May 16, 2022

Rupert Evans | The Land Roving Thespian

Rupert Evans | The Land Roving Thespian
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Rupert Evans | The Land Roving Thespian

On this episode of The Story & Craft Podcast, we sit down with Rupert Evans.  This talented actor from the UK has co-starred in a number of television and film projects, such as Amazon Prime’s The Man in The High Castle, the CW’s Charmed, Netflix’s Bridgerton and Ewan McGregor’s directorial debut, American Pastoral.   It was a pleasure to sit down and talk story with Rupert.  We covered a lot of ground - touching on acting, working with Jean Reno, shooting projects on both sides of the Atlantic and the Zen of a Land Rover.  SHOW HIGHLIGHTS0:02:09 - Filming and Living in Various Locations0:13:14 - Experience of Being on a Popular Show0:14:42 - Period Shows and Bridgerton Analysis0:16:00 - Popular Shows on Netflix and Amazon0:21:42 - Longevity and Love for Acting0:25:18 - Fathers Trade and Inherited Interests0:29:40 - Odd Jobs and Freezing Warehouse Work0:34:32 - Wisdom From Older Actors and Voices0:39:31 - Choose Three Figures for Conversation0:42:42 - Seven QuestionsListen and subscribe on your favorite podcast app.  Also, check out the show and sign up for the newsletter at www.storyandcraftpod.com....#podcast #interview #RupertEvans #Rupert_EvansName #Actor #PrimeVideo #AmazonPrime #TheManinTheHighCastle #HighCastleAmazon #CW #TheCW #CarmedCW #Charmed #Netflix #NetflixUS #AmericanPastoral #acting #actorslife #storyandcraft #voiceover

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Rupert Evans:

Yeah, I just loved exploring, you know, the

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Rupert Evans: world of acting and acting itself.

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Rupert Evans: So, yeah, that's.

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Rupert Evans: You know, I just it kind of I thought I

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Rupert Evans: would grow out of it, Marc, I thought I

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Rupert Evans: So I kind of went to school, finished

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Rupert Evans: school and thought, oh, I'll grow out of it.

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Announcer: Welcome to Story and Craft.

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Announcer: Now here's your host, Marc Preston.

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Marc Preston: All right, here we go Back for another

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Marc Preston: episode.

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Marc Preston: How are you?

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Marc Preston: I'm Marc Preston.

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Marc Preston: If this is your first episode, thanks for

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Marc Preston: If you've been here before, thank you for

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Marc Preston: coming back by.

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Marc Preston: I certainly appreciate it.

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Marc Preston: How's things been going?

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Marc Preston: You doing all right?

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Marc Preston: You know I don't.

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Marc Preston: If you're like me, you've got kids heading

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Marc Preston: into summer vacation.

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Marc Preston: I got my oldest back from college, which is

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Marc Preston: super cool.

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Marc Preston: I got the other two.

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Marc Preston: My son just graduated high school and the

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Marc Preston: youngest is still.

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Marc Preston: She's got a couple more weeks left of

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Marc Preston: school, so I'm kind of kind of pretending

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Marc Preston: like I'm on summer vacation also.

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Marc Preston: But anyway, glad to have you Today.

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Marc Preston: Rupert Evans very cool to have him.

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Marc Preston: He's a really wonderful actor from the UK.

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Marc Preston: He's been in projects like Amazon Primes,

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Marc Preston: the man in the High Castle, the CW's

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Marc Preston: popular show you might have heard of and he

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Marc Preston: was even in Ewan McGregor's directorial

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Marc Preston: debut, american Pastoral.

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Marc Preston: This was a great chat Really enjoyed

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Marc Preston: We talked about acting, what it's like to

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Marc Preston: Jean Reno, one of my favorite actors, one

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Marc Preston: of Rupert's as well.

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Marc Preston: That was kind of a cool little note we

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Marc Preston: touched on, and also the zen of a Land

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Marc Preston: Rover.

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Marc Preston: We covered a lot of ground.

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Marc Preston: It was a great chat.

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Marc Preston: Oh, by the way, don't forget

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Marc Preston: You want to shoot me a message?

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Marc Preston: Anything StoryandCraft is at

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Marc Preston: I appreciate the notes I've received from a

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Marc Preston: few folks liking the show, spending a

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Marc Preston: I most certainly appreciate it.

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Marc Preston: All right, so let's get after it.

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Marc Preston: It is Rupert Evans Day right now on

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Marc Preston: StoryandCraft.

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Marc Preston: How are you, rupert?

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Marc Preston: You doing?

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Marc Preston: All right.

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Rupert Evans: Good, where are you, my friend?

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Marc Preston: I'm located right now in New Orleans,

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Marc Preston: Louisiana.

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Rupert Evans: Oh, how wonderful, how wonderful.

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Marc Preston: I'm not a native here.

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Marc Preston: I've been here about down and off about 20

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Marc Preston: I've earned my stripes in New Orleans.

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Marc Preston: I guess You're in London.

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Rupert Evans: I am.

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Rupert Evans: I've just got back Yep, I've just got back

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Rupert Evans: from Vancouver.

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Rupert Evans: So, yeah, I'm back at home, which is lovely

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Rupert Evans: for me after many months.

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Marc Preston: You know it's so funny.

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Marc Preston: I was just speaking with someone yesterday.

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Marc Preston: They're talking about filming in Vancouver

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Marc Preston: and, from what I understand, that everybody

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Marc Preston: I can't think of the name of the hotel, but

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Marc Preston: everybody lands at the same hotel.

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Marc Preston: I think it starts with R.

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Marc Preston: I think it's called the Sutton Place.

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Rupert Evans: The Sutton Place Hotel.

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Rupert Evans: Oh, sutton Place, right.

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Rupert Evans: In fact, embarrassingly, I have just

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Rupert Evans: literally been living there for the last

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Rupert Evans: month.

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Rupert Evans: So there you go.

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Marc Preston: Well, how does it feel to be home now?

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Marc Preston: That's the more important question.

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Marc Preston: Are you feeling settled in yet, or is it

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Marc Preston: still kind of?

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Marc Preston: Yeah?

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Rupert Evans: it's been a long time.

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Rupert Evans: No, I've been away for five years, really,

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Rupert Evans: yeah, I'm literally yeah.

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Rupert Evans: Yeah, I've just moved into my house after

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Rupert Evans: It's kind of nuts really.

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Rupert Evans: Marc's going.

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Rupert Evans: So yeah, we're just unpacking.

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Rupert Evans: I'm living in a sea of boxes.

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Marc Preston: Oh no, here's the thing.

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Marc Preston: I've got this frame perfectly so you can't

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Marc Preston: there's boxes and stuff and everything.

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Marc Preston: I've made it look very presentable because

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Marc Preston: I don't want to look at Gosher or anything,

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Marc Preston: but that's not funny.

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Marc Preston: Me too, if you should see when you move

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Marc Preston: It's like this fit in my last place, where

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Marc Preston: am I going to?

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Marc Preston: Then you start having this epiphany of like

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Marc Preston: I got too much stuff.

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Marc Preston: Oh my God.

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Rupert Evans: I've been yeah, oh no, that's exactly

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Rupert Evans: what's happening to me.

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Rupert Evans: I'm sorting through my life.

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Rupert Evans: It's just nuts, it's crazy.

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Marc Preston: Well, that begs the question where were you

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Marc Preston: living for the last five?

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Marc Preston: Were you just traveling around shooting, or

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Marc Preston: were you living somewhere else?

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Marc Preston: I've been in Vancouver for five, six years.

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Marc Preston: You were living in Vancouver.

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Marc Preston: Is that where they shoot, charmed?

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Rupert Evans: Yeah, and then before that it was man and I

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Rupert Evans: Castle.

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Rupert Evans: It's just been home for the last.

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Rupert Evans: I've done three jobs in a row, just weirdly.

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Rupert Evans: So, yeah, every time.

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Rupert Evans: I don't know, I don't know why.

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Rupert Evans: It's just that sometimes it goes in cycles,

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Rupert Evans: whether it's I spent a lot of time in

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Rupert Evans: and round in circles.

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Marc Preston: I've seen such a consistent trend Budapest

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Marc Preston: comes up, prague comes up, vancouver comes

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Marc Preston: up.

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Marc Preston: Seems like there are a lot of locations

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Marc Preston: that are consistent New Orleans used to be

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Marc Preston: one of actually it's coming back a little

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Marc Preston: bit Atlanta or Georgia's, which is where so

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Marc Preston: much is happening.

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Marc Preston: That used to be more in New Orleans.

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Marc Preston: It's so funny to talk to actors.

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Marc Preston: They always kind of enjoy the ones that

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Marc Preston: come down here and shoot a series or

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Marc Preston: something like that, because then kind of

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Marc Preston: play around a little bit.

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Marc Preston: I found that if you're going to be

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Marc Preston: somewhere for a few months, it's kind of

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Marc Preston: good to be somewhere you actually want to

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Marc Preston: be, I suppose.

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Rupert Evans: Oh yeah, I mean listen, new Orleans is

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Rupert Evans: really happening now.

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Rupert Evans: So in fact I have a friend who's a DP who's

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Rupert Evans: just starting on a job right now in New

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Rupert Evans: So I think things are happening.

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Rupert Evans: It's all about the tax breaks, my friend.

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Rupert Evans: It's all about the tax breaks and it's

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Rupert Evans: whoever gives the biggest tax break.

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Marc Preston: Now I have to be honest, I had to go catch

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Marc Preston: up a little bit Charmed.

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Marc Preston: I of course I'm a little bit myself

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Marc Preston: probably a little outside the age range of

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Marc Preston: a lot of CW programming, although a lot of

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Marc Preston: it's really good, don't get me wrong.

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Marc Preston: I went and checked it out and I was like

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Marc Preston: man, this is kind of a fun show and it's.

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Marc Preston: I'm trying to remember.

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Marc Preston: The original Charmed came out.

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Marc Preston: Was it like late 90s?

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Marc Preston: I think it was late 90s, early 2000s.

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Rupert Evans: Yeah, I think you're right.

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Rupert Evans: I think you're right.

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Rupert Evans: I mean, I didn't do much money.

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Rupert Evans: I've never actually watched the original,

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Rupert Evans: so I can't remember, but it was huge.

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Rupert Evans: I mean, it was a big, big, you know.

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Rupert Evans: I think it went for seven seasons and it

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Rupert Evans: was, and it paved the way, didn't it, for

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Rupert Evans: us.

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Rupert Evans: So, yeah, it was certainly a hit show, the

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Rupert Evans: first, the first time round.

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Marc Preston: Now you've had four seasons of this

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Marc Preston: incarnation of Charmed.

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Marc Preston: Is that correct?

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Marc Preston: Yeah, I've just finished the fourth season.

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Marc Preston: Well, hey, in the world of TV, man going to

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Marc Preston: be, especially with streaming, going beyond

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Marc Preston: three seasons, that's, that's, that's.

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Marc Preston: You're doing pretty well if you can do that.

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Rupert Evans: Yeah, yeah, I think we're very lucky

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Rupert Evans: because, you know, the pandemic didn't

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Rupert Evans: really affect us either too too much.

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Rupert Evans: We had to wait a little longer to start up

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Rupert Evans: again.

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Rupert Evans: But I feel very lucky, very blessed, and

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Rupert Evans: you know it's good fun and they they're

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Rupert Evans: very kind to me and CBS Studios are very,

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Rupert Evans: you know, they're very passionate about

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Rupert Evans: this show and they let me direct it as well

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Rupert Evans: now.

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Rupert Evans: So I've been directing it for the last

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Rupert Evans: three seasons, so it's been good fun acting

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Rupert Evans: and directing in a show and being a part of

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Rupert Evans: the creative process.

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Marc Preston: Yeah, how many episodes per season are they?

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Rupert Evans: You only.

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Rupert Evans: You know, it was really.

466

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Rupert Evans: It was great, you know, and apart from the

467

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Rupert Evans: endless costume fittings that take, you

468

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Rupert Evans: know, days and days, but despite that, even

469

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Rupert Evans: that was fun and it was great because you

470

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Rupert Evans: feel wonderful in the costume.

471

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Marc Preston: But isn't it kind of cool when you know

472

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Marc Preston: that somebody there in the costume

473

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Marc Preston: department that's actually gone stitched

474

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Marc Preston: together created something just for you,

475

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Marc Preston: you know, which is yeah.

476

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Rupert Evans: Yeah, and bridgerton is an exception

477

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Rupert Evans: because they make every single costume.

478

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Rupert Evans: You know I've done a lot of pbc period

479

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Rupert Evans: dramas Before this where you know the

480

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Rupert Evans: higher up the hiring, you know number of

481

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Rupert Evans: the costumes, but you know these guys

482

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Rupert Evans: literally make every single one and it is

483

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Rupert Evans: incredible what they do.

