"Taron Egerton"

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Speaker 1 Listen, I think you two are going to be great at this. This is your first podcast, the both of you, Sean.

Speaker 1 Just the first time out, yeah, first time out.

Speaker 1 What do we need to know? Well, you just go ahead and talk into that big foamy black thing in front of your lips. And what do I do with my microphone? Microphone.

Speaker 1 Wow. Welcome to Smartless.
Smart.

Speaker 1 Good morning, good day, good evening, listener.

Speaker 1 We had a real robust

Speaker 1 in-house smartless text chain going this morning. Yeah, Willie,

Speaker 1 fascinating. Uh-huh.
Fascinating about that stuff. Talking about all the scary stuff.
Going on in the world. Yeah.
Like AI. Listener, I don't know if you've heard about this.

Speaker 1 The acronym is AI. It stands for artificial intelligence.

Speaker 1 And it's coming and it's going to be farreaky. I wish the listeners could see how dead your eyes were when you were.
Shut up, Will. This is serious.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 No, it's coming.

Speaker 1 So, what now? I'm run for the hills by a pistol. What are we doing?

Speaker 1 Or I guess double down on

Speaker 1 just chatting with folks like we're doing.

Speaker 1 I guess you can kind of robot us, can't you? I mean, no,

Speaker 1 there is no way you can always call me a robot, Will. Sean, there is no way, Jason.
It's me, Will. I'm Sean.
You look so good today.

Speaker 1 It is a pleasure to be on Smarlas. I'm excited for our next guest.

Speaker 1 Wait, do I have any

Speaker 1 good dad jokes? Are you going to try to lighten things? Yeah, I got one. Ready for this?

Speaker 1 No, open up the fire. Look at this.

Speaker 1 What do you call a teacher who never farts in public?

Speaker 1 What's that? Private tutor.

Speaker 1 Oh, my goodness. Sean, that's fun.
Sean, that's really fun. That is fun.
I've taken that one. I'm going to ride that for a week.

Speaker 1 I know how that feels. I was going to say, speaking of which,

Speaker 1 Sean, do you have a callback today or a photo shoot or something? Because you do look great.

Speaker 1 Oh, thanks. Yeah.

Speaker 1 What's the occasion?

Speaker 1 I took a shower and

Speaker 1 that's what it looks like. Yeah.
There we have it. Wow.
Yeah. It took you a short time.

Speaker 1 Now, when you shower, do you shampoo your hair and condition it? I don't condition. I've never conditioned my hair.
I just shampoo. Okay.
Or I get the shampoo.

Speaker 1 Every time you shower, you shampoo your hair? Yeah, who doesn't?

Speaker 1 People who look good? I don't. What do you mean? Every time.
Yeah, every time you're doing it. You shampoo your hair every time you shower, you get that fluffy, shitty hairdo like shampoo.

Speaker 1 You're getting rid of the natural oils. Okay.

Speaker 1 You're washing away your natural oils. Well, I need some clump.
Yeah, you need your natural oils. You need your natural clump.
Yeah, but what about

Speaker 1 Lorenzo's oil? Okay.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that's what that movie was about. Lorenzo Zoyle.

Speaker 1 Do you know, can I reference one of my own projects, please? Thank you.

Speaker 1 Here we go.

Speaker 1 A picture called Paul.

Speaker 1 Not widely seen, but I did play Secret Service Agent, last name Zoyle.

Speaker 1 And in one of the last scenes of the movie, I finally introduced myself, first name Lorenzo. Oh, my God.

Speaker 1 What a sweaty show.

Speaker 1 And I was told by the director.

Speaker 1 Peter Wright.

Speaker 1 No, it was actually Greg Mattola. Oh, Greg Mottola, right.
Yes, sorry, sorry, sorry.

Speaker 1 Yeah,

Speaker 1 he says, you know, I think it's the first time he's ever really heard

Speaker 1 this himself. Like, so in other words, play a beat once you say, I'm Detective Zoyle, Lorenzo Zoyle.
And then play a beat of like, oh, my God, that sounds like the movie. Right.
Like a little wink.

Speaker 1 And so it was funny. I do recommend a rental on that.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 paul it's called it's called paul all right seth rogan plays an alien i'd look for i'd look i'd look for like a free stream maybe you know what i mean try five minutes of free and then go ahead and rent i'd i'd get on a vpn and uh stream illegally if it's 2.99 i'll i'll buy it um what else okay i'm back in atlanta um i'm in my final week here are you so excited you're in los angeles i'm very i'm very excited i'm very excited to be to be done it's been a great project but i am excited to come home see you folks again.

Speaker 1 When are you done? Saturday? I'm done on Sunday. Today's Wednesday.
Sunday? I'm flying home Sunday, too. I'm leaving today, but I'll be back Sunday.
Wait, you're in London?

Speaker 1 I'm in L.A., but I'm going to New York today for a few weeks. And then you're going to be back on Sunday.
I'll be back Sunday. I'll be back

Speaker 1 after midnight. Oh, I'm glad we're having.
I'm going to put up the schedules. Wait, oh, so you're not coming back? That is kitty.
Sean, Sean. That's so

Speaker 1 rude.

Speaker 1 So judgy.

Speaker 1 So listen, what about Sunday? Were you there, Jay, or just Will? Just Just me. Oh, where? I thought you went to Sunday Funday.
Sunday Funday. You were not there, I guess, Sean.
I couldn't.

Speaker 1 No, we had a very robust conversation, actually, kind of about a lot of the stuff we were talking about this morning. We were talking about AI and we were talking about the future.

Speaker 1 But did you discuss? The present. We discussed the fact that we're all human.

Speaker 1 No, oh, on Sunday, Scotty rented a boat. We went out on to the ocean.

Speaker 1 Doesn't that sound like a focus? He's managed to wedge his little talk notes in. Oh, isn't it?

Speaker 1 Doesn't that sound like a focus focus feature? Doesn't that sound like a little indie film? Scotty rented a boat? You know what I mean?

Speaker 1 To go into companion with Paul.

Speaker 1 Is he still, is he, did he make it back home or are they still searching for? No,

Speaker 1 we all were going to go.

Speaker 1 You guys used to have a boat, though. So you guys

Speaker 1 maybe getting another one?

Speaker 1 I don't know. Maybe.

Speaker 1 Does Scotty pilot the boat? Well, he did this one for a little bit, but it had a captain. Yeah, it had a little captain.

Speaker 1 But he likes to get behind the. Does he wear a little cap? Yeah, you know, he, you know, he doesn't wear a little cap, but he likes to drive big machinery.
So for one birthday one year,

Speaker 1 he's with the wrong guy. I mean, I don't know.

