Will Poulter guests on Films to be Buried With Live! | BFI

I will say one thing before we start write a little secret little behind-the-scenes secret when I usually record the podcast I say to the guests oh if you say anything you you regret or you don't want it or if it's too personal just say well cut that and we'll cut it but now we have witnesses so what I will say is if I say anything cuz I'm not good at small talk if I get too personal or you say something you know horrific or anything we should have a safe word and so you say Titanic and then we stop got it okay yeah right so let's how did you hello well do you like film I do convenient yeah it's good start oh yeah I love films I got to say I'm feel a bit fraudulent cuz I don't class myself as a kind of film buff right now some people like foodies and then they're like film buffs and I just I just like films but I don't think I'm an expert at all so I feel a bit fraudulent by being here but I have watched them since I can remember so that's qualify me you've also been in films and you're excellent I will say that I don't mind it that is very no I don't mind saying it I watched and also watch rewatch to look your stuff before you came on you do have range oh and you have patience um you are like a good-looking john c reilly no disrespect no I do suspect in that oh you can do drama and comedy very well I don't know if I got to be honest any comparisons john c reilly is very welcomed he's a bit of a hero of mine just in terms of being dramatically and comedic ly accomplished i don't know if a comparison is all accurate but I do love john c reilly he appears later in my in our discussions oh yes yeah now i want it before we sort of get on with it like I just want because it's rare that I get a proper film star and I'm very important I'm not I'm not like one serious question to maybe less whose let's start with a less serious one I watched a bit of Chronicles of Narnia which you were in and there was a scene and I don't say this is a joke like I mean as an actor I've done some acting short there was a scene where you were on a on a ship and you were having a sword fight with a CGI Mouse and I thought [ __ ] me that must have been embarrassing I'm the day on the day it looks great and you're very committed and it's excellent but there's lots of extras and it's a big set and I'm assuming you're just going yeah how was that it yeah it sounds like an acid trip yeah I was sword fighting a CGI Mouse on a boat and then yeah the sort of yeah that is sort of them to strip that back it was a it was a ship was it half a ship on a gimbal so it was like rocking like this by the side of the water as opposed to being actually on the water and then the the CGI Mouse was being played by a tennis ball on a stick and on the other end of tennis ball as thick was was a stuntman sort of I think he was all dressed in green as well to be able to kind of CGI him out although problem and he was just sort of running around kind of blindly sort of poking me with a stick and I was running around blindly trying to imagine what it'd be like to sword fight a mouse and at the end of it I lose lose that fight I lose that fight to the mouse and and end up on my ass on a kind of wet ship deck so it was it was a bizarre experience it's one of those things like growing up as a kid you know I used to watch those scenes and not even really truly think about how they construct them just like the mouse is good at fighting you know and then when you do it and you see the mechanics behind it and how kind of painstaking and also awkward and weird it is it kind of slightly ruins it for you but it's also it was also really good fun like do you ever make eye contact with like a background it's mid thinning and they give you a look like I'm sorry yeah all the time is the other thing I wanted to ask you now you are in what I think is when it's well I think it was very well rated but I don't feel it got they love that's it fully deserved I think it's one of the best films in the last few years and that was Detroit give it a clap thank you I felt like Inside the Actors Studio then and then you were in Detroit but Detroit is so [ __ ] good and you are excellent in it and something I thought again that as an actor is there's a very long sequence where you are essentially kind of torturing people and it's really upsetting and a bit long and I was thinking that must have taken a very long time to film that sequence and I wondered what it was like sort of between tags because people are on their knees a lot you're over that you know it's all there's a lot of sort of domination and stuff going on in and everyone's very good but I wondered like when they call cut does everyone get up and go you're right you're right or was it like right everyone step two separate yeah yeah and I'm trying to tastefully manage the amount of the segue here between fighting the the mess on the ship and exactly you know what it was it was I think going into it having all read the script and being educated on the fact that we were representing a real event in history you know an incident that actually happened and resulted in the death of five innocent african-american men the stakes could have been higher as far as paying respect to the reality of the situation and getting the details right and everyone really being locked into faithfully representing what happened but always while being safe and respectful you know to one another and while handling the material key to achieving that I think was preface anaz a cast that we were all going to work as a team and that while everyone had to go to some very dark places emotionally and some you know some difficult challenges lay ahead