Marianne Jean-Baptiste

I do.

The thing is, a lot of people do. I've been getting a lot of people saying, that's my mother-in-law. Lots of mother-in-laws, by the way. That's my mother-in-law. That's my auntie. That's my friend. A few people have professed to being her. Oh, really? Yeah. And I'm like, you're too self-aware. She's not self-aware. She thinks she's nice.

Right. Thank you.

Yeah, totally. He'll call you or email you and say, I'm doing a film. I don't know what it's about. I don't know what you'll be playing in it. But we're going to have fun. And you go, yes, of course. I love that. I love being terrified.

Yeah, no, it's a really sort of creative, collaborative, rewarding experience because, you know, he respects you as a creative artist, you know, and not just an interpreter of his vision. So you really do work on it with him.

Oh, no. He always says, at the start of every project, he'll say, I want you to bring in a list of people you know from real life. And you go in. I mean, I had over 100 on my list, but he doesn't ask for 100. But he wants more than five or 10.

You're like, I'll give you 100. I think it was about 140, actually.

And you sit there and you describe them all to him and talk about them. And it's like being in a therapy session, only you're analyzing someone else. And then, you know, that list gets smaller and smaller and smaller until you settle on about three, between three and five people. And then you do these exercises to merge them until you've got one person.

And then you start building the character from there.

I mean, all the performances in the movie are fantastic.

You know what? We've got a really disciplined process. We never refer to ourselves as the character. It's always in the third person. You never say I, otherwise he'll kill you. Um, so you're used to getting out of character, but I would, I'd have her thoughts in my head. So I started to sort of hear her voice with me saying, look at him. What's he got that shirt on for?

You know, and I'd be like, shut up, Pansy. But when I got home, I'd cook, I'd play music, drink wine, all the things she doesn't like doing.

So I was like, yes, I own me. It's me.

Well, we'll see if we can conjure her.

I'll warm up slightly.

What's that? A track.

It's disgusting. It's another way to get money out of people. If people stayed inside, we wouldn't have the problem in the first place. So maybe there should be more curfews.

She thinks he needs to be checked into hospital straight away. Straight away.

Who on earth is that?

I quite like the baddies, you know, the Bond baddies and, you know, the criminal mastermind, that sort of character.

Yes. Well, not quite, yeah, but sort of. I mean, yeah.