Speaker 1 He, for his birthday one year, we went to Vegas because I knew that. And in Vegas, there's a place that you can go where you can drive bulldozers and like

Speaker 1 you can like excavate land. Have you guys ever done that? Or Will, have you ever done that? I've done that.
It's incredible driving those big things. Yeah, right.

Speaker 1 I've never driven an excavator, but I drove like a big truck. Here comes an ad for GMC.
Get ready. Work truck.
Well, GMC trucks are professional grade. Are they?

Speaker 1 So if you're working your way around, I work. I'm going to tell you what happens with the Denali.
Well, the Denali HD, or are you talking about the new Sierra EV? Oh, my God.

Speaker 1 So, Sean, how was the Vegas trip?

Speaker 1 That was a while ago.

Speaker 1 We drove trucks, and what else did we do? Did you win any money? By the way, he's just doing a lot of things, driving the boats, and then going and driving the trucks. It's

Speaker 1 different. Just different characters from the village people,

Speaker 1 if I'm right.

Speaker 1 I mean.

Speaker 1 Any ride-alongs for the cop outfit?

Speaker 1 Clearly, he's not doing a lot of working, or are you? No, these are the things that are. By the way,

Speaker 1 you're listening to this podcast, and you're in a truck, or you're working somewhere, and you're like, these fucking Hollywood elite assholes. What are you talking about?

Speaker 1 Anybody can rent a boat and anybody can rent a boat? I'm going to Vegas to make believe. I'm driving.

Speaker 1 You can buy like $100 to

Speaker 1 go drive these things in Vegas. You're so out of touch, dude.
You're so out of touch. I was thinking, I was coming back home.

Speaker 1 I was at 45,000 feet, and I was coming home, and I was like, how out of touch, Sean.

Speaker 1 You're looking out the windshield

Speaker 1 past the pilot. I'm going to spit out my teeth.

Speaker 1 Oh, my God, that came out of my mouth. You know, Sean, I would say, though, I would like to, I actually, upon further reflection, Scotty would look good like a little sailor outfit.
Sure, he would.

Speaker 1 I'm just saying, like an old school.

Speaker 1 All right, I'll make a note.

Speaker 1 Can we make that happen? Yes, we can make it happen. You can wear like a striped, like knock.

Speaker 1 You know, like the bib thing that goes on the back.

Speaker 1 No shirt, no shirt. Tits just resting over the top.

Speaker 1 And then here comes Sean in a little Gilligan outfit. Yay!

Speaker 1 Don't say it.

Speaker 1 You guys should know that as the skipper and Gilligan for Halloween.

Speaker 1 That fucking hole. That's really funny.
You guys, that would be he's talking about.

Speaker 1 Oh, my God. And we'll be Marianne and Ginger.
Come on, Willie. That's really funny.
Marianne.

Speaker 1 All right.

Speaker 1 Let's wake up our guest. I'm sure he's completely passed out by now.

Speaker 1 Guys, I'm very excited slash nervous for today's guest because I've always wanted to meet him for quite a while now. Okay.

Speaker 1 He first hit my radar coming out of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in 2012.

Speaker 1 Okay. Then he quickly became the lead in a very stylish action franchise.
I can't mention because I didn't know who he is. He voiced one of the most successful animated films.

Speaker 1 He went on to play one of the most iconic musicians of our time, was nominated and won all kinds of awards for that.

Speaker 1 Did we text about him today?

Speaker 1 Sorry, go ahead. I'm going to go back to the top now.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Please don't, please.

Speaker 1 He has done and is doing a slew of cool stuff since then, but most recently, this hot shot has knocked me down and out, literally killed me in the incredibly satisfying and remarkably successful netflix film called carry on guys please say hello to taryn edgerton

Speaker 1 you guys didn't know you thought there's no way he knows him because he says he's looking forward to meeting him and then i switched it

Speaker 1 less of a red herring and more of a lie you know what i mean yeah but fun fun to lie mine

Speaker 1 sister loves that movie taryn no way Which one, Sean? Carry on. Carry on.
No, which one.

Speaker 1 Great film. Great film.
Great bad guy in that. Let Taryn talk.
Good morning, Taron. Hi, Taryn.
Hi, Taryn. Good day.
How are you, guys? Thanks so much for having me on.

Speaker 1 Very excited you're here. Very honored.

Speaker 1 It's lovely. It's nice to see you, Jason.
You good? Good to see you. I love the shaved head.
Listener, he's got a real tight, like a

Speaker 1 swim team almost marine type of shaved head. I've done it twice, and I loved it.
That's it, streamlined, yeah. It's getting

Speaker 1 to where I'm going quicker. I just finished the movie where I had a kind of shaped head, so it's still growing out.
Yeah, what was it? So you're keeping it? I think so for now. Yeah, for now.

Speaker 1 Through the summer, because it's warm.

Speaker 1 Although it doesn't get that warm when I grow it out anymore, I'm not blessed like you guys are. Wow.

Speaker 1 You guys have got three very fine heads of hair. No, it's all fake.
Snap fake ones. You don't want to see me take it off.
Snapped on. Glue on.

Speaker 1 Now, where do we find you? You're in Los Angeles? No, I'm in Wales.

Speaker 1 I got back from Australia a couple couple of weeks ago where I just finished the film and I've come home to see my family. So I'm here for

Speaker 1 two weeks before I've got questions about Wales.

Speaker 1 Yeah. You know,

Speaker 1 we're kind of friendly with Gareth Bale.

Speaker 1 Yes. Wales' own Gareth Bale listener.
The celebrated son of Wales. Celebrated.
Very celebrated. And you've had Matthew Reese on the podcast as well.
And we've had Matthew Reese. Yeah,

Speaker 1 we've had a few very distinguished, and now we've rounded it out. We've had the most distinguished Welshman alive, I think.
Sweet Willie's done some time there in Wales. I have.

Speaker 1 I wouldn't call it done some time.

Speaker 1 I was able to enjoy some time in Wales for a few months

Speaker 1 many years back

Speaker 1 in Cardiff. Beautiful country, man.
Beautiful. Yeah, it's gorgeous.
So I'm from Aberystwyth, and

Speaker 1 it's a stunning part of the world. I'm further north, a couple of hours north.
But when I finish a job, I like to come back and just decompress, spend time with you. Is that on the way to Snowdonia?

Speaker 1 Is that in that kind of place? If you're coming from Cardiff, it is, yeah. It is right on the on the Snowdonia is a place in Wales.
Yeah. Wow.
Snowdonia is a place in Wales.

Speaker 1 And the mountain at the centre of that area is called Snowdon. And I think it might be the third or second highest peak in the UK, I think.
Sounds like a gay mass.

