Jimmy Flau
Appearances
SmartLess
"James McAvoy"
So from that point on, and then as you kind of built this career for yourself over many, many years, and you just kind of kept going up and up and up and up and up and more, And bigger projects, projects that have more recognition and audiences that grew and everything. Is there something that you learned that was so valuable that you can share?
SmartLess
"James McAvoy"
Because I think, you know, I look back when I was a young actor and I'm like, I wish somebody would have fucking told me blank, A, B, and C. And then you get older and you look back and you wish, there's no, nobody pulls you aside and said, this is how the business works. This is how, this is what you should be looking for. Like, I wish somebody would have told me, you know, blank.
SmartLess
"James McAvoy"
Camera hats, 10 pounds. Or something like that. Or just the business side of it too. Must have been driving over a canyon when you got that note.
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"James McAvoy"
Yeah, I guess that's kind of what I meant a little bit was like, being an actor is plenty. There's a lot of work that goes with that. But as to your point, a lot of people are realizing the industry is changing. You kind of have to be all things in order to, you have to kind of cultivate your own work for yourself. And so I just didn't know if that was something that you're doing now.
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"James McAvoy"
Like, are you delving into other aspects, directing, producing, writing, anything like that?
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"James McAvoy"
I want to talk about... Wait, first of all, I know probably everybody comes up to you and says how brilliant you were in Split, but I just thought it was... I thought it was like you should have won an Academy Award. Like, it was an incredible performance. Thank you. And tell me, you played all these different characters because the guy... was a fucking serial killer or whatever. Yeah.
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"James McAvoy"
But also these different accents and different characters and you buy each and every one of them. Like to your point, they were all real. They were all very real. So tell me about the process and were you scared to do that many different kind of people?
SmartLess
"James McAvoy"
Sean, he was floating. No, no, how about this? Two weeks ago, when I went to visit him, he was on a floaty in the pool at his house, ordering sushi from the pool.
SmartLess
"James McAvoy"
I'm down at the Y. This is a public pool. But in Jason's defense, he picked up, he drove to pick up the sushi.
SmartLess
"James McAvoy"
Now, in this trailer for Speak No Evil, by the way, you look huge. Did you go to the gym just for this part? Cool it, Sean.
SmartLess
"James McAvoy"
Just bags, yeah. I just came home back from a family reunion. There was all this extra food there, and it's just like, there was like a bag of donuts. I grabbed those. I grabbed a couple other things. Did you really? Yeah. But there's all this extra food and I felt so bad throwing it out.
SmartLess
"James McAvoy"
You do look so buff in that trailer. It's like crazy. You look like you worked out crazy.
SmartLess
"James McAvoy"
Yes, it's called Goalless. It's a new show from Smartless Media, our little podcast company. And I'm going to tell you all about it at the end of the episode. So please stick around.
SmartLess
"James McAvoy"
Save a life right now. You have a little gaming issue? Because I do too. I play a lot of games on my phone. What do you play? Oh, just the dumbest shit.
SmartLess
"James McAvoy"
I don't know if you remember, Will, you try to get me, like years and years and years ago, try to get me in one of those groups. I played for maybe seven minutes. Yes, briefly. And I couldn't exit the thing. I just would get shot like every single time right away. And I couldn't figure out like, so let's try it again, let's try it again.
SmartLess
"James McAvoy"
And we'd start again and I'd come out with these guns and everybody's just bang, bang, bang, bang, bang. Like I'd just be dead in two seconds.
SmartLess
"James McAvoy"
Yes, I talk about you all the time. I just think you're an incredible actor. Thank you, guys.
SmartLess
"James McAvoy"
Yeah, no, he's great, though. Like, I didn't ask him about Narnia and, like, Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. I was obsessed with that book.
SmartLess
"James McAvoy"
I know. I know. I'm not, like, a massive X-Men thing. Like... I think he's great. Walk us through it, though. What's missing for you with that franchise? No, I like it. It's just, I just never, it's hooked into it. I mean, I watch them all, and they're great. I'm not a rabid fan of the series. What about Narnia? But yeah, the Narnia things, I wish they, that first one was so great.
SmartLess
"James McAvoy"
The wardrobe that you didn't like, or the witch? No, so he played The Fawn. What was his name? The Fawns. Tumnus? Tumnus? Mr. Tumnus?
SmartLess
"James McAvoy"
And didn't you guys like that book when you were a kid? Of course. I never read it. Oh, it was the best.
SmartLess
"James McAvoy"
Yeah. Great books. But anyway, I didn't get a chance to ask him. When he popped on, I was like, oh, I've actually always wanted to meet him. And so I got to meet him. Who wrote those books? Quick. C.S. Lewis.
SmartLess
"James McAvoy"
Yeah. Because if you mention a book, I will read it and we can talk about it.
SmartLess
"James McAvoy"
Yeah, because you don't want to, it's like television recos or movie stuff.
SmartLess
"James McAvoy"
We're going to get to X-Men and things like that. And Split. Split is one of my favorite movies. One of the best performances I've ever seen anybody ever. Thank you so much. You played like 75 characters in that.
SmartLess
"James McAvoy"
My favorite chick. Every time he plays a different character, I totally... There we go.
SmartLess
"James McAvoy"
Less. So Jason and Willie, we have a new show on SmartLess Media called Goal.
SmartLess
"James McAvoy"
And also, by the way, for my sister, Tracy, one of the most successful stand-up comedians in the UK. And not related to Ron. No.
SmartLess
"James McAvoy"
At some point, though, at some point, we're going to have to figure out, so you don't have to keep saying soccer, I mean football, over and over. We have to figure out what to call them.
SmartLess
"James McAvoy"
Thursday, September 19th. And two new episodes released each week, every Monday and Thursday, which is great. It's going to be great. Russell Howard and Chris Whittingham. Yeah, great.
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"James McAvoy"
In North London. Fantastic. Wow, it looks fancy. I want to live in North London. I know, look at him. He's just having a little cosmo in his basement. He's got a nice painted wall behind him with a good iron window. Like a Hawaiian shirt on or something.
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"James McAvoy"
Yeah, but I mean, as long as it's, you know, not to oversimplify it, but as long as it's real and it comes from a real place, who cares about any of it?