Tom Brooke | Family, Love & Empire of Light

I was playing a monster.

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Tom Brooke: I was playing Frankenstein's monster.

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Tom Brooke: I was naked and painted green and this

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Tom Brooke: agency still took me on.

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Tom Brooke: So I owe Evans and Rice a lot.

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Announcer: Welcome to Story and Craft.

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Announcer: Now here's your host, Marc Preston.

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Marc Preston: Alright, here we go Back.

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Marc Preston: After it.

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Marc Preston: Story and Craft.

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Marc Preston: I'm Marc Preston, good to have you here.

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Marc Preston: Been a little bit.

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Marc Preston: Took a few weeks, a little holiday hiatus,

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Marc Preston: but it got extended because I got COVID

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Marc Preston: Seems like I'm one of the last people who's

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Marc Preston: gotten it done.

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Marc Preston: It took me a second to bounce back, but

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Marc Preston: here we are.

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Marc Preston: Also, i was in Los Angeles, took a little

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Marc Preston: time with my youngest daughter, emma.

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Marc Preston: We went for the World of Voiceover, the

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Marc Preston: That's Voiceover conference, did a little

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Marc Preston: speaking People had to put up with me on

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Marc Preston: stage and the Voice Arts Awards.

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Marc Preston: That was fun to go to and, as always,

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Marc Preston: bounced around Los Angeles with my daughter

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Marc Preston: and ate as much good stuff as we could.

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Marc Preston: So back here after a short break and had an

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Marc Preston: opportunity to chat with Tom Brooke who is

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Marc Preston: in the new Sam Mendes movie, Empire of

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Marc Preston: Light.

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Marc Preston: I really enjoyed the conversation.

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Marc Preston: You know Tom has been in great movies.

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Marc Preston: One of my favorite movies about radio of

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Marc Preston: all time Pirate Radio.

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Marc Preston: We discussed what it was like to work with

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Marc Preston: Philip Seymour Hoffman.

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Marc Preston: You might have also seen Tom in TV shows

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Marc Preston: like Bodyguard, preacher, the Crown.

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Marc Preston: A very talented guy.

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Marc Preston: Great chat.

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Marc Preston: Enjoy the opportunity to sit down with Tom.

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Marc Preston: By the way, don't forget everything Story

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Marc Preston: Okay, so let's get after it.

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Marc Preston: It's Tom Brooke Day on Story and Craft, so

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Marc Preston: how are you doing today?

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Tom Brooke: Pretty good.

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Tom Brooke: How are you?

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Marc Preston: Very good, actually Very.

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Marc Preston: You know, it's after Christmas and the

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Marc Preston: things are just kind of like.

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Marc Preston: They feel like they kind of slow down a

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Marc Preston: little bit, you know, but still trying to

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Marc Preston: get work done you know, we had our first

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Marc Preston: Thanksgiving ever this year.

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Marc Preston: So you aren't in the UK, you're over here

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Marc Preston: now.

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Marc Preston: Boston.

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Marc Preston: How'd you end up in Boston?

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Tom Brooke: Oh, my wife does a TV show here called

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Tom Brooke: Julia, about Julia Child.

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Tom Brooke: It's on HBO.

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Tom Brooke: We've all come over Our daughter's at

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Tom Brooke: school here as well, and held your daughter

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Tom Brooke: She's seven now.

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Tom Brooke: We were all here last year for season one,

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Tom Brooke: And then we all came back for season two.

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Tom Brooke: Same apartment, same school for her same

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Tom Brooke: friends.

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Marc Preston: I have to ask because I, well, i have a 17

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Marc Preston: year old who's.

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Marc Preston: That's my youngest, and so I know well

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Marc Preston: she's not 17 yet.

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Marc Preston: She will be in seven days, so you know, but

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Marc Preston: I got three, Is that right?

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Marc Preston: I've got, yes, i've got three.

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Marc Preston: Three, i call my little people, but my

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Marc Preston: son's almost taller than me and I'm six too,

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Marc Preston: so I've got two at Loyola University in New

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Marc Preston: Orleans, and my youngest is graduating a

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Marc Preston: year early, and I don't know where she's

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Marc Preston: going, but she's, yeah, but it is.

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Marc Preston: I remember, though, the seven year old age

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Marc Preston: range.

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Marc Preston: Is it easy for her to adapt?

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Marc Preston: to me?

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Marc Preston: moving from school to school is one thing,

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Marc Preston: but going from country to country to a new

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Marc Preston: school is another.

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Tom Brooke: I mean she constantly amazes me And that's

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Tom Brooke: one of the things that she seems to be okay

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Tom Brooke: with.

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Tom Brooke: I mean we haven't given her much of an

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Tom Brooke: option.

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Tom Brooke: Well, kids are kids are adaptable

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Tom Brooke: especially during COVID, i think.

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Marc Preston: I think last few years kids have had to

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Marc Preston: adapt.

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Marc Preston: I mean that we would honestly I think

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Marc Preston: they've done a better job than then.

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Marc Preston: We have to some degree Yeah.

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Tom Brooke: I agree.

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Marc Preston: I kind of want to go to something as a

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Marc Preston: former radio guy.

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Marc Preston: I got to say I am so envious that you're in

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Marc Preston: pirate radio, that that is a young okay, i

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Marc Preston: think I was seven years old wanted to do

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Marc Preston: radio And I and I, you know, listened to

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Marc Preston: kind of the stories of the old guys And I

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Marc Preston: kind of started and came up with I got I

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Marc Preston: was pretty successful pretty early on And I

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Marc Preston: had a syndicated show and I was like only

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Marc Preston: 20 or 21, my first one, and but I was

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Marc Preston: working with guys who worked in the 70s and

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Marc Preston: the 80s and some in the 60s, and boy, the

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Marc Preston: stories they would tell and it's almost

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Marc Preston: like a little snapshot and people would

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Marc Preston: look at pirate rating.

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Marc Preston: Go, that's, that's my luck.

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Marc Preston: Yeah, that didn't really happen, like that

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Marc Preston: kind of stuff happened.

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Marc Preston: But to be on a set with that cast, you know,

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Marc Preston: make playing, make believe that had to been

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Marc Preston: just a blast.

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Tom Brooke: Yeah, It's the.

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Tom Brooke: It's the first time, and only time, I've

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Tom Brooke: got a car and a speed boat to work, Because

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Tom Brooke: they bought a boat.

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Tom Brooke: You know the ship.

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Tom Brooke: They've, they've brought it down from

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Tom Brooke: Scotland and they just parked it off the

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Tom Brooke: South, the South coast of England.

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Marc Preston: I'm very curious did they shoot the

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Marc Preston: interiors in the boat or did they do that

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Marc Preston: on a soundstage?

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Tom Brooke: A bit of both.

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Marc Preston: But Philip Seymour Hoffman I got to say

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Marc Preston: that is.

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Marc Preston: I always wanted to work with that kind of a

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Marc Preston: character in my career And but as an actor

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Marc Preston: well, i just just you know, just kind of

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Marc Preston: before we get into it.

