Rebecca Ferguson Opens Up About Motherhood & Emma Stone

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Rebecca Ferguson has fought sand worms, spies and now nuclear chaos in Kathryn Bigelow's brand new Netflix thriller, A House of Dynamite.   She talks frankly about the threat of war, how it's "insane" someone has so much power and how her husband mostly brought their son up due to her working commitments but she would love to bunker down with him if she had to.    A House of Dynamite is out on Netflix this Friday 24th October. Report by Jonesl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00I have a real zero tolerance to stupid comments.

00:05Babes, I rapped and I was home having a burger.

00:07It's insane.

00:08Like her little Sebastian to Ariel.

00:11Wow, I just absolutely adored this.

00:13You've done sandworms, you've fought off spies,

00:16now a nuclear chaos.

00:17Nuclear weapons, what's next?

00:18What is next?

00:19What is next?

00:20Did you think, when you started out,

00:21this would be on your repertoire?

00:22You know, all those things?

00:23No, I mean, it's a Catherine Bigelow film.

00:27I mean, something would be a threat.

00:29Yeah, and now I've learned a lot more,

00:31and now I'm more terrified.

00:32What makes...

00:33Comedy next.

00:34Yeah, well, what makes Catherine so special with all this?

00:37Her accuracy of information,

00:41the fact that she has done such incredible films

00:45that I think people kind of run to her.

00:48People within special forces,

00:51people in the White House,

00:53people who are allowed to talk,

00:54they all want to talk.

00:56They all want to share their story,

00:58which means that her stories become more and more accurate.

01:01And this one is, I mean, nearly to the percentage.

01:03Absolutely.

01:04How did you calm down after shooting?

01:06Hey, was it meditation?

01:07Was it a nice bar choccy?

01:09I mean, I just...

01:10Babes, I rapped and I was home having a burger.

01:12I literally, I don't need to really decompress.

01:14I think press junkets are different.

01:18I think that's where the decompression comes,

01:21because you talk endlessly about really difficult matters this time,

01:28and something that I feel a lot for.

01:31And gradually, the more I listen to Catherine,

01:33the more I listen to people who know, like Noah,

01:36the more agitated and frustrated I get.

01:40There's no answer.

01:42It's just the conversation.

01:44It's the absurdity.

01:45The world we live in.

01:47I mean, it's just, it's insane.

01:49Yeah.

01:50The fact that one person can start a nuclear war.

01:53What?

01:54So, having been in this, do you feel, how do you feel now about it?

01:58I'm assuming you're more well read around it all?

02:01I mean, probably in a very general matter.

02:05There's so many well-versed people who would watch this and go,

02:09yeah, so we've known this since the Cold War.

02:12You know, professionals who train and who know

02:15and who can compare and probably sit here and go,

02:18well, actually, it's been a little bit better and a little bit worse.

02:21We're doing the shell of it to explain it to people at home.

02:24And it all started with Catherine going,

02:26what happens if an unidentified sort of threat comes in,

02:29like a nuke like this?

02:30We have 18 minutes, but break it down.

02:33Really break it down and let's make a film about it.

02:35And that you did, it really was astonishing.

02:38And I hope it wins everything it deserves,

02:40because it's just brilliant.

02:41How did you feel when you watched it?

02:43Have you sat down on your own and just soaked it all in?

02:46Yeah.

02:47I sat with my son, my husband and a friend,

02:51and I think from the moment the sound came,

02:55the sound was...

02:57The score, I think, is phenomenal.

02:59And listening to him explain how he did the instruments,

03:02he had people moan into the instrument

03:07to create that vibration of a threat,

03:11even before the film starts.

03:13I was on the edge.

03:14And then I think the most beautiful thing

03:17was when my son turned to me and said,

03:19it's the first time I've seen mum on screen.

03:22And I thought, yeah, that makes sense,

03:25because there's no time to create a character.

03:27You know, you just had to be the most real version

03:31of yourself in that moment.

