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Speaker 1 Hey, Will, what's your middle name? My middle name? Yeah, quick.

Speaker 1 It's Emerson. That's right.
You don't sound sure. It is Emerson.
No, no, no. I'm not.
I just thought that you knew. I thought you knew everything about me.
No, I didn't. No, I don't.

Speaker 1 Sean, your middle name.

Speaker 2 Patrick Patrick.

Speaker 1 Really? Oh, yeah, you're right. Sean Patrick Hayes.
Yeah. And JB, what's yours?

Speaker 1 Let me guess yours.

Speaker 1 It's something. It's very

Speaker 1 hurtful. No.
Careful.

Speaker 1 It's my dad's first name. So if he's listening, careful.
Oh, missing?

Speaker 1 No.

Speaker 1 No, I know what it is. I know what it is.

Speaker 1 It's Sean, you dick.

Speaker 1 My dad's name is Kent. Kent.
Kent. You can't ever forget it.
So you're Kent Jason Bateman? No, Jason Kent Bateman, dumb fuck middle name. All right, welcome to Smartless.
Smart.

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Speaker 2 I never showed you this video. I have a video to show you.
Hang on.

Speaker 1 Open the video. Oh, wait, here it is.
Oh, yeah. Have you seen this? Is that you and Scotty? God, I hope that's you and Scotty.
Yeah. It is.
Is it? It's us. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Why? Where? When? Listener,

Speaker 1 we have Sean and Scotty in one of these self-propelled locomotives going down a track.

Speaker 2 Yeah. It's awesome.
It's called rail biking.

Speaker 1 Redwood Forest. Like a little paddle boat you'd ride in a lake on.

Speaker 2 It's through the forest.

Speaker 1 It's called rail biking. Where was that? Was that on a second honey?

Speaker 2 That was up north, north of San Francisco.

Speaker 1 We went last weekend, was it? Or two weekends ago or something like that?

Speaker 1 that why were you guys up there uh messing around on the train because i i i saw it like on instagram or something this rail bike that you just pedaled the on the railroad tracks so you're like scotty pack it pecking overnight bag yeah we just went up there we just did it got to do this yeah it's amazing i can't imagine being as spontaneous and happy-go-lucky as that just like you're scrolling through land a little bit but but it still came from just scrolling through instagram like hey that looks fun hon.

Speaker 1 What are you doing next weekend? Why not? I mean, there's a whole world out there. You know what I mean? I just feel like it's so disruptive to pick up and leave the place where you're settled.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 I just have zero wanderlust. I'm not proud of it, but you don't, huh?

Speaker 2 But don't you, but you love the outdoors and stuff, don't you?

Speaker 1 It was so beautiful. From the inside of an air-conditioned car.

Speaker 1 I was saying, Sean, was it saying to you when we were flying to New York and I was like, I pointed out the window, I go, there's a whole world out there. Yeah.

Speaker 1 I want to get it. I was saying to somebody yesterday, I want to get into the world.
It's all I want to do.

Speaker 2 Wouldn't it be fun to all go, the three of us and our significant others, to go do like an adventure like that, just for the weekend?

Speaker 1 Yeah, but can it be higher end than paddleboarding down a

Speaker 1 rail? Paddleboarding.

Speaker 2 Yes, we can do something. We can do something a little more significant than that.

Speaker 1 You know, one of the things that we should talk about, but probably not on the podcast, but I'm going to do it anyway, is Sean and I were talking with the ladies,

Speaker 1 i.e., your wife, JB,

Speaker 1 and

Speaker 1 my significant other, Alessandra, and the ladies.

Speaker 1 We can include Scotty in there as a significant. Well, Scotty.
No, Scotty was there too. And then our other female friend, who's an advisor to the podcast, who has a lot of opinions.

Speaker 2 I'm there.

Speaker 1 No, no, no.

Speaker 2 Oh, that person.

Speaker 1 And I said, you know, we ought to go to, because they want us to come, then we can talk to our buddy Mitch Rose.

Speaker 1 We ought to go to Australia at Christmas, which is their summer, which I've never done, and do the tour and do like Sydney Opera Hatton. I've never been.
I would like to do that, but

Speaker 1 we did skiing last year.

Speaker 1 Can we go beach this year? So this is what I was going to say. We go there and then we...
They don't have any beaches in Australia. They don't.

Speaker 1 Are you crazy? No, it's all landlocked. And

Speaker 1 we go to like the Gold Coast somewhere, and we do like like a week of like incredible beach. Why do we have to be working when we're vacationing? We do a little bit of a peace.

Speaker 2 But my thing, but Will, my thing is you get the beach here. We're on the West Coast.

Speaker 1 Wouldn't you want to have a 17-hour flight? What beach?

Speaker 2 What beach? What do you mean?

Speaker 1 Have you looked at a map? It's all we're on the edge of the water. You mean the California beaches? I'm talking about tropical beaches.
First of all, Sean, nice try.

Speaker 1 You might as well still live in Chicago.

Speaker 1 Okay? Because

Speaker 1 you go from your fucking house to fucking Larchmont, and that's right. Give me a fucking, you could live, it could be anywhere.
You might as well move into a mall. I mean,

Speaker 1 inside, okay, and then you and Scotty can do the fucking laps to the food court.

Speaker 1 What I'm suggesting is

Speaker 1 that we go to Australia or somewhere like that, and we go somewhere that we wouldn't normally go, that's out of our comfort zone. That's why.
And then we do a full beach experience.

Speaker 2 I actually would like that. I would like to, I've never been to Australia.

Speaker 1 I love Australia. Like, I can't even.

Speaker 2 We do have to go somewhere. But by the way, guys, listen, I don't want to keep our fancy guest waiting.

Speaker 1 It's so rude to talk about it in front of the guests.

Speaker 2 But you guys, she's sitting in there waiting from overseas. She's in the UK right now.

Speaker 1 What?

Speaker 2 Yes, but you'd never know with her flawless American accent that she does. She can act.
She can sing. Boy, can she sing.

Speaker 1 Wow. And in her most recent film.

Speaker 1 Yeah. I wrote that part too.

Speaker 1 I wrote all of this. Yeah, forgot that.

Speaker 2 And in her most recent film, She Can Even Swim the English Channel, which I tried to watch last night, but the links they send you, I'm forgetting. This effervescent young lady's middle name is Jazz.

Speaker 2 Remember, we were just talking about our middle names, and she has been a hot ticket.

Speaker 1 Is it Senning or Jodie Foster? Which one?

Speaker 2 Nope, it's not either. And she has been a hot ticket in the film industry for almost a decade, starting when she joined one of the biggest movie franchises of all time.

Speaker 2 Apparently, her duolingo score in French is pretty impressive, too. It's the radiant Daisy Ridley.

Speaker 1 Daisy Ridley, I know Daisy a tiny bit.

Speaker 1 Hi, Daisy.

Speaker 1 Oh, my God. What time is it there?

Speaker 3 It's 6.27.

Speaker 1 Oh, that's all right. It's not that crazy.
It's 6.27. Yeah.
What do you think? She's on Mars?

Speaker 1 Daisy Ridley, welcome to Smartlist Screenshot. Thank you.

Speaker 1 I know.

Speaker 2 I'm so excited to talk to you and meet you.

Speaker 1 I'm a massive fan. It's so weird.

Speaker 3 I've listened to it so much, and now I'm like, I'm here.