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Marc Preston: I'm just curious, what was it like working

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Marc Preston: on that, that movie?

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Marc Preston: Because that's for me just like a little

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Marc Preston: gem.

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Marc Preston: If it ever comes on, i just watch it, no

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Marc Preston: matter where I find it is just one of those

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Marc Preston: movies.

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Tom Brooke: Oh, i've got them.

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Tom Brooke: Oh, how lovely.

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Tom Brooke: That's so nice to hear.

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Tom Brooke: Yeah, i've got those two.

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Tom Brooke: He, i mean the thing the thing I remember

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Tom Brooke: about him was was the first day, i remember,

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Tom Brooke: coming into the studio and he was just

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Tom Brooke: there And his first scene was him at the

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Tom Brooke: microphone commiserating about the fact

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Tom Brooke: that they were all going to be locked down

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Tom Brooke: by the government.

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Tom Brooke: And I said, are you nervous?

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Tom Brooke: Because I just couldn't help it Like I just

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Tom Brooke: thought that he said no.

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Tom Brooke: He said, of course I am.

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Tom Brooke: You must be joking.

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Tom Brooke: It doesn't ever get any easier.

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Tom Brooke: I thought, god Blimey, even you, even you,

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Tom Brooke: but I don't know, i just he was, he was,

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Tom Brooke: he's so good in that film And you know,

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Tom Brooke: getting the chance to watch it happen right

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Tom Brooke: in front of you is it's, it's really

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Tom Brooke: special.

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Tom Brooke: I mean, you ask about how it was when we

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Tom Brooke: were filming it and we had we sort of had

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Tom Brooke: carte blanche to do whatever, whatever we

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Tom Brooke: wanted really, and and there is a cut

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Tom Brooke: somewhere out there that's five and a half

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Tom Brooke: hours long- No, kidding really.

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Marc Preston: Yeah, I mean, the first cut was a long Is

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Marc Preston: it a, a, a, actual, a actual cut together

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Marc Preston: footage, Or is it just like?

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Tom Brooke: outtakes and things like that.

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Tom Brooke: No, it's footage, it's, it's really Yeah,

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Tom Brooke: because he kept saying like, okay, great,

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Tom Brooke: yeah, no, let's have that and and do that

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Tom Brooke: again.

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Tom Brooke: That's brilliant, and and so I think by the

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Tom Brooke: end of it he had so much footage because he

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Tom Brooke: just everyone was offering stuff up and he

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Tom Brooke: seemed really I don't know, he seemed like

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Tom Brooke: he was really really up for it.

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Marc Preston: So I mean just just the, just the casting

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Marc Preston: on that.

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Marc Preston: I mean just.

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Marc Preston: I mean, you know, january Jones and then

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Marc Preston: Kenneth Brenna, january.

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Tom Brooke: Jones pops up, doesn't she?

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Tom Brooke: My God?

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Tom Brooke: Yeah, that was huge.

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Marc Preston: The cast was just so perfect.

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Marc Preston: And then I'm thinking, you know, you know,

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Marc Preston: chris O'Dowd still ranks up there in the

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Marc Preston: top five guys I want to sit down, have a

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Marc Preston: beer with, so you know, or a pint, i'm

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Marc Preston: sorry, i say a proper.

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Tom Brooke: Yes, yes, you have to.

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Tom Brooke: Or again I remember Bill Nye being being

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Tom Brooke: very, very sweet.

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Tom Brooke: We had a chat on board the boat one day in

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Tom Brooke: between takes about what our different

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Tom Brooke: books were that we were reading in our

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Tom Brooke: downtime And he sounded really interesting,

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Tom Brooke: and when I got back to the trailer that

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Tom Brooke: night There was a copy of it waiting for me.

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Marc Preston: But no, i mean, it's so fun when people

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Marc Preston: want to share their their kind of their

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Marc Preston: special thing with you you know like

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Marc Preston: they're people do that with books a lot.

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Marc Preston: For me it's kind of movies and TV shows.

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Marc Preston: I know I should be a bigger reader.

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Marc Preston: I'm just not right now.

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Marc Preston: I know I.

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Marc Preston: you know, raising three kids is like you

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Marc Preston: know.

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Marc Preston: I sit down to finally open up the book at

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Marc Preston: night.

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Marc Preston: Three seconds later I'm asleep.

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Marc Preston: It's like it's like it's like ambient or

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Marc Preston: something you know, but.

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Marc Preston: but just kind of go a little origin story

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Marc Preston: Now.

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Marc Preston: you, you know where in the UK did you grow

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Marc Preston: up?

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Tom Brooke: London.

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Tom Brooke: I grew up in London and I'm still in London,

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Tom Brooke: Took as many opportunities to to get out

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Tom Brooke: and see the country as much as possible,

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Tom Brooke: So early on I made sure I did a little bit

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Marc Preston: You know you just kind of behind the eight

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Tom Brooke: What was I growing up with?

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Tom Brooke: Batman was huge for me.

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Tom Brooke: Yeah, yeah.

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Tom Brooke: It was just it was telly and then it was.

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Tom Brooke: It was any movies that were a big deal.

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Tom Brooke: Batman was huge.

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Marc Preston: people say who was the?

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Marc Preston: Michael Keaton.

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Marc Preston: I love Michael Keaton So I'll say he's my

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Tom Brooke: Did you see him in dope sick?

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Marc Preston: I saw that just now.

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Marc Preston: You know that is that's.

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Marc Preston: Thank you for reminding me I've gone

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Marc Preston: This is what I got to watch.

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Marc Preston: I so want to watch that, But everything

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Marc Preston: he's he's one of those few guys he's in.

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Marc Preston: No matter what he's in, i'm going to see it.

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Tom Brooke: Yeah, and he's really special, isn't he?

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Tom Brooke: He's one of those ones.

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Marc Preston: Indeed, indeed.

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Marc Preston: Now, real quick, about your mother.

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Marc Preston: was she an actor, or is she an actor as

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Tom Brooke: No, she, she acted at school and at uni She

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Tom Brooke: But she, just, she just got her PhD Right,

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Tom Brooke: So she was, yeah, she was very special,

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Marc Preston: My condolences on that.

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Tom Brooke: Yeah, thank you, thank you.

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Marc Preston: You know, you know my, my, my, even my

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Tom Brooke: Oh.

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Marc Preston: God.

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Marc Preston: But we've kind of went.

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Marc Preston: It's just it was it's just almost like I

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Tom Brooke: Was it COVID Yeah?

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Marc Preston: Yeah.

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Tom Brooke: And, but yeah, i mean, you know no no

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Marc Preston: it's never easy, it's definitely your.

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Tom Brooke: Yeah, yeah.

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Marc Preston: Yeah, with your father doing this, and then

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Tom Brooke: you know?

485

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Tom Brooke: I feel like there should have been.

486

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Tom Brooke: There wasn't.

487

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Tom Brooke: My mom was very understanding.

488

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Tom Brooke: My dad he loves to tell stories and he's

489

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Tom Brooke: got some great ones.

490

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Tom Brooke: He did a scene with Brando, you know.

