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today. As

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I step up to the microphone

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it's a hot summer day in

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London. I suspect if you're listen

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to this immediately it goes out

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such a the winter so it

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is a i'm enjoying lovely whether

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sin do V has already been

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on the show once that was

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over Zoom she was so good

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She made such a great impression

0:36

that I want to talk to

0:38

her again. So in August she

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came into. The of Oxford Studio

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in Fulham and we caught up. You

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know sin do from her stand up

0:47

that appeared on stuff like Care Live

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at the Apollo should Be Not mock

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that week, Let It Die and then

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she's moved seamlessly across into acting. You

0:56

might have seen her in A Sex

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Education She's in the second season of

1:01

that, she was in a Rose My

1:03

to fails Star struck and the thing

1:05

that I noticed her most in was

1:08

the the big screen adaptation of The

1:10

And Matilda musical in. The course of

1:12

our conversation we cover a million

1:14

thing the say: You'll notice towards

1:16

the end that my research wasn't

1:18

as strong as it could have

1:20

been because she's very much given

1:23

the impression in this interview that

1:25

the acting is in such a

1:27

big deal. And then she told

1:29

me all the stuff she'd shot

1:31

that hasn't come out yet. Ladies

1:33

gentlemen, everybody settle down. Enjoy Right

1:35

And and sind do V. Cinder

1:45

V is my guest. I'm a

1:47

standup comedian to I have to

1:49

say comedienne dressing A median? What?

1:51

What? Settle people, Just say keep it all

1:53

Gender neutral. Or right stand up comedian is

1:55

an actor and up comedian. Actor:

2:01

Mother former Korea woman.

2:03

Basically very impressive package.

2:05

as not in the

2:07

seventies sense of package

2:09

package. In that sense,

2:11

it should be noted:

2:13

oh, you're very. Impressive back

2:15

as in general hello. Look. At

2:17

me Since you can say that I am

2:20

I gonna say that she said it's a

2:22

i can endorse that message Sankyo. And

2:24

and the second timer on this

2:27

podcast first time during the war

2:29

was a call pandemic of her.

2:31

but now that soul behind this

2:33

we won't see. It's like again.

2:36

I'm and C Serum Plus. I

2:39

is great to be. Here is lovely. I

2:41

loved talking to you because you a

2:43

lot to say. You've a fascinating background.

2:45

If you want the background, go to

2:47

the other interview. It's

2:50

Summer of Twenty three. What does that

2:52

mean? This in Do V. And

2:57

taking the summer off technically work

2:59

wise. As and I'm only doing the things I really

3:01

want. So hello. Brighton. And

3:03

I'm. And that's wonderful. I

3:05

I ah, I'm someone who likes to

3:08

work. I I love it, I love

3:10

it. And forty this is not work

3:12

for me. What I do it said.

3:14

It's that it'll the people that you hear about

3:16

their like may pass and is my job he

3:18

has. I'm that guy at the moment. I don't

3:21

say things like that but I I am aware

3:23

that I have. A great guess that has

3:25

been given to us by. And

3:27

I'm of the powers that be out there. It's

3:29

a term. My friend and I have sport

3:31

to supreme powers of the universe. and since

3:34

he were teenagers would say we're going

3:36

to ask spoon do and I think

3:38

supreme. Part of the Universe have given me a

3:40

career. That's also something I love to do,

3:42

so when I say I'm taking time off,

3:44

I'm stopping myself. From working a lot

3:47

because it's not great for my his.

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Have you been over working? At. By.

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Many people's. Accounts. And

4:55

by my body's account my buddies that

4:57

that like pit stop or cyclists around

4:59

this podcast you can have it as

5:01

you can still be weird if you

5:03

said the phrase pit stop it's not

5:05

avail rob phrase I think that he

5:08

was alive not said it was actually

5:10

a third of the size of raised

5:12

the spectre that that he slipped out

5:14

between my lips. I'm not say no

5:16

not yet and I say the word

5:18

bits it's to do with dogs are

5:20

fund grooming are high and training like

5:22

the real term term. Day yeah

5:24

and that's perfectly legitimate and if anybody

5:27

would to challenge me if I were

5:29

trying to. Talk about a female dog.

5:31

I'd die. Why wouldn't I wouldn't stand for it?

5:34

I agree. I agree. Which.

5:37

I think. Actually, I think it's important

5:39

to know that that's. Like

5:41

when people talk to their kids. They'll.

5:44

Say, girl, dog and I want to say, but to

5:46

see bits that like know, but than that, learn the

5:48

word business that none of that is that's. One where

5:50

did it sets the word. And.

5:53

Any where where where we las something some off,

5:55

I I think some be I think some people

5:57

would say I was working too much but also.

6:00

Enjoy working as a way of. Suppressing.

6:03

Feelings. I

6:05

just do a means a suspect and so

6:07

and I've had a lot of feelings of

6:09

had a lot of loss my parents and

6:11

my in in my family to back to

6:14

back back to back and the just not

6:16

wanted to but he seal any ceilings about

6:18

that. I just wanna get on. When

6:21

when did this happen? It's Sam.

6:24

A. Splendid.

6:27

Also much you can't remember. It and the play.

6:29

Nineteen and then twenty. Twenty.

6:31

One. And then Twenty twenty. Two Oh no, you're one

6:34

by one of the pups at. Not that I had

6:36

three parents, but other people. In. The family and I

6:38

don't often talk about it, but I'm getting to a

6:40

place now I can say is where I can say

6:42

I like to. Suppress. Feals The

6:44

word hell seats. No No. But.

6:47

I. So I mean I smoked for

6:49

years. That wasn't healthy, but it was

6:51

great. We sinking the list talks about

6:53

smoking for money because you see, I'm

6:55

A. I've never smoked whole, earning, never

6:57

lot. I've never seen the appeal because

7:00

we know it's bad for us. We

7:02

know is anti social. all these things.

7:04

But know it wasn't any of those things when I

7:06

started my dentist used to smoke and I was a

7:08

kid and be doing my teacher. Know he had

7:10

an ashtray a kid the first of all, Second

7:12

of all, As. A teenager. In

7:15

the. A late

7:17

eighties it was not anti social. It was

7:19

the cool thing to do if you've

7:21

got smoke billowing out for everyone smoked

7:23

drop at that time. Okay, I wouldn't.

7:25

My social circle I get where you

7:27

stand on beeping. I. Leave Now I have

7:29

of my vapor how. They are, you wonder? Okay,

7:32

now I'm I'm an outsider to the

7:34

world as a thing, and smoking by

7:36

the sounds I disapprove. Oh, entirely so

7:38

does my husband. Good I'm with your

7:40

husband. Tell me, are you are It

7:42

seems to me there's two types of

7:44

vapors, the ones that walk around like

7:46

this. Crisis

7:48

and very little stuff comes

7:51

out and then those. It's

7:53

as if they've got some

7:55

kind of nuclear cooling plans

7:57

and they take the little

7:59

sup and enough vapor for

8:01

a Siegfried and Roy extravaganza.

8:03

Oh my gosh, come out,

8:05

Which are you. Like.

