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Episode #590 · Pierce Brosnan & Emma ThompsonSeptember 2013 · 00:04:48
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0:06Oh, the head, yeah. I think I've come here. I have to have a hip replacement. Oh, God. There you go. It's come to that, isn't it? There you go. Really? The knees. Oh, no, knees to that. Face. Oh, yeah. Face. The bone. Okay. Just keep going. This is great. So, just reset your problems. It's QX. QX. How do we have to do? QX? Yes. Is that an acting thing? No, it's an aunt of my mother's. Okay. So, you tighten your neck. Two X. No QX. QX. QX. QX. That's what you used to do for hours on air. That's the best that you've ever done. No. Well, it looked like fun to make. It looks like you guys have a good time together. We did. It was magic. Greatest summer ever. It was nice. It really was. I mean, south of France.
0:52Emma. Joel. Great, script, fun. There's lovely things to do. You're cursing on the plague of mushrooms. It's so much fun to do. I don't know if you did that. It's not working out driving. I did. I did. So, talk about that. That was one of my favorite things I've ever done ever. You know, doing my stunt car thing. Oh, she was on fire at the whole now thing. Oh, was it? I, on the other hand, was not in good shape. It's slightly less. Well, I had done a bit of car work over the years. A little bit. When you see a car at that angle and, you know, you get out and you say, where's the stunt woman? They say, Emma's doing it. You go, you've got to be kidding. And then she comes on this set like a just a joyous, crazed lady. Can't wait to get behind the car and goes for it. Yeah. But I went up an extra step, you see. You're not supposed to do that, apparently. Oh, no. I thought it could be fine. We could technically be on a little super ankle.
1:38It's going to go down one. You can hear it. If you watch the film, you can hear him screaming. Go down, go down, go down. That's real. It's him saying, go down because we're going to tip over and you're going to lose half your face. True. No, I didn't. But I didn't. No, it was fine. You think it worked out? I kind of went away with it. So, so what drew you to these characters? What did you like about this movie? Which one of us are you asking? Oh, who are you asking? I saw it was really well written by Joel. I thought that the springboard into the story of these people who lose everything and the financial crash, I thought was very relevant. And then I just loved the rump of it all. And that is two people that you want to see get together from the get-go. As soon as the curtain goes up, you know they love each other. You know they've always loved each other. You know they always have to be together. No, I don't love you at the beginning. I don't love you at the beginning, actually.
2:24I wasn't loving you. I didn't love you. I'm just talking. I'm just talking. Sorry. I'm just talking. Oh my god, I love you. That was it. That was it. That's it. Well, I loved you. I always loved you. You were all right. You did still love me. I didn't love you at the beginning. I didn't tell you that at the time. But actually she was just pissed off. Yes. So the writing, that's what was so great. I mean Joel and Emma write really well. Nice, that's great. Well done. Joel and Emma, Emma wrote for you. No, I didn't, we just- Kind of. You did a bit. Yeah, sure we did. We did a bit of stuff. Yes. But you gave me put your top-ups worth in as well, and it was all very sensible. And I mean she was a bit sort of crossed in one draft, and I said, I think this should be
3:09anger. I think this should be passed all of the pain. And there should be that sense of almost nostalgia with them, you know. There's a lot of water or bloods gone under the bridge, you know. And sort of looking at each other in a new way. And him says to the child suddenly turning around and saying, we're going to get that funny bag. Yes. Let's nick it. Let's nick it. You know him going, oh, never seen that before. Kind of sexy. Yeah, because of course she's been bringing out children and going into that sort of world that you do when you're a mom. And suddenly she's not home to do that anymore. The kids have left, she can do what she likes. She behaves how she wants, and he's thinking, oh, my wife's quite fun really. I've had so much fun, you say, don't you, when we're hanging off the cliff at the end?
3:56Exactly, yeah. I forgot about that scene. My left it's never looked so good. The left it did look good. It did look good. The right tip was pretty good. Much, much better than it does actually when it's in a normal position. Don't even see it. It looks good. No, no, it looks fantastic. Anyway. We do some called five questions, five quick questions, one more answers. One more answer. One more answers. Yes. One more answers. Yes. Script or improv? Script. Scipped. Stage or screen? Screen. Screen. Leonard McCartney. Lemon. My is nurse Dennis Lowsky. I'm going to go to college. Joy. Fun. Nice. Thanks guys. Appreciate it. Okay. All right. That's like, I've found that quite stressful actually.
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