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Callum Turner sat down with The Hollywood Reporter to reflect on his "Hollywood Firsts," from the first time he felt starstruck to the first film that truly inspired him to become an actor. Plus, he shares his first memories from 'Masters of the Air,' 'Tramps' and more.

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00:00The first time that I truly felt like I knew what I was doing was probably on
00:05Masters of the Air. On Masters of the Air I felt completely in my flow and
00:11adventurous and courageous and just in my boots I guess.
00:16Hi, I'm Callum Turner and these are some of my Hollywood firsts.
00:26One of the first films I saw in the cinemas was Free Willy when I was a kid and I
00:32just
00:32remember being blown away by the story of it and how sad it was and then I would continue
00:39to watch that movie over and over and over on the videotapes on the VHS's.
00:44I think my mum's seen that movie because of me probably like 25 times.
00:47The first time I was starstruck was definitely when I was a kid and meeting Marcel Desailly
00:54and John Frank González, Chelsea players, because that's what I was obsessed with when I was a kid.
01:03The first job that I ever got was, I was 15 and my mum made a CV for me because
01:10she was
01:10determined for me to get a job and go and see the world.
01:13Well, she got me an interview at Fulham Football Club shop.
01:16So it was the rival team to my team.
01:19At half time I could go down to the stadium and I could watch the games.
01:23So I had access into the thing and I would pretend that I would play for Fulham and pretend
01:27that I was a youth team player.
01:29So I guess there was some acting involved there and I sat in every single stand in Craven Cottage because
01:36of that.
01:41The film that inspired me, the first, like, kernel of desire was I saw this film called A Room for
01:49Romeo Brass.
01:51And I'd been sent down to Prime Time, which is kind of our blockbusters, to get a VHS for the
01:58night.
01:58And I came back with that and I don't know why they let me have it.
02:01There's a Shane Meadows movie, it's an extremely violent movie.
02:04I was only about 10 or 11.
02:06We put it on, no one knew what was coming.
02:08And then we got to a certain part and Paddy Constantine's in it.
02:12And it's phenomenal, phenomenal and really dangerous and alive and scary.
02:18And I think it was the first time that I was scared by someone on a TV set, you know.
02:22I always think of that moment as being like a light bulb moment.
02:27But I had this, I was talking about this the other day too.
02:30When I was 11 or 12, in school we were studying, in drama, we were studying Romeo and Juliet.
02:37And the Baz Luhrmann, Romeo and Juliet.
02:39And the first, the opening monologue in Fair Verona where we set our scene, two households.
02:47And at the end of that speech, the teacher would turn off the TV.
02:50And I was like, why are you turning it off?
02:53Let's just keep going.
02:54I want to watch the film.
02:55But we had to study the speech and I just couldn't.
02:58It was a great injustice that we were stopping the film for me.
03:01And I think those two moments combined probably were the earliest.
03:06As an English person, we're brought up with America as our sort of big brother or big sister.
03:14And the culture is bled into our society.
03:19And I remember when I was 21 or 22 and I flew to LA and I was like, oh wow,
03:26this is it.
03:26This is the place.
03:28So it wasn't necessarily a first, you know, a moment of, oh, that's someone or this is something.
03:36But just being there and being invited to be there felt like a real gift, a real luxury.
03:43I did this movie called Tramps with Adam Leon and it was my first American lead.
03:49It was 2015.
03:50That was the film that I felt like an actor on.
03:54That was the first time I felt I have an idea of what I'm doing here.
03:58And this is exactly what I want to be doing.
04:00My first time on a red carpet.
04:03My first time on a proper red carpet, I think, was like a big one for a film of mine.
04:09It was Only Living Boy in New York and it was in New York.
04:13We had the premiere.
04:14It was there and it was me and Jeff Bridges and the other guys from the cast.
04:18It was just a great night.
04:19What happened the first time I was recognized?
04:21Oh, I don't know.
04:23I just remember at the beginning when people started to recognize me, being with my mum
04:30and seeing how surreal that was for her, you know, watching her reaction to that.
04:34The best bit of advice that I ever got, because I can't think of some Hollywood advice that I ignored,
04:41but the best bit of advice that I ever got was dance to the rhythm of your own beat, you
04:46know.
04:47And find your beat.
04:49It's really important to understand what your frequency is and then go get it, you know.
04:56And that could be anything.
04:57If you want to be, you know, on the stage, go be on the stage.
05:02If you want to do soaps, go do soaps.
05:04If you want to do films, go do films and just be true to yourself.
05:08And I think that's the best bit of advice that I've ever got.
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