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"Here’s a transcript of Aidan Gillen’s interview on ITV This Morning on 20 May 2011.
http://tallyyho.livejournal.com/#asset-tallyyho-651
I didn’t put in every single thing the presenters said as they did go on a bit, But I think it’s easy to follow and I think I’ve included most of Aidan’s ers and ums!! He did seem a tiny bit less shy than usual, I think. ♥♥
Includes some really interesting stuff about GoT, Littlefinger and Blitz."
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Full transcript under the cut as well - for archive sake -
Eammon: We have the actor Aidan Gillen in the studio, never one to shy away from a challanging role, QAF launched you on our screens in the UK, I suppose, then he popped up in The Wire (not very many bad words to say about the Wire).....
Aidan: Not many bad words.....
Eammon: (talking over Aidan) A lot of bad words in it, I suppose!
Aidan: Yeah (smiles)
Eammon: Here is a sample of what makes him one of Ireland's finest actors:
Clips shown - The Wire, Identity, Blitz, GoT, Blackout
Eammon: You know what, you're a very versatile actor, I have to say, with very versatile hair. Is that hair your own Aidan?
Aidan: (smiles, laughs) Yeah, it's my hair.
Eammon: Amongst the compilation there in this amazing range for you, what I'm most proud of is how Belfast seems to have become the movie capital of the world, GoT for instance, amongst many productions, is it the interiors mostly filmed there?
Aidan: It's like all the interiors and some of the exteriors. The Northern Ireland film commission did a great job in attracting huge productions like GoT, which is a huge production and Your Highness, another movie that was out recently among other things. Whatever initatives they threw out, y'know they've created this massive boost, I suppose, to the local economy, which is great for Belfast and great for NI as well.
Eammon: You walk around the place and you bump into people like Sean Bean....You're a Dublin boy aren't you?
Aidan: I'm from Dublin, yeah, so I hadn't spent that much time in Belfast before and I spent a good chunk of the latter half of last year up there and I loved it.
Eammon: (Talking about characters he plays) How do you release yourself from that character, how do you wind down and reidentify yourself?
Aidan: Well, personally, usually the second we finish the last take of the last scene or whatever, I just forget about it, if I can, until maybe I have to talk about it, like now. But um, I get into it and then just forget about it.
Eammon: Do they bring you back down to Earth easily (Dubliners, being in Dublin)?
Aidan: Yee-ah, well I am quite a down to earth person, yeah, Dubliners are good for that, my family is good for that. I've never er, found myself in any elevated position anyway, but y'know they'll tell you what they think, which is good. Which is good. (smiles).
Female presenter: New film out today, you play a serial cop killer. Tell us about Barry.
Aidan: Barry is a quite wild, er, reckless kid, like an overgrown kid on a crazy sugar rush. Um, but he's a psychotic, you know, um, I was playing a cop at the time when I read this script. I was playing a cop in the ITV series Identity and and er, just looked like something I'd like to go on to next, to get back onto the other side of the (line) ......
Eammon interrupts with a clip
Eammon: Why does he hate cops so much?
Aidan: (smirks, pauses)
Eammon: There must be some reason why he wants to kill them?
Aidan: Yeah, he's just had a lot of run ins with the cops. One of the things that informed me about this character, which is in a novel, er,um, is that he's an actor, a failed actor, he's a guy who's looking for attention, he's always getting into trouble, y'know he's had some experience of the cops, there is history with Brant (Jason Statham) which goes back from a few years back so there is a bit of resentment.
Female presenter: I'm sure parts come thick and fast for you now with all the success you've had, but you say you really wanted this part, you auditioned for it?
Aidan: Yeah, I really wanted it, yeah.
Female presenter: You don't have to do it very often (audition)?
Aidan: Not for everything, no, maybe like for 50% of things I do I'll go in and read for. If it's something that it doesn't look like you're gonna get you have to go in and try and get it but I find that kind of way of arriving and playing a part, quite satisfying, I don't like to be just, y'know. The stuff that's gonna come your way might be of a certain type, you know, you play a certain part you're gonna get parts like that. I don't think I would have been on top of anyone's list to play that part and I really wanted to play it, so I went after it.
Eammon: Is there like a creepy side to you, like can you show that, what have you gotta show in an audition, I mean you're a quiet fella, you're quietly spoken, you seem quite a shy fella...
Aidan smiles and chuckles
Eammon:....You've then gotta convince these guys at auditions that there's a complete other side to you.
Aidan: Um, yeah, s'not me though....
Woman: It's called acting, darling(?) Laughs.
Aidan: (smiles) I didn't say that!... Yeah yeah, I enjoy playing those parts, I enjoy letting rip and er, y'know getting into a kind of, er, getting into the wildness of other people. That's not my life.
Eammon shows pictures of Littlefinger/Peter Mandelson (creepy Britsh Labour politian, very clever, both with moustaches).
Eammon: Is this true that Peter Mandelson had a big influence on you for this?
Aidan: It is true, yeah, um, you know, establishing a look for a character that's like this for something that's potentially going to go on for quite a while, it's based on a series of six novels, it's quite an epic undertaking. This character, Littlefinger is, y'know around a lot, so you have to get the look right, you gotta sign off on something that's gonna work. Pause. I identified more with him (Peter Mandelson), what he does and who he is, y'know, he was referred to as the Prince of Darkness....
Eammon: We've got to leave it there, my friend, we gotta ..........
Cuts to the News.
Thank you VERY MUCH to Tallyyho for the transcript!