491

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Marc Preston: Really No kidding.

492

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Tom Brooke: Yeah, he did a scene with Brando.

493

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Marc Preston: What?

494

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Marc Preston: what film was that in?

495

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Tom Brooke: A dry white season with Donald Sutherland

496

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Tom Brooke: as well, and he, yeah, we, it's.

497

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Tom Brooke: It's.

498

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Tom Brooke: It's funny because mom never talked about

499

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Tom Brooke: her work And I and I've always kind of

500

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Tom Brooke: wondered whether how much of that was her

501

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Tom Brooke: not not wanting to or whether it was she

502

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Tom Brooke: didn't have the space to because because he

503

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Tom Brooke: was constantly anecdoting, anecdoting, but

504

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Tom Brooke: she it made for a very happy table either

505

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Tom Brooke: way.

506

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Tom Brooke: But but we certainly, we certainly talk

507

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Tom Brooke: shop, my wife and I, and dad retired

508

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Tom Brooke: himself about eight, 10 years ago, which

509

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Tom Brooke: was I haven't heard of active, an active

510

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Tom Brooke: retiring themselves before, which I thought

511

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Tom Brooke: was interesting, and he was psychologically

512

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Tom Brooke: definitely much better off.

513

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Tom Brooke: I think as a result, the, the business

514

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Tom Brooke: didn't retire him.

515

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Tom Brooke: You know what I mean.

516

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Marc Preston: Yeah, yeah, i think, didn't Gene Hackman

517

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Marc Preston: decide he just retired?

518

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Tom Brooke: I think yes, he retired to Santa Fe, that's

519

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Tom Brooke: right.

520

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Marc Preston: Yeah, there's some people and I there's

521

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Marc Preston: somebody else I heard of as thinking what,

522

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Marc Preston: doing this and being creative and

523

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Marc Preston: expressing and all that stuff.

524

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Marc Preston: And I wonder, how do you go stir crazy in

525

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Marc Preston: retirement?

526

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Marc Preston: or is it just freeing?

527

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Marc Preston: you know, after all the years of going and

528

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Marc Preston: doing the having the kind of routine of

529

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Marc Preston: what the life an actor has to live, you

530

00:20:25,048 --> 00:20:27,614

Marc Preston: know the traveling and the, you know the

531

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Marc Preston: industry itself, but is he enjoying

532

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Marc Preston: enjoying retirement?

533

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Tom Brooke: Yeah, i think, i think you know, after he

534

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Tom Brooke: said he had a very, very, very good run,

535

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Tom Brooke: and I feel like you know, if you're not

536

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Tom Brooke: getting the parts that you want, or or, or

537

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Tom Brooke: you feel like you you should, then you've

538

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Tom Brooke: got to make a decision And I think his

539

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Tom Brooke: decision was just you know what, let's draw

540

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Tom Brooke: a line.

541

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Tom Brooke: It's been great.

542

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Tom Brooke: And, you know, let's be a bit careful with

543

00:21:01,993 --> 00:21:04,438

Tom Brooke: money and I hope it, i hope it will be okay

544

00:21:04,685 --> 00:21:05,630

Tom Brooke: and touch wood so far.

545

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Marc Preston: Did you have any siblings growing up, or

546

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Marc Preston: did?

547

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Marc Preston: you meet me really only child here also

548

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Marc Preston: Yeah.

549

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Tom Brooke: So that's really oh, no way.

550

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Marc Preston: Indeed, yeah, and we're kind of a unique

551

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Marc Preston: tribe.

552

00:21:17,073 --> 00:21:18,816

Marc Preston: Everybody says, oh, you're spoiled, you're

553

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Marc Preston: only child, like oh no, no, no, no, no, no.

554

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Tom Brooke: It's a.

555

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Tom Brooke: I think I think the go on.

556

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Tom Brooke: Oh, no, no, no, no, go ahead.

557

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Tom Brooke: No, I'm just going to say.

558

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Tom Brooke: Quite often I hear people slagging off only

559

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Tom Brooke: children to to me.

560

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Tom Brooke: And then you know, you know, only child,

561

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Tom Brooke: only children from fucking up.

562

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Tom Brooke: You know you're like, really I'm one of

563

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Tom Brooke: them.

564

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Marc Preston: And then, well, you got to be a

565

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Marc Preston: self-contained unit.

566

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Marc Preston: You know a lot of folks, i think the ones

567

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Marc Preston: that Duke has spoiled a lot of times and

568

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Marc Preston: now it's.

569

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Marc Preston: You know, i will say, in my family I make

570

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Marc Preston: sure I don't do that, but the youngest

571

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Marc Preston: child a lot of times is because the oldest

572

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Marc Preston: ones usually catch all the heat early on.

573

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Marc Preston: By the time you get to the third one, the

574

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Marc Preston: parents like do whatever the hell you want

575

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Marc Preston: you know, And so but no, the only child you

576

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Marc Preston: get.

577

00:22:03,614 --> 00:22:04,255

Marc Preston: You get everything.

578

00:22:04,365 --> 00:22:06,009

Marc Preston: I think you, especially growing up in the

579

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Marc Preston: 80s, I think, as an only child, you're

580

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Marc Preston: probably, you know, fiercely independent.

581

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Marc Preston: You know, or you learn, how to be

582

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Marc Preston: independent, So maybe that's one advantage,

583

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Marc Preston: you know.

584

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Tom Brooke: I couldn't see an issue, i have to say,

585

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Tom Brooke: when I remember turn first day of secondary

586

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Tom Brooke: school, when I was 11, and the teacher said

587

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Tom Brooke: hands up, we've got brothers and sisters.

588

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Tom Brooke: And I was at the front of the class and I

589

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Tom Brooke: turned around and almost everybody had

590

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Tom Brooke: their hands up And that was the first time

591

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Tom Brooke: I thought, Oh, oh, i might be in a minority

592

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Tom Brooke: here.

593

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Tom Brooke: But, yeah, freedom, independence,

594

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Tom Brooke: absolutely I.

595

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Tom Brooke: Just one of the things that is one of the

596

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Tom Brooke: parents here in Boston told was we talked

597

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Tom Brooke: to me about we have an only child ourselves,

598

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Tom Brooke: and so do they.

599

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Tom Brooke: And he said he sent me a New York Times

600

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Tom Brooke: article about it.

601

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Tom Brooke: When it's just the three of you, they're

602

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Tom Brooke: more, they're a little bit more like a sort

603

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Tom Brooke: of young adult, in that it helps to maybe

604

00:23:05,246 --> 00:23:09,514

Tom Brooke: like include them in decision-making in

605

00:23:09,554 --> 00:23:11,600

Tom Brooke: that way, because this, this three of you,

606

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Tom Brooke: and I thought that sort of ranks and bells.

607

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Tom Brooke: So we do that very much.

608

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Tom Brooke: We make sure that we're all sort of on the

609

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Tom Brooke: same pages as a three rather than two

610

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Tom Brooke: parents.