8:08

Got them boot. Cool. From home we

8:10

have Buddhism I take the middle pass on case

8:12

when i have a jewel which is of a

8:14

small thing was at in the kids have a

8:16

lot of. I. Don't they? All

8:19

the time but when i v it's use

8:21

accent working or writing. Is

8:24

not that much a Siegfried and.

8:27

Who was it Succeed and Royce because I

8:29

can see when I'm tapings. but it's also

8:31

I don't suddenly in a corner and they

8:33

i don't have little corner do anything fun

8:36

doing it I'm doing it. I

8:38

sneak sleeping around like I liked of eight and

8:40

places like you're not allowed to have a pure

8:43

and simple you can't do anything. Isis is

8:45

strange because outside I notice we use the

8:47

studio lot and I notice on the way

8:49

in today as I said buzzing and to

8:51

do with a my id and and are

8:53

trying to get a utility bills so they

8:55

let me in a i notice for the

8:57

first time this know these smoking or safe

8:59

being on the premises. And I thought on the

9:02

premises, what what does that mean? Which premise. I think

9:04

we know what it means. It means the building. Of his insides.

9:06

I still like. At were going to be

9:08

your defense. I didn't know what. Supremacy Snowman

9:10

premises. Makes it feel like it's the premises. Now that

9:12

gonna stand out here are. Some

9:15

that and the premises know, but listen,

9:17

I'm a lifelong. Smoker who's quit

9:19

smoking. Ah, I'm

9:21

only do it if I'm very distressed, but. It's only

9:23

for a few days and then I V P. I

9:26

have a nicotine addicts and what you owe me to say

9:28

I'm. Sorry. Sir.

9:30

But I mean I to. Nicorette deny the

9:32

know I I used to smoke and

9:35

to Nicorette. At the Psych none. Why

9:37

don't you serious? Yeah, Because you couldn't smoke

9:39

inside. Or somebody like. Ah,

9:41

And so to Nicorette. I'd never smoked and

9:43

my children were young. Because.

9:46

While I was always with them and I'd. I.

9:48

Don't think smoking on kids is. Cool. I think

9:50

that the I I think we're all the an

9:52

agreement on that the you say it as though

9:54

it's just a good to of. I think we

9:57

know I think as a society we're all agreed.

9:59

Yes, but I think. That is worse if you

10:01

said to me. Issues that was younger

10:03

I would guess that was. You know what to do around?

10:05

Your kids like been a terrible mood or be

10:07

mean to them so she smoked. Yeah but

10:09

if you can avoid it does. on to

10:11

it's and I didn't So here we are. I

10:14

vapor little bit I to Nicorette a little

10:16

bit. Zebra.

10:18

To see reports of leaping is terrible

10:20

for hims thing that smoking is bad

10:22

for you. yes. And that leaping apparently

10:24

leaves a film. On. Your lungs or

10:26

something. I'm like oh god yeah whenever he.

10:28

I won't take last thing and I may

10:31

have simply trying to quit everything. Also, you

10:33

should remind you constant because you sound unapologetic

10:35

as if putting would be the last things

10:37

into the wanted to do know. I think

10:40

it's because I know that it's bad for you some

10:42

like man as you can stop this that regrets in

10:44

the and So I come up with little ploys that

10:46

sale. By. Glad he was already

10:48

a place where the I give. My they to my

10:50

husband had don't give it to me and then I'm

10:52

so crazy. He's like to take the fucking they are

10:54

you. You're in. And literally you're packing your bags

10:57

to get a divorce is take the vapor

10:59

my pockets but I think never give up.

11:03

That's what I said. You'll be walking down

11:05

the street, the somebody in front of you

11:08

doing one of those vapours that does lead

11:10

to the industrial levels of paper. Your reaction

11:12

to that. I think well I

11:14

hope when they're ready to quit, they do. The.

11:17

I don't understand how that person

11:19

can't think. This is not very

11:21

nice for the people around me.

11:24

A Deal I you're not an addictive. Personality?

11:26

I you know. yeah okay said that other

11:28

thing that other and u. S ah

11:30

my, but it's not enough time. I think it's a

11:32

sin under. A and see and that's

11:34

a good addiction of other my husband's addicted

11:37

to exercise is in which I'm like, that's

11:39

that's still call it an addiction. Your

11:41

you like exercise now more than you like

11:43

when I know my jaw i don't have

11:45

an addictive personality is easy for me to

11:48

take this. Is easy. I don't think

11:50

access to stand. But. That's life like

11:52

you like. you're like, wait, it's so bad for

11:54

you. Why do you do it in a psych? I know,

11:56

but I can help it. All

11:59

right, Okay, This husband

12:01

I'm a heat to beat what

12:03

people should know when they probably

12:05

know if they knew anything about

12:07

you Don't know that you come

12:09

from a background of business finance,

12:11

finance guess right stuff, which is

12:13

unusual in the world of comedy.

12:16

Very okay. and then you got

12:18

into relatively later in life than

12:20

a lot of people in to

12:22

comedy, and now you've gone. Not

12:25

become a fascist. You're

12:28

not. You're not giving salutes that you shouldn't. My kids

12:30

think of my hands on. Right

12:32

well into the Stratosphere, right?

12:34

Thank you! Super busy, super

12:36

in demand. How

12:39

is your husband who is

12:41

also in Sinai Nancy still

12:43

in that world? Different worlds.

12:46

How is he responded? On.

12:51

He's been very happy for me because

12:53

I think he's he's very good friend

12:55

of mine is by one of my

12:57

best friends, so he understands. They.

13:00

Organic nature of what has

13:02

gone. On with me and stand up

13:04

and so on. So is very happy for

13:06

me because ah. Because

13:09

he knows that this is it. Somehow doing

13:11

this makes me. A

13:13

complete. And I

13:15

think it's been very important to have

13:17

been doing this. In. Those

13:19

years when I say so that of last

13:21

year because I think if I was not

13:24

if I didn't have this thing which is

13:26

kind of a grounding for me in terms

13:28

of. Meaning. I think

13:30

I would have been. Very ah oh if

13:32

but have been much harder. Because

13:35

I would have just looked at my family and said now

13:37

you guys have to give me meaning and that's never fair

13:39

and also have teenagers. They're like fuck off with

13:41

the meaning. We're going to dwell on shit

13:43

like at my age, that lobby latest, what

13:45

age? They they hated if I

13:48

talk about them specifically. Someone to be

13:50

very broad to are older teenagers.

13:53

And one is a new and. Treatment and to

13:55

ten his of as soon as teens

13:57

of it but their lights. Because

14:00

the older they're like, you didn't take our consent

14:02

the my. I don't know you're seated. they. Don't

14:04

like it and I'm like okay was so

14:06

I say I'll be general. Okay, okay

14:08

and so I'm very. Very general,

14:10

but that's so My husband is very

14:13

happy. for me, he's extremely busy so

14:15

really what it comes down to is

14:17

how we manage the household. With

14:19

if. I'm away on tour and he has to

14:21

travel a lot. But you know, We.

14:24

Make it work because neither was is gonna stop what

14:26

we like to do. And

14:28

I think it's also. Are

14:30

you married? How long have

14:33

you been married since two? Well this

14:35

is the second. Since.

