00:00Eddie, thank you so much for your time, I appreciate you.
00:03I am so fascinated watching you in this,
00:05because I imagine this was bookended
00:06by two outstanding performers in cabaret.
00:09Well, it was, thank you for saying outstanding,
00:11but it was, it was quite extreme.
00:13Was there any strange crossover in terms of like,
00:15right, I have to turn off MC
00:16and now I have to get into jackal mode,
00:18was there any crossover which was difficult
00:19to shake at any point?
00:20Do you know what was weird,
00:21is when I was doing cabaret in London,
00:24the most extraordinary people would come to see it every night
00:26and I would get to meet kind of politicians,
00:30members of the family, celebrities,
00:34and in quite sort of intimate circumstances.
00:37At the time I was thinking, you know,
00:40would it be interesting to write a television series
00:41about a kind of actor, a theatre actor,
00:44who has all this sort of access
00:46to all these extraordinary people,
00:48but who's actually a spy, and changes the way he looks,
00:51and then this script arrived in my inbox.
00:53And so I don't know, you hear the word like manifesting stuff
00:56but I don't know, I feel like I may have sort of,
00:58this is my manifestation of that.
01:00That's quite wonderful.
01:01I don't think I've ever seen you in a role
01:02like you play in Jackal, in Day of the Jackal, sorry.
01:04And please tell me if there's anything which you performed,
01:07which you had to do for this role,
01:09which we've never have seen from you before,
01:10because I think there's probably a lot.
01:12There's quite a bit.
01:13I mean, principally acting in different languages,
01:17which I had never done before,
01:20and I don't speak a word of German,
01:21and a good chunk of the first episode
01:23was me speaking in German,
01:27and Spanish as well,
01:28which I had Ursula to kind of help me a bit on.
01:31And I love that side of things.
01:33It somehow took you out of your head and was quite freeing,
01:35but I haven't done it, I haven't done wands,
01:37I haven't done guns before really,
01:39so that was pretty joyful too.
01:41This is your chance to flex.
01:42How's your German and your Spanish these days?
01:44Pretty wonderful, I mean,
01:46I did not speak a word of German then, and I don't now,
01:49but I can say some very specific lines.
01:53But then he's also playing a kind of 75-year-old janitor,
01:57so you have to kind of try and,
02:00as if you've been smoking 20 a day for...
02:02Thank you for this one-man show, it's so incredible.
02:03And finally for me,
02:04obviously we see you in a very dangerous killer role here.
02:07Is this giving you the bug?
02:09Do you want to do more dangerous roles,
02:10more assassin roles perhaps?
02:12I'm quite into an assassin role, I'm not going to lie.
02:14Yeah, I enjoy them.
02:15So powerful.
02:16Yeah, go on then.
02:17Do you want to do more dangerous roles,
02:18more assassin roles perhaps?
02:19I'm quite into an assassin role, I'm not going to lie.
02:21Yeah, I enjoy them.
02:22Yeah, go on then.
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