we had to sort of established that there was mutual respect and mutual love and and appreciation for one another I think that was that was solid foundations to go and play the opposite on the screen if that makes sense I think had we not established that relationship and we'd like done that kind of maybe slightly sort of you know method II thing for one of a better or realer expression of ignoring each other and then meeting on the day and then acting you know hatefully and brutally towards one another I don't think that would have been helpful and I know that sometimes that is the process and people do go about it that way but I'm really proud of the fact that I was part of a cast that showed so much compassion and empathy for each other through those those difficult scenes because it's an amazing amazing group of young people who were on screen and and the best cost I've ever worked with a thing and that's no disrespect to any cast I've been a part of but you know it was it was special to be to be working with with everyone in that film you don't do method you know you know I think we both have I just think when method here's the thing and maybe and granted I'm coming from a place of ignorance and and comparably you know the people who are regarded as method actors or spoken about publicly as method actors far more experienced that than me and have been doing it for long time so I don't want to disrespect anyone I may have fundamentally misunderstood method acting but to me if you're an actor you have a method right in the same way that like you don't go he's a real food chef he's a real food cook you know it's like everyone has a method and and for me I don't care what your method is provided that you respect the person that you work with and work around and you don't ever think that you're more important than the person behind the camera or the person you know running to get the coffee or do you know I mean I think sometimes method acting is used as an excuse to just treat people terribly and then it's like oh did you hear about the terrible things that that person did so all the people we work with what an amazing performance that's it was such a prick that's that's that's that's kind of odd to me and I just think um yeah I think you can be entirely committed to your performance and you couldn't live in your character and you can do all of those things but you should never do it at the expense of how you treat the people around you I think that's that that makes you a wanker I may have a starting up as a wanker for saying that but that is those name names so I will [ __ ] no it's terrible forgotten to tell you something it's awful I haven't told you I should have why I feel awful because we're 50ms e9 should have told you when you got here because it's going to be a shock to you no I'm sorry right oh how am I ever gonna break it to you and Jesus okay list there's only one way of saying I just assistant I come out of it well I'm so sorry but you you died why do you think I'm wearing an undertaker I didn't see that until there's a big sign behind right yeah I died so I saw about this long and hard I did a bit of research into drowning which is which it's not fun it's not fair it's not cheery research there was fun of research attached to this but um I heard you mean research for this book no no and I heard that the drowning well well it is I'm sure incredibly traumatic for them for the most part well it has its downside I hear the like the the sort of the end section the like this of after credits of drowning uh is actually quite euphoric that's why vert and is like maybe one of the best ways to the best time you can ever have I know breath but who's telling that fact I read that that's true I did read that but who said it that is true yeah yeah that's a good point unless they did like a Ouija board up isn't he went it was [ __ ] yeah yeah well yeah I thought about that then I thought about I had a childhood memory of being in Kenya when my mum was born when I'm holiday to Kenya and there was a idea to go and swim with turtles and I had like horrendous seasickness like the worst seasickness I can imagine and really strangely even though seasickness really isn't how I about it it's your stupid land-dwelling human body what's this and it's like it's fine it's 70% of the world is made up of this stuff and just not you know equipped to deal with it but I thought I was going to die I was like 11 12 years old I'd literally thought oh I'm gonna be the first person to die at sea from seasickness and I missed out on swimming with turtles so I thought if I drowned while swimming with turtles and maybe they kind of like just respectfully like held me down a little bit while I swam with the then I'd realize a childhood dream and I only see sickness then drowning drowning or me I don't know don't like dive like the bends like you know if I swim I I want them to kind of spare me of that they help you quite intelligent Souls you come for a swim you're underwater yeah you've seen since yeah yeah and they go don't worry you're in for a treat when you take that last breath they'll wait till after the credits power yeah I don't really know not mentally it's not an anxiety I have major social anxiety rooms full of people being one of them you think so I feel I feel safer with you here yeah I struggle with anxiety for certain but death anxieties not not one of them maybe maybe I should be worried but I don't swim atolls that regularly so do you think that there's a afterlife do you have any thoughts on that and I don't to be honest I don't unfortunately other than maybe it's like a podcast with you maybe it's like another one of these maybe maybe it is yeah okay so you