Speaker 1 Which would make it good 60 or 70 feet tall. Yeah.
Yes, exactly. Exactly.

Speaker 1 Now, tell me about what if you're a dummy like me and you're like, hey, I don't know whether I should go to England or I should go to Wales. God damn it.
What is the difference?

Speaker 1 What would be the biggest difference? And be careful here, because

Speaker 1 you're surrounded by Welsh.

Speaker 1 What's the big difference between Wales and England?

Speaker 1 What would be... Well, let's say there are quite distinct cultural differences.
We have a language here that we still speak.

Speaker 1 Really?

Speaker 1 Yeah, in certain parts of the country, people speak Welsh sometimes as a first language.

Speaker 1 It's not English? It's not English. It's Welsh.
What's it sound like?

Speaker 1 So it's much older than

Speaker 1 English, or

Speaker 1 as I understand it. But it's filled with kind of lots of very kind of

Speaker 1 throaty, guttural sounds.

Speaker 1 Is it like that?

Speaker 1 You really didn't know this? It's got a lot of consonants next to each other as well. Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 1 So it sounds more like

Speaker 1 Scots Gaelic or Irish Gaelic than English. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 Can you give us just a little something? The one that I'm always asked to do is

Speaker 1 the village that I was raised in is the thing that i'm always asked to do on talk shows and things because i was raised in a village called chamber picwin gikokerichenropichanta silur go go

Speaker 1 wow and then you get there and you bang a right

Speaker 1 yeah

Speaker 1 exactly

Speaker 1 wow i wonder what that what is that derived from like it sounds it sounds almost german but also real nordic right yeah there are bits of there are you see strange little crossovers between other languages in europe so there are things like like you'll just find odd words that are very similar.

Speaker 1 So German for rabbit is keninten and Welsh for rabbit is kuningen. So there's like really strange little bits of crossover that you find.
I got you. That's interesting.
Wow.

Speaker 1 Anything specific about your Welsh upbringing that has kind of shaped your perspective on

Speaker 1 your

Speaker 1 career, like managing kind of the silliness and the nonsense sometimes that we all kind of enjoy slash navigate.

Speaker 1 Anything about your Welsh upbringing that is specifically suited you for that? Well, I think I'm from a fairly kind of, you know, I'm not from a particularly affluent part of the world.

Speaker 1 I'm from a very normal town, quite blue-collar, as you'd probably say.

Speaker 1 And I come from a place where people are quite

Speaker 1 I think quite down-to-earth, quite relatable and real. You know, a lot of my early adult life and the end of my my teens was spent kind of,

Speaker 1 I don't know, we've got like the most pubs per square capita of anywhere in the country. Really?

Speaker 1 And it's, and it's

Speaker 1 less, less, less now, but I remember when I was coming up, you'd still see groups of older gentlemen who'd kind of spontaneously break out into song and sing kind of, you know,

Speaker 1 lovely harmonies and things. We have a tradition of male voice choirs here in Wales, and that's something that I think has kind of seeped into who I am.

Speaker 1 and oh that's right would that would that explain uh your ability to sing I think in part I think you know most Welsh people have a go at some point I think we have choirs are a big part of school life certainly in my experience anyway and I think that's something that I um

Speaker 1 that I've definitely carried forward into my life because I've done a couple of bits of singing yeah so Tyrannet so then how did you come from this this sort of small town in Wales you know sort of out out

Speaker 1 you know out in the sort of rural area, if you will. Yes, the middle of nowhere, mate.

Speaker 1 Middle of nowhere.

Speaker 1 I didn't want to say that, but

Speaker 1 no, you're fine. You're fine.
Okay. Okay.
So middle of nowhere, Wales, beautiful country, but middle of nowhere. And then you end up, and now you're Terren Edgerton movie star.
So

Speaker 1 that's a kind of a long way to go. What was the first step in that to sort of move from there in that direction? Well, thank you.

Speaker 1 Thank you very much. That's very nice of you to say.
But

Speaker 1 I so it's it's it was a lot to do with the town I'm from actually. The town I'm from is called Aberystwyth and we had a we have a great art centre and I joined a youth theatre there when I was 15.

Speaker 1 I moved I moved from one part of Wales to another when I was 12 and I had a couple of years where I really struggled to

Speaker 1 acclimatize and make friends and meet new people and I joined a youth theater when I was 15 and it just felt like

Speaker 1 the universe clicked into place. You know, I found my tribe.
I felt like I had an aptitude to something which wasn't a feeling I'd really had before. Was that something?

Speaker 1 Sorry to interrupt you, but was that something that like your parents were like, oh, poor Taryn is not making friends and we keep moving around and maybe joining this theater group, honey, you'd meet some friends or was it a passion you had for acting?

Speaker 1 No, I don't. I think it was, I think I just was watching other people do it from afar and started to get that itch and that craving.

Speaker 1 And I always, I was, I think I always, even though, don't get me wrong, even though I was struggling to kind of acclimatize in a new place, I was still an insufferable attention-seeking class clown.

Speaker 1 So it was like an appealing out for that, I think. Can't relate.
These people, honeygoat hammer. You know, it's funny, Sean, it's not dissimilar.
It's not dissimilar from... you.
I'm all bit society.

Speaker 1 Oh, but I am. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 And what I was going to say was, it occurs to me, and this is nothing new, it's not breaking news, but there is a recurring theme here that we hear from a lot of people, a lot of performers, of how many times people, when they're younger, join a local theater group a local theater whatever and how important these things are in our communities for for being an outlet not just an outlet for kids not not as a certain not as a uh a conduit to superstardom but just a place for kids who don't feel like they fit in to be able to find their voice that's right and how often we hear it and how important that is and how much we need to protect that and because it's one of the few i think so too i think it's one of the few places where it doesn't matter who you are yeah what color your skin is, who you are, your gender, anything at all.

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Speaker 1 So you join this local youth theater and you find a place where you you find your people as it were yeah yeah exactly that's exactly what it felt like found my tribe and

Speaker 1 you know what ensued between the ages of 15 and 19 were just these really blissful years of being really creative really social really out of my shell and it was all kind of tied together through drama so i was you know i was getting involved with Shakespeare plays and more contemporary stuff.

Speaker 1 And I just just felt that I was in my groove in my lane really really loved it and and I um by the time I was about 17 I think I knew that I wanted to go to drama school and so I auditioned and this ties back to me being the insufferable attention seeker the first year I auditioned

Speaker 1 I was rejected everywhere and and from the limited amount of feedback I got

Speaker 1 they said that I was a little a little underprepared and a little maybe a little cocksure of myself. And that really, really took me down a couple of pegs.
And

Speaker 1 the following year. But you took the note, but you took the note and recovered.
I've gotten that note. It's debilitating.
Thank you. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah, I think so.
I think so.

