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- 0:33Speaker 2: I think I got to promote Merry Christmas Aubrey Flint
- 0:35Speaker 2: on my Christmas station, you know?
- 0:37Speaker 1: Yeah, well, we need to talk about that. And I
- 0:39Speaker 1: hope he talks about it as well when it comes
- 0:41Speaker 1: to the music in that movie. My God.
- 0:44Speaker 2: Just so you know, John, me and my 13-year-old run
- 0:47Speaker 2: a Christmas radio station from our house.
- 0:50Speaker 3: Oh, no way.
- 0:52Speaker 1: Just at Christmas time, not all year long.
- 0:54Speaker 3: No, I love that. That's awesome.
- 0:56Speaker 2: But yeah, so anyway, Arrow, let's talk Christmas 18 with John.
- 1:02Speaker 1: John, I got to tell you, I mean, since he
- 1:04Speaker 1: was talking about Christmas music, we got to talk about
- 1:06Speaker 1: the music that's in this movie. My God, it was
- 1:09Speaker 1: so original and so fitting for every single scene in
- 1:13Speaker 1: this film.
- 1:15Speaker 3: It's pretty good, right? Yeah. The music's astounding. The first
- 1:18Speaker 3: time I saw this movie, I.
- 1:21Speaker 4: Just assumed that the songs in it specifically were old
- 1:26Speaker 4: standards that had maybe been re-recorded or reworked in some way.
- 1:30Speaker 4: But no, there's like 12 original songs in this movie
- 1:34Speaker 4: and every one of them brilliant, every one of them...
- 1:36Speaker 4: Sounds like a bona fide Christmas classic.
- 1:39Speaker 3: And yeah, it's astounding.
- 1:41Speaker 4: And I think the soundtrack album was released a couple
- 1:44Speaker 4: of weeks ago. So if anybody likes those songs, if
- 1:46Speaker 4: people want to make those songs part of their Christmas soundtrack,
- 1:50Speaker 4: they can do it.
- 1:51Speaker 1: Well, the thing about it is, is that it really does.
- 1:53Speaker 1: I mean, every scene that you're in and when you're
- 1:57Speaker 1: thinking about things and while you're trying to piece things together,
- 2:00Speaker 1: especially reading the book, And then inside the back of
- 2:02Speaker 1: your mind, you're putting the play together. Just everything when
- 2:05Speaker 1: it comes to that music sets it up and it
- 2:08Speaker 1: delivers us as viewers to grow forward rather than to go, oh,
- 2:11Speaker 1: it's a Christmas story. No, it's not. This is a
- 2:13Speaker 1: Christmas experience.
- 2:16Speaker 4: Yeah, we'd like to think so. That's very kind of
- 2:19Speaker 4: you to say. And yeah, it moves at a different
- 2:23Speaker 4: pace than you'd expect a Christmas movie to move at.
- 2:26Speaker 4: There's a lot of silent scenes. There's a lot of
- 2:29Speaker 4: scenes where Aubrey is just on his own in his
- 2:33Speaker 4: little apartment, just existing by himself.
- 2:35Speaker 3: It's not.
- 2:36Speaker 4: like breakneck feel good happy clappy sort of laugh a
- 2:41Speaker 4: minute stuff a lot of the time there's a lot
- 2:43Speaker 4: of more subdued moments in it and that music and
- 2:47Speaker 4: both the score and the soundtrack they they fit those
- 2:50Speaker 4: moments so perfectly and it i think it's you know
- 2:54Speaker 4: it's it's you know maybe blowing the movie's own trumpet
- 2:57Speaker 4: to say i think it is a really watchable movie
- 2:59Speaker 4: because because of that pacing and that, you know, the
- 3:02Speaker 4: form and structure that it has. I think it's sort
- 3:04Speaker 4: of a unique experience amongst Christmas movies, I'd like to say.
- 3:08Speaker 1: There used to be a time when MTV would give
- 3:10Speaker 1: away an award for the best kiss on the screen.