611

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Marc Preston: You know that's a really wonderful idea and

612

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Marc Preston: it's something I've actually tried to do

613

00:23:28,540 --> 00:23:30,753

Marc Preston: myself is you know, of course.

614

00:23:31,074 --> 00:23:32,177

Marc Preston: You know you're the parent.

615

00:23:32,217 --> 00:23:34,332

Marc Preston: You get the tie-breaking vote, you know

616

00:23:34,352 --> 00:23:37,703

Marc Preston: naturally, but but it's nice because it

617

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Marc Preston: kind of, you know, i involve my kids and

618

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Marc Preston: even the things that think are boring, you

619

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Marc Preston: know, like they can come into my studio

620

00:23:44,187 --> 00:23:46,072

Marc Preston: they kind of see kind of how business runs

621

00:23:46,093 --> 00:23:49,500

Marc Preston: and all the stuff I do and and just just

622

00:23:49,560 --> 00:23:51,310

Marc Preston: it's the idea they have some agency in the

623

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Marc Preston: whole process, you know.

624

00:23:52,576 --> 00:23:54,264

Marc Preston: And that way, especially for girls, i think

625

00:23:54,304 --> 00:23:56,012

Marc Preston: it's even more important because you know

626

00:23:56,092 --> 00:23:59,283

Marc Preston: I'm I'm at a big girl power fan, like now

627

00:23:59,323 --> 00:24:01,029

Marc Preston: you know, you've got to know how to handle

628

00:24:01,270 --> 00:24:01,651

Marc Preston: my daughter.

629

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Marc Preston: She has.

630

00:24:02,313 --> 00:24:04,318

Marc Preston: She's hostessing at a restaurant now and

631

00:24:04,378 --> 00:24:05,481

Marc Preston: she's just loving it.

632

00:24:05,541 --> 00:24:06,792

Marc Preston: You know she thinks the neatest thing at

633

00:24:06,832 --> 00:24:08,838

Marc Preston: this kind of fine dining restaurant and I

634

00:24:08,878 --> 00:24:10,191

Marc Preston: said we're gonna sit down, i'm gonna show

635

00:24:10,211 --> 00:24:11,535

Marc Preston: you how to, you know, get the financial

636

00:24:11,575 --> 00:24:13,280

Marc Preston: software up and or your paychecks.

637

00:24:13,300 --> 00:24:14,212

Marc Preston: So why do I need to do that?

638

00:24:14,252 --> 00:24:16,759

Marc Preston: I was like because you need to know how to

639

00:24:16,779 --> 00:24:17,770

Marc Preston: do this so you don't have to rely on

640

00:24:17,810 --> 00:24:20,217

Marc Preston: somebody else to do it for you and control

641

00:24:20,237 --> 00:24:21,019

Marc Preston: of your own destiny.

642

00:24:21,059 --> 00:24:23,755

Marc Preston: Though she's looking at me like well, when

643

00:24:23,795 --> 00:24:24,858

Marc Preston: she looked up from her phone.

644

00:24:25,560 --> 00:24:27,848

Marc Preston: But she, but no, she's, she's a smart kid.

645

00:24:27,908 --> 00:24:29,433

Marc Preston: But but yeah, i think it's really important

646

00:24:29,453 --> 00:24:29,955

Marc Preston: to do that.

647

00:24:30,698 --> 00:24:32,946

Marc Preston: Yeah, but but she's seven.

648

00:24:32,986 --> 00:24:35,052

Marc Preston: You say she's seven years old, she's seven

649

00:24:36,014 --> 00:24:37,377

Marc Preston: how old yours, then yours?

650

00:24:38,659 --> 00:24:41,164

Tom Brooke: 19 gonna be 20 here soon.

651

00:24:41,485 --> 00:24:44,671

Marc Preston: 18 just turned 18 and almost 17, so girl

652

00:24:44,711 --> 00:24:48,239

Marc Preston: boy, girl, okay, okay oh, and a 10 year old

653

00:24:48,279 --> 00:24:49,622

Marc Preston: golden retriever can't forget him.

654

00:24:49,842 --> 00:24:54,220

Marc Preston: So you know he's in the mixed dogs we got

655

00:24:54,260 --> 00:24:54,440

Marc Preston: two.

656

00:24:54,460 --> 00:24:57,368

Tom Brooke: We got sisters you have golden's no, we.

657

00:24:57,388 --> 00:24:59,875

Tom Brooke: Their moms are wippet staff and their dad's

658

00:24:59,915 --> 00:25:03,525

Tom Brooke: a lab boxer wow, okay, so you have.

659

00:25:03,806 --> 00:25:05,752

Tom Brooke: You have a nice mix there yeah, there's

660

00:25:05,812 --> 00:25:08,440

Tom Brooke: there's a lot going on, but they yeah, oh

661

00:25:08,460 --> 00:25:10,467

Tom Brooke: my god come on, they makes a journey across

662

00:25:11,149 --> 00:25:13,074

Tom Brooke: across the Atlantic with you they made the

663

00:25:13,115 --> 00:25:16,884

Tom Brooke: journey across the Irish Sea to dog sitters

664

00:25:17,165 --> 00:25:20,175

Tom Brooke: in and on the South Coast of Ireland in

665

00:25:20,195 --> 00:25:22,565

Tom Brooke: Tipper area, and then they're there at the

666

00:25:22,605 --> 00:25:24,532

Tom Brooke: week and then at the weekends they go to my

667

00:25:25,234 --> 00:25:29,204

Tom Brooke: in-laws and they all love them, so it's

668

00:25:29,225 --> 00:25:31,290

Tom Brooke: worked out really well gosh, i don't know

669

00:25:31,310 --> 00:25:33,076

Tom Brooke: how long I can go without seeing my pooch.

670

00:25:33,116 --> 00:25:35,103

Marc Preston: I'm a I'm a big dog guy.

671

00:25:35,204 --> 00:25:39,676

Marc Preston: I got always had dogs around now speaking

672

00:25:39,717 --> 00:25:41,000

Marc Preston: of traveling and coming over here.

673

00:25:41,040 --> 00:25:44,769

Marc Preston: I saw you were, you were in preacher and I

674

00:25:44,849 --> 00:25:46,673

Marc Preston: auditioned for that and I can't remember

675

00:25:47,054 --> 00:25:47,636

Marc Preston: shoot that in.

676

00:25:49,601 --> 00:25:50,403

Marc Preston: Yeah, i did.

677

00:25:50,423 --> 00:25:52,267

Marc Preston: I can't even count that.

678

00:25:52,408 --> 00:25:54,139

Marc Preston: The callbacks I got, i mean a number, i

679

00:25:54,226 --> 00:25:56,318

Marc Preston: mean I did the casting, people were down

680

00:25:56,405 --> 00:25:58,010

Marc Preston: with me, but you know you know the way it

681

00:25:58,030 --> 00:25:58,291

Marc Preston: works.

682

00:25:58,311 --> 00:26:01,078

Marc Preston: So you just, yeah, so many variables, but I

683

00:26:01,118 --> 00:26:02,101

Marc Preston: was very intrigued by it.