Speaker 1 Have you really? No, you haven't. Of course.
I'm sorry. It's sounding a little bit like drive time radio this morning.
We're a little too chatty. Sorry.
We'll calm down. We'll calm down.

Speaker 1 Do you think, Daisy, do you think we should go to Australia for Christmas with our families?

Speaker 3 I got back from Australia 10 days ago shooting a movie there. Had a great time.
Can't recommend it enough.

Speaker 1 Really?

Speaker 1 So, what are you doing in England right now? Do you live there? I live here, yeah. And you grew up there.
All right. So you're cozy at home right now?

Speaker 3 I'm cozy at home. I grew up here.

Speaker 1 I've never actually lived anywhere else bar for work.

Speaker 1 I'm a real homebody. Yeah.

Speaker 2 So, like, I love London. I always like.

Speaker 1 You find a nice place to stay there, Sean?

Speaker 2 I do know. The Whitby Hotels are amazing.

Speaker 1 Right?

Speaker 1 Anybody? No? I like the country.

Speaker 2 But London is great. I love it.
I always wondered, like, what it would be. Like, do you appreciate it like we appreciate it?

Speaker 2 Or are you just like, ah, there's the Big Bang, there's the blah, blah, blah. I don't, you know, the history and

Speaker 1 it's so old and beautiful and gorgeous. Yeah.

Speaker 3 Every time I go past the Houses of Parliament, I'm like, oh.

Speaker 3 And then I walk into town.

Speaker 3 Parks are beautiful. I mean, summer in London is really nice.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 So I'm very happy to be here right now.

Speaker 2 Have you ever desired to live somewhere else?

Speaker 3 Me and my husband were going to move to LA for a few months just before lockdown. So we had like a place booked and everything.
We were just going to see what it was like for a few months.

Speaker 1 Try it on.

Speaker 3 And then lockdown.

Speaker 1 Now, why were you going to try it on? Were you getting pressure from the adults in your life that say, can you please be closer to the studios?

Speaker 3 No, not at all. It was just, I guess, a curiosity.
And then we, it didn't happen.

Speaker 3 And then we didn't but my husband who is in based on a true story obviously right and and his name is tom and his last name is the best

Speaker 1 man ever

Speaker 1 yeah i mean does that just not roll right off the tongue yeah

Speaker 1 so because of that show he's now lived there well he's about to live there for the second time so it's best um so then what are you going to do are you are you going to uh join him or are you going to be busy on a on another project how do you guys work all that stuff

Speaker 3 we um do what we can.

Speaker 3 And

Speaker 3 that's pretty nice.

Speaker 3 We do our best. That's pretty nice because Young Women in the Sea now wonderfully has a theatrical release.
So I get to do some work for that in LA. So we'll be there together.

Speaker 3 That's so nice. And then, yeah,

Speaker 1 yeah.

Speaker 3 But we work it out pretty much.

Speaker 1 He's so good on that.

Speaker 1 It is called Based on a True Story.

Speaker 1 You guys, I know Sean and Will is probably in your queue there. Go ahead and enjoy that.
Okay.

Speaker 1 It's on the Peacock. And

Speaker 1 you've got no skin in the game on this one? Oh, yes, sure, no, sure, I do. Oh, yeah.
Oh, do you? Well, explain to us just for full disclosure.

Speaker 1 Well, I get quite a bump if a couple more people start watching it. So we're just

Speaker 1 producing it. Executive producers.
Yeah. Oh, I didn't know that.
And I didn't. Listen, this is your guest.
I am not trying to get to know you. No, we have to watch it.

Speaker 1 I'm sure you kept winking at Daisy. That's a tick.

Speaker 1 Be sensitive. That's a tick.

Speaker 2 Now, listen, Daisy, tell us about growing up there because you, first of all, five girls in one family.

Speaker 3 Oh, yes, but my two half sisters are a lot older because there's an age gap with my parents. So we didn't grow up with them.
But three of us was still a lot.

Speaker 1 That's a lot. That's a lot.

Speaker 2 Yeah. And father was a photographer.
Mother worked at a bank. Nobody else kind of had the...
bug to get into the business.

Speaker 3 Well, my mom actually worked in pitch publicity

Speaker 3 for a long time um

Speaker 3 i think worked on friends she worked on some really cool stuff oh really what did she what did she do with friends well she was the picture publicist at channel four

Speaker 1 so when all those big shows were going on and she was doing the the pictures having a great time that show that show was so related because we all knew that like that thing of when like your your job's a joke you're broke your love life's DOA

Speaker 1 you know

Speaker 1 you feel like you're always stuck in second gear and hasn't been your day your week your month month, or even like a year.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Oh, my God.

Speaker 1 Can we hold there for a second? Yeah.

Speaker 1 So, Will, you're familiar with those lyrics because you watched that show religiously? No, that song is omnipresent.

Speaker 1 It was in the 90s. It's not inescapable.
No, no, no. It's only inescapable if you watch the show religiously.
And this is a big, big thing I'm learning about you is that you're a closet friends.

Speaker 1 I want to say closet. I love friends.
I love the friends. Daisy, you love friends too, right? Don't stop talking about the best.

Speaker 3 I do do love Friends, yeah.

Speaker 1 All the Brits love Friends. I love all the Friends, and I love the show, and I love our Friends.

Speaker 1 I haven't watched, I'm embarrassed to say I haven't actually watched a ton of the show, but I know that song because it was everywhere.

Speaker 1 But that's your ringtone, I guess.

Speaker 1 No, but I have dropped that on the girls before.

Speaker 1 I have done that to Jennings. I'm like, I know.
I feel, you know, your job's a joke. You're broke.
You're in love life's deal.

Speaker 1 And she's like, fuck off.

Speaker 1 um sorry daisy wait wait daisy let's go back so your mom worked in publicity maybe did some stuff for channel four and the thing but so what was the moment you go you're like mommy i need to

Speaker 1 oh my god so i'm just right

Speaker 1 now you did you did and

Speaker 1 um yeah what was the well i was at primary school i was um

Speaker 3 slightly misbehaving um and we used to go because three girls is this to tring park school or is this before Tring Park? This is before Tring Park.

Speaker 2 Because guys, just so you know, Tring Park, it looks like Downton Abbey. It's like unbelievable.

Speaker 1 I can't believe you went to school there.

Speaker 3 Oh, yeah, it was literally, and I'm a huge Harry Potter fan. It was literally

Speaker 1 the colour of so good.

Speaker 3 Yeah, I love it.

Speaker 3 I was quite naughty at school as a child. And then my mom, to keep us busy in the summer holidays, used to send us to this music thing.
where kids would go and I guess sort of like camp for you guys.

Speaker 3 And I had a friend there who went to boarding school. I was like, boarding school sounds amazing.
And she thought, if I was busy, I would behave better.

Speaker 3 And so I auditioned for this

Speaker 3 performing arts school, having never really done performing arts, and then ended up staying there from nine till 18. Wow.
So over the course of that time, I fell in love with

Speaker 3 all of the performing arts.

Speaker 1 That's amazing. Now, can I ask you what your flavor of misbehavior was?

Speaker 1 Well, I mean, it can't have been that bad if I was fairly young, but just

Speaker 3 if I wasn't busy enough, I would start distracting other kids and that sort of thing.

Speaker 1 With humor or throwing shit at them.

Speaker 1 I don't know. Asking for a friend.