- 3:13Speaker 1: I think that what MTV needs to do is come
- 3:16Speaker 1: back with the best hug. What you do with your
- 3:18Speaker 1: father in this movie, I'm telling you, there's going to
- 3:21Speaker 1: be a lot of grown men around this world that
- 3:23Speaker 1: are going to say, I want that. That's the hug
- 3:27Speaker 1: I want to share with my father and I want
- 3:28Speaker 1: to receive from my father. Dude, that was amazing.
- 3:32Speaker 3: And you didn't even say anything.
- 3:33Speaker 1: It was the hug.
- 3:34Speaker 3: Oh, thank you, man.
- 3:36Speaker 4: Yeah, that was a moment that we were very keen
- 3:39Speaker 4: to get right because in the movie, Aubrey hasn't seen
- 3:42Speaker 4: his father for maybe.
- 3:45Speaker 3: maybe 20 years at that point.
- 3:48Speaker 4: And they've become estranged after Aubrey's mum sadly passed away
- 3:52Speaker 4: on Christmas Day when he was seven years old. And
- 3:54Speaker 4: there's a lot of resentment between him and his dad
- 3:56Speaker 4: and they've just grown so distant.
- 3:58Speaker 3: And that hug was about hugging in the here and now,
- 4:01Speaker 3: but we.
- 4:01Speaker 4: Wanted to make it feel like it was 20 years
- 4:04Speaker 4: of missed hugs all wrapped up into this one moment,
- 4:09Speaker 4: this one cathartic moment for them both because... because they'd
- 4:13Speaker 4: clearly been thinking about each other in all of that time.
- 4:16Speaker 4: They were just too proud and too hurt. and too
- 4:19Speaker 4: traumatized to make that first move. So hopefully people might
- 4:23Speaker 4: learn a few lessons from that and just realize that
- 4:25Speaker 4: life's too short to be carrying around these things. And
- 4:29Speaker 4: you'll always be grateful. If you do extend that olive
- 4:33Speaker 4: branch to somebody in your life, you'll never regret it,
- 4:35Speaker 4: I don't think. And hopefully that movie is going to cause, yeah,
- 4:38Speaker 4: as you say, a lot of those real life hugs
- 4:40Speaker 4: to happen right in the here and now.
- 4:43Speaker 1: Well, the director and the editor really start this movie
- 4:47Speaker 1: off on the right foot because it sets up everything
- 4:50Speaker 1: and the theme of the movie because the opening is festive.
- 4:52Speaker 1: It's emotional. And then there's that little bit of a
- 4:56Speaker 1: twist that most of us go through on Christmas. There's
- 4:58Speaker 1: always something that isn't going to go right. And you
- 5:01Speaker 1: really do set us up perfectly with this movie. And
- 5:04Speaker 1: then it's showtime. And that's when we are settled in
- 5:08Speaker 1: and we're watching the story come to life in front
- 5:10Speaker 1: of our eyes. It's perfect timing, dude, all the way
- 5:13Speaker 1: through this movie.
- 5:15Speaker 4: Yeah, it's... Because the movie uses Charles Dickens' A Christmas
- 5:23Speaker 4: Carol as its template, really, it's such a classic human
- 5:30Speaker 4: story in addition to a Christmas story about somebody who
- 5:33Speaker 4: has turned his back on humanity and over the course
- 5:36Speaker 4: of the story falls back in love with people again
- 5:39Speaker 4: and falls back in love with Christmas and rediscovers the
- 5:42Speaker 4: importance of connecting with human beings. So people know when
- 5:47Speaker 4: they start watching the movie that Aubrey is probably not
- 5:50Speaker 4: going to be the same character at the end of
- 5:52Speaker 4: the movie as he was at the beginning.
- 5:54Speaker 3: There's going to be some kind of transformation.
- 5:56Speaker 4: But as soon as you know that, yes, you might
- 5:59Speaker 4: know where the story is going to end up, but
- 6:00Speaker 4: hopefully the characters.