Speaker 1 Did you have,

Speaker 1 was there a mentor in there? Was there a person

Speaker 1 in that journey or multiple people who you can identify as people who encouraged you and pushed you the right way? Totally. There's so many people.
I mean,

Speaker 1 the first people that spring to mind are my family. So at that time,

Speaker 1 we still rented the family home.

Speaker 1 I've never wanted for anything growing up, but I'm not from an affluent background. And

Speaker 1 each audition for drama school cost somewhere in the region of 40 to 60 pounds. And my my auntie paid for one, my father paid for one, my stepfather paid for one, my mother paid for one,

Speaker 1 and I paid for one, and it was a real family effort to get me to this handful of auditions. Wow.
And

Speaker 1 I'm like picturing Charlie Babbitt and Charlie and Chocolate Factory. Yeah, it was a lot of fun.
We're all in the same bed.

Speaker 1 And then, yeah, the second year,

Speaker 1 it all came together and I got a few offers at different drama schools. And

Speaker 1 yeah, and

Speaker 1 the rest is history.

Speaker 1 What monologues did you do for your auditions? Do you remember? Well, weirdly, really weirdly, I was required to sing a song, and I did your song

Speaker 1 by Elton Gian

Speaker 1 and Bernie Torpen. And then I did

Speaker 1 Edmund, Thou Nature Art, My Goddess, which is a kind of classic, flashy, villain turn from King Lear.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 I actually can't remember what my modern piece was.

Speaker 1 But yeah. That's so cool.
And what was your growing up? First of all, two things. One is when you said you were singing and stuff.
I have a little tidbit. I don't know if you're going to say that.

Speaker 1 I thought you were going to say when he said your song, you were going to say my song, like $5 foot long. Isn't that your song?

Speaker 1 The subway. That's his anthem, not his song.

Speaker 1 $5

Speaker 1 foot long.

Speaker 1 So, no, one little tidbit. I don't know if it's true, but Irish dancing, you know how, have you ever seen Irish dancing when they don't...
Ankle slapping?

Speaker 1 Yeah, where they don't move the upper part of their body.

Speaker 1 They don't move the upper part of their body. Do you know why? Why?

Speaker 1 Because I don't know if this is true, but in Ireland, dancing used to be against the law or something like that. And so

Speaker 1 the police used to walk by the pubs, and so they didn't see the upper part of their body moving. They would just move the bottom part of their legs.

Speaker 1 And that's how it, that's what I heard.

Speaker 1 God, I hope it's not. What do you mean you heard on what website artists?

Speaker 1 I didn't switch you either. I heard that growing up because I'm Irish.
Can we just

Speaker 1 conjecture wherever we want now? Can we just like I asked Chat GPT?

Speaker 1 That's good.

Speaker 1 I don't know if that's true. That's true.
That's one of the dumbest things I've ever seen. No, but isn't that interesting? It makes sense because they don't move your upper body.

Speaker 1 Your upper body's stiff. No, sure.
And because there's windows that only go down to waist height throughout it. We understand.

Speaker 1 I hope it's not true. God, I hope it's not true.
And you've been saying this forever. All right.
So, Tarren.

Speaker 1 So the other thing is, what was your view from Wales? What was your impression of America? And was that different than when you actually arrived?

Speaker 1 How early did you see Will and Grace and did that inspire you to make the trip across the Atlantic? It was a huge part of my formative years. I did.
I enjoyed that show very much.

Speaker 1 Thank you. Thank you.

Speaker 1 I mean, it was like, you know, certainly when I started acting,

Speaker 1 it's the perception of America is like, I don't know,

Speaker 1 I suppose,

Speaker 1 the land of plenty, I guess. And, you know, and was that always the destination? No, absolutely not.
No. When I went to drama school,

Speaker 1 I thought I'm going to be a theater actor and I thought I will get a couple of guest spots on the telly and

Speaker 1 that will pay my rent or pay the mortgage. And I really, I really mean that.
It was a shock when films happened.

Speaker 1 So that was the adult, that was the life goal, the adult, the occupation sort of career goal was I'm going to be a working actor in the theater

Speaker 1 and

Speaker 1 a guest spot here or there on television will subsidize and keep the lights on. Yeah, I mean, that would be incredible.
You know, that was the dream. And

Speaker 1 so

Speaker 1 I remember very clearly getting an offer for a drama school and sitting at the kitchen table with my mother and saying, you know, people who went to this drama school

Speaker 1 are on the TV. And it was like a mind-blowing West End.

Speaker 1 Yeah, the West End, you know, the West End. I remember I did a summer season production of Oliver when I was about 14, 15.
And they had actors come up from London to play the adult roles.

Speaker 1 And they were, you know, actors who'd been on the West End. And it was like, you know, it was like Humphrey Bogart just stepped into Avaris with, you know, it was that level of kind of grandeur.

Speaker 1 And, friend, for Tracy, the West End is the London version of Broadway, just so much. Exactly.
So then, Taryn, was there enough time for you to be comfortable with where you are today?

Speaker 1 Because, dude, you're, are you even 30? Like, you're not.

Speaker 1 I'm 35.

Speaker 1 Okay, so then the amount of time is, that's not enough. That's not a lot.
It's not enough.

Speaker 1 Like, you know, how long, what is it? It's like, it's like 15 years, I think, somewhere in that ballpark.

Speaker 1 And you know what?

Speaker 1 I think there are times where

Speaker 1 it's like.

Speaker 1 With the attention that comes with success, as you will have all experienced, there are days when you're really, really good at dealing dealing with it.

Speaker 1 And there are days where you feel robust enough to be available to everybody who comes up to you and asks for a photo or wants to have a conversation with you or asks if you'll record a bit for their daughter's 16th birthday.

Speaker 1 And then, of course, there are days where, not even because something's bad's happened in your life, there are days where you just, you know, I think there are days where I find it much harder.

Speaker 1 And the common denominator is, and I think what people don't always realize about, you know, people in our position is normally the days where you feel less good about being available to the public are days where you feel terrible about yourself.

Speaker 1 There are days where your relationship to self is so weak, whether it's because I listened to one of your episodes the other day, Sean.

Speaker 1 You know, you said that you'd eaten, I don't know, some mac and cheese at 11 p.m. at night.
Good point.

Speaker 1 You have to narrow down the episode.

Speaker 1 But

Speaker 1 the guy who wakes up the next day is not going to be as good at being the guy to take selfies as the guy who's just done 10 weeks eating chicken, broccoli, and rice, and is kind of, you know, ready to go.