14:38

Two thousand and Six. Seventeen

14:41

years now. And seniors. The point

14:43

is, you can you get to a

14:45

place in your marriage where it's less

14:47

about. The. Two of us

14:49

together. But. More. Who

14:52

are the two. Of us separately. And what does

14:54

that mean when we're together? Because.

14:56

Your kids grow up. You know it's

14:58

not always. Marriages,

15:00

Change over time and soon the kids are on

15:02

the way. They're all you know. There are pretty

15:05

much on the way of being who they're gonna

15:07

be and then it's like, well for the two

15:09

people that are left. And. What

15:11

happens when they come together? What's going on

15:13

with them? My of my belief is that

15:15

the. More. Settled. You

15:17

are in yourself doing what you love. Then.

15:20

You know, just like a better friend, you're better.

15:22

Partner and I think that's working touch

15:24

wood. Well love

15:27

never ends. Not. That you don't love,

15:29

never ends and selves. I don't think and

15:31

will say this. For the record, I don't

15:33

think I could have imagined a more. Supportive

15:36

spouse. If one day

15:38

in my mind have been to the oil what if

15:40

I became a stand up and suddenly had to go

15:43

here is was leaving every night and was digging and

15:45

was talking with all these things on stage. it's foods.

15:47

who could I come up with. Even

15:49

what I would have imagined would have been some

15:51

one. Ah, Less

15:54

excellent at being a support. than

15:56

what my husband is for sure and

15:58

how does he get on with

16:00

your new Tani folk

16:02

friends. God. You

16:06

know, we, our work is

16:09

so different in terms of

16:11

everything, but also timing. He's not going to come to

16:13

gigs, because someone's got to be at home with the

16:15

kids. So he doesn't come to gigs. Very

16:18

often he's away. I mean, he's in Asia right

16:20

now. So what am I going to say to

16:22

him? Don't go to your job, come and be

16:24

with me here. But he must have, because

16:26

now you will have developed friendships

16:28

with with other

16:31

performers. So that becomes

16:33

your friendship circle. They must he must

16:35

cross over with them. He does. And,

16:37

you know, he's Danish. He's funny.

16:39

He's funny. He thinks he

16:42

when he comes to Edinburgh, he comes to shows. There's

16:46

no problem. The thing is, none of the

16:48

people that I might become very close

16:50

friends with through comedy or

16:52

my acting are ever going to be very close

16:55

friends of his. But that's fine. I

16:57

have a lot of my own close friends that anyway, I don't want him to

16:59

be close friends with. OK, because, you

17:01

know, when you have really close girlfriends, especially they

17:04

need to have enough distance from your spouse that you

17:06

can tell them all the worst things and they

17:08

don't have to meet him the next day. You

17:10

know what I mean? That's

17:13

a very knowing laugh. I'm

17:16

a very knowing man. There you go. And you know exactly

17:18

what I mean. You need to keep some distance. If

17:21

I've said it once, I've said it a different way.

17:33

Do you still play Edinburgh? Well,

17:37

I think there's all I

17:39

think I'm at the point where I can choose every

17:41

year if I'm going up or not. This year I

17:43

was taking the summer off. I said, no, last

17:46

year my father was just getting

17:48

unwell. So I went and I came back.

17:52

So, yeah, I mean, when, you know, we'll see where

17:54

I'm at next year. You're getting more and

17:56

more acting roles now, aren't you? I mean,

17:58

you know, they just seem to come one.

18:00

one after another, that must be very gratifying.

18:04

Because it's just opportunities. You know, when you

18:06

start out in this business, you're just wanting

18:08

opportunities and they're so hard to come by.

18:10

Yes. But when eventually those

18:12

doors start to open, it's

18:15

a lovely feeling. Yeah, I think when you're in

18:17

stand up, it's easier. You're not

18:19

waiting for the phone to ring. You can go to a club, you

18:21

can say, I want to try it. And then of course, there is

18:23

a trajectory, you know, you do you sign

18:25

up for open mic, and then you get five minutes. Once

18:28

you're in the circuit, you want

18:30

to get the very beginning of that

18:32

journey, though, I remember, I remember the

18:34

shock of trying to go to an

18:36

open mic thing and say, I just

18:38

want to come to an open mic.

18:40

Okay, you can come back a year

18:42

this September. I mean, slight exaggeration, but

18:44

not much. No, I couldn't believe it.

18:46

You're not serious. All

18:48

I want to do is just five minutes.

18:51

No, no. Yeah, no, no. I mean, there are

18:53

clubs like that. But thankfully, there were also clubs at

18:55

that time, there was one on Liverpool Street called Dirty

18:57

Dicks, where you could go and just

18:59

if you showed up at 530, and put

19:01

your name down, and in enough time, you got

19:03

a slot. Yeah. Wow. Okay. So I remember

19:06

doing homework with the children, and

19:08

then giving them their dinner, and then waiting for

19:10

the babysitter and literally legging it to

19:12

the tube. So I wouldn't miss the cutoff. I

19:15

remember that so clearly. Which year were

19:17

you starting to do that? 20, probably

19:19

2015. Had

19:23

the smoking ban come in by then? Oh, yeah,

19:25

big time. Right. See, when I started, oh, yeah,

19:27

because I'm older than you, I started

19:30

in the mid 90s. And

19:32

as we've established, I'm not a smoker, but

19:34

everyone must have been very intolerant.

19:37

Yeah. And I'd go to these clubs

19:40

from my fresh shared home life.

19:43

And I literally couldn't be in the club

19:46

waiting to go on, I'd have to find

19:48

a door and be outside because these places

19:50

would be like a Dickensian fog of smoke.

19:52

Yeah. And I would be doing things with

19:54

my voice in my act. So

19:57

I'd come on and I'd be like this.

20:02

Well, I love the Smokey Pub. I bet you

20:04

do. Yeah. I loved it. In fact,

20:06

I used to smoke. You could smoke in the smoking room on

20:08

the trading floor when I started. And

20:11

so I used to be, you would like do trades and

20:13

tell someone to watch your phone go dash over. And

20:16

in the smoking room was like, you couldn't see anything

20:18

because everyone would be in there just smoking and come

20:20

out. I remember my hair, my clothes, everything is just

20:22

a amount of cigarettes. It would sting. I used

20:24

to smoke easily 30 cigarettes

20:27

a day at that time. Sweet. No.

20:30

Do you ever use this? You still see now.

20:33

Well, you see the people stood outside

20:35

buildings, right? But I noticed at airports,

20:37

they still have smoking rooms.

20:40

The Geneva airport has one. No, no,

20:42

Europe and Asia often do. It

20:45

looks like some kind of scientific experiment.

20:47

Yeah. Yeah. Rich

20:50

of these people will die first.

20:52

They all started smoking in this

20:54

sealed room with a glass wall.

20:56

Look at that one in the corner. She

20:59

is but weeks from death. Whereas

21:01

this man, his lungs are doing very

21:03

well. I know it's crazy, especially for

21:05

Europeans because they're so healthy in some ways

21:07

and they're biking around and running and jogging.