- 6:02Speaker 3: in the.
- 6:02Speaker 4: Film are so watchable and so nicely drawn that you're
- 6:06Speaker 4: just happy to see that transformation play.
- 6:08Speaker 1: Out well it starts to transfer when we're in that
- 6:11Speaker 1: talent show my god how did you even keep a
- 6:13Speaker 1: straight face during that talent show i laughed my ass
- 6:16Speaker 1: off the entire way when everybody got up there with
- 6:18Speaker 1: with their little talents and stuff i just thought that
- 6:20Speaker 1: was such a brilliant comedy place It's really adorable.
- 6:25Speaker 3: It's really adorable, yeah.
- 6:27Speaker 4: And, you know, one testament to the quality of the
- 6:30Speaker 4: script and the sort of quality of the project is
- 6:33Speaker 4: these actors that come on and they're part of the
- 6:37Speaker 4: cast in the.
- 6:38Speaker 3: A large part of the... A large plot device.
- 6:42Speaker 4: In this movie is that Aubrey is roped into directing
- 6:45Speaker 4: a production of A Christmas Carol in a care home
- 6:48Speaker 4: for the elderly. The fact that we were able to
- 6:50Speaker 4: populate this care home with these actors who quite often
- 6:54Speaker 4: didn't have any lines even, but they were able to
- 6:57Speaker 4: just bring so much personality and so much skill to
- 7:00Speaker 4: these little parts and so much comic energy that, yeah,
- 7:04Speaker 4: we were really spoilt. It was an embarrassment of riches,
- 7:07Speaker 4: the cast that we got to populate this.
- 7:09Speaker 3: And yeah, that sequence where.
- 7:11Speaker 4: Each of the residents is coming up and trying out
- 7:13Speaker 4: their little talent. There's something really beautiful about it. And
- 7:17Speaker 4: each one of them just performed on the day magnificently.
- 7:20Speaker 4: And yeah, that's a lovely little memorable set piece in
- 7:23Speaker 4: the middle of the movie, we think.
- 7:25Speaker 1: Please don't move. We'll be right back with actor John
- 7:27Speaker 1: Bradley coming up next. The name of the movie, Merry Christmas,
- 7:33Speaker 1: Aubrey Flint. You're really going to love this movie. We
- 7:36Speaker 1: are back with John Bradley. God, I want to be
- 7:39Speaker 1: in the theater when this movie opens up, not just once,
- 7:41Speaker 1: but several different times, because I want to experience the
- 7:44Speaker 1: people watching it because it embraces every age group. And
- 7:48Speaker 1: I swear that even the younger generation is going to go,
- 7:51Speaker 1: I want to do this. I want to go help
- 7:53Speaker 1: somebody put a play together. I want to do this.
- 7:56Speaker 1: That's the kind of movie this is. It makes us
- 7:58Speaker 1: want to participate.
- 8:01Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 8:01Speaker 4: And it just, I think, I think there's something about,
- 8:04Speaker 4: you know, there's lessons that younger people can learn from
- 8:07Speaker 4: it in terms of, you know, how those deep and
- 8:12Speaker 4: meaningful human connections, they're not going to be replaced in
- 8:16Speaker 4: your heart by social media or connecting people, connecting with
- 8:20Speaker 4: other human beings through a screen.
- 8:23Speaker 3: You might think that you have people.
- 8:25Speaker 4: Around you if you only ever text them or you
- 8:27Speaker 4: only ever speak to them on social media, but There's
- 8:30Speaker 4: something about sharing the same oxygen with people and sharing
- 8:33Speaker 4: even no coffee with people and sharing food with people
- 8:37Speaker 4: that just cannot be replicated by technology.
- 8:40Speaker 3: So hopefully people watching it who.
- 8:42Speaker 4: Are on their phones a bit too much or they
- 8:45Speaker 4: do find that they're looking for connections in different places.
