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This brand new thriller on Netflix will have you hooked. Julie Delpy & Suranne Jones are in charge of their respective countries in new five-part series, Hostage and tell us all about how they feel about in being power and what they would NEED if they were to be locked away somewhere,
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00:00Gardening for ten years. I didn't like the shoes. A big ball of berries.
00:05Wow, what can I say? I was trying to think of how to describe this and I think I say bloody brilliant.
00:09Oh, I like that. That's good.
00:11Is that a, can we put that on the poster?
00:13Yeah, that's a sales pitch.
00:14I just couldn't get enough. Binged to heaven and back.
00:18Did you think the same when you watched it, secretly?
00:21I had a great time.
00:22I feel I'm under the thing again, you know, the lie detector.
00:26Did you like it?
00:27No, I did like it. I did like it.
00:30And there's five. It's a bingeable.
00:32Yeah, yeah, it's very, very, very easy to binge.
00:35Yeah, you could do that in a night or because it's August.
00:38Take it on holiday and crack on with your holiday watch.
00:42I think I'd be quite uptight if I watched it on the plane though.
00:44I think I'd be a bit worried about landing and all.
00:46I don't know why. I'd feel a bit on edge.
00:49Have you got any tips of what we're watching it with binge-wise?
00:52What food, what's the ideal scenario to be in?
00:54Oh, that's a question that I love.
00:57I can do these questions.
00:58The binge watching.
01:00What were your snacks on set?
01:03My snacks?
01:03Yeah, did you have snacks?
01:05No, not really.
01:06I had a lot of oat cakes.
01:08Oh, oat cakes.
01:09Oh yeah, those are good.
01:10Yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:10You gave me a couple of them.
01:11Yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:13But I like juice, like smoothies, green stuff.
01:19You know, for watching stuff, crisps.
01:21Oh, crisps.
01:22You know you're quite healthy, aren't you?
01:24Yeah, I'm quite healthy.
01:26I'd go crisps.
01:27Yeah, I'd go green smoothie within five hours.
01:31At least some cookies.
01:32I'd go berries, like a big ball of berries.
01:34Would you?
01:35Yeah.
01:35No, I'd do crisps.
01:36Oh yeah, yeah.
01:37Absolutely.
01:38And then complain and then be like, oh, I shouldn't have eaten those.
01:40Yeah, every time.
01:42In regards to hostages, you're going to be asked this a lot as well.
01:44If you were in a nice hostage situation, what kind of thing would you need with you?
01:47A what?
01:48Like a nice, you know what I mean?
01:50That's not nasty.
01:51Yeah.
01:51I think I'd want to have like a saxophone or like a musical instrument so I could get better
01:56at it rather than having something else with me.
01:58What would you guys want to be?
01:59If I was an hostage?
02:00Yeah, if you kind of trapped in the room.
02:01Let's reframe it.
02:02If you were somewhere for a long time, trapped in the room.
02:06Yeah, yeah, yeah.
02:07Okay, okay, okay, okay.
02:08Yeah, okay.
02:09Ostage is never good.
02:10What do you want in there?
02:10If I was locked in, I don't know, what would I want?
02:16I'd love to be locked in, but not, yeah, no, in nature or something.
02:20Like in a garden, like gardening for 10 years, just doing nothing else.
02:27Oh, on your own.
02:28Yeah, I like my own company.
02:31I like peace and quiet.
02:32People say, what music do you listen to?
02:34What do you do when you're kind of like on your own?
02:36I like, I just like, I like a bath and I like quietness.
02:42And I get it.
02:43I don't like always music.
02:45It drives me a little crazy.
02:46Like, I like nature.
02:47I like sound of nature.
02:48Yeah.
02:49So a bath in the garden.
02:50Sorted.
02:51Perfect.
02:51Yeah, we could go on forever.
02:52Sorry, yeah.
02:53And a good couple of books.
02:5410 years is a long time though.
02:55To be honest.
02:56I think for 10 years would be awesome to me.
02:58Yeah.
02:59I would love it.