21:10

And Denmark, you could smoke inside for

21:12

many years after you couldn't smoke inside

21:14

here. I remember that happily. I used to

21:16

go to Denmark then. Where in the world now is

21:18

it still allowed? I think

21:20

Japan. I think you can still

21:22

fly on Japanese flights. I don't know. Actually, don't

21:25

come for me. I'm not sure, but I knew you could for a

21:27

very long time. I remember

21:29

when I flew to the UK from

21:31

India to start university because I'd got

21:33

a scholarship to study here and

21:36

all of the friends were there were five.

21:38

There were nine of us who'd got scholarships

21:40

to come to the UK. They

21:43

were all trying to get British Airways. And

21:46

I wanted to fly Air France because you could smoke

21:48

in the back of the flight. And my parents were like,

21:50

why Air France? And I was like, it's a

21:52

cheaper ticket. I flew Air France to set

21:55

them back. Did they know you smoked?

21:57

No. Oh my God, they would have killed.

21:59

My mother would have killed me. That's a hell of a secret

22:01

to keep from them. Yeah, I would know because I didn't smoke

22:03

that much then, like one or two a day at university.

22:06

Oh, you were building up at that stage. You

22:08

weren't fully fledged. Yeah, but also, no. Well, I

22:10

probably could have smoked more had I not had

22:12

the fear of death. Mommy would

22:14

have killed me easily without even blinking. Your

22:17

mother was a very strong woman, wasn't she? Strict.

22:19

Strict. Is that the better word, better than strong?

22:21

Strict, yes. Give me some examples of this strictness,

22:23

which is so out of step with

22:26

parenting now. I

22:29

remember there was a boy in my, I was

22:31

in my final year of school. He

22:34

was expelled by then, so the year before, so

22:36

what's called Lower Sixth or the year before

22:38

you take A-levels. And

22:40

he had phoned me at home, and we had two phones

22:42

you could pick up upstairs. And he phoned

22:45

me. It was a very innocent conversation. He said, hi. He

22:47

was in my class. I knew him. He said, hi, how

22:49

are you, Baba? Would you like to go out for an

22:51

ice cream with me? Which in

22:53

those days in India was quite bold. And

22:58

I was like, well, Mommy will kill me because

23:00

she was like not having me meeting boys. I had

23:02

lots of guy friends and they were always over. But

23:05

this one-on-one ice cream, and she didn't like him because

23:07

she said he was a richy,

23:09

rich guy's son who was never going to come to

23:11

much. Blah, blah, blah. And lo and

23:13

behold, he was expelled. Yeah, yeah.

23:15

What was he expelled from? That's because he exploded a bomb

23:18

in one of the bathrooms. It wasn't like a big bomb. It did

23:20

just take off the door. I think any bomb

23:22

to me regardless of size is a

23:24

no-no. No, but I have daughters. And

23:26

if they were to say to me,

23:28

this is Martin. He,

23:32

oh, I should tell you, he let off a

23:34

bomb in the toilet. But it wasn't

23:36

like a bad, like, you know,

23:38

bombs, a bad thing to do on Diwali

23:40

in India. We have firecrackers and some of them

23:42

are called bombs. Oh, wait a minute. OK. No, and they don't

23:44

leave a hole and they're very unsafe. So

23:47

he just him and his friends got a bunch of them together. And there

23:49

was some other stuff in there. Well,

23:52

they kind of flew off the door of the

23:54

boy's bathroom, but he

23:56

wouldn't tell who else had done it. So They

23:58

said, we'll expel you. And He was a good guy. Yeah, I

24:00

had. I didn't know because he had.

24:02

He had character principles, schemes. A principles

24:04

Bama. Out on I've I've ever admired

24:07

him. He's a dear friend of mine. As still,

24:09

I don't have had ever admired him. I just

24:11

thought when you have something going for you, you

24:13

moron at issue themselves Anyway, so the. Year before

24:15

this series On the phone to you Said.

24:17

Canal an ice cream and I said none of this and I don't

24:19

know. I have to think about it and have to lie and go.

24:22

By. Didn't sell legislative know what mommy will say and

24:24

so he said i you know. It

24:26

doesn't matter if you don't listen to your parents, which

24:28

of course he. Thinks that both like okay. he

24:30

hung up. At that time my

24:32

father worked in the government so we had two

24:34

guards outside our door and they were caught the

24:36

line which came with the job and think that

24:39

my dad was special my mother came down the

24:41

stairs she asked me something about did and and

24:43

she said and by the way. If.

24:45

You do go for that. I scream

24:47

understand this you I will get married

24:50

to the gardeners brother. Another gardeners by

24:52

the had severe mental health problems and

24:54

lived in our in the back of.

24:56

Our house would talk to trees, eat. Grass

24:58

like he had problems so you always saw him

25:00

in your like this guy's not ok city him

25:03

she said i'm gonna marry you have to him

25:05

and as for that boy's. Gonna. Get

25:07

the two guards are gonna go find him and break

25:09

his legs and so many places he won't walk again.

25:11

So you decide if you want to have an ice

25:13

cream and she walked out of the room. As

25:16

like. I'm

25:18

she's not saying this in a humorous way.

25:20

None of. That of my mother. Never. She

25:22

never. I don't mind my mother of a

25:24

making a threat in carry out. She made

25:26

them. they rarely but cared. timeouts. That's one

25:28

example of her being very strict. Another example

25:31

of this was. We were in Hsbc

25:33

here. I had two children and. See.

25:35

Had. The she's got

25:37

some cash you want me to put in my bank account.

25:40

That. She had got to rak us something some

25:42

they say the out on a what it was

25:44

any with the she can't take us dollars back

25:47

to india baba anyway where they're i protect my

25:49

passport for some i didn't some Id stuff and

25:51

she says to me be careful with your passport

25:53

don't leave it down on like month I got

25:55

it or but it's to like it Easy for

25:57

you to see doj but it member when you

25:59

left. My when you left the and like

26:01

yeah yeah yeah I'll be fine I've got two

26:03

children rob I get there, I hand him the

26:05

thing sees yap yap giving me some shit like

26:07

mommy, come on com on and then he says

26:09

yes as fine as uk and I'm turning to

26:11

leave and as. My. Passport is this

26:14

to transmit as see left the password

26:16

give me a tight slap as used

26:18

to the and the Hsbc guide looked

26:20

at anywhere else and she said my

26:22

you're going to call police on me

26:24

I don't get she is adult. And.

26:26

He got so scared he backed off of the

26:28

glass. I was like my you're scaring the Hsbc

26:30

guess she said you don't understand She's always for

26:32

getting her passport units. The guy was like please

26:35

leave a took my password I said are you

26:37

can be smacking me. Here. She

26:39

said but they'll put mean the do I will

26:41

go happy to do to because you're so stupid

26:43

it's like okay. How.

26:46

We were very good friends. Mommy in a. Pistol.

26:49

Funny. She's. So funny and is

26:51

a mean. She was very strict but

26:53

it was. You knew you

26:55

knew what the rules or it was that

26:57

she was Never aren't Welsh was of the

26:59

laboratory. Sometimes when she was never arbitrary you

27:02

always knew. I mean see, I knew it's I never

27:04

said yes to the boy. But the Us girls like

27:06

mom is gonna get really upset and your

27:08

what's your mothering your parenting style with your

27:10

kids. What's that been? Ah. Not

27:13

like mom because you can't really in the west

27:15

carry that off without going to jail and is

27:17

getting taken away. And I'm married to Scandinavian so

27:19

that's and something. But also. When.