484

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Rupert Evans: So you know, I like, you know bridgerton, I

485

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Rupert Evans: like the sort of heightened reality.

486

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Rupert Evans: It's not professing to the you know sort of

487

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Rupert Evans: kitchen sink drama or you know realism,

488

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Rupert Evans: it's, it's a there's a heightened reality,

489

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Rupert Evans: is a joy to it and I really think that they

490

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Rupert Evans: have they caught something at the right

491

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Rupert Evans: time during the pandemic and you know we're

492

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Rupert Evans: all and we all got sort of absorbed into it

493

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Rupert Evans: and I just love it.

494

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Rupert Evans: It's a huge show and, as you say, it's the

495

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Rupert Evans: most watched English speaking show of all

496

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Rupert Evans: time on Netflix.

497

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Rupert Evans: So it's it has, you know, real, yeah, it

498

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Rupert Evans: has the most watch.

499

00:16:11,664 --> 00:16:13,386

Rupert Evans: You know I'm speaking show of all time.

500

00:16:13,567 --> 00:16:15,609

Rupert Evans: So it's, you know, apart, I think the, I

501

00:16:15,629 --> 00:16:17,231

Rupert Evans: think the biggest one is squig game.

502

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Rupert Evans: So I think it's it goes squig game and it

503

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Rupert Evans: goes bridgerton you know I, you know couple

504

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Rupert Evans: of my kids have seen that.

505

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Marc Preston: That is a show really, really want to see.

506

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Marc Preston: I saw the first episode.

507

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Marc Preston: Another one I want to go back and revisit

508

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Marc Preston: because I only got like Two or three

509

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Marc Preston: episodes in and you know, life being life,

510

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Marc Preston: you know, but is the man in the high castle?

511

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Marc Preston: What a cool concept for show.

512

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Marc Preston: Please refresh my memory, kind of where,

513

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Marc Preston: where?

514

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Marc Preston: Where did your character fall in that, in

515

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Marc Preston: that ecosystem of, of course you have the

516

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Marc Preston: germans.

517

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Rupert Evans: Listen, I know I the man in the high

518

00:16:49,841 --> 00:16:52,545

Rupert Evans: castles for me was very close to my heart.

519

00:16:52,605 --> 00:16:55,570

Rupert Evans: It was just it's an amazing idea comes from

520

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Rupert Evans: the Novel of the same name for the cake

521

00:16:58,319 --> 00:17:00,883

Rupert Evans: novel, and you know it's an alternative

522

00:17:00,943 --> 00:17:04,570

Rupert Evans: history show on amazon which, you know,

523

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Rupert Evans: kind of looks at the idea of what if?

524

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Rupert Evans: What if the nazis, germany, hitler, what if

525

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Rupert Evans: they had one world war, you know two, and

526

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Rupert Evans: so it's sort of the whole show is set in,

527

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Rupert Evans: you know, in the nineteen, sixties, post

528

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Rupert Evans: war america under nazi occupation, what you

529

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Rupert Evans: know, half the east, east, half of america

530

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Rupert Evans: is run by Nazis, west coast is run by the

531

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Rupert Evans: japanese, japanese, they kind of join

532

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Rupert Evans: forces in this sort of alternative history

533

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Rupert Evans: show.

534

00:17:41,096 --> 00:17:41,958

Rupert Evans: It's about life.

535

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Rupert Evans: You know my character is frank, frank and I

536

00:17:45,246 --> 00:17:50,256

Rupert Evans: play a sort of, you know, an american who I

537

00:17:50,276 --> 00:17:52,159

Rupert Evans: think it's quite alien to americans, the

538

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Rupert Evans: idea that actually you are a subclass in

539

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Rupert Evans: west coast, on the, in san francisco, under

540

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Rupert Evans: japanese Rule.

541

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Rupert Evans: But you know the all powerful nazis are

542

00:18:05,766 --> 00:18:08,637

Rupert Evans: certainly putting pressure On the japanese

543

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Rupert Evans: to kind of eradicate all jews and and seek

544

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Rupert Evans: out those.

545

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Rupert Evans: And I actually, you know my character, is

546

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Rupert Evans: jewish and so that's the story like was,

547

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Rupert Evans: you know, very heavy story like for me and

548

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Rupert Evans: for the show.

549

00:18:22,631 --> 00:18:25,499

Rupert Evans: So it was a fantastic job.

550

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Rupert Evans: And part of that shit, part of the book, as

551

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Rupert Evans: well as not only just an alternative

552

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Rupert Evans: history, and that is in itself enough and

553

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Rupert Evans: it's so interesting if you watch it seeing

554

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Rupert Evans: you know you know americans speaking nazi.

555

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Rupert Evans: It's kind of extraordinary having breakfast

556

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Rupert Evans: it's kind of crazy idea that you know what

557

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Rupert Evans: happened.

558

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Rupert Evans: What, if what you know because there was.

559

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Rupert Evans: There is a theory that you know that the

560

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Rupert Evans: nazis weren't that far away From dropping a

561

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Rupert Evans: bomb on washington and we're pretty, you

562

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Rupert Evans: know it was pretty close to that, so they

563

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Rupert Evans: were.

564

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Rupert Evans: You know they're on the way.

565

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Marc Preston: It's kind of like it's as much things

566

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Marc Preston: change, the kind of stay the same to kind

567

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Marc Preston: of watch.

568

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Marc Preston: That in our current state of affairs in the

569

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Marc Preston: world, is the same dna of Mr putin has, is

570

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Marc Preston: not?

571

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Marc Preston: You know, it's connected to this.

572

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Rupert Evans: It's not the, it's not beyond the bounds of

573

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Rupert Evans: possibility absolutely.

574

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Rupert Evans: And so you know, I think the show really

575

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Rupert Evans: tapped into something.

576

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Rupert Evans: I think it was.

577

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Rupert Evans: You know this is, you know I think it's

578

00:19:20,479 --> 00:19:22,061

Rupert Evans: came at a time where it just it was a

579

00:19:22,101 --> 00:19:23,923

Rupert Evans: really interesting idea for me and I just I

580

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Rupert Evans: just I love that show, I love the idea, and

581

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Rupert Evans: there's also a sci-fi element to the show

582

00:19:28,529 --> 00:19:31,316

Rupert Evans: as well, which, which in the books it looks

583

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Rupert Evans: at as well, about time travel.

584

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Rupert Evans: So it's a kind of extraordinary mix of sort

585

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Rupert Evans: of alternative history time travel, and

586

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Rupert Evans: it's worth the look.

587

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Rupert Evans: If you haven't watched the man in the high

588

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Rupert Evans: castle, it's worth it.

589

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Marc Preston: I, like I said, I think that's such a

590

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Marc Preston: wonderful concept.

591

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Marc Preston: I enjoyed, like I said, two to three

592

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Marc Preston: episodes of watch.

593

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Marc Preston: I'm gonna go back.

594

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Marc Preston: It's on, it's on the short list, without a

595

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Marc Preston: doubt.

596

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Marc Preston: The doorman.

597

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Marc Preston: And without a doubt I've got to ask us I've

598

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Marc Preston: always been a big genre no fan what got to

599

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Marc Preston: go toe-to-toe and have him to be in scenes

600

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Marc Preston: where he's the adversary?

601

00:20:10,675 --> 00:20:13,066

Marc Preston: You know what was that kind of, what was

602

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Marc Preston: that shooting like on that, on that show?

603

00:20:15,897 --> 00:20:19,269

Rupert Evans: listen, I took that job just to be with

604

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Rupert Evans: your radar.

605

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Rupert Evans: To be honest, I mean, I, you know he, I'm a

606

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Rupert Evans: huge fan of his and and he certainly didn't

607

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Rupert Evans: disappoint.

608

00:20:26,658 --> 00:20:27,702

Rupert Evans: He's an extraordinary guy.

609

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Rupert Evans: You know, he's not just an actor, he's a

610

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Rupert Evans: poet, he's, he's, he's, he is so individual.

611

00:20:34,642 --> 00:20:35,751

Rupert Evans: He's an amazing human being.

612

00:20:35,871 --> 00:20:37,658

Rupert Evans: He's an amazing human, really interesting

613

00:20:37,698 --> 00:20:40,991

Rupert Evans: guy, very well read, you know, very

614

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Rupert Evans: articulate, very funny.

615

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Rupert Evans: You know, great fun, great fun.

616

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Rupert Evans: So I really, yeah, I really enjoyed working

617

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Rupert Evans: with him and it was really, you know, it

618

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Rupert Evans: was really fun.

619

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Rupert Evans: Yeah, he's an amazing, amazing guy.

620

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Rupert Evans: He has great, great depth to him, which you

621

00:20:54,910 --> 00:20:58,480

Rupert Evans: know, and he's he has great range as well.

622

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Rupert Evans: As an actor, he can be dark, you can be,

623

00:21:00,948 --> 00:21:02,974

Rupert Evans: you know, intimidating, but he can be very

624

00:21:03,014 --> 00:21:03,556

Rupert Evans: light and funny.

625

00:21:03,616 --> 00:21:04,178

Rupert Evans: So he wasn't.

626

00:21:04,299 --> 00:21:06,078

Rupert Evans: It was real joy just to spend some time on

627

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Rupert Evans: set with him.

628

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Marc Preston: It was fun singing be the bad guy, yeah,

629

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Marc Preston: yeah, and he's, yeah, absolutely yeah, the

630

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Marc Preston: stuff I've seen that there is.

631

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Marc Preston: There is American pastoral, and just look

632

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Marc Preston: at the cast.

633

00:21:16,445 --> 00:21:17,671

Marc Preston: I was like, how did I miss this one?

634

00:21:18,012 --> 00:21:20,117

Marc Preston: Of course you and McGregor I I don't know

635

00:21:20,137 --> 00:21:20,819

Marc Preston: how to know this.

636

00:21:20,839 --> 00:21:21,642

Marc Preston: He directed a movie.

637

00:21:21,750 --> 00:21:22,736

Marc Preston: I didn't know that, you know.

638

00:21:22,796 --> 00:21:24,304

Marc Preston: But what's it like to be directed by

639

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Marc Preston: Obi-Wan Kenobi?

640

00:21:25,169 --> 00:21:28,116

Rupert Evans: I gotta know yeah, this was you and sir you

641

00:21:28,497 --> 00:21:30,481

Rupert Evans: know directorial debut.

642

00:21:30,742 --> 00:21:32,574

Rupert Evans: So this is, I think, a project that he had,

643

00:21:33,738 --> 00:21:37,209

Rupert Evans: you know, loved and yeah, I really had sort

644

00:21:37,289 --> 00:21:38,773

Rupert Evans: of fought for for many years.

645

00:21:38,894 --> 00:21:40,839

Rupert Evans: It was him, it was, it was great.

646

00:21:41,040 --> 00:21:41,661

Rupert Evans: He you know what.

647

00:21:41,701 --> 00:21:43,912

Rupert Evans: He is one of the most generous men you and

648

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Rupert Evans: McGregor.

649

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Rupert Evans: He's just a very you know he's an actress

650

00:21:46,672 --> 00:21:46,933

Rupert Evans: actor.

651

00:21:46,973 --> 00:21:50,087

Rupert Evans: He's really understands actors and you know

652

00:21:50,107 --> 00:21:51,853

Rupert Evans: he has a fast experience now.

653

00:21:52,234 --> 00:21:54,341

Rupert Evans: But there is a sort of there's a great

654

00:21:54,562 --> 00:21:58,313

Rupert Evans: childlike enthusiasm and love for what he

655

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Rupert Evans: does.

656

00:21:58,694 --> 00:22:00,859

Rupert Evans: Still, and that's what Sunfectious about

657

00:22:00,960 --> 00:22:04,255

Rupert Evans: him is that he still loves and cares about

658

00:22:04,937 --> 00:22:06,641

Rupert Evans: the work and people and actors.

659

00:22:06,681 --> 00:22:07,892

Rupert Evans: He loves being with actors.

660

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Rupert Evans: You know he is an actor.

661

00:22:09,099 --> 00:22:09,884

Rupert Evans: He's an actors actor.

662

00:22:09,924 --> 00:22:10,407

Rupert Evans: You know what I mean.

663

00:22:10,849 --> 00:22:13,059

Rupert Evans: He's got great stories, you know isn't that?

664

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Marc Preston: the guy is that kind of the key to

665

00:22:14,750 --> 00:22:16,457

Marc Preston: longevity, though, can have that childlike.

666

00:22:16,979 --> 00:22:17,943

Marc Preston: Yeah, I think it's got to be one of the

667

00:22:19,570 --> 00:22:22,361

Marc Preston: keys to longevity in, yeah, this or any

668

00:22:22,401 --> 00:22:25,633

Marc Preston: other craft because you can burn out you

669

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Marc Preston: know, yeah, I feel you know, every morning

670

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Marc Preston: I, you know, I go to work in Vancouver.

671

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Rupert Evans: You know I feel very lucky.