684

00:26:02,121 --> 00:26:04,133

Marc Preston: But I don't know, did that it shoot in

685

00:26:04,554 --> 00:26:05,797

Marc Preston: Louisiana or Georgia?

686

00:26:05,877 --> 00:26:08,523

Tom Brooke: I can't remember it was gonna be Georgia,

687

00:26:08,563 --> 00:26:12,257

Tom Brooke: and then it was Albuquerque for oh season,

688

00:26:12,277 --> 00:26:12,698

Tom Brooke: was it?

689

00:26:13,299 --> 00:26:14,641

Marc Preston: why I know they did different.

690

00:26:14,922 --> 00:26:15,443

Marc Preston: Yeah, they didn't.

691

00:26:15,463 --> 00:26:15,964

Marc Preston: They didn't.

692

00:26:16,110 --> 00:26:18,680

Marc Preston: They moved it at some point in time season

693

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Marc Preston: to season.

694

00:26:19,603 --> 00:26:19,984

Tom Brooke: That's right.

695

00:26:20,045 --> 00:26:22,853

Tom Brooke: Yeah, season two was New Orleans okay,

696

00:26:22,893 --> 00:26:23,655

Tom Brooke: that's that's okay.

697

00:26:23,675 --> 00:26:25,078

Tom Brooke: That's that's what I auditioned for,

698

00:26:25,098 --> 00:26:27,611

Tom Brooke: because that's okay, so you were going for

699

00:26:27,651 --> 00:26:29,195

Tom Brooke: season two yep, yep.

700

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Marc Preston: So did you shoot just one season, or did

701

00:26:31,400 --> 00:26:31,962

Marc Preston: you do more?

702

00:26:32,223 --> 00:26:33,085

Marc Preston: I, we did.

703

00:26:33,165 --> 00:26:33,385

Tom Brooke: I did.

704

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Tom Brooke: What did I do?

705

00:26:35,876 --> 00:26:37,441

Tom Brooke: I did the pilot and season one in

706

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Tom Brooke: Albuquerque.

707

00:26:38,063 --> 00:26:40,811

Tom Brooke: Then I went to New Orleans to be killed off.

708

00:26:42,254 --> 00:26:44,818

Tom Brooke: That was very difficult, very difficult,

709

00:26:45,820 --> 00:26:49,566

Tom Brooke: but then then I got called back.

710

00:26:51,189 --> 00:26:53,534

Tom Brooke: Would you like to come back for season four?

711

00:26:54,898 --> 00:26:58,045

Tom Brooke: and that was in Melbourne, australia no,

712

00:26:58,065 --> 00:26:59,950

Tom Brooke: okay, okay, so preacher.

713

00:27:00,150 --> 00:27:03,419

Tom Brooke: That preacher has taken me across the world

714

00:27:03,680 --> 00:27:04,141

Tom Brooke: and back.

715

00:27:04,462 --> 00:27:06,246

Tom Brooke: It was amazing.

716

00:27:06,287 --> 00:27:08,673

Marc Preston: Always want to be an expat for a little

717

00:27:08,714 --> 00:27:11,141

Marc Preston: while and Australia's always been the

718

00:27:11,181 --> 00:27:13,108

Marc Preston: destination I think would be so that, or

719

00:27:13,368 --> 00:27:13,830

Marc Preston: Thailand.

720

00:27:13,930 --> 00:27:16,375

Marc Preston: I think it'd be kind of fun oh, let's.

721

00:27:16,496 --> 00:27:18,119

Tom Brooke: I mean, melbourne is incredible.

722

00:27:18,139 --> 00:27:19,522

Tom Brooke: If you, if you, oh, yeah, yeah.

723

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Marc Preston: I teach voiceover and I've worked with

724

00:27:23,736 --> 00:27:26,340

Marc Preston: students in Melbourne, sydney, perth and

725

00:27:26,380 --> 00:27:30,493

Marc Preston: Canberra, and yeah and everybody.

726

00:27:30,734 --> 00:27:33,664

Marc Preston: The Sydney people are like Melbourne and

727

00:27:33,684 --> 00:27:35,370

Marc Preston: Melbourne's like Sydney people are stuck up,

728

00:27:35,551 --> 00:27:37,238

Marc Preston: you know it's just kind of funny to hear

729

00:27:37,258 --> 00:27:38,604

Marc Preston: them kind of, you know, digging on each

730

00:27:38,664 --> 00:27:38,825

Marc Preston: other.

731

00:27:38,885 --> 00:27:41,173

Marc Preston: But now, what did you think of New Orleans

732

00:27:41,213 --> 00:27:42,878

Marc Preston: when you were, when you were shooting here?

733

00:27:43,440 --> 00:27:43,881

Tom Brooke: loved it.

734

00:27:43,941 --> 00:27:45,073

Tom Brooke: My god, that place.

735

00:27:45,735 --> 00:27:47,399

Tom Brooke: That's not like anywhere else on earth, is

736

00:27:47,499 --> 00:27:48,723

Tom Brooke: it I?

737

00:27:49,725 --> 00:27:53,736

Tom Brooke: I have marching bands going past the window

738

00:27:54,218 --> 00:27:57,266

Tom Brooke: of the hotel you must have been around

739

00:27:57,306 --> 00:27:59,653

Tom Brooke: during Mardi Gras, i'm assuming yeah, oh

740

00:27:59,773 --> 00:28:01,598

Tom Brooke: god good, god bless you, that's, that's

741

00:28:01,799 --> 00:28:02,059

Tom Brooke: nuts.

742

00:28:02,079 --> 00:28:03,022

Tom Brooke: What a time to be there.

743

00:28:03,183 --> 00:28:06,071

Tom Brooke: That was amazing, absolutely amazing.

744

00:28:06,312 --> 00:28:08,318

Tom Brooke: And my daughter has all the beads still

745

00:28:08,358 --> 00:28:11,609

Tom Brooke: from from the, from the floats, you know

746

00:28:11,669 --> 00:28:14,315

Tom Brooke: throwing the beads out for any little kid

747

00:28:14,456 --> 00:28:16,440

Tom Brooke: who comes in it's got to be magical.

748

00:28:16,561 --> 00:28:18,211

Marc Preston: But when you live here and you're an adult

749

00:28:18,251 --> 00:28:19,615

Marc Preston: dealing with traffic, that's a whole

750

00:28:19,655 --> 00:28:22,642

Marc Preston: different thing yeah, it's it's believe it

751

00:28:22,690 --> 00:28:23,856

Marc Preston: or not, a lot of people in New Orleans

752

00:28:23,876 --> 00:28:25,463

Marc Preston: actually leave during Mardi Gras.

753

00:28:25,483 --> 00:28:27,453

Tom Brooke: That's a big vacation time, just to get the

754

00:28:27,493 --> 00:28:29,983

Tom Brooke: heck out of the melee yeah, but there's

755

00:28:30,023 --> 00:28:31,610

Tom Brooke: like, the further out you go, there's that

756

00:28:31,730 --> 00:28:33,356

Tom Brooke: huge, there's that park, and suddenly

757

00:28:33,416 --> 00:28:36,085

Tom Brooke: everything's peaceful and and kind of low

758

00:28:36,126 --> 00:28:38,913

Tom Brooke: key it's neighborhood by neighborhood yeah,

759

00:28:39,214 --> 00:28:42,260

Tom Brooke: i loved it go back to when you were growing

760

00:28:42,300 --> 00:28:42,821

Tom Brooke: up in London.