- 8:49Speaker 4: They're just reminded of the beautiful simplicity of just getting involved,
- 8:52Speaker 4: as you say, participating and just letting other people into
- 8:56Speaker 4: their hearts, really. That's part of the lesson that we
- 8:58Speaker 4: want people to take away from it.
- 9:00Speaker 1: You just said something absolutely spectacular, the beautiful simplicity, because
- 9:04Speaker 1: the Bah humbug scene, that is beautiful and it's simple.
- 9:08Speaker 1: And every comedian on this planet is going to look
- 9:10Speaker 1: at that pause that's in this movie and go, wow.
- 9:13Speaker 1: That's what it's all about. That's what I want to
- 9:15Speaker 1: do as a comedian. I want to have that pause.
- 9:18Speaker 1: And then here comes the payoff.
- 9:22Speaker 3: Yeah, it was.
- 9:22Speaker 4: I think I think that one thing that Jack Spring,
- 9:26Speaker 4: our director and our editor, they really insisted on was
- 9:31Speaker 4: letting those pauses play out. It'd be quite it's often
- 9:34Speaker 4: quite tempting, especially these days when people have short attention spans.
- 9:40Speaker 4: That they that they would have cut into that and
- 9:43Speaker 4: they would have truncated those pauses. The fact that we
- 9:46Speaker 4: build the tension by letting those pauses play out is
- 9:49Speaker 4: it's challenging.
- 9:50Speaker 3: But as you say, if you let it play.
- 9:52Speaker 4: Out once that payoff hits, then you're finding these little
- 9:56Speaker 4: comic nuggets in amongst everything else.
- 9:59Speaker 1: Doesn't this movie also give permission to what I call
- 10:02Speaker 1: the secret reader, the one that will sit there and
- 10:04Speaker 1: read a book such as Charles Dickens? and then sit
- 10:07Speaker 1: there and then, and then come up from behind the
- 10:09Speaker 1: curtain and deliver a line. And people are going, where
- 10:12Speaker 1: the hell did that even come from? But yet it's
- 10:14Speaker 1: because they live this secret life of reading. Cause no,
- 10:17Speaker 1: they don't want to be caught reading, but yet in
- 10:19Speaker 1: this movie, you prove it's okay. Go read anywhere you
- 10:23Speaker 1: want to then participate.
- 10:26Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah. That's, that's a really interesting thing to take
- 10:29Speaker 3: away from it.
- 10:30Speaker 4: But the, as we're talking about, you know, the beautiful, uh,
- 10:35Speaker 4: simplicity of these connections, but the beautiful simplicity of reading
- 10:38Speaker 4: as well and how fulfilling that can be. If you
- 10:42Speaker 4: really let a story into your heart, it can be
- 10:44Speaker 4: so transformative. Aubrey's somebody that he's, you know, The sort
- 10:51Speaker 4: of condition that he has means that he's a stickler
- 10:56Speaker 4: for the truth and he doesn't believe in fiction because
- 10:58Speaker 4: he believes that fiction is lies and he's only interested
- 11:02Speaker 4: in facts and he's only interested in recorded history. But
- 11:05Speaker 4: when he discovers A Christmas Carol, he realizes that something
- 11:09Speaker 4: doesn't have to be true to have value. Just because
- 11:13Speaker 4: the narrative is made up, it doesn't mean that the
- 11:15Speaker 4: lessons you can learn from it aren't valid and aren't
- 11:18Speaker 4: true in kind of in and of themselves. And it's
- 11:21Speaker 4: when he, when he takes that risk and open himself
- 11:24Speaker 4: up to that opens his heart up to the idea
- 11:26Speaker 4: of fiction that he realizes just how important and transformative
- 11:30Speaker 4: it can be.
- 11:31Speaker 1: You know, and it's not even just the Christmas story
- 11:32Speaker 1: because the way that Aubrey handles this whole entire situation,
- 11:36Speaker 1: he picks up a physical problem.
