Pierce Brosnan Labels Tom Ellis A 'Chatty Cathy'

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Former James Bond, Pierce Brosnan, and Lucifer's Tom Ellis talk to Melissa Nathoo about playing father and son in The Thursday Murder Club. Report by Nathoom. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00How long did you play Lucifer?

00:01Oh God, forever.

00:03From 2015 to 2021?

00:06The greatest show.

00:07Wow.

00:08The greatest.

00:09Wow, wow, wow.

00:10Loved it so much.

00:11Thank you very much.

00:12Just finished another re-watch of it.

00:14I feel like it's just gotten more and more popular.

00:16It's so crazy.

00:17Good, it's good.

00:18Yes, onwards.

00:19But last time I saw you as well, Piers,

00:21it was days from me turning 40

00:23and you put me at ease and you told me to breathe

00:26and it was wonderful and it was like having my dad.

00:28And now you get to have Piers playing.

00:31How was that?

00:32Like how is it having Piers as a dad?

00:34It's amazing.

00:35Well, you know, first of all, best looking dad in the world.

00:38Right.

00:39So that's great.

00:39We'll enter that competition.

00:40Great looking son, there you go.

00:41But also he's just such a, you're a really nice person.

00:44Oh, cheers.

00:45I know, I don't believe the rumors.

00:46He's really nice.

00:47And no, he's so got a big heart

00:50and just great fun to hang out with.

00:53And like, you know, once I got over the sort of

00:55I'm working with his icon.

00:56Right.

00:57Um, it's great.

00:58And, you know, we have a laugh together.

01:00We had a great laugh together.

01:01You laughed more than me.

01:02You talked a lot.

01:03That's for sure.

01:04You're a chubby Cathy.

01:05I am a chubby.

01:06It was great.

01:07It was great.

01:08We just, Tom showed up and we just hit the ground running

01:11playing father and son.

01:12Yeah.

01:12The characters are so beautifully embroidered by Richard Osmond.

01:15And then, of course, you have Chris Columbus directing.

01:18And then, of course, for me, too, you know,

01:21I felt just like you did.

01:23You just spoke over there.

01:25I'm with Dame Helen.

01:26I'm with Sir Ben Kingsley and Celia.

01:28Celia and I had worked together before.

01:30But it was just the cast was like such a theatrical company.

01:35Yeah.

01:36It was really beautiful.

01:37It's like we were putting on a play.

01:38Yeah.

01:39We were filming it.

01:40What are your personal sleuthing skills like?

01:43I mean, you have a lot of experience having done it.

01:46Like so much.

01:47But like yourselves, what are you?

01:49Are you good like detectives?

01:50Like if you watch something, do you know what's,

01:52like who's done it at the very start?

01:54No.

01:55No, I'm useless at it.

01:56And I just go with the flow.

01:57And I don't really want to know, actually.

01:59You know, I sit with my wife and she gets it straight away.

02:02And I say, shut up, please don't say.

02:03No, no, no, no.

02:04Oh, dear.

02:05Well, my wife is a writer.

02:06So she knows how these things work.

02:08So she already knows just from the formula of the writing

02:12who done it.

02:14So she sort of spoils it a little bit for me.

02:16Yes.

02:16But, you know.

02:17I'm curious.

02:17Obviously, this is the Thursday murder club.

02:19When you guys were in school, were you ever in any other clubs?

02:23Like I was in something called an animal club where we,

02:27I don't know.

02:28What happens in animal club?

02:29I don't know.

02:30I know we made badgers which said animal club on them

02:32and we wore them and we liked animals.

02:34Okay.

02:35But can you remember doing anything like that?

02:37Because clubs were a big thing when we were at school.

02:38I was only into like sports, basically.

02:40So that was all my stuff at school.

02:43But there was, I had friends who were like in the chess club

02:45and things like that.

02:46But that was not my bag.

02:47That was not you?

02:48No, I wasn't in a club.

02:49No.

02:50At all.

02:51I was in clubs outside, actually.

02:54You know.

02:55But no, I wasn't in a club.

