00:00Oh, that's how rude.
00:01Yeah, I know. Sorry. I'm sorry. I shouldn't curse around him.
00:05Guys, I went to bed at 4.30 for several nights in a row because of you.
00:10This was unreal. In fact, I want to say wah-wah-wee-wah.
00:14I like it. What a review.
00:16Yeah, what a review. Put on a poster.
00:18Just how incredible is it to be a part of because I think this is going to be pretty big.
00:22Well, thank you. It is incredible to be a part of and now to be, you know, it's all done.
00:28Our work for season one is done and here we are trying to get the word out.
00:33It's great to be starting to get some response now.
00:36We had a great time doing it. I think we all, you don't always get that with shows or films.
00:42Sometimes you're like, okay, you know, you've done the job and you move on.
00:45And I think I've been fortunate enough to do a lot of jobs that I like, but this one just
00:49was so much fun.
00:51And I'm really excited, yeah, for people to finally start to experience it and have reactions like you just did.
00:55Wow, wow, we are. And when you saw his name on whatever it was, whether it was the email or
01:00whatever, were you just like, oh my God.
01:02Oh my God.
01:03Yeah, that was what, when I got the audition through?
01:05When you knew that JK was going to be in it.
01:07Yeah, I literally got an email that just said, you know, this is the name of the show and I
01:12didn't know who the Westies were.
01:13And that was, I went, okay, who are these guys? And then just saw JK's name and went, no.
01:18And you get this little, you know, imposter syndrome going, no, there's no way I'm going to get this role,
01:22but I'll go for it.
01:23But there's no way. And lo and behold, I did.
01:26He's quite good, isn't he? He's quite good.
01:28Yeah, he's all right.
01:29I mean, you know, for a Brit.
01:31Talking of that, have you had like any Britisms that have been forced upon you or do you now do
01:36something a bit more British than you did before?
01:39Honestly, my wife and I have loved coming to London, you know, on vacation or for work for, since we
01:46were here shortly after we got married in 1996.
01:53So, I've been absorbing Britishisms for a long time and in fact, found us a nice British pub on Bloor
01:59Street in Toronto.
02:00Yeah, of all places.
02:01We gathered at a few times.
02:03What's your order, though, at that pub?
02:05They had a thing, which I, there was a couple of us Brits in this show.
02:10And so, and I, but I love this dish, it was an English dip.
02:14I went, I don't know, I'd never heard of this in England, but it was a beef sandwich that you
02:20dipped in gravy.
02:21Which I think is normally called a French dip, they called it an English dip and that was my goat.
02:24I had it every single day and I went, I wish they actually had this in England.
02:27Well, open up your own place.
02:28There you go, sorted.
02:30Just English dips.
02:31If your guy, your characters.
02:33Like you.
02:34Little English dip over here.
02:36If your characters had an unofficial motto, what do you think it would be?
02:41What would it be?
02:42What would an unofficial motto be?
02:45Get out of the way.
02:47I like that.
02:48I like that.
02:48I mean, there's one that's on the poster that's probably not suitable for, for, for broadcasters.
02:54Do it, I want it.
02:55Can we say it?
02:56We let's say, f*** those guys.
02:58Oh, that's, how rude.
02:59Yeah, I know, sorry, I'm sorry.
03:01I used, I shouldn't, I shouldn't curse around it.
03:03What about, um, without spoilers, um, what's the one word that you think audiences will be screaming at their TVs
03:10after episode 1?
03:11Um, butcher?
03:14Butcher?
03:16Would, would be one that, that some will.
03:20It might be that, that, um, that slightly blue word I just used there.
03:23They might say that.
03:24Might be that.
03:25Um, yeah.
03:27I think, I think, I think wah, wah, wee, wah, wah.
03:33How many syllables is that?
03:34A few, and a few W's.
03:36Um, let's just talk about, on the JK Danger scale, how much this is on, because you've done some beloved,
03:42beloved dads, you've done some, you know, villains.
03:45So what, what are we doing on the Danger scale?
03:48Well, I would, you know, it's not like I'm just some guy who's yelling at a drummer, right?
03:54I, I mean, people die, right?
03:57So, pretty high on the Danger scale.
04:00Yeah, I'm going to give it a nine.
04:02And, and, and we have room to grow in ensuing seasons.
04:06I feel so calm and cool with the Danger scale as well.
04:09I mean, you know, when you're, when you're the boss, that's what you have to exude.
