00:00Who would you hire for a private concert?
00:03Can they be dead?
00:04Yeah, sure.
00:05I guess they're dead, guys.
00:06I think I'd probably go, oh, straight down the line, Beatles.
00:09Oh, yeah.
00:10Well, they're not all dead.
00:11Well, I wouldn't kill them and bring them back.
00:13The ones that were alive, I'd have, and then bring the other ones back from the dead.
00:22We looked at a lot of islands off the coast, but most of them are just, you know, very,
00:26very difficult to get to.
00:27So we had, even the beach we chose was very, very difficult to get to.
00:31But we shot on the coast of Wales, and then the house is slightly more inland.
00:36So with the magic of cinema, we created our island.
00:39That was like where I grew up going on holiday.
00:42My family's Welsh.
00:43My mum's Welsh.
00:44So we're near Temby.
00:46Temby is where I went on all my summer holidays when I was a kid.
00:49And then the house, the big house that was Charles's house in the film, was in the town
00:53where my mum was born and lived until she went to university.
00:57So lots of family around there.
00:59My Welsh family are thrilled.
01:00So that is a very magical part of the British Isles, that corner of Wales.
01:06Yeah, the coastline there is unbelievably beautiful.
01:08It really is.
01:09I mean, Dylan Thomas wrote all of his work in that, literally around the corner from
01:12the beach we were filming in.
01:14So it's a very sort of artistic kind of corner.
01:16It's very creative.
01:17I've been writing and recording songs for this film for quite a while.
01:20And some of the songs date back to the original short film that was 18 odd years ago.
01:24And then some I wrote...
01:26Yeah, that's the short film we based it on.
01:29We made it a very long time ago.
01:31And some of the songs I was keen to reuse and some wanted to, you know, just come at
01:35it fresh and try new stuff.
01:38But yeah, I had to record them on just on my laptop at home when the kids were quiet
01:44and then kind of send them all to Carrie knowing that she listened to them with Marcus.
01:49That was quite nerve-wracking that.
01:51I was quite worried about how you'd respond.
01:53I think they're so brilliant.
01:55I watched the film for the first time yesterday and I just kept thinking...
01:59I always love them.
02:00I just think you're such a good songwriter.
02:02Oh, thank you.
02:03They were both very, very lovely about it and very supportive.
02:06It's true that they're so good.
02:07They're so...
02:08Like, in and of itself, even if you...
02:09They're quite good.
02:10No, but it's...
02:11Also, he's done such a good...
02:12Sorry.
02:13No, no.
02:14No, I was saying he's done such a good job of kind of telling the backstory and filling
02:18all the gaps of what their relationship was musically.
02:21Because often, Carrie's playing kind of backing vocals into some of those songs
02:25and then you can feel her move his music into a kind of more pop space.
02:29And just that journey is told through the music, the songs themselves,
02:32which is really clever.
02:34It's a testament to how much I think James and the boys have made something amazing,
02:39that I...
02:40How easy I found it to watch, not myself, but the film.
02:43Like, I was so...
02:44I just was in hysterics last night watching the film.
02:46I thought it was so funny.
02:47And then I cried.
02:48And I normally just went...
02:49You cried during the singing?
02:51I did.
02:52Just my tone.
02:53No, but like, I...
02:55Yeah, I don't like it at all.
02:57But...
02:58And it's like listening to your voice on an answering machine.
03:00Everyone hates that.
03:01And your face that big on a screen is upsetting.
03:03But I just was...
03:05That all kind of went into the background because I was so...
03:08I just thought these guys were so incredible in the film.
03:10Griff had done such an amazing job.
03:12So it was nice for once to be like, oh.
03:14Yeah, that was quite funny.
03:15There's one bit in the film where it's a close-up on me.
03:18And so there's an enormous face on the screen last night.
03:21And then I know the next thing that happens is it zooms in.
03:24LAUGHTER
03:27Braces up.
03:29I feel like I had the best view in the house.
03:32You know, because obviously you're there watching them live and doing it.
03:35And that, for me, was like the best.
03:37It was an amazing private concert
03:38because they had so much great chemistry with each other through the music.
03:43I mean, just generally.
