“Clayface” Stars Naomi Ackie and Tom Rhys Harries “Nocturne” Star Stephen Graham

"Clayface" Stars Naomi Ackie and Tom Rhys Harries

"Nocturne" Star Stephen Graham

Air Date: Tuesday, October 27^th

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Tom Rhys Harries on His Mom's Reaction to "Clayface" and "Charlie's Angels" Inspiring the Dance Scene

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Drew: I really have to say kudos. Like you, I saw things that I haven't seen before.

Tom: Yeah, and see things that you can't unsee. My poor mum watching this film.

Drew: Oh, what did she think?

Tom: She turned to me halfway. We watched it in this big old premiere in LA, and my parents had flown from Cardiff, where I'm from, and she was sat next to me and during one sequence in the film, she leant over to me and she, I thought she was gonna say 'I'm proud of you, Tom' but she whispered, 'Why can't you be in a period piece' I was like, sorry, I'll take what I can. But then there's a sequence at the end of 'Clayface' where there's a dance. It's partly inspired by Sam Rockwell in 'Charlie's Angels.'

Drew: It was?

Tom: Yeah, he's the best, isn't he?

Naomi Ackie on Playing Whitney Houston and Wanting to Play an American

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Drew: When you took on Whitney Houston, how terrifying is that to take on that icon? I mean, that's scary.

Naomi: That was, yeah, thank you, that one was probably the most terrifying, and I had been saying literally the year before, I was like, 'I wanna do something that scares me. I really wanna do something that scares me, and I wanna play an American person, I've never done that before.' And then this came through and I -

Drew: And then they're like Whitney Houston, and you're like -

Naomi: The scariest thing you could ever do.

Drew: But I mean you should be so very proud of your work in that film, it's so beautiful.

Tom on Getting Fired as a Paperboy After Stealing a Copy of Playboy

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Drew: Is it true that you also worked as a paper boy?

Tom: I did. I worked as a paperboy when I was like 14 in Cardiff to earn some pocket money.

Drew: How were you at that?

Tom: I was, do you know what, I was a pretty efficient paper boy because I had like a number of routes, houses that I had to do along my route. And then once I'd done them, I was done as a paper round usually works. And so I'd completed this paper round and I'd figured out that I would be able to get access to the blue magazines on the top shelf.

Naomi: Nudie mags.

Tom: The naughty magazines. And I was always like, 'One day, one day I'll take one.' And then there was this like Playboy holy grail at the time and it was like singing to me.

Drew: I can see the shots by the way, I really can. Like you're reaching up, the camera's looking down, there's light around.

Tom: Yeah, there was like sort of some like halo around this Playboy, and the man who owned the shop, John was lovely, he was like looking at this paper and he'd never look up at me, so I was like, I think I can, I think I can grab it. So I grabbed it. I took this Playboy and put it in my thing and I was like, 'See you tomorrow, John.' He, I turned up the next day, he's obviously very good at taking stock of what he's got and what he hasn't got in his shop and he fired me.

Drew: Did you get to keep the Playboy?

Tom: I did keep the Playboy.

Drew's Reaction to Stephen Graham's Book

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Drew: I want to say that reading your book was a real eye opener for me because I have two girls and I was shocked at how universal the letters are as far as it is letters to our sons written by fathers to sons, there's some inclusion of I wanna add my daughter into this. But you, I don't think have to be a mother nor a father or have daughters or sons to really have such incredible universal takeaways from the book.

Stephen: Thank you, that's a wonderful insight to it, personally as well, it's that when you sit down to write that letter, it's exceptionally meditative cause you very rarely just think of one person completely. So you take that time to sit and write that letter. And all of these beautiful feelings and emotions just come flooding, cause you never really just think, do you, specifically of the one person and how much you love them.

Drew: You're right, you, a lot of people talk about their own upbringing and life experience which made me feel so much more comforted.

Stephen: But you're not alone.

Drew: And I thought, oh my God, everyone is carrying their baggage. Yeah, and not wanting to put that -

Stephen: To pass it on, yes, and it's trying to fix that spiritual malady that we all suffer from, do you know what I mean?

