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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