00:00Just met Draco. Just met a little boy, not a little boy, he's a young man, plays Draco, and that
00:04was a strange feeling.
00:05Hello, my friend. The last time I saw you was at the HBO, and it was absolutely freezing. Do you
00:09remember over there?
00:10It was, I was there for all four minutes.
00:12The white lotus, and that made me cry. Let's talk about what you're doing. So many things. Tomb Raider, can
00:17you tell me anything about it?
00:19No. The secrecy is extraordinary. In order to just read the script, you have to download and then submit a
00:25DNA sample, and they hold your children in a basement somewhere.
00:27Wow, incredible. Are you enjoying it?
00:30I can tell you I'm enjoying it. There you go. How about that?
00:32What about the new Harry Potter stuff? Are you excited about seeing that on TV?
00:34Just met Draco. Just met a little boy, not a little boy, he's a young man, plays Draco, and that
00:38was a strange feeling, meeting him and having a little hug and a photo.
00:41Isn't it lovely that it's the new generation that gets to enjoy this all over again?
00:44I mean, look, the stories are really Joe's stories from the books, and so the fact that it's a television
00:48series and it was filmed, really, it's just bringing that world to people.
00:51And I've met so many people over the decades now for whom it's been a massive part of their lives.
00:55They have weddings, themed all the whole house, or their whole life, frankly, is themed around Harry Potter houses or
00:59characters.
01:00And it's a privilege to be any part of something so positive because there's quite a lot of negative stuff
01:05going on in the world at the moment, you may have noticed.
01:06Yeah, you must be very cool in your family, though. I mean, you've been in some pretty cool things.
01:09Very opposite.
01:10The last thing you ever want as a young person is that people want to talk to you because your
01:15dad is in Harry Potter films.
01:17My kids wish I was an accountant or a baker.
01:19No!
01:20Yeah, they hate everything about it.
01:21You dropped them at school without anyone wanting to?
01:23Well, they're 20 and 24, so it'd be strange if I dropped them at school.
01:26But no, they did not like having a dad who was in Harry Potter at all, and it ruined Harry
01:30Potter for them, of course, because there was no point in them watching it because I was in it.
01:34And White Lotus, anything next? Can you tease anything?
01:37About the next season of White Lotus?
01:38Yes, I could, but then I would never be employed by anybody in the entertainment industry again.
01:42And if you can plonk yourself in any TV show, old or new, what are you going into?
01:46West Wing. West Wing is the best show I've ever made.
01:48It took the most important issues of the world and it made them personal and dramatic and emotional and funny.
01:53And it's still so prevalent today, isn't it?
01:54Yeah.
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