761

00:28:43,562 --> 00:28:46,558

Marc Preston: You know you went to school for for theater,

762

00:28:46,578 --> 00:28:46,940

Marc Preston: correct?

763

00:28:47,020 --> 00:28:48,907

Marc Preston: I mean that this was something that I mean

764

00:28:48,967 --> 00:28:49,107

Marc Preston: you.

765

00:28:49,128 --> 00:28:51,072

Marc Preston: You didn't go to just a general, you know,

766

00:28:51,133 --> 00:28:53,918

Marc Preston: general, a liberal arts studies, you went

767

00:28:54,239 --> 00:28:55,581

Marc Preston: for theater, correct?

768

00:28:56,082 --> 00:28:59,434

Tom Brooke: yeah, we, i had a.

769

00:28:59,574 --> 00:29:02,819

Tom Brooke: I did a drama degree at university and then

770

00:29:03,039 --> 00:29:09,149

Tom Brooke: after that my dad was very insistent that I

771

00:29:09,310 --> 00:29:13,498

Tom Brooke: ought to know, because acting training in

772

00:29:13,518 --> 00:29:16,865

Tom Brooke: the UK is basically a theater, a theater

773

00:29:16,985 --> 00:29:17,827

Tom Brooke: acting training.

774

00:29:18,168 --> 00:29:21,237

Tom Brooke: He thought I ought to know how to use my

775

00:29:21,277 --> 00:29:23,826

Tom Brooke: voice properly so it didn't pack up on me

776

00:29:24,308 --> 00:29:28,028

Tom Brooke: like his had when he was at the RSC.

777

00:29:28,327 --> 00:29:32,659

Tom Brooke: He had a, he had a vocal issue which which

778

00:29:32,958 --> 00:29:36,651

Tom Brooke: caused him a lot, of, a lot of problems,

779

00:29:36,711 --> 00:29:38,837

Tom Brooke: and so he was saying, like well, in theater,

780

00:29:38,857 --> 00:29:40,582

Tom Brooke: that's, but you're projecting to the back

781

00:29:40,622 --> 00:29:41,131

Tom Brooke: of the house.

782

00:29:41,272 --> 00:29:41,894

Marc Preston: You know you're.

783

00:29:41,914 --> 00:29:43,922

Tom Brooke: It's a much different thing, yeah yeah, and

784

00:29:43,942 --> 00:29:45,086

Tom Brooke: you've got to do it every night, eight

785

00:29:45,270 --> 00:29:45,831

Tom Brooke: shows a week.

786

00:29:45,931 --> 00:29:47,775

Tom Brooke: So so that was.

787

00:29:48,236 --> 00:29:50,662

Tom Brooke: I went to university to do drama, but but

788

00:29:50,702 --> 00:29:51,644

Tom Brooke: they didn't really do that.

789

00:29:51,690 --> 00:29:53,096

Tom Brooke: They didn't really teach you about how to

790

00:29:53,196 --> 00:29:53,779

Tom Brooke: use your voice.

791

00:29:55,104 --> 00:29:57,932

Tom Brooke: There was some physical stuff as well, but

792

00:29:57,992 --> 00:30:01,418

Tom Brooke: I did two years after uni at a drama school

793

00:30:01,458 --> 00:30:07,248

Tom Brooke: in London and lived at home again and yeah

794

00:30:08,150 --> 00:30:12,110

Tom Brooke: managed to get an agent from that last

795

00:30:12,362 --> 00:30:12,883

Tom Brooke: showcase.

796

00:30:13,136 --> 00:30:15,067

Tom Brooke: I was playing a monster.

797

00:30:15,320 --> 00:30:17,440

Tom Brooke: I would play Frankenstein's monster.

798

00:30:18,121 --> 00:30:20,784

Tom Brooke: I was naked and painted green, and this

799

00:30:20,864 --> 00:30:22,006

Tom Brooke: agency still took me on.

800

00:30:22,066 --> 00:30:25,691

Tom Brooke: So I owe Evans and rice a lot.

801

00:30:26,233 --> 00:30:26,974

Tom Brooke: Thank you, jan Evans.

802

00:30:27,014 --> 00:30:29,780

Marc Preston: That's well, again you got a good story of

803

00:30:29,860 --> 00:30:31,711

Marc Preston: you know they cast him after seeing me

804

00:30:31,751 --> 00:30:31,971

Marc Preston: naked.

805

00:30:31,991 --> 00:30:33,554

Marc Preston: They were like all kinds of down for me, no.

806

00:30:35,859 --> 00:30:38,790

Marc Preston: So do you have a preference for stage or on

807

00:30:38,810 --> 00:30:41,157

Marc Preston: camera, as things have gone on the?

808

00:30:41,197 --> 00:30:42,781

Marc Preston: do you have a preference or do you just

809

00:30:42,801 --> 00:30:44,334

Marc Preston: kind of like the contrast and kind of go

810

00:30:44,675 --> 00:30:45,377

Marc Preston: back and forth?

811

00:30:45,578 --> 00:30:46,902

Marc Preston: doesn't make a difference to you.

812

00:30:47,624 --> 00:30:51,055

Tom Brooke: I like the variety of it, i like I like the

813

00:30:51,115 --> 00:30:53,603

Tom Brooke: different opportunities, i like the

814

00:30:53,643 --> 00:30:55,810

Tom Brooke: different people, the different groups of

815

00:30:55,850 --> 00:30:58,477

Tom Brooke: people and the way they sometimes interlink.

816

00:30:59,019 --> 00:30:59,861

Tom Brooke: All of that I really love.

817

00:31:00,323 --> 00:31:02,930

Tom Brooke: Theater is like I was saying before.

818

00:31:03,692 --> 00:31:05,536

Tom Brooke: I feel really comfortable on stage.

819

00:31:06,177 --> 00:31:10,346

Tom Brooke: I don't quite know why, but I do and and I

820

00:31:10,506 --> 00:31:10,887

Tom Brooke: and I.

821

00:31:11,549 --> 00:31:12,712

Tom Brooke: I'm always happy to be there.

822

00:31:13,594 --> 00:31:15,159

Tom Brooke: But you can't really make a living on

823

00:31:15,219 --> 00:31:18,809

Tom Brooke: theater money, so you just have to you know,

824

00:31:18,970 --> 00:31:21,598

Tom Brooke: as you know, you just have to try and get

825

00:31:21,939 --> 00:31:24,105

Tom Brooke: acting work on front of a camera for me

826

00:31:24,667 --> 00:31:26,292

Tom Brooke: memorizing an entire script.

827

00:31:26,352 --> 00:31:27,496

Marc Preston: For me it was just I.