Speaker 1 I had a few different encouragements not to return, shall we say.

Speaker 1 And I kind of mixed it up quite a bit.

Speaker 1 I went to boarding school and I was not kicked out. I make this distinction.
I was asked not to return. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Very good. That's what they're like.

Speaker 3 My first ever job, actually, I was asked not to return for the second week. It was this, it was honestly fucking soul-crushing.

Speaker 1 Really? Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. What happened?

Speaker 3 Well, the worst thing was it was like a, it was a workshop thing to do a play. It wasn't even a play.

Speaker 1 It was like a table reason to read. It wasn't even recorded.

Speaker 3 What? Yeah, so we were doing the workshop for two weeks. And on the Friday, they were like, you don't need to come back next week.

Speaker 1 Oh, my God.

Speaker 3 It was hideous. And obviously, like, I had taken time.
out of my job because at the time I was working at a pub and I thought, oh my God, because I was was terrible, honestly.

Speaker 1 Really? No, I don't believe that. No, seriously.

Speaker 3 They were like, you bring nothing to this.

Speaker 1 Were you good at working at the pub?

Speaker 1 I actually was, yeah. Yeah.
Really? That's uh, that was that, uh, was that uh um pouring the doing doing the what's it called? Draft doing the pints, yes.

Speaker 1 The pint drafts, yeah, doing that, and then you do do the little the little uh haircut off the top of the paper. And a well-poured,

Speaker 3 actually, I shouldn't say that. I mean, pouring pints in London, you don't, you don't do that, that thing.

Speaker 1 Why? Or you just let it drip over. I don't know.
You could cascade.

Speaker 1 But you were good. If somebody wanted to come in for a cheeky pint, you could just serve them up nicely and then send them on their way.

Speaker 1 Cheeky pint.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 3 I actually had a very strange thing recently where I was in the,

Speaker 3 I mean, the like 11th arrondissement of Paris in a hotel doing some press for a tiny movie I made a couple years ago. And a guy at breakfast comes over and he goes, are you Daisy?

Speaker 3 I was like, yeah, you're so familiar.

Speaker 1 I used to serve him at the pub. Oh, wow.

Speaker 3 And he's a photographer, did a book on Bowie

Speaker 3 and was there promoting the book. And he was like, Literally, the last time I saw you, you were pouring me a pint saying,

Speaker 3 Oh, I have this audition. Hopefully,

Speaker 1 it will go well. And it was starving.
That was the last time I saw him.

Speaker 2 That's crazy. What's Bowie?

Speaker 1 David Bowie. David Bowie.
Bowie. Bowie.
Bowie. Bowie.

Speaker 1 A lot of Brits say Bowie. Yeah.
Oh, I don't know.

Speaker 1 I'm here to translate for you, Daisy.

Speaker 2 Wait, so that's what I want to ask. Like, you dropped out of college, right, to go to take Star Wars, right?

Speaker 3 I dropped out of university, yeah. But I mean, it was a, it was a, it wasn't like you had to be enrolled and be on campus sort of thing, right?

Speaker 2 Um, you could do it online or something, yes. But was there any hesitation at all?

Speaker 1 Was it Trump University? Was it

Speaker 1 if there is a class action suit, you can get involved, but you can get it on my side. Just say, Daisy,

Speaker 1 you can win your beak on it.

Speaker 2 Was there any hesitation at all in accepting that role at such a young age because being in school or whatever for fear that it might, like, did you even think about it might change your way of life forever?

Speaker 2 Or were you more like, get me the hell out of here? I want to work. You know what I mean? Like, did you ever think about like how much it would change your life?

Speaker 1 JJ's so convincing. You know, I mean, you get inside those eyes, that vortex there, JJ will talk you into anything.

Speaker 2 You melt. You melt.

Speaker 3 I actually have a hilarious text from him. The best.
He used to say to me, your eyes are so big. So I was was watching something I did last year and my eyes are so massive in the thing.

Speaker 3 I took a picture and sent it to him. And he's literally sent me a birthday text with just like my eyes everywhere.

Speaker 2 That's funny.

Speaker 3 There was zero hesitation, no. I was desperate for the role and had been waiting seven months from my first audition.
So I was like, give me a second.

Speaker 1 You auditioned seven months before you got the yes.

Speaker 3 Yeah, I did a number of auditions over a seven-month period.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Oh, my God.

Speaker 2 And did you just tell the pub I can't work anymore because I'm now I'm gonna be doing Star Wars. See you guys later?

Speaker 3 I said

Speaker 3 I've got a job, so I'm gonna have to

Speaker 1 go bye-byes.

Speaker 1 Really?

Speaker 1 Go bye-byes.

Speaker 3 Yeah, and then, but then I didn't really.

Speaker 1 Did they say, why are you speaking to us like a four-year-old? Like they didn't say,

Speaker 1 yeah, I have to make bye-byes. They were like, what's wrong with you?

Speaker 3 Yeah, no, I was just like, oh, I just got a job.

Speaker 1 I have to go.

Speaker 3 And no one knew what was going on for a few months anyway. I didn't tell anyone by my family.

Speaker 1 What part of town was that pub in? Just

Speaker 1 in case they're listening.

Speaker 3 It's the Union Tavern in Westbourne Park.

Speaker 2 Union Tavern in Westbourne. Why? Why? Do you know it? Are you going to go visit it?

Speaker 1 I'm going to go there in two weeks. When I go over there, I'm going to go say hi for two.

Speaker 3 By the way, it's a really gorgeous pub. It's right on the canal.
It's right by Portobello.

Speaker 1 Yeah. I love Portobello.
On a Saturday? On a Saturday.

Speaker 1 One of the funniest things I've ever seen in my life was a guy. We were walking down Portobello Road on a Saturday.
Who's we? Who's we? I guess it was Chappie and me, probably. There we go.

Speaker 1 But because he lives up in Queen's Park, and so we're just walking. Just need your Chappie in one more time.
I know. And so this is my friend, Mark Chappelle Chappie.

Speaker 1 They know he's a friend of the podcast. That's three.
Yep. And so we're walking along, and we see a guy, beautiful Saturday, and we see a guy in like an orange, like an orange Sherbert-colored

Speaker 1 Lamborghini with the top down. And you know those, you know, that road is like so packed on a Saturday, right?

Speaker 1 Like you can, and those stoplights, like just before you start getting down into Portobello Road.

Speaker 1 And this guy comes along, he's at the stoplight in this orange thing, and everybody's looking, and then the light goes green and he guns it like

Speaker 1 and he's only got about 70 yards to go, and the next light is red. He has to stop.
And everybody collectively laughed at this guy in his face. It was so good.
It was so, so good.

Speaker 1 Anyway, Union Tavern. I'm going to, okay.

Speaker 1 We'll be right back.

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Speaker 2 So So you're so your family when you first so you didn't tell your family when you first got it or you only told your family nobody else I only told my family

Speaker 2 Wow and and you just just because you didn't want what why weren't you like why don't you tell the world like oh my god everybody I got this oh no I wasn't allowed oh no no I wasn't allowed

Speaker 3 and I took that very seriously

Speaker 3 I know John Boyga said he got in a cab and told the cabby straight away, but I was like

Speaker 3 so scared to say anything. No, I told my dad was asleep when when I told him, and he went, Jesus Christ.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 I told my mom and sister when I walked in.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah, and then I kept it secret.

Speaker 2 I mean, it completely changed your whole life. It's so exciting.