think it's nothing well guess what surprise oh you're totally wrong haha there isn't there is enough life huh and they really into film which you kind of like so you know it's alright for you it's a bit annoying because that's all they talk about right when there's a heaven there films and all they ever want to know about is your life but free films are amazing so the first thing they ask you is what is the first film that you remember seeing the first film I remember seeing was hook yes yeah yeah was it well done buddy there we go which I think was in the 1996 and I sense it was I less nice 93 maybe I was born 1983 well you weren't a baby then well I think it was it the cinema I was know as in I remember that's the that's the first one I can remember sitting down I'm probably taking in you know as a young child I think it was released in 1993 yeah 91 1 91 Q thank you and I I literally was obsessed with you know knew about the story of Peter Pan and I that kind of captured my imagination as a kid and by the time I saw this I had a sort of you know rough idea of the story but this film blew my mind and yeah I think I watched it non-stop you know we're well into my teens pretty much just cuz I loved it so much did you watch it at home with family I watched at home VHS I remember I remember the the tape I remember doing that thing that everyone does with VHS where like you like you get on your knees and you walk on your knees yes to the VHS very seriously as well because at the time that's how you put in a VHS tape so no one questions like now to a DVD like you stand up and you like you know have a pop it in but when you did eh you were just literally just give it a little spit and then you put it in and no one would question that because it's like for the listeners at home we'll just did some brilliant acting for a mouse yeah so and and I remember it well and I remember like Robin Williams being the kind of I don't know just the the magician that he was and always will be and kind of guiding you through that incredible story it's the most amazing cast Dustin Hoffman his hook just haunted you and also kind of like entertained you in equal measure and Julia Roberts play sting and Glenn Close is a secret pirate with a beard the beard it just it was just an amazing amazing movie and I loved it and I wanted to be a lost boy and I wanted to like you know I wanted to be part of rufio's gang and all that sort of stuff it was it was just it was a beautiful beautiful I love hook very much and I believe I have said this over Posey's if you've had it on a podcast but the thing that's sad about hook is Steven Spielberg always says in interviews it's the only film of his he thinks is [ __ ] and I'm like you're wrong that's Kingdom of the Crystal Skull this is really good I love her I think the beginning of the before they get to Neverland that whole section of things yeah tell him tell her when he comes on Steven did that make you want to be an actor did you when did you know when you wanted to be in over this yeah definitely contribution to it that film massively I think looking back you know some of the earliest films I watch and I can't really remember were like black and white cowboy films which were obviously full of very problematic miss truths about you know who the bad people in America were and looking back like terrible for my education but I used to sit inches from the screen and watch black and white cowboy movies and kind of want to be a cowboy sort of thing that was maybe that the the sort of influence on me as poisonous as that possibly was but hook yeah first film like properly remember watching having connection with and Robin Williams has just always been an idol you know and I think the way that he goes between drama and comedy is masterful he does it better than anyone ever and you know I I guess I always knew him to be more of a dramatic dramatic actor because of hook even though there are comical elements I kind of always considered him a dramatic actor and there's only later I discovered him as this blistering stand-up comedian and Mindy must have blown you [ __ ] there you go there you go I just I've just always loved the man ever since what is the film that scared you the most the film that scared me the most the witches right up yeah like to the point where the witch is yeah like the the makeup the special-effects makeup in that is truly haunting and and it was the witches were so scary to me that the the the figures of the witches the faces of the witches genuinely haunted my dreams for a long long time and bless any poor elderly woman who vaguely was a monster any of the because I would be I'd be in shock you know in the supermarket I was with my mom staring at a slightly innocent elderly woman thinking maybe she's a whit you know that's all for to do that exactly yeah poor grandma Joyce yeah so that that terrified me I think the other one also that really scared me was to say but Chitty Chitty Bang Bang that is not bizarre to say Chitty Chitty Bang Bang the bad guy is basically Jimmy Savile the child snatcher no I don't mean to be that like I don't mean that cheaply it literally is a dress is the same the thing is yes terrifying absolute that you think bad guy is a kiddy Fiddler's what's it called yet child snatcher Charles no what's going on yeah no a hundred percent that was that was one of area films I along side which is I think he also haunted my dream and it's one of those characters that you bring up with lots of people around you know who made people onto my generation watch at the same time and yeah you know the child snatcher I think I imagine his has appeared in a few few people's nightmares he was scary anyone who's scared of it