27:21

You are a very. Strict parents. But

27:24

you're in the middle space of like your

27:26

kid went abroad and you know and I

27:28

went abroad and I became more liberal and

27:31

my ideas changed. My mother adapt it to

27:33

see and that was a really are and

27:35

that was a healing for us. as a

27:37

mother and daughter side tried to keep that

27:39

kind of stuff. with

27:41

my kids. Obviously. By

27:43

everyone's account, I'm. Too strict. But.

27:46

I know I'm not. One. Not

27:48

compared. Zero You use your your

27:50

kind of baseline is your mother?

27:53

Liberals the any to give children listen. Children

27:55

need to be resilient. Yeah, can't be raising

27:57

kids. I want that as my to have

27:59

like. Me: it's not about you. You gotta raise

28:01

kids that can go out in the world, get

28:04

slapped down and will get up again and this

28:06

be and you know they need to be resilient.

28:08

The can be. Like. My mom used

28:10

as a mom get on a bunny suit like you're

28:12

made of lack things get hot new gonna melt. So

28:15

I've tried to give that to the kids

28:18

cause you know the world is great and

28:20

fun but you gotta. Know

28:22

who you are in for that. You have to know what your

28:24

boundaries. Are and it's your Parents will give

28:26

you that you Doctor I'm and you

28:28

lost her. And in these last few

28:31

really, Nineteen Twenty Nineteen And in this

28:33

way that we should have become our

28:35

parents as we get older. Who are

28:37

you most becoming your mother Or your

28:39

father Who. I'm I'm probably

28:41

going to start being more like my

28:43

father now. Really? yeah it's my father

28:46

was the one who was sort of

28:48

more etti certain aspects of my father

28:50

which I think our about sort of

28:52

grounded in hindu ways of looking at

28:54

the world which I've always had but

28:56

I've never had to really think about

28:59

it cause he was always there site

29:01

you know. but but at the bumblebee

29:03

time sort of. It's

29:05

how how to lead a good

29:07

life. And. As that

29:09

is instructed, In sort of Hindus religious.

29:11

Last spiritual belief I think I'm at started

29:14

creeping up more and more because I don't.

29:16

You know you don't have to think about

29:18

things was you have someone there who does

29:20

does the thinking for you. So I think

29:22

that's gonna come. I think it's coming. The.

29:25

Kids make fun of me. They. Say oh

29:27

yeah Oh Hindle is a move that I say

29:29

things I'm like I think I'm becoming like my

29:31

bed to. That's what I used to think about

29:33

him. I said earlier. I.

29:35

Said love never ends and for people

29:37

watching this on you tube don't know

29:39

why I said it's people just listening.

29:41

they won't know. Pussy Sanyo T should

29:43

sit in. What? What? That rings a

29:45

bell. We set a musical. Is.

29:48

That from. Is. That from

29:50

fun to more something? What is that?

29:53

I don't know, I just I always leave if I

29:55

just states such As he said. That said something. I

29:57

agreed with. Yeah which. Is Love never And.

30:00

The isn't that from our Isn't

30:02

that from a musical. I

30:04

I'm I'm I'm the wrong That as got on. I.

30:06

Just the love. That I have one that says this.

30:08

I have another one. that almost word today. Not.

30:11

All the says Chitty Chitty Bang by know what

30:13

that means Know. It says here comes Love. She

30:15

comes loves and. Then I have another one that's

30:17

as true Love's. And. Because

30:20

I think am I am a big. Big

30:22

buyer of love. A I

30:24

thought the musical thing because of

30:26

your appearance in the Splendid Matilda

30:29

musical, which was a lovely saying,

30:31

wasn't. Anybody. I have to tell you, you

30:33

know you've done a lot my acting than me and that was

30:35

the first time I'd done. Something. That biggs

30:37

I really didn't understand our editing works or

30:39

anything, and it was doing lots of cool vid

30:42

side is on what was going. When.

30:44

I saw the movie else like this is incredible like

30:46

Daves and then someone said to me. It's called

30:48

production values their high as

30:51

the times As a society.

30:53

Says that an amazing job!

30:55

Yeah, you know Matthew is

30:57

a genius. Which and and also

30:59

great. Met a state supported mentor but

31:01

this is Matthew Will forces or I

31:03

did a play with him. Did you

31:05

find him to be the calmest person

31:07

you've you've ever met? When we did

31:09

the play he was sorry very credibly

31:11

com very. Com very soft spoken guess

31:13

which means when things were not working

31:16

there, you understood because you could actually.

31:18

Hear his voice but like I think

31:20

you know. But I'm and also Elisa

31:22

who was Matilda here with whom I had

31:24

all my scenes Issue: Is this a complete

31:26

and Sam because A I forgot my lines

31:28

in the beginning so so nervous she would

31:30

whisper them trees in your my lines Her

31:32

lines but also just great And it says

31:35

it's like a regular kid and one of

31:37

my kids her age so in the brakes

31:39

We were always playing rock paper scissors. Know

31:41

like a mother let you win and I

31:43

didn't. Because you can

31:45

cheat as adult that that and sheet. yeah.

31:47

How dude she's rock paper scissors Assist. you

31:49

with that split second two kids they don't get it

31:51

they go right for the thing you witnessed second then

31:53

you can say i did see the bit nuts or

31:56

i'm cheating since like this It

32:07

was a fantastic film. I always liked

32:09

the story, but I think this way

32:11

of watching it was

32:14

quite mesmerizing. I mean, Trunch Bowl was scary.

32:17

Kids were crying, which I think is how

32:19

Trunch Bowl should be. Yeah, absolutely. I loved

32:21

it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Are you

32:23

doing more of those? To what extent is that

32:25

when you're in something like that? Sometimes you'll

32:27

get a part in a big thing like

32:29

that and you'll think, oh, well, here we

32:31

go. And then time

32:33

and again, I've had many people and I've experienced

32:36

it, say, oh, but nothing really changed after that.

32:39

But how has it been for you? It's

32:42

a big thing to be in a film. What

32:44

that? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I

32:46

mean, prior to that, I'd done little cameos

32:49

in either, you know, in sitcoms that my

32:51

comedian friends had written a tiny,

32:53

like five second role in sex education.

32:57

So I just sort of understood it to be

32:59

something that builds. And then when this came along,

33:02

I think, I think this Rob, I

33:04

didn't really finish Matilda and say, oh, well, I guess

33:06

now I'm just going to act all the time. I

33:08

thought that was the anomaly. So

33:11

I finished Matilda and I did

33:13

my I could I had to change

33:15

my tour. Then

33:18

what to allow the filming? No,

33:21

because of lockdown. Oh, I see. So then was that. And

33:23

then as soon as we could tour, I got out and

33:25

toured. And at that time I was doing

33:27

another film, which I was like, oh,

33:30

OK, great. But then I was like, but I'm

33:32

going to go on tour. So in some ways,

33:34

I've been that kind of idiotic person who's like

33:36

not noticing what's really going on because I'm away

33:38

being like, but what about my nice thing?