672

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Rupert Evans: I love what I do.

673

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Rupert Evans: You know he certainly does and he was great.

674

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Rupert Evans: He was a great.

675

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Rupert Evans: You know.

676

00:22:36,341 --> 00:22:38,371

Rupert Evans: He had done a lot of prep, a lot of work

677

00:22:38,512 --> 00:22:39,897

Rupert Evans: and really understood what he was doing.

678

00:22:39,937 --> 00:22:41,653

Rupert Evans: So he we had a great time on that movie and

679

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Rupert Evans: you know it was some really special little

680

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Rupert Evans: movie and it was great, it was amazing and

681

00:22:46,437 --> 00:22:48,368

Rupert Evans: Jennifer Connelly was great and there were

682

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Rupert Evans: some wonderful people on it.

683

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Rupert Evans: So we had a good time.

684

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Marc Preston: Was was acting and doing something

685

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Marc Preston: theatrical always on on the agenda, or it

686

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Marc Preston: was a kind of discovery where you, when you

687

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Marc Preston: were at University, kind of like, oh, I

688

00:22:58,428 --> 00:22:59,151

Marc Preston: kind of dig this thing.

689

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Marc Preston: What was the genesis of your theatrical

690

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Marc Preston: pursuits?

691

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Rupert Evans: I suppose, you know, I think I was just a

692

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Rupert Evans: sort of I, you know, we did a lot of acting

693

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Rupert Evans: at school and then, I think, you know, I

694

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Rupert Evans: got it.

695

00:23:13,445 --> 00:23:14,620

Rupert Evans: You know, I think I was a bit of a show if

696

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Rupert Evans: I got.

697

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Rupert Evans: You know, I suddenly saw a reaction from

698

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Rupert Evans: people and I was like, oh god, you know, I

699

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Rupert Evans: think it wasn't until a little later on,

700

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Rupert Evans: until I kind of, you know, I was sort of 16

701

00:23:25,385 --> 00:23:28,599

Rupert Evans: 1516 that I kind of realized that, you know,

702

00:23:28,639 --> 00:23:30,065

Rupert Evans: actually there's more to this and you know,

703

00:23:30,165 --> 00:23:31,809

Rupert Evans: you have to be kind of quite serious about

704

00:23:31,870 --> 00:23:31,930

Rupert Evans: it.

705

00:23:32,050 --> 00:23:35,359

Rupert Evans: And you know, and so I kind of always I

706

00:23:35,399 --> 00:23:38,093

Rupert Evans: don't, yeah, I kind of grew, I think

707

00:23:38,194 --> 00:23:40,361

Rupert Evans: actually I couldn't do anything else and I

708

00:23:40,401 --> 00:23:41,385

Rupert Evans: didn't want to do anything else.

709

00:23:41,727 --> 00:23:44,360

Rupert Evans: I, you know, I really enjoyed it and I just

710

00:23:44,500 --> 00:23:47,012

Rupert Evans: loved, yeah, I just loved exploring, you

711

00:23:47,032 --> 00:23:48,981

Rupert Evans: know, the world of acting and acting itself.

712

00:23:49,061 --> 00:23:50,550

Rupert Evans: So, yeah, that's, you know, I just kind of

713

00:23:51,175 --> 00:23:52,646

Rupert Evans: I thought I would grow out of it, Marc, I

714

00:23:52,706 --> 00:23:54,172

Rupert Evans: thought I would just kind of grow out of it.

715

00:23:54,225 --> 00:23:56,111

Rupert Evans: So I kind of went to school and finished

716

00:23:56,131 --> 00:23:57,495

Rupert Evans: school and thought I'll grow out of it.

717

00:23:57,565 --> 00:23:58,929

Rupert Evans: You know, then I went to university and

718

00:23:58,969 --> 00:24:00,513

Rupert Evans: thought, well, I'll do a bit here, but I,

719

00:24:00,533 --> 00:24:01,837

Rupert Evans: you know it'll just, I'll grow out of it.

720

00:24:03,047 --> 00:24:04,111

Rupert Evans: You know I'll do something else.

721

00:24:04,191 --> 00:24:05,896

Rupert Evans: And then I finished University and thought,

722

00:24:05,957 --> 00:24:06,518

Rupert Evans: what am I gonna do?

723

00:24:06,786 --> 00:24:08,233

Rupert Evans: Is there's any one thing I want to do?

724

00:24:08,815 --> 00:24:10,644

Rupert Evans: So I then thought, well, I'll try, and you

725

00:24:10,665 --> 00:24:12,734

Rupert Evans: know, I'll apply to drama school and then

726

00:24:12,754 --> 00:24:14,261

Rupert Evans: if I don't get in, then I'll just go do

727

00:24:14,301 --> 00:24:14,783

Rupert Evans: something else.

728

00:24:14,864 --> 00:24:16,531

Rupert Evans: And then I I like fortunately did get in

729

00:24:16,711 --> 00:24:18,338

Rupert Evans: and for that on in, that was it really.

730

00:24:18,358 --> 00:24:19,964

Rupert Evans: You know, and it's the greatest job in the

731

00:24:20,005 --> 00:24:20,105

Rupert Evans: world.

732

00:24:20,245 --> 00:24:22,231

Rupert Evans: You know, you get to kind of see the world,

733

00:24:22,251 --> 00:24:25,167

Rupert Evans: meet crazy people, creative people, and you

734

00:24:25,207 --> 00:24:26,713

Rupert Evans: know, if you get paid to kind of, you know,

735

00:24:26,753 --> 00:24:28,681

Rupert Evans: run around and pretend, you know, being

736

00:24:28,701 --> 00:24:29,785

Rupert Evans: chased by a ghost or something.

737

00:24:29,825 --> 00:24:31,150

Rupert Evans: I mean, I don't know, it's great.

738

00:24:31,531 --> 00:24:33,639

Marc Preston: Oh my god, being able to play for a living

739

00:24:33,719 --> 00:24:36,369

Marc Preston: is one hell of a great gig, yeah it's just,

740

00:24:36,750 --> 00:24:37,854

Marc Preston: it's a blessing.

741

00:24:37,934 --> 00:24:39,941

Rupert Evans: It's a blessing and I feel very fortunate,

742

00:24:39,981 --> 00:24:40,904

Rupert Evans: so yeah, that's kind of where it's.

743

00:24:40,924 --> 00:24:43,271

Rupert Evans: You know, I, I literally wasn't a great

744

00:24:43,291 --> 00:24:43,993

Rupert Evans: grand plan.

745

00:24:44,053 --> 00:24:46,259

Rupert Evans: I just I don't think I'm, you know, didn't

746

00:24:46,420 --> 00:24:47,804

Rupert Evans: want to do anything else and couldn't do

747

00:24:47,844 --> 00:24:48,245

Rupert Evans: anything else.

748

00:24:49,128 --> 00:24:50,996

Marc Preston: So was that encouraged by the family where

749

00:24:51,016 --> 00:24:52,462

Marc Preston: they like alright, well, he's, you know,

750

00:24:52,502 --> 00:24:53,767

Marc Preston: rupert's doing his thing, we're gonna get

751

00:24:53,787 --> 00:24:53,988

Marc Preston: behind.

752

00:24:54,109 --> 00:24:55,696

Marc Preston: Or they like, I'll get a reasonable job,

753

00:24:55,777 --> 00:24:56,219

Marc Preston: come on I.

754

00:24:58,426 --> 00:25:00,293

Rupert Evans: Think you know in my dad sort of sat me

755

00:25:00,313 --> 00:25:01,899

Rupert Evans: down once I said are you sure about this?

756

00:25:01,919 --> 00:25:04,246

Rupert Evans: Because you know, if you, you know, you

757

00:25:04,267 --> 00:25:06,532

Rupert Evans: know the old adage of 90% of actors are

758

00:25:06,572 --> 00:25:06,993

Rupert Evans: unemployed.

759

00:25:07,153 --> 00:25:08,797

Rupert Evans: Blah, blah, blah but you know ultimately,

760

00:25:08,957 --> 00:25:10,590

Rupert Evans: you know, they just sort of let you go.

761

00:25:10,630 --> 00:25:12,315

Rupert Evans: They have to let you do what you want to do.

762

00:25:12,425 --> 00:25:13,670

Rupert Evans: So they didn't really have a say and they

763

00:25:13,690 --> 00:25:15,767

Rupert Evans: didn't really comment much, but they were,

764

00:25:15,787 --> 00:25:16,970

Rupert Evans: they were always supportive, you know,

765

00:25:16,990 --> 00:25:17,711

Rupert Evans: they've always been great.

766

00:25:18,052 --> 00:25:20,778

Marc Preston: Yeah, so the what was your father's trade?

767

00:25:21,166 --> 00:25:21,708

Rupert Evans: My dad.

768

00:25:21,848 --> 00:25:22,892

Rupert Evans: You know my dad well.

769

00:25:22,912 --> 00:25:26,262

Rupert Evans: My dad was in real estate and he was an

770

00:25:26,342 --> 00:25:27,165

Rupert Evans: auctioneer as well.

771

00:25:27,446 --> 00:25:30,246

Rupert Evans: So there's a bit of sort of theatrical, you

772

00:25:30,266 --> 00:25:32,372

Rupert Evans: know, element to that and, having seen him

773

00:25:32,774 --> 00:25:34,827

Rupert Evans: do a lot of auctioneering, it's there's

774

00:25:34,908 --> 00:25:36,973

Rupert Evans: definitely an act that you put on when he

775

00:25:37,134 --> 00:25:40,009

Rupert Evans: steps on stage to To sort of auctioneer.

776

00:25:40,630 --> 00:25:43,575

Rupert Evans: So I think, yeah, I think I think it, you

777

00:25:43,595 --> 00:25:45,319

Rupert Evans: know, I think there was a bit of that in

778

00:25:45,359 --> 00:25:45,719

Rupert Evans: him too.

779

00:25:46,827 --> 00:25:48,538

Rupert Evans: So, yeah, I think I think I may have got it

780

00:25:48,558 --> 00:25:50,447

Rupert Evans: from him as much as my mom, my mom was.

781

00:25:51,029 --> 00:25:52,894

Rupert Evans: My mom is was certainly quieter, but she,

782

00:25:53,014 --> 00:25:56,364

Rupert Evans: she, she had a sort of ability to sing and

783

00:25:56,384 --> 00:25:56,565

Rupert Evans: stuff.

784

00:25:56,746 --> 00:25:59,054

Rupert Evans: So, you know, I don't know I had no idea

785

00:25:59,094 --> 00:26:00,579

Rupert Evans: really where it sort of came from, really

786

00:26:00,619 --> 00:26:02,245

Rupert Evans: why, why it sparked my interest.

787

00:26:02,607 --> 00:26:04,801

Marc Preston: Well, did you have any siblings or you were

788

00:26:04,821 --> 00:26:05,365

Marc Preston: you an only child?

789

00:26:06,247 --> 00:26:08,591

Rupert Evans: No, no, I have siblings, yeah, ones in

790

00:26:08,651 --> 00:26:10,535

Rupert Evans: radio actually does, you know, does what

791

00:26:10,575 --> 00:26:15,292

Rupert Evans: you do and is a DJ and broadcaster on on

792

00:26:15,332 --> 00:26:15,974

Rupert Evans: radio in the UK.

793

00:26:17,686 --> 00:26:19,270

Rupert Evans: And also my sister, you know, did a bit of

794

00:26:19,330 --> 00:26:21,857

Rupert Evans: acting for a while and does occasionally.

795

00:26:21,917 --> 00:26:24,128

Rupert Evans: So, yeah, it's something in us.

796

00:26:24,168 --> 00:26:24,710

Rupert Evans: I don't know what.

797

00:26:25,251 --> 00:26:26,855

Rupert Evans: I don't know what it is really, it's just

798

00:26:26,955 --> 00:26:29,991

Rupert Evans: fun, you know it's just great, great fun.

799

00:26:30,232 --> 00:26:32,239

Marc Preston: Is there something else that you were also

800

00:26:32,280 --> 00:26:32,842

Marc Preston: considering?

801

00:26:32,982 --> 00:26:34,548

Marc Preston: While you're in school, you're like, okay,

802

00:26:34,568 --> 00:26:36,614

Marc Preston: there's acting or there's this thing on the

803

00:26:36,635 --> 00:26:37,056

Marc Preston: side.

804

00:26:39,387 --> 00:26:40,431

Rupert Evans: No, I don't think so.

805

00:26:40,491 --> 00:26:45,631

Rupert Evans: I mean, you know well, guys, when I started

806

00:26:45,731 --> 00:26:48,164

Rupert Evans: out, actually I was like you know it was

807

00:26:48,204 --> 00:26:49,068

Rupert Evans: hard, you know I didn't get.