Stephen on the Inspiration Behind "Adolescence" and the Takeaway for Parents

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Drew: I think you can point to a few tipping points in our culture that really fostered change in our society, and 'Adolescence' is one of them. It changed the world. It did, it made people go, you're right. We didn't want our kids playing out in the world because we thought that was dangerous and we thought them being at home was safer. Turns out when they go in their room alone and shut the door, the technology is actually taking them into a very different space.

Stephen: That's absolutely it.

Drew: And to me that was so informative and helpful for us parents to have the empowerment of that knowledge so that we could be more vigilant and more mindful about that, because we really think, oh my God, we know where our kids are, they're in their room.

Stephen: They're in the room, but do you know what they're doing? And that and that was one of the key elements when we, when we kind of come up with the concept and the idea, Hannah said, and I thought it was very beautiful, she said this from the very beginning, 'It's about parents opening that door. And allowing them to walk through that door and begin this conversation' because the whole kind of thing came, there was an incident where I'm from in Liverpool. A young girl, was stabbed to death by a young boy, and he was there with three of his friends. And I just thought, what kind of society are we living in today? Don't get me wrong, look, there was incidents when we were younger of all different types of things, as you know, but I just thought, what is it that makes a young boy, not even quite a man yet, think that it's OK to stab a girl or another human being because they're not feeling they're reciprocating their advances, and I just thought what's going on with society, where are we at the minute that this is happening?

Stephen on How He Started Dating His Wife After a Romantic Confession

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Drew: How did you meet her and did you ask her, I feel like there was, I know that there was a romantic moment, a very romantic moment. It sounds like out of a movie, a train station.

Stephen: It was a little bit, yeah, look, we were friends for 5 years.

Drew: That's what people say is so amazing.

Stephen: With benefits. But that, you know, and, and it was me I realized, you know, when you don't realize what you've got until it's gone, that same kind of thing…but so she went to Spain, for a while, and I there was a hole in my soul that I couldn't, I was like, 'What's going on here?' And then she came back and I went, 'Are you here for good now?' and she was like, 'No, I'm going to Spain.' And I was like, 'What?' And she went, 'I've met this fella called Paco.' And I was like, 'Who the, who's Paco?' And she said, 'Well, you know, this man' and then I was like, 'Oh OK.' So I was like I best work this out straight away, so I asked her to go on a date cause in them 5 years we'd never been on a date. We'd meet at parties and she'd cook dinner and we'd, you know, but we never went out, so we went to the pictures, sorry that's going to watch a movie, and then I took her for a bite to eat. And then when we were at the train station, I said to her, I said, 'Look, I love you, please don't go.' And she went, she said, 'I've been waiting for 5 years for you to say that.' And then that was it then.

Stephen on How His Wife's Love of Serial Killers Helped Him Get Into Character for "Nocturne"

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Drew: Is it true your wife likes serial killers?

Stephen: She loves a serial killer.

Drew: Well then this is gonna be right up her alley. In fact, did she encourage you to do it?

Stephen: Massively, and for my research as well, she was like, right, we can sit down for the next two weeks and we can watch lots of proper real psychological dramas and documentaries about serial killers, she just, she had a menagerie of different shows, so we'd sit there, we'd have Maltesers, we call, we have Maltesers at home, so we'd eat loads of Maltesers and we'd have teas and we'd watch lots of telly.

Drew: Do you actually change your eyes because you have eyes that sparkle, you have eyes that told me a very different story in 'Adolescence.' These feel like someone else's eyes and they're ones I almost can't look into, but then I also wanna look into.

Stephen: You know yourself, it's that character and you know, I started with the physical aspect, I wanted it to look like a man who could, if he wanted to, he could rip your jaw off. So that's, that was the physical element of it, and then you know, you work on the internal stuff, but we shot it all in Pittsburgh. And the people of Pittsburgh were absolutely lovely. I had a wonderful voice coach called Susannah, and she was magnificent. She was, she worked on 'Task.' And she helped me find a voice and kind of the sound.

Drew: It is so not your voice. It's so incredible, and it is one of those best in class type of pieces that if you're even a remote fan of the genre, you're gonna to eat it up. And if you're not, it doesn't matter because it's so good and well crafted.