properly like my thanks I got sleep tonight sorry no great and also there which is it's Nicolas Roeg who made what I consider to be mmm top three greatest films of all time don't look now thank you thank you yeah nice right what is the film that made you cry the most Philadelphia that made me bawl my eyes out yeah really really made me cry a lot did you watch it I think I watch I think my older sister Joe literally said what's this film you'll cry a lot I love for some reason it's quite yeah yeah it's quite a young kid I signed up for that you know be fair this this one will make you cry what's in it boy did it was just so upsetting I think also so much of it you know focuses on the the The Miseducation that leads to a lack of empathy surrounding people who are diagnosed with a particularly at that time I certainly didn't know and it's presented you know quite a sort of simplistic way in a very kind of in a way that really appeals to your humanity in your your sort of compassion we're saying here is someone with an ailment through no fault of their own through the choices that they are free to make in their life they've they've been given this this deadly thing to cope with and are you going to be one of those people that is like compassionate and understanding of that or are you gonna slam the door in their face and cast them out as a leper and like watching him come into contact with people while they wrestle with that decision and some of the harshness he's met with it's just like its tears apart and Denzel Washington's growth as well you know around understanding the what Tom Hanks's character is going through is is it's amazing in furls and a really incredible natural beautiful way it's got that scene where he does the Opera which sort of I always think is an interesting like it's so on the edge of being anymore that's a really embarrassing yeah why they pull it off it's really moving and stuff but it's so high a rotating camera move yeah yeah no it's so true and I think also there's something about I mean I can't sing a note but it's something about opera which I never listen to but I'm feeling a little bit emotional maybe a couple too many glass of red wine someone sticks on some opera I immediately start welling up and I don't even know why there's a Tom Hanks yeah it's it's a beautiful film and it may be crime eyes a bit nervous as I say I'm fraudulent I haven't seen all the films you've seen three and that's that's in that's so far enough in it what is the film that is sort of meant to be bad most people say this is bad quickly it's not like but you're like [ __ ] you this is the best what is the film you love even though many don't okay I had I think I had a number of these on my list you're an incredibly funny man and a certified professionally funny man on top of being a an actor I think so so I know that you empathize with how frustrating is when critics get a little bit snooty just because something is a comedy do you know it's it's mad and I also get particularly upset when there are incredible comedian performances that never get recognized at the big fancy award shows where they give out the statues and yeah so my not that I'm saying this is you know an Oscar picture necessarily stepbrothers thank you so much let's kiss me to this room because I I love that film so much and I genuinely think that the performances of Will Ferrell and the legendary john c reilly that they're equally legendary are amazing are so good they are so convincing as these 40 year old men who haven't conformed to the kind of you know social expectations placed on them since time began and they are like lovably idiotic and they think in you know an unmatched way they look at the world through this like crazy kaleidoscope and it's so funny and it's one of the most quotable films i think i've ever seen and when i see it even people like comedy like ours a bit silly now i get it is really silly I actually prefer things are a bit more grounded things are a bit more realistic like Narnia Narnia yeah and it's important this has no mice fighting in it whatsoever so I still loved it ships but I just think it's really really funny and I think it's probably got you know 30% on tomorrow something but I think it's amazing tell me about it hasn't it a woman I think is amazing Kathryn Hahn yes so funny yes so funny in it and I believe she's in she's and we're the Millers yeah is she alright oh she's a mate Kathryn Hahn is one of my favorite people I've ever worked with she's she's amazing so funny as well virtually impossible to work with though in a sense that she's so funny and she comes up with so many different alts that you never know what's coming it's really hard to keep a straight face with Kathryn I remember throwing out you know a million different versions of the same line just to keep it interesting for us and at one point I was like I even look at her you know I'm finding it too hard stay through it and I also think that the woman who plays Nancy who is Will Ferrell's mother in this film is the lawyer in Philadelphia she plays the lawyer in Philadelphia hang on Will Ferrell's ma'am so Will Ferrell's mom and this is Mary Steenburgen no yeah is she in Philadelphia or if I just massively embarrass myself I think she she is okay thank ya yes so that's a that's so that's a that's an unnecessary link for you but yeah yeah an element like completely different forces and I think I empathize with her because I am absolutely her in a sense that I'm that person he's working with very funny people just try not to laugh she's trying not to laugh the entire movie she's dealing with Will Ferrell vomiting comic genius and she's just trying her best not to laugh her guts out my