808

00:26:49,128 --> 00:26:51,516

Rupert Evans: You know I, there were long periods of

809

00:26:51,597 --> 00:26:54,147

Rupert Evans: unemployment early on and you know I was

810

00:26:54,167 --> 00:26:56,439

Rupert Evans: sort of waiting around and I one stage I

811

00:26:56,480 --> 00:26:58,069

Rupert Evans: was like so desperate I thought, well, what

812

00:26:58,089 --> 00:26:59,780

Rupert Evans: am I gonna do if this doesn't, you know, if

813

00:26:59,800 --> 00:27:01,991

Rupert Evans: the phone doesn't ring, what the hell am I

814

00:27:02,051 --> 00:27:02,292

Rupert Evans: gonna do?

815

00:27:02,393 --> 00:27:03,578

Rupert Evans: So I thought, well, you know.

816

00:27:03,618 --> 00:27:04,803

Rupert Evans: So I thought, well, maybe I'll go into

817

00:27:04,863 --> 00:27:06,609

Rupert Evans: gardening, you know, like landscape

818

00:27:06,669 --> 00:27:07,171

Rupert Evans: gardening.

819

00:27:07,191 --> 00:27:08,716

Rupert Evans: So I did think about that for a while.

820

00:27:10,825 --> 00:27:13,050

Rupert Evans: Weirdly, I grew up on a farm.

821

00:27:13,170 --> 00:27:15,515

Rupert Evans: So I think, yeah, I think, you know, the

822

00:27:15,575 --> 00:27:17,259

Rupert Evans: outdoors is always a kind of appeal to me.

823

00:27:17,726 --> 00:27:19,411

Rupert Evans: So I thought, maybe a quieter, simpler life,

824

00:27:19,471 --> 00:27:21,135

Rupert Evans: I'll go into the plants and vegetables and,

825

00:27:21,717 --> 00:27:23,569

Rupert Evans: you know, be a gardener.

826

00:27:24,031 --> 00:27:24,995

Rupert Evans: So that was one option.

827

00:27:26,308 --> 00:27:28,784

Rupert Evans: And then I have an absolute love for

828

00:27:30,113 --> 00:27:30,858

Rupert Evans: Landrovers.

829

00:27:31,020 --> 00:27:31,724

Rupert Evans: I know it sounds mad.

830

00:27:32,627 --> 00:27:35,012

Rupert Evans: I have a love Marc for Landrovers that I

831

00:27:35,052 --> 00:27:37,117

Rupert Evans: can't explain series 2a Landrovers,

832

00:27:37,157 --> 00:27:37,698

Rupert Evans: particularly.

833

00:27:38,507 --> 00:27:40,155

Rupert Evans: Or series 3 Landrovers, the older

834

00:27:40,175 --> 00:27:41,864

Rupert Evans: Landrovers, and so if I had to give it all

835

00:27:41,924 --> 00:27:43,589

Rupert Evans: up now, I would probably just end up

836

00:27:44,030 --> 00:27:47,729

Rupert Evans: restoring old Landrovers by a garage, do

837

00:27:47,750 --> 00:27:48,773

Rupert Evans: them up and sell them on.

838

00:27:48,954 --> 00:27:50,600

Marc Preston: I know they use the Land Rover and the old

839

00:27:50,620 --> 00:27:53,990

Marc Preston: and it was in 1979 Toyota or the big ones

840

00:27:54,030 --> 00:27:54,992

Marc Preston: they use out in the desert.

841

00:27:55,253 --> 00:27:56,336

Marc Preston: They're like iconic.

842

00:27:57,107 --> 00:27:58,973

Marc Preston: I'll say desert, but you know off-road type

843

00:27:59,013 --> 00:27:59,354

Marc Preston: things.

844

00:27:59,554 --> 00:28:00,979

Rupert Evans: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

845

00:28:01,039 --> 00:28:02,543

Rupert Evans: I love I look, I love old classic

846

00:28:02,583 --> 00:28:03,085

Rupert Evans: Landrovers.

847

00:28:03,185 --> 00:28:04,472

Marc Preston: So it's kind of an America.

848

00:28:04,512 --> 00:28:06,201

Marc Preston: I guess it would be like an old Bronco is

849

00:28:06,241 --> 00:28:08,328

Marc Preston: kind of the equivalent, I suppose yeah, or

850

00:28:08,348 --> 00:28:10,694

Marc Preston: a Jeep, or a Jeep, you know, like a you

851

00:28:10,715 --> 00:28:13,808

Marc Preston: know, yeah, yeah, like a Jeep.

852

00:28:13,988 --> 00:28:16,294

Rupert Evans: You know, I mean, yeah, I love them, yeah,

853

00:28:16,334 --> 00:28:17,978

Rupert Evans: so I I mean, in fact, in America they

854

00:28:19,467 --> 00:28:23,089

Rupert Evans: Restore them, as one company Just outside

855

00:28:23,129 --> 00:28:25,013

Rupert Evans: New York, actually in Connecticut he do,

856

00:28:25,033 --> 00:28:27,458

Rupert Evans: who restore a series, series to Landrovers

857

00:28:27,518 --> 00:28:29,688

Rupert Evans: it's crazy To a very high spec.

858

00:28:29,748 --> 00:28:31,412

Rupert Evans: So there we go, yeah, so I'm a, I'm sort of

859

00:28:31,472 --> 00:28:33,396

Rupert Evans: a slightly obsessive Land Rover person,

860

00:28:33,737 --> 00:28:36,107

Rupert Evans: which is a kind of weird, completely

861

00:28:36,168 --> 00:28:37,807

Rupert Evans: nonsense, sensible fag.

862

00:28:38,208 --> 00:28:39,030

Marc Preston: No, no, I don't know.

863

00:28:39,050 --> 00:28:40,273

Marc Preston: I think that's weird at all.

864

00:28:40,353 --> 00:28:43,628

Marc Preston: I think I think there are many Gear heads

865

00:28:43,668 --> 00:28:45,414

Marc Preston: in the US that would very much understand,

866

00:28:45,715 --> 00:28:46,899

Marc Preston: although they probably have different

867

00:28:46,920 --> 00:28:47,803

Marc Preston: vehicles are into.

868

00:28:47,823 --> 00:28:50,670

Rupert Evans: yeah, I mean, come on, north America is the

869

00:28:50,710 --> 00:28:51,432

Rupert Evans: home of the car.

870

00:28:51,512 --> 00:28:52,995

Rupert Evans: So you know, you're right, you're

871

00:28:53,055 --> 00:28:53,376

Rupert Evans: absolutely.

872

00:28:53,436 --> 00:28:57,369

Marc Preston: Oh, yeah, I grew up my father in car

873

00:28:57,389 --> 00:28:59,758

Marc Preston: dealerships Ford, lincoln, mercury, growing

874

00:28:59,859 --> 00:29:01,184

Marc Preston: up and it was so much fun because on the

875

00:29:01,204 --> 00:29:04,295

Marc Preston: weekend I didn't have a car in it but I was.

876

00:29:05,986 --> 00:29:07,610

Marc Preston: He would always grab a let me grab a car

877

00:29:07,650 --> 00:29:09,635

Marc Preston: off the used car lot because they had a new

878

00:29:09,675 --> 00:29:11,366

Marc Preston: car and then use car and just Whatever.

879

00:29:11,406 --> 00:29:13,170

Marc Preston: So every weekend I was driving a different,

880

00:29:13,210 --> 00:29:13,772

Marc Preston: a different car.

881

00:29:14,333 --> 00:29:16,726

Marc Preston: You know, I remember as I saw the BMW, I

882

00:29:16,746 --> 00:29:17,834

Marc Preston: want to get BMW, of course.

883

00:29:17,935 --> 00:29:19,385

Marc Preston: Of course it was like you know, midnight I

884

00:29:19,426 --> 00:29:21,112

Marc Preston: was broken down on the side of the road and

885

00:29:21,172 --> 00:29:22,175

Marc Preston: it is BMW going.

886

00:29:22,195 --> 00:29:24,243

Marc Preston: You know, I need something a little bit

887

00:29:24,263 --> 00:29:24,805

Marc Preston: more robust.

888

00:29:24,985 --> 00:29:26,169

Marc Preston: I suppose you know this is a.

889

00:29:26,470 --> 00:29:29,729

Marc Preston: It was my first exposure to More luxury

890

00:29:29,769 --> 00:29:31,295

Marc Preston: vehicles and I realized more.

891

00:29:31,376 --> 00:29:33,825

Marc Preston: I'm more of a truck, suv kind of a guy, I

892

00:29:33,865 --> 00:29:34,266

Marc Preston: suppose.

893

00:29:34,948 --> 00:29:36,451

Marc Preston: But that you mentioned before that.

894

00:29:36,491 --> 00:29:37,513

Marc Preston: You know you're thinking about the other

895

00:29:37,534 --> 00:29:39,638

Marc Preston: things gardening, farming, whatever have

896

00:29:39,678 --> 00:29:39,758

Marc Preston: you.

897

00:29:40,186 --> 00:29:41,790

Marc Preston: I gotta know what was the oddest job you

898

00:29:41,810 --> 00:29:42,371

Marc Preston: had to hold?

899

00:29:42,592 --> 00:29:44,236

Marc Preston: To keep the roof over the head, keep food

900

00:29:44,296 --> 00:29:44,777

Marc Preston: on the table?

901

00:29:44,885 --> 00:29:45,146

Marc Preston: You know?

902

00:29:45,627 --> 00:29:47,533

Marc Preston: You know what was the or maybe the most

903

00:29:47,573 --> 00:29:48,857

Marc Preston: enjoyable job you had?

904

00:29:49,526 --> 00:29:51,613

Rupert Evans: No, the oddest job is I worked in a freezer

905

00:29:51,654 --> 00:29:54,991

Rupert Evans: factory Frozen food freezer factory, like a

906

00:29:55,011 --> 00:29:57,558

Rupert Evans: frozen food Sorry, frozen food storage, you

907

00:29:57,579 --> 00:29:59,123

Rupert Evans: know distribution center for a big

908

00:29:59,203 --> 00:30:01,532

Rupert Evans: superMarcet, and so you'd have to work

909

00:30:01,552 --> 00:30:02,034

Rupert Evans: through the night.

910

00:30:02,687 --> 00:30:05,377

Rupert Evans: It was like minus 56 degrees and you'd be

911

00:30:05,457 --> 00:30:07,104

Rupert Evans: on one of those kind of like I can't really

912

00:30:07,124 --> 00:30:07,365

Rupert Evans: explain.

913

00:30:07,405 --> 00:30:09,170

Rupert Evans: You know, like a kind of forklift truck

914

00:30:09,291 --> 00:30:10,534

Rupert Evans: kind of thing, and it was.

915

00:30:10,554 --> 00:30:12,721

Rupert Evans: You have a list, a picking list, and you

916

00:30:12,741 --> 00:30:17,047

Rupert Evans: would go to aisle 83, row, you know number

917

00:30:17,168 --> 00:30:20,553

Rupert Evans: 80, you know aisle 83, row 5, and pick up

918

00:30:20,613 --> 00:30:22,319

Rupert Evans: like frozen fish fingers and put them in

919

00:30:22,339 --> 00:30:25,167

Rupert Evans: the back and then when your cage, your cage,

920

00:30:25,227 --> 00:30:27,371

Rupert Evans: is full, you then would go to the, you know

921

00:30:27,392 --> 00:30:29,696

Rupert Evans: the appropriate door and throw it into the,

922

00:30:29,917 --> 00:30:32,068

Rupert Evans: into the truck and and off it would go to

923

00:30:32,088 --> 00:30:33,853

Rupert Evans: the superMarcet and that's.

924

00:30:33,954 --> 00:30:35,117

Rupert Evans: And I did this job.

925

00:30:35,906 --> 00:30:38,475

Rupert Evans: My god, it was so brutal and you would get

926

00:30:38,515 --> 00:30:39,037

Rupert Evans: frostbite.

927

00:30:39,077 --> 00:30:40,963

Rupert Evans: You know, after, really, was that you have

928

00:30:41,003 --> 00:30:41,545

Rupert Evans: gloves on, please.

929

00:30:42,887 --> 00:30:44,911

Rupert Evans: Oh no, minus 56 degrees Celsius, I mean, it

930

00:30:44,931 --> 00:30:48,098

Rupert Evans: was so cold and the whole this huge, great

931

00:30:48,138 --> 00:30:51,033

Rupert Evans: kind of warehouse, huge distribution center,

932

00:30:51,053 --> 00:30:53,065

Rupert Evans: was just for just for frozen fruit.

933

00:30:53,386 --> 00:30:56,052

Rupert Evans: That's all they did and it was brutal, one

934

00:30:56,092 --> 00:30:58,538

Rupert Evans: of the hardest jobs, and the guys that work

935

00:30:58,558 --> 00:31:01,718

Rupert Evans: there Were really hard and you would have

936

00:31:01,758 --> 00:31:03,766

Rupert Evans: to start at like 3 am and you would do like

937

00:31:03,786 --> 00:31:06,152

Rupert Evans: the night shift and it was kind of a kind

938

00:31:06,172 --> 00:31:09,178

Rupert Evans: of crazy time in my life where I met some

939

00:31:09,225 --> 00:31:11,251

Rupert Evans: extraordinary people that you know really

940

00:31:11,291 --> 00:31:15,748

Rupert Evans: did and yeah real characters.

