Jack Reynor | A Perfect Couple of Pints

There was no other thing that I wanted to do.

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I really, really, very strongly

felt from the age of like five or

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six, that I want to be in films.

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I want to be an actor.

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I'm not even considering

anything different.

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Announcer: Welcome to Story Craft.

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Now, here's your host, Marc Preston.

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Marc Preston: All right, here we go.

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Another episode of Story Craft.

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Welcome back.

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If this is your first

episode, Hey, welcome.

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Thanks for stopping in

and checking out the show.

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Uh, today we are sitting down to

chat with a very talented Irish

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actor by the name of Jack Rayner.

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Uh, you might know him

from the transformers.

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Uh, also, uh, he's in the new Netflix

show called the perfect couple.

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And over the last year or so, uh,

one of my favorite sci fi shows,

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the peripheral Amazon prime video.

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Great show.

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Really enjoyed the conversation

with Jack, a cool dude.

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And today, of course, being, uh,

not too long after the elections

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I just want to disappear for a moment

and just listen to a conversation, a

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little bit of fun, something light.

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And I'm so happy to oblige.

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Uh, so thank you very much.

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Now again, uh, Jack Rayner from Ireland.

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And Nice to sit down and chat with

a guy who's just laid back like

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everybody else I I have had the good

fortune of meeting from ireland.

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They're all just kind of chill Um,

they all like a good pint we talk about

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that, of course, so let's jump right

into it today It's jack rainer day

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right here on story and craft How are

you doing this afternoon or uh morning

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well, I guess it is afternoon for you

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Jack Reynor: well, it's

night time now it's 8 p.

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m in the evening

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Um, at the moment I'm

in, uh, I'm in London.

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Yeah, I'm going to be out here

just for the next couple of

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months shooting a TV show.

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So,

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Marc Preston: um, Yeah,

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Jack Reynor: that's what I'm doing.

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Marc Preston: Did you do

anything, uh, fun or, uh, dynamic

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and awesome over the weekend?

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You know, here we are Monday, or

were you just kind of resting?

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Jack Reynor: I was a little, you

know, I was a little sick over the

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weekend, but yeah, I was, I was, I

was a little sick over the weekend,

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but, uh, my wife got into town.

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She's going to be here

for the next few months.

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So we, you know what, we just

chilled out with our dog.

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We played some backgammon.

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We watch some movies.

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Marc Preston: That's the way you do it.

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You know, there's something to be said

about just kicking back around the

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house and what kind of dog do you have?

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Jack Reynor: We've got a Harrier Beagle,

so just a little smaller than your typical

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Beagle and, and he's a great little dude.

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He comes with us everywhere.

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Yeah, I have

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Marc Preston: a, uh, We've had golden

retrievers for years and years when we

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lost our our last one left us a little

over a year ago And then we got uh,

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six month old here a couple few months.

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Well, he's now six months old So

it's like I feel like all right.

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I feel like I have a toddler.

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It's so funny I forgot about this.

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Uh, as I say the velociraptor

era of the golden retriever,

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you know, so Well, very good.

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So you're shooting a tv

show right now or a film?

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Jack Reynor: Yeah, I'm doing season,

season two of Citadel on Amazon and

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yeah, so I did a movie with Joe Russo

a few years ago, um, Joe and Anthony,

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uh, film called Cherry and, um, I got

on great with those guys and Joe and

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I kept in touch through the pandemic a

little bit and, uh, Yeah, we just kind

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of remained friends and, um, you know,

he was, he was, he was generous enough

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to have me come out and work on the

show with him for a couple of months.

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So it's great to be back in the saddle

with him and, um, Stanley Tucci's on

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this, who I worked with 11 years ago now.

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Marc Preston: Really?

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What did y'all work together on?

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Jack Reynor: We did a Transformers

movie together, which was, uh,

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Marc Preston: Interesting.

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He's just got a new cookbook out.

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I think if I was doing a film with

him, I'd just try to guilt him into

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cooking something for me or something.

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Yeah.

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Or even

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Jack Reynor: making you a drink.

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I'll tell you that.

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Indeed.

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Marc Preston: Indeed.

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So where were you originally from though?

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Jack Reynor: I'm Irish.

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I was born in, um, Boulder in Colorado,

but my family had emigrated to

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America in the 1980s and they moved

back with me to Ireland in 1994.

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So I was raised in Ireland.

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Marc Preston: Now, do you,

what do you call home?

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Do you, are you, uh, Ireland or

Ireland is very much my home.

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Yep.

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Jack Reynor: We just bought a house about

a year ago and the house is less than a

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mile away from the house I grew up in.

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Marc Preston: That's a full circle thing.

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Jack Reynor: Yeah.

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And 19th century police barracks,

which I'm currently renovating

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and turning into a home.

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And it's situated on the

Blessington lakes, which is

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in County Wicklow in Ireland.

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For any of your listeners who might've.

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ever been over to Ireland.

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Um, and it's really beautiful to just sit

looking out across the lake at the, um,

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the kind of estate houses in the area.

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So the barracks was built in 1859,

um, as a Royal Irish Constabulary.

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Checkpoint and outpost where they

would be able to kind of look out

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and just make sure that those houses

were and Just taken care of basically

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and yeah, so it's a nice place

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Marc Preston: So how'd you get this place?

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Was it just something you saw

it was available and you already

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knew kind of the story or it's

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Jack Reynor: A house, you know what?

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Yeah, I knew the story.

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I mean, from the time I moved back

to Ireland when I was two and a half

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years of age, three years of age, like

I used to walk up that little lane.

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It's a Boharine is what

it's called the small road.

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That's the Irish word for a small road.

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And, um, so I used to walk up that road

with my grandfather when I was a child and

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I would always see that house and loved it

from the time I was really, really small.

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Never thought that I would eventually

own it one day, but as luck would

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have it, the opportunity arose and

I was in a position to seize it.

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So

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Marc Preston: it's kind of a full

circle thing for you there, you

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know, kind of coming back home.

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And, um, now did you ever have any

time living in the States or have

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you always sort of been commuting

back and forth between the Ireland?

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Jack Reynor: I've lived on and off in

America over the years, you know, six

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months, seven months in LA here and there.

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And, um, you know, I've spent

time in New York over the years.

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Um, lived in Chicago one time for a

couple of months, which was good fun.

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I've been all over America really.

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Um, and yeah, it's been very good.

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So

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Marc Preston: what'd your folks, uh,

what, what kind of profession or vocation?

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Jack Reynor: Yeah, nothing

that's, uh, nothing that.

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There's any foreshadowing of what

I was to do with my own career.

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Marc Preston: So was the, when you

chose this path, was it well received

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by the family or are they thinking,

well, what the heck are you doing here?

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Jack Reynor: It wasn't, it was

always what I said I was going to do

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from a very, very, very young age.

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You know, I was like four or five

years of age when I started to

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tell people that I wanted to be an

actor and I wanted to be in movies.

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So that discourse was always around the

house when I was a child, but it wasn't.

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Until I was 17, 18 years of age that I got

an agent in Ireland and I started to pick

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up small independent roles and things.

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And I wasn't discouraged from doing what

I was doing, but I think at a certain

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point before I started to book the jobs.

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I think everybody was a bit concerned

that I was not going to have a future.

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Um, but things moved along quite quickly

for me when I started to book jobs.

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And, uh, so there were, there

were no arguments about it

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after that, I suppose you'd say.

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Marc Preston: So you already knew

when you were young, kind of the

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direction you wanted to go, but

was the, was there ever a feeling?

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Well, that's not going to It's

going to be a practical approach.

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So let me, uh, have the fallback was, you

know, was there another plan career wise?

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Jack Reynor: There was a bit of

that, but I wouldn't say my family or

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particularly practical people anyway, so

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Marc Preston: I didn't

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Jack Reynor: face too much opposition.

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Marc Preston: So what else

was on the radar for you

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that, uh, you, you were young.

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You're like, well, like actor, well, what

about being a pilot or a fireman or a.

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Accountant.

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I don't know.

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Was there anything else out there?

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Jack Reynor: Honestly, honestly, and I

was just saying this to somebody else.

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Um, I didn't have a backup.

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I didn't, there was no other

thing that I wanted to do.

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I really, really very strongly

felt From the age of like five or

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six that I want to be in films.

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I want to be an actor.

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I'm not even considering

anything different.

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And that's a crazy, that's a crazy,

um, place to land yourself at such

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a young age to be that singularly

focused on what you want to do.

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Um, but that was it.

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That was, that was, that was, there

was no, yeah, I don't remember ever

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considering doing anything else.

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And when I look back now

at it, that's insane.

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It's nuts.

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I was so unbelievably lucky

to end up where I did.

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Marc Preston: Yeah, I

felt the exact same way.

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I remember being seven years old going,

God, I really want to work in a radio.

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I want to do something.

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It really was theater

of the mind, I think.

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I think it was just the performance

thing I was dialed into.

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Because I also did acting and other

things, but Um, but the thing is

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when you're young, it's like, almost

like, where did that thing come from?

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And why is it still holding on?

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And by the time I got, I'd already

worked doing it, but I got to college.

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Like, okay, I gotta get serious now.

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I was a solid B student.

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So there wasn't a medical

career in my future, you know,

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nothing else really resonated.

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So I know that feeling was like

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Jack Reynor: the radio.

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What was the radio about for you

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Marc Preston: initially?

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It was, uh, just, you know,

music, just regular radio.

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I started when I was 17.

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And then I, uh, Evolved involved and

tried out different formats news and

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everything and ended up at a doing a

syndicated show where it was You know

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talking talking to interesting folks

and I had a couple of interesting

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syndicated gigs one of them was was a

Weekly thing where I was doing retro the

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music of the like 80s and all that kind

of stuff and it was you Steely Dan fan?

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Not, not, not, not necessarily.

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I would say more of, I was more

of the hair band era when I was

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a kid, you know, Bon Jovi and you

know, Van Halen and all that stuff.

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Um, but no, that that for me was fun

because it was the pure expression

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of why I wanted to be at radio,

which that was the last gig I had.

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And then, and then, and then I was joking

with my kids one day, I was like, yeah,

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y'all, y'all too young to remember.

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The only thing they remember from

me when I worked at ABC was, uh,

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they really liked the lobby cause

we had a little Creek in it.

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Okay.

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And the fact the security guard had good

coloring books, they don't remember that

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daddy was this like radio personality,

you know, they could care less, you know,

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they're not remotely phased by me, but

it was something I, you know, that's

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the thing I tell my kids, let your heart

kind of guide you a little bit, you know,

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not a, not a title on a business card.

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I would agree with that.

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Um, so did you do any kind of formal

education as far as the, uh, you know,

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doing, cause you did travel, like,

you know, New York where you take an

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acting classes and whatever they are.

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Or did you have, I

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Jack Reynor: never had any

formal training as it were.

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Um, I did like an improv course

in the Gaity School of Acting when

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I was 16, and that was helpful.

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That helped me to kind of shed any

sort of like inhibitions, you know?

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Um, and I guess when I started to work,

when I started to book some independent

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roles in films and stuff in Ireland.

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I caught the attention of a

casting director in Ireland

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by the name of Maureen Hughes.

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And Maureen was collaborating with

some directors at the time, uh, John

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Kearney with whom I did Sing Street and

this Amazon show Modern Love, um, and

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most recently Flora and Son last year.

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So John was there, Lance Daly, another

great artist director, and Kirsten

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Sheridan, another great artist director

who cast me in my first film, actually.

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They had this really interesting

initiative where they kind of

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put together an actor's studio.

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It was composed of, uh, you know, just

like young, interesting people in the

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greater Dublin area, uh, people who showed

an interest in some raw talent in film and

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television and particularly in acting, but

also in writing as well and in directing.