Speaker 2 Obviously, if you listen, and these guys are so sick of me, and you're probably so sick of talking about it, and I'm sorry, but just a massive fan of the franchise and you.

Speaker 1 No, of course, yeah. I mixed it up.
He wants to know Shatsu Ambaris to ask, which of the planets is real?

Speaker 1 What's your favorite planet? Who is your favorite slash boulevard?

Speaker 2 Wait, I'm excited for the new one. You're going to do one or three, or we don't know yet, but you're playing.

Speaker 3 I'm doing one for now.

Speaker 2 Can you tell us anything about it?

Speaker 3 I can tell you, I was surprised.

Speaker 3 I made a movie.

Speaker 2 I've got enough information. I want to know what happens.

Speaker 3 Well,

Speaker 3 I made a movie with my husband called Magpie.

Speaker 3 And I had one day off shooting, and I was invited to breakfast with Kathy Kennedy, and I was like, sure, because we occasionally take a meal together, and um, and for my sister, Tracy, Kathy Kennedy produces those films,

Speaker 3 yes, head of Lucasfilm.

Speaker 1 Thanks, Sean. There you go, that's my sister.

Speaker 3 Uh, and I thought we were just uh having breakfast, and my friend was like, Oh, imagine if they're doing another raid thing, and I was like, I doubt it.

Speaker 3 Uh, and halfway through breakfast, she said, Um, we are, how do you feel?

Speaker 3 And I was surprised.

Speaker 1 Um,

Speaker 1 So cool. But it, yeah, yeah, it's very cool.

Speaker 3 Different writer, different director. It will be quite a different feeling, I imagine.

Speaker 1 Who's writing?

Speaker 1 Who's writing out?

Speaker 3 Stephen Knight is writing. Oh, nice.
And directing is Charmeen Oboyd Chinoy, who has made some unbelievable

Speaker 3 documentaries.

Speaker 3 And it's very exciting, and I shall be reading a script soon-ish.

Speaker 1 Ah, that's so cool. Do you have to go to like a secret vault to read the script?

Speaker 1 No, I think I'm going to

Speaker 1 not a secret vault.

Speaker 1 Just send it to you.

Speaker 3 No, I think I'll have to go somewhere.

Speaker 2 Will you send it to me after you read it?

Speaker 1 Yeah, just

Speaker 1 double-click on it over.

Speaker 3 I'll take a picture of every script page.

Speaker 1 Please.

Speaker 2 Yeah, and the PDF, please.

Speaker 1 So I'd imagine that you were somewhat kind of self-prepared for

Speaker 1 all of the attention, the profile

Speaker 1 after Star Wars came out. But did it match your preparation and expectations?

Speaker 1 Tell me how you dealt with

Speaker 1 being, you know, unable to walk down the street overnight.

Speaker 3 I didn't know what to expect, and everyone had made it out to be crazy, crazy, crazy.

Speaker 3 And obviously, as you all know, when things come out, there's a flurry of activity and then things sort of calm down again.

Speaker 3 So it was confronting because it was strange initially for people to want to chat because I'm not that chatty,

Speaker 1 so I'd be like, um,

Speaker 3 and then it sort of goes away again. But people are very nice, and

Speaker 3 yeah, it sort of took its time to calm.

Speaker 2 Yeah, but tell me, like, what I mean, I've said this before to other people, like

Speaker 2 like other people who've been in the franchise, but like JJ, or like not JJ, but other actors have been in stars, is like, like Adam Driver, whoever.

Speaker 2 What is it like to be like if it was me, I'd wake up every day going, I can't fucking believe I'm in this movie. Like, how do you at such a young age cope with or stuff your excitement?

Speaker 2 Like, you can't show.

Speaker 1 John, you'd have a tough time. They'd have a tough time shooting around your boner, I guess.

Speaker 1 No full wide angle.

Speaker 2 Wide angle left.

Speaker 1 Guys, we're going to go a little tighter again.

Speaker 1 We're going to pick up all the whites at the end of the shoot, I guess.

Speaker 1 Fucking first six weeks are just coverage. uh

Speaker 2 no but like at such a young age that's so funny at such a young age where you just i know you can't like holy and then john williams talk about that like writing you have your own theme written by john williams which is i mean my

Speaker 3 one of my favorite things ever is me and john williams are pen pals oh wow like i so cool yeah i really uh that's crazy and what was it like to hear that first time for the first time that was crazy i mean so much of it was honestly um overwhelm at the beginning.

Speaker 3 I can't remember a large chunk of everything.

Speaker 1 Oh, shit.

Speaker 3 But, I mean, even with filming, I can't remember like specifics.

Speaker 3 But also, I had a group of people to sort of hold on to. And JJ, as you all know, is amazing.

Speaker 3 JJ's okay.

Speaker 1 JJ's okay.

Speaker 1 Well, we don't want him to get too far over his skis because we know he's listening. Yeah, he's just like, JJ, cool it.
All right. Yeah.
Just go. Just cool it.

Speaker 2 And then I was so, like,

Speaker 2 I was in awe, like preparing for this to go through YouTube and hear your unbelievable singing voice. Like, I don't know that a lot of people know that, that you can sing so unbelievable.

Speaker 2 Like, how did you, when did you first realize that? And why haven't we seen more of that?

Speaker 3 Well, I have

Speaker 3 had no shame in asking anyone to put me in a musical. Like, literally, no shame.
I've done it on national TV.

Speaker 1 Everything has not happened yet.

Speaker 3 No, the Barbara Barbara Streisand thing, which is another crazy thing that is

Speaker 3 occasionally, I'm like, oh, my God. That was JJ.
JJ introduced the two of us. And initially, I met her because she was meant to be doing gypsy.

Speaker 3 So

Speaker 3 that whole thing was so, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 Oh, wow.

Speaker 3 Yeah, so there was a potential of testing to be in it.

Speaker 3 I went to her house and it was, that was

Speaker 3 insane.

Speaker 1 I heard the house is crazy.

Speaker 2 Like there's a mall underneath the house. Like, she has a shopping mall.
Yeah.

Speaker 3 But I mean, just sat with her.

Speaker 1 I was like, wow, you are Barbara Streisand.

Speaker 3 That is, that sort of, you know, effervescence and power from someone is.

Speaker 1 Did you have to sing in front of her?

Speaker 1 Well, we sang together. You recorded.

Speaker 2 Yeah. They recorded at the ballet from a chorus line.
It's beautiful.

Speaker 1 With Anne Hathaway.

Speaker 2 Yeah. It's a hard song to sing, and you guys knocked it out of the park.

Speaker 3 It was so overwhelming. And that weekend, I also presented.
That was one of the craziest things. The film had come out.

Speaker 3 It was all nuts. And then I presented at the Oscars with Dev Patel, which was wonderful.
But the day before, I had recorded with Barbara Streisand. And that weekend was one of those.

Speaker 3 What the fuck is going on?

Speaker 1 This is insane. Yeah.

Speaker 3 That was one of those weekends.

Speaker 1 Had old Tommy Bateman do through all that.

Speaker 3 Oh, we weren't together then.

Speaker 1 Yeah. No, really?