941

00:31:15,889 --> 00:31:18,274

Marc Preston: That kind of reminds me because when I, you

942

00:31:18,294 --> 00:31:19,717

Marc Preston: know, when I started in, radio is an all

943

00:31:19,757 --> 00:31:22,052

Marc Preston: night shift and In my youngest, my 16 year

944

00:31:22,072 --> 00:31:23,819

Marc Preston: old daughter, she was we're talking, she's

945

00:31:23,839 --> 00:31:25,325

Marc Preston: like she seems to think it'd be really cool.

946

00:31:25,425 --> 00:31:26,752

Marc Preston: It's working all night shift.

947

00:31:27,234 --> 00:31:28,782

Marc Preston: I said it's kind of cool to do at least

948

00:31:28,943 --> 00:31:29,285

Marc Preston: once in life.

949

00:31:29,607 --> 00:31:30,696

Marc Preston: You know, when you are on a different

950

00:31:30,716 --> 00:31:32,630

Marc Preston: schedule with everybody else, you can, it

951

00:31:32,690 --> 00:31:34,198

Marc Preston: can be kind of cool, you know.

952

00:31:34,239 --> 00:31:35,425

Marc Preston: And in its own weird way.

953

00:31:35,746 --> 00:31:37,212

Rupert Evans: It's kind of crazy and actually it's weird

954

00:31:37,232 --> 00:31:38,236

Rupert Evans: because it always reminds me.

955

00:31:38,316 --> 00:31:39,923

Rupert Evans: You know that was the you know really hard

956

00:31:39,983 --> 00:31:42,071

Rupert Evans: time in my life and you know it's pretty

957

00:31:42,112 --> 00:31:44,910

Rupert Evans: brutal and Sometimes we do night shoots and

958

00:31:44,930 --> 00:31:48,186

Rupert Evans: I remember doing I was filming hellboy In

959

00:31:48,206 --> 00:31:50,913

Rupert Evans: Prague and we would do, we did like weeks

960

00:31:51,133 --> 00:31:53,319

Rupert Evans: and weeks of night shoots where you would

961

00:31:53,379 --> 00:31:56,275

Rupert Evans: start at 6, you know 6 pm and then you

962

00:31:56,315 --> 00:31:57,922

Rupert Evans: would go through and we would finish at 7

963

00:31:57,942 --> 00:31:59,429

Rupert Evans: o'clock in the morning and then we would

964

00:31:59,450 --> 00:32:00,475

Rupert Evans: all go for beers.

965

00:32:00,756 --> 00:32:02,264

Rupert Evans: You know we would all kind of go to the pub

966

00:32:02,304 --> 00:32:05,295

Rupert Evans: just To get a drink after work and it was

967

00:32:05,355 --> 00:32:07,824

Rupert Evans: kind of crazy, going to going to a gonna

968

00:32:07,864 --> 00:32:08,165

Rupert Evans: have a drink.

969

00:32:08,306 --> 00:32:09,632

Rupert Evans: It's sort of seven o'clock in the morning.

970

00:32:09,652 --> 00:32:10,919

Rupert Evans: These other people was a look at you like

971

00:32:10,959 --> 00:32:13,147

Rupert Evans: you're absolutely insane, I don't know.

972

00:32:13,187 --> 00:32:14,309

Rupert Evans: I totally understand.

973

00:32:14,730 --> 00:32:17,195

Marc Preston: I remember I was working at the apartment

974

00:32:17,215 --> 00:32:19,399

Marc Preston: complex I lived I think that's 20, 21 years

975

00:32:19,519 --> 00:32:21,731

Marc Preston: old and I was working at a radio station

976

00:32:21,891 --> 00:32:24,609

Marc Preston: all night shift and I Would get home.

977

00:32:24,629 --> 00:32:26,256

Marc Preston: I like you know the way I explained it.

978

00:32:26,297 --> 00:32:28,065

Marc Preston: Everybody's like they just flip a m and pm.

979

00:32:28,185 --> 00:32:29,189

Marc Preston: You'll understand my life.

980

00:32:29,270 --> 00:32:30,816

Marc Preston: Just it's the inverse.

981

00:32:30,936 --> 00:32:33,447

Marc Preston: And so I'd come home people be 7 am Going

982

00:32:33,487 --> 00:32:34,853

Marc Preston: to work, they're going to go to the thing,

983

00:32:35,235 --> 00:32:36,983

Marc Preston: walking by them on my patio grilling a

984

00:32:37,023 --> 00:32:39,771

Marc Preston: hamburger you know it's f&am With a beer

985

00:32:40,252 --> 00:32:41,535

Marc Preston: and they were like they totally got it

986

00:32:41,555 --> 00:32:42,867

Marc Preston: because they're like, okay, that guy works

987

00:32:42,907 --> 00:32:43,630

Marc Preston: in all night shift.

988

00:32:44,212 --> 00:32:45,978

Marc Preston: And then there was a couple other people

989

00:32:46,018 --> 00:32:47,765

Marc Preston: that did something similar and that you

990

00:32:47,785 --> 00:32:47,865

Marc Preston: know.

991

00:32:48,126 --> 00:32:49,732

Marc Preston: So you felt like you're part of your own

992

00:32:49,772 --> 00:32:50,214

Marc Preston: tribe.

993

00:32:50,575 --> 00:32:52,101

Marc Preston: You know you got your own people that you

994

00:32:52,121 --> 00:32:53,085

Marc Preston: know, understand your thing.

995

00:32:53,266 --> 00:32:55,260

Rupert Evans: You know, although I never, I never kind of

996

00:32:55,301 --> 00:32:55,865

Rupert Evans: tolerated it.

997

00:32:56,005 --> 00:32:57,290

Rupert Evans: You know I never tolerated it.

998

00:32:57,351 --> 00:32:58,937

Rupert Evans: You know I mean, I'm sorry, I tolerated it

999

00:32:58,985 --> 00:33:00,672

Rupert Evans: but I never really really got used to it.

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Rupert Evans: You know I never, yeah, I never kind of

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00:33:02,640 --> 00:33:03,945

Rupert Evans: completely like you know.

Speaker:

00:33:04,025 --> 00:33:05,108

Rupert Evans: I just, I just didn't.

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00:33:05,149 --> 00:33:06,533

Rupert Evans: You know it's always hard that, you know

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00:33:06,553 --> 00:33:07,656

Rupert Evans: there's night shifts when you're working.

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00:33:08,649 --> 00:33:10,545

Rupert Evans: It's crazy, crazy times, but yeah, sorry.

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00:33:10,585 --> 00:33:12,053

Marc Preston: You just realized, like, you're there in

Speaker:

00:33:12,074 --> 00:33:13,582

Marc Preston: the moment, you just got to adapt and

Speaker:

00:33:13,622 --> 00:33:14,630

Marc Preston: you're like all right, I'm gonna be here,

Speaker:

00:33:14,691 --> 00:33:15,963

Marc Preston: this is, this is where it's at.

Speaker:

00:33:16,003 --> 00:33:18,828

Marc Preston: You know you can rage against it, but you

Speaker:

00:33:18,848 --> 00:33:28,142

Marc Preston: know this is what you have to as far as,

Speaker:

00:33:28,182 --> 00:33:30,166

Marc Preston: like, you know, if you're looking in the

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00:33:30,206 --> 00:33:34,616

Marc Preston: future be it actors, directors who would

Speaker:

00:33:34,636 --> 00:33:35,581

Marc Preston: you like to work with?

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00:33:35,635 --> 00:33:37,179

Marc Preston: Who would you like to show up on set with

Speaker:

00:33:37,820 --> 00:33:40,085

Marc Preston: on a you know, work on a movie or TV show

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00:33:40,126 --> 00:33:42,039

Marc Preston: with who's alive, right?

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00:33:42,059 --> 00:33:42,159

Rupert Evans: now?

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00:33:42,199 --> 00:33:43,677

Rupert Evans: Yeah, absolutely, god, it's such a

Speaker:

00:33:43,797 --> 00:33:44,138

Rupert Evans: difficult.

Speaker:

00:33:44,158 --> 00:33:45,161

Rupert Evans: You're putting me on the spot here.

Speaker:

00:33:46,004 --> 00:33:47,498

Rupert Evans: I don't know, there's so many different

Speaker:

00:33:47,518 --> 00:33:49,160

Rupert Evans: people I love, I would love to work with.

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00:33:50,338 --> 00:33:52,906

Rupert Evans: I mean, you know, I always I sort of

Speaker:

00:33:52,926 --> 00:33:55,212

Rupert Evans: gravitate towards sort of the older

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00:33:55,253 --> 00:33:56,698

Rupert Evans: generation because I just think they'll

Speaker:

00:33:56,738 --> 00:33:58,427

Rupert Evans: have really great stories.

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00:33:59,030 --> 00:34:00,576

Rupert Evans: You know, I was very lucky I worked with,

Speaker:

00:34:00,616 --> 00:34:02,181

Rupert Evans: like you know, john Hurt.

Speaker:

00:34:02,261 --> 00:34:03,664

Rupert Evans: He had amazing stories.

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00:34:04,635 --> 00:34:06,099

Rupert Evans: You know Derek Jackaby I've worked with a

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00:34:06,139 --> 00:34:08,245

Rupert Evans: couple of times and he has great stories.

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00:34:08,855 --> 00:34:11,349

Rupert Evans: Michael Gambon has incredible stories and I

Speaker:

00:34:11,429 --> 00:34:13,219

Rupert Evans: just love stories as an actor.

Speaker:

00:34:13,239 --> 00:34:14,746

Rupert Evans: I think stories are for me, you know, just,

Speaker:

00:34:15,390 --> 00:34:17,538

Rupert Evans: and I just love hearing all stories, crazy

Speaker:

00:34:17,598 --> 00:34:20,365

Rupert Evans: stories of those sort of that generation.

Speaker:

00:34:21,375 --> 00:34:23,359

Rupert Evans: So I don't know, older acts is probably,

Speaker:

00:34:24,201 --> 00:34:26,485

Rupert Evans: you know, people who have sort of lived and

Speaker:

00:34:26,546 --> 00:34:27,828

Rupert Evans: experienced stuff, you know.

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00:34:28,516 --> 00:34:29,960

Marc Preston: Yeah, we're roughly the same age and I'm

Speaker:

00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:31,784

Marc Preston: thinking you know.

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00:34:31,824 --> 00:34:33,116

Marc Preston: That's one of those things If I could

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00:34:33,277 --> 00:34:36,528

Marc Preston: isolate is I speak to younger actors, voice

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00:34:36,588 --> 00:34:36,970

Marc Preston: talent.

Speaker:

00:34:37,391 --> 00:34:39,218

Marc Preston: You know people that ask me questions like

Speaker:

00:34:39,258 --> 00:34:41,628

Marc Preston: I know something, you know.

Speaker:

00:34:41,668 --> 00:34:43,275

Marc Preston: They're like what do you advise?

Speaker:

00:34:43,395 --> 00:34:44,899

Marc Preston: It's like man hang out with people gray

Speaker:

00:34:44,940 --> 00:34:46,103

Marc Preston: hair or less hair.

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00:34:46,504 --> 00:34:47,426

Marc Preston: They have better stories.

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00:34:47,555 --> 00:34:49,345

Marc Preston: It makes it more enjoyable, but there's a

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00:34:49,425 --> 00:34:49,707

Marc Preston: reason.

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00:34:49,727 --> 00:34:51,336

Marc Preston: If they're still around doing it, they know

Speaker:

00:34:51,356 --> 00:34:52,801

Marc Preston: how to ride the wave that peaks in the

Speaker:

00:34:52,841 --> 00:34:55,042

Marc Preston: valleys and and I always said that the

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00:34:55,102 --> 00:34:57,413

Marc Preston: older guys had much you're the only other

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00:34:57,433 --> 00:34:59,340

Marc Preston: person that's ever said that they have

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00:34:59,401 --> 00:35:00,063

Marc Preston: better stories.

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00:35:00,296 --> 00:35:02,036

Marc Preston: I always say that and then you start

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00:35:02,076 --> 00:35:04,062

Marc Preston: realizing the amount of shit they used to

Speaker:

00:35:04,102 --> 00:35:06,981

Marc Preston: get away with, you know all the, all the

Speaker:

00:35:07,001 --> 00:35:07,845

Marc Preston: mischief that used to happen.

Speaker:

00:35:08,388 --> 00:35:08,710

Marc Preston: Oh my God.

