I got to keep nothing from set and I got to keep nothing from the set of Harry Potter.
And that's what happens when you're, like you know, number seven on the call sheet and not number one.
This is for the record.
Okay.
This is where I decide where I'm going cross-legged or not.
Let me know if this looks cool.
Does it look cool?
It's all I care about.
Do I look super cool?
Hello, Harry.
I built Weasley.
Oh, pleasure to meet you.
This is Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part one.
That is me with a room full of amazing actors, and I'm very proud to have been a.
Weasley was a really, really big job for me.
There's a really special amount of time after you shoot something that's big and before it comes out, before people know that you're hardly in the thing.
And in that time people get excited about you because they think you might be a big thing in the big thing, not like a little thing in the big thing.
And I got loads of really good jobs before people realized I was barely in this movie.
It was by far the biggest set I'd ever been on.
There was like 300 people on set.
It was just ginormous.
You're this small part of it.
There was an amazing moment my first time doing a big red carpet where I said I don't want to go up on that red carpet and they don't know who I am.
And my agent was like, yeah, they're, you know, whoever it was.
I was like, they do of course go up.
And I went up and I stood in the red carpet and there were banks of photographers and nobody took a picture.
And then one guy went, hey.
And I said, yeah.
And he said, do you know when Emma Watson's getting here?
I just walked off without having my photograph taken.
I don't think there's any photographs of me on the red carpet when I went.
That's how I remembered anyway.
Maybe the truth was different, but it was devastating.
Wow, that's Black Mirror.
Seriously, don't do it.
I'm not going to.
Hayley Atwell, she was brilliant in this.
Oh God, this is a hard scene to shoot.
I had to play two different characters in Black Mirror.
One is a guy who's in love and a bit of an idiot.
And then the other person is this sort of version of him, based on his social media interactions, which has now come frighteningly close to being real.
I will say, when they put that makeup on me to make me look slightly more like a sort of a clone, they had to do this spray thing where they spray you to try and make it look really matte and uniform.
When they tried to take it off, it took the skin off my eyelids.
So that was gross.
But I was so lucky I got to work on this.
Oh, I haven't watched this in ages.
This is it.
This is a really important scene in About Time and it's with Bill Nighy who I absolutely adore.
He's sick in this part of the film and I had to imagine what it would be like if somebody you know got sick, and it was the last time you were seeing them, and I remember, after we shot, it being like finding it very difficult to shake off.
And I think it was because Bill was so generous as an actor.
He was like really incredible.
I remember reading it and not understanding how big a deal the father and son thing was.
I think it's because I knew Richard's other work.
So I thought it was a vehicle to cast more light on the romance at the heart of it with Rachel McAdams, one of the great actors working today.
And then, as I started doing the work on the script after that I realized the father and something was central to it also.
I think in this scene it starts really happy and then it takes a turn.
That's hard to do because you've got to get there and so you just have to listen.
And Bill's very easy to listen to because he's excellent.
My son.
My dad.
I remember walking away afterwards and Richard had to come and find me and I was like crying someplace for ages afterwards.
It was really...pathetic.
From the sublime to the ridiculous.
Great.
Star Wars, The Force Awakens.
This fierce machine which you have built, upon which we stand, Man, I'm going for it.
Okay, that's tough to watch.
So JJ wrote this great script and wrote this great scene in particular for this character, which sort of like was the in for me, where you really see the darkness in the character.
The rest of the time, he's like, there's somebody more powerful than him in the room.
So he's a bit sniveling the rest of the time because he's a bully and bullies hate people who are more powerful than them, so he's not able to express himself.
This is the time when everybody in front of him is beneath him.
You see what a bully is, and he's sort of maniacal and all the rest of it.
And I thought it was a good description of what people like that can do in the world.
But, you know, it's part of a really fun movie.
It's part of Star Wars, and I was very, very happy to be in it.
It was amazing because they built the sets.
And they had the robots and they had BB-8 rolling around and they would walk you around the workshop and show you everything, in the same way as they had on Harry Potter.
And I just thought it was super cool that they were still doing it that way.
Was there anything you got to keep from set?
No.
I got to keep nothing from set and I got to keep nothing from the set of Harry Potter.
And that's what happens when you're, like you know, number seven on the call sheet and not number one.
I mean, it's such a privilege to be in it.
Complaining about not getting anything else is probably stupid.
So I won't moan too much.
Oh, Jamie Mack.
The safe thing to do is track a new course back up online.
Yeah, this is The Revenant.
It was known as a rough shoot, and it was.
But I'm very, very proud of the film, so it was worth it.
It was incredible to work with Leo because he is a wonderful actor and he led from the front, but just purely by example.
He just never seemed to be complaining.
He never was looking for attention.
He never was demanding that it was his set because he knew that it was.
The relentlessness of the shoot was what was difficult.
And in a way, what I found incredible about him was his spirit maintaining throughout.
And he's a super actor.
So yeah, I'm very, very happy I got to work with him.
Somebody, I think it might have been Tom, called it the forevenant.
And that is how it felt.
It felt like it was never going to end.
But as I say, it was worth it.
He's superb.
Ah, here we go.
This is the paper.
An incredible ensemble of actors, which I'm very proud of.
The door seems to be locked.
Yeah, because I locked it.
She liked it.
So Greg Daniels is the creator of this show.
He was also the creator of the US Office, along with Mike Schur.
So you're stepping in with somebody who knows what they're doing.
That's the important thing.
And you're stepping into something which is not trying to do the same thing.
It's trying to do something different.
So as long as you know that what you're trying to do is not do the same as the last guys, because they did it so well, then it's fun.
So it was really, really good fun.
I think the great thing about these sorts of shows is the ensemble.
So actually, what's special about The Office is that across the board they have these fantastic characters who you can relate to or find funny in loads of different ways.
They're only as strong as The Weakest Link.
And I think the same will be true of our show.
It's everything coming together is what makes it special.
Do you have a favorite episode of The Office?
Of The Office?
Let me put this in the record.
I did some press the other day and I said that I liked the episode where Michael knocks over Phyllis with his car.
And I was like, afterwards it felt weird.
And I was like, It was Meredith.
He knocked over Meredith and I know that the office stands are gonna come for me and I just want to apologize officially and on the record.
And then I love the stuff with the bird where Michael's old boss dies.
Let me get that slightly wrong, and then I can apologize for it in a different interview.
That's probably the best way to do it.
Thank you for watching.
You can watch the paper on Peacock.
Cool, thank you very much.