Speaker 3 No, we met on Murder on the the orient express what do you think

Speaker 1 what do you think he was doing that weekend yeah well i'll tell you what he's doing he's learning his lines for based on a true story uh you can see it on peacock you think before they wrote it you think he was of course yeah no he's worked out all bateman's work ahead so um

Speaker 1 uh shawny um let's ask her about murder on the orient express and if she can give us any tips about hang on cool it will you're not on this trip uh sean and i are going to go on the orient express i love at some point and we'd like a little bit of um research from you.

Speaker 1 Are you kidding? You guys won't even go to fucking La Cienaga. You think you're going to go to the Orient Express?

Speaker 2 It's like five blocks away.

Speaker 1 If anybody's going, it's me. Go ahead.

Speaker 2 Yeah, tell us about the Orient Express. And

Speaker 2 Patrick Doyle is a wonderful friend of mine.

Speaker 2 He did the music for that movie.

Speaker 1 Thanks for stopping the interview for that. Thanks for the hands up.

Speaker 3 I wish I could tell you about the actual Orient Express. I got freebies, but I gave it to my parents.
So they've been and had the most amazing time.

Speaker 1 What did they say? I really want to do that.

Speaker 3 You're not coming. I mean, it's unbelievable.
You have to fully wear a suit to dinner, wear, you know, evening attire.

Speaker 1 Sorry, Sean has a question. No, not track suit.
Keep going, Daisy.

Speaker 1 Wait, for what? You have to, you have to

Speaker 1 be,

Speaker 3 you have to be fancy.

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 Yeah, I just want you. So, wait, listen to this.
So, the last time, so the first time I was ever in London, like, this is my last, Will's laughing.

Speaker 2 one.

Speaker 1 Okay, okay.

Speaker 1 It's so kind of him to always prep us for every sentence.

Speaker 1 No, here we go.

Speaker 2 But speaking of that, the first time I was there

Speaker 1 in London. What I just want to say is, but wait, go ahead.
Wait.

Speaker 1 Fucking love you. God damn it.
I could do a whole day with you. This is all going to be.
Not two, just one.

Speaker 1 Keep going.

Speaker 1 And a fish market.

Speaker 2 So listen.

Speaker 1 Here it is. Here's another one.
So listen. Never mind.
It's not going to be that great.

Speaker 1 Tee yourself up. Just say the thing.
Okay.

Speaker 2 The first time I was in London,

Speaker 1 I had to go out to you. God, you feel so naked without the man.

Speaker 1 I'm sorry. We'll get back to your career, Daisy.
We're new at this, Daisy. Sorry.
Sorry. No, but take my dozen up.

Speaker 2 The first time I went to London, I went to this restaurant and they required a jacket for you to go sit down. Like you're talking about the the Art Express.
And I didn't have one on.

Speaker 2 I had like a, I don't know what I had, like a dress.

Speaker 1 Can I take a guess what you had? Hoodies.

Speaker 1 Hoodie and a Chicago Cubs t-shirt. Yeah,

Speaker 1 with a cardigan underneath it. Exactly.

Speaker 2 And so I walk in and they're like, sorry, sir, we can't serve you without a jacket. And so they said, we have a closet full of jackets for you to choose from.

Speaker 1 And I was like, wait, what?

Speaker 2 And I'm like, the table we're sitting at is three feet away from from.

Speaker 2 Can I just walk to the table and sit down, please? Like, no, you have to pick a jacket.

Speaker 2 These jackets in storage for people who show up with no jacket. So, I put it like this oversized jacket, like from the 1980s or 90s, and I go to

Speaker 1 ruining your outfit. I don't know.

Speaker 2 It was a long way to go for that story.

Speaker 1 Sorry, Daisy. Wait, was so were you with Scotty? Yeah, Scotty had a jacket on?

Speaker 2 He did have a jacket on.

Speaker 1 You bet he did. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Knows how to read. Anyway, Daisy, Daisy, I'm so fucking sorry.
This is

Speaker 1 start over. I want to know.
Let's start over.

Speaker 2 So,

Speaker 2 Murder on the Orton Express, brilliant. I love that movie.
Sometimes I think about dying. I saw that fucking great American accent, great character.
So into you.

Speaker 2 I can't take my eyes off you every scene.

Speaker 1 Talk about the American accent, Daisy. When was the first time that you can remember doing it? Maybe not even in a role.
Do you remember the first time you tried it?

Speaker 3 No, I mean, as Brits, the American accent one thinks of with with LA is the like, oh my God, thing.

Speaker 1 Like, that is the thing.

Speaker 1 But I actually met my. That's really accurate.
Yeah, that nailed it.

Speaker 3 I met my dialect coach through Tom Holland, who has been a guest on this.

Speaker 1 Oh, yes, we love Tom Holland.

Speaker 2 Anytime a Brit comes on, we always talk about American accents because we're fascinated to hear ourselves.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 3 Well, his was so good. I was doing an English accent in that film that in lockdown, I was like, well, I want to use my time wisely.
So I started just doing American accent lessons.

Speaker 3 And it served me well because I did three films with an American accent right after each other.

Speaker 1 Wow. Does it feel comfortable enough to you where you don't even have to think about it? You can just think about the acting?

Speaker 3 Well, the strangest thing was that I don't really have a process as such. And I want to be one of those people that does.

Speaker 3 But with an American accent, it sort of does give you that because I have to sit down and go through the whole thing and have someone with me.

Speaker 3 making sure I sound right. So it feels like it, it does feel like a process in a way.
But I did two films in an English accent last year and thought, I cannot remember how to do this.

Speaker 3 And then I just did a film in an American accent and thought, I cannot fucking remember how to do this. So it's

Speaker 1 so now you're lost kind of in between and sort of.

Speaker 3 Yeah, I'm like, who am I?

Speaker 1 You could go into mime work maybe instead. Is that a fix?

Speaker 1 Do you do when you when you work on an accent? So do you do it?

Speaker 1 You were you doing it kind of well, obviously, like you said, you did during the lockdown, and then you kind of work on it as you're leading up and then work every day on that scene, sort of as you're getting ready working with the dialect coach no because i and i think that's a covid thing i've only done one film with a dialect coach on set and she was doing everyone right um so usually i prep on the sunday And then I do the week as is sort of alone, I suppose.

Speaker 3 And then ADR is obviously helpful.

Speaker 2 Daisy, do you lean on an acting coach or any acting kind of thing person for each role? Are you like, you know what, I got this? I did the work. I studied.
I went to school for it.

Speaker 2 I know what I'm doing.

Speaker 3 I do not lean on anyone, and I've not worked with an acting coach. That's not to say I don't.

Speaker 1 You don't need it.

Speaker 3 I mean, I'm sure I do need it.

Speaker 2 No, because some actors do, some actors don't, you know.

Speaker 1 And even those that use them might not need them. They just like the interface.
Yes, they like that sort of partnership, I think. Yeah.

Speaker 3 I like to be very,

Speaker 3 I do all my thinking and all my work, and then I like to come. And I'm quite a,

Speaker 3 I don't, I take my work very seriously I do not take myself very seriously so I like to

Speaker 3 I'm quite a messer about it on set I suppose but I'm never like interrupting anyone else and obviously there are times where you we can't do that but I like to really just have a great time on set have you worked you haven't worked with Tom yet have you uh well the just the film we met on ah yeah there's that oh yeah but we were not together then so that so uh no and then he wrote the film we made last year but he was filming based on a true story and we were filming here.

Speaker 3 And I, I think that would have been very difficult for him to have been on set because I was acting and he was writing. And I was like, oh my God, I think that would have made me very self-conscious.