04:14I also end up with the Beard scale, because that's just the biggest you've ever had it.
04:17I know.
04:18No, not quite.
04:19We're not quite the full Santa yet.
04:21I think it was bigger when I first met you.
04:23Oh, yeah, yeah, I had to hack it off for, for this one, right?
04:26Yeah.
04:27Oh.
04:27Um, yeah, but, yeah.
04:29Are you a beard oil kind of guy?
04:31Are you a bit of a conditioner?
04:32I got a little, I got a little something in there, you know, I'm trying.
04:34I asked this this morning, I said, do you want in that beard up?
04:37And he said, yes, thank you for noticing.
04:39Trying to tame it somewhat, because I'm not going to trim it for at least another four or five months.
04:44Wow, it's going to be down to your knees.
04:46Well, yeah, yeah, I'll be ZZ Topper.
04:49I'll be David Letterman, the people will mistake us for each other.
04:52Because we only finished filming, what, five, six months ago?
04:54Seven months ago?
04:55Wow.
04:56You are good at growing hair.
04:58Yeah.
04:58Love that.
04:58You know, it's a skill.
04:59Talking of hair, did you find yourself playing with it quite a lot when you were?
05:03Of course I did.
05:04Of course I did.
05:05I tweld my gun around my beautiful locks.
05:08I love that wig so much.
05:10And it was the only thing that was...
05:12That was a wig?
05:13Sorry, my real beautiful hair that I was very well conditioned.
05:17I loved it so much.
05:18And it makes you transform.
05:19It also gets in your eyes when you're trying to fight.
05:21And you're like, just trying to hold on, have a little L'Oreal moment in the middle of a brutal
05:26beat up.
05:26You know.
05:27We've got a beard advert here and a L'Oreal hair advert here.
05:31There is a company in this, guys.
05:33It was kind of a hair product company, isn't it?
05:35Yeah, we'll find it.
05:35Next season.
05:36We'll find the right thing.
05:36Men's grooming something.
05:38What would you be called there?
05:39They give up the gang life and they get into, yeah.
05:42Grooming accessories.
05:43Open a salon together.
05:45Brilliant.
05:46Did you love being the bad boy?
05:48Of course I did.
05:49Of course I did.
05:50It's like a weird childhood dream.
05:51Because we all run around, you know, we all run around just, I don't know, playing soldiers or, you know,
05:55whatever it is.
05:56And we get up and play make-believe every time we go on the set.
05:59And this was, yeah, it was fun.
06:01It was fun.
06:02Yeah, and I just loved the hand scenes.
06:04I thought it was absolutely genius.
06:06The hand scenes, yes.
06:07But I didn't find it as, like, creepy.
06:08I thought, I quite liked it.
06:10That was really weird.
06:10Good.
06:11I really, truly believe that this show will make audience members start to go, oh, that's fine.
06:16Actually, I quite like that he did that when they're doing something really terrible.
06:19So I'm glad it's working.
06:20Let's hope it doesn't encourage soaring off limbs.
06:24Yeah.
06:24Yeah, let's hope.
06:25Yeah, limb soaring goes up 20%.
06:28Going after my butcher, how easy it is to actually cut through a bone like that, because you did it
06:32really well.
06:33Yeah, it's not easy, actually.
06:36And the prosthetics that we use in this, because no real people were harmed in the making of this show.
06:43Not that killed.
06:44Not killed.
06:45Not maimed, maybe.
06:47But they made it quite very, very realistic.
06:50So one of the characters who has to do one of these despicable things, it might as well have been
06:55a real body.
06:56It was so good.
06:57Yeah.
06:58And you've done every genre under the sun, JK.
07:00Is this still, like, any more that you want to be ticking off?
07:04I honestly, I don't think of genre when I read things.
07:11I just think of character and story and themes.
07:16So, yeah, it's just kind of a weirdly a non-issue with me, except I'm not a horror guy.
07:23I don't like to watch horror, and I don't, you know, I have no plans to make a, like, full
07:30-on horror movie.
07:31There's plenty of horror in this, in its own way, but I'm mostly delegating it.
07:37Yeah.
07:37I want to see you two jazz hands in a rom-com next, maybe some singing.
07:41Good idea.
07:42Great idea.
07:43We'll do it.
07:43Get on it.
07:44In the West End next season.
07:46Thank you so much.
07:47I really did love it, and I'm going to go and watch it probably again.
07:50Oh, great.
07:51I'm just very glad you liked it.
07:52Lovely to meet you.
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