828

00:31:27,977 --> 00:31:30,185

Marc Preston: It always was kind of an intimidating thing,

829

00:31:30,265 --> 00:31:30,526

Marc Preston: you know.

830

00:31:31,309 --> 00:31:31,851

Marc Preston: You know I like that.

831

00:31:31,891 --> 00:31:32,994

Marc Preston: Oh, you only have two pages.

832

00:31:33,656 --> 00:31:34,157

Marc Preston: I got that.

833

00:31:34,197 --> 00:31:35,782

Marc Preston: No not all you want change the line here

834

00:31:35,822 --> 00:31:38,413

Marc Preston: that you know anything more than that.

835

00:31:38,433 --> 00:31:39,336

Marc Preston: My brain starts going.

836

00:31:39,938 --> 00:31:40,982

Marc Preston: I'm gonna give you a hard time.

837

00:31:41,042 --> 00:31:44,675

Marc Preston: Now it's like I've tried every.

838

00:31:44,695 --> 00:31:45,378

Tom Brooke: I have all these little.

839

00:31:45,900 --> 00:31:47,767

Marc Preston: I've so many different little techniques of

840

00:31:47,908 --> 00:31:48,490

Marc Preston: trying to memorize.

841

00:31:48,891 --> 00:31:51,259

Marc Preston: You know, memorize stuff to the one that

842

00:31:51,279 --> 00:31:54,168

Marc Preston: seems to work is actually writing it down,

843

00:31:54,368 --> 00:31:56,194

Marc Preston: because I guess your brain and something

844

00:31:56,235 --> 00:31:58,883

Marc Preston: like that actually write this, you know and

845

00:31:59,204 --> 00:32:02,193

Marc Preston: I just if people looked at my sides, they'd

846

00:32:02,233 --> 00:32:03,877

Marc Preston: be like what is wrong with you?

847

00:32:03,937 --> 00:32:05,541

Marc Preston: all these little highlighting things to

848

00:32:05,661 --> 00:32:06,182

Marc Preston: memorize?

849

00:32:06,263 --> 00:32:06,791

Marc Preston: it's a whole thing.

850

00:32:07,714 --> 00:32:11,124

Marc Preston: But going forward now the the you new

851

00:32:11,164 --> 00:32:13,069

Marc Preston: project, the Empire of Light, being a Sam

852

00:32:13,089 --> 00:32:15,174

Marc Preston: Mendes project, that's like you know.

853

00:32:15,334 --> 00:32:19,302

Marc Preston: He's one of those guys that actors you know,

854

00:32:19,322 --> 00:32:20,572

Marc Preston: there's some directors out there, actors

855

00:32:20,592 --> 00:32:21,916

Marc Preston: really want to work with, you know, and he

856

00:32:21,956 --> 00:32:23,721

Marc Preston: seems to be the one, one of the guys, one

857

00:32:23,890 --> 00:32:25,235

Marc Preston: of the names that pops up a lot.

858

00:32:25,837 --> 00:32:27,282

Marc Preston: How did you, how did you get on this

859

00:32:27,342 --> 00:32:27,643

Marc Preston: project?

860

00:32:27,683 --> 00:32:30,573

Marc Preston: what was, how did this gel together for you?

861

00:32:32,137 --> 00:32:35,266

Tom Brooke: I had worked with Sam at the National.

862

00:32:35,446 --> 00:32:37,311

Tom Brooke: We've done King Lear together on stage, so

863

00:32:40,218 --> 00:32:41,301

Tom Brooke: that was a long job as well.

864

00:32:41,321 --> 00:32:42,364

Tom Brooke: It was about five months.

865

00:32:43,066 --> 00:32:44,650

Tom Brooke: So we had about eight weeks rehearsal and

866

00:32:44,930 --> 00:32:48,279

Tom Brooke: then previews and then we ran in rep.

867

00:32:48,319 --> 00:32:52,149

Tom Brooke: So we were together for quite a while and

868

00:32:52,169 --> 00:32:54,894

Tom Brooke: we got on really well and I really liked

869

00:32:54,954 --> 00:32:55,095

Tom Brooke: him.

870

00:32:57,319 --> 00:33:01,307

Tom Brooke: And actually it was weird because mum had

871

00:33:01,347 --> 00:33:04,533

Tom Brooke: passed away and I was not really in a

872

00:33:04,994 --> 00:33:07,119

Tom Brooke: headspace where I was thinking about work

873

00:33:07,159 --> 00:33:09,604

Tom Brooke: and then this script came through about his

874

00:33:09,670 --> 00:33:14,469

Tom Brooke: mom and I thought, oh, oh, wow, i wonder

875

00:33:14,509 --> 00:33:17,356

Tom Brooke: why that sort of appeared in my life right

876

00:33:17,396 --> 00:33:17,557

Tom Brooke: now.

877

00:33:18,286 --> 00:33:23,934

Tom Brooke: And, yeah, went to meet him for a cup of

878

00:33:23,974 --> 00:33:28,100

Tom Brooke: tea and he said you know, do you want to do

879

00:33:28,140 --> 00:33:28,200

Tom Brooke: it?

880

00:33:28,585 --> 00:33:32,251

Marc Preston: Now, is this project in some way you said,

881

00:33:32,351 --> 00:33:36,097

Marc Preston: based on his mother, or is it circle around

882

00:33:36,137 --> 00:33:37,780

Marc Preston: a mother as a character within the film?

883

00:33:38,886 --> 00:33:40,868

Tom Brooke: Yeah, there's a mother within the film and

884

00:33:40,888 --> 00:33:47,295

Tom Brooke: there's a young boy within the film and his

885

00:33:47,375 --> 00:33:51,920

Tom Brooke: experiences of childhood have kind of

886

00:33:51,981 --> 00:33:52,802

Tom Brooke: coloured the film.

887

00:33:55,970 --> 00:33:59,696

Tom Brooke: So it's not autobiographical, but it's

888

00:33:59,756 --> 00:34:00,438

Tom Brooke: definitely.

889

00:34:03,187 --> 00:34:07,475

Tom Brooke: We were talking about mums a lot and at

890

00:34:07,495 --> 00:34:09,138

Tom Brooke: that stage I was really up for doing that.

891

00:34:10,126 --> 00:34:11,129

Tom Brooke: I was really up for doing it in the

892

00:34:11,189 --> 00:34:13,446

Tom Brooke: audition actually well, audition, but we

893

00:34:13,486 --> 00:34:13,787

Tom Brooke: did it.

894

00:34:13,907 --> 00:34:15,692

Tom Brooke: I think he let me talk about mum for about

895

00:34:15,732 --> 00:34:17,877

Tom Brooke: an hour because I hadn't seen him since the

896

00:34:17,938 --> 00:34:20,925

Tom Brooke: play and he said how you doing?

897

00:34:21,508 --> 00:34:24,784

Tom Brooke: And I said not great, i'm pretty raw at the

898

00:34:24,804 --> 00:34:24,925

Tom Brooke: minute.

899

00:34:25,406 --> 00:34:27,209

Tom Brooke: And he said oh no, what's going on?