- 11:38Speaker 3: Book.
- 11:39Speaker 1: And that was like, so exciting to my child inside.
- 11:42Speaker 1: It was like, oh my God, he's holding the book.
- 11:46Speaker 1: And there's just so many different symbolisms all the way
- 11:48Speaker 1: through this.
- 11:50Speaker 3: Yeah, no, no, definitely. Definitely. It's him.
- 11:54Speaker 4: And, you know, one of the beautiful things about his
- 11:57Speaker 4: relationship with that book, because the book of A Christmas
- 12:01Speaker 4: Carol becomes a character in itself when he finds out
- 12:04Speaker 4: that the lady who gives him that.
- 12:05Speaker 3: Book She cherishes that book because her mom gave it
- 12:09Speaker 3: to her as a gift.
- 12:11Speaker 4: And once he knows that and once he remembers that
- 12:14Speaker 4: his own mother passed away when he was seven years old,
- 12:17Speaker 4: he realizes the importance of these things and the importance
- 12:20Speaker 4: of books. And if somebody gives you a book, they're
- 12:23Speaker 4: not just giving you a gift. They're giving you a
- 12:26Speaker 4: lot of.
- 12:26Speaker 3: Ideas and they're giving you.
- 12:28Speaker 4: A lifetime's relationship with the words, with the printed word.
- 12:33Speaker 3: And if somebody gives you a book as a gift,
- 12:35Speaker 3: what the book that.
- 12:36Speaker 4: They decide to give you says so much about what
- 12:39Speaker 4: they think about you, but so much about them themselves
- 12:42Speaker 4: as well. But you're not just given a physical object.
- 12:45Speaker 4: You're given ideas. And that's a huge thing.
- 12:48Speaker 1: So then how would you break down receiving the Napoleon
- 12:51Speaker 1: then if that's the way we're going to talk about
- 12:53Speaker 1: a book? Because it comes from a heart, too, that
- 12:55Speaker 1: loved you so much and that understood the younger version
- 12:58Speaker 1: of Aubrey.
- 13:00Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely.
- 13:01Speaker 4: I mean, his connection with his Napoleon statue is, at
- 13:07Speaker 4: the start of the movie at least, the most important
- 13:10Speaker 4: relationship in his life. And myself and Jack, the director,
- 13:14Speaker 4: we really mined that for meaning and symbolism. He venerates
- 13:20Speaker 4: this statue of Napoleon, yes, because he has this connection
- 13:23Speaker 4: to his mum, but we also were thinking because he's
- 13:26Speaker 4: estranged from his dad, napoleon becomes his surrogate father in
- 13:31Speaker 4: a way it becomes his moral compass napoleon's always the
- 13:35Speaker 4: person that he checks in with to see if he's
- 13:37Speaker 4: doing the right thing and he looks for that fatherly
- 13:41Speaker 4: assurance and guidance from a statue of a historical figure
- 13:45Speaker 4: that died you know 300 years ago that's how devoid
- 13:50Speaker 4: of humanity.
- 13:50Speaker 3: His life is that his best friend is a is.
- 13:53Speaker 4: A 12 inch high statue and you know That could
- 13:57Speaker 4: be seen as being a little bit bleak, and it is.
- 14:00Speaker 4: It does have its sad elements to it, but there's
- 14:01Speaker 4: something beautiful about that relationship.
- 14:03Speaker 3: That's... Yeah, you can see the importance of that in
- 14:08Speaker 3: Aubrey's life.
- 14:08Speaker 4: And then he takes a step towards the end of
- 14:11Speaker 4: the film, which is unthinkable at the start of it.
- 14:14Speaker 4: And that's just a testament to how he grows over.
- 14:17Speaker 3: The course of the movie.