33:40

Yeah, right. Now, I think out over

33:42

it. Looking back, I think

33:44

that's been great. So when

33:47

I did Matilda and, you know, the

33:50

other thing, I think then I started thinking,

33:52

oh, this is not something that's

33:55

This is something I have to think more about.

33:57

Also, I have to decide why I Enjoy this

33:59

because. Acting is to me,

34:01

it's It's much more nerve wracking than

34:04

stand up by far. Because.

34:06

Are. You gonna do stuff like learn words? And.

34:09

If you get them wrong, someone was a cop. Can we

34:11

go again? Wouldn't with me when I'm on stage. And

34:13

on I am. I could make it

34:15

all up. No one knows everybody on

34:17

on a lot of film sets you

34:20

get the feeling that everybody's of the

34:22

top of the game. All the crew

34:24

all the tech people is so good.

34:26

These and the it usually run so

34:28

smoothly and then he comes down to

34:30

and action and you're like our our

34:32

our i don't know my line that's

34:34

not cool so you gotta learn. Lines eve

34:36

that you know there's a lot more going on

34:38

with acting and also. Acting. As

34:40

like stand up a muscle and I'd

34:42

never exercised minutes essential I was into

34:44

school plays one in god spell I

34:46

was. A tree See I hear you

34:48

a very good s. And then another play.

34:51

i was one of the dancing girls are just

34:53

goes by and tesla and and just have passed

34:55

the state so yeah a but you know and

34:57

then I was like okay this is a muscle

34:59

I have to exercise at what does it mean

35:01

and so I started to think more about it

35:03

and I'm but what. About technique of new. Watch

35:05

yourself back in Mathilde, What's in the beginning

35:07

and I kept losing my right. And when

35:10

when you eventually managed to keep your eyes

35:12

open, what did you think to the. Isis.

35:16

Members as member I was so nervous and that

35:18

seen a member of thing so nervous and best

35:20

I could I can't I couldn't separate myself from

35:22

this is helps at all. I was like I've

35:24

never been nervous depths I couldn't see what other

35:27

people were seeing, eye dismember how I cells and

35:29

I was. Panicking. But what about your

35:31

actual performance? You watching the performance ago

35:33

and of those good old done too

35:35

much their oh. Yes, Now now because

35:37

I've acted in two other things to

35:40

and a half and so again, youths

35:42

someone needs practice now. and when I

35:44

was Mathilde I think or act totally

35:47

done that differently, had done that better,

35:49

but that has taken time and. have

35:52

you had experience yet of acting with

35:54

somebody who's very seasoned and very good

35:57

screen actor and they appear to be

35:59

doing Yeah,

36:02

I have. I am someone who

36:04

comes on and says, excuse me, I don't

36:07

know anything. Please feel free to direct me

36:09

and tell me what I'm wrong. And because

36:11

I am very much in student mode. And

36:13

so that means that I'm most often watching

36:15

people when I'm doing stuff to see, are

36:17

they going to tell me I'm very

36:19

focused on not fucking up my

36:22

language. So I think

36:24

in some ways, I'm not even really focusing on

36:26

anyone else. I'm just like, except in the scene,

36:28

which I know you is, you know, you have to

36:31

really give your scene

36:33

partner what they need. Everyone

36:35

is more experienced than me at the moment,

36:38

because I have been very lucky to get

36:40

parts with really accomplished actors. So

36:42

then I'm just, I'm like, Oh, by the way, if

36:44

I screw this up, please tell me because I don't know what I'm doing. And they're

36:46

like, fine. I had that it out. And

36:48

I always ask for help from the director. And

36:50

I think it's so wonderful to have directors who

36:52

want more like you say, can you please direct

36:55

me and say, that's what I want

36:57

to hear. Yeah, I love that. Yeah. And that's

36:59

been your experience so far that people are open

37:01

to that and receptive to that. Yes. And they've

37:03

also told me because they've understood quite quickly that

37:06

I'm very anxious. If we say it's

37:08

good, it's good. Then don't worry about it. And I just say,

37:10

okay, fine. Yeah, you know,

37:12

it, I haven't had, I mean, as

37:14

you go is how you practice and also the

37:16

intensity like when you're a standup and you go

37:18

to Edinburgh, it's like boot camp. You

37:20

know, I was doing six, seven gigs a day. And

37:22

then my show for 30 days with

37:25

acting. It's slower. Yeah. And

37:27

so totally different rhythm. And that's the thing

37:29

we talk about a lot on this podcast is

37:33

the different sort of disciplines because

37:36

when you are making a film or

37:38

a series, frankly,

37:40

just the hours and hours of nothing

37:42

of waiting, of waiting, but then when

37:44

the time comes, you've got to try

37:46

and be the best you can be

37:48

because that's what's going to be out

37:50

there. You would have started experiencing that

37:52

going a long way down the road

37:55

of your career. And it's, it's, it's,

37:58

it's, it's, I bang on a. about

38:00

it all the time because you

38:02

see actors sitting around and I've even seen,

38:04

I love succession, one of my favorite shows

38:06

and I saw some behind the scenes shots

38:09

of them all sat in some office area

38:11

for some office scene in between takes and

38:14

I just so recognized that they're on

38:16

their phones, they're probably bored out of

38:18

there waiting and waiting but at the

38:20

same time you've got to keep that

38:23

ability to be focused. Absolutely

38:25

and I think being exactly and

38:29

that's why it's been good to be around a

38:31

lot of actors who are both experienced and accomplished

38:33

because they'll give you those tips and

38:36

they'll say you're not getting paid for what you're acting and

38:38

paid for the waiting and you're like

38:40

oh so that's the level at which it is

38:43

and also they'll tell you things about how

38:46

to keep yourself in the right headspace. I think

38:48

one of the things I'm learning about acting is

38:50

it's unlike stand up for me, it's a

38:52

very interior process. You

38:55

make all these decisions, all this focus

38:58

interiorly including how you are feeling

39:00

as the character and then you

39:02

go do your job. With stand up it's very

39:04

exterior and first of all focus on everyone else in

39:06

the room. Why are you not laughing? Why did that joke

39:08

not land? You know what I mean? Are

39:10

you still doing that? Are you still spotting the ones that

39:13

are not enjoying it and focusing on them? I

39:15

think it's good to try and get past

39:17

that because it's not fair on

39:20

the bulk of the audience who are really enjoying

39:22

it. I used to

39:24

notice so and so over there and

39:26

they're not liking it. Now I am

39:29

a second thought because you're then characterizing

39:31

the whole room as that

39:33

person. It's not fair and all the people are loving it. Oh no, I talk

39:35

about it then with the whole room. I say you know

39:38

because often I'm like it's not that you don't

39:40

like this, this is funny, why are you not laughing?

39:42

Then I'll have a discussion with them and most people

39:44

are like I should have laughed because this is getting

39:46

to be about my mother, my father, my analysis. But

39:49

no, I do. But you're right, one

39:51

has to get past it and I still don't. But

39:54

stand up is very exterior. I

39:56

can be in any mood and I get on stage and

39:59

I know I'm going to be in any mood. exactly what's going on. But

40:01

in acting, I cannot be in

40:03

any mode because I have

40:06

to be focused when they say I have to

40:08

remember these lines, I have to also be that

40:10

character. And those things require

40:13

concentration, inner concentration.

