Paul Mescal and Andrew Scott sit down with Melissa Nathoo to talk All Of Us Strangers, their "bromance" and help Melissa out with some dating advice. Report by Nathoom. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00 How are you?
00:01 Good, Andrew, how's it going?
00:02 If I didn't know who you were, Andrew, coming into the room, could you imagine?
00:05 We could still have taken you to the room.
00:07 Not too, I guess.
00:08 Paul.
00:09 It's very sweet. Paul, Andrew, really nice meeting you. Melissa.
00:11 Hey Melissa, how's it going?
00:13 Wonderful to see you both.
00:14 Nebra.
00:15 Oh, let's definitely get into all of that. I love all of that.
00:19 Guys, what a film. I'm coming in with obviously the serious questions about a serious film.
00:23 Andrew, who gives the best hugs out of Paul, Claire and Jamie?
00:27 Oh my God. Wow.
00:30 Do we do a lot of hugging in the film?
00:32 There's lots of other stuff, but I love to hug.
00:35 I mean, there's hugging involved in what we do.
00:37 It's sort of strange, though, because I think of, you know, if you think of it as characters,
00:41 because they're playing my parents and then Paul is playing my lover.
00:44 Oh, well now you've just made it weird.
00:46 Yeah, I just made it weird.
00:47 Oh, no, no, you made it weird.
00:49 Well, now you can't answer that.
00:52 We all gave great hugs.
00:53 Yeah, exactly. Everybody gave great hugs. We all went home talking about happy.
00:56 Diplomatic.
00:58 It's clear you guys have a great relationship, though, on camera, off camera.
01:02 Like, when did this bromance start?
01:06 It's the whole bromance.
01:07 It's so funny, the special bromance, because neither of us are particularly bro-y.
01:11 No, but it's like, it's the cliche term that we all use.
01:14 Yes, exactly. Nail on the head.
01:17 There you go.
01:18 There lies the problem.
01:20 There lies the rubble.
01:22 Yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:24 The friendship, like our friendship.
01:26 Yeah, Svenskar was the normal term for it.
01:30 It grew through the filming process and has continued to grow since.
01:36 And yeah, I think the great thing about acting is it forces you to kind of skip the civil polite,
01:43 like, that you're just kind of thrown into the deep end and you either sink or swim.
01:48 Yeah, you sort of get to know somebody without having to sort of say,
01:50 where do you come from or what's your star sign?
01:54 You sort of figure out the sort of dynamics of a person kind of oddly through interpreting other characters.
02:03 It's really strange.
02:04 No, it was beautiful to watch the two of you on screen together.
02:08 There's so much silence within the film, but so much about filling the silence,
02:14 obviously with music and things like that.
02:16 And I wondered whether you two were people who like to fill the silence or you're happy to sit in that.
02:21 Oh, such a good question.
02:22 That's a great, I think it depends on what's going on.
02:25 Like, very comfortable in silence.
02:27 Me too, actually, yeah.
02:29 But I don't think, I think it's about being sensitive, isn't it?
02:33 You know, something just doesn't have to be filled the whole time.
02:37 I think it's just, there's nothing worse, isn't there, when somebody is chatting away and you think, read room.
02:44 We've all been there.
02:45 Yeah, you've all been there, yeah.
02:47 And then the opposite, because sometimes in auditions...
02:50 You need somebody to fill, like be you.
02:52 You do. Sometimes there's nothing worse when you go for an audition and the director will be like, welcome.
02:57 And you're like, jeez, give me something.
02:59 And you're frightened, you know.
03:01 So I think it depends on the power dynamic or, you know, it's just about empathy and sensitivity, I think, a little bit.
03:05 If you're at home, what would you fill your silence?
03:08 Because he obviously plays a lot of music within, when he's at home, what would you fill your silence with?
03:12 Well, at home, I don't really like to have a lot of...
03:15 I love, obviously, I play, do you mean what music would I play?
03:18 Yeah.
03:19 Oh, completely different.
03:21 I don't know, some people are different, some people like the opposite energy to what they're feeling, do you know what I mean?
03:28 If you feel sad, you play a kind of...
03:30 I'm the opposite of that. Normally what I'm feeling will be reflected in the choice of music.
03:36 So you can just really be...
03:38 You have that setting on Spotify where you can get your daily mix running.
03:42 Yes, I do, yeah.
03:43 That's great.
03:44 It's brilliant, isn't it?
03:45 I love that because you don't... it's consistent but you discover a new song.
03:49 Yeah, it's lovely.
03:50 Guys, before I go, one thing, I mean, there's many things you take from this film,
03:55 but as a single girl in London dating, is my only option to move into an empty tower block where there is just one hot guy?
04:02 That's it, yeah.
04:03 Because it's awful out there.
04:05 You're going to have to find a large empty thing.
04:08 If you want to find love, that's what you've got to do.
04:10 That's the secret.
04:11 Find love in a hopeless place.
04:13 There you go.
04:15 I hope you're playing a bit of Rihanna.
04:17 A bit of Rihanna, exactly.
04:19 Yeah, that's what I took from this. I was like, great, these are my options.
04:22 That and that alone.
04:24 That's what you're taking, that was your take away?
04:26 A very profound film where what I thought is, right, if I'm going to meet someone, it's going to be in an empty block.
04:32 Yeah, so when you're looking for somewhere to live, you have to say, "And are any of the other apartments occupied?"
04:36 Okay.
04:37 Then I'm not interested.
04:38 And also, you can be like, half a bottle of whiskey, knock on strangers' doors.
04:43 Exactly.
04:44 Don't do that.
04:45 Please don't do that.
04:46 I came for dating advice, guys.
04:48 You came to the right place.
04:51 Congratulations on such a wonderful film. I did take more from it than just that, I assure you.
04:59 Thank you.
05:00 - Thank you. - Thank you.
05:02 - Thanks for having us. - Thanks for having us today.