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And so we had this actor's studio

of about 15 or 20 people and, uh, We

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were based out of, uh, Bolin's Mill,

which was an old historical building

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where they used to make biscuits.

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Um, And it was, you know, long

since, you know, uh, decommissioned.

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And so it, it had become this big

old freezing cold space, uh, where

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you could kind of just sit as a group

and be left to your own devices.

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And the 15 or 20 of us would sit in there,

and we were kind of a self directed group

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of people who would bring in different

material that we were interested in,

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you know, like we would write scenes,

we would bring in scenes from films,

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we would do improv with one another.

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And we would spend all day doing this,

you know, a couple of times a week.

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And at the end of the day, we would sit

and we would watch everything that we had

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done from, you know, we would record it as

we did it, and we would watch it all back.

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And as a group, we would sit

there and kind of constructively

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critique each other.

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And from that, I think we all kind of

all built a sense of our creativity

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and Sort of figured out what our

strengths and weaknesses were.

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And, um, that was, that was kind of the

training really, you know, and a bunch of

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those people who were in that group went

on to have really, really strong careers.

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You know, it's, it's long gone.

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It doesn't exist anymore.

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It was just that one

group at that one time.

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Um, and then it was gone.

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Marc Preston: It was kind of an organic

from the ground up thing y'all built.

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It wasn't something preexisting.

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Jack Reynor: Very much so.

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Yeah, very much.

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So it was something we built on our

own and I missed those days because

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I don't get to spend three or four

days a week just working through

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scenes with people and focusing on

whether or not that's feels authentic,

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that, that kind of performance or

what can I do to make this better?

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What can I do to make it different?

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There's no safe environment

for that for me anymore.

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Now it's like I'm on set.

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It's, you know, you got to do

it and it's got to be right.

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Every time

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Marc Preston: you never

really appreciate the.

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formative years that you're, when

you're slugging it out going, God,

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you know, trying to get it together.

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You don't really know the future

is completely unknown and it's

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maybe a little stress or whatever.

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Then you look back on those years

going, ah, that was the good time.

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You know, that was the, yeah, that

was the kind of the raw food, the

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Jack Reynor: safety net.

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Yeah,

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Marc Preston: exactly.

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It

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Jack Reynor: was okay to go in there

and just make a absolute tool out of

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yourself, you know, but, um, You can't

do that on a 150 million TV show.

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You just got to be good.

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Marc Preston: You know, it's

like being professional, like

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a professional baseball player.

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You just got to show up and got to get

on base or hit a home run or something.

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You know, you got it.

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That's it.

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When was the first time you kind

of crossed over the Atlantic?

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You landed on an American or U.

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S.

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based production.

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What was that for you?

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Jack Reynor: Um, I had done an Irish film.

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Uh, called What Richard Did, and the film

was selected to screen at the Toronto Film

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Festival, uh, the year it was released.

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And It was directed by a

really great Irish director

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by the name of Lenny Abramson.

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I don't know if you're familiar with

any of his work, but he's the guy who

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directed, uh, room and he also did,

uh, normal people and conversations

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with friends, he'd be better known in

Ireland for directing some really great.

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Complex social dramas, um, like Adam and

Paul and uh, Garage, both great films.

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And so I had done this film with

him called What Richard Did, and

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we took it to Toronto in 2012.

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And the film was called, Critically,

really, really well received and it did

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very well at home in Ireland as well.

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But off the back of that film, I was able

to go to Los Angeles with my agent, James

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Farrell, who was an up and coming agent

in William Morris Endeavor at the time.

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I got to LA and the day I

arrived, I had three meetings.

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Um, so I like drove across the

west side, back to the east side,

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back to the west side again.

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And, uh, on my third meeting, I was

doing an audition for a DreamWorks film,

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for a small part in a DreamWorks film.

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So, um, I went down, I met Jeannie

McCarthy, the casting director, lovely

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woman who I'm friends with and I've

done plenty of projects with since.

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Um, and so I did this audition tape

and by the time I had Come back to

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my place that I was staying in West

Hollywood, my team all called me and

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they said, you just booked that job.

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It was like, wow.

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Yeah.

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So it was like literally like 24 hours.

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It was nuts.

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Like really, really fast to

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Marc Preston: land somewhere

and already have meetings.

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That's kind of the golden

ticket right there.

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You know, you're already in the game.

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Jack Reynor: Yeah.

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And that was a result of the film

being as well received as it was in,

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in Toronto, you know, so there was a

little bit of Um, there was a little

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bit of traction there to capitalize

on when I got into Los Angeles.

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So I booked that film, um, I came home

for a couple of weeks, maybe three weeks.

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Um, and then I flew to New York to

shoot this movie for three months.

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And while I was out there, I began this

like auditioning process for Transformers.

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Um, and that was a long process that,

that took a couple of months, but you

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know, the DreamWorks side of it, um,

those guys kind of fostered me through

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the Transformers thing, basically.

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And so eventually, just close

to Christmas, I got a phone call

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from Michael Bay, and he was like

I'm putting you in the movie.

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So I, um, I finished up the DreamWorks

film, went home for Christmas, saw

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my family, basically said goodbye.

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I'll see you at the end of the year.

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Um, and then, uh, yeah, I went

and shot this Transformers film.

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That was when me and my

wife met for the first time.

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And she ended up quitting her

job and coming with me to do

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transformers for seven months.

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We got engaged on that job.

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And 11 years later, we got

married three months ago.

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Wait, wow.

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Well, congratulations,

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Marc Preston: congratulations, man.

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It sounds like you can, you kind of

jumped on a good wave and you just kind

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of surfed it right out of the gate.

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You know, things really, it was a

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Jack Reynor: really sharp trajectory.

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Um, so yeah, it was a, it was

a crazy time, hard to keep

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your perspective in all of us.

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Yeah, I think it probably

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Marc Preston: would for somebody.

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I mean, you know, especially when,

you know, you're, you're immediately

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jumping into something, which is

like very, very recognizable name.

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Sounds like you're kind of being

fostered through and, you know,

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people were looking forward to,

you know, what you had to offer.

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That's, that's always a good feeling.

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Jack Reynor: Absolutely.

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But at the same time, you're in

a situation where you've got.

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A jump to make from a 1.

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5 million euro irish film to 150

million dollar franchise, right?

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And there's no rule book.

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There's no there's there's

really no, uh, There's no one to

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tell you how to cope with that.

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You know, it's a crazy

situation to be in When you

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Marc Preston: were coming up like who

was your mount rushmore like who are you

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looking at and going these are the guys

Gals or whoever that they have a career.

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It looks, looks, it makes sense to me.

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That's the direction I want to go.

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The kind of work I want to do, the kind

of brand or whatever you want to call it.

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But who are you looking to sort

of for that inspiration or that,

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uh, uh, you know, you're, you're

theatrical spirit animals, if you will.

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Jack Reynor: That's a good question.

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I mean, if you would ask me that

when I was six years of age, I

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always wanted to be Bruce Willis.

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Die Hard was the movie that made

me want to be an actor, right?

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Absolutely.

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Um, as I,

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Marc Preston: but did you acquiesce to the

fact that it is truly a Christmas movie?

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It is definitely a

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Jack Reynor: Christmas movie

and I watch it every Christmas

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Marc Preston: and I got, I'm a,

I'm a gen X kid and we all think

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that's definitely a Christmas movie.

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I know

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Jack Reynor: it is, it is, it is, it is.

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And it's a great one.

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Um, as I got older and uh, you know,

started to watch a lot of movies in my

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teens and stuff, Um, I would always have

cited Cillian Murphy as somebody who

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was inspiring to me in terms of his,

not only his trajectory, but the very

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specific choices that he was making.

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It's so clear how thoughtful he

was about everything that he did.

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Um, and I was hugely, hugely

impressed and inspired by that.

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And, um, you know, it was lovely to

have an opportunity to work with him.

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Um, on a film back in 2015,

a really fun movie as well.

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Um, and he's, he's a great guy and I've

always admired his capacity for balancing

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his values and his personal life.

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with his career.

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And it's amazing the way that's probably

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Marc Preston: especially if you're

in your, uh, like if you're in

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your twenties, younger, earlier

twenties, that's hard to do.

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You don't really realize the,

you know, appreciate when you're

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really young and how important

that is to have that balance.

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Jack Reynor: Absolutely.

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Absolutely.

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I would agree with that.

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And I think, you know, for me, when

I was in my Particularly my early

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twenties, my entire value system was

wrapped up in what was the next job

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that I was going to do, you know, and,

um, really my career was my sole focus.

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And as time has gone on and, you know,

with a few, with a few defeats and a

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few losses, you know, under your belt,

I think you start to realize that you

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have a choice to make about whether or

not this is going to be your entire life

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or whether your value system is also

going to incorporate how you really live.

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And, you know, do you want to have a

community outside of this business?

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Do you want to have.

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Do you want to have a

life outside of this?

458

00:23:23,525 --> 00:23:28,465

And, um, I think that if you want

to have longevity in a career in

459

00:23:28,465 --> 00:23:32,884

the film industry, probably you

do need to invest in those things.

460

00:23:32,884 --> 00:23:33,145

You know,

461

00:23:33,435 --> 00:23:35,794

Marc Preston: I think when you're

younger, you can run and do things

462

00:23:35,794 --> 00:23:39,225

and you're, you know, you can have

that, uh, that kind of endless energy.

463

00:23:39,225 --> 00:23:40,265

Then you're a little bit older.

464

00:23:40,265 --> 00:23:42,445

It's not like you have less

energy, just reallocating that

465

00:23:42,445 --> 00:23:45,465

energy, you know, to things that

make sense, you know, and then.

466

00:23:45,855 --> 00:23:49,495

You're saying like what you do at a

certain age, what your mind is set

467

00:23:49,495 --> 00:23:52,115

to a lot of people in their early

twenties are still out there and just

468

00:23:52,115 --> 00:23:56,441

kind of have fun, you know, but you

were, you, you were locked in to this

469

00:23:56,441 --> 00:24:01,345

thing, you know, so, cause you said

your wife, uh, she left her job, go hang

470

00:24:01,345 --> 00:24:04,915

out with you, uh, transformers, she's

hanging out with you for seven months.

471

00:24:04,955 --> 00:24:06,395

What was she doing beforehand?

472

00:24:06,395 --> 00:24:07,475

What was her vocation?

473

00:24:07,515 --> 00:24:10,495

Jack Reynor: Well, she was a

model for a long time in Ireland.

474

00:24:10,495 --> 00:24:13,025

Um, um, and she.

475

00:24:13,370 --> 00:24:16,870

You know, she worked across a

bunch of things basically, but she

476

00:24:16,870 --> 00:24:20,080

kind of like put things on hold

to come out with me on that job.

477

00:24:20,080 --> 00:24:25,040

And, um, when we came home seven or

eight months later, we were engaged.

478

00:24:25,110 --> 00:24:30,960

And, uh, you know, it was after that,

there was a couple of years where things

479

00:24:30,960 --> 00:24:35,030

were pretty crazy with me just in terms

of like a lot of traveling for work.

480

00:24:35,030 --> 00:24:38,040

And she would come with

me a lot of the time.

481

00:24:38,230 --> 00:24:43,159

And I think it was very

difficult for her to feel.

482

00:24:45,360 --> 00:24:49,639

Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh,

personal purpose when she was.

483

00:24:50,179 --> 00:24:52,290

Traveling for my sake all the time.

484

00:24:52,929 --> 00:24:55,959

And so she came back to

Arlington and started to invest

485

00:24:55,959 --> 00:24:57,399

her energy into photography.

486

00:24:57,399 --> 00:25:02,990

She's an avid lover of nature and,

you know, hiking mountaineering.