Speaker 1 So you guys are doing the movie together.

Speaker 1 How early on in the film did you start to see the first the first spark? You know,

Speaker 1 walk us through it because I know Will loves a good rom-com. He just likes to know the meat cutes and everything.
So it just go slow for him. I love a meet-cute.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Well,

Speaker 3 another of your guests, Penelope Cruz, sort of takes credit for us being together.

Speaker 1 Does she? Really? Wow.

Speaker 3 Yeah. It was sort of, we were like best friends.

Speaker 3 And then we were together. And then when we came back together for the premiere, Penelope, I'm not even going to try and do her.
accent, but she says, I'd love you to do it.

Speaker 3 Your connection was so strong.

Speaker 1 Do it. Try it right now.

Speaker 3 Your connection was so strong. That's great.

Speaker 1 That's terrible. I'm so sorry.
Oh, that's great.

Speaker 1 That's really good.

Speaker 3 Yeah, so, but we were

Speaker 3 best friends immediately.

Speaker 1 Okay, so your best friend's on set.

Speaker 1 And there is, is he, do you get the sense that he is starting to feel like maybe things are maybe going to be better than friends? No, yeah. No, we're going to walk right through this.

Speaker 1 Yeah, we have to do that. And

Speaker 1 were we

Speaker 1 was the first, did like, did the first, was the first declaration of like, hey, I like, now you're talking to a guy, I've been been married for 25 years.

Speaker 1 The last relationship, it was like school, right? Where you're passing notes, for Christ's sake. I don't know how this stuff happens.

Speaker 1 Yeah. You know, will you go with me? Or whatever the hell we used to say.
Go with me.

Speaker 1 How did it happen? Did you pass him a note? Were you a little giggle after a tape? What happened? What are we doing? Accidentally brushing a hand. What are you doing? Yeah.
Let's get out of here.

Speaker 1 Oh, my.

Speaker 1 Do you want to share a ride to the hotel? Like, tell me what happened, Daisy. So I want to know.
Don't kiss me

Speaker 1 yeah was it was it that clear Daisy come on Daisy

Speaker 1 I'll call Tom right now I'll get it from him or or Daisy how about this who asked who asked who out first and what were the circumstances thank you Sean oh my god oh my god Tracy does not need to know Tracy loves this are you kidding me yeah Wisconsin's on fire right now

Speaker 1 only thing we've never had to explain to her this is how much she loves it

Speaker 1 I've literally read now it's very cute all right so let's just do so we're gonna fill in for you okay so we're gonna assume that we're midway through the shoot it's about a 30-day shoot so we're in you know second week or whatever yeah and somebody's got a little issue with maybe a scene that's coming up let's maybe it's daisy and she says Tom, would you ever want to work on this?

Speaker 1 Maybe just talk about it over coffee or dinner or something like that. Just with a straight face, like you could not care less, right? Because you're an actor, you're a professional liar.

Speaker 1 You're making him think like you couldn't care, like he's not your type. And then you guys get to the dinner, you're walking through the scene, you're running, you both brought your pages, whatever.

Speaker 1 And then, um, you just start laughing about uh, growing up as kids and what a great last name he's got. Have you ever met him? Oh my gosh, you know, like, did it kind of go like that? I bet it did.

Speaker 1 The thing is, it's not that crazy. Oh, my God, we were just best friends, and then we moved together, and now we're married.
Who made the first move?

Speaker 1 He did, he did, of course. Good for him.
Good for him.

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Speaker 2 So I want to talk a little bit about Young Women in the Sea, which I tried to watch and I couldn't, but

Speaker 2 tell me about the prep for that. And then I want to talk about like projects, like how do you choose what's important to you?

Speaker 3 The prep for Young Women in the Sea was

Speaker 3 I could not swim a full length when I first started swim training.

Speaker 3 And then three months later, I was plonked in the Black Sea for nine days while we filmed the swim.

Speaker 3 In fact, the two attempts that Trudy made it.

Speaker 1 You shot that in the Black Sea. Yeah.
Off the coast of

Speaker 1 Bulgaria. Bulgaria.
Okay.

Speaker 2 Yeah. Does that track well?

Speaker 1 That tracks, yeah. No, Sophia is the capital.

Speaker 1 Keep going. Yep.
Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 So two and a half months swimming prep and then a shoot, which obviously was not all swimming, but a lot of swimming. And then ending with those nine days.
So I was pretty tired after that.

Speaker 1 Yeah, you think you're in shape until you start swimming, right? I mean, swimming is just the hardest thing to do. I think

Speaker 1 I can't do it. Yeah, I can't do it.

Speaker 2 I run out of breath so quickly, even from one lap in the pool.

Speaker 1 Is that what I tried?

Speaker 3 Oh, yeah. I literally came up halfway and was the first time and said, I don't think I can do this.
But my swimming coach is also an Olympian. She won silver at Rio.

Speaker 3 So the whole time I was like, and now because we're friends, I introduce her as an Olympian. And every time she's like, can you just not?

Speaker 3 But she's so amazing.

Speaker 1 Why did she not want to be known as Olympian?

Speaker 3 Because she's so sweet and so modest.

Speaker 1 What's her name?

Speaker 3 Siobhan Marie O'Connor.

Speaker 1 Siobhan Marie O'Connor. If you see her on the street, approach her and congratulate her on the Olympics.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 That's so cool.

Speaker 1 So when you're working out with somebody like that who is quite legitimate, like an Olympic swimmer, who's won medals,

Speaker 1 do you feel, do you get motivated by how good she is? You're like, I'm exhausted, but I don't want to let her down, so I'm just going to keep going. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 3 Also, she, she retired early because she got ill and she was still swimming with her illness. So that's like a double whammy of unbelievable.

Speaker 1 Oh, wow.

Speaker 3 Yes. And also I knew, you know, you get to sit and you're like, well, this is what I signed up for.
So I also didn't want to let anyone else down and I wanted to be able to do the thing.

Speaker 1 Sean got ill once swimming, but it's because he ate a pound of gummies too too soon before he went went in the pool

Speaker 1 full pound yeah he couldn't sleep that night either sour patch

Speaker 1 hey daisy what's it like what's it like um just bobbing in the open ocean yeah having to do a bunch of work for days and days and days didn't you think the odds of you having a little bit of a nudge from a large fish were pretty pretty big right well i knew there were no sharks but there there are jellyfish.

Speaker 1 Who told you?

Speaker 2 What are they calling sick?

Speaker 3 The Black Sea specialists told me that there were no sharks, but there were actual unexploded mines.

Speaker 1 Is that true? There's no sharks in the Black Sea?

Speaker 3 No,

Speaker 3 but there are jellyfish and there are mines. And we were told that where we were, the mines had been exploded.
And that was not comforting.

Speaker 1 That was.

Speaker 1 I've been exploding mines for a long time. Yeah.
Oh, mine, no, mine. MIN, MIN.
Got it, got it, got it, got it.

Speaker 3 And each time it was

Speaker 3 really cold and very overwhelming because you're fighting against the current. And then I had to keep pace with the follow boat that's in the film.

Speaker 3 And then I had to keep pace with the camera boat that's on the other side.

Speaker 3 And also I was afraid of open water.

Speaker 3 It's Jerry Bruckheimer that produced the film. And I did say to the producers, and the writer and director, I am afraid of open water.
And I think they thought I was joking, but like I wasn't joking.

Speaker 3 So each time I got in, I had that.

