Actor Tom Brooke from "Pirate Radio" and "Empire of Light" joins us on Story & Craft.
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Actor Tom Brooke from “Pirate Radio” and “Empire of Light” joins us on Story & Craft.
Tom stars in Sam Mendes’s “Empire of Light” and appears in “Bodyguard,” “Preacher” and “The Crown.” We talk about making “Pirate Radio” and his admiration for Philip Seymour Hoffman, growing up with an actor father, stage versus screen, and family life as a working actor. He also shares how his mother’s passing led him to join “Empire of Light.”
SHOW HIGHLIGHTS
Tom Brooke joins Story & Craft
Early Theater and Movie Influences
Talking Shop at Family Dinner
Empowering Girls Financially
Theater Education and Voice Training
Empire of Light Filming Process
Movie Fandom and Inspiration
Alternative Vocations and Memories of Kids
Advice to My Younger Self
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Full Transcript
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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: and Craft.
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Marc Preston: Make sure to go to Storyandcraftpod.com.
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Marc Preston: All the socials, all the info, what's going
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Marc Preston: on?
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Marc Preston: Pretty much the whole world of Story and
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Marc Preston: Craft is right there.
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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: 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: 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: But but that's me.
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Tom Brooke: Yeah, that's my base.
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Marc Preston: Now, is that where your people are from?
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Marc Preston: Is your, are your folks from there, or did
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Marc Preston: they?
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Marc Preston: Yeah?
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Tom Brooke: Well they're.
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Tom Brooke: They're from England, but my mom grew up on
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Tom Brooke: the South Coast and her family are still
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Tom Brooke: around there.
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Tom Brooke: They moved around a bit.
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Tom Brooke: They ran pubs and my dad's dad was in the
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Tom Brooke: army, so they moved around a bit as well.
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Tom Brooke: So, but mom and dad met at university in
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Tom Brooke: Kings in London.
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Marc Preston: Well, i did see your father is.
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Marc Preston: he's also in the business, He's an actor,
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Marc Preston: and I always find that tremendously
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Marc Preston: interesting to find out whether or not I
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Marc Preston: look like a Tom Hanks or, you know, in
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Marc Preston: colonings you know all these other folks
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Marc Preston: that was their encouragement like, yes, go
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Marc Preston: ahead and do this thing.
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Marc Preston: You know, if you got passion for, go for it.
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Marc Preston: Or was their pushback, because I know the
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Marc Preston: people that I know are like God.
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Marc Preston: I don't know if I want my kid to do this.
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Marc Preston: You know, this is a, this is definitely a
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Tom Brooke: He started me off in the theater early.
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Marc Preston: Now it's a story to the tell, Yeah, But at
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Tom Brooke: No, I know what you mean, But actually it
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Tom Brooke: So that hasn't really changed, to be honest.
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Marc Preston: When you started, was there an end game
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Tom Brooke: I had a few I did.
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Tom Brooke: He said, like you know, with a good agent
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Tom Brooke: So early on I made sure I did a little bit
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Marc Preston: But what were you watching when you were a
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Marc Preston: What was kind of grabbing your attention?
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Tom Brooke: What was I growing up with?
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Tom Brooke: I was growing up with.
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Tom Brooke: I was growing up with stuff that dad was in,
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Tom Brooke: so I was watching bits and pieces His his,
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Tom Brooke: He stopped doing theater in sort of in the
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Tom Brooke: Batman was huge for me.
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Marc Preston: So if you're talking about the OG Batman,
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Tom Brooke: Yeah, yeah.
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Tom Brooke: And Bert Ward, burgess, meredith, all these
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Tom Brooke: You look back and go, wow, they were in
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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: I remember the first.
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Tom Brooke: Batman was huge.
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Tom Brooke: Dad took me to the barbecue and we watched
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Tom Brooke: that.
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Tom Brooke: And Michael Keaton, forever, forever,
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Tom Brooke: forever Oh yeah, my son's really into the.
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Marc Preston: To the all of the, i'm going to say that
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Marc Preston: stuff, the, the act, the superhero, you
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Marc Preston: know the, the, the the, the kind of comic
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Marc Preston: books, and then Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Marc Preston: And then Michael, look at Michael Keaton is
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Marc Preston: is really the guy you know.
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Marc Preston: people say who was the?
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Marc Preston: who was the best Batman?
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Marc Preston: people?
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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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Marc Preston: guy.
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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: through and make sure I have so many shows
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Marc Preston: and stuff I've bookMarced on the streamers
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Marc Preston: going.
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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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Marc Preston: well?
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Tom Brooke: No, she, she acted at school and at uni She
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Tom Brooke: went into teaching and quite early on she
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Tom Brooke: got noticed for being management material
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Tom Brooke: and then she went down that direction and
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Tom Brooke: she, she was a vice principal of a sixth
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Tom Brooke: form college and then she took early
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Tom Brooke: retirement and she passed last year.
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Tom Brooke: But she, just, she just got her PhD Right,
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Tom Brooke: yeah, just before the the illness took her.
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Tom Brooke: So she was, yeah, she was very special,
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Tom Brooke: very, 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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Marc Preston: father passed from COVID back.
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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: We kind of went into this weird the last
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Marc Preston: It's just it was it's just almost like I
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Marc Preston: feel like coming out of a fog, like okay,
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Marc Preston: now we're kind of back to a little bit more
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Marc Preston: normal, you know, and Was it COVID?
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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: Yeah, no matter how you lose a parent, it's,
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Marc Preston: it's, it's.
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Marc Preston: it's never easy, it's definitely your.
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Marc Preston: it's you remind your life as a continual
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Marc Preston: education.
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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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Marc Preston: So I get a question When you were having
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Tom Brooke: or is that something that's a frequent
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Tom Brooke: I feel like there should have been.
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Tom Brooke: There wasn't.
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Tom Brooke: My mom was very understanding.
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Tom Brooke: My dad he loves to tell stories and he's
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Tom Brooke: got some great ones.
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Tom Brooke: He did a scene with Brando, you know.
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Marc Preston: Really No kidding.
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Tom Brooke: Yeah, he did a scene with Brando.
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Marc Preston: What?
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Marc Preston: what film was that in?
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Tom Brooke: A dry white season with Donald Sutherland
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Tom Brooke: as well, and he, yeah, we, it's.
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Tom Brooke: It's.
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Tom Brooke: It's funny because mom never talked about
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Tom Brooke: her work And I and I've always kind of
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Tom Brooke: wondered whether how much of that was her
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Tom Brooke: not not wanting to or whether it was she
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Tom Brooke: didn't have the space to because because he
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Tom Brooke: was constantly anecdoting, anecdoting, but
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Tom Brooke: she it made for a very happy table either
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Tom Brooke: way.
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Tom Brooke: But but we certainly, we certainly talk
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Tom Brooke: shop, my wife and I, and dad retired
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Tom Brooke: himself about eight, 10 years ago, which
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Tom Brooke: was I haven't heard of active, an active
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Tom Brooke: retiring themselves before, which I thought
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Tom Brooke: was interesting, and he was psychologically
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Tom Brooke: definitely much better off.
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Tom Brooke: I think as a result, the, the business
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Tom Brooke: didn't retire him.
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Tom Brooke: You know what I mean.
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Marc Preston: Yeah, yeah, i think, didn't Gene Hackman
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Marc Preston: decide he just retired?
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Tom Brooke: I think yes, he retired to Santa Fe, that's
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Marc Preston: Yeah, there's some people and I there's
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Marc Preston: somebody else I heard of as thinking what,
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Marc Preston: doing this and being creative and
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Marc Preston: expressing and all that stuff.
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Marc Preston: And I wonder, how do you go stir crazy in
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Marc Preston: retirement?
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Marc Preston: or is it just freeing?