487

00:25:03,040 --> 00:25:05,300

She's a really, really adventurous person.

488

00:25:05,889 --> 00:25:08,429

Marc Preston: And so she's probably,

uh, if she likes photography, she's

489

00:25:08,430 --> 00:25:12,209

probably, I guess like an Ansel

Adams fan or say, you know, kind

490

00:25:12,209 --> 00:25:13,199

of the black and white business.

491

00:25:14,080 --> 00:25:18,590

Jack Reynor: Well, I know she's, uh, I

know she likes, um, Sebastian Salgado.

492

00:25:18,909 --> 00:25:22,659

There's a bunch, there's a bunch of people

who, uh, you know, she's probably much

493

00:25:22,659 --> 00:25:24,530

more versed in photographers than I am.

494

00:25:25,060 --> 00:25:28,160

She, as I say, she loves nature

photography, but she, uh, these

495

00:25:28,160 --> 00:25:29,870

days she works a lot in film.

496

00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:33,379

She actually works on independent

films and television and stuff like

497

00:25:33,380 --> 00:25:37,719

that back in Ireland, still set

photography, um, which is great.

498

00:25:37,719 --> 00:25:39,970

So it gives her a flexibility.

499

00:25:40,480 --> 00:25:44,080

Um, so that if she wants to come out

and visit and do stuff, she still can.

500

00:25:44,110 --> 00:25:46,410

But at the same time, she's

got her thing at home.

501

00:25:46,490 --> 00:25:47,860

She does what she does, which is great.

502

00:25:48,649 --> 00:25:51,189

Marc Preston: And she's got the puppy to

keep her company while, while you're out.

503

00:25:51,240 --> 00:25:52,909

And she's got the pooch as well.

504

00:25:52,909 --> 00:25:54,139

Yeah, exactly.

505

00:25:54,189 --> 00:25:57,259

Well, I have to ask you, I always had

a bringing food up at least once in

506

00:25:57,259 --> 00:26:00,419

the course of whenever I'm chatting

with folks, you being from Ireland.

507

00:26:00,620 --> 00:26:04,840

I'm curious if you, if you were to

say quintessential Irish dish, one

508

00:26:04,840 --> 00:26:09,135

that may be cliche or, Maybe not

be that well known, but something

509

00:26:09,135 --> 00:26:10,565

that like really brings you home.

510

00:26:10,605 --> 00:26:11,815

Something that, uh,

511

00:26:12,005 --> 00:26:14,254

Jack Reynor: I mean,

Northam brings me home.

512

00:26:14,254 --> 00:26:15,754

Like a point to Guinness, obviously.

513

00:26:15,825 --> 00:26:17,254

Marc Preston: But y'all have

the good Guinness over there.

514

00:26:17,254 --> 00:26:17,574

I was watching,

515

00:26:19,054 --> 00:26:19,544

Jack Reynor: yeah, I was

516

00:26:19,544 --> 00:26:22,334

Marc Preston: watching Anthony Bourdain,

uh, who's like my spirit animal.

517

00:26:22,334 --> 00:26:24,504

And I was watching him, uh,

when he went over there.

518

00:26:25,350 --> 00:26:29,640

And he said, you know, when actually they

pull a pint at the pub, it just is somehow

519

00:26:29,650 --> 00:26:32,860

a little bit different than the Guinness

that we get over here or something.

520

00:26:32,930 --> 00:26:33,480

Jack Reynor: It is.

521

00:26:33,630 --> 00:26:36,050

The old cliche is that

it doesn't travel well.

522

00:26:36,200 --> 00:26:41,330

And then on top of that, what people

don't realize is that if you're going

523

00:26:41,330 --> 00:26:45,300

to serve Guinness in your bar, you

need to have the line between the

524

00:26:45,300 --> 00:26:48,270

keg and the tap as short as possible.

525

00:26:48,640 --> 00:26:51,580

If your Guinness is doing loops

all the way through your bar

526

00:26:51,580 --> 00:26:52,980

from the cellar up to the tap.

527

00:26:53,355 --> 00:26:54,505

It's not going to be good.

528

00:26:54,725 --> 00:26:55,225

And it's going to

529

00:26:55,235 --> 00:26:56,625

Marc Preston: have an

opportunity to get warm.

530

00:26:56,625 --> 00:26:57,485

If that, at least

531

00:26:58,955 --> 00:27:00,685

Jack Reynor: the other one is pitchers.

532

00:27:00,765 --> 00:27:03,485

There's no such thing as a pitcher

against don't ever do that.

533

00:27:03,555 --> 00:27:06,215

That's that is for heathens.

534

00:27:06,965 --> 00:27:10,125

Marc Preston: So I've never liked, I've

never, even when I was in college, I

535

00:27:10,134 --> 00:27:12,714

never liked the whole picture thing

because there's a part of it, it's

536

00:27:12,735 --> 00:27:14,545

getting warm and I like a nice cold beer,

537

00:27:14,545 --> 00:27:16,464

Jack Reynor: but

538

00:27:16,465 --> 00:27:18,345

Marc Preston: it's funny when I moved

to the silo where I'm in the very

539

00:27:18,345 --> 00:27:20,105

South Texas tip or tip of the South.

540

00:27:20,689 --> 00:27:21,820

Tip of South Texas.

541

00:27:21,820 --> 00:27:25,259

I talk for living hard to believe it's

a little island called South Padre.

542

00:27:25,259 --> 00:27:29,599

We're right across from like where Elon

Musk has his little launch facility right

543

00:27:29,599 --> 00:27:31,459

over there of all things on the island.

544

00:27:31,459 --> 00:27:35,110

They have plenty of places to get a

shrimp basket or seafood or hamburger,

545

00:27:35,110 --> 00:27:38,760

but there's one little place within

walking distance, which is handy

546

00:27:39,080 --> 00:27:40,159

just right down the street from me.

547

00:27:40,159 --> 00:27:41,189

It's an Irish pub.

548

00:27:42,010 --> 00:27:44,800

And they actually knock

it out of the park.

549

00:27:44,800 --> 00:27:46,879

The food, you look at it and

think there's going to be a dive

550

00:27:46,889 --> 00:27:48,250

bar, but the food is on point.

551

00:27:48,800 --> 00:27:52,329

It's just, you know, proper

fish and chips, scotch egg.

552

00:27:52,350 --> 00:27:54,110

They got, uh, let's

see what else they got.

553

00:27:54,110 --> 00:27:57,580

They got a, uh, well, they have

a Reuben, but, uh, that's, uh,

554

00:27:57,630 --> 00:28:00,549

it's a little bit different, but

it's still the, the, the menu is.

555

00:28:00,710 --> 00:28:02,090

Surprisingly extensive.

556

00:28:02,250 --> 00:28:03,790

And it's really weird.

557

00:28:03,790 --> 00:28:06,420

You go in there, you feel like, okay, this

is where we're not really on the Island.

558

00:28:06,420 --> 00:28:08,110

We're somewhere, you know, somewhere else.

559

00:28:08,560 --> 00:28:11,760

So a little place called Kelly's, I

guess it's free advertising for him.

560

00:28:11,979 --> 00:28:13,079

You know, I'm curious though.

561

00:28:13,080 --> 00:28:17,019

So like you're, you're, you're moving

along and I was just watching, um, uh,

562

00:28:17,040 --> 00:28:20,810

the, the peripheral, uh, I've seen it

once all the way through and I kind

563

00:28:20,810 --> 00:28:21,970

of catch a little bit here and there.

564

00:28:22,300 --> 00:28:24,190

I didn't know it was

based on a book at first.

565

00:28:24,430 --> 00:28:28,155

You know, when you got that script,

did you, Kind of understand what

566

00:28:28,155 --> 00:28:30,785

was going on or, you know, cause

sometimes they give you the script

567

00:28:30,785 --> 00:28:31,935

and you only get a piece of it.

568

00:28:31,945 --> 00:28:33,065

So here's the

569

00:28:33,175 --> 00:28:35,915

Jack Reynor: thing with the

peripheral, the peripheral is

570

00:28:36,375 --> 00:28:39,295

based on a William Gibson novel.

571

00:28:40,255 --> 00:28:44,705

And William Gibson is kind of the

godfather of speculative fiction.

572

00:28:45,525 --> 00:28:55,135

And He is infamously difficult to read

his, his work is dense because he's not

573

00:28:55,245 --> 00:29:02,815

hugely preoccupied with, uh, making it

easy for the audience to understand.

574

00:29:03,745 --> 00:29:07,515

Um, you know, if you've ever read

his book, Neuromancer, which came out

575

00:29:07,515 --> 00:29:12,335

around the same time as Blade Runner

and is also a seminal cyberpunk.

576

00:29:12,670 --> 00:29:16,750

Piece of, um, you know, creative material.

577

00:29:18,350 --> 00:29:23,150

Uh, he's like talking about people who

are like making phone calls by pressing

578

00:29:23,150 --> 00:29:26,690

their tongue to the roof of their mouth,

but he doesn't say that it's a phone call.

579

00:29:26,690 --> 00:29:29,090

You know, somebody presses their

tongue to the roof of their mouth

580

00:29:29,090 --> 00:29:32,200

and somebody's standing there, and

it's something that you have to pick

581

00:29:32,200 --> 00:29:36,010

up through the repetitive nature of

this event happening again and again.

582

00:29:36,620 --> 00:29:39,500

Similarly, the peripheral as a novel.

583

00:29:40,655 --> 00:29:45,085

It kind of operates in that same

way where like, you're, it's, it's

584

00:29:45,135 --> 00:29:46,855

difficult to find a way into it.

585

00:29:47,105 --> 00:29:51,025

However, once you do, it's a

very, very gripping piece of work.

586

00:29:52,710 --> 00:29:53,780

I was really excited.

587

00:29:53,810 --> 00:29:55,400

I loved William Gibson.

588

00:29:55,840 --> 00:30:00,480

Um, the rest of the team that were on

that were an amazing team and the people

589

00:30:00,480 --> 00:30:02,580

who did Westworld, Jonah and Lisa Nolan.

590

00:30:03,150 --> 00:30:06,510

Um, Chloe Moretz was doing the show.

591

00:30:06,520 --> 00:30:07,990

I was a big fan of Chloe's.

592

00:30:08,119 --> 00:30:10,980

She became one of my best friends,

like really, really close.

593

00:30:11,749 --> 00:30:13,520

Marc Preston: When you think about

the nature there, you think, when you

594

00:30:13,530 --> 00:30:16,420

think about the technology, it's a

very intricately woven brother sister

595

00:30:16,420 --> 00:30:18,300

relationship there, you know, because.

596

00:30:18,980 --> 00:30:22,170

You know, she's, you know,

playing you basically at first.

597

00:30:22,400 --> 00:30:23,840

It was, it was, I love shows.

598

00:30:23,840 --> 00:30:24,970

I'm starting to watch that.

599

00:30:24,970 --> 00:30:26,670

I just like, I go, I just don't get it.

600

00:30:27,160 --> 00:30:28,210

It's almost like a Philip K.

601

00:30:28,210 --> 00:30:30,180

Dick thing, you know, it's

like, what's going on here.

602

00:30:30,470 --> 00:30:33,319

And then it kind of, and then you're kind

of, you're in, you've been sucked in.

603

00:30:33,330 --> 00:30:34,190

So I think the

604

00:30:34,210 --> 00:30:35,479

Jack Reynor: peripheral had.

605

00:30:35,985 --> 00:30:38,565

I think the peripheral had that intrigue.

606

00:30:38,945 --> 00:30:42,455

I think probably as a

result of the pandemic.

607

00:30:42,475 --> 00:30:46,935

It was, it was very difficult during the

pandemic to kind of keep productions on

608

00:30:46,935 --> 00:30:49,844

the tracks and ours was no different.

