think of your Irishness than you would be, of course if you were just surrounded by Everybody else other babbling other babling people mildly depressed but also euphoric people euphoric people. And I do think there is there iss a reliance on storytelling and, you know, babbling and being funny because it keeps the people alive. It completely keeps the people alive. So if everybody's emigrated. Yeah, the way you talk about them is you create this stuff about them and you create keep them in the room, you know what I? Yeah. So I do think I was just back there filming actually in Ireland for the first time in a long time actually, and everybody's funny. Yeah. Everybody's funny. Its It's the language. Yeah. It's just the use of language. I need to say this right up front. I intended to say it right up front, but of course, we started talking immediately about Ross Naron about Ross Naroon. by the way, every single podcast interview I do Ross Naron. Sorry to bring Ross Naroon up again. Cherare was just here and we talked about Ross Naroon.. Well, she brought it up. Yeah. She brought it up. She said, have you ever done Ross Naroon? And I said Shut up, Cher I a Andrew, I am a megap fan to a disturbing level and I know exactly when it started which is my my son really got into the remake of Sherlock Holmes Benedet Cumberbond. Yeah Benumber. And by the way, in the States, That's the sobriety test. You don't even have to get out of the car now, they say, whoo is in the Sherlock Holmes? And if you got Bon you com me start. So Benedict Cumberbatch as Holmes, and then you are his nemesis Moriarti and the second you walked on camera was a epic moment for me because and jump in here if you know this The performance you gave, which has been much discussed and it really puts you on the map, you are Frightening, terrifying, and funny. And I've always thought all the best villains are charming and funny. Totally. It's important. Yeah, yeah yeah. And your Moriarty There's this iconic scene where you walk into that there's's a a swiming flool. And you're being very clever and you have that beautiful lilt in your voice and you're very And then at one point you say, I believe the line is, you get enraged and you say to Holmes, I will burn your heart burn heart out burn the heart out of you Yeah Burn the heart out of you Then you're kind of pleasant again And I I think I've I don't know how many times I've watched that scene but you are so Great in that role. And then these things just came one after another. Flea bag priest in Fleabag was an iconic standout role U And by the way if there were Five people you'd asked me a month ago, would who would you like to meet that you haven't met? One would be you and the other would be Phoebe Wellella Bridge. Who I've never met, who I absolutely adore. She's keeping us at a distance, which quite right. Did you mention Russ Laroon? Yeah I did. say staring me in the face.. She apparently was booked. Then she saw me as the balloon boys in Ross Maroon. popped those balloons Yeah. And she was out But how would you le boy. Yeah. I'm serious. You have to watch it. It It's a fright. I had the balloons and the guy at the barth is starts thinking I'm an idiot and calling me an idiot and we get into a dispute and I'm quickly ejected from the bar. That was my big. And then was a year and a half ago I hear, oh, they they've come out with a serialized version of Ripley That I have watched Ripley, which I believe is how many episodes I think' as it eight episodes seven and? I think I've watched it three times. I. Your performance is stunning. All the performances are great One of the things I also noticed is that you can freeze frame any second. Yes, yes. O those eight episodes. and have that mounted on the wall. it's incredible black and white photographed It's maybe don't I'm not someone who walks away from a project and says, Oh, the cinematography. Yeah. That is one of the most spectacular pieces truly is. Television, filmmaking. So that got me your Vanya which is you play every role too Yeah, which I don't understand. Yeah. There are times I watch people, usually it's in athletics where I say, well, that's a different species. But I don't know how you did that And then I'm delighted that one of my My best friends in the world One of my oldest and best friends, Lisa Cudro has done this brilliant Yes third version of the comeback And I don't even know you're in it and then you walk in as her new very mysterious strange boss. and I thought, okay, all my favorite people are in one project. So Andrew If I do nothing else but compliment you in this in this this talk, it will be a very boring interview. You're forgetting he's a Bond villain, too. No. No. No, I left that out just to humiliate. I appreciate. He works Bond in every h. I You do. You Bond. Well, I mean, take it or leave it, but No no. he'. We will be talking to a historian about the Battle of Gettysburg. and he will say, how do you think James Bond would have done an You were fantastic and ex.. Yeah. So thank you very. You had you had this Well deserved run, but like all people, you have an origin story. Yeah. And we got to go back to that because you Apparently we're a very shy kid. Yeah, very shy. ye, shy. And you had a pronounced lSp. Yeah, had a sort of really strong lisp. Which I think a lot of kids do. they sort of grow I it's kind of