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Marc Preston: you know, after all the years of going and
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Marc Preston: doing the having the kind of routine of
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Marc Preston: what the life an actor has to live, you
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Marc Preston: know the traveling and the, you know the
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Marc Preston: industry itself, but is he enjoying
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Marc Preston: enjoying retirement?
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Tom Brooke: Yeah, i think, i think you know, after he
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Tom Brooke: said he had a very, very, very good run,
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Tom Brooke: and I feel like you know, if you're not
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Tom Brooke: getting the parts that you want, or or, or
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Tom Brooke: you feel like you you should, then you've
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Tom Brooke: got to make a decision And I think his
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Tom Brooke: decision was just you know what, let's draw
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Tom Brooke: a line.
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Tom Brooke: It's been great.
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Tom Brooke: And, you know, let's be a bit careful with
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Tom Brooke: money and I hope it, i hope it will be okay
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Tom Brooke: and touch wood so far.
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Marc Preston: Did you have any siblings growing up, or
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Marc Preston: did?
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Marc Preston: you meet me really only child here also
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Marc Preston: Yeah.
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Tom Brooke: So that's really oh, no way.
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Marc Preston: Indeed, yeah, and we're kind of a unique
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Marc Preston: tribe.
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Marc Preston: Everybody says, oh, you're spoiled, you're
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Marc Preston: only child, like oh no, no, no, no, no, no.
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Tom Brooke: It's a.
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Tom Brooke: I think I think the go on.
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Tom Brooke: Oh, no, no, no, no, go ahead.
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Tom Brooke: No, I'm just going to say.
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Tom Brooke: Quite often I hear people slagging off only
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Tom Brooke: children to to me.
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Tom Brooke: And then you know, you know, only child,
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Tom Brooke: only children from fucking up.
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Tom Brooke: You know you're like, really I'm one of
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Tom Brooke: them.
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Marc Preston: And then, well, you got to be a
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Marc Preston: self-contained unit.
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Marc Preston: You know a lot of folks, i think the ones
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Marc Preston: that Duke has spoiled a lot of times and
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Marc Preston: now it's.
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Marc Preston: You know, i will say, in my family I make
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Marc Preston: sure I don't do that, but the youngest
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Marc Preston: child a lot of times is because the oldest
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Marc Preston: ones usually catch all the heat early on.
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Marc Preston: By the time you get to the third one, the
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Marc Preston: parents like do whatever the hell you want
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Marc Preston: you know, And so but no, the only child you
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Marc Preston: get.
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,614 --> 00:22:04,255
Marc Preston: You get everything.
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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
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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
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Marc Preston: independent, So maybe that's one advantage,
583
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Marc Preston: you know.
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Tom Brooke: I couldn't see an issue, i have to say,
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Tom Brooke: when I remember turn first day of secondary
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Tom Brooke: school, when I was 11, and the teacher said
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Tom Brooke: hands up, we've got brothers and sisters.
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Tom Brooke: And I was at the front of the class and I
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Tom Brooke: turned around and almost everybody had
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Tom Brooke: their hands up And that was the first time
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Tom Brooke: I thought, Oh, oh, i might be in a minority
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Tom Brooke: here.
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Tom Brooke: But, yeah, freedom, independence,
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Tom Brooke: absolutely I.
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Tom Brooke: Just one of the things that is one of the
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Tom Brooke: parents here in Boston told was we talked
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Tom Brooke: to me about we have an only child ourselves,
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Tom Brooke: and so do they.
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Tom Brooke: And he said he sent me a New York Times
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Tom Brooke: article about it.
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Tom Brooke: When it's just the three of you, they're
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Tom Brooke: more, they're a little bit more like a sort
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Tom Brooke: of young adult, in that it helps to maybe
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Tom Brooke: like include them in decision-making in
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Tom Brooke: that way, because this, this three of you,
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Tom Brooke: and I thought that sort of ranks and bells.
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Tom Brooke: So we do that very much.
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Tom Brooke: We make sure that we're all sort of on the
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Tom Brooke: same pages as a three rather than two
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Tom Brooke: parents.
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Marc Preston: You know that's a really wonderful idea and
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Marc Preston: it's something I've actually tried to do
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Marc Preston: myself is you know, of course.
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Marc Preston: You know you're the parent.
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Marc Preston: You get the tie-breaking vote, you know
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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
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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
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Marc Preston: they kind of see kind of how business runs
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Marc Preston: and all the stuff I do and and just just
622
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Marc Preston: it's the idea they have some agency in the
623
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Marc Preston: whole process, you know.
624
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Marc Preston: And that way, especially for girls, i think
625
Empowering Girls Financially
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Marc Preston: it's even more important because you know
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Marc Preston: I'm I'm at a big girl power fan, like now
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Marc Preston: you know, you've got to know how to handle
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Marc Preston: my daughter.
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Marc Preston: She has.
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Marc Preston: She's hostessing at a restaurant now and
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Marc Preston: she's just loving it.
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Marc Preston: You know she thinks the neatest thing at
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Marc Preston: this kind of fine dining restaurant and I
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Marc Preston: said we're gonna sit down, i'm gonna show
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Marc Preston: you how to, you know, get the financial
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Marc Preston: software up and or your paychecks.
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Marc Preston: So why do I need to do that?
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Marc Preston: I was like because you need to know how to
639
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Marc Preston: do this so you don't have to rely on
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Marc Preston: somebody else to do it for you and control
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Marc Preston: of your own destiny.
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Marc Preston: Though she's looking at me like well, when
643
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Marc Preston: she looked up from her phone.
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Marc Preston: But she, but no, she's, she's a smart kid.
645
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Marc Preston: But but yeah, i think it's really important
646
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Marc Preston: to do that.
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Marc Preston: Yeah, but but she's seven.
648
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Marc Preston: You say she's seven years old, she's seven
649
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Marc Preston: how old yours, then yours?
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Tom Brooke: 19 gonna be 20 here soon.
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Marc Preston: 18 just turned 18 and almost 17, so girl
652
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Marc Preston: boy, girl, okay, okay oh, and a 10 year old
653
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Marc Preston: golden retriever can't forget him.
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Marc Preston: So you know he's in the mixed dogs we got
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Marc Preston: two.
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Tom Brooke: We got sisters you have golden's no, we.
657
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Tom Brooke: Their moms are wippet staff and their dad's
658
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Tom Brooke: a lab boxer wow, okay, so you have.
659
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Tom Brooke: You have a nice mix there yeah, there's
660
,812 --> 00:25:08,440
Tom Brooke: there's a lot going on, but they yeah, oh
661
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Tom Brooke: my god come on, they makes a journey across
662
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Tom Brooke: across the Atlantic with you they made the
663
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Tom Brooke: journey across the Irish Sea to dog sitters
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Tom Brooke: in and on the South Coast of Ireland in
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Tom Brooke: Tipper area, and then they're there at the
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Tom Brooke: week and then at the weekends they go to my
667
,234 --> 00:25:29,204
Tom Brooke: in-laws and they all love them, so it's
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Tom Brooke: worked out really well gosh, i don't know
669
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Tom Brooke: how long I can go without seeing my pooch.
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Marc Preston: I'm a I'm a big dog guy.
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Marc Preston: I got always had dogs around now speaking
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Marc Preston: of traveling and coming over here.
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Marc Preston: I saw you were, you were in preacher and I
674
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Marc Preston: auditioned for that and I can't remember
675
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Marc Preston: shoot that in.
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Marc Preston: Yeah, i did.
677
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Marc Preston: I can't even count that.
678
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Marc Preston: The callbacks I got, i mean a number, i
679
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Marc Preston: mean I did the casting, people were down
680
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Marc Preston: with me, but you know you know the way it
681
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Marc Preston: works.
682
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Marc Preston: So you just, yeah, so many variables, but I
683
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Marc Preston: was very intrigued by it.
684
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Marc Preston: But I don't know, did that it shoot in
685
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Marc Preston: Louisiana or Georgia?