609

00:30:49,844 --> 00:30:54,754

And I think that for that reason, the show

probably wasn't as coherent in the final

610

00:30:54,755 --> 00:30:58,224

couple of episodes as it needed to be.

611

00:30:58,664 --> 00:31:02,470

Um, But regardless, you know,

that, that is what it is.

612

00:31:02,520 --> 00:31:07,110

I think for me and Chloe, the big thing

was nobody's going to care unless this

613

00:31:07,110 --> 00:31:10,409

relationship between the brother and

sister really, really works, you know?

614

00:31:10,860 --> 00:31:16,340

Um, and I think that it was trying to

ground the show in this human drama and

615

00:31:16,340 --> 00:31:18,259

the relationship between both of them.

616

00:31:18,260 --> 00:31:22,645

If we Make the audience really love

those two characters and the relationship

617

00:31:22,645 --> 00:31:27,605

and feel How much they care about

each other, you know, then on on

618

00:31:27,605 --> 00:31:31,335

some level it really works, you know

And so we were really proud of it.

619

00:31:31,445 --> 00:31:35,645

I think I think the relationship in

the show is Partly reflective of me

620

00:31:35,655 --> 00:31:37,085

and chloe's relationship as well.

621

00:31:37,085 --> 00:31:38,355

You know, we're very close to

622

00:31:38,514 --> 00:31:40,725

Marc Preston: yeah I was trying to

remember what part of the country

623

00:31:40,725 --> 00:31:43,365

is it like arkansas or where

was that supposed to take place?

624

00:31:43,405 --> 00:31:43,905

I forgot

625

00:31:43,975 --> 00:31:47,205

Jack Reynor: it was it was I'm trying to

remember where it takes place in the book.

626

00:31:47,205 --> 00:31:53,275

I think it might've been, um,

in the, in the, in the show,

627

00:31:53,355 --> 00:31:55,145

it became North Carolina.

628

00:31:55,225 --> 00:31:55,715

Marc Preston: Okay.

629

00:31:55,835 --> 00:31:59,485

Jack Reynor: I think it might, maybe

it was Arkansas in the, in the book.

630

00:31:59,505 --> 00:32:03,554

I can't remember exactly, but it

became North Carolina and we shot it in

631

00:32:03,574 --> 00:32:06,714

Asheville, which sadly is now underwater.

632

00:32:07,234 --> 00:32:07,564

Yeah.

633

00:32:07,564 --> 00:32:08,094

Marc Preston: It's just, yeah.

634

00:32:08,094 --> 00:32:12,604

I, yeah, I was, uh, living in new Orleans

and hurricane Katrina happened and,

635

00:32:12,604 --> 00:32:14,584

uh, and hurricane Ida, but, uh, the.

636

00:32:15,160 --> 00:32:18,200

In looking back, there's so many

parallels and you look and you'd be

637

00:32:18,200 --> 00:32:19,210

like, they would go with these people.

638

00:32:19,210 --> 00:32:21,080

I had no idea what was coming for him.

639

00:32:21,080 --> 00:32:23,010

And that was such a beautiful

part of the country too.

640

00:32:23,180 --> 00:32:27,830

You know, so yeah, you know, you're

here, you're working on a piece with,

641

00:32:28,050 --> 00:32:31,999

you know, basically born of an author

you were familiar with for you at least.

642

00:32:32,030 --> 00:32:34,440

Even it was kind of funny cause you

have to forget you're still there

643

00:32:34,440 --> 00:32:37,560

doing your thing, but thinking really

it's Chloe Grace Moretz inside of it.

644

00:32:37,650 --> 00:32:41,400

You know, it was very physical, you

know, it was, uh, you know, do you

645

00:32:41,400 --> 00:32:44,312

like roles like that where there's,

there's a lot of physicality to

646

00:32:44,312 --> 00:32:44,634

Jack Reynor: it?

647

00:32:44,895 --> 00:32:47,005

Here's what was really cool about that.

648

00:32:47,185 --> 00:32:52,185

Um, so in episode one, just for

your listeners, so basically what's

649

00:32:52,185 --> 00:32:57,164

happening is Chloe's character and

my character, a brother and sister.

650

00:32:57,205 --> 00:33:01,374

And my character is basically

this guy who's like ex military.

651

00:33:01,375 --> 00:33:04,975

He's a veteran and he plays

video games now for a living.

652

00:33:05,905 --> 00:33:09,425

Um, you know, he's making money through

microtransactions and stuff in video

653

00:33:09,425 --> 00:33:13,165

games, but his sister is much better at

the video games than he is basically.

654

00:33:13,525 --> 00:33:18,385

But the video games that he plays are

rendered in an incredibly lifelike way.

655

00:33:19,315 --> 00:33:23,235

And then basically we get to a part

of the story where there's this

656

00:33:23,235 --> 00:33:28,275

device that they kind of are given

to sort of test out as a beta.

657

00:33:28,715 --> 00:33:32,585

Um, and so she plays this game for money.

658

00:33:32,635 --> 00:33:36,284

It turns out in fact to be an

alternate reality, but when she plays

659

00:33:36,284 --> 00:33:41,705

the game, she plays as an avatar

that is The image of her brother.

660

00:33:42,295 --> 00:33:48,145

So when we came to shoot it, I basically

had to play Chloe Marette in my body.

661

00:33:48,265 --> 00:33:48,685

Right.

662

00:33:48,895 --> 00:33:50,605

Marc Preston: Did well,

did did you study her?

663

00:33:50,605 --> 00:33:53,515

Did you ever like catch yourself

watching her like facial expression?

664

00:33:53,515 --> 00:33:53,575

Yeah.

665

00:33:53,575 --> 00:33:54,385

How does she move?

666

00:33:54,445 --> 00:33:55,405

Jack Reynor: Of course.

667

00:33:55,495 --> 00:33:56,245

Of course.

668

00:33:56,245 --> 00:33:58,015

And I sat down with her and I said, Hey.

669

00:33:58,245 --> 00:34:00,545

You know, do you want to

like author some of this?

670

00:34:00,545 --> 00:34:01,825

Because I've got to play you here.

671

00:34:01,825 --> 00:34:04,095

So you got to tell me how

you would do this, you know?

672

00:34:04,455 --> 00:34:08,945

So she, you know, Vincenzo was our

director on the show, but you know,

673

00:34:08,945 --> 00:34:10,994

between the three of us, it was

the thing where it's like, okay,

674

00:34:10,994 --> 00:34:13,764

well, Chloe's kind of got to direct

me a little bit here because she

675

00:34:13,765 --> 00:34:15,334

knows her better than anyone else.

676

00:34:15,344 --> 00:34:21,315

So, um, we need to get some of that

flavor and, and that was really good fun.

677

00:34:21,315 --> 00:34:22,215

It was an interesting challenge.

678

00:34:22,215 --> 00:34:25,475

And she was like, yeah, you know,

you should do these little things.

679

00:34:25,970 --> 00:34:30,990

But also remember that I'm

playing you in the show as well.

680

00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:32,540

So you have to play me now.

681

00:34:32,540 --> 00:34:33,450

My head's already hurting.

682

00:34:33,580 --> 00:34:33,820

Marc Preston: Yeah.

683

00:34:34,900 --> 00:34:36,260

Jack Reynor: Yeah, man, it was nuts.

684

00:34:36,300 --> 00:34:37,869

It was nuts, but it was really good fun.

685

00:34:37,890 --> 00:34:39,759

And I thought that sequence

worked out really well.

686

00:34:39,760 --> 00:34:39,920

Yeah.

687

00:34:39,940 --> 00:34:40,540

It seems

688

00:34:40,540 --> 00:34:42,559

Marc Preston: like you had to put it

together where it sort of made, you

689

00:34:42,559 --> 00:34:48,125

know, even though there was the tech to

it, there was still, A real human story

690

00:34:48,125 --> 00:34:51,675

in there, you know, and, and, you know,

it's, I don't want to, I don't want to

691

00:34:51,675 --> 00:34:54,715

give too much because there's some people

like, Oh, I've not watched this show.

692

00:34:54,785 --> 00:34:57,375

There's so much stuff out there

that they can kind of discover it.

693

00:34:57,465 --> 00:35:01,804

Jack Reynor: The other thing, Marc is

like, you, you have to, you have to be

694

00:35:01,804 --> 00:35:04,094

able to find the humor in things as well.

695

00:35:04,094 --> 00:35:05,334

You know, there's nothing that.

696

00:35:05,495 --> 00:35:09,485

Like, we'll draw an audience in and

get them on your side more than humor,

697

00:35:09,925 --> 00:35:11,415

even if it is something like that.

698

00:35:11,415 --> 00:35:15,054

Even if it's really high concept,

you know, speculative fiction

699

00:35:15,055 --> 00:35:19,115

stuff or anything, or if it's

horror, it doesn't matter.

700

00:35:19,155 --> 00:35:24,855

I just think anything that is devoid

of humor is a missed opportunity.

701

00:35:24,864 --> 00:35:25,404

I'm

702

00:35:25,425 --> 00:35:25,715

Marc Preston: a hundred percent.

703

00:35:25,755 --> 00:35:26,505

So we tried

704

00:35:26,505 --> 00:35:26,899

Jack Reynor: to.

705

00:35:26,980 --> 00:35:28,680

Marc Preston: Cause I don't know

about you, but usually when things

706

00:35:28,680 --> 00:35:31,010

are going to part of my bluntness

going to shit, sometimes you just

707

00:35:31,010 --> 00:35:32,910

got to laugh at it sometimes.

708

00:35:32,910 --> 00:35:36,200

I mean, that's our human nature, you

know, to some degree, I think, do you

709

00:35:36,200 --> 00:35:41,540

find that like the stuff you've worked

on that it's easier for you to have.

710

00:35:42,015 --> 00:35:45,525

To be in that kind of a project or kind

of the one 80 from that in terms of

711

00:35:45,535 --> 00:35:49,655

like the, you know, the, the perfect

couples, like a kind of a big ensemble

712

00:35:49,665 --> 00:35:53,044

with a lot of folks who, uh, with a

lot of notoriety, I was thinking about

713

00:35:53,044 --> 00:35:56,805

this the other day, is it a little bit

easier to be at a show like that because

714

00:35:56,824 --> 00:36:01,114

everybody's kind of sharing kind of like a

balance of what's going on or is it easier

715

00:36:01,115 --> 00:36:02,665

when you're one of the leads at a show?

716

00:36:03,215 --> 00:36:04,245

Jack Reynor: It's different.

717

00:36:04,315 --> 00:36:05,195

They're just different.

718

00:36:05,245 --> 00:36:06,475

They're different requirements.

719

00:36:06,515 --> 00:36:11,975

They, they, they demand the

exercising of different muscles.

720

00:36:12,555 --> 00:36:17,945

And, you know, like what was great

about what was great about the perfect

721

00:36:17,975 --> 00:36:22,715

couple was that that director, Suzanne

Beer, one of the best directors working.

722

00:36:22,745 --> 00:36:23,494

She really is.

723

00:36:24,765 --> 00:36:30,860

And she got on the phone with me and she

said, look, Your role on paper, I can,

724

00:36:30,910 --> 00:36:34,440

I know there's not that much for you to

do on paper, but I want you to come in

725

00:36:34,440 --> 00:36:35,930

and I want you to make this your own.

726

00:36:35,970 --> 00:36:40,540

I want you to like do the job and I want

you to come here and make this special.

727

00:36:41,750 --> 00:36:42,769

And I'm like, okay.

728

00:36:42,830 --> 00:36:46,529

So I came in, I could see like,

this is a perfect instance.