- 14:18Speaker 1: Well, it just it shows the true spirit of Christmas
- 14:20Speaker 1: in the way that materialistic value is like it's there,
- 14:23Speaker 1: but you don't need it. And if you've got something
- 14:25Speaker 1: of value inside your heart. share it so that it
- 14:28Speaker 1: will affect other people. Because look at how many lives,
- 14:31Speaker 1: just your one decision, Aubrey's one decision, look how many
- 14:35Speaker 1: lives changed inside that theater because of that decision.
- 14:40Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that's right.
- 14:42Speaker 4: And it's that thing that I've always said, if you
- 14:46Speaker 4: go through life And in any situation that you're in,
- 14:49Speaker 4: you have a choice whether to do the right thing.
- 14:52Speaker 3: Or not do the right thing. You have a.
- 14:55Speaker 4: Choice whether to help somebody or not, or whether to
- 14:57Speaker 4: make them happy or not. And if you have that
- 15:00Speaker 4: choice and you can do something for other people, then.
- 15:03Speaker 3: Why not do it?
- 15:05Speaker 4: Aubrey, over the course of the film, he stops looking
- 15:09Speaker 4: at the past and starts looking at the present.
- 15:12Speaker 3: He'd never think to... you know, to be without Napoleon.
- 15:16Speaker 4: Life without Napoleon seems, life without Napoleon seems rootless and
- 15:20Speaker 4: empty until he realizes that if he could sell Napoleon,
- 15:25Speaker 4: the benefit that would have to living, breathing people now
- 15:30Speaker 4: outweighs any sense of sentiment that he has around it
- 15:33Speaker 4: and it's him making mature decisions that may not be
- 15:38Speaker 4: easy for him but he knows what the right thing
- 15:39Speaker 4: to do and he he decides to do the right
- 15:43Speaker 4: thing in that moment i think that's a really beautiful
- 15:45Speaker 4: moment of he's reached the he's reached a realization about
- 15:49Speaker 4: his place in the world then and the value of
- 15:52Speaker 4: other people This.
- 15:53Speaker 1: Is one of those movies that isn't going to be
- 15:55Speaker 1: just a Christmas movie. I'm going to be able to
- 15:57Speaker 1: sit down and watch this in March as well as October.
- 16:00Speaker 1: I mean, there's just something that just feels so good
- 16:03Speaker 1: about this for every day of the year, not just
- 16:05Speaker 1: a Christmas day.
- 16:08Speaker 3: Yeah, we hope so.
- 16:09Speaker 4: And that was something that marked it out amongst other
- 16:12Speaker 4: Christmas movies, I think, that there are lessons to be
- 16:16Speaker 4: learned from it all year round. It is about Christmas
- 16:19Speaker 4: is the backdrop to it, but it's more about Yeah,
- 16:22Speaker 4: more about character studies. And, you know, one of the
- 16:26Speaker 4: satisfying things about that character for me is that Aubrey
- 16:30Speaker 4: thinks that he hates Christmas, but he doesn't.
- 16:34Speaker 3: He hates that his mum died. That's what he hates.
- 16:37Speaker 3: And his hatred of Christmas is just the way that
- 16:39Speaker 3: he can process that. He can't be angry.
- 16:42Speaker 4: About the death of his mum because it's too painful
- 16:44Speaker 4: so he takes out all of his frustration on Christmas
- 16:47Speaker 4: and the audience know that about him but he doesn't
- 16:50Speaker 4: know it about himself so you can forget the Christmas
- 16:53Speaker 4: backdrop and I think those characters are still watchable and
- 16:57Speaker 4: investable enough that you'd still take something from it in
- 17:00Speaker 4: March I'd like to think This.
- 17:02Speaker 1: Is just an outsider looking in, and one of the
- 17:04Speaker 1: big stars of the movie doesn't even say a word
- 17:06Speaker 1: but the hat. I think the hat is Aubrey's mask.
- 17:10Speaker 1: As long as you've got that hat on, you are Batman,
- 17:13Speaker 1: you are Superman, you are anybody you want to be.