Speaker 1 You know, that's right. That's my experience of the world, anyway.
So, in answer to your question, Jason, I find it at times I love it.

Speaker 1 If I feel psychologically, emotionally robust enough to be available for people, I'm great at it, but it chops and changes. Where did you have to be? And you probably still, it's an ongoing thing.

Speaker 1 Are you helpful to

Speaker 1 your family and your friends, like where you, where you are right now? You can't just like slide into Wales, you know, fresh off the set down in Australia and

Speaker 1 expect everyone to be as kind of easy with the light switch as you are. Like, do you have you have to help them kind of intellectualize what's happened to their dear Taryn as well, right?

Speaker 1 Like, now you're known all over the world, and you've got all this money and all this access. And

Speaker 1 so, I mean, there's a bit of a responsibility on your end to make them comfortable with it too. Question? Well, I think I'm lucky.

Speaker 1 I'm from a well-adjusted, you know, my family are well-adjusted and cool and I think we're very

Speaker 1 empathetic and understanding. So they really see, I feel very seen very clearly by my family and by the people who are important to me in my life.

Speaker 1 And I guess I'd feel like

Speaker 1 I guess I'd feel like, I don't know. Sorry, I got distracted because I don't know if that was.
It was like a getaway car. It was like

Speaker 1 some sort of souped up engine.

Speaker 1 Is that Mr. Hayes?

Speaker 1 And you know, to that point, Jason,

Speaker 1 it's easy to kind of lament the drawbacks of being famous or noteworthy, but

Speaker 1 it's awesome to be successful. It's awesome to do what you love.
It's awesome to be involved in

Speaker 1 telling stories and to have the money. It's also really weird.
And it's okay to say,

Speaker 1 it's very weird. And I don't know if you guys have done this.

Speaker 1 I've quite literally, and I'm sure members of my family are listening, sisters and or mom or whatever,

Speaker 1 and where I've had moments where I've said, hey, I'm really sorry that I put you in this position.

Speaker 1 I didn't do it on purpose but i'm yeah you you find yourself almost apologizing like well sure because you everyone's involved i mean you know willie you you walk down the street with your kids and you know photographer gets up in your face you kind of know how to flow with it but maybe your kids aren't aren't even thinking about the fact that their dad is famous and that's like weird

Speaker 1 i tell you something funny that uh abel my 14 year old who's a really funny kid said the other day we're talking about another friend of all of ours who's very who's very well known globally and he's and he was talking about them and he said oh man, thank God we're not that famous.

Speaker 1 Will started drinking again.

Speaker 1 What I found really funny about it was, A, about like his sort of perception of where everything was on a scale, and B, the weir of it all.

Speaker 1 It's a circus group. I love that.
Wait, so Willback. Go ahead.

Speaker 1 No, I was going to ask, I'm excited to hear, I'm excited for your project with the one that's based on the conversation with John Bishop. Yeah.
Is this thing on, right? Yeah.

Speaker 1 That's so, when I heard about that, it was such a

Speaker 1 collision. You're familiar with him, yeah, Taryn? I know.
Well, I know him. I've said hello to him a few times in passing at various things.

Speaker 1 My family are from Liverpool. So, you know,

Speaker 1 anyone from that part of the world is, you know, I kind of feel a vague affinity with. Congrats on the championship.
Let's get it out of the way.

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah, yeah well yeah i mean it's obviously a terrible thing happened yeah but um yeah what happened

Speaker 1 some people were injured with a guy

Speaker 1 celebration but yeah yeah john john's an amazing guy proper scouser i mean you know just a really cool dude and uh got to know him a little bit and then we've uh through that sort of uh

Speaker 1 you know inspired this listener this is this they're talking about the uh the the the main figure that is the uh the inspiration uh for uh will's upcoming film with Bradley Cooper. That's right.

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 We just finished. Yeah, so yeah,

Speaker 1 it was a lot of fun. And he's such a great guy, and his life is fascinating.
Did you rice him? Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah, yeah. That's cool.

Speaker 1 With Mark Chappell, who's a friend of the podcast, Championship. We got it.

Speaker 1 Magic card of the day.

Speaker 1 And Bradley, of course, too. So the three of us.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 So

Speaker 1 had you not gotten into the Royal Academy,

Speaker 1 was there, were you sort of getting ready to maybe do something else? Because that was right at the age when you kind of had to decide, right?

Speaker 1 Oh man, like that's a conversation that happens regularly in my family. You know,

Speaker 1 we have a lot of pinch-me I'm dreaming moments.

Speaker 1 While I've been away filming

Speaker 1 at the house I'm in now, we've been renovating for a long period of time and it's kind of just coming to fruition. It's just coming together and,

Speaker 1 you know, it's been made possible largely through what's happened to me in my life. And

Speaker 1 we did have that conversation over dinner the other day. You know, what the fuck would you have done if you hadn't been an actor? Because I can't do anything else.
I can't do anything else.

Speaker 1 Getting ready for this podcast was so stressful because it involved me opening a MacBook

Speaker 1 and changing the settings and plugging a mic into the device. These things are totally beyond my abilities.
I'm the world's weakest millennial.

Speaker 1 Well, first of all, it should be noted, Taryn, we've done over 250 episodes. I don't know if you watched Sean this morning trying to do it.
Yeah. He couldn't connect.
Again, reboots.

Speaker 1 250.

Speaker 1 Imagine if he was our pilot.

Speaker 1 I can't connect thoughts, let alone a computer.

Speaker 1 So then, Taryn, it would be safe to say you probably would have been more on the labor side of things. Well, I don't know.
Honestly, you really don't know. You mean pushing a wheelbarrow?

Speaker 1 Is that what you're saying? Swinging a hammer, you know, whatever it is. Yeah, maybe, wow, yeah, swinging a hammer.
There's people who'd laugh at the prospect of me swinging a hammer.

Speaker 1 I can't put up a set of shelves. I don't know.

Speaker 1 I think I'd have figured something out, but it's true that acting is the only thing that I ever felt a huge

Speaker 1 kind of cosmic pull towards. And I love it.
I absolutely love it.

Speaker 1 Could have been singing. Yeah.
Now, I did not know this.

Speaker 1 You correct me if I'm wrong, because I'm just, you know, Wikipedia is my research partner.

Speaker 1 You

Speaker 1 sang with Sir Elton John, recorded

Speaker 1 the song that won an Academy Award for best original song. That's

Speaker 1 it. I mean,

Speaker 1 huh? Wait, what?

Speaker 1 So did you see, you sang with him on

Speaker 1 that song? Yeah, so he's in the movie. It's in the movie Rocket Man.
I love the movie. Thanks, Sean.

