00:00Now it's to sit down with Andrew Scott.
00:02Hi, Andrew.
00:03Not going to lie, I went into your new movie, Pressure, thinking one thing
00:07and came out wide-eyed, frantically Googling D-Day and weather.
00:11Is that what happened when you read the script?
00:13That's absolutely what my experience was as well.
00:15And I think for a lot of people, because it's unusual to talk about weather and a war movie
00:22or even weather as a movie subject.
00:24It's like, okay, that sounds fun.
00:26But actually, what I keep coming back to is that weather informs our whole lives.
00:32Every single person has got some awareness of the weather every single day.
00:37Of course we do.
00:38The weather was going to be taken into consideration when you're staging a huge invasion
00:42like the D-Day landings.
00:44D-Day is in 61 hours.
00:47You star alongside Brendan Fraser.
00:49The Brennaissance has been well-documented over the last few years.
00:52As his co-star, why do you think everyone is so taken with him?
00:57Oh, he's the sweetest person, you know.
00:59And I think when people see Brendan Fraser, I think we just like him.
01:02Everybody just loves Brendan.
01:03And we see him and we think, oh, I trust him.
01:06And I think that's obviously very important when you're playing somebody like Ike.
01:09The final decision on the timing of D-Day will be mine and mine alone.
01:14My character is not somebody that is immediately affable or likable.
01:17But hopefully by the end of it, you trust him too.
01:20But they have very, very different cultures.
01:22But they're both men of extreme integrity.
01:25One of the things that I found so wonderful to play about him
01:27was that he's not charming or I didn't want him to be charming.
01:30He was just interested in doing a good job going and doing the thing
01:33and he's not going to bow down to anybody.
01:34If you invade tomorrow, they're going to be washed away.
01:38There's a difference between a good person and a nice person.
01:40You know, somebody can be as affable and chatty as possible
01:46and be a little lily-livered and vice versa.
01:49You can have people who are just not immediately nice
01:51who are very honest and true and full of integrity.
01:55That's just the way of the world, I think.
01:56Lily-livered?
01:57Lily-livered.
01:59That's what I said.
02:01I stand by it.
02:03You have completely blown up since your hot priest days.
02:06How has what you look for in an active project changed since back then?
02:09Um, it's always the script.
02:12It's always the script.
02:12That's where it starts.
02:13You know, I don't think you can make a great movie
02:15if you've got a mediocre script.
02:16I just don't think it's likely for me in some ways.
02:20And, um, yeah, so I've been doing lots of very, very kind of different stuff
02:24and that's the, that's the name of the game for me.
02:27Lily-livered.
02:27Okay, well, we wouldn't mind a romance up next.
02:30Oh, there's one coming.
02:30I've just done one with Emily, with, with, um, Emily Blunt.
02:34The Divine Miss Emily Blunt.
02:36Andrew, thank you so much for being here today.
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