Sope Dirisu talks meeting Gary Lineker & Gangs of London S3

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00:00I felt like a cat sometimes, just like wriggling out.

00:02How are you watching out here?

00:03I swear like TV's embargoed and everything.

00:05Maybe until I've like confronted him and be like,

00:07hi, I love your work.

00:09I loved you as a footballer.

00:10Soppy, how you doing, mate?

00:11Yeah, I'm good, thank you.

00:12I'm very well, mate, I'm very well.

00:13Congratulations on the show.

00:14Thank you very much.

00:16It's always good to do one of these

00:17when I'm already a fan of the show

00:19and the message goes around the office and like,

00:20do you watch this?

00:21I'm like, yeah, I'm already, I'm too serious deep, mate.

00:23I'm in, I'm in.

00:25Third one down, how are the knees, how are the elbows?

00:28You know what?

00:29I'm so grateful to the stunt team

00:31for keeping me all in one piece.

00:33I don't think I've ever got like a serious injury

00:35doing the show, which is crazy

00:37because I take pride in doing a lot of my own stunts.

00:40I remember in the second season,

00:42I got thrown over Billy's back and landed.

00:45And then normally we'd absolutely have a stunt man

00:46doing this because we couldn't pad the floor.

00:48So like, are you okay today?

00:49I was like, yeah, let's do it again and again and again.

00:52And I just found a way to sort of either disregard

00:55what my body needed in terms of safety

00:57or just, you know, I felt like a cat sometimes

01:00just like wriggling out and finding a way to land softly.

01:03Yeah.

01:04So yeah, I've definitely developed

01:06this excellent proprioception to avoid danger.

01:10But-

01:10I suppose you're going to have that

01:11when you go into like a Gareth Evans sort of projects,

01:14I mean, just watch the raid,

01:15you're like, I'm going to get beaten up on this.

01:19How has kind of life changed over the last few years?

01:22It was great to see you pop up in the gorge

01:25and was it slow horses?

01:27I was very disappointed

01:27with the way your character ended there

01:29because it's like, yes, I love this guy.

01:31So many people were just like,

01:32oh, so are you going to join the slow horses?

01:33It's like, you didn't finish a series, did you?

01:35Like, you don't know what happens.

01:38But how has life changed?

01:39I mean, I'm really grateful for how my career's progressed.

01:43And I'm so grateful to Sky, Pulse and Gangs of London

01:46because I think without this job,

01:49I wouldn't be where I am now.

01:50You know, like this job has traveled across the world.

01:54And I remember walking through Havana in Cuba one time

01:57and being stopped like,

01:58oh my God, are you in Gangs of London?

01:59I was like, how are you watching it out here?

02:00I swear like TV's embargoed and everything.

02:03But no, yeah, I'm really proud of the work that we've done

02:06and I'm glad for its successes.

02:08I remember this cut out, yeah, your violent scenes

02:10and it just has you looking pensive

02:11and then suddenly you've got like a face covered in blood.

02:13I'm like, I wonder how that happened.

02:14Oh, he's crying blood, he's so emotional.

02:17I watched a really interesting interview with you last night

02:19from a few years ago

02:20and you talked about the most like starstruck

02:22you'd been in your career.

02:23I remember seeing Gary Lineker from like across the bar.

02:25Have you managed to top that since the start of the show?

02:27Or is that still a pinnacle?

02:29I think when you are in spaces

02:32in which you see a lot of people

02:34that you recognize from television or music,

02:37more and more you get more accustomed to it.

02:39So there's something about how young I was

02:41when that happened and the impact of it.

02:44And I've still never said hello to him.

02:45Maybe until I've like confronted him and been like,

02:47hi, I love your work.

02:48I loved you as a footballer, love your journalism.

02:51And so I've like put that to bed.

02:54But maybe it was still just always be him.

02:55Oh man, when he's like stepping down

02:56from match of the day, isn't he?

02:57So maybe you'll have a bit more free time.

02:58You'll be able to catch him around at some place.

03:01Let's go on to series three then.

03:03Elliot's always been the kind of the moral compass

03:06of the show.

03:07The guy you see yourself in those situations through

03:10as kind of crazy and violent and fantastical as they are.

03:13Is he still, or is he just so consumed

03:16with like rage and revenge now that he is very much,

03:20he's part of the furniture

03:21of this kind of criminal underbelly of love?

03:23Yeah, I was going to say,

03:24it depends on your own personal moral compass.

03:26If Elliot can still be your North Star

03:29based on what happens at the end of season two

03:30and during season three.

03:33But I would also challenge anyone to go through

03:38what he's gone through and maintain their moral integrity.

03:42I think at the end of the day, he's a human being,

03:43not a superhero.

03:44He's not Captain America, you know?

03:48So he's responding to the stimuluses,

03:50but maybe there's hope for him yet.

03:53I don't know.

03:54We'll see.

03:55It's just on Captain America there.

03:55Let's look at future, what might be,

03:58what might come across after this.

04:00Your castmate may have just been announced as Snape.

04:05Oh yeah.

04:05Did that happen today?

04:07Well, it's in the last,

04:08it's been bubbling around for a while

04:09and now people are kind of,

04:10they think it's confirmed.

04:11What's your thoughts on that one?

04:13I'm delighted for him, you know,

04:15like the character of Harry Potter

04:21and the world of it is something that a lot of us

04:24grew up with and is very close to our hearts.

04:26And like speaking specifically about that world,

04:32I'm sure it's a great honour for him

04:33to be representing that and like flying the flag

04:38for us in it.

04:39I'm really proud of him.

04:40I'm really delighted.

04:41Hopefully they'll give you a call.

04:42Maybe you'll get yourself a wand

04:44in some time in the years to come, you never know.

04:46We'll see.

04:47All right, mate.

04:48Well, I hope you make a few more of these first

04:49because I'm a big fan.

04:50I'm not quite finished with, well, I don't know.

04:53However, these kind of shows make you feel

04:55a little bit dirty in a way, but it is a thrill ride.

04:59Congratulations.

05:00I'm looking forward to seeing what you do next.

05:00I appreciate it, man.

05:01Thank you very much.

05:02All right, mate.

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