cute, but so I went to sort of elocution lessons than you do, like When I bring up lSp is it just come back? What are you talking about? I don' know you I could say. sayay Benedict Cumberback right now Um But yeah had a lisp. And so yeah, you have to do this terrible thing called elecution, which is, you know, all about your especially speech and drama. And so the speech part was sort of startifing with the drama part was suddenly I was able to be and kind of not shy and do all these kind of weird things and u I kind of love TV and all kind of stuff anduff. What were you watching on TV ust like the Muppet Sow. I was nothing, you know not just exclusively the Muppet show. To this day. To this day, you've never seen anything. You watched all the Muppet S show, and then you did Vanya. All the M. But The Muppet show is Extraordinary though, right? Have you seen the Jim Hansson documentary? Yeah because we had Ron Howard in New Jer Yeah, Yeahah for that. I mean I got to know the man a little bit. Did you reallyad in another lifetime? Yeah. ran this he was a muppet. Yeah I was a muppet. the day. Yeah, I'm related to the eagle. No, a very good friend of mine from college was Lisa Henson and her dad used to come and visit us And then we he was very nice to me. And then one day because I ran the college huma magazine and he said, Hey, Conan, do you want one of the chairs? from the Dark crystal for the the Lampoon building And I said, Well, sure. And he said, Well, come down and pick it up. And so we rented a van. And my friends, Jessica Marshall and Mark Gannam and I jumped in a van and I'd never done anything like this. I drove from Boston to New York. Oh, come on. We went to this warehouse and they said, you you know, a guy with a cigar, I was like, you here for the Dark Crystal throne. Yes I am And it's still there to this day. Yeah, amazing. It's just an incredible man. just what he would have done. that's why watching this thing. I mean just I guess that's why I guess that's why like even as a kid, you're sort of fully formed, I think, do you know what I mean? So you know, you're' when you're doing all that stuff when I was a kid, you just sort of know You become maybe more accomplished, but All the stuff is there with you. I think when you're eight years old, I think it's something that he really recognizes as being now because he understands that sort of you know something I talk about endlessly in acting is about playfulness is that you really required to be, iss just to be like, I'll do that with you. Sure. You know what I mean? And then you just slot yourself into different sort of scenarios and different sort of tones of drama or comedy or whatever it is And you were very artistic arrtistic. So you draw painting, what are you doing? Drawing lotots of life drawing. My mother was an art teacher and yeah, just just drawing all the time' somethingomet that I'm still still really interested in. Yeah. so that was kind of kind of u You know that weird thing where you're You know, you get terrible party anxiety and once you're at the party you're o Yeah, And sora the drawing is a way of I don't know, practicing human beings. Yeah. Yeah. Creepy. I'll be there in a minute, I just have to draw you. 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My time is precious. But you know, that's But you can fuck up the software completely couldn't you? Like know, you go like if you have this very sad idea of what something wants to be, you know, somebody think I think that's what my parents were both very good at actually, but no, because the three there's I've got two sisters. my sisters my oldlder sister, Sarah is very sportgy and my younger sister And it's very artistic, but in a sort of slightly different way to the way the way I was artistic. and they were both very good at going, okay, well you do that? And I think some of the real damage you can do is by going I don't know making your. Bihone or Samsung phone. Nicely done. workks. Nice.. Very nice Capitalism Nicely done. Right? Beause you just secured a deal with Apple. Although I've already secured it that Ssping Damn you! That's why you paused before you said that you had to get it in the right order. Damn. G That's a lot of writing on this. 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Yeah. I'm just play I love to play and I will play with anybody. Yeah. I someone on the street will talk to me and if they're ny. I'll spend twenty minutes with them. Yeah, yeah. It's just the same thing and it's a love of play Yeah. whichich we then get very high falutin you are Vana. Yeah, yeah,ome And it's extremely impressive and it takes this amazing talent and discipline. You're still playing. Oh you absolutely are. And I hate the idea of high art and low art. I really do. I thinkons And actually all the people who are, you know, like with Shakespeare, any of those people, like Shakespeare, I always feel has been sort of hijacked by academics, you know? And anybody, you know, I always find though, because the very first because we used to do when I was a kid, we used to do these used to get to do Shakespeare in these little Irish competitions, you know, like just extracts from Shakespeare. So you do ten minutes of it and you sort of I don't know, you just understood you just I kind of understood it in a way. Didn't understand all the words. But then I think what