686
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Tom Brooke: I can't remember it was gonna be Georgia,
687
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Tom Brooke: and then it was Albuquerque for oh season,
688
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Tom Brooke: was it?
689
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Marc Preston: why I know they did different.
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Marc Preston: Yeah, they didn't.
691
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Marc Preston: They didn't.
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Marc Preston: They moved it at some point in time season
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Marc Preston: to season.
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Tom Brooke: That's right.
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Tom Brooke: Yeah, season two was New Orleans okay,
696
,893 --> 00:26:23,655
Tom Brooke: that's that's okay.
697
,675 --> 00:26:25,078
Tom Brooke: That's that's what I auditioned for,
698
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Tom Brooke: because that's okay, so you were going for
699
,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
,400 --> 00:26:31,962
Marc Preston: you do more?
702
,223 --> 00:26:33,085
Marc Preston: I, we did.
703
,165 --> 00:26:33,385
Tom Brooke: I did.
704
,254 --> 00:26:35,816
Tom Brooke: What did I do?
705
,876 --> 00:26:37,441
Tom Brooke: I did the pilot and season one in
706
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Tom Brooke: Albuquerque.
707
,063 --> 00:26:40,811
Tom Brooke: Then I went to New Orleans to be killed off.
708
,254 --> 00:26:44,818
Tom Brooke: That was very difficult, very difficult,
709
,820 --> 00:26:49,566
Tom Brooke: but then then I got called back.
710
,189 --> 00:26:53,534
Tom Brooke: Would you like to come back for season four?
711
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Tom Brooke: and that was in Melbourne, australia no,
712
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Tom Brooke: okay, okay, so preacher.
713
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Tom Brooke: That preacher has taken me across the world
714
,680 --> 00:27:04,141
Tom Brooke: and back.
715
,462 --> 00:27:06,246
Tom Brooke: It was amazing.
716
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Marc Preston: Always want to be an expat for a little
717
,714 --> 00:27:11,141
Marc Preston: while and Australia's always been the
718
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Marc Preston: destination I think would be so that, or
719
,368 --> 00:27:13,830
Marc Preston: Thailand.
720
,930 --> 00:27:16,375
Marc Preston: I think it'd be kind of fun oh, let's.
721
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Tom Brooke: I mean, melbourne is incredible.
722
,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
,736 --> 00:27:26,340
Marc Preston: students in Melbourne, sydney, perth and
725
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Marc Preston: Canberra, and yeah and everybody.
726
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Marc Preston: The Sydney people are like Melbourne and
727
,684 --> 00:27:35,370
Marc Preston: Melbourne's like Sydney people are stuck up,
728
,551 --> 00:27:37,238
Marc Preston: you know it's just kind of funny to hear
729
,258 --> 00:27:38,604
Marc Preston: them kind of, you know, digging on each
730
,664 --> 00:27:38,825
Marc Preston: other.
731
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Marc Preston: But now, what did you think of New Orleans
732
,213 --> 00:27:42,878
Marc Preston: when you were, when you were shooting here?
733
,440 --> 00:27:43,881
Tom Brooke: loved it.
734
,941 --> 00:27:45,073
Tom Brooke: My god, that place.
735
,735 --> 00:27:47,399
Tom Brooke: That's not like anywhere else on earth, is
736
,499 --> 00:27:48,723
Tom Brooke: it I?
737
,725 --> 00:27:53,736
Tom Brooke: I have marching bands going past the window
738
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Tom Brooke: of the hotel you must have been around
739
,306 --> 00:27:59,653
Tom Brooke: during Mardi Gras, i'm assuming yeah, oh
740
,773 --> 00:28:01,598
Tom Brooke: god good, god bless you, that's, that's
741
,799 --> 00:28:02,059
Tom Brooke: nuts.
742
,079 --> 00:28:03,022
Tom Brooke: What a time to be there.
743
,183 --> 00:28:06,071
Tom Brooke: That was amazing, absolutely amazing.
744
,312 --> 00:28:08,318
Tom Brooke: And my daughter has all the beads still
745
,358 --> 00:28:11,609
Tom Brooke: from from the, from the floats, you know
746
,669 --> 00:28:14,315
Tom Brooke: throwing the beads out for any little kid
747
,456 --> 00:28:16,440
Tom Brooke: who comes in it's got to be magical.
748
,561 --> 00:28:18,211
Marc Preston: But when you live here and you're an adult
749
,251 --> 00:28:19,615
Marc Preston: dealing with traffic, that's a whole
750
,655 --> 00:28:22,642
Marc Preston: different thing yeah, it's it's believe it
751
,690 --> 00:28:23,856
Marc Preston: or not, a lot of people in New Orleans
752
,876 --> 00:28:25,463
Marc Preston: actually leave during Mardi Gras.
753
,483 --> 00:28:27,453
Tom Brooke: That's a big vacation time, just to get the
754
,493 --> 00:28:29,983
Tom Brooke: heck out of the melee yeah, but there's
755
,023 --> 00:28:31,610
Tom Brooke: like, the further out you go, there's that
756
,730 --> 00:28:33,356
Tom Brooke: huge, there's that park, and suddenly
757
,416 --> 00:28:36,085
Tom Brooke: everything's peaceful and and kind of low
758
,126 --> 00:28:38,913
Tom Brooke: key it's neighborhood by neighborhood yeah,
759
,214 --> 00:28:42,260
Tom Brooke: i loved it go back to when you were growing
760
,300 --> 00:28:42,821
Tom Brooke: up in London.
761
,562 --> 00:28:46,558
Marc Preston: You know you went to school for for theater,
762
Theater Education and Voice Training
,578 --> 00:28:46,940
Marc Preston: correct?
763
,020 --> 00:28:48,907
Marc Preston: I mean that this was something that I mean
764
,967 --> 00:28:49,107
Marc Preston: you.
765
,128 --> 00:28:51,072
Marc Preston: You didn't go to just a general, you know,
766
,133 --> 00:28:53,918
Marc Preston: general, a liberal arts studies, you went
767
,239 --> 00:28:55,581
Marc Preston: for theater, correct?
768
,082 --> 00:28:59,434
Tom Brooke: yeah, we, i had a.
769
,574 --> 00:29:02,819
Tom Brooke: I did a drama degree at university and then
770
,039 --> 00:29:09,149
Tom Brooke: after that my dad was very insistent that I
771
,310 --> 00:29:13,498
Tom Brooke: ought to know, because acting training in
772
,518 --> 00:29:16,865
Tom Brooke: the UK is basically a theater, a theater
773
,985 --> 00:29:17,827
Tom Brooke: acting training.
774
,168 --> 00:29:21,237
Tom Brooke: He thought I ought to know how to use my
775
,277 --> 00:29:23,826
Tom Brooke: voice properly so it didn't pack up on me
776
,308 --> 00:29:28,028
Tom Brooke: like his had when he was at the RSC.
777
,327 --> 00:29:32,659
Tom Brooke: He had a, he had a vocal issue which which
778
,958 --> 00:29:36,651
Tom Brooke: caused him a lot, of, a lot of problems,
779
,711 --> 00:29:38,837
Tom Brooke: and so he was saying, like well, in theater,
780
,857 --> 00:29:40,582
Tom Brooke: that's, but you're projecting to the back
781
,622 --> 00:29:41,131
Tom Brooke: of the house.
782
,272 --> 00:29:41,894
Marc Preston: You know you're.
783
,914 --> 00:29:43,922
Tom Brooke: It's a much different thing, yeah yeah, and
784
,942 --> 00:29:45,086
Tom Brooke: you've got to do it every night, eight
785
,270 --> 00:29:45,831
Tom Brooke: shows a week.
786
,931 --> 00:29:47,775
Tom Brooke: So so that was.
787
,236 --> 00:29:50,662
Tom Brooke: I went to university to do drama, but but
788
,702 --> 00:29:51,644
Tom Brooke: they didn't really do that.