Speaker 1 How did you not just pass on the movie? Being that that's one of your fears? That's

Speaker 1 very hard to do the movie.

Speaker 3 Wow. Yeah.
I mean, I did a film just before Christmas where I am

Speaker 3 a window cleaner. We were calling it die shard.

Speaker 2 Are you scared of windows?

Speaker 3 I'm terrified of cleaning windows.

Speaker 1 Heights, I'll bet. I'm terrified of heights.
There it is. Wait, Daisy, what were you calling it? You were calling it what?

Speaker 3 Die shard.

Speaker 1 Die shard. Because it's so good.

Speaker 3 You know, and everything goes on. And I, well, I have to fight my way into the building and save the day,

Speaker 3 Allah Diehard.

Speaker 3 But yeah, I'm afraid of heights. And at that point, I thought, why do I keep doing this?

Speaker 1 But the roles are so good, you know?

Speaker 3 And it's a great time to overcome something.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I love that. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 I mean, were there moments where you're like, and I'm not kidding, were you like, how do I get out of this?

Speaker 1 Or you're never.

Speaker 3 Yeah, there were.

Speaker 3 And then, I mean, the scariest moment of Young Woman in the Sea was when we were flying home after rap, and the director, Yoakum, said, So basically, I would, after the shot was over, I would have to get on like a life raft, and then the safety boat would grab the life raft and pull me to safety, essentially.

Speaker 3 And Yoakam said, oh, there was a time where your leg was dragging right under the propeller, and I thought your leg was going to be cut off.

Speaker 1 Oh, it's like, God.

Speaker 3 Well, I guess it's better to know after the fact.

Speaker 3 Yeah. But no, it was all pretty scary.

Speaker 1 So you're looking for for a nice sitcom right about now, yeah?

Speaker 1 Yeah, I'm looking for something more.

Speaker 3 Yeah, sitting down, having a nice time.

Speaker 2 And just the trajectory of your career is so impressive from that pub to getting Star Wars and now just working constantly with such impressive work and being around so many

Speaker 2 people that

Speaker 2 know what they're doing and

Speaker 2 top of their game.

Speaker 2 Is there, of those people that you've worked with so far, is there some kind of advice somebody gave you at one one point where just like, wow, and it really stuck with you or something that kind of moved you in a way that you're like, I got to hang on to that.

Speaker 3 I had a dinner with someone who's quite big in the film world, and he goes,

Speaker 3 your career is so interesting.

Speaker 1 And I was like,

Speaker 3 and at the time I thought,

Speaker 3 is that a good thing? But actually, I am not someone who has planned things out. I just know what I like and I go with what's available and that I like.

Speaker 3 So I am sort of, I'm trying not to look sideways and doing my own thing. Yeah.

Speaker 2 So, quote, your career is interesting wasn't great advice.

Speaker 1 It was just a comment.

Speaker 3 Well, it was, it was a comment, but it made me think, oh, I mean, should I be more strategic? And actually, I thought, no, because the stuff I've got to do is very wide-ranging. Right.

Speaker 3 Like, sometimes I think about dying.

Speaker 1 We made in 23 days with a tiny budget and it was as enriching as Star Wars which is you know massive many many many times that both budget and filming wise that's interesting whatever you're doing it's right I mean you're doing things that are challenging you and you know we can't we can't do anything about who's gonna see something who it's for what where it's gonna be when it's gonna be released all that stuff we just gotta do our job right and do the things

Speaker 1 that feed us yeah so um it sounds like you're doing a lot of

Speaker 3 decisions. Ben Mendelsohn said something because I used to feel more, I suppose,

Speaker 3 like it was my fault how something was going to perform or not. And Ben was like, we just do the work we do, and then that's it.

Speaker 1 You know, what more can you do?

Speaker 2 As Jason Bateman said to me decades ago, none of this is up to you.

Speaker 2 And that stuck with me forever.

Speaker 1 You only have one

Speaker 1 part in it all. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Daisy Ridley, what is Daisy Ridley doing in between gigs? Because she works so much. What do you do with your time off?

Speaker 3 This week, I'm going to see, though it's supposed to be a surprise, Sarah Snook in Dorian Gray on Thursday.

Speaker 1 We won't tell her.

Speaker 1 We won't tell her. Wow.

Speaker 3 I read, watch movies. We went to go see Monkey Man on.
Oh, I hear that.

Speaker 1 Oh, I want to see that. I want to see that.
What is that? I haven't heard of that.

Speaker 1 Def Patel director, actor, director, star.

Speaker 1 It's his first film he directed, right?

Speaker 3 It's the action is

Speaker 1 sick.

Speaker 1 it's uh oh my god it's weird

Speaker 1 i have seen that yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah

Speaker 1 um

Speaker 2 lots of hanging out see my family a lot yeah um see my nephews a lot kids f bigger family in the future for you and well maybe some kids

Speaker 1 are really good person maybe

Speaker 1 i know i'm like wow why am i thinking about that i don't know just asking i'm obsessed with my nephews like

Speaker 3 love them so much.

Speaker 1 Yeah, how old are they?

Speaker 3 They are, the little ones are two and a half and six months, and they're just delightful little squishy boys.

Speaker 1 I love that.

Speaker 2 Well, Daisy, it's now much later in the UK. You've been such a joy to be here.
Thank you for doing this. So generous.
Huge fan, like crazy fan.

Speaker 1 Sean, one Star Wars. Sean, one Star Wars question.
We'll let you know.

Speaker 1 Or you know what?

Speaker 1 Go wake up Scotty and tell him to get over here and ask a question.

Speaker 1 I teamed Scotty up a while ago.

Speaker 1 Hey, oh.

Speaker 2 No, I mean,

Speaker 2 I had tons of questions. I saw his question.

Speaker 1 Well, then let's hear one. It's the best one.

Speaker 2 Well, okay, let me just look.

Speaker 1 Oh, my God, you really have them all written down. I do.
I wrote them down.

Speaker 1 When you were on Endalore. Okay, so

Speaker 2 I have a question about the test process, but you kind of talked about that.

Speaker 2 I have a question about, oh, here's one. It has a massive fan base, Star Wars.
Obviously, I'm one of them.

Speaker 2 But how does it feel to be part of such a beloved franchise? And do you feel a responsibility towards know the fans like did you feel the weight of that

Speaker 2 and and and were you a fan before

Speaker 3 I um would not have called myself a fan from before no I had seen some of them and then when I was auditioning I was like oh this is everywhere and it was one of those things of suddenly there was so you know you weren't you didn't you didn't know that before you were like oh this is everywhere you're making Sean angry no no it was I mean I was aware of it but you know when you're auditioning for something it is very present in your your world that it's there and you want the thing.

Speaker 3 And I remember seeing a Princess Leia t-shirt and thought, oh, okay. And then every book I read, there was a reference and every film I watched, there was a reference.
So it was one of those things.

Speaker 3 And then the love grew.

Speaker 3 But also, I think that was good because I was.

Speaker 3 I was just like, I was so wondrously happy to be there, but because I didn't quite understand how far-reaching it was.

Speaker 1 Didn't you know that it's he's not baby Yoda? He's actually a different name, but everybody calls him baby Yoda.

Speaker 1 By the way, can you see it?

Speaker 1 Have you got one up there? Can you see him up there in the back up there? Oh, sweet. What's he called, Sean?

