00:00You know why?
00:00Let's get rid of David Tennant.
00:01Let's just get rid of him straight away.
00:03David's dead.
00:06Happy Thursday.
00:07Happy Thursday.
00:08Yes.
00:08Very apt, can I say.
00:10Yeah.
00:10It is.
00:10I asked Danny a few interviews ago.
00:12I was like,
00:12do you think they did the premiere on purpose on a Thursday?
00:15Let's go with yes.
00:16Yeah.
00:17I had such a good time with this film.
00:19Oh, I'm glad.
00:20And what an absolutely iconic cast as well.
00:22Like, I would love to know if this cast found themselves
00:26at the heart of a real life Agatha Christie whodunit.
00:29Murder.
00:30Who is getting killed off first?
00:31And who's unmasking the killer?
00:33Within the cast, who's getting killed off first?
00:35Within all of you guys.
00:38What are you looking at me for?
00:41Let's get rid of David Tennant.
00:42Let's just get rid of him straight away.
00:44So someone's bumped off David Tennant.
00:47Yeah, David's.
00:47And who would solve that?
00:48David's dead.
00:52That's going in the edit.
00:54David's dead.
00:55I feel terrible saying that.
00:56David's such a lovely man.
00:57Because he's a great guy.
00:58That's why he had to go.
00:59I've heard he's not going to the red carpet tonight.
01:03That's rude.
01:03How is he not?
01:04Very suspicious.
01:04Why?
01:05This is what I mean.
01:06So are you guys unmasking the killer?
01:08Yeah.
01:09And it's not who you'd expect it to be.
01:13Okay.
01:13Wow.
01:14Because he's giving off that he's like all nice and stuff.
01:17I don't know if it is.
01:18This is how he does it.
01:18This is how he does it.
01:19Yeah.
01:19This is how he does it.
01:20I'm sorry.
01:21How rude of me.
01:23We're the Thursday Murder Club.
01:24So as well as being a really fun kind of twisty turny whodunit, I think the heart of this
01:29film is also finding a place where you belong.
01:32Yeah.
01:32So I'd love to know, was there a time when you were on set or working on this project where
01:36that sense of belonging really clicked into place and you thought, yeah, I really feel
01:40part of the gang?
01:41Yeah.
01:42I felt that from, honestly, from the world go, you know, even in the rehearsals, because
01:47Chris Columbus, our amazing director, just made it feel so welcoming and such a sort
01:53of communal spirit with everyone.
01:55And then like we've mentioned the amazing, iconic lead actors, they didn't have any ego
02:00or anything like that.
02:01They just made us feel at home straight away.
02:03I think like when you laugh, like the times that you laugh together, I feel like the other
02:09bonding moments and like the scene with you in the cake.
02:12Yes, that was early on in the thing.
02:13Yeah.
02:14Was that quite early?
02:15It was quite early.
02:16I think that was my first big scene.
02:18Yeah.
02:19Yeah.
02:19Yeah.
02:19And like I remember you eating the cake and all of us just like at separate moments,
02:23just like keeling over laughing.
02:25And that was a moment where we're like, oh, okay, this is good.
02:29Like we found our rhythm as people and that continued.
02:33Would you like to be investigating the murder?
02:36Who do you think you are?
02:37The head of MI5?
02:37Another thing this film really explores is sort of what people can be capable of when
02:43people underestimate them.
02:44Yeah.
02:45So I would love to know like, has there been a moment in both of your careers where someone
02:49has underestimated you?
02:50And if so, is there a note or a piece of advice that you're glad that you didn't take?
02:55I had someone in my life who's no longer in my life that when like I was still trying,
03:01I was right at the beginning of my career and I was like, it's just so hard.
03:03It's just a hard job to kind of break into and I was so frustrated and I was like, it hurts,
03:08you know, it's painful and I can't help but take it personally and this person was like,
03:12well, just quit.
03:13And I was like, oh, no, no, no.
03:16And I did not take that advice and I'm so good.
03:19And here we are.
03:20And here we are.
03:21But like, I think that was a moment of like, no, this, this pain and stuff is something to
03:25be worked with, not, not avoided.
03:27But I did not listen.
03:28Thank goodness.
03:29This is something you're passionate about.
03:30Do not quit.
03:31Just find your way around it.
03:32There's always a way around it.