- 17:17Speaker 3: That's right. Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. It would seem such a
- 17:21Speaker 3: stroke of genius, that hat.
- 17:23Speaker 4: Because he pulls it down over his eyes and he
- 17:26Speaker 4: has these flaps that are covering his ears. It's his
- 17:30Speaker 4: way of... blocking out the world. It's his way of,
- 17:34Speaker 4: you know, he doesn't want to hear the voices of
- 17:37Speaker 4: other people. He doesn't want to see other people. He
- 17:39Speaker 4: doesn't really want to go out of the apartment if
- 17:42Speaker 4: he doesn't have to. So it's his way of buffering
- 17:45Speaker 4: himself against a world that he finds scary and unlivable.
- 17:49Speaker 3: And over the course of.
- 17:50Speaker 4: The movie, you can't even by the end of the
- 17:53Speaker 4: movie pinpoint the moment that he lost the hat. But
- 17:57Speaker 4: there's a moment where he sat on a bench by
- 18:00Speaker 4: a lake where he used to sit with his mom
- 18:02Speaker 4: when he was a child, when she was alive. And
- 18:04Speaker 4: suddenly he doesn't have the hat anymore. And you can't
- 18:07Speaker 4: even pinpoint where he's lost it. But there's something about
- 18:10Speaker 4: he doesn't need it anymore. He doesn't feel that he
- 18:13Speaker 4: needs to be protected from the world because he's starting
- 18:15Speaker 4: to embrace it. And those little pieces of symbolism from
- 18:19Speaker 4: something as... something as banal as wearing a hat or not.
- 18:23Speaker 4: They can tell you a lot about where a character
- 18:25Speaker 4: is at any one moment.
- 18:27Speaker 1: Well, and it also proves that your decision today will
- 18:30Speaker 1: affect other people because even when Ellen is announcing that
- 18:33Speaker 1: the Christmas show is over and the shock on everybody
- 18:36Speaker 1: else's faces, I would love to see the shock on
- 18:38Speaker 1: the viewers' faces because all of a sudden we're at
- 18:41Speaker 1: a turning point of this entire movie. What's going to
- 18:44Speaker 1: happen next? And all of a sudden, I swear to God,
- 18:46Speaker 1: all eyes were on you, dude.
- 18:50Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, by that stage, we've made the audience
- 18:56Speaker 4: hopefully fall in love with the residents of the care
- 19:00Speaker 4: home and all of these older people who are going
- 19:02Speaker 4: to be transplanted to the four corners of the country
- 19:06Speaker 4: and separated and at their time of life forced to... themselves,
- 19:12Speaker 4: if the care home gets shut down, the fact is
- 19:14Speaker 4: that becomes a really realistic prospect as soon as that
- 19:17Speaker 4: play is cancelled. And hopefully that's going to break a
- 19:20Speaker 4: few hearts. And then when Aubrey may or may not
- 19:22Speaker 4: come in to save the day, by quite a left-field
- 19:26Speaker 4: way he manages to save the day, I'd like to say,
- 19:30Speaker 4: you're really glad that somebody's coming in to rescue them because...
- 19:33Speaker 4: Because basically the implication is it'd kill them. Losing that
- 19:37Speaker 4: care home would kill a lot of these people. And
- 19:39Speaker 4: we don't want that to happen. And yeah, it's about
- 19:42Speaker 4: Aubrey getting the chance to do something for somebody else
- 19:44Speaker 4: and taking the opportunity.
- 19:46Speaker 3: Wow.
- 19:47Speaker 1: You got to come back to this show anytime in
- 19:48Speaker 1: the future. The door is always open. going to be
- 19:50Speaker 1: open for.
- 19:50Speaker 4: You, dude.
- 19:52Speaker 3: Thank you, man. It's been absolutely lovely. I really enjoyed it.
- 19:55Speaker 1: Well, you be brilliant today.
- 19:56Speaker 3: Okay. You too, man. Thank you so much.
- 19:59Speaker 1: Thank you.