40:15

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Energy

40:18

for that focus and concentration. That's why

40:20

I think it's a bit, you know,

40:22

when I get home from set,

40:25

and I've only done say 45 minutes of

40:27

acting, but I've been there all day, I

40:30

get home, I'm exhausted. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Whereas

40:32

I can go do an hour show and

40:34

come back and have so much adrenaline is

40:36

completely different. Because even without realizing

40:38

it, you'll be

40:41

in a slightly heightened state knowing you've

40:43

got to do it at

40:45

some point. I'd love to know people's reactions that

40:48

aren't in this world. They're throwing

40:50

things at their phone now

40:52

or whatever. They're like, what are they talking

40:54

about? This is utter nonsense. I know, I

40:56

know slightly. But when you experience it, you,

40:59

you know, you experience

41:01

you do it. Do you get heckles

41:04

and stuff? Do you get people who shout stuff out?

41:08

From time to time, it's, it

41:10

doesn't happen very often with me, because

41:12

I don't really have material that people

41:14

just listening because they all have mothers

41:16

or fathers or children or, you

41:18

know, whatever. Sometimes you'll get someone

41:20

who's extremely drunk. And

41:23

they make a terrible judgment call. And they

41:26

heckle me. And what happens is I often

41:28

then have to protect them from the

41:30

rest of the audience. Yeah, yeah.

41:32

Because, yeah, it's so

41:34

infrequent, that I don't feel

41:36

particularly bothered by it. But then

41:38

everyone starts getting upset, especially if they

41:41

say something about that's deemed to be

41:43

racist. Oh, then you're like,

41:45

that if you experience that once, once, once, that

41:47

was this woman was too drunk, I thought, Oh, man,

41:49

lady, you've made a mistake. And I felt so bad

41:51

for her. So I just spent the rest of time

41:53

making sure everyone ended up liking her. She was,

41:57

I was like, dude, you're too drunk.

41:59

Yeah. But but she

42:01

didn't she didn't call she

42:04

didn't say anything about the color of my skin

42:06

She said she called me. She

42:09

said oh, this is so rude fo

42:11

you Racist seaward

42:13

and I had just got on stage

42:15

and said, you know brexit. That's all

42:17

I said, you know brexit and she

42:19

said that point Sounds

42:23

like oh Sitting

42:25

in the front like 300 people. This is

42:27

the top of the show I'd be doing

42:29

another show you'd like the axe and I just got

42:31

out and I was like what I thought

42:33

she's having a stroke And it's gonna cost her I was

42:36

like, can I finish and she said

42:38

oh no, no, no, no, I thought oh great

42:41

Everyone lost it because everyone came to my defense and

42:43

how can you say that and see what I was

42:45

like Oh man, and I had to get these ten

42:47

minutes out cuz I'm trying to prepare for something I

42:49

had to do later And I was like, okay, we

42:52

need to corral this room, but she

42:54

was very drunk Yeah, when

42:56

they're drunk, it's kind of all bets are off And

42:59

I had one gentleman who waited until after this is

43:01

somewhere outside London I was on a boat and

43:03

he waited for me as I was leaving and when I was walking

43:05

out he accused me of Being

43:08

high caste from India and you think just

43:10

because you have servants I was like, who

43:12

are you talking to because I hadn't talked

43:14

about any of that stuff Yeah, and he

43:16

was not from India. Yeah from the

43:19

UK. He was Caucasian. I was like, what

43:21

is happening Wow He just

43:23

had a tirade and I was like what

43:25

what anyway, so yeah Otherwise, it's

43:27

just women who are drunk who say I love

43:29

you, my Paulo So the

43:31

acting then it seems to me it doesn't

43:35

mean as much to you as the stand-up

43:38

that still seems More I was

43:40

I was expecting you to say that you

43:42

really committed as the acting but it seems

43:44

to me That it's still

43:46

the stand-up is your is your bigger

43:48

thing. I think I've misrepresented

43:50

that I think I have more confidence in

43:53

my stand. Okay. Yeah, I think I'm more

43:55

different about the acting But that's changing but

43:57

I'm more different because I do still feel

43:59

like I haven't done it enough

44:01

to know why I haven't been fair. I'm

44:04

treating it a little bit like a kid who showed up

44:06

and I'm like, who's kid are you? It's my kid. Yeah,

44:08

yeah, yeah. But I gotta get, you know, I have to

44:10

do that. I think it's that and maybe there's some deeper

44:12

thing where I think, you know, I

44:14

think being dependent on acting is so

44:16

nerve wracking because you're always waiting for the phone call.

44:19

Oh, God, yeah. But maybe I don't want to think

44:21

of it like that. There's a great autonomy to stand

44:23

up. If you've developed an audience that are willing to

44:25

come and see you, it's a great feeling. It

44:27

is. It is. But there's something about acting

44:29

I really enjoy, which is still very mysterious

44:31

to me. And I think

44:33

it might be the real imagination of it

44:36

all because I'm never myself. Even

44:38

if I'm playing an Indian lady, it's not me.

44:41

Yeah. And you get to really be

44:43

in your head and imagine this

44:45

person and then somehow try and filter it

44:47

out through your face. That's

44:49

quite fascinating. Yeah, yeah. Well, I

44:52

think you should do more. Well,

44:54

I hope to. I hope to. No. And

44:56

for anyone who's listening, especially anyone who does

44:58

casting, Rob is wrong. I don't dislike

45:01

acting more than said. So you dislike it, I say.

45:03

It's just, I think I'm feeling my way. It wasn't

45:05

his biggest thing for you. Yeah. Well, I

45:07

don't know about that, but I do think

45:09

that it's something that I have less comfort

45:11

with. But I've just finished a few things

45:13

and all acting work. And I

45:15

always- Tell me what they are, what things. So

45:19

after Matilda, I did a film.

45:22

Well, first of all, I acted in my own, the

45:25

pilot of a script that we're writing, which

45:27

was non-TX

45:29

and it was great. It's called

45:31

Winning. And it's like my

45:34

stand-up life and my acting life came together. Yeah.

45:36

And I was very excited because I had some

45:38

great actors agreed to act on that. Who are

45:40

these great actors? So my husband was played

45:42

by the Danish actor Kim Bodhnya. Right. Do

45:44

you know him? I don't. I won't pretend that I

45:46

do. Do you know the- Did you watch the show

45:49

The Bridge? Yes. He was the

45:51

detective. Oh, all right. Fair enough. Yeah.

45:53

So him and I

45:57

think I can say this, Victoria Hamilton was

45:59

my nemesis. at work, on

46:01

the trading floor. It was great. That

46:03

was just a little thing we did, but I had all

46:05

these actors and that was pre-Matilda. So I was like, what

46:07

is acting? And they were like, we're going to show you.

46:11

And so that was fun. Then I did Matilda and then

46:13

I've got

46:15

a small but very fun role in a movie

46:17

called North Star. Oh, who's in

46:19

that now? Kristin Scott

46:21

Thomas and Cierra

46:24

Miller, Scarlett Johansson, Frida Pinto. Okay, that's

46:26

what's going on. I mean,

46:29

if we're judged by the

46:31

company we keep Cindu, we're

46:33

judging you very well.

