00:00Con?
00:03Buongiorno!
00:11Chi è lei? Questa Nelly Jackson?
00:17È una fuori legge, una brigata!
00:19So, a first glance, we could see Nelly as a sort of Peter Pan mixed with Captain Hook talking to
00:29a male Tinkerbell
00:30with the three villains very similar to Anakin Skywalker turning into Darth Vader.
00:38So, I'd love to ask you, how did you prepare for your roles?
00:43I mean, did you have any source of inspiration? And which part of the show did you like the most
00:51to shoot?
00:57I prepared for the role by just working on the script, trying to find like punchlines, trying to look for
01:09the characters like objectives, obviously.
01:13But they were quite ambiguous because the character is a little bit sort of volatile, I suppose.
01:22So, his ultimate objectives ended up being quite absurd.
01:26So, finding them and doing them was sort of enough. It kept me busy, really.
01:32Yeah.
01:33I mean, it was, Sally's writing is so good and giving that preparing characters is very easy.
01:45So, then you just have to, for me anyway, I feel like I have to do my technical job as
01:51an actor preparing, which is know the words.
01:54Know the words and get to the point as if I'm saying them as if they're mine, obviously.
01:59Oh, my God.
01:59Do you know what I'm doing? Am I breaking? Am I creating a new method?
02:04That's great.
02:05I think I just...
02:06You know your lines, you're right.
02:07Number one.
02:07I think I created a new method.
02:10But, genuinely, I have to, I have to know them backwards.
02:13Yeah, I agree.
02:14I have to, otherwise I, you know, and the rest, I think with good writing, it does it for you.
02:21Yeah.
02:22It's so funny just picking up on what Angie said is that it's, you go to some jobs and you
02:28say a line and they're like, no, you missed out.
02:32There is.
02:33And other jobs are fine when you sort of, you know, make it up a bit more or improvise.
02:41So, you never know.
02:42So, I'm with you and you really have to know your lines very, very perfectly.
02:50But then there's also, for me, you know, then there's the costume fittings.
02:54Yeah.
02:54Then there's the hair and makeup.
02:56And then you sort of start to see this character coming together.
03:00And then there are your fellow actors.
03:02And then there's the direction.
03:04So, you kind of put all that in a blender and come out with the end result and the editor,
03:11obviously.
03:11We were talking earlier how, in some ways, we're not responsible for our performances, just a bit of them.
03:20We're collaborating with other artists who, yeah, their fingerprints are all over it when you, when it comes out as
03:27much as ours.
03:29Fantastic.
03:31And, Joely, Frank, I have to say, I love your subplots.
03:36I really love it.
03:38I think it's hilarious and you were great.
03:41But what I really loved about it was the message beneath it.
03:46I mean, the power of the media, in this case, the print, to control our mind, to control our thoughts.
03:53And what I also think is very interesting in Renegade Now is how most of the characters, in order to
04:02survive, they pretend to be someone else.
04:05They get a fake accent, a fake name, and they play another role.
04:11So, I'd like to ask you, do you think that nowadays, do we boast much more freedom in being ourselves
04:21or, as Shakespeare said, the world is still staged and we continue to put a mask on and to pretend
04:30to be someone else in order to be much more likable or accepted by our society?
04:36Gosh, that is a question and a half.
04:40I'm going to do my answer quickly.
04:43I think that's a brilliant question.
04:45I think in terms of the Jacobean times in the 18th century, so many characters did take on personas or
04:55disguises.
04:55I think nowadays there's enormous strength in being yourself.
05:03I think we've all fallen down.
05:06We can all fall down the rabbit hole of personas, looks, but actually the one thing that pierces people is
05:16the note of truth in someone's voice or the look in their eye, and nothing has that power.
05:23Yeah, the eyes are like the mirrors.
05:26Well, it's just, I think there's a vibration to truth, my truth.
05:32My truth isn't the truth, but there's a vibration that pierces people.
05:36And that, I think most people are struggling right now, and we just all want that connection, which is through
05:46authenticity is the easiest currency.
05:52I just think of this Bob Dylan, when he used to wear, he wore face paint at one point, and
05:56they said to him like, I'm going to butcher the saying, but he was like, he said something like, you
06:02know, if someone's wearing face paint, you know, they're going to tell you the truth.
06:06If someone, you know, is not wearing face paint, probably they're going to be lying to you.
06:11So there's some sort of like, identity truth in dressing up or in character, you can, you know, people often
06:19think with acting that we're like liars.
06:21But I think it's the opposite.
06:22I feel like actors are, it's like about uncovering the truth, you know, and just because you've got a different
06:30name or a different, you know, hairstyle doesn't mean, but I mean, do we believe in the self?
06:35I mean, you know, maybe there is no such thing, even so there's, there's all that as well.
06:40But that's a bit heavy for right now.
06:44No, I feel like you believe in the self.
06:49I feel like you both have covered that, covered the extension, put it beautifully as well.
06:54But I think it is funny, that thing about actors, when they say to us, right, they say, oh, yeah,
06:58you're an actor, so you can sort of fake it.
07:01It's like, no, I can't fake it. It's like, I'm a terrible liar.
07:04Yeah. Or they think you're exhibitionist.
07:07And so if someone's playing a game and you have to get up in front of the room, but that
07:12would be fun.
07:13That's actually my idea of, you know, awful.
07:15Yeah, I agree. There's a misconception there.
07:17Yeah.
07:19I don't know if that answers your question.
07:22You're being a bit quiet.
07:23No, I'm enjoying it. I'm enjoying it.
07:26Do you like, do you like, do you think that we can fake it in real life?
07:32No, I really agree with, I really agree with what you were saying about that our job is the truth.
07:39That's what we deal in, rather.
07:42But I do, it's hard.
07:45And even the mask, who's to say that the mask isn't truthful?
07:51There's a utility in finding yourself through that.
07:55Yeah.
07:56So it's a, it's a really interesting question.
07:59I just don't think I'll have an answer for you in a couple of minutes as well.
08:03We need a conference on this question.
08:06I think maybe you should run it.
08:08Yes.
08:09So I await you here in Italy and we can discuss all together.
08:14Okay.
08:15There you go.
08:16Okay.
08:16Our school piece is a very special question.
08:17We'll see you later.
08:19See you later.
08:20Yeah.
08:20What do you say?
08:21Even me?
08:23Come on?
08:24No no no.
08:25I don't know.
08:25Ah no no no no no.
08:26Ah, buongiorno as you can say.
08:27Yeah yeah, exactly. Buongiorno.
08:30Ah, bah ah, bah ah, bah that's good.
08:31Yeah, that's great.
08:33So thank you so much, I really love talking to you.
08:36Grazie.
08:37Grazie, grazie.
08:38Grazie mille.
08:43Se non hai sentito parlare di Nelly Jackson
08:45Allora sei l'unica persona in Inghilterra
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