00:01It's so nice to talk to you. I can't believe I'm meeting Dr. Watson. This is fantastic.
00:06And there was a part last night watching the film where Enola's yelling at Dr. Watson and she's like,
00:14you don't understand, you don't understand. And all of a sudden, you look at the camera and you're like,
00:18but I care for him too. And everyone was like, oh my God, they just melted in their seats.
00:23What do you do to prepare to be Dr. Watson?
00:27I had a good period of time, really. You know, I turned up at the end of the second movie
00:31and we shot that about four or five years ago now.
00:34And so I spent that intervening period in the hope that we were going to get to do this third
00:39movie,
00:40just making sure that I understood the character based on the source material.
00:45You know, we all know Sherlock and Watson, you know, been around for over 100 years and I've enjoyed many
00:49versions of it.
00:50But I really wanted to get down to, you know, the source material,
00:53not least because these stories are set at the sort of during that period of time.
00:59So I did a lot of reading the old books,
01:03listening to some of the stories and then doing a bit of research on the sort of the British Empire
01:09at the time
01:10and how it was, how it looked at the time, where it was, that sort of thing,
01:14because I knew that that was kind of the story that we were going to tell.
01:17Was it hard to come out of that character? I mean, you played so many different characters in your career.
01:22But was it hard to come out of Dr. Watson? Did you miss the character?
01:27Yeah. I mean, you always sort of miss your characters when you spend, especially for me,
01:31just owing to my schedule at the time, we shot everything over three weeks.
01:35It was a three week shoot for me. It was like in and out. Yeah.
01:37So, you know, it was a very intense period that I spent and then he was kind of gone.
01:44But, yeah, it was, I did kind of miss it. Yeah.
01:48And I do still kind of hope that maybe I'll get to slip into his shoes again at some point.
01:52I think that would be amazing.
01:54There's a scene where you're following an illness carriage and you're on horseback.
02:00Do you do your own stunts?
02:01I didn't that time.
02:02No, because that was pretty rough.
02:04Yeah. There's a point at which I'm stood next to a horse.
02:09The idea was that I was going to be dismounting the horse.
02:12And it became very apparent very quickly that I'd never been anywhere near a horse in that way.
02:17And so we very much dispensed with the idea.
02:21And suddenly, as you're watching the movie, he's just off the horse suddenly.
02:25All of a sudden.
02:26Yes.
02:26There's no other motion.
02:27There's no cut.
02:28Yeah, yeah.
02:30That's great.
02:30I was thinking about this last night.
02:32How does it feel to be part of a movie that possibly a whole generation really just thinks Enola is
02:40as big as Sherlock?
02:42Do you know what I mean?
02:43Yeah, it's great.
02:43And that's a testament to Millie really believing in this and bringing it to Netflix and building this franchise.
02:51But also, you know, to her talent as an actress, to Henry, to Jack Thorne as a writer.
03:00Obviously, you know, Harry, who directed the first two movies.
03:02And I think Philip's done a beautiful job of taking over the reins and really taking this franchise to the
03:08next level.
03:08I think it's a really great thing for that to be out there, especially just for fans of the stories,
03:13for fans of the original books.
03:15We honor all of that.
03:16It's a different way in.
03:17But I know that it's probably a really important thing for young women out there to see this character.
03:22It is.
03:23Congratulations.
03:24This is amazing.
03:25It was so much fun to watch it.
03:27Thanks.
03:27You're welcome.
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