03:33Yeah.
03:34I could think of a couple of roles that I was actually been offered but was quite intimidated
03:40about doing them.
03:41Do you know what I mean?
03:42Like sometimes you get this sort of sense of, I haven't got it in me today.
03:45How do I do that?
03:46Are there any roles that sort of come to mind?
03:49There was a character called Peter Wildblood.
03:50It was a single drama for the BBC called Against the Law.
03:54The true story about, he was a gay journalist in the 50s that got imprisoned for like two
04:00years for being gay at that time because it was obviously illegal.
04:04But there was lots of, it's not a role that you'd associate Danny May's playing.
04:09There was lots of intimacy, intimate moments.
04:12And with the great Richard Gad, who played my lover in it, yeah, from Baby Reindeer.
04:18I mean, it was great.
04:19Yeah, yeah, yeah.
04:21I first got introduced to him and he said, because he comes from a stand-up comedian background,
04:24doesn't he?
04:25I said, you'd have to be able to get in bed with me.
04:29But so I got offered it and I was like, I don't know if I can do this, you know.
04:34And it was my wife, Lou, she says, you haven't said yes to this, have you?
04:38And she said, you're scared.
04:39And I said, I'm terrified.
04:40She said, that's exactly the reason you're scared.
04:43That's glorified.
04:43And to this day, it's one of the performances I'm most proud of.
04:47Wow.
04:48But do you know what I mean?
04:48They're those characters that you think, you know, it's like looking up at Everest.
04:51You think, how am I going to do this?
04:53But like, it's that mantra of like, feel the fear and just do it anyway.
04:56Yeah.
04:56This shouldn't be happening to me.
04:58You broke the law, Wildblood.
05:01Then the law is wrong.
05:03So the Murder Club is all about kind of digging up and reopening old cases.
05:07So is there one role from your careers that if you could kind of dig up and sort of revisit
05:14with everything you know now and redo it, knowing what you know now, which roles would you choose?
05:20I would retry Whitney.
05:22Would you?
05:22Because it was so much fun?
05:24No, because I would add new things, but I would also change my attitude while I was
05:30doing it.
05:31Because I was very perfectionist and there was a lot of pressure and I wasn't having
05:34as much fun as I could have had.
05:36And I would have loosened up a bit and I would give it another go.
05:40I really think now, I'm like, I'm actually looking forward to playing a real person again.
05:44Okay.
05:45It's taken me a few years to get to the point, but I would...
05:47Trying to forget the pressure that comes with it.
05:49Yeah, I think like now that I'm a bit older, I'm like, oh, it wasn't that deep.
05:52Yeah.
05:53Let's give it another go.
05:53Look, I don't know how to sing black and I don't know how to sing white either.
05:57I know how to sing.
05:58If I could go back and play another character again, it would be Danny Waldron in Line of
06:04Duty because that was on paper an absolutely phenomenal part.
06:09But if you've seen that show, he only ever lasts one episode.
06:13He gets killed off at the end of the thing.
06:14See, I was introduced as the new lead and then we pulled the rug.
06:18And so when I went into the audition, I was like, does he like, I didn't know, like, does
06:22he make it?
06:22He went, I'm so sorry, Danny.
06:24This is what we're doing this year.
06:25And I always think that character was like a, it's bittersweet.
06:29It was one of the best things I've ever done.
06:31But part of me is like, imagine what that character would have done over the course of a whole series.
06:35So you would want to revisit it and kind of like, actually, just kind of scrimp it out of the screen.
06:40Yeah, but did they do it to like, like freak out the audience?
06:43That was the gimmick in that show.
06:44They would, they would kill characters off.
06:47Big Game of Thrones style.
06:48Yeah.
06:48Very much like that.
06:49Yeah.
06:49Don't try playing the big man.
06:52We both know you're not up to it.
06:55Such amazing answers.
06:56Thank you so much.
06:57Great questions.
06:58Yeah.
06:58Thank you so much.
06:59I think that's all the time we have and I want to just sit here all day and keep chatting.
07:02Also, have you guys had the theme cookies?
07:04There's cookies.
07:05Yeah.
07:06Oh, no.
07:06Okay, there's one in my bag and I don't have my cookies.
07:08I promise I wasn't in my bag.
07:09Oh, no.
07:11Sorry.
07:11Just for me then.
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