mouth I'm such a big fan and I know it's just one of those films that's not not critically like spoken about and I get why but I think people I think people overlook how genius the performances are I think like you could method act as a 40 role distillers of their mother and not producer performance as good as well Farrell or yeah I was well on my way actually method acting as someone who was still what is the film and then you've watched it recently anyone oh [ __ ] my one was I I genuinely used to like sincerely as alike as a 12 year old who thought he'd seen all the films was like him the island I think is my greatest film about the island I'll it mate without without batting an eyelid you say that's the greatest film ever made right so remind me the island is like a film or two house in the first half they're trapped in the matrix right they're all in white yeah they have to like and he's going it's not real and she's going isn't it and then they break out and then they run for an hour yeah that's the island yeah yeah pretty pretty much there's a really good summation of what it is but matrix bits are white it's all it's all yeah yeah it's like it yeah exactly it's like got all white matrix and it's but yeah it's it's really bizarre and there are some really strange things I think what I what I came into contact with and I watched it again last night and I was like bless me oh I think my suspension of disbelief my ability to suspend my disbelief was so much greater 12 13 as you can imagine and so I just forgave the fact that like you and MacGregor travelled through an entire skyscraper while on this like flying bike thing he just travels through the entire skyscraper and then they sort of come out the other side this guy's very pretty sort of goes like like like like he got splashed with some cold water or something as I travel through a building and they sustain unbelievable injuries at one point they fall from a like 40 foot ceiling straight onto some like bodies there are like bodies in hospital beds like filling this room and they fall from the height of the ceiling which is about 40 feet down onto these bodies and again they just nothing happens and inexplicably it's just raining indoors no no it's speech for it is just raining and it's just I think it's just Michael we're just going you know what'll be cooler mr. if they were wet isn't the oil in Michael Bay's like deep blood no I mean it I think it was one for them one for me this is this was a museum i brainy so funny yeah I didn't think about it like yeah I think it was play he's like what if we roll yeah and there was just there was a lot there was a lot of that watching about ok I forgave a lot and it's funny you know there's a the very first episode of Black Mirror yes with Daniel Kuya who's the best actor in Britain right now yeah 100% I the first episode of Black Mirror seems to actually vaguely lend from some of the things that are in doing 50 million merits the I like I was watching the island I'm Charlie Brook as a genius I'm not saying that he went nicking Matt that's genius but Charlie work is not short on ideas but I was watching it as I'll blackmail just a really great well-executed version and all the silly like you know traveling through the other side of skyscrapers and you know yeah and just yeah that's what I think saying that yeah what was your Evan did you have another one he said they were oh that I watched and doesn't hold do you know what I was talking I was watching I was watching the rugby just earlier in the pub with some friends and one of them went oh you are you gonna say goal and I think that's just because CGI again you just you know he's on the pitch and then now you watch you go oh he's not know he's never we're near a football also just kick a ball they're not expensive you're so right that's a boat I'll gave you a boat that's my boat for the day give it back it's just bad budgeting yeah golde golde could have been better had they had a better budget management that would have been a the catering was incredible on goal the best yeah great now this is my personal favorite question of all the questions which is what is the film that means the most to you not necessarily is the film film might be [ __ ] but because if the memory you have around that film it might be the first day it might have been a day you got a job might have been someone died something that you will always remember that film because of that day the first okay so the first time I met my now girlfriend was a year ago just over a year ago sorry fellas and the first huge people just walking out okay [ __ ] that I bought a ticket you know and forget it sorry but no this is this is when we were back as friends so it wasn't you know thankfully it was not kind of first date because it would have made for the worst first date ever but we watched you were never really here yeah which not a date it's not a day movie don't let that romantic red flare at the top of the poster confuse you because a little bit down there is a hammer there's also a girl in need of being saved from pretty terrifying circumstances it's Lynn Ramsay as a director is so phenomenal saw it at the BFI have a shout out for the BFI and what I'm just trying to work out by sorting this right is it in this room that would have been very weird but sorry the bf I watched the Q&A with Lynn Ramsay afterwards while sat next to my now girlfriend and we just like marveled at how amazing she was and and she divulged all of these stories about Joaquin Phoenix who's an actor who I'm obsessed with and I know I might be steamed I might be need to be very hypocritical here cuz I know there was talk of him being quite mad but she was really interesting