Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, it's Bruce. Thanks for pulling up a chair
Speaker 1: today on Table for two. I had lunch last week
Speaker 1: with an incredibly talented actress by the beach. I might
Speaker 1: add you all know her. She's from across the pond,
Speaker 1: though she's from Great Britain, the incredible mini driver. And
Speaker 1: I thought, you know what, you guys should listen to
Speaker 1: a little bit more of this conversation. It was so good.
Speaker 1: She's so enchanting and extremely honest. So enjoy today's snippet.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna call it of our conversation. The full lunch
Speaker 1: will drop next week.
Speaker 2: Okay, So I think I know the answer to this,
Speaker 2: and no, maybe I don't.
Speaker 3: Where's your happy place?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 4: I mean my happy place is in the ocean, But
Speaker 4: the happy happiest is if I can see the people
Speaker 4: that I love on the beach and wave to them occasionally,
Speaker 4: and a.
Speaker 2: Cold beer and a cold beer, yes, PACIFICA do you soa?
Speaker 5: When have you not asked for permission but then had
Speaker 5: to ask for forgiveness?
Speaker 3: Boy? Oh boy, that's a great question. I pretty much
Speaker 3: feel like every time I've opened my map.
Speaker 4: Great, I really done.
Speaker 3: And my mother was the same.
Speaker 4: She said, what she thought, which most often was not
Speaker 4: the most politic It was not the thing that was
Speaker 4: going to endear her to certain people, but it was
Speaker 4: how she felt, and there was a wonder of articulation
Speaker 4: in it. I don't believe in being sloppy in the
Speaker 4: things that you say. Even the most outlandish things that
Speaker 4: I've said, I could probably I could still defend them
Speaker 4: because I understand what they were, how they were articulated,
Speaker 4: from what place that was coming from. But I don't
Speaker 4: think you should waste time censoring what you what you feel,
Speaker 4: if you've given it some thought. You know, women are
Speaker 4: called outspoken. I've never heard of a man be called outspoken.
Speaker 4: I think it's my least favorite word, along with should,
Speaker 4: because what is that spoken outside of what the bands
Speaker 4: of what has been described as.
Speaker 3: Acceptable of that.
Speaker 4: It is speaking what you feel and what you think,
Speaker 4: and people often don't like it because it doesn't accommodate
Speaker 4: the sensibility of like not offending anybody, or maybe I
Speaker 4: should stop talking now.
Speaker 5: I think you answered I didn't know what you would say,
Speaker 5: and I think it's a great answer.
Speaker 2: What is the first hour of your day and when
Speaker 2: you are not working?
Speaker 4: I mean, it really is like it's coffee with my love,
Speaker 4: like first and foremost. I love that sort of slightly
Speaker 4: sleepy early morning coffee sitting in a robe, knowing that
Speaker 4: like going and doing something physical is what comes next.
Speaker 4: It's sort of like this lovely calm before the storm.
Speaker 4: And then I love the storm. I love I love
Speaker 4: going for a run, I love dancing, I love surf.
Speaker 4: Whatever it is I'm gonna go, do I really enjoy that?
Speaker 4: So that first hour.
Speaker 5: Is that That's key. And also, you know what I
Speaker 5: like about that is like the appreciation of time.
Speaker 4: What movie is.
Speaker 5: That the most influence on you? And what did it influence?
Speaker 2: Wow, I didn't give any of these heads.
Speaker 3: I didn't give these ahead of times. I'll tell you.
Speaker 4: I mean with Neela and I had a really huge
Speaker 4: effect on me when I was I think I was
Speaker 4: fifteen when that movie came out, and I know this
Speaker 4: is a movie. There are no women in this film
Speaker 4: at all. It does not pass the Bechdel test, does
Speaker 4: not like it is not.
Speaker 3: PC.
Speaker 4: But there is the most genius confluence of tragedy and
Speaker 4: humor in that film. The way it is shot, there's
Speaker 4: a voracity to it. The performances Richard D. Grant is
Speaker 4: savagely brilliant. I think I realized how films, the films
Speaker 4: that I would love and the films that I wanted
Speaker 4: to make, were the ones that really did make you laugh,
Speaker 4: but ultimately were gut wrenching. By the time Richard Ybrant
Speaker 4: at the end of that film is in Regent's Park
Speaker 4: in the pouring rain, reciting Hamlet. I mean, I'm in
Speaker 4: tears every time, and yet I've I've laughed all the
Speaker 4: way along and the sat the soundtrack is incredible that
Speaker 4: it's sharply edited.
Speaker 3: There's no fat on that movie.
Speaker 4: There's a leanness to the performances, no indulgent non It's
Speaker 4: just it set me up for knowing.
Speaker 3: What it was I want. I wanted to be attracted to.
Speaker 5: In a word, if you had to just be descriptive,
Speaker 5: Robin Williams.
Speaker 4: The kindest, the most generous, all that other stuff, all
Speaker 4: of the many things that he was.
Speaker 3: He was kind and he was generous.
Speaker 5: Two of the things that value most in people, of
Speaker 5: kindness and generosity. If you had to sort of pick
Speaker 5: a word to describe both places in your life, Hollywood, London.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well maybe the many that's the many of Hollywood
Speaker 2: and the mini of London.
Speaker 3: It's so weird because I.
Speaker 4: Know how to be in both those places and they
Speaker 4: require almost like a different head.
Speaker 3: It's like I have it in my carry on and
Speaker 3: as we're landing take care of the English, threw it on,
Speaker 3: put away my sunny hair. But there's I feel like
Speaker 3: I need both.
Speaker 4: I get that because I let's face that, I really
Speaker 4: did live until COVID. We only kind of semi move
Speaker 4: back to London during COVID and as a function of
Speaker 4: my kid being able to go to school, like I
Speaker 4: have lived here for twenty seven years in California, and
Speaker 4: I was twenty four when I arrived, and I'm fifty
Speaker 4: four and I literally feel like I went to Pavilions
Speaker 4: to get milk.
Speaker 3: And that's it, Isn't it crazy? It's insane.
Speaker 1: I always say be prepared because when you hit.
Speaker 2: Thirty, it's like someone trusses a button and it goes
Speaker 2: into fast forward and fifty. They lift their thumb up first.
Speaker 3: Second and you're like, oh my god, what happen?
Speaker 2: And then they press it again, so we're in the zone.
Speaker 2: First concert, oh my god, it.
Speaker 3: Was the slippery when went tal Bon Jovie literally my
Speaker 3: friend held up a.
Speaker 4: Sign like you know, John say hi, and she literally
Speaker 4: disappeared backstage. I did not.
Speaker 3: I got the tube home.
Speaker 5: You okay, So this is you know, Donna Summer, MacArthur's
Speaker 5: part or Gloria Gainers.
Speaker 4: I will survive, Oh, I mean in the winter in London,
Speaker 4: MacArthur Park, I don't think I can take it anymore.
Speaker 3: Nah, I will survive.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: The minute you hear that, what a thousand percent?
Speaker 5: Music's in your blood?
Speaker 3: Oh my god, you better believe it.
Speaker 4: I mean yeah, And I'll get up and dance anyway,
Speaker 4: much of the horror of my son.
Speaker 5: Thank you for taking the time.
Speaker 3: Wow you today. Thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 4: It was really delicious and it was really lovely talking
Speaker 4: to you.
Speaker 3: Good.
Speaker 5: Thank you, Thank you everyone.
Speaker 2: Thank you for pulling up a chair, and have a
Speaker 2: great day.
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