03:01Maybe that could be a whole Netflix area in itself.
03:02I believe you could do that as well.
03:04I believe that you would like totally sustainable.
03:06You'd be very happy.
03:08Yeah.
03:08Do you know one of my favorite things of this series
03:10was the way that you closed the doors to like number 10
03:12or, you know, a posh building.
03:14And you were effing and jeffing all over the shop.
03:16Do you reckon that happens in real life?
03:17I was.
03:18You were quite, you didn't want to, did you?
03:20You didn't want your character to be, I was quite sweary.
03:23Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
03:24No, yeah.
03:25My character was all bit like, yeah, she's in control.
03:28Yeah, I think, I think that was, yeah, it was a, it was a choice to be,
03:34I don't think Abigail kind of, um, she's so full of hope at the beginning of the show
03:38and she's so like, um, she really believes that she can make a change.
03:43And then, and actually she's not very in control of her emotions in that way.
03:47And she does, I like that about her.
03:49She's like the burst and you're, yeah.
03:52Yeah, yeah.
03:52My character is supposed to be the opposite.
03:54Like she's wearing a mask and she's like this stern kind of like hard, you know, in control woman.
04:01I mean, that's kind of like the contrast between the two characters.
04:04But you, it made it really personable and just normalised your characters,
04:07that you're human beings, you know, but outside of this front,
04:10you've got to put on the TV and stuff, I loved it.
04:12In regards to women and in power and jobs, how do you think modern day audiences are going to take
04:19and kind of understand and resonate with the fact that you're juggling, you know, families,
04:23life, work, and it's that whole dilemma that you've got.
04:26Yeah, I think it's a woman thing, right?
04:28To juggle, you know, it's not because you're working that you drop everything else as a woman.
04:33I mean, I see it at home, you know, it's like my, my husband's working.
04:37It's like, you know, he drops a lot more than, you know, I'm still dealing with, uh, you know,
04:42the everyday life.
04:43I think it's, uh, it's something, something women do.
04:46And I think it's pretty clear in the, in the show, you know.
04:49Yeah, no, my hobby says the same.
04:51It's like you, you take on too much.
04:53It's not, it's not like you say, right, I'm going to go and do this project or right,
04:58I'm home now.
04:58I'm just going to do this.
05:00You have to keep, you feel like you have to keep everything going.
05:05Um, and so this is just such on a big scale.
05:08Like these two women are, um, in such high pressure situations.
05:13And it's the cost.
05:14It's the cost of, of do, of doing this job and trying to balance your, um, your home life.
05:21Me with my daughter, obviously the situation with my husband,
05:24with your stepson and your husband.
05:26Um, uh, yeah.
05:29Um, and, um.
05:30So French.
05:31Yeah.
05:32So French.
05:32Wink, wink.
05:33So French-bute.
05:34Um, and he's gorgeous.
05:35Um, but yeah.
05:38So I, I think it's like, it's really looking at it on like, it's like soup top, ratchet,
05:43that everything's pulled so tightly in this, in this show.
05:47I loved that because it just makes it real that women need to carry on and work as well.
05:51I just, I really loved that.
05:52Uh, what about the pressures you've found in real life from your characters?
05:55Did you, are you answering emails differently now?
05:58Are you kind of changing the way you talk to people?
06:00Because you've had to learn how to keep it cool on set, right?
06:03I guess.
06:04I didn't like the shoes we had to wear.
06:06We had to wear the high heels all the time.
06:09Yeah.
06:10I didn't like, we kept changing our shoes, didn't we, a lot.
06:12I mean, if being a politician means having high heels all the time, I might none.
06:16I can deal with everything else.
06:18Yeah, I know.
06:18I've taken it right down to like the memories of like those bloody heels.
06:22I was like, I kept them off.
06:24What was the question?
06:25I just got to rent it.
06:26Yeah, yeah.
06:26We got to pull on the issue.
06:27And the pressure.
06:27Are you better at dealing with it in real life now that you've played your characters?
