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Leo Woodall chats to Melissa Nathoo about new film Tuner, hidden talents, shucking oysters and getting cast in the new Lord of the Rings movie. Report by Nathoom. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00I don't know what I can tell you, too, you know.
00:02I don't want to do a Tom Holland and say it spoil everything.
00:07That is fair enough. No one wants to do that.
00:09I give Tom a really hard time about that all the time.
00:11Leo, it's always lovely to see you.
00:13I love that you're so busy, because then I do get to chat to you lots.
00:16Working with an icon in this one, in Dustin, who will always be hook to me, the best hook.
00:22Understandable.
00:23You, at this point in your career, do not need acting advice of anyone,
00:27but I'm curious whether he imparted any, like, words of wisdom on you
00:31or what it was like just hanging out with someone like him.
00:34I tried to be as much of a sponge as humanly possible around him.
00:40He tried to, yeah, he wanted to instill little bits here and there
00:48of how to navigate this industry and also, you know, the craft of acting.
00:55He treats every take like a rehearsal, which is a good, a really good piece of advice.
01:01But I also, I didn't want to, I didn't want to poke him too much and, you know,
01:04disturb his process, because, you know, he's at work too.
01:07But it was just a complete joy to be around him.
01:10I bet. I bet.
01:11I feel like every film that you go on, you're, like, learning something new.
01:16Like, prime target, you're a maths expert here.
01:19Like, you can distinguish musical notes and tune a piano and all sorts.
01:24Um, what would you say is the best skill that you have learnt through doing movies and TV?
01:30Shucking oysters.
01:32Shucking oysters.
01:33Shucking oysters.
01:34What does it, I don't even, I don't know.
01:37It's, it's, it's to get the little oyster knife and pop open oysters.
01:42Okay.
01:43That's the most useful.
01:44Do you eat a lot of oysters?
01:46Okay.
01:47But get cracking a safe.
01:49If you can shuck a oyster, you can get through life.
01:52Honestly, it's, it's a really satisfying skill.
01:55Fair enough.
01:55To shuck an oyster well is, is incredibly, uh, gratifying.
01:58Fair enough.
01:59Do you also then have any, um, hidden talents that we don't know about?
02:03Like, to look at your character in here, you wouldn't know that he could crack a safe.
02:07You couldn't, you wouldn't know that he could distinguish those musical notes.
02:11Do you have anything about you that we don't know?
02:13Oh, there's plenty.
02:14But, um, hidden talents, I'm not, I'm not sure.
02:18I keep telling people that I'm really good at throwing stuff into bins and that's kind
02:22of, is now starting to make the rounds.
02:24But then they asked me to prove it.
02:26I would.
02:26If I had something that you could throw into a bin right now.
02:29I don't see a bin and I don't see anything thrown.
02:31You have been saved.
02:33You have been saved.
02:35Was I correct in thinking that he, when he, in the film, did he watch, like, YouTube
02:39videos initially to, like, learn how to crack the safe?
02:43Yeah.
02:44Are you like that?
02:45Are you someone who likes to learn things yourself, watch those YouTube videos and do
02:49it yourself?
02:49Or do you like to, like, just get someone in?
02:51Because I felt really proud.
02:53I watched a YouTube video on how to repressurize my boiler and I did that and I felt very accomplished.
02:58Mm.
02:59What are you like?
03:00Do you?
03:00I think I'm, I'm, I'm similar.
03:03I, um, old me probably not, but, but I like, you know, every day in life is an opportunity
03:11to, to learn something new.
03:13It is.
03:14And I think it's, you know, in today's technology, it's so advanced that it's, you can, I find
03:23myself every day.
03:24What have you learned off YouTube, would you say?
03:26Not how to crack safe.
03:27You mean it's not on YouTube?
03:29It is actually on YouTube.
03:30Yeah, I was just going to, you can actually go on YouTube and learn how to crack safe.
03:33Yeah.
03:34It's not encouraging anyone to do that.
03:35No, let's not.
03:36What's, uh, what's old Leo like, by the way?
03:38You're saying this is new Leo?
03:41Old Leo probably would have just not bothered.
03:43Okay.
03:44Whereas I'm more curious now as a, as a.
03:46Fair, fair enough.
03:47And listen, I love to see nice people win.
03:50And you're one of those nice people.
03:52Like, I love seeing that you are so booked and busy all the time.
03:54So I can't deny that I'm super excited about you being in Lord of the Rings.
03:58Oh, thanks.
03:59Super excited.
04:00How are you feeling about that?
04:01I'm, I'm, I'm, same as you.
04:02I'm so excited.
04:04It's a boy dream of me, of mine.
04:06Is it Halvart?
04:07Halvart?
04:07Is that a new, completely new character?
04:09It's pretty much, yeah.
04:10Okay.
04:11He doesn't exist in, in any of the trilodies.
04:14So you can't tell us anything about.
04:15I don't know what I'm, I can tell you.
04:17I don't want, I don't want to do it Tom Holland and say it spoil everything.
04:22That is fair enough.
04:23No one wants to do that.
04:24I give Tom a really hard time about that all the time.
04:26I know I love him, I love him as well.
04:27But I love seeing you doing well, Leah.
04:30I really do.
04:31So I'm sure I will see you very, very soon.
04:34It's so good to see you.
04:35Love to see you.
04:36Take care.
04:37Bye.
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