happens with some of those big guys is if they if they're two hundred fifty bucks written about how to speak the language of Michael Patrick King and Lisa Cudrow's the comeback, right drown it would kill it. There isn't a way of doing it. There is' a way of doing it. And so what I think happens with sort of some of those with theater particularly is there's this idea that it's that you're not pos not everybody is possessed of the thing that an actor needs to possess, which is just to my mind, just playfulness. And the stuff that I love to do is to be able to just do lots of all the different stuff because why wouldn't you? Well It's also it's seeing that, yes, I love Shakespeare, but I also love the Muppet show. Yeah I love some of the more, you know refined cinema But I cut my teeth on Warner Brothers cartoons. Yeah. the timing the characters, the kinds of attitudes that people are playing. And I think there's no difference between a great Warner Brothers cartoon and a really good Shakespeare sonnet. It's it's it's exactly the same thing. And actually he even says it in Hamlet. he says he literally there's a thing about how you should speak the language is so extraordinary. You just just speak it tripping in the tongue and stop shouting it out and stop doing it all that kind of stuff. So I think because I started and I didn't train formally, you kind of have to put your your dukees up a little bit about not the way I'm talked about, but the the way I suppose not to let my access to whatever I do for a living to be influenced too much by the seriousest with which other people talk. I always think the word calcify. Yeah things harden. If someone starts using a bunch of fifty dollars words describing your process and what you do They're not doing you any favor. No it's absolute know, And it's nice. that they see all that in your work But It's best that you not know about it and that because you want access to anything that's going to make you enjoy, be spontaneous see a possibility and not overthink it I think it's so true and you just keep that alive and the longer you work You know because you're not really supposed to play as an adult. Do you know what I mean? Yeah. You're supposed to know, which is like the opposite of playing, you know what I mean?. You're supposed you're supposed to like we suppos to have to not know the answer and like any any the any of the great adults, I think other on are like, I don't know, let's keep keep learning because it would be really boring at this stage. I mean, I'm nearly thirty years acting, you know, sort of professionally. And I want to you want to keep being like You know, isn't this cool? Isn't this cool? Isn't this cool? I get to do this? Yes, exactly. This is Al also not to be sort of false in the sense that you go, I don't know anything, but you can still know things. You can still go, I my instinct, you know, you definitely have instincts. but actually it's having more confidence in confidence in your instincts. L when when you're doing like when you're hanging out with kids and they're playing watching them play is amazing. They're they're not thinking They' just go, okay, you' be the thing. you be the thing you s with My mom did this because she was an art teacher. She she was an incredible teacher, my mom and she used to teach people how to draw And she said, when you when you when you u peopleople start to draw They immediately start drawing like the most tentive line possible because they't want to make a mistake. Yes. And the best thing you can always do when you're starting to draw is is to be sort of loud, confident and wrong. So start with a really strong line And even if the line is completely wrong, And you've drawn over the line, you know, you've drawn over that, that line will actually still be there, but the people appreciate the mistake. you start with a bit of confidence, you know, the way kids do. and you can you can redraw, just but don't not all draw. But also, I mean, I did this kind of comedy for whatever almost thirty years on television you know, where people come on and I interview them and didn there's a band and I would pray for mistakes. Yeah because mistakes were such gifts And then you get to a point where you're like, oh my, you know, here Someone will misspeak. I'll misspeak. I'll try to say Bennetict Cumberbad It doesn't come out right. We then get off on a jag. If you acknowledge it and then it becomes about drunk driving and then it becomes and then it gets called back when we're talking about That's the joy of it. and people know instinctively, as you know from doing theater so much of your life something about audiences where they know the truth. I always think that about making mistakes in the theater or about people worrying about forgetting lines. There's no better atmosphere or there's no more attentive atmosphere than when you think somebody has made a mistake. the whole And he's like, oh my god, something iss happening here, blah, bl blah blah. Right. And the actor's fear is that, oh my god, everybody's gonna think I'm But actually what I think the audiences feel is it reminds them that they've remembered all the other lines. Yeah. you know what I mean? Yeah. That's right. say Wait a minute. pretty good. Yeah. You know what it means? o go this is sort of live. so it's kind of alright. And once you get over that idea of making a mistake, if you know, like otherw like you know, the weird stuff that happens makes it you know, that makes the day the day, you know what I mean? And yeah. I always think it's weird as well. Do you like? In comedy, do you feel like you guys u dissect the audience as much as like we do in the theater? Oh used to. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I would be and we'll get to this because you know, we'll be talking about this a little later in the interview, but it's like the way a um meteorologist dissects a weather system. I used to Tonight good. Now I felt like they were. And then you get to be like someone who studied wine all their life and you've just sipped some wine instead of being like, Oh my God I love this is great. I'm here in Tuscany. just had a great sipper You know of Pinot noir. instead you're like the audience when I first came out, they were yeah, no, you know what there was an enthusiasm, but it's kind of a froth. It's not Now then I would say on the upper right hand of couldn't get them. There was sort of a tentitiveness, but then I felt like they were a little judgmental ye you know, and you were like shut. Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah shut up Yeah, yeah ye. do the thing. Just do the thing. It's like when you go and see somebody in the a play So the lesson I learned really, really on when I was really young I started at the Abbey Theater when it was about nineteen or twenty. and exactly that, someone would come to come to see the play and they were like, oh my god I love it and I was like We' just going get this laugh that we've got you know, the thing, you know, I wish you'd been in last night but the audience was incredible. And this Brilliantar said, donon't do that. Dontt don't do that because they don't they don't notice. I understand that it's not that it didn't happen. it probably was a greater show last night. Right. But like who cares? And when you're in the audience and you're laughing at something, you're not thinking, God, I wish that person in the bo company was laughing as much you don't really care. No,, not even awareness. The biggest mistake of thousands and thousands and thousands of interviews in front of audiences that I've done was a guest would come out and they would start, you know, talking and saying some of their stories and then they would say,, I'm sorry. this is boring. I'm sorry. Yeah. And you could feel the audience leave. Yeah. you know, I always thinking to myself at's such a rookie mistake tell them they're getting a bad show. And also in terms of etiquette, after someone's seen you do a show, they don't want to hear you go, I know. I just fel like today No. They saw you do what you had today. Yeah totally. I sometimes they love it. They're just not demonstrative. I mean we have exactly we have this culture now of everybody standing up. Everybody stands for it's too much. Sorry sorry No, no, no standsing ovation. Sting ovation You can You cannot go to anything without being st stand up terrible worst thing you've ever seen everybody standing. And also you go to any daytime and also late night show And everybody stands up for everything like you're gonna to watch a cooking segment. Yeah at one of the after And everyone stands and I think, huh. Well, you know, it used to be that an actor could be in the theater or performer could perform most of their life and get one standing ovation and boy did that mean something. Yeah. because it's the thing now because it's completely without meaning When you're on the stage though, I say this and then you're like, Who's that fucker in the fucking fourth rows not standing? Because when everyone's standing, they're like, and one person isn't. Yeah sudenly, you're like, but I sort of admire it. I sort of admire it because it doesn't mean they hated it. No. It just means it just something they just didn't want to st tired. they're tired time They're drunk. Yeah. Athrated. I have got so used to standining ovations. I'm sorry, I just have. that when someone's not standining sometimes I berate them. Yeah That they're like, Sor, I have no legs Well, that's awkward. Well Well, you could still lift him someone. You could have asked to be lifted. You could have come with a lifter. Exactly. if you enjoyed it. But you didn't care enough to hire someone. tr I know so much that U So you're struggling all these things when you're a kid because I'm always interested in this part because It's fascinating to me I do think that turbulence and anxiety and some level of some of that stuff just has to be part of the stew. Yeah you like it or not grow. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure. for sure. Yeah yeah, yeah it's definitely. I don't think you kind of really have the other stuff with the other stuff. Yeah. You know, you got to be it's not it's not, you, it's I supposed the sensitivity is the word likeike you got to be you got to be got to be you can't have one without the other. So I suppose I'm pretty um is it thin skinned? I do think Irish people are pretty sensitive as well. Yeah, you know what I mean? I think so It's soft hearted. I think it's in the culture, which I think it allows the people to be so brutal because you know it' both. Yeah, ye. That's the it's always all the thing all the things are both Yeah and ye and I always think it's I mean, speaking for myself, I'm incredibly thin skinned And then I can be a Viking I have both Yeah in me Yeah. but And it's hard to reconcile them both, but that' that's what it is. It's exactly what it is. And it's sort of it's like what you were saying about I think there's something when you're become well known. it's interesting what you say by talking to people on the street Which is still incredibly important to me. And' one of the things that I think would frighten me is not having that access to just talking to people every day. I think it just seems like an awful thing to just be so sort of successful or so recognizable that you have to be in this sort of prison the whole time. Yeah. So not to be able to get out and go have a lotgh of people. And that's why I sort of hey, it'sny that you werere saying that as well. about when people say, o, this is boring. Like when you talk to people and they say, Oh, I don't have this interestnteresting a job as you. You think, I bet you do. And then, you know maybe not as interesting a job, so to speak, but always have story that they kind of want to tell. And so being able to the access to those people and for them to feel like So what are you doing? And then people tell you incredible things and that's the stuff that I that I love and I don't know if that's about being an Irish or whether that's just being interested in people or whatever. but or if to doew it being artistic. I don't know what it is. But you know, that that's the That I think is the thing that you want to I would be very, very lost without being That's why I mean, you've had all this success movies and teelevision and I read that you make a real point of doing theater regularly You love This is something we have in common. I love being in a theater. I also love sort of Nothing in an old theatater, if you know what I'm saying. There's this extraordinary moment. I went to see the amazing Mark Ryins yeah in Jerusalem. And there's this extraordinary theatrical sort of he did. I'm trying to think if there's something here to So he had to fight for. Yeah tte lighter and he heing he was playing a giant. It was about giants. It was sort of about folklore in the English countryside. And somebody had a lighter and he was telling the story about a giant talking to a child and to make this sort of theatrical sort of gesture. He put this cigarette lighter down on the ground, like like here. Yeah. put it down here. on the g sort ofve stood it up He spoke down to this a cigarette lighter. the cigarette lighter. And so you immediately in this it was at the World Court Theatater, you immediately had this sense of scale. Yeah. That's just that's got nothing to do with CGI or, you know so much Thank. I'll never wash this pen cap again. And he's a real pen washer. So I know you love to wash the pens. he has Every time I see him, he's scrubbing away. But yeah, it's just that sort of stuff. And the audience go No, it's amazing how when you see someone come up with something like that in a moment and you realize it's all The tools change, but the task doesn't. Its off. You know, you st. But you know what? you've got Now we have AI and CGI and super compputers and you can create all these effects and you can put put it in the round, you can do all these things Basically you're getting the same effect as Mark Rylland's putting a pen cap on the floor or, you know a lighter And standing there in that moment, You know, you can delight the human brain with the old ways as well as with the new. Itact same That's exactly true because the audience are going That's what I find so moving. I never don't find it moving, which I think is why I love the theater. Adults are going into a theater Wfully peopleople are turning off the lights and somebody is telling them a sort of lie that they know is a lie a story and they're saying, tell me tell me a story. So the liveveness, the mistakes and the the The humanity of it is the thing that really, really delights the audience. and of course visual effects. I mean, all that stuff is amazing too. but It separates the audience a little bit from the performer. Whereas if someone said, I could do that with a pen if I just had access to my imagination. Yeah. So it actually it bonds the performer and the audience member. Whereas if you've got too much you know, stuff. They think, Oh, well, that's that's not that's not something that anything to do with me. That's just something that I can be impressed by, but not necessarily connected to I don't know.'s So the grand scheme of a big theater juxtap us was out of just a one tiny human performer is sort of beautiful to me as well, You know what I mean Yeah. I, uh you will keep getting these opportunities to do you know, movies and all kinds of projects you want, but I love that you're saying Yeah, this is what I need. Yeah. I need this. I need to be in these live productions because That's just, it's like touching home base. You just got exactly what it is. And that when we did Vanya, you know, that one of the beautiful things about that was because that's, you know, check off and veryery serious high art and Chekov is so funny, like genuinely so funny. And it's a kind of ridiculous idea that and it started as a mistake was this There's eight characters in the show. and I was reading with the director and the the u u writer and we sort of allocated the