03:44Everyone gets on, as you can see.
03:46Everyone, you know, gets it.
03:48But in those moments, it was just finding that connection.
03:51It moved the crew to tears when we were watching those scenes.
03:55The thing that I'm most proud of as well
03:57is that all of the music that's in the film is the live stuff we record on set.
04:00You know, we did go back and re-record things in the studio
04:04and spent quite a lot of time getting it all exactly to time,
04:07thinking we might use that and we'd kind of polish it afterwards.
04:12But actually, when we were watching it in post,
04:15it was just so clear that the live performances just had a kind of...
04:19They had a reality to them.
04:20They had a sort of slight roughness to them,
04:22a slight kind of like, you know, just an authenticity
04:25that just felt really right for the way the music's presented in the film.
04:29Which is how it should be, really.
04:31Because there's a scene where they sing to me
04:33and I hear them for the first time.
04:35And, yeah, it should feel like I'm hearing them in my living room
04:38or dining room, rather than a polished track
04:41which is played over the top of, you know, the picture.
04:44And it was kind of a very moving experience, as Griff says.
04:48Yeah, I was in the same boat as the crew, really,
04:52where I don't have any lines, I'm just watching them.
04:55And it was really... Yeah, it was very beautiful.
04:57I just wanted to be in the film in any way, you know.
05:00So singing was...
05:02And it's so fun to be in that world and to sort of...
05:05You know, if it's not your world.
05:08But, yeah, the onus was on him.
05:11And I was like, backing vocals for me.
05:14Don't make me sing on my own.
05:16It was great. That was what it was.
05:18I was never as...
05:19And she's meant to be the kind of keys player, backing...
05:23She's not like the front man of the thing, in that sense.
05:26And wrote all the lyrics, didn't she?
05:28In the backstory, she writes a lot of the lyrics to all that.
05:31So it's her kind of wordsmith.
05:33First time on Starstruck, I met Cliff Richard.
05:38Really?
05:39Yeah.
05:40When we were living in Germany, when I was a kid,
05:42my dad was a hotel manager, and Cliff Richard came to stay.
05:45I had a Fanta with him.
05:47Yeah, with my family.
05:52We sat with Cliff Richard and had a Fanta.
05:54I remember having a Fanta.
05:56I didn't probably have one at all.
05:58Yeah, that's big. Cliff's big.
06:00It's huge.
06:01I was six or seven when I was fairly short.
06:04Yeah.
06:05This was a big deal.
06:06I was 48 when I met John Murray,
06:08so I could keep my shit together.
06:10There's a guy called John Murray.
06:13I don't know how big he is here,
06:15but he's a radio football commentator in England.
06:18Yeah.
06:20Well, there's John Murray, Connor McNamara, Cornelius Slicer...
06:24Not a little big ear.
06:25No.
06:26Cornelius Slicer.
06:27And Jonathan Overhead.
06:29But basically, I always listen to sport all the time,
06:32and about two weeks ago, we were in a bar,
06:35and there was four people, and my friend recognised one.
06:37You never see these people.
06:39I was listening to one an hour ago on the radio,
06:41but you never see them, and they're always the most...
06:43And I love these people, and we introduced ourselves
06:46and met the sports commentators.
06:48Because the thing is, you meet a lot of people doing what we do,
06:51and actually, we're all doing the same thing,
06:54so it has to be from another field.
06:56For me, a particular sport where it's just insane
07:00that you're talking to this person.
07:02I mean, yeah, I've had some sports people that I've met,
07:05which have always, as you say, outside your field,
07:07like Johnny Wilkinson, who's one of my all-time heroes.
07:11But I think John Cleese was fun.
07:14I grew up on all the Python.
07:16My dad educated me in a lot of radio comedy,
07:19Round the Horn, and then Python.
07:22Life Prime, literally one of my favourite films.
07:24And so I did a Zoom with him when he was in Dubai,
07:27and we had a full chat for a good hour
07:29while he was eating some scrambled egg.
07:31And I couldn't tell him he had some egg on his face.
07:34I was like, oh God, it's John Cleese.
07:36Now I've got to tell him he's got egg on his face.
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