Speaker 1 I think it's the credit song, and

Speaker 1 it's a song that he and Bernie wrote for the movie that we sing as a as a duet. I think it's like a call and response sort of deal, you know? And yeah, they won an Oscar for it, yeah.

Speaker 1 They, you, you, you sang how you, it's a duet.

Speaker 1 Do you get to you get to hold the Oscar for a couple of months a year?

Speaker 1 Yeah, no.

Speaker 1 I think the Oscars are reserved for the chaps

Speaker 1 who wrote it, you know?

Speaker 1 But still, I mean, talk about a pinch-me moment. I mean, that was incredible.
Did you sing with him in the studio or did you do your part and then later they recorded his part? No,

Speaker 1 we went in and sang together in the studio.

Speaker 1 It was a lovely experience. It's pretty wild.
Of course, by this time, you guys were probably close buddies because was he a part of your early research, auditioning, et cetera, et cetera? Yeah, so

Speaker 1 I sang

Speaker 1 the animated movie that you mentioned when you introd me is called Sing, and I

Speaker 1 sang I'm Still Standing in that movie. And then

Speaker 1 in the Kingsman sequel, Elton came along and played himself. And

Speaker 1 through those two things,

Speaker 1 the conversation around me playing him in Rocket Man came about and grew from there.

Speaker 1 So, wait, wait,

Speaker 1 did the two of you kind of have that conversation on the set and you guys decided, well, maybe we should go out and kind of pitch this together?

Speaker 1 Matthew Vaughan, who directed the Kingsman films and has produced a couple of other things that I've been in as well,

Speaker 1 He, David Furnish and Elton had formed a friendship and I think the Rocketman project in its in the iteration it was in at that time because there was a different director and a different actor attached yeah had stalled and

Speaker 1 oh I see okay and we were there to kind of step in basically yeah that's cool boy

Speaker 1 nothing if not opportunistic yeah

Speaker 1 I love that well listen I mean it's a right place right time that's a famous you know part of our

Speaker 1 and the movie, like, when I saw the movie, you were so great in it. I love, I love that movie.
I have notes. You have notes?

Speaker 1 Is it picture lock?

Speaker 1 Because I didn't.

Speaker 1 No, but when I was watching, I was like, oh, well, the next logical move is to make the movie a stage musical. Yes, I've thought the same thing.

Speaker 1 Right? I mean, it's like done. It's all done.
And so I just didn't know if you wanted to ever.

Speaker 1 If you were part of that conversation or whatever. No, no.
I'm sure it's occurred to them.

Speaker 1 David and Elton, you know, they obviously, I know that they've they've got various irons in the fire with theatrical

Speaker 1 endeavours, and I'm I'm sure it's occurred to them.

Speaker 1 You're friends with Elton, right?

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 We've hung out for many.

Speaker 1 I don't know

Speaker 1 whether they've ever considered it seriously, but I don't think it would involve me.

Speaker 1 It's one of those things that I'm so it was such a moment in my life and something I'm so fiercely proud of that I'm yeah, I just wouldn't want to touch it for sure. You already did it.

Speaker 1 You already did it.

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Speaker 1 A completely different

Speaker 1 experience with the success of a project than what you experienced on

Speaker 1 your other projects that have been equally successful. I mean, you know, I would imagine that the Kingsman process was

Speaker 1 probably more startling and challenging to you because it was the first big splash into public. Yeah, that was, I mean, you know, I'm very, I'm really grateful for it.

Speaker 1 It was the thing that made my name. And I really, that first film, especially, I really, I do think is kind of cool.
And they're incredibly well made I mean

Speaker 1 I'm sure we could do a whole podcast in the process of making those things with the stunts and the the intricacies of the camera work and stuff It's just stunning stuff.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it was really well done, but um but it was a lot I was 23 and I remember I was making a TV show

Speaker 1 I was a year out of drama school and I was filming a TV show for Sky in the UK.

Speaker 1 And I remember I got an email from my agent and it at the time it was called Huntsman and Son and it didn't have the script, but it had two scenes in it.

Speaker 1 And it was one of the scenes was the scene where I first meet Colin Firth's character in the pub.

Speaker 1 And I didn't know Colin was involved, I didn't know Michael Cain was involved, I didn't know anyone was involved. But I read the scene, and

Speaker 1 I don't know how you guys, but I don't know about you guys, but I find that whenever I'm excited about a piece of writing, I start reading it aloud.

Speaker 1 And that's how normally how I know that it's something like

Speaker 1 you know. And

Speaker 1 I was, I know the street corner I was on in London, and I was reading this scene, and and I started reading it aloud. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, what are you selling newspapers? Yeah, I really was.

Speaker 1 Sandwich board?

Speaker 1 No,

Speaker 1 I was in Hoban, and

Speaker 1 I just

Speaker 1 popped the email open,

Speaker 1 started reading it.

Speaker 1 And as I read,

Speaker 1 I kid you not, I read the scene, and I thought,

Speaker 1 that's my part. I've got to get that part.
Wow. That's my part.

Speaker 1 And I've never actually had it since. I've never had that level of super.
They say nowadays you manifested it. Yeah, what it felt like.
These hippie-dippy kids. No, come on, man.

Speaker 1 You got to put it out. I tell you a film of yours, Terren, that I really love.
I loved all your films, man. You're good.
Carry on.

Speaker 1 Sorry.

Speaker 1 I never saw that one. Is that the one? Is that the one where you thought you were your...
Your character wore a ball cap.

Speaker 1 What a choice. Listen.
What a fucking. Oh, man.

Speaker 1 Oh, a fucking ball cap. You guys see what he's doing?

Speaker 1 No, I was

Speaker 1 going to say

Speaker 1 that. I don't know what that is.
No, we're not going to cut that. We're going to loop it.

Speaker 1 Did you guys see Terran in Tetris? I loved that movie, man. I want to see it.
It's such a great, cool film about how that game came about. I love that game.
It's a fascinating story, isn't it?

Speaker 1 It's a really fascinating story. Yeah, it's cool.
You think you're one of about 27 people who saw it, so I'm really thrilled. Thanks, man.
It's a great little movie, man.

Speaker 1 It's about the guys that designed that game. Yeah.
It is. It's about, well, it sounds so dry.

Speaker 1 It's about the guy who licensed the game for distribution globally from memory and his relationship with the designer who

Speaker 1 designed, who designed the game in Russia before the war in 89. So,

Speaker 1 yeah,

Speaker 1 it's a fun movie. Yeah, that was released on Africa.
It's amazing.