789
,690 --> 00:29:53,096
Tom Brooke: They didn't really teach you about how to
790
,196 --> 00:29:53,779
Tom Brooke: use your voice.
791
,104 --> 00:29:57,932
Tom Brooke: There was some physical stuff as well, but
792
,992 --> 00:30:01,418
Tom Brooke: I did two years after uni at a drama school
793
,458 --> 00:30:07,248
Tom Brooke: in London and lived at home again and yeah
794
,150 --> 00:30:12,110
Tom Brooke: managed to get an agent from that last
795
,362 --> 00:30:12,883
Tom Brooke: showcase.
796
,136 --> 00:30:15,067
Tom Brooke: I was playing a monster.
797
,320 --> 00:30:17,440
Tom Brooke: I would play Frankenstein's monster.
798
,121 --> 00:30:20,784
Tom Brooke: I was naked and painted green, and this
799
,864 --> 00:30:22,006
Tom Brooke: agency still took me on.
800
,066 --> 00:30:25,691
Tom Brooke: So I owe Evans and rice a lot.
801
,233 --> 00:30:26,974
Tom Brooke: Thank you, jan Evans.
802
,014 --> 00:30:29,780
Marc Preston: That's well, again you got a good story of
803
,860 --> 00:30:31,711
Marc Preston: you know they cast him after seeing me
804
,751 --> 00:30:31,971
Marc Preston: naked.
805
,991 --> 00:30:33,554
Marc Preston: They were like all kinds of down for me, no.
806
,859 --> 00:30:38,790
Marc Preston: So do you have a preference for stage or on
807
,810 --> 00:30:41,157
Marc Preston: camera, as things have gone on the?
808
,197 --> 00:30:42,781
Marc Preston: do you have a preference or do you just
809
,801 --> 00:30:44,334
Marc Preston: kind of like the contrast and kind of go
810
,675 --> 00:30:45,377
Marc Preston: back and forth?
811
,578 --> 00:30:46,902
Marc Preston: doesn't make a difference to you.
812
,624 --> 00:30:51,055
Tom Brooke: I like the variety of it, i like I like the
813
,115 --> 00:30:53,603
Tom Brooke: different opportunities, i like the
814
,643 --> 00:30:55,810
Tom Brooke: different people, the different groups of
815
,850 --> 00:30:58,477
Tom Brooke: people and the way they sometimes interlink.
816
,019 --> 00:30:59,861
Tom Brooke: All of that I really love.
817
,323 --> 00:31:02,930
Tom Brooke: Theater is like I was saying before.
818
,692 --> 00:31:05,536
Tom Brooke: I feel really comfortable on stage.
819
,177 --> 00:31:10,346
Tom Brooke: I don't quite know why, but I do and and I
820
,506 --> 00:31:10,887
Tom Brooke: and I.
821
,549 --> 00:31:12,712
Tom Brooke: I'm always happy to be there.
822
,594 --> 00:31:15,159
Tom Brooke: But you can't really make a living on
823
,219 --> 00:31:18,809
Tom Brooke: theater money, so you just have to you know,
824
,970 --> 00:31:21,598
Tom Brooke: as you know, you just have to try and get
825
,939 --> 00:31:24,105
Tom Brooke: acting work on front of a camera for me
826
,667 --> 00:31:26,292
Tom Brooke: memorizing an entire script.
827
,352 --> 00:31:27,496
Marc Preston: For me it was just I.
828
,977 --> 00:31:30,185
Marc Preston: It always was kind of an intimidating thing,
829
,265 --> 00:31:30,526
Marc Preston: you know.
830
,309 --> 00:31:31,851
Marc Preston: You know I like that.
831
,891 --> 00:31:32,994
Marc Preston: Oh, you only have two pages.
832
,656 --> 00:31:34,157
Marc Preston: I got that.
833
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Marc Preston: No not all you want change the line here
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Marc Preston: that you know anything more than that.
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Marc Preston: My brain starts going.
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Marc Preston: I'm gonna give you a hard time.
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Marc Preston: Now it's like I've tried every.
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Tom Brooke: I have all these little.
839
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Marc Preston: I've so many different little techniques of
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Marc Preston: trying to memorize.
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Marc Preston: You know, memorize stuff to the one that
842
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Marc Preston: seems to work is actually writing it down,
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Marc Preston: because I guess your brain and something
844
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Marc Preston: like that actually write this, you know and
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Marc Preston: I just if people looked at my sides, they'd
846
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Marc Preston: be like what is wrong with you?
847
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Marc Preston: all these little highlighting things to
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Marc Preston: memorize?
849
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Marc Preston: it's a whole thing.
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Marc Preston: But going forward now the the you new
851
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Marc Preston: project, the Empire of Light, being a Sam
852
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Marc Preston: Mendes project, that's like you know.
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Marc Preston: He's one of those guys that actors you know,
854
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Marc Preston: there's some directors out there, actors
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Marc Preston: really want to work with, you know, and he
856
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Marc Preston: seems to be the one, one of the guys, one
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Marc Preston: of the names that pops up a lot.
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Marc Preston: How did you, how did you get on this
859
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Marc Preston: project?
860
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Marc Preston: what was, how did this gel together for you?
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Tom Brooke: I had worked with Sam at the National.
862
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Tom Brooke: We've done King Lear together on stage, so
863
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Tom Brooke: that was a long job as well.
864
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Tom Brooke: It was about five months.
865
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Tom Brooke: So we had about eight weeks rehearsal and
866
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Tom Brooke: then previews and then we ran in rep.
867
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Tom Brooke: So we were together for quite a while and
868
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Tom Brooke: we got on really well and I really liked
869
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Tom Brooke: him.
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Tom Brooke: And actually it was weird because mum had
871
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Tom Brooke: passed away and I was not really in a
872
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Tom Brooke: headspace where I was thinking about work
873
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Tom Brooke: and then this script came through about his
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Tom Brooke: mom and I thought, oh, oh, wow, i wonder
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Tom Brooke: why that sort of appeared in my life right
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Tom Brooke: now.
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Tom Brooke: And, yeah, went to meet him for a cup of
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Tom Brooke: tea and he said you know, do you want to do
879
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Tom Brooke: it?
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Marc Preston: Now, is this project in some way you said,
881
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Marc Preston: based on his mother, or is it circle around
882
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Marc Preston: a mother as a character within the film?
883
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Tom Brooke: Yeah, there's a mother within the film and
884
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Tom Brooke: there's a young boy within the film and his
885
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Tom Brooke: experiences of childhood have kind of
886
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Tom Brooke: coloured the film.
887
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Tom Brooke: So it's not autobiographical, but it's
888
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Tom Brooke: definitely.
889
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Tom Brooke: We were talking about mums a lot and at
890
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Tom Brooke: that stage I was really up for doing that.
891
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Tom Brooke: I was really up for doing it in the
892
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Tom Brooke: audition actually well, audition, but we
893
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Tom Brooke: did it.
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Tom Brooke: I think he let me talk about mum for about
895
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Tom Brooke: an hour because I hadn't seen him since the
896
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Tom Brooke: play and he said how you doing?
897
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Tom Brooke: And I said not great, i'm pretty raw at the
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Tom Brooke: minute.
899
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Tom Brooke: And he said oh no, what's going on?
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Marc Preston: And I told him and yeah, it was like a
901
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Marc Preston: little therapy session- Well, that begs the
902
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Marc Preston: question is it kind of a little bit of an
903
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Marc Preston: escape for you Some people it can be you
904
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Marc Preston: can kind of depart whatever is going on in
905
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Marc Preston: life for a moment, and so it's kind of, in
906
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Marc Preston: its own way, therapeutic.
907
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Marc Preston: Or when stuff's going on in life does it
908
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Marc Preston: kind of, do you feel, hinder your ability
909
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Marc Preston: to do what you need to do on camera?
910
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Tom Brooke: That's a really interesting question.