02:56Well, now you get to be part of one of the best clubs,

02:58the Thursday murder club.

02:59What was it like when the cameras weren't rolling

03:02and like all of you together?

03:03Because, especially for you, Tom.

03:06Like sitting with those four legends,

03:08I would be pinching myself all the time.

03:10But even for you as well, Piers.

03:11Like, what's it like when the cameras aren't rolling

03:14and you guys are together?

03:15We would just sit around, have a cup of tea.

03:16People would be on their phone

03:18or they'd be just relaxing

03:19and just having a little nap in the sunshine.

03:22He's always got his sketch pad with him.

03:24And I would draw.

03:25He's a great artist, this guy.

03:27Well, I would have my pad with me and I would draw.

03:29What do you draw?

03:30Just anything?

03:31I don't draw anything really, whatever's before me.

03:34And just, I work on projects that I have

03:37and collaborations that I have with other artists.

03:40One of which I own, by the way.

03:43The collaboration you did was Shepard Fairey.

03:45It was a Shepard Fairey.

03:47It was a painting, a large painting I did.

03:49I got it about three months before I got cast

03:52as Piers' son and it was a long story

03:55but my father-in-law bought it in a charity auction

03:57and then there was a little note attached from Piers to me

03:59and then I got cast as his son three months later.

04:02Oh my God, it was meant to be.

04:03It was meant to be.

04:04It was for Jane Goodall.

04:05It was meant to be.

04:06And listen, how much of yourselves did you bring

04:09to this character?

04:10Because obviously you had great material

04:11but like yourselves because,

04:13I mean, I keep bringing up these folks

04:15because I love that show so much

04:16but like hearing you talk the way you do

04:20like is so weird as well to me.

04:23But like how much did you bring yourselves to it?

04:26I think inevitably you bring a bit of yourself

04:28to every character that you do.

04:29I think, you know, there are certain things

04:31that you identify with and certain things

04:32that are completely alien

04:33but ultimately you bring a certain amount

04:35of your energy into it.

04:36Um, I don't know.

04:38I don't know what specifically it was with Jason.

04:41I don't know.

04:42I mean, you're absolutely right, Tom.

04:43I mean, you bring yourself.

04:44You go to your own soul, your own heart,

04:46your own emotions, your own memory,

04:48your sense memory of your life

04:50and the what-if character

04:52with the what-if situation.

04:54Uh, for me with Ron Ritchie,

04:56I mean, Chris Columbus,

04:58I worked with him on Mrs. Doubtfire

05:00and Percy Jackson.

05:01So when he offered me this job,

05:03I thought, wow, this is interesting.

05:05This is Ron Ritchie, really?

05:06Yeah.

05:07Okay, union leader.

05:08He said, grow a beard.

05:09I grew a beard.

05:10I understood that.

05:11I thought, okay,

05:12that's a good transformation at least,

05:15you know,

05:16because you don't want to see this mug

05:17and, you know,

05:18it's just not going to work.

05:19But, uh, you know,

05:21I know what it's like to be a working man.

05:22I've been a working actor all my life.

05:24I know what it's like to go out and dig ditches.

05:26I know what it's like to, you know,

05:28and, you know, serve tables and clean houses.

05:32You've done it all.

05:33You've done it all.

05:34I did a lot, you know,

05:35because, uh,

05:37and, you know, I started in the theatre.

05:39I started in experimental theatre,

05:40street theatre, kids theatre,

05:42agitprop theatre.

05:44So you'd see people on the,

05:46going to support, you know,

05:48the, the, the, the, the working man.

05:51Yeah.

05:52And performing.

05:53So you, the rest of you use your imagination.

05:55It's in the heart.

05:56I know what it's like to be a father.

05:57I know what it's like to have a son.

05:59I know what it's like to be embarrassed by dad.

06:01But you bring great dad vibes,

06:04even like to me in those few minutes of a junket.

06:07You brought them and I felt it.

06:08So.

06:09And Tom forever.

06:10Forever my name's forever.

06:11Thank you very much.

06:12Great job in here as well.

06:14So lovely to see you both.

06:15So lovely to see you both.

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