Speaker 1 And people are trying to sort of muscle their way into grab the license for it because they understand the impact that it's going to have it's fascinating well i do like the game so i'll watch the movie oh thanks for

Speaker 1 so much

Speaker 1 um

Speaker 1 what did you think of the game

Speaker 1 does it cut into your candy crush hours or does i have to iron the irony is that you do have such a crush on candy

Speaker 1 It's so true. But wait, go back to the America thing for just a second, Taryn.
Okay.

Speaker 1 No, because I want to know, like, so I got your impression that, you know, because I'm always fascinated with the perspective of people in other countries that come here and work here.

Speaker 1 What was it like when you first worked here? And was it everything that you thought it would be or what was not?

Speaker 1 It was better.

Speaker 1 I love America. I bought a home in America.

Speaker 1 You feel comfortable here? I absolutely do. And, you know,

Speaker 1 whenever I have, you know, meetings with prospective, I don't know, directors or writers, quite often people ask, what is the perception of America now, given everything that's happening here?

Speaker 1 Yeah, we'd like to know that. Please go ahead.
And I don't know. I think it depends on who you are.

Speaker 1 But my experience of America, regardless of where you go, and I've visited various places, not just New York and LA, but the people in America are, from my experience, generally...

Speaker 1 It's just a wonderful place.

Speaker 1 I remember when I first landed in New York, I had a really weird feeling that I was like, I don't know if it's because I've watched Home Alone too many times, but it felt like coming home.

Speaker 1 You know, there's a warmth and an

Speaker 1 I think historically

Speaker 1 there is an inclusiveness at the heart of what America is, it seems to me, that I really love about it. And yeah, a melting pot.
Yeah, and I

Speaker 1 have nothing. I mean, as I say,

Speaker 1 I have a house in California that I

Speaker 1 that I, you know, split my time between.

Speaker 1 That's great. Yeah, I love being in the States.
Why?

Speaker 1 is it what's your fear sean no no i i like to know different people's perception because i find it fascinating i mean when i go over to london or people ask the same thing what do you think of london what do you think of england whatever and i i absolutely love it over there i mean i haven't been to wales but i need to go to wales yeah i'd like to go to wales yeah and i suppose i mean but it strikes me that like you know you have such microcosmic identities when you move from one place to another in a country like if you spent a weekend in liverpool it's going to be vastly different from your experience, you know, in Edinburgh or whatever.

Speaker 1 Right. And I walk around London last time I was there, just a couple of months ago, and I'm like, you know, everywhere you go, it's incredible history, which we don't have here.

Speaker 1 And so, and I talk to people about it, and they're like, and this one, this one girl I know over there, she's like, yeah, I always forget to look up.

Speaker 1 I'm like, what do you mean? Always look left. I always look.
Good, Jason. I always forget to look up and look at these historical buildings because everybody's just so used to it.

Speaker 1 So fresh eyes is really cool. That's what I've always asked people who aren't from from here, what do your fresh eyes see? Yeah.
You know? Now,

Speaker 1 Taryn, you know, you are managing to knock off

Speaker 1 really great commercial projects, really good sort of like artistic projects. Like, is

Speaker 1 this just

Speaker 1 dumb luck? No.

Speaker 1 You're doing some sort of

Speaker 1 really good deliberate work in choosing what you do.

Speaker 1 What does the perfect project kind of look like to you? is it about the part is it about the people involved is it

Speaker 1 you know the theater versus streaming versus theatrical like what what what what what do you what do you look for I don't know I mean you are you operate within the constraints of what you're of what you're asked to do and you can all the rule the grass is always greener I could be you know

Speaker 1 I could let a side of myself out where I would

Speaker 1 lament not doing certain things and there are things that I would love to be doing but you have you have to focus on the things that are available to you.

Speaker 1 And I'm so lucky, and I do get offered things that feel,

Speaker 1 I know that I try and look for things that feel different from a character perspective. So, I'm not comfortable.
I don't like the idea of being

Speaker 1 pigeonholed and yeah, put in a box or whatever. I mean, in fact, you know, when we did carry on, my biggest concern about a picture.
Oh, it's funny!

Speaker 1 The only thing that happened when they rolled credits is I wish they would carry on this picture.

Speaker 1 Sorry, we'll get him out soon.

Speaker 1 He's running around the balcony. Go ahead.
Yeah, I was.

Speaker 1 I worried that it was too, that it was too

Speaker 1 vanilla or whatever, or it was too near to me. It was a kind of average Joe guy.
And

Speaker 1 I suppose the actors that I look up to and really admire and revere are the actors who try and stretch themselves and

Speaker 1 right do have a whim

Speaker 1 and a missing tooth and a weird accent

Speaker 1 oh oh i heard that so but i try and look for things like you know when i when i after elton i you know i went and did that the show for dennis lane blackbird which i felt satisfying because it felt

Speaker 1 I definitely like doing things that feel different. I suppose I aspire to be some, you know, like a

Speaker 1 I like character actors. I like actors who are different from one thing.
As a character actor, yeah. And unfortunately, you're too goddamn good looking to be a true character actor.

Speaker 1 So you have to act your way into that perception and you're doing it and you're getting opportunities now with scripts that lend itself to that. And so, you know, it's you.

Speaker 1 I'm going to ask you the Jason Baby question, which is, you've been doing it now for a while and you've done a lot of great work. Do you see yourself doing different stuff as in

Speaker 1 directing? That's a or writing something

Speaker 1 it's kind of where i was no i mean i you know i i feel i listen i listened to um

Speaker 1 you guys talking with jude law and i i he summed it up

Speaker 1 what are the optimized

Speaker 1 we have got to get a collar on that guy he's disrupting the record no go ahead please go ahead but i feel that way it scares me you know and i have such admiration for anyone who who makes that leap because i'd i'd love i'd be great absolutely love to do it of course i would but i um what's going on with smoke what's going on this this is this is the apple show that's coming out

Speaker 1 june 27th yes what what drew you to it what is it about is this does is this going to be different than the thing that that immediately precedes it like as you as you're just talking about doing

Speaker 1 Yeah, I think so. I think it's definitely different from anything I've done before.
So it's created by Dennis Lahane, who was the creator, show owner of Blackbird.

Speaker 1 And when we finished shooting that show, he

Speaker 1 approached me about doing another story. And

Speaker 1 it's one of those, the trailer's out, it's just come out, but it's one of those that's really hard to describe. But the user-friendly log line is I play an arson investigator who is having

Speaker 1 very very limited success catching two prolific arsonists in a fictional town called Umberland and

Speaker 1 a police detective is brought in to help him solve these arsons basically and that that role is played by Jerny Smollette and

Speaker 1 and what you learn over the course of the show is that he is

Speaker 1 harboring some secrets and I it's one of the it's one of those shows where I I don't really know this is the first bit of press I'm doing for it and I have no idea how to promote it without kind of giving it away

Speaker 1 But

Speaker 1 is there enough in there to craft some sort of logo?