03:33How was the conversation after that?

03:35Because I think if I watched it with my mum,

03:37I think I'd be panicking.

03:38I'd be worried about it happening.

03:42Well, it's like panicking about the black hole,

03:46in a sense that it's a threat that's always been there.

03:50It is, to be honest, the scary part is,

03:53since the moment she made the film and it came out,

03:55so many horrible things have happened

03:57that are very much involved

03:58when it comes to nuclear weapons and threats,

04:00and all of a sudden now the information feels different.

04:06Now it feels heavier.

04:10But he also knows that he's very safe.

04:13My son lives in an area where he's very fortunate.

04:15He goes to bed safe as it is right now.

04:18You know?

04:19He's got a very cool mum.

04:20He really has.

04:21A very lovely mum.

04:22When you are in real life, you've got to stay calm, I guess.

04:25But what really annoys you?

04:27Silly things.

04:28Because for me it's like people walk slowly,

04:30people put their feet on chairs.

04:33You know, what really stresses you out?

04:35I think I have a real zero tolerance to stupid comments.

04:47Stupidity.

04:49Like, people who are not...

04:52I'm all for people's belief system,

04:56and I myself hug trees.

04:58I don't follow books.

04:59I don't follow anything like that.

05:00But I'm all for it.

05:01As long as you don't take it further,

05:02you harm other people.

05:03But any depicting of pushing down on any form of sexuality

05:10or race or people,

05:12I have zero tolerance.

05:14Amen.

05:15Like, zero.

05:17I love that.

05:18And what about if you were going to be stuck with somebody

05:20and you needed them to calm you down,

05:21who would you pick?

05:22Someone who would calm me down?

05:24Yeah.

05:25My son.

05:27My son is incredible.

05:29Like, kudos to his dad, who basically raised him,

05:33because I was working a lot.

05:35I remember a moment where we had a big alteration...

05:39altercation?

05:40Altercation?

05:41On the family group, something.

05:42Something happened, and it felt bullish,

05:45and I was angry.

05:46And I was sitting with my phone, and he went,

05:48Right, Mum, here we go.

05:49Let's put that over there.

05:50Let's make a cup of a t-shirt.

05:51Go for a walk.

05:52Let's not be irrational when we're angry, right?

05:54Let's think.

05:55And I was like, your 18, mate.

05:58Yeah.

05:59Can I have his number?

06:01That's weird.

06:02I'm sorry.

06:03I just need someone to calm me down.

06:05He sounds like a good therapist.

06:07No, Isaac, he's phenomenal.

06:08He's so...

06:10He's the new era of the kids we are raising today,

06:14who doesn't understand why we just don't understand

06:18the lay of the land.

06:20What's the problem?

06:22You know, he's a she.

06:23What does it matter?

06:24He's a them, them's a they.

06:25What do you care?

06:26Yeah.

06:27Yeah.

06:28What's the big deal?

06:29We need to take a leave out there, but don't we?

06:30He's phenomenal.

06:31Yes, we do.

06:32I mean, we really do.

06:33Oh, we love it.

06:34And you mentioned earlier about comedy, lightheartedness.

06:37What are we pitching you in then?

06:38What can we pitch to a director?

06:39Oh, mate.

06:40Come on.

06:41What do you think?

06:42La La Land 2?

06:44Or not.

06:46Or something else.

06:47Why did La La Land go?

06:48I love it.

06:49Oh, I love it.

06:50I mean, I love Emma.

06:51Anything Emma Stone's in, I'll just be a little ball plank to her.

06:54I'll give her a call.

06:56Yeah, call Emma.

06:57I'll just be anywhere next to her, like her little Sebastian to Ariel.

07:02Need to see that.

07:03Thank you very much indeed.

07:04Great to speak to you.

07:05Thank you very much indeed.

07:06Great to speak to you.

07:07Thank you very much indeed.

07:08Great to speak to you.

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