00:00I always felt like I've known him for so long, but I've actually never met him.
00:05Great to see you again.
00:06And you.
00:08Congratulations on this movie.
00:09First and foremost, an update of life for me.
00:11My two-year-old, thanks to his older brothers now, so obsessed with your Harry Potter films.
00:16No way.
00:16That I've seen you grow up in your entirety about three times in the last month.
00:20The last time in French.
00:21Oh, absolutely.
00:22Oh, really?
00:23In French?
00:23Yeah, because my missus is French.
00:25Oh, that's interesting.
00:26So she likes to put things on like that, and he's seen it enough in English now.
00:29And is it dubbed?
00:30Is it dubbed?
00:31Yeah, I think I've met the guy.
00:32Yeah.
00:32I was going to ask, have you ever met any of your foreign counterparts?
00:35Yeah.
00:35It's an interesting job.
00:37He kind of follows me on even things outside of Potter.
00:41Yeah, yeah.
00:42I think he's just my boy.
00:43So he'll do the same stuff for you?
00:44Yeah.
00:44Oh, that's cool.
00:45Must have good money in that, I think.
00:47It's a bit of pressure as well to keep working.
00:49Yeah, yeah.
00:50I bet.
00:51Those movies are obviously a big Christmas tradition for a lot of people.
00:55But this is your first time kind of going whole holly, so to speak.
00:59Yeah.
00:59So do you think it was just time to tick that box off and get a real Christmas movie made?
01:03Yeah, I guess so.
01:04But it's weird.
01:04I never really think of Harry Potter as a Christmas movie, but it is one that, I guess
01:09there is a Christmas scene.
01:12And I think over the years it has become kind of one of those.
01:15I think because it just, I think they were coming out towards that time of year.
01:19Or they'd be like, the first time they'd be on TV, like terrestrial TV, would be like Christmas
01:23Day.
01:23And then I think it just became a thing.
01:26Yeah.
01:26That's, yeah.
01:27I think that's great.
01:29I mean, it is.
01:31It was, yeah, they're very kind of cosy and kind of, I get it.
01:36Yeah, I love Christmas.
01:37I bet.
01:38I'm a fan.
01:38Is that the reason why you saw this and thought, let's, let's sign me on to that.
01:42I've not done a real Christmas movie yet.
01:44Let's just throw yourself in.
01:45Or is it the Dickensian aspect of it?
01:48I mean, it's such a legendary story.
01:49I mean, it's all of these things.
01:50It's a story that I think everyone is, it's so kind of ingrained in our lives really.
01:58Everyone can understand it as well.
01:59It's got such a simple kind of structure and kind of payoff.
02:04It's, yeah, it's just great storytelling.
02:06I think this is a really interesting version because it's, it's very kind of authentic Dickensian,
02:11the kind of bleakness of the Victorian era.
02:15And you really kind of get a sense of kind of that kind of hard hardship.
02:20Yeah.
02:21But yeah, I mean, and Johnny and Ty directing, I think it's just all kind of came together as something
02:29that was kind of irresistible.
02:32Yeah.
02:32I was going to ask what the main attraction to the film was, but I think anyone who watches the
02:36first five minutes and gets to see how much screen time you get to share with Saree and McKellen, like
02:40probably one of the greatest actors.
02:42Yeah.
02:42Who's ever lived.
02:43That must be a big tick off the bucket list.
02:46Yeah.
02:47No, it really was.
02:48It's someone I've always felt like I've known him for so long, but I've actually never met him.
02:54And it was, yeah, he was just so sweet.
02:56And I mean, quite daunting being on set with both of them.
02:59And I had a couple of scenes where I was kind of literally just us three and it was, yeah,
03:05I was quite starstruck.
03:07To be on the opposite end of like a withering remark from possibly the greatest wizard of all time.
03:14Who knows?
03:15I wouldn't argue with that.
03:18Obviously, Johnny, there's a lot of talk around Johnny's kind of return to cinema in Hollywood, in movies like this.
03:26Discussions for another day and other people, I think.
03:29But how much of a sense of how important this movie was to him did you get working on it?
03:35Yeah.
03:35Well, I think Johnny is one of those actors, he just throws himself into things so deep.
03:40And he does completely transform, like in a lot of the characters that he's done.
03:46It's just so, he's so immersive and just, I actually never saw him out of makeup.
03:56Which is kind of strange.
03:58But he was, yeah, great.
04:00Just so kind of mischievous as well.
04:02Yeah.
04:02He had a real like devil in him where he was like, you never really knew what he was going
04:06to do.
04:07Which was really fun to kind of play with.
04:11And Ty West's directing.
04:13I don't know if you, have you seen his Maxine movies?
04:15They're really good.
04:16They're really good.
04:17I don't mean to sound shocked, but I think people see that stuff and they're like, oh, this might just
04:20be one of those.
04:21It's just a normal horror movie.
04:22But they're really interesting and kind of wicked and quite funny and very dark.
04:26Yeah.
04:27You've seen, I really want to see Nightborne because that looks absolutely bananas.
04:31Oh, yes.
04:31But it does feel like you're really carved out this home yourself in these creepy, creepy sort of horror adjacent
04:38projects.
04:40Yeah.
04:40Is that just, is that just happenstance or is it something that you really look for in kind of, whether
04:48the filmmakers you work with, the scripts that you get.
04:50Is that the thing that just gets you rocks off kind of thing?
04:53Yeah.
04:53I do like that genre.
04:55I am drawn to it.
04:57I like a horror.
04:59But no, it's not a deliberate thing.
05:01It just has happened.
05:04I don't know why.
05:06But I don't know.
05:07Yeah.
05:08I mean, this also kind of plays into it.
05:11It could almost read as a horror.
05:12It's this old guy being traumatized by ghosts.
05:19So, yeah, I mean, there's definitely elements.
05:21It's such a good fit for Ty, I think.
05:24His kind of visuals as well, his style, I think, really kind of suits this world.
05:30And he had such a specific kind of vision.
05:33And he was, I love working with him.
05:35Well, the ghosts are particularly creepy in this one.
05:38I love the idea of a Rupert Grint box set in the future, which starts off really wholesome.
05:41And then the whole back end is just like, and this is all the death and all the blood.
05:45Yeah.
05:46That would be a good Christmas present.
05:46Yes, they would, yeah.
05:48Well, in the meantime, I won't say that when we record this, but Merry Christmas.
05:52Merry Christmas.
05:52Hope you have an absolutely cracking one man.
05:54Yeah, and you.
05:55And I'll let you know how many more languages I see you growing up in.
05:58Yes.
05:59Yes.
05:59Let me know.
06:00Cheers for that.
06:01Love it.