in her sort of discussions about working with Joaquin and he's one of those actors that is so good that I watch and I'm like either I just keep going forever in a useless pursue what he does or I just give up because he's magic like he's someone I watch and I go you're not acting you're just I don't know what you are like you're this cosmic Talent I think he's phenomenal and she said he was great to work with but he was brutally defensive of his character he was like you know if something was [ __ ] if he felt like there was a prop or a suggestion or something that was in any way detracting from realism he didn't even want to entertain like would throw it out and I don't think that's to say that he wasn't collaborative or he wasn't up for the discussion cuz I think that's key regardless of how big or great you are like I think you know you should always maintain that but he's just very very defensive what was real with everything he wouldn't he wouldn't let decisions get made for him any decision big or small that what may even vaguely be associated with his character or his arc he was pedantic about making sure everything was real and would this exist in real life and you know and I respect that I think that's all good so you went on a first date with a woman to see a film about a man killing pedophiles with a hammer and you held hands and thought this is going to last we were friends for about six months after before you know we became a couple as they say but maybe in that six months she was just reflecting I don't know what date to be like yeah terrified yeah but I will always remember that film for that reason you like date - I got tickets to climax in a way alright here's it here's one what what is the film you found the sexiest Oh that was it so this is like the first film I remember being a little bit sexy okay it's the film way you thought okay I think this this film I mentioning because I want to I just want to talk about it and I think a lot of people remember it partly for this reason if you saw it as a as a silly little boy at the age that I saw it Titanic hang on does that really tell me to ask the question oh no I want to I want to talk about it sorry panic forget oh yeah just scream iceberg and walk off why I I remember this being the first time that I saw nudity on screen like in my mom and dad's house and I was more like watching Titanic and just being like come on in the drawing scene come on when Jack is drawing rose but I remember that being the first time I saw anything remotely sexual on TV and being like wow and it being really kind of beautiful as well and and like very kind of tasteful and that was maybe my argument you know as an as a kids my mother it's tasteful my put it away but I'm doing it tastefully painting my masterpiece yeah my mom on their knees with the VHS no no yeah and and I just I I love I love the film I think DiCaprio and Kate Winslet at the heart they're just so amazing I think it's also I've read quite a lot about the the shooting process of this film excuse me and it I'm not getting emotional sound like I squat to cry I read a lot about the shooting process of the film and just how problematic it was and how many you know obstacles they came up against crazy crazy stories the the project literally nearly sank like multiple multiple times they faced untold challenges as far as making a film is concerned James Cameron at one point no it was like I'm doing it for free with taking my fee and we're putting that in the budget whoever did that which isn't heroic by any means cuz he's fine for money I think you know that it's like IMAX is so dark and I never slept since I read that story but yeah someone spikes though so for a day they were all going yeah just they were just like so many stories about how difficult it was but at the core of it is this incredibly real just like magnetic connection between these two human beings while the room is like filling up with water and they've got one take to do it that you don't question for a second that they're like madly in love and they're gonna do everything they can to like get out and I just think they must have been under so much pressure to perform you know that connection with that level of authenticity and they did it and it's just a marvel of that I think that's crazy and when when we were all complained when when I did the revenue and we were all right when we were all complaining about how difficult that wasn't this got the most difficult job in history I was like that's Q and all but now you know cuz this was this was yeah or always am cold whereas on revenant we were just always cold the revenant stresses me out worrying about how cold you were but the whole film every day imagine my Mike my mum yeah yeah dedicated her life to making sure I would had a coat on when I went outside so you won't feel the benefit when you do the revenue great lovely answer classic that is a classy answer okay thanks well done what is the film that you most relate to where you watching you go that's me that is it might be the character might be the world might be the atmosphere of it something about it you go that's the most film me I think School of Rock it's one of my favorite films I love it and they're doing it on doing it in the theater at the moment that really yes Zach particularly in the School of Rock I yeah yeah pretty much pretty much it well true truthfully he was me Zach would have like like a stripey polo shirt and like a Casio wristwatch and like a massive backpack that made me look like a tortoise but but emotionally I think being that that kid the reason I chose us being that kid who at school like academically like wasn't necessarily clicking didn't enjoy