06:31No, I, I think for me, I, yeah, I'm not, I'm not Toussaint.
06:37Yeah.
06:37Yeah.
06:38I'm the opposite of a control freak and I'm always like, yeah, even on set, you know,
06:44when I'm out of a character, I'm like myself again.
06:46Yeah.
06:48I think I am a control freak.
06:50I think in life, I think I'm, and obviously I was producing on this as well.
06:54So, so my head was always working, but I think that is a, I, yeah, I'm a micromanager.
07:00What's everyone doing at home?
07:02I could do with not being like that so much, I think.
07:05Yeah.
07:05So I, so yeah, I think maybe I, I brought that to Abigail rather than she gave me something.
07:11I love that.
07:12Actually, it's funny because I thought of myself never as being controlling.
07:16And then my son the other day says, I'm a control freak.
07:19And I'm like, really?
07:20Like, I see myself as the opposite, but it's so weird.
07:22And then you booked him into a therapist.
07:26Did that?
07:26Yeah.
07:27And just finally, when you first started acting, did you ever think that as women, you'd be,
07:32you know, you're the main characters in this incredible series on a massive,
07:35massive platform.
07:36Did you think that we'd get there as women?
07:37You know, the fact that you're doing these roles.
07:41Well, you've been doing them for so long though, haven't you?
07:44Like, well, like brilliant roles.
07:46I mean, I, yeah, no, go on.
07:48No, I don't know.
07:49No, I don't know how to answer this question actually.
07:52I just, I think that, I think it, I think we've got better.
07:56The roles are more.
07:58It's important that these, there are two female leads rather than one female lead.
08:03Because I don't think there's been very many shows or films about two female leaders.
08:08No, no.
08:09I think that's interesting.
08:10And that's what to me was interesting.
08:12Yeah.
08:12The show really is, and how different they are dealing with the situation also.
08:16Not to show that all women are the same dealing with things.
08:20And it's against like, you know, facing men and stuff.
08:24Here it's two women having to deal with an issue and they deal with it very differently,
08:28which I thought was very interesting.
08:29Yeah.
08:30I think as well that, like, we've been fortunate to like, when I say,
08:37oh, you've been doing it for so long, because there's so many of your films that,
08:40you know, they're complex characters.
08:42But I guess you have to be, you have to go after those complex characters.
08:47You have to work with, you know, you have to find the female writers.
08:53Obviously, which Julie is as well.
08:54But you have to find the directors.
08:56You have to, you have to find the people to tell the stories.
08:59And I think I, well, we've both been fortunate to do that.
09:02But I, I think if, if you find the right people, there's definitely more of it.
09:09Yeah, yeah, yeah.
09:10Now.
09:10Oh yeah, definitely.
09:11And also more multi-dimensional.
09:13Like I see how my character evolves from this stern person.
09:16And then you see her, her cracks, you know, slowly and stuff.
09:20Like to be able to not see, you know, I remember when I was younger,
09:24I would read a character and I was like, oh my God, she's one thing.
09:26She's just one thing.
09:28And it was frustrating.
09:29I know in the nineties, especially, I was like, oh my God,
09:32this is like a one dimensional character.
09:34And I see those guys, those characters, male characters.
09:36So it was really interesting.
09:38But, you know, I, I think, you know, even actors like Meryl Streep,
09:42I think in, in Kramer versus Kramer, I think the character was much more one dimension.
09:48And she added all the more dimension to the character herself.
09:52Like she wrote it in basically without getting writing credit, which, you know,
09:56happens to a lot of people.
09:58But, you know, she wrote in basically all the complexity of the character,
10:02which made the film basically.
10:04Yeah, of course.
10:04So sometimes you have to, you know, bring in complexity.
10:07At least in the nineties, you had to bring in your own complexity as a woman,
10:11because otherwise it could be a one dimension, you know,
10:13but that has changed, obviously.
10:15Thank you for putting us on the map.
10:16And let's have some more, please.
10:18Love that.
10:19I loved it.
10:19Thank you so much.
10:20Have a lovely day.
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