911
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Tom Brooke: I have always felt that I've got the jobs
912
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Tom Brooke: that I've got because of where I was at at
913
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Tom Brooke: that point in my life when they came along,
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Tom Brooke: And so I feel like you can use if you're
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Tom Brooke: lucky, you can use whatever's going on in
916
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Tom Brooke: your life really, or what's gone on before
917
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Tom Brooke: that in your life When you get up.
918
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Tom Brooke: I like that very much.
919
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Tom Brooke: I like taking things that have happened to
920
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Tom Brooke: me or feelings that I've had and putting
921
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Tom Brooke: them into a script.
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Tom Brooke: You know, like putting them into a
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Tom Brooke: performance, And usually when I read a
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Tom Brooke: script, it will be I'll be noticing things
925
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Tom Brooke: about it that remind me of myself, So I
926
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Tom Brooke: sort of go okay, I know how to do this,
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Tom Brooke: because I felt that once.
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Marc Preston: So the projects kind of act like it sounds
929
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Marc Preston: like they can act like a little bit of a
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Marc Preston: Marc on the timeline for you.
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Marc Preston: Not just I did that job, but what was going
932
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Marc Preston: on, the experience, the people you met and
933
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Marc Preston: all that kind of stuff.
934
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Marc Preston: Yeah, it takes on a new meaning, or more of
935
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Marc Preston: an enhanced meaning, i guess.
936
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Tom Brooke: Yeah, I think that's true.
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Tom Brooke: For example, I met my wife playing husband
938
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Tom Brooke: and wife on a play Good casting.
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Marc Preston: I think that would be so cool to meet
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Marc Preston: someone like that, but after you're married,
941
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Marc Preston: can you do that and not get sick of each
942
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Marc Preston: other?
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Marc Preston: I mean, if you're doing, let's say, a play,
944
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Marc Preston: and you're coming home and you're 24, seven
945
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Marc Preston: with this person is that something.
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Tom Brooke: You're like I don't know if you can do that.
947
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Tom Brooke: That is the test, But yeah, I wouldn't be
948
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Tom Brooke: able to do it without her.
949
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Tom Brooke: So and it's really.
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Tom Brooke: I think it's great as well, because you get
951
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Tom Brooke: to, you get it.
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Tom Brooke: I get it when she's got a lot on, She gets
953
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Tom Brooke: it when I've got a lot on.
954
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Tom Brooke: We help each other through it because we
955
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Tom Brooke: both get it.
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Marc Preston: That's got to be such cool experience.
957
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Marc Preston: It's kind of like its own little fairy tale
958
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Marc Preston: kind of a thing.
959
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Marc Preston: It's like I do this thing, they do this
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Marc Preston: thing.
961
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Marc Preston: We got together and it worked, Yeah.
962
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Marc Preston: But I was curious on Empire of Light, you
963
Empire of Light Filming Process
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Marc Preston: know, with Sam Mendoz directing that First
964
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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
967
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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
970
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Marc Preston: coast as well, correct?
971
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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
977
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Tom Brooke: hadn't done any filming with Sam And his
978
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Tom Brooke: approach was very similar to the play that
979
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Tom Brooke: we did, in that it started with a few weeks
980
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Tom Brooke: around the table just talking about the
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Tom Brooke: script and reading it and making changes.
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Tom Brooke: There was a great book that he had when we
983
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Tom Brooke: were doing The King Lear which allowed you
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Tom Brooke: to swap words out and put words back in.
985
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Tom Brooke: That kept the meter.
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Tom Brooke: But if a word was odd and people didn't
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Tom Brooke: quite understand it because it was so old,
988
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Tom Brooke: he just said change it to something that
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Tom Brooke: does work, that does sort of scan and that
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Tom Brooke: doesn't take you out of the moment whilst
991
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Tom Brooke: you try to figure out what it means.
992
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Marc Preston: I mean that's certainly going to help you
993
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Marc Preston: be more authentic, because if a word's just
994
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Marc Preston: not naturally wanting to come out, that you
995
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Marc Preston: know it, kind of breaks your flow a little
996
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Marc Preston: bit, Get rid of it.
997
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Tom Brooke: And also, if the audience are listening
998
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Tom Brooke: that happens to me all the time, especially
999
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Tom Brooke: in Shakespeare like you hear a word and you
Speaker:1000
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Tom Brooke: spend the next three lines trying to figure
Speaker:1001
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Tom Brooke: out what on earth it meant, And by that
Speaker:1002
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Tom Brooke: point you've lost those three lines, you
Speaker:1003
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Tom Brooke: don't know what's going on and you slowly
Speaker:1004
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Tom Brooke: begin to lose interest.
Speaker:1005
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Tom Brooke: So I don't know.
Speaker:1006
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Tom Brooke: It was a really impressive, simple,
Speaker:1007
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Tom Brooke: impressive tool just to making sure that
Speaker:1008
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Tom Brooke: everybody was remained on board cast and
Speaker:1009
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Tom Brooke: audience And he did the same thing with
Speaker:1010
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Tom Brooke: this.
Speaker:1011
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Tom Brooke: There was lots of back and forth, lots of
Speaker:1012
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Tom Brooke: chat about how people think, about how
Speaker:1013
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Tom Brooke: people saw the different characters, And
Speaker:1014
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Tom Brooke: that was fascinating, Hearing other people
Speaker:1015
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Tom Brooke: talking about your character or other
Speaker:1016
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Tom Brooke: people's characters, how they saw it.
Speaker:1017
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Tom Brooke: And then when we got onto the set, all the
Speaker:1018
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Tom Brooke: work had sort of been done.
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Marc Preston: His films.
Speaker:1020
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Marc Preston: I've always found I really the look or the
Speaker:1021
,109 --> 00:39:43,373
Marc Preston: aesthetic of them has always been just like
Speaker:1022
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Marc Preston: even something like to go to Baby Driver or
Speaker:1023
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Marc Preston: to like the Bond films And the.
Speaker:1024
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Marc Preston: You know, it's just they have to have a
Speaker:1025
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Marc Preston: certain aesthetic to them.
Speaker:1026
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Marc Preston: Which brings me the question did you kind
Speaker:1027
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Marc Preston: of pick his brain going like you know, you
Speaker:1028
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Marc Preston: got a direct line to the broccoli
Speaker:1029
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Marc Preston: organization there.
Speaker:1030
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Marc Preston: They're looking for a bond, you know, just
Speaker:1031
,950 --> 00:40:04,652
Marc Preston: throwing it out there.
Speaker:1032
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Tom Brooke: No, i didn't manage to do that.
Speaker:1033
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Tom Brooke: There was always seemed to be just
Speaker:1034
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Tom Brooke: something else to do before I made the lead
Speaker:1035
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Tom Brooke: to ask him about Bond.
Speaker:1036
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Tom Brooke: But we talked about movies a lot.
Speaker:1037
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Tom Brooke: I mean, he's worked with a few greats, he's
Speaker:1038
,914 --> 00:40:31,677
Tom Brooke: got great stories, he's got really filthy
Speaker:1039
,717 --> 00:40:35,000
Tom Brooke: jokes, which is, i sort of feel like it's
Speaker:1040
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Tom Brooke: so surprising, because you sort of see him
Speaker:1041
,142 --> 00:40:39,925
Tom Brooke: accepting awards here, there and everywhere,
Speaker:1042
,267 --> 00:40:44,551
Tom Brooke: but the ability to tell a really filthy
Speaker:1043
,591 --> 00:40:46,534
Tom Brooke: joke, i think is one of his main strengths.
Speaker:1044
,195 --> 00:40:49,898
Tom Brooke: But yeah, i mean, the look at this one is
Speaker:1045
,938 --> 00:40:53,610
Tom Brooke: him and Roger Deakins together, and that
Speaker:1046
,650 --> 00:40:55,555
Tom Brooke: was a moment I mean that's.