parts and we' were just reading because obvious it was going play one part and we were like, oh, which part might be. And we were sort of play the three of us were playing all the roles and we sort of misallocated the roles. So I ended up sort of going, wait, are you and I was like, okay, I'll just I'll just act just to get just sit here I'll just act with myself And it was so weird because it was two the two characters in the play that were proclaim that they were the most opposite to each other. And so it seemed completely absurd that this person was Anyway, that was kind of interesting and then we were like, Oh, maybe we can do with two people. and then maybe actually, why don't you try it with one person? I mean the whole thing sort of, I was a bit reluctant because I thought does not just seem like Let me do it. sort of You know what I mean? I think theactot the exact quote because I talked to someone who was there was, I got this. Yes. I know that's what I said. remember you tried to dis us all today and do this alone. Yes I did. I did try and I still think I could do it all. I'm learning about the electronics. I feel like electonics. Electronics electronics. I know youll have your electronics This is an electronics over there. I think that's proof I know what I'm talking about Yeah But yeah, like all that stuff. So you see see so um You know, to do that anyway, so why am I telling you this? No because're you're talking about how it all be expanded to you playing all these roles. Yeah. so then you do you do all the you do those things. so anyway I did all the ended up playing all the parts and like, how do you do it to how do you how do you the audience feel N one that they understand it, but also how do you teach an audience about we had this really fun moment at the beginning because I really wanted the audience to sort of not feel like, okay, we're watching Checkoff. like this what do we need to do Yeah. Be people were like, what do I need to know? I mean, I't's Russian I worth of this? Yeah what's the thing Yeah. So we did this thing where I came out and I came out and the audience was like, Wh the fuck is this What's this going to be like? It's going to play all the parts. So we did this sort of fun thing. it was such a good thing to do where I sort of turned off the house I came out and I turned off the house. I said a little trick. Yeah. we turned off the house lights so I think, okay, we're all in darkness now And then I just turned the back on just turned the back on And I looked at them and they werere like, Ohh g you know what I was like, I can see you, you can see me. This is a bit weird And they're already laughing before they sure beforefore they know You told them Let's don't worry, don't worry. It's're gonna have fun Yeah. It's fun. I can see you can see me like Iself. And I love fucking that up alongside something that just like add a great masterpiece. Here's what would fascinate me is if you if you're playing that many roles And you go up on a line Can you ask one of your other ses? Can I apologizein? Can I apolog? Or do you ever say I can't work with this? I cant work out a. Yeah. Do you know so one of the great was actually nearly the best thing about it is if you do go up on a line Bliss, you just make it all up. You could just you just go, okay, I fuck that bit up. o well, I'm just gonna keep talking because nobody' ha'ving messed anybody up and then I'll ask a question that isn' in the script. and I'm gonna make that person answer it and we're to go back to office. It That' great. That's great. That's right. You don't have other actors around you going, What's. What' what we doing Yeah it's v. ye. I want to talk about this Again, interesting process now where you're you've made a movie and I was told I could access this movie, I could watch it yesterday Uh, and they said, you know, It's this whole system now. It used to be they just give you a DVD or something or screener. U and they said, here's this system and this code and then you're going to get this number and you know, you're calling different people because I don't know much about electronicsics. But I know nothing about the movie. Yeah, right. I just know it's called pressure. Yeah. And I will watch you read the dictionary. so it's like Andrew Scott, pressure. I'm in. So U fininally the movie start. I don't know anything about it and I realize, oh, it it's about World War two and it's about the buildup to D day. And then I realize your character's on screen and he's being called you this very important job. And I realize, wait a minute, because I'm a history buff I think I know about this. Oh my gosh. I knew about it, which is, you know, the Allies are gonna to launch the D D invasion to try and save Europe. They've got the largest armada in the history of civilization. Wait, are you just saying you know about D D? Y. I. Okay And that's the end of the interview. I know two things. electronics and D D. No, But I know that what I was aware of was that what's the thing that's perilous that they really need to know, which is invasions over water are almost impossible. They usually fail. They only work when the conditions are right But it's nineteen forty four you know, meteorology is still kind of in its infancy. They need to know the weather's going to be okay. And Churchill says there's this one guy who I think is a