school socially found it awkward and tough to navigate but then had a creative outlet Zach's been music my being drama and then having a teacher that comes in to your world and just blows it wide open that teacher for me was Laura Lawson my drama teacher and she was the creator of school of comedy so the parallels seen this in school rock kinda quite strong she were Laura who performed as Laura Black was my joy yeah yeah and she just gave me confidence and you know told me that like there was more to life than you know maths and other things I didn't understand and you know gave me the opportunity to perform so yeah I mean I wish i I wish I could play a musical instrument but yeah yeah I really so really related to his experience at school of being kind of socially repressed and then having a creative outlet an extracurricular activity kind of draw you out of your shell and and make you a more confident happy person for sure what what is the film that you think objectively is the greatest film of all time might not be your favorite but aliens come they go what cinema you guys this oh I do you know what uh it's it's what I think a dress is a greatest one of all time and I think also what is my personal favorite film time Good Will Hunting and I I love it so much again Robin Williams being incredible it's a film that I've watched so many so many times very inspiring as well hearing that Ben Affleck and Matt Damon had such a huge hand in in writing it and coming up with the story and I just think yeah it taught me a lot as well I think about being emotionally vulnerable and and sensitive as a as a man as well like not buying into the sort of you know toxic expectations that come with being masculine that you don't show emotion you don't open up you don't you know talk about your feelings and I know I also received therapy for anxiety and depression when I was younger and so watching those scenes on fell between Matt Damon and and Robin Williams's characters had a added sort of specialness to it for me and I just wanted to be in the room with those two men discussing you know their vulnerabilities and it was just great to watch can I ask you something very personal and you might Titanic this yeah I also seen a therapist sure it's nothing wrong with that but because of this film do you not find particular when I started therapy I just kept waiting them to go it's not your fault I kept thinking like when are we going to short cut like I know the end get on with it it's not my fault but then she was like I think it is forget it want my money back yeah the other thing I would do you know the story about that how when they took the script around for this do you know this about a secret scene they put in tell me I know a little bit I know if you don't know this story that Ben Affleck and Matt Damon and I know this from often you're Right Scoop and you send it to people you have meetings with him and then you go in the room and they go oh you're a genius we love it and you always know they've not read it and I was in their lair once in there and I went to meet this president excuse me when I loved your script buddy you're a genius and I looked in his eyes and I thought you definitely haven't read it and I said what's your favorite bit and without missing a beat he went the ending the ending I hate you anyway the point is when they were doing Good Will Hunting they were sending the script around as a test for how they'd know people were actually reading it there was a scene that they wrote in the middle of two of the therapy scenes we're out of nowhere it said interior bedroom benefit of Matt Damon's character is [ __ ] and then it went back to therapy so they'd know when they'd go into a meeting that someone really loved the script it's quite weird this sudden scene of and if no one said that they'd sit there going all right you're for this year it's a good trick to new questions I know there's a fly here I feel like I feel like Belloc in Raiders of the Lost Ark I'm having to continue time he's come by yeah don't curse just keep going and what is to you the best opening scene or sequence in a film I really like there will be blood as correct once gosh I need some points with you yes I was really in trouble with that you winning it back yeah now it's amazing I again another person who is reportedly a a method actor there was such a funnel as daniel plainview like just incredible and the openings amazing there's I don't think any accompanying music there's no dialogue for it and I just captivated and it's not it's not as potentially what's the word like pretentious or or as it could be it's fascinating or Thomas Anderson is for Toms Anderson so naturally like it's visually beautiful and I just remember just like I actually remember I think it's the it's the only film that I watched and I've rewind just to watch the beginning again like I'll get to around thirty minutes something like I just water and I'll take it back writes the beginning because I just think it's so so beautiful I love it yeah you and you approve you get a hundred percent get in that's a great film yes choice what is your best closing sequence so so having said use the word pretentious my my choice is arguably a little bit pretentious because it's a one-shot film is I'm the opening yeah I'm the middle if you think about it it's clever thank you thank you Victoria [ __ ] love Victoria you're back in the game yeah I love Victoria I just think it's amazing have you seen this you must see it oh it's good how many people have sit was that like a 50-50 almost yeah it sounded like fifty yeah you've got you know it's due tonight I honestly I'm gonna go as far as says this is in my top ten film yeah all-time