Speaker:1047
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Marc Preston: Is it the?
Speaker:1048
,997 --> 00:40:58,283
Marc Preston: is he the same that the DP he uses on all
Speaker:1049
,303 --> 00:40:58,885
Marc Preston: of his projects?
Speaker:1050
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Tom Brooke: Yeah, he's used him before.
Speaker:1051
,371 --> 00:41:03,323
Tom Brooke: But they, but Roger Deakins, did all of the
Speaker:1052
,363 --> 00:41:03,925
Tom Brooke: Coen Brothers films.
Speaker:1053
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Marc Preston: Oh, really Okay.
Speaker:1054
,370 --> 00:41:09,417
Tom Brooke: And so for me he was sort of the person
Speaker:1055
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Tom Brooke: that I was most starstruck by on set, And I
Speaker:1056
,464 --> 00:41:13,026
Tom Brooke: found it really Well.
Speaker:1057
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Marc Preston: All their films have a very specific
Speaker:1058
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Marc Preston: aesthetic as well.
Speaker:1059
,844 --> 00:41:20,471
Tom Brooke: Yeah, Yeah, i mean it's fascinating because
Speaker:1060
,491 --> 00:41:22,653
Tom Brooke: they're all so different but they're also
Speaker:1061
,095 --> 00:41:26,138
Tom Brooke: unique The look of them, aren't they?
Speaker:1062
,158 --> 00:41:26,318
Tom Brooke: Like?
Speaker:1063
,398 --> 00:41:31,064
Tom Brooke: I don't know, hudsucker Proxy is so
Speaker:1064
,104 --> 00:41:31,925
Tom Brooke: different to the Big Lebowski.
Speaker:1065
,867 --> 00:41:35,630
Tom Brooke: Anyway, i just I found it really.
Speaker:1066
Movie Fandom and Inspiration
,250 --> 00:41:37,752
Tom Brooke: I was really nervous around him because
Speaker:1067
,772 --> 00:41:41,036
Tom Brooke: he's sort of a part of movie history And it
Speaker:1068
,076 --> 00:41:41,457
Tom Brooke: was silly.
Speaker:1069
,517 --> 00:41:43,079
Tom Brooke: But it was the first time I actually got to
Speaker:1070
,119 --> 00:41:47,484
Tom Brooke: say I'm such a fan, was at the screening of
Speaker:1071
,524 --> 00:41:50,950
Tom Brooke: the movie And I had to say like look, i'm
Speaker:1072
,970 --> 00:41:53,033
Tom Brooke: really sorry I couldn't really talk to you
Speaker:1073
,053 --> 00:41:54,555
Tom Brooke: during the film.
Speaker:1074
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Marc Preston: You're sort of you're such a hero, but I
Speaker:1075
,119 --> 00:41:59,409
Marc Preston: was so Well, i tell you, hill Caesar, for
Speaker:1076
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Marc Preston: me aesthetically like that was, like
Speaker:1077
,280 --> 00:42:04,905
Marc Preston: everything was just perfect with that one
Speaker:1078
,146 --> 00:42:06,108
Marc Preston: Perfect, But they're all.
Speaker:1079
,128 --> 00:42:08,614
Tom Brooke: They're perfect movies, I mean, like Jannin
Speaker:1080
,634 --> 00:42:09,837
Tom Brooke: Tatum in Hill Caesar.
Speaker:1081
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Marc Preston: You see, i was for you.
Speaker:1082
,871 --> 00:42:14,073
Marc Preston: I was thinking about George Clooney.
Speaker:1083
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Marc Preston: you know, it's like randomness him showing
Speaker:1084
,258 --> 00:42:17,789
Marc Preston: up and it's just Those films.
Speaker:1085
,829 --> 00:42:19,277
Marc Preston: occasionally, when I speak with folks like
Speaker:1086
,317 --> 00:42:20,644
Marc Preston: yourself, i'm like, yeah, i gotta go watch
Speaker:1087
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Marc Preston: that movie.
Speaker:1088
,467 --> 00:42:23,835
Marc Preston: Yeah, and I'll end up going watching it,
Speaker:1089
,875 --> 00:42:25,219
Marc Preston: and that's the reason why I fall behind on
Speaker:1090
,280 --> 00:42:26,604
Marc Preston: every show I need to be watching and
Speaker:1091
,624 --> 00:42:26,905
Marc Preston: keeping up on.
Speaker:1092
,407 --> 00:42:29,739
Tom Brooke: Because of the movies That's interesting,
Speaker:1093
,799 --> 00:42:30,221
Tom Brooke: exactly So.
Speaker:1094
,242 --> 00:42:30,885
Tom Brooke: You go to a movie first.
Speaker:1095
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Marc Preston: Now a couple of last questions out.
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Marc Preston: You've how long have you been in Boston?
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Marc Preston: Let's go around this day.
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Tom Brooke: This time we did.
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Tom Brooke: we will have done just under four months
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Tom Brooke: when we leave.
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Tom Brooke: Okay, because they started Season 2 of
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Tom Brooke: Julia in France, so they started doing.
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Tom Brooke: they started in Cannes and then we joined
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Tom Brooke: when our daughter had the, when the summer
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Tom Brooke: holidays turned up, and then we went to
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Tom Brooke: Paris, which was, i thought, pretty magical.
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Tom Brooke: I hope she did as well.
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Tom Brooke: It was.
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Tom Brooke: it was quite hot And I sometimes I wonder
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Tom Brooke: if us walking around, going look Paris kind
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Tom Brooke: of got a bit old.
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Marc Preston: You're still making memories and I'm sure
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Marc Preston: she's taking pictures and that.
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Tom Brooke: Yeah.
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Marc Preston: You know curious what when you're, when
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Marc Preston: you're here, what is it that you do when
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Marc Preston: you're in the US that you can't do in the
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Marc Preston: UK, that you really enjoy?
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Tom Brooke: I think big in America.
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Tom Brooke: just in general, I find Americans really
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Tom Brooke: just the most welcoming people.
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Tom Brooke: Yeah, I love how open everybody is and how
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Tom Brooke: you can strike up a conversation with
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Tom Brooke: almost anybody.
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Tom Brooke: I really enjoy a little holiday away from
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Tom Brooke: the more reserved approach to being a human
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Tom Brooke: being that perhaps English people have.
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Marc Preston: Real quick before we get going.
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Marc Preston: I always do my quick seven questions Here.
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Marc Preston: I always ask She has a little extra.
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Marc Preston: Get to know you, if you will.
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Marc Preston: The first question is always and I'm very
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Marc Preston: curious because you're from the UK and I'm
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Marc Preston: a food guy What is your favorite comfort
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Marc Preston: food?
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Tom Brooke: That would have been Mum's Spag Bowl
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Tom Brooke: Spaghetti Bolognese.
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Tom Brooke: It was just standard, very simple, but
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Tom Brooke: absolutely perfect and a trifle.
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Marc Preston: I have heard the Spag Bowl one other person
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Marc Preston: spoken with They had explained what that
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Marc Preston: was like.
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Marc Preston: Oh, spaghetti, i know what that is, but
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Marc Preston: Spag Bowl never heard it called that before.
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Marc Preston: But I've had somebody else say that.
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Tom Brooke: And is trifle a thing over here?
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Tom Brooke: The layered kind of dessert, thing, i think
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Tom Brooke: even in the South it's a big thing.
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Marc Preston: I don't know if I'll call it a trifle, but
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Marc Preston: it's a yeah, without a doubt.
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Marc Preston: Now, if you were to sit down and you're
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Marc Preston: going to talk story with three folks
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Marc Preston: sitting down having a cup of coffee for a
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Marc Preston: few hours, who would those three people be
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Marc Preston: living or not that you would love to sit
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Marc Preston: down with?
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Tom Brooke: Can I say Walter Matta and Jack Lemon.
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Marc Preston: Getting the two of them together would make
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Marc Preston: it a more interesting you know, for the
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Marc Preston: films they've made.