729

00:36:46,800 --> 00:36:50,429

I could see that there was

a lot of opportunities for

730

00:36:50,429 --> 00:36:51,999

humor with this character.

731

00:36:52,699 --> 00:36:57,499

And I felt like the scripts,

the scripts were great.

732

00:36:59,580 --> 00:37:04,140

There was an, there was a, a kind

of an earnestness that I was worried

733

00:37:04,590 --> 00:37:09,530

would not allow the show to flourish.

734

00:37:09,910 --> 00:37:12,670

And I felt this show needs humor.

735

00:37:12,759 --> 00:37:16,350

It's, it's, it's, it's

a dark subject material.

736

00:37:16,350 --> 00:37:21,109

It's about a murder, you know,

um, but if it takes itself too

737

00:37:21,110 --> 00:37:23,000

seriously, it's not going to work.

738

00:37:23,110 --> 00:37:24,370

The show needs to be fun.

739

00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:26,209

And plus I think people need

740

00:37:26,210 --> 00:37:28,970

Marc Preston: that little bit of, well,

they call it comic relief for a reason.

741

00:37:28,970 --> 00:37:33,515

If it's just heavy nonstop, it's,

Not as totally does it flow as well,

742

00:37:34,435 --> 00:37:34,875

Jack Reynor: right?

743

00:37:35,275 --> 00:37:40,275

So I got out there and, you know, um,

I started pitching ideas to Susanna and

744

00:37:40,275 --> 00:37:45,425

she basically was like, look, I'm happy

for you to, you do what you need to do.

745

00:37:45,435 --> 00:37:45,734

You know?

746

00:37:45,734 --> 00:37:51,605

So she was very protective of me going

into that environment, improvising a lot.

747

00:37:51,935 --> 00:37:52,435

Really?

748

00:37:52,475 --> 00:37:54,765

Like a lot of what I

said was not on the page.

749

00:37:55,285 --> 00:37:56,225

Marc Preston: That's kind of a gift.

750

00:37:56,225 --> 00:37:58,525

Like once you really dialed into the

character, if you can kind of just

751

00:37:58,525 --> 00:38:00,994

kind of riff, you know, that's, that's,

752

00:38:00,995 --> 00:38:04,525

Jack Reynor: we had one day where

like, I had shot my scenes for the

753

00:38:04,525 --> 00:38:08,815

day and um, I was packing up my

stuff getting ready to go home.

754

00:38:09,285 --> 00:38:11,125

And she said, Jack, you're not finished.

755

00:38:11,125 --> 00:38:12,255

I need you for another scene.

756

00:38:12,375 --> 00:38:13,415

And I'm like, okay.

757

00:38:13,905 --> 00:38:14,905

So she brings me over.

758

00:38:14,905 --> 00:38:19,855

She says, I want to line up this

scene with Lee Evan, Nicole and Sam.

759

00:38:19,975 --> 00:38:22,814

So it's a scene that they're

all, it's their scene.

760

00:38:23,695 --> 00:38:25,004

It's all their dialogue.

761

00:38:25,045 --> 00:38:26,285

I'm not in it at all.

762

00:38:26,925 --> 00:38:31,484

And so Lee Evan, Nicole are

standing in the middle of the room.

763

00:38:31,484 --> 00:38:32,474

They're starting to rehearse.

764

00:38:32,474 --> 00:38:34,665

They've got their conversation

at the top of the scene.

765

00:38:34,955 --> 00:38:37,435

And then Sam comes into

the room and he's got.

766

00:38:37,585 --> 00:38:43,395

his part of the scene and Susanna

is standing 10 feet away watching

767

00:38:43,395 --> 00:38:44,585

as they rehearse the lines.

768

00:38:44,775 --> 00:38:47,375

She's holding me by the arm

and she's looking at me.

769

00:38:47,375 --> 00:38:49,774

She's just going, yep,

wait, wait, wait, wait.

770

00:38:49,775 --> 00:38:53,854

And she gets to a certain point in the

scene and she just taps me on the back

771

00:38:53,855 --> 00:38:56,134

and goes, now go in, go in, go in.

772

00:38:56,985 --> 00:38:58,885

And it was basically like

go in and make something up.

773

00:38:59,305 --> 00:38:59,615

Did they

774

00:39:00,135 --> 00:39:01,005

Marc Preston: know you were coming?

775

00:39:01,005 --> 00:39:02,185

Did they know you were

going to be a part of this?

776

00:39:02,185 --> 00:39:02,595

They knew I

777

00:39:02,595 --> 00:39:05,475

Jack Reynor: was coming because I was

standing there and she was holding my arm

778

00:39:05,475 --> 00:39:09,174

and going, we're, I'm going to put them

in the scene, but there was no lines.

779

00:39:09,174 --> 00:39:09,955

There was no nothing.

780

00:39:09,955 --> 00:39:12,085

It's like, get yourself into the scene.

781

00:39:12,710 --> 00:39:16,930

Do it in a way that makes sense to the

story and then get yourself back out of

782

00:39:16,930 --> 00:39:22,490

it before the scene's over, you know,

which is nuts but if you can if you

783

00:39:22,490 --> 00:39:27,659

have the opportunity to work that way

and you have a director who Encourages

784

00:39:27,660 --> 00:39:29,640

you so that you're not afraid to fail.

785

00:39:29,790 --> 00:39:32,410

That's the best way you

can possibly work, you know

786

00:39:33,885 --> 00:39:37,775

Marc Preston: That's always a funny, I've

only done by comparison, such a little

787

00:39:37,775 --> 00:39:41,865

bit of stuff on camera, but I, I had had

a similar situation once in a, uh, in a

788

00:39:41,975 --> 00:39:46,605

mini series where the director said, I

got this idea, you go over there, they're,

789

00:39:46,614 --> 00:39:50,735

they already got a scene they got going

on, uh, you can say something like this.

790

00:39:50,745 --> 00:39:53,945

And she gave me, she said, you don't

have to do it verbatim and it kind of,

791

00:39:54,215 --> 00:39:55,735

I'm going, that's just the fun of it.

792

00:39:55,735 --> 00:39:57,635

You get to kind of play with other adults.

793

00:39:57,695 --> 00:40:01,235

You know, it's like you get to kind of

riff and, you know, see what happens.

794

00:40:01,235 --> 00:40:03,425

And it's kind of going in the kitchen

to just throwing things together.

795

00:40:03,425 --> 00:40:04,545

See, you have different ingredients.

796

00:40:04,545 --> 00:40:05,715

Just kind of see how it gels.

797

00:40:05,715 --> 00:40:06,165

I guess

798

00:40:06,215 --> 00:40:07,465

Jack Reynor: that's all this is, man.

799

00:40:07,495 --> 00:40:10,735

Acting is it's playing, you know,

you're doing the same thing you did when

800

00:40:10,735 --> 00:40:12,394

you were six, seven, eight years old.

801

00:40:12,445 --> 00:40:13,764

It's your imagination.

802

00:40:13,814 --> 00:40:14,244

That's it.

803

00:40:14,564 --> 00:40:16,574

You're just getting paid

to do it as an adult.

804

00:40:16,765 --> 00:40:17,875

It's the best job in the world.

805

00:40:18,055 --> 00:40:20,045

Marc Preston: That's the, me,

the, the gotta be the fun part.

806

00:40:20,525 --> 00:40:23,415

The, when you get to the improv,

cause you know, you're really reacting

807

00:40:23,415 --> 00:40:25,604

to the person, you know, cause you

don't know what's coming at you, you

808

00:40:25,605 --> 00:40:27,140

know, Now, you know, I looked at it.

809

00:40:27,190 --> 00:40:27,910

It's so funny.

810

00:40:27,910 --> 00:40:31,890

I spoke with, uh, uh, Michael Beach

got a little while back and he, I

811

00:40:31,890 --> 00:40:35,620

saw that he's playing, uh, isn't he

playing a, uh, he's a cop in the shop.

812

00:40:36,189 --> 00:40:37,080

Yeah, that's what I thought.

813

00:40:37,080 --> 00:40:37,229

Yeah.

814

00:40:37,229 --> 00:40:40,960

Cause he, to me, he's a quintessential

cop, you know, but I haven't gotten

815

00:40:40,960 --> 00:40:43,109

more than I've gotten the first

episode in and I haven't had a

816

00:40:43,109 --> 00:40:44,560

chance to get that much further.

817

00:40:44,560 --> 00:40:46,564

But I know it's like,

okay, once I'm in it, yeah.

818

00:40:47,005 --> 00:40:50,485

You know, I'm in it, you know, uh, and

I was, I was working on the computer

819

00:40:50,485 --> 00:40:53,535

and it's like doing some stuff and I was

like, I got to really put my focus on this

820

00:40:53,535 --> 00:40:56,855

because it's, you know, there are bits I'm

going to need to remember down the line.

821

00:40:57,115 --> 00:40:57,615

We just know it.

822

00:40:58,015 --> 00:40:58,655

It's a fun show.

823

00:40:58,655 --> 00:40:59,445

It's a fun show

824

00:40:59,445 --> 00:41:00,711

Jack Reynor: and easy watch as well.

825

00:41:00,711 --> 00:41:01,218

Six episodes.

826

00:41:01,218 --> 00:41:01,724

Now, as

827

00:41:01,724 --> 00:41:04,585

Marc Preston: far as like what you've

done compared to what you haven't done,

828

00:41:04,585 --> 00:41:08,534

is there something on the, like the

agenda you're going, that is some kind of

829

00:41:08,534 --> 00:41:13,445

a, either genre or kind of project or a

role or something that you really want to

830

00:41:13,445 --> 00:41:14,895

do that you haven't had an opportunity.

831

00:41:14,895 --> 00:41:16,465

Is there anything out there

that you want to play with?

832

00:41:17,725 --> 00:41:21,825

Jack Reynor: Um, one of my best

friends died about six or seven weeks

833

00:41:21,825 --> 00:41:24,455

ago and I'm so sorry to hear that.

834

00:41:24,455 --> 00:41:24,745

Thank you.

835

00:41:24,745 --> 00:41:25,065

Yeah.

836

00:41:25,065 --> 00:41:29,184

He, um, yeah, he was the best guy,

an amazing musician, just an amazing

837

00:41:29,194 --> 00:41:31,235

artist and creative person all around.

838

00:41:31,314 --> 00:41:37,104

And, uh, yeah, he sadly died from cancer,

but, um, he and I were working on a

839

00:41:37,104 --> 00:41:41,475

project for, we had a couple of projects

that we were trying to put together.

840

00:41:41,475 --> 00:41:42,405

So we had a few scripts.

841

00:41:43,135 --> 00:41:49,915

Um, and there was one project that

we wanted to make that is, it's a

842

00:41:49,915 --> 00:41:55,665

comedy, um, it's a mini series and

it's set in the midlands of Ireland.

843

00:41:56,055 --> 00:42:00,564

It's about the Irish country music

scene, which is a crazy phenomenon.

844

00:42:00,804 --> 00:42:01,214

Yeah.

845

00:42:01,245 --> 00:42:06,115

I'm talking about like, Garth Brooks is

a huge deal in the Midlands of Ireland.

846

00:42:06,205 --> 00:42:07,265

Marc Preston: Oh, no kidding.

847

00:42:07,445 --> 00:42:11,625

You're talking to a native Texan,

you know, so I'm like, uh, so that's,

848

00:42:11,635 --> 00:42:13,215

I had no idea that was a thing.

849

00:42:13,215 --> 00:42:18,205

So, so they had to derive inspiration from

American country, you know, it's very,

850

00:42:18,205 --> 00:42:22,135

Jack Reynor: very much so, but it

has, it, it has a kind of slant on

851

00:42:22,135 --> 00:42:25,855

us and, um, It's a wild culture.

