00:00 No, it wouldn't be as handy as sugar is at it.
00:02 She's coming up on it.
00:03 You know, it's coming up on a few years now,
00:04 so maybe I'll be getting home before we know it.
00:06 I've been jammy, you know.
00:08 Colin, great to see you.
00:09 I think the last time was Banshee.
00:11 That thing. Remember that one?
00:12 That thing way back when. Yeah.
00:13 How are you?
00:15 I feel very lucky chatting to an Irishman at the moment.
00:18 I mean, you really are.
00:19 Oh, it was great.
00:20 That was amazing.
00:21 I mean, when I saw the film, I just he was just exquisite in it, you know.
00:25 So happy for him.
00:26 Yeah, I'm happy for all the Irish,
00:28 because you're such lovely people.
00:30 And I am also happy because this is incredible, Colin.
00:34 And your name of your character is in the title of the series.
00:40 This is what dreams are made of, isn't it?
00:42 I suppose so. God, I didn't even give it much thought.
00:44 Yes, indeed. Yes.
00:46 Another box pick.
00:48 It is such a fantastic show.
00:50 And I love the character.
00:52 And I also love the fact that he's a really nice guy.
00:55 Yeah, that was that was kind of the nice counterpoint to it, you know,
00:58 because it's a it's a noir piece and characters in noir films
01:02 more often than not are kind of hard boiled.
01:04 They have an edge to them.
01:05 They've seen so much of the darker aspects of the human experience
01:08 that they've become the darker aspects themselves.
01:10 And this guy is just I don't know if he's a relentless idealist,
01:15 but he's completely uncynical, even though he has seen terrible things.
01:20 He has this kind of belief in the goodness of human beings.
01:23 And he carries himself with a sweetness and an integrity
01:25 that I just thought was a lovely counterpoint to what you usually get
01:28 in the more hard boiled world of noir, you know?
01:30 Absolutely. I love the scene where Sugar gives a homeless man some money.
01:34 I was wondering what's the kind of nicest thing
01:37 that someone's done for you or maybe vice versa?
01:39 The nicest thing someone's done for me.
01:43 Someone did something very recently that really touched me,
01:47 and I can't remember what it is.
01:48 I'm going to keep thinking while we're talking more.
01:51 Keep thinking about that.
01:52 Also, I feel like it's bringing back the private investigator drama,
01:56 you know, with its own little twist.
01:58 It's really exciting.
01:59 Were you happy to kind of delve into that?
02:01 Because I guess it's a newish character for you.
02:03 Yeah, it is. Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
02:06 I played a detective before and a couple of things, I think.
02:09 But this just felt really unique.
02:11 It felt very original.
02:12 And Los Angeles was obviously a very prominent character in the whole piece.
02:16 And I knew that Fernando Moreles, who directed it,
02:18 was going to come in being Brazilian with an outsider's perspective.
02:21 And Fernando doesn't live here, so he's not jaded by L.A.
02:25 He's not, you know, bored of it or over it or cynical himself about it.
02:29 And I thought that was a lovely kind of marriage of directorial sensibility.
02:34 Him coming with his curiosity and his kind of keen interest in Los Angeles
02:38 and all the facets of L.A.
02:40 top to bottom, across left to right, all across the city.
02:43 So it just felt very unique, the character, and that he was as sweet as he was,
02:46 as kind of kind as he was and as in love with human beings as he was,
02:50 having seen the darkness that he'd been exposed to, you know?
02:53 Absolutely. We do see L.A. in a beautiful light.
02:56 Why don't you make a series in Ireland?
02:57 Let's see that, you know, same thing.
03:00 I know that'll be I wouldn't I wouldn't mind.
03:02 I, Lucy, every two or three years through no design of mine,
03:06 I end up going home and shooting something
03:09 every two or three years.
03:10 Triage, Andine, obviously Banshees.
03:12 And so, yeah, it'll be coming up on.
03:15 Yeah, it's coming up on a few years now.
03:17 So maybe I'll be getting home before we know it before Christmas.
03:19 Getting that phone call.
03:20 Yeah.
03:21 So as a film buff, I was wondering, are you?
03:24 And if you are, what film would you love to have been in?
03:28 And what film would I have loved to have been in?
03:32 Oh, God, so many, so many.
03:35 But then I wouldn't fit any films that I love.
03:39 I love them as they are.
03:40 So the idea of being in them then would change them.
03:42 They wouldn't be what I fell in love with.
03:44 But I saw a film about five days ago that I.
03:49 I can honestly say I don't know that I've ever seen a more beautiful film.
03:52 I'm not going to say it's the most beautiful film I've ever seen,
03:55 but called Perfect Days.
03:56 Have you seen it yet?
03:58 I haven't. Oh, Perfect Days.
04:00 Have a look at it.
04:01 It's so beautiful.
04:03 It's so gentle.
04:05 It's such a gentle film.
04:06 But yeah, I looked at that and I just thought,
04:09 what a wondrous thing to put that into the world.
04:12 Well, perhaps you could pitch yourself for Perfect Days, too.
04:17 No, this is God and beyond me.
04:19 Oh, so perfect.
04:22 I'm talking of perfect.
04:24 Would you make a good spy?
04:25 Because sugar's I think sugar's pretty good.
04:27 Are you good? Are you nosy?
04:29 Can you keep a secret?
04:31 I think so. Yeah. Yeah, I am.
04:35 I am nosy, healthily nosy.
04:39 I'm curious.
04:41 I'd be observant, you know, I take in the world around me.
04:44 But no, I wouldn't be as handy as sugar is at it.
04:48 But I love that handy.
04:50 And all the roles you've played, Colin, and now you've got your own show,
04:54 essentially, is this what you want to do?
04:56 Is this the aim when you first started out acting?
04:59 And if so, what happens next?
05:02 No, the aim is just to to to tell stories and try and make a living
05:06 while you're doing it.
05:07 Like, you know, that was that was the goal initially.
05:09 That was it. So so far, so good.
05:12 You know, I've been I've been lucky because the rates of unemployment
05:15 with actors are through the roof.
05:17 You know, there's so many actors in so few parts.
05:20 So, yeah, just that just to tell different stories and collaborate
05:24 with different people.
05:25 And that's the journey it's been.
05:28 Yeah, I don't feel I'm any further on or back or up or down.
05:32 It's just all over the place.
05:34 It's one kind of kaleidoscope of experience telling stories
05:37 for the last 20 years.
05:38 I've been jammy, you know.
05:40 And that's why we love you.
05:41 And your accent in this is so good, by the way.
05:43 You don't even hear any of Irish.
05:45 You're very nice.
05:46 That took a lot of post.
05:47 That took a lot of work after the fact to clean it all up.
05:50 Stop it. Thank you so much.
05:53 Great to see you.
05:53 Great to see you.
05:55 Thanks for having me in love. All the best.
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