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Tom Brooke: Yeah, that's one of the pluses.
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Tom Brooke: I think of Dad, because he's one of the
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Tom Brooke: many, but he would quite often just pass me
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Tom Brooke: things that he'd taped from the telly and
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Tom Brooke: say watch this.
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Tom Brooke: And one of the ones was the front page with
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Tom Brooke: Jack Lemon and Walter Matta, a Billy Wilder
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Tom Brooke: movie which remains absolutely top three.
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Marc Preston: Going back to when you were a young guy.
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Marc Preston: Next question who was your first celebrity
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Marc Preston: crush?
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Tom Brooke: Oh, the lead singer of Transvision, vamp.
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Marc Preston: Transvision Vamp.
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Marc Preston: Do you remember them, wendy?
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Tom Brooke: Yeah, it's like a UK punk Pump band.
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Tom Brooke: Are you doing it?
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Tom Brooke: Are you Googling it?
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Tom Brooke: I?
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Marc Preston: had to Google if I.
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Marc Preston: Oh okay, lovely lady, Now I'm going to have
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Marc Preston: to go listen.
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Marc Preston: I'm a music guy, so I want to go listen and
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Marc Preston: find out what that's all about.
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Marc Preston: Yeah, because we grew up in that era where
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Marc Preston: that was punked, but that was ground zero
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Marc Preston: in London for a lot of that.
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Tom Brooke: Yeah, What was her second name?
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Tom Brooke: Wendy, something?
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Tom Brooke: Wendy James, wendy James, yeah, wendy James.
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Marc Preston: Yeah, so that's, I just learned something I
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Marc Preston: love learning things If you're going to be.
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Marc Preston: Next question if you're going to be going
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Marc Preston: to exotic island, somewhere you really want
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Marc Preston: to be, but they don't have streaming you
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Marc Preston: got.
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Marc Preston: If you want to watch a movie, you're going
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Marc Preston: to have to bring a DVD.
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Marc Preston: If you want to listen to music and have to
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Marc Preston: bring a CD.
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Marc Preston: Full year you're going to be there with the
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Marc Preston: whole family, you're going to enjoy
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Marc Preston: yourself, but what would the CD, what would
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Marc Preston: the album be and what would the movie be
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Marc Preston: that you would bring with you?
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Tom Brooke: Oh, wow, the movie would probably be
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Tom Brooke: Millers Crossing.
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Tom Brooke: Uh, coen Brothers again.
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Tom Brooke: the plot, the plotting of that movie is so
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Tom Brooke: intricate.
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Tom Brooke: Uh, it's, it's just.
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Tom Brooke: it never gets old for me, that movie, and
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Tom Brooke: Albert Finney's in it, and John Tautura's
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Tom Brooke: in it, uh, and I think it's one of those
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Tom Brooke: movies where, just across the board,
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Tom Brooke: everybody is just it's just perfect.
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Tom Brooke: So I take Millers Crossing and the, the CD.
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Tom Brooke: the CD is tough.
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Marc Preston: Transvision vamp.
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Marc Preston: No, I'm just kidding.
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Tom Brooke: I was going down that route because I feel
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Tom Brooke: like I'm just I'm playing our daughter all
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Tom Brooke: of these, uh, all of these 80s songs at the
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Tom Brooke: minute, so I'd probably try and take do you
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Tom Brooke: remember?
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Tom Brooke: did you ever have these over here?
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Tom Brooke: Now, that's what I call music.
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Marc Preston: Oh my God, yeah, yeah, the, the, the, the,
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Marc Preston: the compilation.
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Tom Brooke: So there was a great one called.
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Tom Brooke: now that's what I call music 10.
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Tom Brooke: I just remember number 10 was was huge.
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Tom Brooke: Uh, and that will be a good mix.
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Tom Brooke: Four tapes, Uh, she, she.
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Marc Preston: I think she'd get a lot out of that one as
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Marc Preston: well, so that that will be my but isn't
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Marc Preston: that fun when you can take the music that
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Marc Preston: meant something to you, play it for your
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Marc Preston: kid And it's.
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Marc Preston: it's funny, though My uh, my youngest for
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Marc Preston: whatever me, being from Texas originally,
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Marc Preston: she loves country music.
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Marc Preston: Okay, and, and it's it's.
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Marc Preston: it's the funniest thing I was speaking with.
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Marc Preston: I think it was Billy Bob Thornton talking
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Marc Preston: about his.
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Marc Preston: he has a 17 year old daughter as well.
Speaker:1247
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Marc Preston: we were talking about what it was that our
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Marc Preston: kids are listening to.
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Marc Preston: Well, you know, we're just talking about
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Marc Preston: music and my daughter she's like a love
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Marc Preston: country.
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Marc Preston: I was like, well, i'm going to educate you,
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Marc Preston: you know, onto some of the stuff that was
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Marc Preston: popular back in the day.
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Marc Preston: And a kick on a song from a group called
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Marc Preston: Brooks and Dunn is called neon moon And I
Speaker:1257
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Marc Preston: started playing it And as she starts kind
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Marc Preston: of singing it and I was like, how do you
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Marc Preston: know this song?
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Marc Preston: I mean this is like.
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Marc Preston: she's like, oh, tick tock.
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Marc Preston: That's how these kids are learning about
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Marc Preston: music, because they're going to, they hear
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Marc Preston: tracks on tick tock.
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Marc Preston: but it's cool because for them some of the
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Marc Preston: stuff is new and it doesn't have a lot of
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Marc Preston: dust on it in their mind if it's on tick
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Marc Preston: tock, you know but that's what I call music.
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Marc Preston: So if I still hear those commercials in my
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Marc Preston: head, that's what I call music.
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Tom Brooke: That's right, yeah, me too.
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Marc Preston: Now next question is what's your definition
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Marc Preston: of a perfect day, from time you get up to
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Marc Preston: the time you put your head down on the
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Marc Preston: pillow, what would, what are the component
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Marc Preston: parts of a perfect day for you?
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Tom Brooke: I'd be doing a play.
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Tom Brooke: I think I'd I'd have a play to go to in the
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Tom Brooke: evening, and during the day I'd go for
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Tom Brooke: lunch with my wife.
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Tom Brooke: We drop our daughter at school and we just
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Tom Brooke: about have time to pick her up before going
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Tom Brooke: in and doing a play.
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Tom Brooke: And then maybe somebody had come to see the
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Tom Brooke: play a friend and I go out for a cup of tea
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Tom Brooke: with them afterwards.
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Tom Brooke: That'd be perfect.
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Marc Preston: I've always wanted to do the high tea, and
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Marc Preston: that's that's.
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Marc Preston: That's still on the bucket.
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Tom Brooke: If that's on the list, you must do that.
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Tom Brooke: I've become a huge fan of iced tea over
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Tom Brooke: here.
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Tom Brooke: Unsweetened iced tea not a thing in England.
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Marc Preston: Okay, unsweetened.
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Marc Preston: Yeah, down in the South Lake they always
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Marc Preston: assume you want sweet.
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Marc Preston: I was like I don't need that much sugar in
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Marc Preston: my life, you know, but it is.
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Marc Preston: But I'm the same way.
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Marc Preston: Now.
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Marc Preston: If you weren't next question if you weren't
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Marc Preston: doing what you're doing now, what would you
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Marc Preston: be doing as a vocation?
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Marc Preston: What would you be doing for a living?
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Tom Brooke: I'm a primary school teacher.
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Tom Brooke: No question.
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Marc Preston: Following in your mother's footsteps as an
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Marc Preston: educator.
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Tom Brooke: But that, that, that kids at that age, it's
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Tom Brooke: just, there's so much joy and fun.
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Marc Preston: There's sponges at that age.
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Marc Preston: Yeah, they're just soaking it all up, yeah.
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Tom Brooke: And we go to a play.