Speaker:

00:35:08,951 --> 00:35:10,860

Marc Preston: Oh my God, you know it is.

Speaker:

00:35:11,221 --> 00:35:13,420

Marc Preston: I love here I could just sit back and I

Speaker:

00:35:13,460 --> 00:35:16,087

Marc Preston: remember going to Denny's or it's one of

Speaker:

00:35:16,108 --> 00:35:18,099

Marc Preston: those well, it's kind of like a diner and

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00:35:18,179 --> 00:35:19,542

Marc Preston: sitting back with these guys who worked in

Speaker:

00:35:19,602 --> 00:35:20,024

Marc Preston: New York.

Speaker:

00:35:20,545 --> 00:35:22,882

Marc Preston: You know, back my early, early I worked in

Speaker:

00:35:22,942 --> 00:35:25,495

Marc Preston: radio 19, 2021.

Speaker:

00:35:25,555 --> 00:35:27,201

Marc Preston: These guys that worked in Toronto, new York,

Speaker:

00:35:27,241 --> 00:35:28,364

Marc Preston: whatever, and the stories they would tell,

Speaker:

00:35:28,495 --> 00:35:30,562

Marc Preston: like, oh my God, there's no way I could get

Speaker:

00:35:30,602 --> 00:35:31,425

Marc Preston: away with doing that now.

Speaker:

00:35:31,595 --> 00:35:33,365

Marc Preston: But you just soak it up and you start

Speaker:

00:35:33,385 --> 00:35:34,229

Marc Preston: realizing you know what.

Speaker:

00:35:34,631 --> 00:35:35,938

Marc Preston: I'm allowed to have a little fun doing

Speaker:

00:35:35,978 --> 00:35:36,681

Marc Preston: whatever I'm doing.

Speaker:

00:35:36,815 --> 00:35:38,239

Marc Preston: You know, I gotta make my own stories.

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00:35:39,081 --> 00:35:39,682

Rupert Evans: This is true.

Speaker:

00:35:39,842 --> 00:35:40,404

Rupert Evans: This is true.

Speaker:

00:35:40,424 --> 00:35:42,088

Rupert Evans: I mean, it's not enough.

Speaker:

00:35:42,175 --> 00:35:44,332

Rupert Evans: I was watching this show called Yellowstone

Speaker:

00:35:44,493 --> 00:35:44,735

Rupert Evans: recently.

Speaker:

00:35:44,875 --> 00:35:47,584

Rupert Evans: I don't know if you've seen it on, I think

Speaker:

00:35:47,604 --> 00:35:49,418

Rupert Evans: it's on Amazon and I was watching Kevin

Speaker:

00:35:49,438 --> 00:35:52,085

Rupert Evans: Costner and I was like Jesus, this guy is

Speaker:

00:35:52,105 --> 00:35:53,207

Rupert Evans: just, he is amazing.

Speaker:

00:35:53,495 --> 00:35:55,468

Rupert Evans: You know, he kind of you know, he's been

Speaker:

00:35:55,690 --> 00:35:56,475

Rupert Evans: throughout my childhood.

Speaker:

00:35:56,816 --> 00:35:58,099

Rupert Evans: I mean, I don't know, you know, I was at

Speaker:

00:35:58,240 --> 00:36:00,306

Rupert Evans: school when he did Robin Hood, you know,

Speaker:

00:36:00,486 --> 00:36:01,257

Rupert Evans: and that was a you know.

Speaker:

00:36:01,337 --> 00:36:03,303

Rupert Evans: And he just gets better and better.

Speaker:

00:36:03,915 --> 00:36:05,866

Rupert Evans: And I kind of suddenly thought to myself.

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00:36:05,907 --> 00:36:07,335

Rupert Evans: I said you know what I would love to work

Speaker:

00:36:07,395 --> 00:36:08,860

Rupert Evans: with him because I think he's just great.

Speaker:

00:36:08,880 --> 00:36:09,583

Rupert Evans: And I was watching him.

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00:36:10,096 --> 00:36:11,681

Rupert Evans: He did it wait, he gave a speech during the

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00:36:11,761 --> 00:36:13,457

Rupert Evans: Oscars this year and I just thought the guy

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00:36:14,019 --> 00:36:16,085

Rupert Evans: he was, he had such a sort of calm presence

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00:36:16,775 --> 00:36:18,323

Rupert Evans: and I just thought that there's a guy who's

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00:36:18,404 --> 00:36:20,132

Rupert Evans: been through it and you know, such

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00:36:20,192 --> 00:36:21,298

Rupert Evans: experience and just great.

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00:36:22,476 --> 00:36:23,600

Marc Preston: I would love to work with him.

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00:36:24,935 --> 00:36:26,481

Marc Preston: I think he's knocking it out of the park in

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00:36:26,501 --> 00:36:28,842

Marc Preston: Yellowstone, but what do you have coming up?

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00:36:28,983 --> 00:36:30,893

Marc Preston: As far as the, you have anything in the can

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00:36:30,913 --> 00:36:32,318

Marc Preston: that's going to be coming out soon or

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00:36:32,399 --> 00:36:33,783

Marc Preston: anything you're going to be starting to

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00:36:33,803 --> 00:36:35,499

Marc Preston: work on, or are you just basically

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00:36:35,559 --> 00:36:37,024

Marc Preston: unpacking right now and just calling that

Speaker:

00:36:37,084 --> 00:36:38,548

Marc Preston: your primary game?

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00:36:39,157 --> 00:36:40,802

Rupert Evans: I mean, I literally have, just like two

Speaker:

00:36:40,842 --> 00:36:42,739

Rupert Evans: days ago, got back, so it's been within 48

Speaker:

00:36:42,800 --> 00:36:42,981

Rupert Evans: hours.

Speaker:

00:36:43,075 --> 00:36:45,153

Rupert Evans: So we're still, you know, I'm still waiting

Speaker:

00:36:45,275 --> 00:36:47,551

Rupert Evans: to see what happens with Charmed, because

Speaker:

00:36:47,673 --> 00:36:49,319

Rupert Evans: we might be going back and doing that,

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00:36:49,439 --> 00:36:50,823

Rupert Evans: which you know, I'd love to direct more of

Speaker:

00:36:50,863 --> 00:36:51,104

Rupert Evans: that.

Speaker:

00:36:51,204 --> 00:36:51,685

Rupert Evans: So we'll see.

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00:36:52,355 --> 00:36:53,561

Rupert Evans: And then Bridget is just coming out.

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00:36:53,641 --> 00:36:55,600

Rupert Evans: Really, so there's a lot to, you know,

Speaker:

00:36:55,701 --> 00:36:56,965

Rupert Evans: press to do for that stuff.

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00:36:57,215 --> 00:37:00,645

Rupert Evans: So at the moment my life is just, it's just

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00:37:00,665 --> 00:37:00,846

Rupert Evans: that.

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00:37:01,316 --> 00:37:04,182

Rupert Evans: And although I am trying to get together a

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00:37:04,242 --> 00:37:06,728

Rupert Evans: short film, so I hope, in directing a

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00:37:06,748 --> 00:37:08,639

Rupert Evans: little bit of my kind of film that I want

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00:37:08,719 --> 00:37:11,206

Rupert Evans: to try and get directing, get done at some

Speaker:

00:37:11,246 --> 00:37:11,406

Rupert Evans: point.

Speaker:

00:37:11,835 --> 00:37:13,622

Rupert Evans: So we're looking, doing that.

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00:37:13,735 --> 00:37:15,080

Rupert Evans: So, yeah, there's lots kind of bits and

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00:37:15,100 --> 00:37:15,843

Rupert Evans: pieces happening.

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00:37:16,176 --> 00:37:17,664

Rupert Evans: But, to be honest, with you having been

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00:37:17,705 --> 00:37:19,254

Rupert Evans: away for five years, I'm just going to take

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00:37:19,294 --> 00:37:21,821

Rupert Evans: a week off and then I'll get back to it.

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00:37:21,842 --> 00:37:23,245

Marc Preston: Yeah, it's okay, take a breath, man.

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00:37:23,795 --> 00:37:25,059

Marc Preston: Just kind of you know, I think the fact you

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00:37:25,079 --> 00:37:27,165

Marc Preston: got two projects airing simultaneously,

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00:37:27,205 --> 00:37:27,696

Marc Preston: that's that's.

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00:37:27,916 --> 00:37:30,741

Marc Preston: I mean, that's got to be, it's got to be

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00:37:30,781 --> 00:37:31,924

Marc Preston: cool, but it's also going to be a little

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00:37:31,944 --> 00:37:32,425

Marc Preston: exhausting.

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00:37:32,465 --> 00:37:33,807

Marc Preston: So I'm sure Now, do you have a?

Speaker:

00:37:33,867 --> 00:37:34,669

Marc Preston: Do you have a family?

Speaker:

00:37:34,915 --> 00:37:35,839

Marc Preston: Yeah, you know you have a partner.

Speaker:

00:37:35,899 --> 00:37:37,043

Marc Preston: You know you got kids.

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00:37:37,677 --> 00:37:39,846

Rupert Evans: Yeah, I have two kids downstairs and you

Speaker:

00:37:39,887 --> 00:37:41,474

Rupert Evans: can't hear them screaming, but they're two

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00:37:41,514 --> 00:37:43,300

Rupert Evans: babies and my amazing wife.

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00:37:44,515 --> 00:37:45,778

Rupert Evans: So, yeah, we've, we've been.

Speaker:

00:37:45,938 --> 00:37:48,765

Rupert Evans: I have two kids, two girls, three and five.

Speaker:

00:37:49,206 --> 00:37:51,319

Rupert Evans: Yeah, yeah, so they.

Speaker:

00:37:51,339 --> 00:37:52,864

Rupert Evans: So they keep me pretty busy, to be honest.

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00:37:53,496 --> 00:37:55,060

Rupert Evans: So, and that's a you know, it's, that's a

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Rupert Evans: very special part of, you know, every dad's

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Rupert Evans: life.

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Marc Preston: You know, it's an amazing, it becomes your,

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Marc Preston: it becomes your North Star.

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Marc Preston: It really is the thing that calibrates

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Marc Preston: every other aspect of your life.

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Marc Preston: You know, certainly You're up, you're up to

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Marc Preston: your idea.

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Marc Preston: Well, tell me you know, before we get going.

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Marc Preston: I always have this thing I like to ask

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Marc Preston: seven questions and I just me little

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Marc Preston: goofiness, like something I like.

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Marc Preston: I give a little extra insight and a little

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Marc Preston: fun.

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Marc Preston: One of the first question I always like to

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Marc Preston: ask is what is your favorite comfort food?

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Marc Preston: That thing you miss?

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Marc Preston: Or the thing that just, ah, just, you're

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Marc Preston: going to sit down, you're not going to care

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Marc Preston: about calories, you're not going to care

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Marc Preston: about, it's just that thing that you, it

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Marc Preston: brings you back to your center.

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Marc Preston: What would that be?

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Rupert Evans: I think that would probably be a Sunday

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Rupert Evans: roast, and in North America it's kind of

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Rupert Evans: difficult to find a pub that does a Sunday

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Rupert Evans: roast, and what I mean by that is it could

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Rupert Evans: be roast chicken, it could be roast beef,

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Rupert Evans: roast lamb, roast pork, but it's you know,

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Rupert Evans: it's a kind of gravy.

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Rupert Evans: You know kind of gravy, and then you've got

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Rupert Evans: the potatoes and then you've got the veg

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Rupert Evans: and you know, it's such a, you know,

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Rupert Evans: british thing, sunday roast and I really

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Rupert Evans: miss that.

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Marc Preston: So would that?

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Marc Preston: Would that be kind of in line like a like?

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Marc Preston: I don't know.

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Marc Preston: I'm Jewish and I know there's always like a

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Marc Preston: brisket being made.

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Marc Preston: You know something?

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Marc Preston: It's all day the grandmother's basting it,

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Marc Preston: you know.

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Rupert Evans: Yeah, yeah, there's something like that,

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Rupert Evans: but it's, you know, going down to the pub

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Rupert Evans: having a Sunday meal with the family, and

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Rupert Evans: Sunday roast and a beer.

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Rupert Evans: You know, I, I, that's, that's.

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Rupert Evans: That's probably what brings me back to my

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Rupert Evans: center, if anything.

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Marc Preston: That's quite civilized.

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Marc Preston: I like that.

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Marc Preston: One of the things I was curious about is if

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Marc Preston: you were to say you know three people, if

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Marc Preston: you can sit down, cup of coffee or tea, you

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Marc Preston: know I can go high tea, whatever have you.

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Marc Preston: If you could choose three people, it could

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Marc Preston: be living or, hey, anybody in history.

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Marc Preston: If you would like that you would like to

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Marc Preston: sit down with and just kind of talk story

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Marc Preston: for a few hours, who would?

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Marc Preston: Who would those three people be?

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Marc Preston: Oh my God.