852

00:42:25,855 --> 00:42:27,545

Like, it's really, really, really nuts.

853

00:42:27,615 --> 00:42:32,595

I mean, it's pretty funny to people

from the outside, but it's taken very

854

00:42:32,595 --> 00:42:35,085

seriously within its own community.

855

00:42:35,585 --> 00:42:42,484

And, uh, so, me and my, me and my

friend, Owen, and my other best mate,

856

00:42:42,505 --> 00:42:48,985

Sam, We, uh, we were developing this

show and, um, I don't want to do it.

857

00:42:49,025 --> 00:42:49,925

I want to finish it.

858

00:42:50,025 --> 00:42:51,055

I want to get that made.

859

00:42:51,475 --> 00:42:52,545

That's the thing that I want to do.

860

00:42:52,814 --> 00:42:54,915

Marc Preston: That's kind of

a beautiful way to kind of

861

00:42:54,925 --> 00:42:56,635

keep them, keep them around.

862

00:42:56,644 --> 00:42:59,264

You know, it's like, you know,

his imprint on a store, you know,

863

00:42:59,335 --> 00:43:01,104

on, on this project is to keep

864

00:43:01,104 --> 00:43:01,784

Jack Reynor: him in mind.

865

00:43:02,810 --> 00:43:03,860

Marc Preston: Now I'm fascinated.

866

00:43:03,860 --> 00:43:05,930

Now I gotta learn about the

Irish country music scene.

867

00:43:05,930 --> 00:43:07,670

Is it a, is it, now I got a question.

868

00:43:07,670 --> 00:43:10,910

Is it, is it big, like on the

attire and everything else?

869

00:43:10,910 --> 00:43:13,880

Uh, or is it just different kinds

of con you know, like is there a big

870

00:43:13,880 --> 00:43:15,530

like, lifestyle based around Everybody

871

00:43:15,530 --> 00:43:18,200

Jack Reynor: wears, if there's a

uniform, they, they all wear like

872

00:43:18,200 --> 00:43:21,860

Ben Sherman shirts, they wear

brown shoes and boo coat jeans.

873

00:43:21,860 --> 00:43:26,340

It's, it's a pretty, it's

a pretty interesting look.

874

00:43:26,340 --> 00:43:30,900

It's a quintessential

Irish midlands rural look.

875

00:43:30,900 --> 00:43:30,960

Um.

876

00:43:32,710 --> 00:43:36,980

Marc Preston: And yeah, I, I'm honestly,

I am fascinated now because, you

877

00:43:36,980 --> 00:43:39,560

know, growing up in Texas, you know,

country music's always been there,

878

00:43:39,560 --> 00:43:40,910

barbecue joints and all that stuff.

879

00:43:41,260 --> 00:43:44,450

You know, my youngest though,

she's all country music.

880

00:43:44,590 --> 00:43:44,919

Oh yeah.

881

00:43:44,950 --> 00:43:47,629

Cause she, she and I are the only ones

in the family that listened to it.

882

00:43:47,630 --> 00:43:51,270

And so it drives my other two kids crazy

when their car and like more country.

883

00:43:51,430 --> 00:43:56,810

So, you know, as far as, uh, what

you're up to, uh, Uh, when you are not

884

00:43:57,130 --> 00:44:00,950

working on projects, you, the wife,

the pooch, uh, what, what are you doing

885

00:44:00,950 --> 00:44:02,310

to kind of keep yourself occupied?

886

00:44:02,470 --> 00:44:04,020

Is there something you could say?

887

00:44:04,020 --> 00:44:04,830

This is my hobby.

888

00:44:04,830 --> 00:44:05,730

This is my jam.

889

00:44:05,790 --> 00:44:09,019

Jack Reynor: Yeah, you know, I've

got my, I've got my little workshop

890

00:44:09,020 --> 00:44:13,450

at home and I do a lot of different

types of little projects, you know,

891

00:44:13,540 --> 00:44:19,340

uh, I'm usually out there with a Angle

grinder and my table saw and my welder

892

00:44:19,340 --> 00:44:22,040

doing something over the pandemic.

893

00:44:22,040 --> 00:44:27,640

I made a um, I made a tiny little

irish pub inside a horse trailer.

894

00:44:27,810 --> 00:44:31,000

It has it has a big

stained glass window in it.

895

00:44:31,000 --> 00:44:32,419

It's got a wood burning stove.

896

00:44:32,419 --> 00:44:33,180

It's got a bar.

897

00:44:33,180 --> 00:44:38,800

It's got two taps and it's got

faux tin ceiling tiles in it.

898

00:44:38,810 --> 00:44:41,480

Beautiful embossed peacock wallpaper.

899

00:44:41,910 --> 00:44:44,610

It's got proper pub stools, proper bench.

900

00:44:44,660 --> 00:44:45,390

Beautiful.

901

00:44:46,230 --> 00:44:47,610

Uh, Irish Elm table.

902

00:44:47,610 --> 00:44:47,970

Wait, this

903

00:44:48,065 --> 00:44:48,540

Marc Preston: is a, wait.

904

00:44:48,540 --> 00:44:50,760

This is a, uh, a horse trailer.

905

00:44:50,850 --> 00:44:51,510

Jack Reynor: It's a horse trailer.

906

00:44:51,510 --> 00:44:51,660

It's a

907

00:44:51,660 --> 00:44:52,560

Marc Preston: two horse trailer.

908

00:44:53,340 --> 00:44:54,210

Oh, wow.

909

00:44:54,210 --> 00:44:55,440

And, uh, so it's, it's travel.

910

00:44:55,445 --> 00:44:57,870

Do do you have pictures of this

somewhere posted down here?

911

00:44:57,870 --> 00:44:58,325

I do,

912

00:44:58,325 --> 00:44:58,605

Jack Reynor: yeah.

913

00:44:59,325 --> 00:45:00,690

Do I have them posted?

914

00:45:00,990 --> 00:45:03,600

I dunno, I must, I must post

'em on my, I mean, that,

915

00:45:03,600 --> 00:45:05,880

Marc Preston: that with, with,

that's damn near magical right there.

916

00:45:05,880 --> 00:45:06,960

I mean, I can imagine.

917

00:45:07,020 --> 00:45:07,680

Here's the thing.

918

00:45:07,680 --> 00:45:11,970

You could be known as the guy roll up

on a film set with your, uh, mobile pub.

919

00:45:12,105 --> 00:45:13,245

You know, believe

920

00:45:13,245 --> 00:45:16,455

Jack Reynor: it or not, I actually

thought about starting my own podcast

921

00:45:16,535 --> 00:45:20,355

and I was going to do it in my horse

box pub, because I'll tell you, I've

922

00:45:20,355 --> 00:45:23,235

had some seriously heavy hitters

come and visit my horse boxes.

923

00:45:23,685 --> 00:45:24,764

I've got more than one of them.

924

00:45:25,345 --> 00:45:26,320

And, uh, I

925

00:45:26,320 --> 00:45:26,726

Marc Preston: keep

926

00:45:26,726 --> 00:45:27,538

Jack Reynor: making them.

927

00:45:27,538 --> 00:45:29,973

Yeah, I can't stop making them.

928

00:45:29,973 --> 00:45:33,275

And, uh, yeah, you know what,

man, they're such good fun.

929

00:45:33,555 --> 00:45:36,755

And because it's so small and it's got a

wood burning stove, you can be in there

930

00:45:36,755 --> 00:45:41,515

in the middle of the depths of winter and

you're in a t shirt cause it's so hot.

931

00:45:41,585 --> 00:45:41,785

But.

932

00:45:42,395 --> 00:45:45,515

Me and like eight or nine of my

friends will squeeze into one of

933

00:45:45,515 --> 00:45:47,125

those with a bunch of instruments.

934

00:45:47,125 --> 00:45:51,515

People have a trad music session in

there, you know, or you can sit in there

935

00:45:51,515 --> 00:45:55,905

with two or three people and have a

couple of really nice, intimate, quiet

936

00:45:55,915 --> 00:45:58,585

points and really get into a good chat.

937

00:45:59,390 --> 00:46:01,260

So I think if I can ever

938

00:46:01,260 --> 00:46:03,910

Marc Preston: get an invite to that,

I'll, I'll bring, I'll bring a stack

939

00:46:03,910 --> 00:46:08,839

of American country music and some,

uh, Levi, Wrangler's guy, you know,

940

00:46:09,059 --> 00:46:11,830

so, you know, I'll even bring you

some boots from Texas, you know.

941

00:46:19,630 --> 00:46:22,130

Well, Tim, before we wrap up, I

always do run through my quick,

942

00:46:22,130 --> 00:46:25,270

my last seven, I caught my seven

questions, a little extra fun.

943

00:46:25,290 --> 00:46:29,219

Uh, we already talked about food,

but I want to kind of zone in on,

944

00:46:29,220 --> 00:46:30,670

well, for you, what is your favorite?

945

00:46:31,790 --> 00:46:34,520

That one thing that kind of brings

you back, you're having an amazing

946

00:46:34,520 --> 00:46:38,170

day, maybe a crap day, but it

just kind of soothes the soul.

947

00:46:38,510 --> 00:46:40,479

Jack Reynor: When I come home to Ireland,

948

00:46:43,170 --> 00:46:50,690

I pull into Blessington village

and I, I get out of the car.

949

00:46:50,809 --> 00:46:52,290

I go into Hennessey's pub.

950

00:46:52,780 --> 00:46:54,220

I sit down in Hennessey's.

951

00:46:54,930 --> 00:46:58,495

I order Two points again,

it's one for me and one for

952

00:46:58,495 --> 00:47:00,865

Madeline from Ronan Republican.

953

00:47:02,185 --> 00:47:07,285

And we sit down to have the points

and I call up McCary's chip shop

954

00:47:07,335 --> 00:47:15,065

in Blessington village, and I get

a donor kebab meal and onion rings.

955

00:47:15,465 --> 00:47:16,655

That's what I do every time.

956

00:47:16,694 --> 00:47:20,315

There's nothing like the

donor kebab in McCary's.

957

00:47:20,480 --> 00:47:23,150

And it's the top Macari's,

it's the small Macari's besides

958

00:47:23,150 --> 00:47:24,310

Super Valium and Blessington.

959

00:47:24,980 --> 00:47:28,550

That Macari's has the best

owner kebab on planet Earth.

960

00:47:28,669 --> 00:47:31,019

And that is Isn't it

nice that you have that

961

00:47:31,020 --> 00:47:33,470

Marc Preston: simple thing that

resonates with you, that you could

962

00:47:33,470 --> 00:47:36,250

show up, you get it, you know, you're

Been doing it my whole life, man.

963

00:47:36,329 --> 00:47:36,610

Been doing

964

00:47:36,610 --> 00:47:37,480

Jack Reynor: it my whole life.

965

00:47:37,730 --> 00:47:39,420

Marc Preston: I don't think anybody

goes, Oh, I want some English.

966

00:47:39,430 --> 00:47:40,400

No, no, no, no.

967

00:47:40,420 --> 00:47:43,550

I think Irish food, you know,

I, I think Irish I'm like, yeah,

968

00:47:43,550 --> 00:47:45,400

that's, that, we've got some good

969

00:47:45,400 --> 00:47:46,940

Jack Reynor: seafood, you know, had

970

00:47:46,940 --> 00:47:48,230

Marc Preston: lunch yet

and that sounds so good.

971

00:47:48,230 --> 00:47:50,389

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

972

00:47:50,389 --> 00:47:50,969

It's so funny.

973

00:47:50,969 --> 00:47:53,069

When I think about that, I'm like,

ah, thank God I'm on Lipitor.

974

00:47:53,719 --> 00:47:57,890

Uh, but Hey, but there's more, I

can do it because I'm on Lipitor.