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Tom Brooke: Like she's so chatty to people that we go.
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Tom Brooke: We'll go to a playground and, you know,
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Tom Brooke: within like half an hour there's this
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Tom Brooke: little gang and they're all chasing me and
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Tom Brooke: chucking stuff at me and, you know,
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Tom Brooke: spearing me with sticks, and it's just
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Tom Brooke: heaven.
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Marc Preston: You know it's crazy is when that you can
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Marc Preston: remember kids doing that and they're just
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Marc Preston: like wacky little weird kids and they're
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Marc Preston: fun and everything.
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Marc Preston: Now, you know all these kids live on
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Marc Preston: Instagram and and you know my friends, so
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Marc Preston: you kind of it's funny because you kind of
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Marc Preston: you know, as a parent, you have to somewhat
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Marc Preston: like, keep an eye on what is the ecosystem
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Marc Preston: on my child.
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Marc Preston: What are they dealing with?
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Marc Preston: Yeah, and you see these kids like dear God,
Speaker:1334
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Marc Preston: they're now off almost to college and
Speaker:1335
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Marc Preston: they're like they're real human beings now,
Speaker:1336
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Marc Preston: but I remember when they were goofy little
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Marc Preston: kids.
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Marc Preston: It's, it's weird Again, it's like, you know
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Marc Preston: it must mean I'm getting older as well,
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Marc Preston: which I refuse to accept.
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Tom Brooke: At what age did you?
Speaker:1342
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Tom Brooke: did you give them phones?
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Marc Preston: I let's see Lily, my oldest Lily.
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Marc Preston: She had one when she was 12, 12, 13,.
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Marc Preston: I think, is when she she had one a little
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Marc Preston: It was a little flip phone.
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Marc Preston: It wasn't Reno, so she had it in her bag,
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Marc Preston: but I think the kids had them.
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Marc Preston: I think we all got them around 12, 13.
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Tom Brooke: Okay, cool.
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Tom Brooke: Good, i've just got that tallies and I just
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Tom Brooke: want to try and keep her phone free for as
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Marc Preston: I, i.
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Marc Preston: If I was to hit rewind, i would say that
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Marc Preston: that would be a really good idea because it
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Marc Preston: I'm no sociologist or psychologist, but I
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Marc Preston: The perception of the outside world, the
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Marc Preston: You know what you know.
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Marc Preston: You know you can watch a film you've done
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Marc Preston: and you know the edit that went in to
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Marc Preston: create that moment you know, because that's
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Marc Preston: the second telling of the story, is the
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Marc Preston: You know, taking 50 pictures to get one
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Marc Preston: like it's, it's, I think, kids, I, I, I
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Marc Preston: don't know.
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Marc Preston: I think we'll find out in a you know, in a
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Marc Preston: number of years, the impact it may or may
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Marc Preston: not have had.
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Marc Preston: My daughter rages against anything taking
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Marc Preston: pictures and she's, we're going to, I'm in
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Marc Preston: a juror for the voice arts awards, like
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Marc Preston: kind of like the Emmys for voiceover, I
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Marc Preston: guess, And we're going out there now like
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Marc Preston: there's a red carpet a couple of weeks, And
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Marc Preston: my daughter's like, do I have to take
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Marc Preston: Like, baby, it's a red carpet.
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Marc Preston: She does not post on social media.
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Marc Preston: None of my kids do.
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Marc Preston: They watch it for fun.
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Marc Preston: It's not a some of their friends, on the
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Marc Preston: I don't know.
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Marc Preston: I'm just glad that when I was growing up,
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Marc Preston: part of it is there's no video or picture
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Announcer: So I'm kind of happy.
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Marc Preston: Fair enough.
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Marc Preston: The last question is if you were to jump
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Marc Preston: into a DeLorean, go back in time.
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Marc Preston: You're 16 years old.
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Marc Preston: What piece of advice are you going to offer
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Marc Preston: yourself, either to make life better in
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Marc Preston: You know just some piece of advice Maybe
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Marc Preston: you think you needed to hear at 16.
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Tom Brooke: I mean, I don't, I don't know if it would
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Tom Brooke: be, if it would be a cheat, but I wonder if
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Tom Brooke: I, if I could cryptically tell my younger
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Tom Brooke: self not to worry too much, that things
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Tom Brooke: would would basically be okay, And
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Tom Brooke: certainly from from an acting point of view.
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Marc Preston: I hear that frequently.
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Marc Preston: That's a frequent thing And I just wonder.
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Marc Preston: it makes me wonder if, if worrying and
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Marc Preston: stressing about the future is just a
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Marc Preston: component part of the life of somebody
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Marc Preston: who's creative.
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Marc Preston: I don't know, because I hear that so often.
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Marc Preston: because I was the same way.
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Marc Preston: I was like what's it going to be?
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Marc Preston: What's it going to be, what do I need to do?
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Tom Brooke: I need to have the urgency that you had.
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Marc Preston: Maybe the worry is what got you where you
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Marc Preston: Maybe that maybe that fuels the tenacity to
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Marc Preston: keep, to keep after it.
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Marc Preston: Who knows?
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Marc Preston: But but, tom, i so appreciate you taking
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Marc Preston: time out with me today.
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Marc Preston: It's been more than a pleasure and I'm and
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Marc Preston: I'm really looking forward to seeing Empire
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Marc Preston: of Light.
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Marc Preston: Thank you again.
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Marc Preston: And you know, have a lobster roll for me.
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Marc Preston: Hey, since you are in Boston, we'll do.
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Marc Preston: I have never had one My whole life not
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Marc Preston: having a lobster roll, and I'm a food guy,
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Marc Preston: so have one for me whenever you're,
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Marc Preston: whenever you have a chance.
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Tom Brooke: They're a big deal.
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Tom Brooke: I will, i promise.
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Marc Preston: You have a wonderful rest of your stay in
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Marc Preston: the US and best of luck and Empire of Light,
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Marc Preston: most certainly looking forward to seeing it.
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Tom Brooke: See ya.
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Marc Preston: Well, there you go, tom Brooke.
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Marc Preston: Enjoy the opportunity to sit down and chat
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Marc Preston: with him.
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Marc Preston: Empire of Light That's where you can see
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Marc Preston: Tom right now.
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Marc Preston: All right, that's it for the show.
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Marc Preston: Enjoy the opportunity to connect with you.
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Marc Preston: Of course, we'll be back soon.
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Marc Preston: Another great episode.
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Marc Preston: Don't forget, go to storyancraftpodcom.
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Marc Preston: That's where you can find out everything
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Marc Preston: Send me a note, even a voice message, you
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Marc Preston: Please have a great rest of your week or
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Marc Preston: weekend or whatever you're up to right now,
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Marc Preston: and we'll see you next time right here on
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Marc Preston: Story and Craft.
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Announcer: That's it for this episode of Story and
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Announcer: Craft.
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Announcer: Join Marc next week for more conversation
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Announcer: right here on Story and Craft.
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Announcer: Executive Producer is Marc Preston.
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Tom Brooke
Actor
British actor and London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts grad Tom Brooke has been working consistently in the industry for 15+ years and continues to take on memorable parts.
His next project is Sam Mendes’ highly anticipated film EMPIRE OF LIGHT, which will be released in the US on Dec 9, 2022 and in the UK on Jan 13, 2023. Starring Olivia Colman and Micheal Ward, the film is set in an English seaside town in the early 1980s and is a story about human connection and the magic of cinema. Tom plays the endearing cinema employee Neil who brings necessary levity and a voice of reason to the film.
Tom is a true character actor known for the range of his roles, from Thick Kevin in the cult-favourite THE BOAT THAT ROCKED to Michael Fagan, the desperate man who broke into the palace to speak with Queen Elizabeth, in THE CROWN. Other notable screen credits include PREACHER, BODYGUARD, THE DEATH OF STALIN, GAME OF THRONES, and SHERLOCK.