Speaker 1 But basically, for anyone who's seen Blird, it's a kind of sister piece, I suppose. Well, Dennis Lahane, I mean, it's this guy, tip-top.

Speaker 1 Now, Taryn,

Speaker 1 you're drunk. You're out at a karaoke bar.
You're feeling good. Yeah.
What's your go-to karaoke song? Yeah. Faith, George Michael.
Oh, yeah. You got it.

Speaker 1 I bet that's good. That's good.
Faith George Michael is a good one.

Speaker 1 It didn't take you a long time to answer that. How many times have you seen that? No,

Speaker 1 that's a long-standing one. And it depends on the mood as well.
You know, if it's like a kind of,

Speaker 1 I don't know, if I'm looking for a bit more gravitas, maybe a couple of radio head numbers, like bones,

Speaker 1 or sulk,

Speaker 1 or you know, really dirty, maybe like Blackstar, something like that. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 That's us off. The first album is.
I love that you have a few available. Jason,

Speaker 1 yeah mine's just i'm just on the uber app looking for a ride out of there

Speaker 1 mine's up mine's the the theme to the greatest american hero is that true okay yeah remember that believe it or not i'm walking on it remember that song

Speaker 1 mine is uh no joke mine is crazy by patsy klein always real crazy yeah what do you mean always how much time are you doing in a karaoke doing a lot of karaoke man once a week you don't know my life i don't

Speaker 1 do you sing jason do you sing i don't not even in the shower. No.
Next question. Which is why

Speaker 1 I want to hear you sing so bad at that time. Not even to start drinking.

Speaker 1 There's so little joy in your speaker. Literally, the last time I sang was in a karaoke bar doing press for Horrible Bosses 2, and I think I was still drinking.
Wasn't I? Maybe. No.
I don't know. No.

Speaker 1 You weren't. No way, right?

Speaker 1 And you did karaoke?

Speaker 1 I did. And fucking Sudakis, this guy, you know, this guy's a natural performer.
He's a talent. He can sing and dance.

Speaker 1 I'd love to see

Speaker 1 a SmackDown between you and Siday. Yeah,

Speaker 1 I think Taryn would take him down, though. But that would be a real, that'd be a heavyweight.

Speaker 1 He's got a voice, he sings. He's got a voice, and he's also just got like,

Speaker 1 the guy's not uncomfortable with the microphone in his hand. Yeah, he's great.
That's a certain talent.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I sort of find it easier when

Speaker 1 there's a character I can hide behind.

Speaker 1 So the show, the show, they wrote in a whole bit in this new show I have coming out called Smoke, where my guy is obsessed with karaoke. Oh, really?

Speaker 1 Partly because they knew I could sing. And I find, I noticed that I find it much easier to do it on set as a, as, as a character than if I do it in my own personal life, life at a pub or something.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I find it quite stressful. Yeah.
Right. No, we're all like that.
I, I, it's, it's called I Hate Being Me. Also, a good thing for a blank bumper sticker, Willie, if you get a second one.

Speaker 1 No, it's blank t-shirts that I have. i hate being me is so true

Speaker 1 i hate being ellipses and then on the back just put me okay we love you jason we love you

Speaker 1 thank you i'll tell you who we do love

Speaker 1 taryn and

Speaker 1 joining us today you are something else you are something else

Speaker 1 um thanks for having me

Speaker 1 to anyone who cares in whales um yes if you see gareth bale tell him to send me the money um

Speaker 1 and um

Speaker 1 you know best of luck with uh with smoke smoke smoke on apple TV. It's on Apple TV.
I can't wait to watch that. When did it come out? It comes out on the 27th of June.
Day after my birthday.

Speaker 1 Oh, no way. So for my birthday, we'll watch.
Tracy, Sean's birthday is the day he was born.

Speaker 1 That's pretty, that's safe to say. Are you registered anywhere, Seani?

Speaker 1 I'll email you. Yeah, yeah.
I'm registered. Taryn, love you.
I love seeing you again. I miss you, my friend.
It's nice to meet you, Taryn. Say hi when you come back to LA.
Yeah, I will, mate.

Speaker 1 Take it easy.

Speaker 1 All right, my friend. Thank you very much.
Bye, Taron. Bye-bye.
Bye, you guys. Bye, Tara.

Speaker 1 Bye.

Speaker 1 Okay, so anyway, so Taryn was amazing. Yeah, it was so good.
I love having Taryn. It was so good.
Oh, you're just trying to get to your bye? Are you excited about your bye?

Speaker 1 No, no, but it was just because, like, he was once he was gone, and then it was like the rush to see who was going to talk first. Look how flushed he is, Sean.

Speaker 1 I think did Taryn leave a mark on you well? He did. I liked him a lot.
Right, that's it. Yeah, I liked him a lot.
He's got a great vibe. Yeah,

Speaker 1 no, I'm just saying. Fucking breathing head.
He said he was single, right?

Speaker 1 I'm passing out.

Speaker 1 Somebody lay me down. Call a grown-up.

Speaker 1 Call a grown-up.

Speaker 1 No, that's a good-looking male. Hey, another

Speaker 1 looking male. Don't objectify Darren Edgerton.
He's a good, good, good guy. Very, very good guy.
Great actor. And very smart, good hat on his shoulders, focused.

Speaker 1 Isn't like,

Speaker 1 um

Speaker 1 you know he doesn't seem like he'd fall off the rails in any no very and he said he's intentionally very low temperature like very even killed yeah you know

Speaker 1 yeah yeah

Speaker 1 not some ninny okay you know whales should be proud oh whales i'm sure they are i'm sure they're beyond proud so uh sean how's the search going oh good um this sunday um this sunday scotty and i are going to uh my friend kevin's birthday party in ojai Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 This is a long. This is a really long time.
Yeah, so it's north of here. It's called Ojai, not to be confused with.

Speaker 1 No way. No fucking

Speaker 1 way. Don't even fucking say that.
What are you talking about?

Speaker 1 What are you talking about?

Speaker 1 Sacramento.

Speaker 1 What are you doing?

Speaker 1 What?

Speaker 1 Yeah. No, but you know what? Wait, what was that father joke you said at the beginning? The dad joke?

Speaker 1 That was so good. The teacher.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it said, what? Oh, wait, where is it? Oh, yeah, uh, private school. What do you call a teacher who never farts in public? Yeah, private tutor, private tutor.

Speaker 1 You know, I he did that, he did the rocket rocket man as well, right? Which was such a great

Speaker 1 and one of my favorite episodes. Favorite songs ever:

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