00:00Hi Jonathan, it's good to speak with you again. What is it like to be here celebrating the BAFTAs and the TV industry as a whole?
00:08It's great, it's great. And it's great that I've been nominated twice, which is good, for two shows that are brilliant.
00:17Slow Horses and the Crown. The other show I was involved in, Three Body Problem, is also up for awards, in the Creative Awards.
00:26So I'm having a great time, it's good.
00:30Is this your first event of the weekend, or did you hit up any of the Emmys events?
00:35I was here last weekend for the Creative Awards, because my category is presented at those awards.
00:42So I did, there wasn't so much TV coverage of those.
00:49So no, today the BAFTA Tea Party is the first one this weekend.
00:52Yeah, I know, I love that. Well, this is a tea party, and a lot of people have called this one of the best parties of the weekend.
01:00What do you think makes the BAFTAs so fun?
01:02Well, I'll let you know later if it's one of the best parties.
01:06Is there something in the tea? What's going on?
01:07I don't know. I have not been to one for, oh God, 10, 11 years.
01:11Oh wow.
01:12Yeah, yeah.
01:13Yeah, I love that.
01:14And then they were out in the opening, it was a tea party, I think.
01:17I see, I see.
01:19You know, this is of course the last season for The Crown as well, because it ended, so is it a bittersweet feeling to head into the Emmys knowing that it's the last time?
01:29And was it kind of emotional saying goodbye to your time as Prince Philip?
01:33It was briefly emotional, yeah.
01:36I didn't expect it to be, because, you know, when you're making something and it's sad or emotional, you want the audience to be crying and not you crying.
01:44But as I said my farewell on screen to Imelda as the Queen and saying, say a prayer for me, and I walk off into the sunset.
01:54There was a little choke in my throat, yeah, definitely.
01:59But it was a good emotional feeling, because the series is so good and was so good.
02:07Yeah.
02:08Do you feel like it ended at the right time?
02:10I think so, we were getting closer and closer to present day, and more and more criticism that it wasn't, you know, historically or factually correct.
02:23Whereas the shows, earlier shows, they'd been, they were history, they were learning lessons from people.
02:30Now people know what it's like, you know.
02:32So I think it's a good time to finish with around Diana's death and just beyond.
02:36Yeah, of course.
02:37You are nominated for Slow Horses.
02:39I wanted to know, between these two nominations, what are the sort of roles and characters that are intriguing to you as you look to the future and you look for future roles in reading scripts?
02:49I like your optimism that I'm looking for future roles at my age.
02:53Yes, definitely.
02:54Absolutely.
02:55Always.
02:56Always.
02:56Yeah.
02:57They get fewer and fewer, I can tell you.
02:59Um, I, how, how I choose, did you say?
03:03Yeah.
03:05Well, what's interesting is that I, I rarely go out to look for something, um, and I, I, I don't always do what I'm offered, but Crown and Slow Horses, um, I knew nothing about Slow Horses, so they just asked me.
03:21And I read it and I thought, this sounds good.
03:22I've always tried to look for, to do something different, um, and, uh, you know, the Slow Horses character is very different, most people are very different to Prince Philip, whatever you play.
03:34Um, so it's just trying to find something new.
03:37Yeah.
03:38Thank you so much for stopping by and congrats again.
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