975

00:47:57,900 --> 00:47:59,440

So, but that's wonderful, man.

976

00:47:59,440 --> 00:48:01,270

That's, that's cause I

haven't had lunch today.

977

00:48:01,270 --> 00:48:01,990

It sounds amazing.

978

00:48:02,290 --> 00:48:05,610

Um, the next question, if you were

to sit down, three people talk story,

979

00:48:05,660 --> 00:48:07,460

uh, over coffee for a few hours.

980

00:48:07,750 --> 00:48:10,250

Living or not, who are those

three people B that you would like

981

00:48:10,250 --> 00:48:11,340

to have at the table with you?

982

00:48:12,560 --> 00:48:16,635

Jack Reynor: Let's go You

want to talk story, huh?

983

00:48:16,985 --> 00:48:24,985

Um, I want to talk to Okay,

let's uh, we'll we'll we'll we'll

984

00:48:25,004 --> 00:48:30,774

confine us within the film and

television industry Will we so all

985

00:48:30,905 --> 00:48:31,305

Marc Preston: right

986

00:48:31,385 --> 00:48:32,845

Jack Reynor: i'm going david lynch.

987

00:48:34,825 --> 00:48:43,915

That's got to be one and i'm gonna say

uh number two is Wow, this is a pretty

988

00:48:43,915 --> 00:48:51,410

tough question actually man Number two

is going to be Jean Pierre Melville.

989

00:48:51,830 --> 00:48:56,020

I don't know if you have seen or

are familiar with any of his films,

990

00:48:56,160 --> 00:48:58,370

like Le Cercle Rouge or Le Samourai.

991

00:48:58,370 --> 00:48:59,640

That one rings a bell.

992

00:48:59,640 --> 00:49:01,880

So those are two out of three directors.

993

00:49:01,919 --> 00:49:06,785

The third guy I'm going to go

with, uh, I think I'm going

994

00:49:06,785 --> 00:49:08,585

to go with David Lean today.

995

00:49:09,225 --> 00:49:09,785

Marc Preston: David

996

00:49:09,785 --> 00:49:11,835

Jack Reynor: Lean did

Bridge on the River Kwai.

997

00:49:12,685 --> 00:49:20,295

Uh, he did a, he did an Irish film

that was, I think, unfairly maligned.

998

00:49:20,505 --> 00:49:25,724

Um, because it really does probably

the best job of any film of

999

00:49:25,724 --> 00:49:33,075

exhibiting the Awesome nature of the

Irish landscape in the West coast.

00:49:33,395 --> 00:49:36,945

And that movie is called Ryan's

daughter, Ryan's daughter.

00:49:37,255 --> 00:49:37,695

Marc Preston: Okay.

00:49:38,185 --> 00:49:42,124

For some reason, that name resonates.

00:49:42,404 --> 00:49:44,595

I might be thinking of

an Australian TV show.

00:49:44,734 --> 00:49:47,355

Maybe it is something that something's

daughter is, I think I'm conflating

00:49:47,365 --> 00:49:51,285

the two, but no, that's, that's the one

thing about the, uh, the, uh, aesthetic

00:49:51,345 --> 00:49:54,805

of Ireland, you know, the green, it's

just, it really is something I want

00:49:54,805 --> 00:49:59,700

to see, you know, you know, Now, the,

for the next question is who is your

00:49:59,700 --> 00:50:01,590

celebrity crush when you were a kid?

00:50:01,600 --> 00:50:05,910

Your first celebrity crush,

saw them on film or TV or,

00:50:06,070 --> 00:50:09,069

Hey, maybe they were in print.

00:50:09,080 --> 00:50:09,459

Who knows?

00:50:09,470 --> 00:50:10,550

Somebody you're like, Oh my gosh,

00:50:10,620 --> 00:50:12,749

Jack Reynor: I always had a

thing for Sigourney Weaver.

00:50:13,200 --> 00:50:16,269

Marc Preston: I can, I can

definitely, definitely see, you

00:50:16,269 --> 00:50:18,089

know, she has a kind of sass.

00:50:18,399 --> 00:50:20,949

She's not putting up with any crap from

anybody, but it's still very lovely.

00:50:20,950 --> 00:50:23,259

Jack Reynor: I bet she's tough as well.

00:50:24,875 --> 00:50:25,815

Marc Preston: I think without a doubt.

00:50:26,085 --> 00:50:28,975

Now, next question, if you're going

to be forced, uh, not forced, but

00:50:28,975 --> 00:50:31,945

you got to live on an Island, uh,

resort, something really nice.

00:50:31,945 --> 00:50:35,135

You want to be there for a year,

uh, but no streaming, no internet.

00:50:35,154 --> 00:50:36,354

So you're going to have to bring a DVD.

00:50:36,355 --> 00:50:38,815

You're going to have to bring a movie

and I'm going to have to bring a CD,

00:50:38,825 --> 00:50:40,544

going to have to bring your music.

00:50:40,875 --> 00:50:45,805

What would that DVD, what would that CD

be to hold you over for that whole year?

00:50:45,805 --> 00:50:47,365

Something you could listen

to and watch over and over.

00:50:47,375 --> 00:50:47,605

Can

00:50:47,605 --> 00:50:48,645

Jack Reynor: it be a box set?

00:50:48,665 --> 00:50:50,015

Can it be a TV series?

00:50:50,145 --> 00:50:51,035

Marc Preston: Absolutely.

00:50:51,035 --> 00:50:52,975

That's I, that's, it

can definitely be a box.

00:50:54,680 --> 00:50:55,220

Really?

00:50:55,880 --> 00:50:58,370

Hence the David Lynch,

uh, connection there.

00:50:58,370 --> 00:50:58,700

Right.

00:50:58,700 --> 00:50:59,200

I'm going to watch

00:50:59,200 --> 00:51:00,550

Jack Reynor: Twin Peaks

over and over again.

00:51:00,620 --> 00:51:01,250

Absolutely.

00:51:01,510 --> 00:51:01,820

No,

00:51:01,910 --> 00:51:04,730

Marc Preston: I, I honestly, you

know, it's one of those shows

00:51:04,740 --> 00:51:06,120

that kind of slipped by me.

00:51:06,120 --> 00:51:09,179

I only saw like a couple episodes

and that's kind of, you know,

00:51:09,180 --> 00:51:11,379

there's some things that, you know,

there's so much stuff coming out

00:51:11,379 --> 00:51:12,590

now that I'm trying to keep up on.

00:51:12,819 --> 00:51:14,290

There's still like a whole bank of stuff.

00:51:14,290 --> 00:51:15,180

I want to go back and watch that.

00:51:15,180 --> 00:51:20,050

Now, uh, musically, what

would you bring with you?

00:51:21,010 --> 00:51:22,820

Jack Reynor: I'm probably

bringing some steamy dad.

00:51:23,080 --> 00:51:26,740

I might be bringing some, I might

be bringing some chat Baker.

00:51:26,780 --> 00:51:29,490

I might be bringing Paul

Desmond for some jazz.

00:51:29,740 --> 00:51:30,590

Marc Preston: You have an eclectic taste.

00:51:31,060 --> 00:51:34,790

So it's, uh, you know, in other words,

that's why I tell people the box set

00:51:34,820 --> 00:51:36,150

somebody's into the Beatles or something.

00:51:36,150 --> 00:51:36,789

I got a whole.

00:51:37,070 --> 00:51:37,380

thing.

00:51:37,380 --> 00:51:39,710

You know, it's a, it's like a little,

a little way to kind of get, you

00:51:39,710 --> 00:51:40,860

know, make sure you're stocked up.

00:51:41,160 --> 00:51:44,250

Now, the next question, if you were to

define for yourself the perfect day,

00:51:44,250 --> 00:51:48,680

beginning to end, uh, to get up, to

go to sleep, what are the component

00:51:48,720 --> 00:51:50,110

parts of a perfect day for you?

00:51:50,600 --> 00:51:52,059

Jack Reynor: That's really

interesting that you asked that

00:51:52,060 --> 00:51:54,549

question because I just read a book.

00:51:55,190 --> 00:52:02,990

And it was a compilation of letters

written by Seneca, the Roman politician.

00:52:03,210 --> 00:52:09,270

And it was about the nature

of dying and, and, and death.

00:52:09,270 --> 00:52:09,640

Right.

00:52:09,950 --> 00:52:10,490

And.

00:52:10,960 --> 00:52:16,070

He wrote that rather than trying to

live every day, like it's your last

00:52:16,070 --> 00:52:20,910

try to live every day, like from

beginning to end, it's an entire life.

00:52:21,590 --> 00:52:23,960

And I thought that was a

really interesting perspective.

00:52:25,070 --> 00:52:25,670

Um,

00:52:25,850 --> 00:52:27,230

Marc Preston: I really

do like that perspective.

00:52:27,230 --> 00:52:28,130

I, I love his quotes.

00:52:28,130 --> 00:52:29,360

I keep seeing his quotes show up.

00:52:29,360 --> 00:52:30,020

Yeah, there's some really

00:52:30,020 --> 00:52:30,980

Jack Reynor: powerful ones.

00:52:31,160 --> 00:52:32,780

Um, I guess, um.

00:52:33,405 --> 00:52:39,495

Yeah, when I started thinking about

that, it kind of made me, it gave me

00:52:39,495 --> 00:52:41,305

a little bit more empathy for myself.

00:52:41,305 --> 00:52:47,094

It made me think what it's, it's,

it's kind of like, not just how

00:52:47,094 --> 00:52:51,334

do you want to live today, but

how do you want to live every day?

00:52:51,344 --> 00:52:54,398

What, what, the way you live

your day, what does that say

00:52:54,398 --> 00:52:56,265

about you as a person, you know?

00:52:56,265 --> 00:52:59,999

So that makes me want to get up

in the morning and eat healthily.

00:53:00,740 --> 00:53:02,690

Marc Preston: Well, that makes

you more focused on your habits.

00:53:02,690 --> 00:53:06,050

You know, the things you do day in and day

out that may, you may not be cognizant of.

00:53:06,050 --> 00:53:06,140

Right?

00:53:06,145 --> 00:53:06,380

Focus on your

00:53:06,380 --> 00:53:11,660

Jack Reynor: habits and focus on,

um, what value they have for you.

00:53:11,660 --> 00:53:15,270

You know, does that mean you

eat clean or does that mean

00:53:15,270 --> 00:53:16,770

you exercise in the morning?

00:53:16,770 --> 00:53:19,830

Does that mean you step outside

and take a few breaths of fresh

00:53:19,830 --> 00:53:22,745

air and have presence of mind?

00:53:22,980 --> 00:53:26,280

You know, think about what's actually

going on in the world around you.

00:53:26,280 --> 00:53:27,600

Do you work better?

00:53:27,690 --> 00:53:28,230

Do you, um.

00:53:29,730 --> 00:53:32,070

Do you love the people

in your life better?

00:53:32,150 --> 00:53:35,970

You know, uh, so for me, I guess,

yeah, those are all things that

00:53:35,970 --> 00:53:39,179

I'm incorporating into my one

really, really special day.

00:53:39,449 --> 00:53:46,680

Time spent well with the people I love,

uh, working well, working to, working

00:53:46,680 --> 00:53:52,435

to my capacity in a way that is, you

know, You know, makes me feel proud

00:53:52,435 --> 00:53:56,585

of what I do and then just looking

after myself, body and mind, man.

00:53:56,685 --> 00:53:56,905

That's it.

00:53:56,905 --> 00:53:57,205

It

00:53:57,345 --> 00:53:59,595

Marc Preston: kind of sounds like you

want, it's, it's a different recipe every

00:53:59,595 --> 00:54:02,884

day, but same essential ingredients,

you know, kind of put it together.