46:35

That was great. That was super fun. I want

46:37

to take back what I said earlier about acting,

46:40

not being, although you used the word diffident.

46:42

I was. I am more diffident. Yeah, well,

46:45

I would ease back on the diffidence. Yeah,

46:47

I know. I would tone down the diffidence.

46:49

And just get into the confidence. Bring up

46:51

the enthusiasm and the confidence. Confidence. That's the

46:53

word. The confidence. Confidence, yeah. Oh,

46:56

so that side of things is all kind of.

46:58

Yeah, yeah. Okay, I

47:00

100% take back what I

47:02

said earlier. No, but it's also because I

47:04

have this kind of very, oh, you

47:06

know, acting is it, but it's building,

47:08

it's building and I do love it.

47:11

And yeah, and so there's that. And

47:13

then there's earlier this year I finished. She's

47:15

about to say another thing. Finished. Well, I

47:17

mean, I can keep it to myself. No, share it. I

47:20

finished filming a series for

47:23

Amazon. Yes. Which

47:25

series is this? It's called Pradeep's

47:27

of Pittsburgh. It's a very funny

47:30

show and it was, it'll be out

47:32

at some point. And

47:34

yeah, it's about an Indian family in the

47:36

current present day who go

47:39

to the US from India. Did

47:42

you film it over there? In Canada. I

47:44

totally want to take back my earlier comments.

47:47

I look like an absolute idiot. You

47:50

sit there being

47:52

diffident. Wow.

47:56

That was great. And that actually was so,

47:58

you know, it's a. It's

48:00

a series, it's eight episodes. We did

48:02

it in two and a half

48:04

months. The hours were long, but it was

48:06

like Edinburgh Boot Camp. Yeah. And you know, there's

48:09

big turnarounds. Yeah. I learned so

48:11

much. It was wild. And

48:14

also, I was very fascinated with the

48:16

DOP's work. Oh, right. So you're gonna

48:18

be directing next. Then you're gonna

48:21

be directing. No, director of photography is different.

48:23

Yeah, I know, but it's all, if you're

48:25

learning, that whole thing. Yeah, I love that. I

48:27

would run to Mitch, and he'd be like, you're on the next thing,

48:29

like, Mitch, Mitch, why did you put the thing there? And I

48:32

found that, but you can do that because you're

48:34

on set so long all day.

48:36

Yeah, if you have the discipline

48:38

and energy, because, yeah, it's

48:40

a world of opportunities to, and that's the sort of

48:43

thing they say about someone like Tom Cruise. He would

48:45

always be wanting to know what that guy's doing and

48:47

what she's doing. I'm gonna learn this. I'm gonna learn

48:49

about that in a moment. Because he's the ultimate example

48:51

of, you know, what's that helicopter pilot doing next thing?

48:54

You know, he's flying a helicopter. So yeah, there's all

48:56

these, you know, I said earlier, everybody's at the top

48:58

of their game on a set,

49:00

right? Yeah. And if you can't be

49:02

disciplined enough not

49:06

to be the sort of actor who just sits down and

49:08

looks at their phone, there's so much you can learn. Yeah,

49:11

I know, you know, I think it's also, I've

49:13

always, like, I, because I came to it, as

49:15

you know, I came to it sort of just

49:17

showed up. I was

49:20

always a consumer of TV and movies.

49:22

So now I'm like, oh, that's

49:24

not how that even happens. Now it's

49:26

like this, I'm very curious, but I'm

49:28

fascinated by the DOP because the feel,

49:31

the- Director of photography, I think Sindhu did

49:33

say, but for some of our listeners and

49:35

viewers may not know. Tell

49:37

us what the DOP does. The DOP

49:41

is the person that decides what kind

49:43

of lighting, where the camera sits, how

49:45

the shots will be shot. And the

49:47

reason that's important, do your listeners have

49:49

brightened and, is this, the

49:52

feel, how you feel when you watch a

49:54

show is not just the script and the

49:56

dialogue. It's the visual of it. So you

49:58

can have, for those- You've seen see

50:01

Matilda It's very bright and it's either

50:03

these bright colors and they're sort of.

50:06

A Happy and Then if you watch

50:08

a show like Ozark. Or

50:10

is he watches so. Of

50:13

course a couple of the name but as

50:15

a climb So and ah you kids television

50:18

which I can't remember what it will have.

50:20

no no it's very recent it sam. Is.

50:23

What a conman! It's. About

50:26

the six Commandments. It's

50:28

the number six. Oh, the thing about to

50:30

the horribly yeah, my life. What seems very

50:32

upset. very upset him as he spoke. Yeah,

50:34

exactly. It's yes. yes yes. And so when

50:37

you what's that doesn't it's kind of green

50:39

in a different when the zeal p helps

50:41

decide that and that really affects how you.

50:43

Feel. When you watch a show and because

50:46

else I'm writing a script. Course you would.

50:48

Lose it All comics are at some point trying to

50:50

write a script. I just think it's of a fascinating

50:52

thing that as a consumer of television and movies you

50:54

don't even think to think you're the director's. your the

50:57

Actors years. the script. But. Then there's

50:59

Mitch. The deal p Making it. Feel.

51:01

Like this as as and it with that

51:03

will. Once. Again, I want

51:05

to withdraw what I said earlier.

51:08

But. I don't think it's anything wrong. I think you just said

51:10

oh I think this is. Because I may may

51:12

I may play about how acting is an

51:14

important you. I then discover you been doing

51:16

it twenty four seven to the last two

51:19

years. Unbeknownst to me I thought Matilda was

51:21

of blips have. A

51:23

very nice for Matilda was the

51:25

start that he has. Tilda was

51:28

just the beginning. Seem to be

51:30

coming to screen near you soon.

51:35

I that makes it sound like I'm in the kind

51:37

of movies I actually haven't been in. but okay, It's

51:39

a a of times in a lot less only

51:41

a matter of time. Feel like I'm an ambiance

51:43

with a mama Things Me: are you gonna do Marvel

51:45

next And I'm like is that now the natural progression

51:47

that people think you're doing well in the movies you

51:50

can only been a mild. Make A film. Suddenly

51:52

there's a humongous so. That I see lead to

51:54

been a marvel movie as to not eat what you want

51:56

and stuff and. get movie buffs i don't view i

51:58

would you do a marshmallow the to… Would

52:01

you go on those diet? Not if it

52:03

involved being away for months on end, no. And they

52:05

often do. If it was a tiny little come in

52:07

and do it and go, yeah. But

52:09

what about… I should stress, they're not offering, so… No,

52:12

but would you do the food thing and the exercise

52:14

thing to get really buff? I don't get cast in

52:16

those sort of roles. No one's going to come to me

52:18

and say, but you've got to be buff. It's Marvel. Everyone's

52:21

buff. No, I would be the humorous friend of

52:23

the buff guy. Okay, fine. So you wouldn't have

52:25

to do the diving. I know my place. What

52:27

a pleasure. What a pleasure. Thanks

52:31

for coming here and talking

52:34

to us. And once again, acting

52:37

isn't taking a backseat. That's what we're

52:39

going to call this. Sindhuvi, acting is

52:41

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52:44

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