00:00yeah how you doing great nice to see you my friend god what a what a what a ride it's been crazy
00:06yeah it's been mad i sort of um this feels like kind of coming up to the end of award season in
00:11a way in in the u.s and i'm kind of sad it's over i feel kind of like quite reflective today and
00:16quite like oh wow the train is coming to a stop and it's quite sad but it couldn't have gone any
00:22better and i've just loved my time out here i'm quite emotional today i feel quite like vulnerable
00:26it's weird it's weird you vulnerable come on yeah i know i know it's uh but yeah no it's it's a mad
00:33time and it feels real uh it feels special i'll never forget the past six months i won't forget
00:38it either and i won't forget sitting in my seat at some of these award shows watching you
00:42get up there um and deliver these powerful speeches about about storytelling and algorithms and you
00:50know and and and sort of embracing original storytelling tell me how those landed when
00:56you got off stage i think people are quite grateful for them i i think baby reindeer bucked
01:00a trend that was becoming quite widespread i think in television of of stuff that kind of was was quite
01:05mainstream like catch all storytelling let's capture big audiences keep them keep them and i
01:10think that baby reindeer was a very unique story and it was very idiosyncratic it was very dark it's
01:14very challenging but it captured as big an audience as all these other shows did and i think as a
01:18result because i think people in television really want to tell stories that are different and new and
01:22exciting and challenging but i think for a while they perhaps felt like they didn't and i think
01:26baby reindeer's opened the door for that so i think people are very grateful for the fact that i've said
01:30these things and i just believe that it is possible to tell almost every story and and not feel like
01:37you're compromising audience and stuff like that that i i just um i just think it's just important
01:42that we in in a world that's ever-changing and increasingly challenging that we capture um really
01:48i don't interesting challenging stories at the same time and one of the other joys about this season is
01:54seeing you speeches aside just seeing how much you're a fan of so many people and you've you know
01:59told me a couple times the people you got to meet you got to meet john ham you got to meet some
02:03people you really like tell me who's your been your favorite sort of fellow star that you've met or
02:09somebody that's that or somebody that came up to you and said man i love baby rain yeah i i've met
02:15so many people like so many famous people that these past these past little while that it blows
02:20my mind that they sort of know who i am and they they've watched the show it's kind of crazy i remember
02:25getting a video message from john cena i thought that was really cool elton john phoned me i had a long
02:30chat with elton john he was a gentleman and just lovely and i love his music and and everything like
02:35that and um but you know people i i remember like uh i i could i could leave me so john ham was an
02:41absolute pleasure i remember uh rita aura was lovely um yeah it's it's mad i i could list you so many but
02:48people have been really kind to me and i i i really i really uh i'm very grateful for it actually uh and
02:54richard you bulked up you bulked up since the last time i saw you tell me how did you do it how are you
02:59feeling how's the shoot going well the shoot is actually i'm here for a weekend so i'm shooting right now
03:05and i flew over for the weekend i'm flying back so i'm absolutely exhausted i'm very jet-lagged as i
03:09stand here but yeah i bulked up it's the opposite of baby reindeer where i lost like a third of my
03:12body weight to do that role so i'm now bulking up i did a kind of dirty bulk and now i'm having to
03:17trim the fat so i'm not eating many carbs and i'm actually like trying to trim the fat i'm doing a
03:20lot of cardio so i'm pretty pretty exhausted right now in fact i did a two-hour workout this morning
03:25while uh getting off a flight and having about four hours sleep so uh yeah it's great what is a dirty
03:30bulk that means you just eat trash you eat a bunch of junk you eat very high protein very high carb
03:34your body grow i don't really know the science behind it but that's just what i did and i i
03:38ballooned very very quickly uh i would the time was not on our side um i was weighing up whether
03:43to be in this or just oversee it from an extent point of view and then suddenly i was going to be
03:47in it it required the character to be big and scary so um so yeah so i it was like time was of the
03:53essence so it was cram a lot of food and work out a hell of a lot and then lose the fat later and it's a
03:58an action thing for the bbc yeah i wouldn't say action it's still my usual dark travail through
04:04life kind of thing but it's it's um it's got jamie bell in it it's for the bbc and hbo it's a
04:09co-pro and it's a six-part series it's about two kind of dysfunctional brothers i'm not sure how much
04:15i'm allowed to say but i'm excited about it it's full-on it's intense but i'm i'm really hoping it's
04:19i really just want it to be good you know i imagine that's taking all your time for right now but are
04:24you writing other stuff at the moment no i've got ideas in the works i've got like things i'm
04:29talking about for the future i think i'll do this show because i finished baby ranger on the 14th of
04:33december 2023 and then i started this show on the 14th of december and so i've done two shows back
04:40to back really intense so i'll take a break and then i'll reset a little bit and then i'll see what's
04:45next and can i ask you like a cultural question you know as somebody who lives overseas what is
04:51everybody thinking of america right now it's an interesting question i think people are naturally
04:56kind of concerned the world is in such a state of flux flux sorry did i say box but the world is in
05:04such a sort of state of flux right now it's very hard to determine what is going to happen i think
05:09the world is just so polarized right now and polemical i i just saw it's almost quite quite hard to even
05:16grasp what is going on half the time i think europe's obviously very very nervous about what's
05:20happening now uh obviously uh the u.s being such a partner of of europe and such a uh such close
05:26allies everyone talks about the uk and that special relationship and so there feels to be a bit of a
05:30splitting about a bit of a but but you never know like you kind of never know with trump like what is
05:35kind of going on but i i i yeah i think i think the whole world is maybe a bit concerned right now
05:40yeah gotta end somewhere lighter richard gad that was heavy it's a saturday morning what would you
05:47normally be doing on a saturday what would be your ideal saturday well what i'd normally be doing is
05:52writing and working and doing the usual um it's honestly 24 7 right now what would i ideally be
05:58doing oh it's a good probably playing a game of uh football or soccer as you say kicking some a ball
06:05all about with some friends
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