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Rupert Evans: Well, david Lean, probably the film

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Rupert Evans: director.

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Rupert Evans: He's died sadly, but you said, you said you

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Rupert Evans: know alive or or passed, so probably David

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Rupert Evans: Lean is someone who's one of my favorite.

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Rupert Evans: You get English film directors.

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Rupert Evans: He did, he directed, you know Lawrence of

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Rupert Evans: Arabia and and you know Dr Javago.

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Rupert Evans: You know, all those kind of Classes to

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Rupert Evans: India, all those kind of amazing epic

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Rupert Evans: movies, so probably David Lean.

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Rupert Evans: Gosh, you know who else God I mean, you

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Rupert Evans: know, probably someone like Barack Obama,

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Rupert Evans: probably someone interesting like that.

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Rupert Evans: And yeah, and gosh, you've really put me on

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Rupert Evans: the spot here.

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Marc Preston: That's my job, you see.

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Rupert Evans: Hey the queen.

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Rupert Evans: It's the queen's birthday today, Marc.

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Rupert Evans: Do you know that she?

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Marc Preston: did.

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Marc Preston: I was about to say I was going to say why

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Marc Preston: would you know that?

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Rupert Evans: Come on, you wouldn't know that?

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Rupert Evans: Yeah, she's 96.

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Rupert Evans: I mean, she has two birthdays, which I have

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Rupert Evans: no understanding.

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Rupert Evans: I have no bloody clue why she has two

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Rupert Evans: birthdays every year, but she does.

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Rupert Evans: She doesn't age, she doesn't double every

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Rupert Evans: year, but she has a kind of official and

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Rupert Evans: unofficial birthday and I have no idea why.

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Rupert Evans: But I think it's a proper birthday today.

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Rupert Evans: So she's 96 years old and she's still doing.

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Rupert Evans: She's still doing 96.

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Marc Preston: Now, do they consider that a?

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Marc Preston: Do they consider that?

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Marc Preston: I guess in the US we call it a federal

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Marc Preston: holiday?

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Marc Preston: Do they consider that a holiday in the UK?

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Rupert Evans: No, no, I don't think so.

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Rupert Evans: Maybe I do know what we're having a holiday.

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Rupert Evans: I think we're having a national holiday in

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Rupert Evans: what they call it, the jubilee, which is

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Rupert Evans: which will be about how many years she's

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Rupert Evans: been on the throne, and that's in the

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Rupert Evans: summer.

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Rupert Evans: So I think we are having an extra holiday

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Rupert Evans: then, national, what they call it.

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Marc Preston: Isn't it coming up on like 70 years or

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Marc Preston: something like that, or?

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Rupert Evans: Yeah, some probably, I have no idea, but

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Rupert Evans: it's just a long downtime.

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Rupert Evans: So yeah, so there you go, there you go.

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Marc Preston: Well, that's good.

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Marc Preston: Barack Obama shows up a lot Like he's.

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Marc Preston: He's one of the.

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Rupert Evans: he's kind of like half the people say

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Rupert Evans: Barack Obama, I remember you know, I

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Rupert Evans: remember, you know, I mean it wasn't that

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Rupert Evans: long ago, obviously, we all remember that.

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Rupert Evans: You know, when he, when he became president

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Rupert Evans: and it was I remember watching the TV I was

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Rupert Evans: in London and I was sitting there on my own

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Rupert Evans: actually that night and I watched it all

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Rupert Evans: through the night and I just it, just you

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Rupert Evans: know, just summed up America, how amazing

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Rupert Evans: America can be and how extraordinary it can

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Rupert Evans: be, and you know how different it can be.

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Rupert Evans: You know it's just an extraordinary place

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Rupert Evans: of hope and possibility and America, and I

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Rupert Evans: love America for that, and that in that

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Rupert Evans: moment, seeing him win was sort of America

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Rupert Evans: is best for me.

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Rupert Evans: And yeah, and I would love to, yeah, I'd

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Rupert Evans: love to talk to him about it.

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Marc Preston: There's definitely an elevated vibe, you

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Marc Preston: know.

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Marc Preston: Definitely, america is a place of contrast,

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Marc Preston: you know.

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Marc Preston: But well, next question I got for you who

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Marc Preston: growing up, who is your celebrity crush

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Marc Preston: when you were growing up?

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Marc Preston: Oh my God my celebrity crush.

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Rupert Evans: Oh God, I have no idea.

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Rupert Evans: My celebrity crush.

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Rupert Evans: I suppose I thought Cindy Crawford was

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Rupert Evans: pretty incredible when I was growing up,

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Rupert Evans: but I also had crushes on sort of actors

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Rupert Evans: that I just thought were amazing.

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Rupert Evans: You know, I mean you won't remember, you

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Rupert Evans: won't.

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Rupert Evans: Well, you may know him, but a lot of people

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Rupert Evans: won't know him.

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Rupert Evans: But this guy, his name is Paul Scofield and

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Rupert Evans: he was just an incredible actor.

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Rupert Evans: So for me, I was obsessed with Paul

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Rupert Evans: Scofield for a long time.

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Rupert Evans: So, yeah, I suppose you know, yeah, I was,

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Rupert Evans: I don't know.

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Rupert Evans: Yeah, I suppose.

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Rupert Evans: I don't know really.

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Rupert Evans: Oh, I think Cindy, I think Cindy.

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Marc Preston: Crawford lands with a lot of guys of our

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Marc Preston: generation.

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Rupert Evans: Yeah, that was of our generation.

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Rupert Evans: It summed up the sort of white t-shirt,

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Rupert Evans: sort of denim jeans, sort of bleach jeans,

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Rupert Evans: you know, it was sort of that kind of era,

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Rupert Evans: wasn't it?

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Rupert Evans: You know where that kind of I don't know,

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Rupert Evans: it was all a wholesome American sort of you

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Rupert Evans: know vibe going on.

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Rupert Evans: I look now and it was a bit sort of I was.

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Rupert Evans: It was a bit kind of misdirected really,

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Rupert Evans: but you know, hey, we were, you know,

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Rupert Evans: products of the 80s and 90s.

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Marc Preston: Indeed, indeed Happily.

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Marc Preston: So it was a good era.

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Rupert Evans: Yeah, yeah the wonder years Indeed.

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Marc Preston: Next question I got for you is if you're

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Marc Preston: going to be I don't know like a year,

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Marc Preston: you're going to be on an island, exotic

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Marc Preston: island, dough internet, none of the digital

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Marc Preston: stuff.

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Marc Preston: It'll be comfortable, you know, but you got

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Marc Preston: to be there for a year and you can only

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Marc Preston: bring one album and one movie on DVD

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Marc Preston: because there's no streaming.

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Marc Preston: Okay, what would that album and what would

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Marc Preston: that DVD be?

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Rupert Evans: Oh my God, that's really hard.

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Rupert Evans: God, I think I would probably.

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Rupert Evans: For me it would be a live album, because I

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Rupert Evans: listened to a lot of live albums.

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Rupert Evans: It would probably, god it would do.

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Rupert Evans: You know what I always take with me James

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Rupert Evans: Taylor.

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Rupert Evans: So James Taylor Live.

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Rupert Evans: It's a double album, so I'm being a bit

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Rupert Evans: naughty because it's got two CDs in the

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Rupert Evans: actual book let's go qualifying Okay.

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Rupert Evans: So it is a box set, as it were, but it's a

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Rupert Evans: double album of James Taylor Live, I think,

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Rupert Evans: and it's sort of his, you know, I think

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Rupert Evans: it's all his life, all his songs, but from

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Rupert Evans: various concerts, and the album is just

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Rupert Evans: called James Taylor Live and it's a

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Rupert Evans: fantastic album and it's something that

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Rupert Evans: wherever I go in the world I have it on my

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Rupert Evans: phone.

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Rupert Evans: If ever I'm sort of feeling a bit lost, I

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Rupert Evans: always just put it on, you know, and it

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Rupert Evans: always sorts me out.

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Marc Preston: It's kind of like your musical comfort food,

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Marc Preston: I guess.

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Rupert Evans: Yeah, exactly.

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Rupert Evans: And as for God, the movie, that's really

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Rupert Evans: hard.

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Rupert Evans: I mean one movie, Jesus, you know what.

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Rupert Evans: It would probably be something sort of

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Rupert Evans: comedy based, because I just, you know, you

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Rupert Evans: want to probably keep myself amused.

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Rupert Evans: You know, I hate to say it would probably

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Rupert Evans: be Groundhog Day, because Bill Murray, for

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Rupert Evans: me, is just amazing and I, you know he's

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Rupert Evans: actually.

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Rupert Evans: He's someone I'd like to meet and talk to,

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Rupert Evans: Bill Murray, because I'm sure he's got some

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Rupert Evans: great stories.

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Rupert Evans: So probably something like Groundhog Day

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00:46:06,595 --> 00:46:09,562

Rupert Evans: again, not showing a kid of the 90s.

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Rupert Evans: So yeah, probably something kind of crass

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00:46:13,392 --> 00:46:16,239

Rupert Evans: and slightly stupid, but hey, you know it's

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Rupert Evans: a great movie.

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Marc Preston: Well, no, we grew up in an era where we had

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Marc Preston: those movies.

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Marc Preston: Like the closest thing we got to it now,

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00:46:22,226 --> 00:46:24,079

Marc Preston: which is, I adore anything I probably

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00:46:24,147 --> 00:46:25,718

Marc Preston: mentioned this at least once in episodes

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Marc Preston: Judd Apatow, the kind of movies he does,

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00:46:27,814 --> 00:46:30,678

Marc Preston: some of those seemingly ridiculous, kind of

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Marc Preston: like just fun, kind of movies like that,

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Marc Preston: like you look back and Bill Murray's

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Marc Preston: Stripes or you know, you know a caddy shack

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Marc Preston: and things like that.

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Marc Preston: I mean Bill Murray, anything he shows up in,

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Marc Preston: I'm going to buy it, no matter what.

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00:46:43,798 --> 00:46:44,660

Marc Preston: I mean I'm going to go see it.

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Marc Preston: But now now the next question I got for you

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00:46:49,104 --> 00:46:50,610

Marc Preston: definition of a perfect day for you, from

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Marc Preston: the time you get up to the time you get to

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Marc Preston: bed, the component parts of what a perfect

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Marc Preston: day would be.

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Rupert Evans: God, no telephone, my wife and a book and

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Rupert Evans: probably the sea, near the sea and good

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00:47:14,390 --> 00:47:18,397

Rupert Evans: weather and a really good restaurant not

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Rupert Evans: far away in walking distance from where

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Rupert Evans: we're staying.

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Rupert Evans: Probably no people, no one else, yeah, and

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Rupert Evans: long walks and that's kind of it.

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Marc Preston: It seems like a lot of nice introspection

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Marc Preston: time.

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Marc Preston: It seems like quiet by the sea.

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Rupert Evans: I'm kind of feeling that, Well you know I

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Rupert Evans: have two kids under the age of five, so

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Rupert Evans: right now I don't get much of that.

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Marc Preston: Well, you just wait.

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Marc Preston: You're going to miss those days.

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Marc Preston: Believe it.

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Marc Preston: And I've got a 19 to 17 and a 16 year old

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Marc Preston: and I remember like oh my God, I'm yeah,

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Marc Preston: I'm funny enough there's a place in

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Marc Preston: Vancouver Island.

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Rupert Evans: If any of your listeners ever go to

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Rupert Evans: Vancouver Island and they want somewhere

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Rupert Evans: interesting to stay, there's a place called

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Rupert Evans: it's kind of a crazy name.

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00:48:02,962 --> 00:48:04,510

Rupert Evans: It's called place no place.

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00:48:05,674 --> 00:48:06,898

Rupert Evans: Literally place no place.

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Rupert Evans: And it's on Vancouver Island and you go and

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Rupert Evans: you can sort of rent a very kind of simple

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Rupert Evans: cabin overlooking the sea and yeah, no,

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Rupert Evans: sorry, it's not called place no place.

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Rupert Evans: I'm so sorry.

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Rupert Evans: Let me start again.

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Rupert Evans: This place is called point no point, point,

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00:48:26,287 --> 00:48:30,215

Rupert Evans: no point, point, no point, and that's the

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Rupert Evans: place where you know I found going, having

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Rupert Evans: my sort of time off and quiet time with my

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Rupert Evans: wife.

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Rupert Evans: That's.

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Rupert Evans: It's a very special place.

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00:48:38,795 --> 00:48:40,820

Rupert Evans: So if you ever get a chance, go and visit.

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Rupert Evans: Point no point.

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Marc Preston: We're in that summer vacation planning

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00:48:43,615 --> 00:48:45,620

Marc Preston: phase, three teams trying to get them all

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00:48:45,660 --> 00:48:47,253

Marc Preston: to collaborate on like, what did they

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00:48:47,274 --> 00:48:48,378

Marc Preston: decide that they want to do?