it's brilliant it's amazing it's a one shot film as I understand it they took five days to shoot it I think they did the three takes and they got it on this I can take or something like that no I think no I think they were all so scared that they did it but he said that it was all a bit too high second day he said loosen up and they went mental anyway all right no that much and then the third sorry it makes sense that they hit on the third time it's not like after they did a like to our one shot yeah so yeah I just I love it summers like naturalistic performances I've seen it's an incredible feat of camerawork I think camera operators don't get enough credit we're always talking about the directors and the and often the do peas camera operators anyone in the camera department like salut I think work so incredibly hard without the credit you know we stress me out about Victoria if you haven't seen Victoria so it's a one shot but it goes isn't like just in one room it goes all over town and helicopters appear like it's really complicated and there's a scene quite later on it's not really a spoiler but they go into a flat and there's like two people who maybe got two lines who surprised to see these criminals in their flat and I thought being them being the lead is easy because you can improvise in your play but if you're two hours into the film there's someone like an ad behind the door is gonna come in they're coming to come is don't [ __ ] this up because we've done all of it yeah yeah and then the door opens and you go [ __ ] oh [ __ ] sorry they should get the Oscars that's ruin the engine I think Galifianakis talks about it on Birdman he talks about being at the stage door like listening into this amazing scene and it's like you know seven minutes long and he's like and that has carts obviously bourbon has cuts whereas this truly isn't stitched together it is one which is just mind-blowing but he's there the you know the point of the stitch and it relies on him opening the door and saying is Lyra and he's lying right and he says that his line was just something really basic but the pure pressure of messing up this incredibly complex seven-minute seam and that every time you open the door Zach but it's an amazing film and layer coasters the lead and she's incredible and Sebastian Schiffer who's the director he's got a film called roads coming out oh yes soon yeah which is is due to be really great but it's it's beautiful and it's it's it's you know it's a rare thing few people pull off you know technical feat like this and they do it really really beautifully and her performance is outstanding so and I also think it's one of the only times often I see like long one takes and I think yeah it's really great but we're all watching it going oh you're doing the wante I seem like it's a bit you just sort of things impressive but it doesn't pull you in totally but this one is like justified because I think the whole time you're holding your breath can you forget right is crazy enough to kick me off but there is a there is animate this to me getting a bit geeky but there's an amazing moment where they're about and I don't want to ruin it for everyone but they're about an hour and like I want to say they're there they're there they're effectively 3/4 of the way through the film on what we now know is their third take and as I understand it Leia takes a wrong turn in the car and starts driving to an area that they are not set up for and the pandemonium that breaks out in this car is a hundred percent real because it's like movie obviously no one can say that and as I understand it the director is in the boot of the car with the monitor going the wrong way I'm just watching it and knowing that is just like the most exciting thing in the world and then I can't imagine the party they have when they pulled it off yeah yeah Wow great great answer and now looking at the time is it's it's nearly time to go to the audience I think now we'll put your favorite film is Good Will Hunting correct that's correct correct now what you've been really wonderful you have I couldn't have asked for more the thing is when you went for that swim in the sea and you got seasick only for adolescent I wasn't it was grabbed you and held you down yeah because of some thing you may have done in the past and they and they held you down and you and you you drowned and bitten your luck but one was when you inhaled that last bit of water it really made your body massive like you sort of swelled up and also we didn't find you for quite a while and so you've been eat and they were like dead things inside you it's a lot it's a lot more than we were planning for bits of sharks anyway we managed to get you out but you're a [ __ ] man I'll be on set and we put you in the coffin but there's just more I think we've got a bit of coral in there as too much stuff we we Jam you in the coffin but there's not there's no room for this stuff there's a now only room for one DVD that we can slide in okay and on the other side there's movie night every night and one night it's your maybe night so what DVD take it am I am I allowed to take film I previously mentioned yeah I think for pure nostalgia and to hang out with my my hero in the afterlife I'm taking hook so great out sir go into Neverland no one else is taking hook I'm taking I'm glad it gonna be very grateful I'm taking ladies and gentlemen just to sort of I guess wrap up the podcast bit we please give a massive round of applause for the absolute brilliant will Poulter and she's back goldstein thank you so much thank you man you've been you

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Length: 57min 30sec (3450 seconds)

Published: Wed Dec 05 2018