genius who could do it. and they bring Captain James Staggin and I'm like, I actually know this story not as I didn't know enough about it I kind of knew about it That's what this movie iss about Which is a great story to tell. It's really a great story. It's a really interesting story. It sounds kind of weird, it's a movie about the weather. Yeah. Coming soon to with H toew you Guys talk about the weather in a room. Whoa, I'm going to Sella. Sal, baby, Sell. But yeah, it is a quite weird thing, but the weather comes into our lives. like it's sort of peopleople think, o's what a preposterous thing to you knowt have a movie about. Yeah because it's sort of like a movie about the weather But it's also kind of preposterous to sort of not have a movie about the weather. Do you know what I mean? Because it influences influences every day, you know we're You know, what wear, where we go, where we're going to have our kids birthday party, Where are we going to go on our holidays? L what our mood like it it's something that it's sort of it's sort of changed my attitude towards the weather but how of course they would be thinking, okay, well, if we have to if we have to land on on the beaches in Normandy, we need to know kids are not going to be drowned immediately the conditions are going to are going to be able to land safely. So they need somebody to say, this is what it's going to be like? Don't go in that day because then you'll surprise them that will be a good day to go. They'll see it coming bl blah blah. So they had this very particular day that they wanted to do it. And this guy, very, very resolute kind of man stood up, he was a real hero and he was like, no, no, you're not going on that day. And they were like, we are going on that day. That's the thing that the movie gets really, I think, right, the enormous pressure. Yeah, the huge. Meaning this isn't just should we do the podcast today or should we move it tomorrow? Yeah It's close to that. It's second The pressure is similar you don't Andrew, you have no idea what I deal with day in and day out. I am Eisenhower. God Jesus. And I made the decision today. Let's proceed with Andrew Scott and the forty minute chat. and that ball and go and fail. Body is everywhere No, but you know, it was it's this huge decision and it really does come down to the entire unified Allied command looking at this one guy and saying Well, we need to go and we need to go now and it's all set and just all we need is you're okay. And he says, I can't give it to you. Yeah, I w't it to you. I can't and I won'. And so who's this extraordinary He's sort of's not a particularly affable person. And I love those kind of cinematic characters that aren't necessarily nice but are good. Yeah You know what I mean? No, he's a very good man and he's doing the right thing, but he is not a people pleaser. Nos I'm f I just I spend so much of my life making trying to make sure everyone in the room is okay. okay. And so I'm fascinated by people who just don't give a shit. Yeah. just don't He's here What are you doing? No pleasant Stop that. No pleasantrees Yeah. peopleople go to shake your hands? There's not time for that. Well I mean, it's great I think because I'm a little bit similar to you as well. I think that's again part of the Irish g. We're both great actors. I didn't catch that he was say. Have you seen my vanya? Did you see Interscotch just said we're very similar? Hello, is this What's wrong with this? turned it on. Yeah. You got a lying down, ovation. People try to actually find lower ground when I finish a play It went to death ball. basement here level. I hear drilling often when I But no, but what I loved about it was it's historically, it's a true story. It really happened. It's something no one's going to talk about and people know the one D day story, which I understand you were a very small part of saaving Private Ryan t that like one of your early things. Yeah, they shot that in theouth south of Ireland on Kirklo We Yeah. So basically just nothing. Tom Hanks rollled over me and I'm like M! What Did you know was your line? My line was Nobody's where they're supposed to Oh God Yes. I know well. I know that line. Oh yeah. That's crazy.s Nobody's where they're supposed to be, but your head gets blown off. I don't think people cared enough to S now with my hair got my head got blown off. I just I was just I always say I was the guy in green.. My God. But your character, you did manage to shout actually made it into the intoabable Sving private Rine... The weather is key. more on that later. You'll see you'll all know'll see you'll seeank comes back and he shoots you. and you're an American. ye No' it's'm I was thrilled. It was like, I knew nothing. and It's an interesting story. And then I' like, oh this is great. Yeah this is really great ye And a terrific cast all. Yeah. really good. Yeahah. Brend and Fraser and Chrismasen and Carary Colan, Dmielose, great people Yeah, ye. Yeah. Damiian Lewis says it he's Henry the eighth, I believe. He's Henry eight. He's Henry theIh in Wol W. Yeah, yeah. He's so good in that. Oh he is great act. Geniial. Oh yeah. the same thing we' talking about. He's geniial, but he'll cut your head off. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah and and and smile. Yeah, it's like all those characters that it's I always think that's what you want as an actor is you want whatever you're presenting to be the opposite of what you're feeling sometimes, you know what I mean? They're the ones, you know, whether it's Someone who's cold hearted and is incredibly benign or the opposite. Why do you have people expect you to kind of walk into a room sometimes and be a little bit more sinister because' for sure for sure. Yeah Yeah. ye, yeah, it's interesting. I don't mind that. Yeah.. yourour waiter comes right away. My waiters don't. They're like that idiot can he can kill them U Well, this has been an absolute thrill for me. And like I say, if you bump into Phoebe Wola Bridge anytime soon, please tell her of course My list my pleasure. My list is almost down to no one at this point, but she's on it. Okay. But up to today it was the two of you And so this is a bucket list moment for me will come back anytime. I'd love to come back. Yeah, just and trust me, I am gonna get you my clip from Ross Naroon. Maybe we can find we can find it? You found it? Oh my God. H we go.'s's This is just a photo. Well that's just a photo. We'l on YouTube here for. That's how they dressed me That's what happens when a hero returns to his country. You came in off the street with that. And. Incredible. We have the clip if you want to put on your headphone. Yeah'll be ableisten able to listen to. He thought he was an actor until he saw. Always learning. Here we go. There we go. Lots of balloons, small doorway. Good you are G of which Oh my God. It's a doll weit.h Balloons D To wich. Hlliot, C in your skill? Quiga Euro D a fairal. How can a make your a COD, cash on delivery? You're sucking tard Lumir. So u PMT. Pgahon. Suckon toair. C me wing a balloon?. You don d is the tarderun trash andish my fair crosslap and a balloon in it east I gu Yara your mums don't let you breaking go h kick you. your unc gotaka Marsl. is incredible Is that an Irish balloon? No. No they just said told me to say balloon but But they also they they just went out of their way and God bless them because no one deserves it more than I do. but There was no way to be cool in that sea. What that hat? That hat. balloons. And yeah, I rem I remembered saying like, what if, you know, Colin Furl showed up? She'd be like, well would you know, we'd make him the love interest. We're not giving him some fucking balloons. You know, but yeah, I was How was this Irish?? How was this Absolutely beautiful. Yeah. Well there in buses we say Hey, standing ovation. Andrew, I can't thank you enough. J a joy to be with you today. Joy to be with you guys too. Thank you very so much for having. Take care. 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I discovered back in December that there's a way to distract you from anything. Is that true? It's true. This is you're being real now. I'm being real. This is real. This is the real me. Okay. And that is to put you in front of a TV and turn on the Hallmark channel. Wait, where were we when this happened? In New York. That's right. It was December, so it was like the Christmas Hallmark movies. I have to say, I am powerless around a Hallmark movie. I don't know what it is, but I start watching them and then I love to call out what people are going to say. Yeah. and I'm write a bunch of the. You got it like ninety percent of the time. I call out lines like Now get back here, young man. and then the person will say, Now get back here, young man. ands it's thrilling. I mean it's the same high that a gambler in Vegas would get on Really? Yes. I get very excited. And we were going somewhere like there was a car picking us up, but we couldn't leave until we found out if this woman quit her job as a lawyer to go build ice sculptures? Yes. Well, first of all We didn't wait to find out what was going to happen. That's true. We knew what was going to happen The uptight lawyer is going to realize that the most exciting thing in her life is making ice sculptures with this guy at Christmas time in their little Christmas village. And I knew that was going to happen, but I had to see it happen. Yeah. It's one of those things where you know, I have to see that happen Yeah And and I love how there's no jeopardy She her mom runs the law firm. I love how this is coming back to me instantly. Oh my God. I'm not kidding. Like I't know you were going to bring this up. Her mom runs the law firm and she's dreading telling her mother, her mother keeps saying, off course, and you're gonna to take over the law firm because that's what. And then she's loving making this ice sculpture with this guy, which I think is a loser thing to do. And anyway, I'm sorry. you just burned a lot of ice sculpture It isn't like Timy Chalamet with the ballet. I went very specific with ice sculpture. And if you've got a problem with that ice sculpture, people You're doubling down Yeah. I that ice sculpturist By the way, that was really embarrassing. Can we edit that? No, no, I want. I want it scs, ice sculpts Zizs. Anyway Um She has to go to her mom and you think, o, this is going to be the real tension in the show. She goes to her mom and says, I just want to make ice sculpture. I don't really. And she said, this is the line I called out. She said, but it was always your dream to be a lawyer. And I shouted out, No mom, it was your dream. And she went No, mom, it was your dream and I It was an erotic high for me. Oh I swear to God