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tallyyho"Here’s a transcript of Aidan Gillen’s interview on ITV This Morning on 20 May 2011.
http://tallyyho.livejournal.com/#asset-tallyyho-651
I didn’t put in every single thing the presenters said as they did go on a bit, But I think it’s easy to follow and I think I’ve included most of Aidan’s ers and ums!! He did seem a tiny bit less shy than usual, I think. ♥♥
Includes some really interesting stuff about GoT, Littlefinger and Blitz."
---
Full transcript under the cut as well - for archive sake -
Eammon: We have the actor Aidan Gillen in the studio, never one to shy away from a challanging role, QAF launched you on our screens in the UK, I suppose, then he popped up in The Wire (not very many bad words to say about the Wire).....
Aidan: Not many bad words.....
Eammon: (talking over Aidan) A lot of bad words in it, I suppose!
Aidan: Yeah (smiles)
Eammon: Here is a sample of what makes him one of Ireland's finest actors:
Clips shown - The Wire, Identity, Blitz, GoT, Blackout
Eammon: You know what, you're a very versatile actor, I have to say, with very versatile hair. Is that hair your own Aidan?
Aidan: (smiles, laughs) Yeah, it's my hair.
Eammon: Amongst the compilation there in this amazing range for you, what I'm most proud of is how Belfast seems to have become the movie capital of the world, GoT for instance, amongst many productions, is it the interiors mostly filmed there?
Aidan: It's like all the interiors and some of the exteriors. The Northern Ireland film commission did a great job in attracting huge productions like GoT, which is a huge production and Your Highness, another movie that was out recently among other things. Whatever initatives they threw out, y'know they've created this massive boost, I suppose, to the local economy, which is great for Belfast and great for NI as well.
Eammon: You walk around the place and you bump into people like Sean Bean....You're a Dublin boy aren't you?
Aidan: I'm from Dublin, yeah, so I hadn't spent that much time in Belfast before and I spent a good chunk of the latter half of last year up there and I loved it.
Eammon: (Talking about characters he plays) How do you release yourself from that character, how do you wind down and reidentify yourself?
Aidan: Well, personally, usually the second we finish the last take of the last scene or whatever, I just forget about it, if I can, until maybe I have to talk about it, like now. But um, I get into it and then just forget about it.
Eammon: Do they bring you back down to Earth easily (Dubliners, being in Dublin)?
Aidan: Yee-ah, well I am quite a down to earth person, yeah, Dubliners are good for that, my family is good for that. I've never er, found myself in any elevated position anyway, but y'know they'll tell you what they think, which is good. Which is good. (smiles).
Female presenter: New film out today, you play a serial cop killer. Tell us about Barry.
Aidan: Barry is a quite wild, er, reckless kid, like an overgrown kid on a crazy sugar rush. Um, but he's a psychotic, you know, um, I was playing a cop at the time when I read this script. I was playing a cop in the ITV series Identity and and er, just looked like something I'd like to go on to next, to get back onto the other side of the (line) ......
Eammon interrupts with a clip
Eammon: Why does he hate cops so much?
Aidan: (smirks, pauses)
Eammon: There must be some reason why he wants to kill them?
Aidan: Yeah, he's just had a lot of run ins with the cops. One of the things that informed me about this character, which is in a novel, er,um, is that he's an actor, a failed actor, he's a guy who's looking for attention, he's always getting into trouble, y'know he's had some experience of the cops, there is history with Brant (Jason Statham) which goes back from a few years back so there is a bit of resentment.
Female presenter: I'm sure parts come thick and fast for you now with all the success you've had, but you say you really wanted this part, you auditioned for it?
Aidan: Yeah, I really wanted it, yeah.
Female presenter: You don't have to do it very often (audition)?
Aidan: Not for everything, no, maybe like for 50% of things I do I'll go in and read for. If it's something that it doesn't look like you're gonna get you have to go in and try and get it but I find that kind of way of arriving and playing a part, quite satisfying, I don't like to be just, y'know. The stuff that's gonna come your way might be of a certain type, you know, you play a certain part you're gonna get parts like that. I don't think I would have been on top of anyone's list to play that part and I really wanted to play it, so I went after it.
Eammon: Is there like a creepy side to you, like can you show that, what have you gotta show in an audition, I mean you're a quiet fella, you're quietly spoken, you seem quite a shy fella...
Aidan smiles and chuckles
Eammon:....You've then gotta convince these guys at auditions that there's a complete other side to you.
Aidan: Um, yeah, s'not me though....
Woman: It's called acting, darling(?) Laughs.
Aidan: (smiles) I didn't say that!... Yeah yeah, I enjoy playing those parts, I enjoy letting rip and er, y'know getting into a kind of, er, getting into the wildness of other people. That's not my life.
Eammon shows pictures of Littlefinger/Peter Mandelson (creepy Britsh Labour politian, very clever, both with moustaches).
Eammon: Is this true that Peter Mandelson had a big influence on you for this?
Aidan: It is true, yeah, um, you know, establishing a look for a character that's like this for something that's potentially going to go on for quite a while, it's based on a series of six novels, it's quite an epic undertaking. This character, Littlefinger is, y'know around a lot, so you have to get the look right, you gotta sign off on something that's gonna work. Pause. I identified more with him (Peter Mandelson), what he does and who he is, y'know, he was referred to as the Prince of Darkness....
Eammon: We've got to leave it there, my friend, we gotta ..........
Cuts to the News.
Thank you VERY MUCH to Tallyyho for the transcript!
Hugs
xof
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