Speaker 2 His

Speaker 1 birth name. Grogu.
Grogu, yeah. It's actually Grogu.
I was put on the spot. I was so nervous.
I know you are, Angel.

Speaker 1 Careful, your heart. Okay.
Can I ask you one more question about where the paddles?

Speaker 2 Can I ask you one more question about it?

Speaker 2 Please. And then, so what?

Speaker 1 We're so sorry, Daisy.

Speaker 1 After it came out, were you like

Speaker 2 the rush of it? Like,

Speaker 2 what was the downside after it? Like, because the announcement of it, the announcement of the cast, and then the shooting of it, and then it came out, and all of it was so massive.

Speaker 2 And then you rapped. And then what is that moment like?

Speaker 3 I mean, the rap at the very end was

Speaker 3 someone has it recorded somewhere. I was crying so much, it was hilarious.
I couldn't speak. I was going,

Speaker 1 I'm having such a good time.

Speaker 3 Like, I was one of those wailing people that was looking around at these wondrous people that had been there, you know, for 18 months of my life. Oh, my God.

Speaker 3 That was

Speaker 3 very emotional.

Speaker 2 But was there a sense of like, what the hell am I going to do next?

Speaker 1 Like, what am I going to do next? Oh, yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 3 Because that January after we were all, oh, yeah. The January after they were all done, it just felt so quiet.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 3 Like, you know, you just spend all the your time with and particularly on press stores when you're with people all hours of the day. Yeah.
That was very strange. And then we went into lockdown.

Speaker 3 So that was all like a very strange experience of having to sit quietly.

Speaker 2 Must have just been like, what? Like the sets and the costumes and like it's just amazing to me. And then last one,

Speaker 2 can you give me anything at all that Kathy Kennedy told you about the movie? I I know you haven't read the script yet, but any kind of nugget, anything, anything about Ray in the next movie?

Speaker 1 I'll be in it. No.

Speaker 1 How about this?

Speaker 1 Would you be possibly open to, subject to the rules of the set and everything, of Sean

Speaker 1 and maybe me and Will. Stormtrooper? No, no, showing up on set, doing a bit of a remote episode of a very special Star Wars Smart List on set.

Speaker 1 We interview you. Maybe, maybe JJ can pop by.
I mean, whoever else.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 3 I mean, I feel really bad because the only person I ever had,

Speaker 3 oh, morning, Mr. Magpie, I had visit in

Speaker 3 a friend through workway was Josh Gadd. And he came the day that the scene was that I was Palvertine's granddaughter.
And he literally said, you ruined my fucking life.

Speaker 1 It was like,

Speaker 1 why did you bring me today?

Speaker 3 Because why Sean? And I just didn't think.

Speaker 2 No,

Speaker 1 I get it because I was like, wait, you're pumping out. That's a crazy moment.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 3 And I felt so riddled with guilt.

Speaker 1 Riddlied with guilt. Yeah.

Speaker 3 I was riddled with guilt.

Speaker 3 So now I'm so scared.

Speaker 1 I don't want to ruin anything for anyone, you know? Wait, no, but you can't say anything about that. I'm just tired.
Sean,

Speaker 2 but there's got to be something like you that you can give that doesn't give anything.

Speaker 3 Look, I won't press. Some time has passed.

Speaker 2 Sometime in the past.

Speaker 3 Wait, something in the past? No, no, some time has passed.

Speaker 2 oh some time has passed

Speaker 1 yes and um you said sometime in the past i think it is in the past oh really um

Speaker 1 and uh i think we might film next year might film next year okay we've got that's enough that's enough That's at least something.

Speaker 1 But anyway, start laying out your outfit now, Sean. I feel like I think I have part of it on.

Speaker 1 I have underrus on. Star Wars under rus.

Speaker 2 Daisy, you're such a pleasure. Thank you for being here.

Speaker 2 You really are.

Speaker 1 Thank you so much for doing this.

Speaker 2 It's such a joy.

Speaker 1 Please say hi to Tom. Thank you.
Yeah. I will.

Speaker 2 Absolutely love you and love everything about you.

Speaker 1 Thank you, guys. Thanks, Daisy.
Bye-bye. Bye-bye.
Bye.

Speaker 2 Bye.

Speaker 2 Oh, she's the sweetest. And I love how cute she was when we asked her about how they met and how she was

Speaker 1 certainly private. Yeah, okay.

Speaker 1 And then you get to just fill in the blanks, like I did. And we wrote

Speaker 1 our little airport romance novel.

Speaker 1 We did pry. We did pry for sure.

Speaker 2 But yeah, it must be, I love watching what she's doing after, you know, ASW, after Star Wars, to create a career for herself and all those other things.

Speaker 1 It's not an acronym at all.

Speaker 1 It's not a thing. Yeah.
Okay.

Speaker 2 But all of these movies that she's done is really kind of stretching her.

Speaker 1 her skills and it's awesome to see because she knocks it out of the park every time she's balancing like that big huge global commercial thing with like these great small yeah independent films as well and the stuff in the middle

Speaker 1 prestige films in between like yeah yeah yeah it's the way to do it sweet and maybe the best name in hollywood right daisy ridley that's that's a hard one to beat daisy ridley it's so tremendous what a name i know isn't it oh uh by the way you guys um young woman in the sea is in theaters right now i'm excited for that i do want to see that i mean i'm i'm scared as well of that open water even watching somebody like those films did you ever see the movie open water no what was the one that wasn't that nicole kidman and nicole kidman sim

Speaker 1 no that was uh what was that one from years ago below deck deadcom

Speaker 1 below deck

Speaker 1 on bravo

Speaker 1 oh it's no oh it's below deck i thought yeah sorry

Speaker 1 i thought it was below okay sorry it was a different show different show

Speaker 2 about a guy named named i guy i dated named deck all right so um

Speaker 2 no but but

Speaker 2 open water, the movie. Did you ever see the movie Open Water? It's based on a true story about

Speaker 2 the scuba divers. And the scuba divers all go down and they all come back up and the boat counters like, okay, this couple's back, this couple's back.

Speaker 2 And the boat takes off and they leave a couple in the ocean underneath snorkeling still or whatever. And they come up and they fucking, they're in the middle of open water.

Speaker 1 Rude. It's just rude.

Speaker 1 And what do they do? What happens, Sean? They get

Speaker 2 they meet their demise by sharks and everything. Truly?

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 2 I I think it's based on a true story.

Speaker 1 How do they know? How do they know what happened? Terrible. So you sit there, you watch them bobbing in the ocean for an hour and a half, and then they get eaten and go ahead and roll credits.

Speaker 2 Yes, but it's like, it's really intense. It's really scary.

Speaker 1 Wow.

Speaker 1 Anyway, I could skip that. How did they have the time to write the screenplay before they died?

Speaker 1 Because if they say it's a true story, how the fuck do we know?

Speaker 2 They had an iPhone. They had an iPhone.
Nice try. Nice try.
But thank God, Daisy Ridley is all good from the Black Sea, and nothing happened to her.

Speaker 1 yeah, right. Um, but anyway, uh, who's working who's working on a buy? I mean, I think everybody's always working on a buy, but don't ask why.
We're everybody's working on a buy,

Speaker 1 and then I got a little

Speaker 1 since the dawn of time, you know,

Speaker 1 you know where I read it. I read it in the Bible,

Speaker 1 nice, we've never used that, amen, bible,

Speaker 1 bye,

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