900

00:34:27,249 --> 00:34:31,036

Marc Preston: And I told him and yeah, it was like a

901

00:34:31,076 --> 00:34:36,572

Marc Preston: little therapy session- Well, that begs the

902

00:34:36,672 --> 00:34:39,998

Marc Preston: question is it kind of a little bit of an

903

00:34:40,058 --> 00:34:43,029

Marc Preston: escape for you Some people it can be you

904

00:34:43,049 --> 00:34:44,813

Marc Preston: can kind of depart whatever is going on in

905

00:34:44,893 --> 00:34:46,837

Marc Preston: life for a moment, and so it's kind of, in

906

00:34:46,857 --> 00:34:47,719

Marc Preston: its own way, therapeutic.

907

00:34:48,987 --> 00:34:50,589

Marc Preston: Or when stuff's going on in life does it

908

00:34:50,649 --> 00:34:53,393

Marc Preston: kind of, do you feel, hinder your ability

909

00:34:53,474 --> 00:34:56,358

Marc Preston: to do what you need to do on camera?

910

00:34:59,189 --> 00:35:00,554

Tom Brooke: That's a really interesting question.

911

00:35:00,945 --> 00:35:05,451

Tom Brooke: I have always felt that I've got the jobs

912

00:35:05,491 --> 00:35:10,577

Tom Brooke: that I've got because of where I was at at

913

00:35:10,597 --> 00:35:12,279

Tom Brooke: that point in my life when they came along,

914

00:35:14,566 --> 00:35:19,733

Tom Brooke: And so I feel like you can use if you're

915

00:35:19,753 --> 00:35:22,076

Tom Brooke: lucky, you can use whatever's going on in

916

00:35:22,116 --> 00:35:24,799

Tom Brooke: your life really, or what's gone on before

917

00:35:24,840 --> 00:35:27,928

Tom Brooke: that in your life When you get up.

918

00:35:28,048 --> 00:35:29,150

Tom Brooke: I like that very much.

919

00:35:29,250 --> 00:35:32,114

Tom Brooke: I like taking things that have happened to

920

00:35:32,154 --> 00:35:34,117

Tom Brooke: me or feelings that I've had and putting

921

00:35:34,137 --> 00:35:34,918

Tom Brooke: them into a script.

922

00:35:34,978 --> 00:35:36,019

Tom Brooke: You know, like putting them into a

923

00:35:36,059 --> 00:35:40,092

Tom Brooke: performance, And usually when I read a

924

00:35:40,132 --> 00:35:42,638

Tom Brooke: script, it will be I'll be noticing things

925

00:35:42,698 --> 00:35:46,970

Tom Brooke: about it that remind me of myself, So I

926

00:35:47,051 --> 00:35:48,860

Tom Brooke: sort of go okay, I know how to do this,

927

00:35:49,221 --> 00:35:49,905

Tom Brooke: because I felt that once.

928

00:35:50,807 --> 00:35:52,551

Marc Preston: So the projects kind of act like it sounds

929

00:35:52,571 --> 00:35:54,034

Marc Preston: like they can act like a little bit of a

930

00:35:54,194 --> 00:35:55,598

Marc Preston: Marc on the timeline for you.

931

00:35:56,847 --> 00:35:59,091

Marc Preston: Not just I did that job, but what was going

932

00:35:59,312 --> 00:36:02,077

Marc Preston: on, the experience, the people you met and

933

00:36:02,097 --> 00:36:02,658

Marc Preston: all that kind of stuff.

934

00:36:03,246 --> 00:36:05,272

Marc Preston: Yeah, it takes on a new meaning, or more of

935

00:36:05,352 --> 00:36:06,535

Marc Preston: an enhanced meaning, i guess.

936

00:36:07,205 --> 00:36:08,186

Tom Brooke: Yeah, I think that's true.

937

00:36:10,089 --> 00:36:13,853

Tom Brooke: For example, I met my wife playing husband

938

00:36:13,913 --> 00:36:20,541

Tom Brooke: and wife on a play Good casting.

939

00:36:20,925 --> 00:36:22,570

Marc Preston: I think that would be so cool to meet

940

00:36:22,691 --> 00:36:24,848

Marc Preston: someone like that, but after you're married,

941

00:36:25,068 --> 00:36:26,994

Marc Preston: can you do that and not get sick of each

942

00:36:27,174 --> 00:36:27,395

Marc Preston: other?

943

00:36:28,386 --> 00:36:29,830

Marc Preston: I mean, if you're doing, let's say, a play,

944

00:36:29,870 --> 00:36:31,755

Marc Preston: and you're coming home and you're 24, seven

945

00:36:31,795 --> 00:36:34,822

Marc Preston: with this person is that something.

946

00:36:34,842 --> 00:36:35,925

Tom Brooke: You're like I don't know if you can do that.

947

00:36:36,746 --> 00:36:43,598

Tom Brooke: That is the test, But yeah, I wouldn't be

948

00:36:43,618 --> 00:36:44,379

Tom Brooke: able to do it without her.

949

00:36:46,608 --> 00:36:47,510

Tom Brooke: So and it's really.

950

00:36:47,630 --> 00:36:49,093

Tom Brooke: I think it's great as well, because you get

951

00:36:49,113 --> 00:36:51,398

Tom Brooke: to, you get it.

952

00:36:52,466 --> 00:36:54,991

Tom Brooke: I get it when she's got a lot on, She gets

953

00:36:55,051 --> 00:36:55,952

Tom Brooke: it when I've got a lot on.

954

00:36:56,914 --> 00:36:58,517

Tom Brooke: We help each other through it because we

955

00:36:58,537 --> 00:36:58,998

Tom Brooke: both get it.

956

00:36:59,945 --> 00:37:01,368

Marc Preston: That's got to be such cool experience.

957

00:37:01,748 --> 00:37:07,118

Marc Preston: It's kind of like its own little fairy tale

958

00:37:07,178 --> 00:37:07,699

Marc Preston: kind of a thing.

959

00:37:07,985 --> 00:37:09,929

Marc Preston: It's like I do this thing, they do this

960

00:37:09,990 --> 00:37:10,350

Marc Preston: thing.

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Marc Preston: We got together and it worked, Yeah.

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Marc Preston: But I was curious on Empire of Light, you

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Marc Preston: know, with Sam Mendoz directing that First

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Marc Preston: of all, was it shot in the UK, or where did

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Marc Preston: you all shoot that?

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Tom Brooke: In Margate, which is a seaside town on the

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Tom Brooke: southeast coast of England.

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Marc Preston: And that's roughly.

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Marc Preston: You said your mother's from the southern

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Marc Preston: coast as well, correct?

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Tom Brooke: Yeah, she's a bit further along, but

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Tom Brooke: they're in Worthing, the Lawson's in

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Tom Brooke: Worthing, and we were just up the coast in

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Tom Brooke: Margate.

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Tom Brooke: But we yeah, it was.

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Tom Brooke: I thought it was interesting because I

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Tom Brooke: hadn't done any filming with Sam And his

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Tom Brooke: approach was very similar to the play that

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