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Marc Preston: And so, my gosh right, I'm tempted to say

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Marc Preston: we're just going to go to Canada.

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Marc Preston: You know, listen, go to point, no point,

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00:48:54,322 --> 00:48:57,554

Marc Preston: you know the greatest thing with your

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Marc Preston: family.

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Marc Preston: I found that I've had a lot of experiences,

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Marc Preston: as you have in life.

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Marc Preston: I think it's fun with the kids to have

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00:49:02,635 --> 00:49:06,509

Marc Preston: experiences that nobody, that none of y'all,

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00:49:06,529 --> 00:49:06,689

Marc Preston: have had.

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Marc Preston: You get to have that time together for the

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Marc Preston: first time.

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00:49:09,222 --> 00:49:10,589

Marc Preston: Everybody's having that first experience.

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Rupert Evans: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Marc Preston: We kind of touched on it before.

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00:49:12,782 --> 00:49:14,192

Marc Preston: But if you weren't doing this for a living

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Marc Preston: and they said, okay, no more TV, no more

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00:49:16,377 --> 00:49:18,422

Marc Preston: theatrical, no more stages, no more movies,

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00:49:18,462 --> 00:49:21,204

Marc Preston: no more acting, it's just not possible what

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00:49:21,244 --> 00:49:22,290

Marc Preston: would you be doing for a living?

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Rupert Evans: Restoring old Landrovers series two

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00:49:26,158 --> 00:49:27,902

Rupert Evans: Landrovers, just restoring the old

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00:49:27,942 --> 00:49:31,295

Rupert Evans: Landrovers and bringing them back to life.

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Rupert Evans: Yeah, that's probably about it.

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Marc Preston: Very good.

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00:49:33,484 --> 00:49:34,869

Marc Preston: It's working with your hands.

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00:49:35,271 --> 00:49:35,672

Marc Preston: I like that.

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00:49:35,693 --> 00:49:36,094

Marc Preston: I like it.

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00:49:36,637 --> 00:49:37,601

Marc Preston: Now the last question.

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00:49:37,621 --> 00:49:39,188

Marc Preston: Speak of another vehicle, delorean.

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00:49:39,228 --> 00:49:40,900

Marc Preston: You can time travel and you're going to zip

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00:49:40,962 --> 00:49:42,839

Marc Preston: back to when you're 16 years old and you're

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00:49:42,900 --> 00:49:45,456

Marc Preston: going to offer up a piece of advice for 16

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Marc Preston: year old you.

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00:49:46,540 --> 00:49:48,608

Marc Preston: That's going to kind of kind of smooth out

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00:49:48,628 --> 00:49:50,213

Marc Preston: the path a little bit for the coming years.

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00:49:50,273 --> 00:49:52,660

Marc Preston: What would that piece of advice be to 16

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00:49:52,700 --> 00:49:53,261

Marc Preston: year old Rupert?

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00:49:54,810 --> 00:49:57,476

Rupert Evans: Not worry so much and take more risks.

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00:49:58,098 --> 00:50:03,993

Rupert Evans: I think in life I just, you know, worrying

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00:50:04,013 --> 00:50:05,577

Rupert Evans: is one of the most pointless activities

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Rupert Evans: that I end up doing a lot of.

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Rupert Evans: And actually I think your real worries

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00:50:11,115 --> 00:50:15,067

Rupert Evans: happen on a quiet Wednesday afternoon when

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00:50:15,107 --> 00:50:17,297

Rupert Evans: you least expect it and the phone rings and

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00:50:17,383 --> 00:50:19,239

Rupert Evans: then suddenly there's an emergency and

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00:50:19,325 --> 00:50:21,144

Rupert Evans: there's a real worry and the rest of it

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00:50:21,184 --> 00:50:22,426

Rupert Evans: really doesn't need worrying about.

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Rupert Evans: So I suppose I would tell him not to worry

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00:50:24,429 --> 00:50:26,654

Rupert Evans: so damn much because it's a complete waste

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00:50:26,694 --> 00:50:28,819

Rupert Evans: of damn time and also, if he learns and

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Rupert Evans: works out how to not worry, to give me a

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Rupert Evans: call and let me know how he did it because,

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Rupert Evans: I ain't got a clue.

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Announcer: Yeah that's.

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00:50:37,913 --> 00:50:39,658

Marc Preston: That theme has come up a number of times.

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00:50:39,678 --> 00:50:40,401

Marc Preston: There's something I think of.

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00:50:40,751 --> 00:50:42,258

Marc Preston: What, if I was to go back and do the same

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00:50:42,318 --> 00:50:44,869

Marc Preston: thing is, is the stresses that you come.

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00:50:44,889 --> 00:50:46,978

Marc Preston: You know I'll correlate it like this I

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00:50:46,998 --> 00:50:49,166

Marc Preston: remember waiting tables once and I remember

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00:50:49,448 --> 00:50:50,613

Marc Preston: if anybody's working in the service

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00:50:50,673 --> 00:50:53,365

Marc Preston: industry, yeah, is that initial feeling

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00:50:53,385 --> 00:50:54,771

Marc Preston: when you get that you're working at double,

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00:50:54,811 --> 00:50:55,635

Marc Preston: you're getting slammed.

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00:50:55,675 --> 00:50:58,246

Marc Preston: It's like that stress and I remember it's

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00:50:58,286 --> 00:51:00,397

Marc Preston: just it's like second or third day and I

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00:51:00,417 --> 00:51:01,947

Marc Preston: was on my own doing it and I talked to the

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Marc Preston: manager.

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00:51:02,188 --> 00:51:03,533

Marc Preston: I was like, oh man, so stressful it's like.

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00:51:03,914 --> 00:51:05,358

Marc Preston: So sit down, let me tell you something.

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00:51:05,459 --> 00:51:08,347

Marc Preston: Stress is being apparent.

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00:51:08,809 --> 00:51:10,736

Marc Preston: And having three young kids and not having

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00:51:10,776 --> 00:51:13,528

Marc Preston: enough food to feed them and not having not

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00:51:13,608 --> 00:51:15,035

Marc Preston: worrying about where to live, you started

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00:51:15,075 --> 00:51:16,803

Marc Preston: going down all these really big adult kind

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00:51:16,823 --> 00:51:17,707

Marc Preston: of things like this.

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00:51:18,028 --> 00:51:20,478

Marc Preston: This isn't stress, it's like you're going

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00:51:20,498 --> 00:51:21,362

Marc Preston: to get it, don't worry.

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00:51:21,422 --> 00:51:23,570

Marc Preston: And it kind of put this reframe some things

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00:51:23,690 --> 00:51:23,871

Marc Preston: going.

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00:51:23,931 --> 00:51:26,120

Marc Preston: Okay, this is, this is a task, this is a

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00:51:26,180 --> 00:51:27,927

Marc Preston: skill, this is something I will learn.

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00:51:27,947 --> 00:51:30,840

Marc Preston: It's bumpy road to get there, but it kind

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00:51:30,880 --> 00:51:31,805

Marc Preston: of put things in the frame.

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00:51:31,925 --> 00:51:32,528

Marc Preston: It's kind of an entry.

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00:51:32,548 --> 00:51:33,291

Marc Preston: It's kind of funny.

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00:51:33,311 --> 00:51:34,955

Marc Preston: You know, those little nuggets of wisdom

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00:51:34,995 --> 00:51:37,341

Marc Preston: don't always come from some you know

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00:51:37,401 --> 00:51:39,718

Marc Preston: Buddhist monk or something, something like

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00:51:39,758 --> 00:51:39,959

Marc Preston: that.

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00:51:40,240 --> 00:51:42,207

Marc Preston: Sometimes somebody just run across as that

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00:51:42,469 --> 00:51:43,732

Marc Preston: little piece of info you need to hear in

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00:51:43,752 --> 00:51:45,737

Marc Preston: that moment, but not stressing.

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00:51:45,837 --> 00:51:48,531

Marc Preston: But then again, a lot of times it's easier

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00:51:48,592 --> 00:51:49,273

Marc Preston: said than done.

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00:51:49,354 --> 00:51:51,039

Marc Preston: But if you find out, please, please, shoot

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00:51:51,059 --> 00:51:52,001

Marc Preston: me an email, let me know.

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Rupert Evans: Yeah right, me too, my friend, but risks

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00:51:56,378 --> 00:51:58,263

Rupert Evans: and not worried so much because it kind of

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Rupert Evans: all works out Well.

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Marc Preston: Rupert man, I appreciate it so much you

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00:52:01,165 --> 00:52:02,210

Marc Preston: being so generous with your time,

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00:52:02,351 --> 00:52:04,439

Marc Preston: especially having just landed back home and

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00:52:04,479 --> 00:52:05,805

Marc Preston: packing with boxes all around.

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00:52:06,467 --> 00:52:07,653

Marc Preston: You are a mensch, my friend.

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00:52:07,693 --> 00:52:08,396

Marc Preston: I appreciate it.

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00:52:08,577 --> 00:52:10,305

Marc Preston: Much health, happiness, prosperity to you,

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00:52:10,325 --> 00:52:10,707

Marc Preston: my friend.

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00:52:10,727 --> 00:52:12,252

Marc Preston: Hopefully you'll have a chance to catch up

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00:52:12,272 --> 00:52:15,019

Marc Preston: down the line and go give those kids a hug

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00:52:15,059 --> 00:52:16,583

Marc Preston: and enjoy being back home.

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00:52:18,011 --> 00:52:19,333

Rupert Evans: I will, and so listen.

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00:52:19,353 --> 00:52:20,175

Rupert Evans: Thanks for having me on.

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00:52:21,318 --> 00:52:23,643

Rupert Evans: Honestly, it's a great show of yours and I,

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00:52:24,150 --> 00:52:24,733

Rupert Evans: yeah, thank you.

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Announcer: And I hope we do it again on the next one.

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00:52:26,703 --> 00:52:27,968

Rupert Evans: So yeah, I'll enjoy it.

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00:52:28,029 --> 00:52:29,554

Rupert Evans: Look forward to seeing you and catching up.

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00:52:32,001 --> 00:52:33,465

Marc Preston: Well, there you go, rupert Evans.

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00:52:33,565 --> 00:52:34,688

Marc Preston: What a cool guy.

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00:52:34,909 --> 00:52:37,358

Marc Preston: I really appreciated the opportunity to sit

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00:52:37,398 --> 00:52:38,502

Marc Preston: down with him and chat.

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00:52:38,823 --> 00:52:40,489

Marc Preston: I have a newfound appreciation of land

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00:52:40,890 --> 00:52:42,193

Marc Preston: rovers, not gonna lie.

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Marc Preston: Check out his Instagram and, of course, if

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Marc Preston: you go to storyandcraftpod.com, I'll have

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00:52:48,911 --> 00:52:49,613

Marc Preston: the link for you.

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00:52:49,834 --> 00:52:51,057

Marc Preston: Likes him, some Land Rovers.

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Marc Preston: Just thought that was kind of cool, all

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Marc Preston: right.

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Marc Preston: So there you go Again.

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Marc Preston: Storyandcraftpod.com Just head there.

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Marc Preston: If you want to follow the show, appreciate

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Marc Preston: Naturally, like I mentioned,

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Marc Preston: by each week for both episodes we're doing

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Marc Preston: It's a lot of fun to make this show for you

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00:53:27,392 --> 00:53:28,718

Marc Preston: and I do appreciate the notes.

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Marc Preston: So there you go.

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Marc Preston: That's it for this episode.

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Rupert Evans

Actor | Director

RUPERT EVANS is internationally recognised for his film, television and theatre work in a wide range of acclaimed projects. His current role sees him take on the key role of patriarch ‘Edmund Bridgerton’, the siblings’ late father in BRIDGERTON, the hugely popular Regency-era series from Shondaland. Series 1 of BRIDGERTON debuted on Netflix on Christmas Day, sweeping to number 1 across the world and since becoming the biggest show ever on Netflix.

He can currently be seen in the CW’s CHARMED in the series-regular role of Harry, a ‘handsome, grandiose professor with an infuriating charm’, the ‘Whitelighter’ to the three sisters who, living in a college town, discover they are witches. Rupert directs for the series.

He took on the leading role of ‘Frank Frink’ in Amazon’s hugely successful THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE alongside Rufus Sewell and Alexa Davalos. The original series is Amazon's most-watched since the original series development program began and has been lauded by critics worldwide. Based on the award-winning alternative history novel by Philip K. Dick, the series tells the story of an alternate version of life in the U.S. in the 1960s if Nazi Germany and Japan had won WWII.

Rupert took on a key role in AMERICAN PASTORAL with first time director Ewan McGregor, Dakota Fanning and Jennifer Connelly and starred in THE BOY with Lauren Cohan and the award winning feature THE CANAL that premiered at the Tribeca film festival to stellar reviews. He is perhaps best known for his breakthrough role as John Myers in HELLBOY, directed by Guil… Read More