00:54:02,885 --> 00:54:03,375

Very good.

00:54:03,935 --> 00:54:04,835

Wonderful, my friend.

00:54:04,835 --> 00:54:06,124

Well, uh, last couple of questions.

00:54:06,124 --> 00:54:09,315

Now, of course, if you weren't doing

this, we've established that you couldn't

00:54:09,315 --> 00:54:14,975

imagine doing anything else, but if

somebody said, okay, you need to have

00:54:14,975 --> 00:54:17,215

some other form of earning a living.

00:54:17,440 --> 00:54:22,100

Being an actor no longer provides for that

for you, or that's not even an option.

00:54:22,100 --> 00:54:24,570

What would that career, what

would that vocation be for you?

00:54:25,080 --> 00:54:30,549

Jack Reynor: Either I would become

a carpenter or I would, um, I

00:54:30,550 --> 00:54:33,310

would teach film at third level.

00:54:34,089 --> 00:54:34,539

Marc Preston: Very good.

00:54:34,580 --> 00:54:38,169

Uh, now third level over that, that

we consider college or university or.

00:54:39,130 --> 00:54:39,450

Gotcha.

00:54:39,490 --> 00:54:39,940

Gotcha.

00:54:40,520 --> 00:54:43,469

Now, the last question I got, if

you were to jump in the DeLorean,

00:54:43,470 --> 00:54:44,550

you could take you back in time.

00:54:44,550 --> 00:54:47,509

You got 16 year old you, you can

hang out with for just a few minutes.

00:54:47,889 --> 00:54:51,300

What's that piece of advice guidance

you're offering 16 year old you to

00:54:51,309 --> 00:54:55,229

either in that moment in life, make

life just better, uh, or set yourself

00:54:55,230 --> 00:54:56,730

on a little bit different trajectory.

00:54:56,730 --> 00:55:00,140

You think, you know, uh, what, what,

what would that piece of advice be?

00:55:01,400 --> 00:55:04,000

Jack Reynor: I would say, well,

00:55:04,640 --> 00:55:06,890

Marc Preston: I know it's hard for

some people because they, they maybe

00:55:06,940 --> 00:55:10,720

don't want to change the trajectory,

you know, but you know, I remember

00:55:10,720 --> 00:55:13,420

Neil deGrasse Tyson said, I wouldn't

change anything because I wouldn't be

00:55:13,420 --> 00:55:14,710

here, you know, kind of a thing, but

00:55:14,770 --> 00:55:16,440

Jack Reynor: yeah, I

mean, that's a cop out.

00:55:18,959 --> 00:55:19,710

Marc Preston: Well,

he's an astrophysicist.

00:55:20,060 --> 00:55:23,469

He's got his, he's got his science

reasons or whatever, but it makes sense.

00:55:23,470 --> 00:55:23,770

But yeah,

00:55:23,920 --> 00:55:24,160

Jack Reynor: exactly.

00:55:25,810 --> 00:55:31,325

No, I'll tell you what I would, um, I

would encourage myself at that age to,

00:55:31,325 --> 00:55:38,915

uh, not to, not to rush into adulthood

too fast, not to, just to try to be

00:55:39,585 --> 00:55:49,794

aware of, just to try to be aware of

the capacity that I have now to enjoy

00:55:49,905 --> 00:55:57,375

this time, you know, and, um, just

to, I know this sounds like a total

00:55:57,415 --> 00:56:00,745

cliche, but just, Just enjoy that.

00:56:00,755 --> 00:56:02,205

Just enjoy that time.

00:56:02,285 --> 00:56:04,015

Don't focus so much on the future.

00:56:04,015 --> 00:56:05,105

Just enjoy that time.

00:56:06,025 --> 00:56:07,685

It's about having presence of mind.

00:56:08,385 --> 00:56:10,775

Marc Preston: I've had a number of people

say something very similar to that.

00:56:10,775 --> 00:56:13,865

Cause I think it's so easy at that age to

always be looking at what's next, what's

00:56:13,865 --> 00:56:17,605

next, or sometimes some, you know, certain

people, the way they grow up, they're

00:56:17,605 --> 00:56:20,135

kind of in survival mode, you know,

they got to get out there and let, you

00:56:20,135 --> 00:56:22,225

know, they don't just stop and go, okay.

00:56:22,755 --> 00:56:26,265

Living in the moment should be

taught, I think, and, uh, in school.

00:56:26,295 --> 00:56:27,305

I absolutely

00:56:27,305 --> 00:56:27,895

Jack Reynor: agree with you.

00:56:27,935 --> 00:56:29,565

I absolutely agree with you.

00:56:29,865 --> 00:56:34,444

And I'll tell you why I'm very, very lucky

because as I said to you earlier on, my

00:56:34,444 --> 00:56:36,884

career gives me an opportunity to play.

00:56:37,395 --> 00:56:44,495

I get to have a childhood as an adult

and I'm paid to do it, which is insane.

00:56:44,495 --> 00:56:45,845

That's how I make my living.

00:56:46,505 --> 00:56:52,605

And I think if I wasn't afforded

that opportunity, I think I would

00:56:52,615 --> 00:56:54,365

be struggling in my life a lot.

00:56:54,435 --> 00:56:57,780

And so I guess, you know, It is man.

00:56:57,830 --> 00:57:01,140

It's, it's so important to have

presence of mind, even, even at a

00:57:01,140 --> 00:57:04,990

young age, if you can build those

skills, that is such a critical thing.

00:57:05,570 --> 00:57:07,120

Um, it was a very

00:57:07,180 --> 00:57:09,590

Marc Preston: serendipitous,

uh, destination for you.

00:57:09,590 --> 00:57:11,179

You landed where you needed to be.

00:57:11,620 --> 00:57:12,590

Absolutely, man.

00:57:13,660 --> 00:57:16,480

My friend, I so appreciate you

taking some time out with me.

00:57:16,480 --> 00:57:17,920

I know the time difference,

you being there.

00:57:17,920 --> 00:57:19,990

It's a later, but I, I thank you.

00:57:20,000 --> 00:57:21,280

No, it was such a pleasure.

00:57:21,500 --> 00:57:22,319

One last note.

00:57:22,330 --> 00:57:26,119

Did you have anything in the, in the, in

the works for your kind of next release?

00:57:26,180 --> 00:57:27,389

Jack Reynor: Yeah, I've got him

00:57:27,640 --> 00:57:28,699

Marc Preston: besides Citadel.

00:57:28,699 --> 00:57:29,230

Of course,

00:57:29,299 --> 00:57:32,380

Jack Reynor: I've got Citadel, um,

which I'm working on right now.

00:57:32,450 --> 00:57:37,190

And, uh, for those fans of Singh

street and Flora and so on, I've

00:57:37,190 --> 00:57:40,090

got another film that I just shot

with John Carney over the summer.

00:57:40,519 --> 00:57:45,165

Um, All be it a cameo for me, but I think

it's going to be a really cool movie.

00:57:45,165 --> 00:57:48,415

It's starring Paul Rudd and Nick Jonas.

00:57:48,545 --> 00:57:49,685

It's called power ballad.

00:57:50,084 --> 00:57:51,315

That's going to be a fun movie.

00:57:51,315 --> 00:57:54,905

So, uh, that's coming out TBD next year.

00:57:55,375 --> 00:57:58,254

Um, so yeah, those are the

things that I've got going on.

00:57:58,395 --> 00:58:00,309

Marc Preston: If, if Paul

Rudd, if he's just, if he's.

00:58:00,740 --> 00:58:03,310

If he just wasn't such a hard guy

to get along with, I'm sure he just,

00:58:03,330 --> 00:58:04,780

no, but nobody really likes him.

00:58:04,780 --> 00:58:07,180

I can't think of anything.

00:58:07,190 --> 00:58:09,000

Anybody universally loves that dude.

00:58:09,010 --> 00:58:10,570

You know, he's a great guy.

00:58:10,850 --> 00:58:12,410

Well, my friend, uh, best of luck.

00:58:12,480 --> 00:58:15,310

Uh, I will think of you fondly when I

roll down the street to Kelly's and have

00:58:15,310 --> 00:58:19,570

a Uh, have a proper pint I will think

of you, uh, and I just got to go find

00:58:19,570 --> 00:58:23,980

me a donor kebab and I got the whole

plan working, but, uh, you take a great

00:58:23,990 --> 00:58:25,980

care and, uh, my friend, yeah, be well.

00:58:25,980 --> 00:58:28,169

And hopefully we'll have a

chance to catch up down the line.

00:58:28,170 --> 00:58:29,499

Thank you for having me on the show, Marc.

00:58:31,469 --> 00:58:31,829

Okay.

00:58:31,829 --> 00:58:32,269

There you go.

00:58:32,270 --> 00:58:33,360

Jack Rainer.

00:58:33,420 --> 00:58:34,410

Uh, I enjoyed it.

00:58:34,470 --> 00:58:35,730

Enjoyed that conversation.

00:58:35,730 --> 00:58:38,400

I really want to check

out his horse trailer.

00:58:38,755 --> 00:58:39,285

Pub.

00:58:39,365 --> 00:58:40,395

I want to see that.

00:58:40,665 --> 00:58:43,195

Uh, I still need to go see if

I can find some pictures of it.

00:58:43,375 --> 00:58:48,235

Uh, now, of course, Jack Reiner, the TV

show on Netflix, The Perfect Couple, along

00:58:48,245 --> 00:58:50,765

with Liev Schreiber, uh, Nicole Kidman.

00:58:51,044 --> 00:58:55,194

Uh, one of my favorite shows, uh, from

the past year or so, The Peripheral,

00:58:55,194 --> 00:58:57,564

along with, uh, Chloe Grace Moretz.

00:58:57,585 --> 00:58:58,475

You can check that out.

00:58:58,495 --> 00:59:00,215

Great sci fi goodness.

00:59:00,515 --> 00:59:02,115

On Amazon prime video.

00:59:02,325 --> 00:59:05,755

Uh, he's also going to be, uh, in

Citadel and that's, I'm not quite

00:59:05,755 --> 00:59:06,925

sure the release date of that.

00:59:06,925 --> 00:59:10,205

I think there it's still maybe up

in the air, but, uh, check him out.

00:59:10,265 --> 00:59:11,574

Very talented guy.

00:59:11,635 --> 00:59:12,865

Enjoy the conversation.

00:59:13,214 --> 00:59:16,525

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00:59:42,600 --> 00:59:43,240

Uh, okay.

00:59:43,240 --> 00:59:44,570

I'm going to break on out of here.

00:59:44,660 --> 00:59:49,050

I got to get, uh, the, uh, puppy

dog, uh, Ranger, the studio dog.

00:59:49,050 --> 00:59:51,200

You've, you've probably

been hearing about him.

00:59:51,540 --> 00:59:55,710

Uh, he's almost eight months old, eight

month old golden retriever, a big fun,

00:59:55,719 --> 00:59:57,670

hot mess, uh, but he's got to go outside.

00:59:57,740 --> 00:59:58,610

I'm going to take him out.

00:59:58,639 --> 01:00:03,910

I want you to have a great rest of your

day or weekend or evening, whatever

01:00:03,910 --> 01:00:05,700

you are doing, as I always say.

01:00:06,120 --> 01:00:09,730

Thank you for making this little show

part of whatever you got going on.

01:00:10,120 --> 01:00:11,420

Uh, it is greatly appreciated.

01:00:11,700 --> 01:00:12,710

All right, I'm out of here.

01:00:12,740 --> 01:00:18,120

Uh, we will talk to you soon for

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01:00:18,499 --> 01:00:18,919

Take care.

01:00:19,369 --> 01:00:21,740

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