STAGS: Paul Forman & Nico Mirallegro - Are They Wild or Tame?
Paul Forman and Nico Mirallegro get into a spot of trouble in their new Paramount+ series Stags, but how wild are they in reality? They've been telling all to Melissa Nathoo. 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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00:00Hi Mel. How are you?
00:02How are you doing?
00:03Nice to meet you.
00:04How are you?
00:05I'm very well. You're looking very good. They've lit you very nicely, guys.
00:10This is always good lighting.
00:11This is the best interview I've ever had.
00:12It's just two hours, two hours in the making.
00:14Two hours.
00:15I've been up.
00:16Guys, this is so brilliantly British. It would not work if you're American, would it? Like, it just wouldn't.
00:22No. I mean, stag doos are kind of fundamentally feels British, doesn't it?
00:27Every time you go to one of those types of countries and you see the stag doos, they're more than likely English lads, aren't they?
00:37It's very laddy.
00:38Yeah.
00:39How much worse does it get? Because I've only seen one episode. I don't mean worse as in, like, the show gets terrible. You know what I mean?
00:46Like, how much worse does it get for the guys in the show?
00:50I started off so well and then I know I've got that.
00:52It's definitely a rollercoaster and a wild ride. So I'd say it gets worse in that sense.
00:58Yeah.
00:59It's completely unpredictable. I will say that.
01:02There's a real fight for survival, I think, going on in there. And I think friendships will be tested and pulled to the final thread. And yeah, it gets intense.
01:16It gets intense. More intense.
01:18How would you guys cope in that situation, each of you, as Nico and Paul, being on a prison island?
01:25I thought you'd be so much better than I am, actually.
01:28I think I'd do all right. Yeah. Yeah. I think I could channel the inner Stu and we could hustle our way into some deals and maybe get a double bed and some extra food.
01:43What are you sharing your bed with?
01:45Well, bunk beds. Yeah. Of course. I mean, if you're going to pick, you're going to pick this.
01:51Of course. Of course.
01:52I think he is.
01:54How are you coping?
01:55I'd be terrible.
01:56Oh, really?
01:57Yeah, definitely.
01:58Why? Are you just scared or are you just not good at negotiating?
02:03I'm terrible at negotiating. I really am. Every time I go to a souk and you've got to do a bit of wheeling and dealing, I'm terrible at that.
02:11I wind up paying more than the original offer, actually. So, yeah, no, I don't think I'd survive.
02:17He loves to tip. So, it's not, you know, they're going to work that out straight away and the money's going to be running low pretty soon.
02:24Yeah. In a place where you have no money to begin with.
02:26Exactly.
02:27I mean, realistically, I don't think any of us would survive, you know, to be frank.
02:32Not the stag experience.
02:34Yeah.
02:35Oh, no, we'd survive the prison, not the stag.
02:37Yeah.
02:38You know, that's the most intense part.
02:40Are you party animals?
02:42Well, animals, yeah. Animals, yeah. Party.
02:46I'm like a chicken. I'm that kind of animal.
02:49So, yeah, yeah.
02:53I will say, actually, I think it speaks for both of us, that there's a pretty good balance. I think it's like work hard, play hard.
03:02We went out a little bit when we shot there and I don't think you, yeah, I think it was good balance.
03:08No, we're fairly responsible, aren't we?
03:11And we did do a mock-up stag do, didn't we?
03:14We did.
03:15On the second week, which was interesting.
03:17Team bonding exercise.
03:18What does it involve? What's the stag do involve?
03:20The Tenerife Strip.
03:22Yeah.
03:23What do they call that club? Is it Veronica's?
03:27I missed it. I wasn't there. I was filming.
03:29Were you not there for that?
03:30Yeah.
03:31Oh, God.
03:32Yeah, I was shooting on the Friday night.
03:33Right.
03:34I was the only one. I was so sad I missed it.
03:36Oh, yeah, you were brought in that night, weren't you?
03:38Yeah.
03:39Okay, yeah. So we did this mock-up stag do and it was a great night, Paul.
03:44It was.
03:45I actually thought you were there. It shows you how much I remember.
03:48You were clearly missed.
03:49It shows you how much I remember.
03:51Who is the biggest party animal on this cast out of all of you?
03:55Do we have to say?
03:56The biggest cop-out answer is when you say yourself, so it's fine.
03:59Oh, is it?
04:00Because then no one gets in trouble.
04:01I'm going to have to say it.
04:02Corin Silver, he's an absolute animal with the night out.
04:07Is he?
04:08Yeah.
04:09We were limited, though, because of where we were on the island.
04:13It was very remote, quite far from any civilization, really.
04:17Yeah.
04:18So it really, we didn't party that much.
04:21No, we didn't.
04:22There was four kind of restaurant bars in a bar days in the small square that we had.
04:28And after filming, we'd go for a drink, a few pina coladas.
04:33But I'd be fairly boring a lot of the time because I'd be like,
04:37oh, lads, I'm just going to learn the lines for tomorrow.
04:41Exactly.
04:42But we had fun, though.
04:44It was wholesome, I found.
04:45Yeah.
04:46It was wholesome more than crazy party parties.
04:48It was, yeah.
04:49Because it was a chill environment, so everyone was, like,
04:54very at ease doing their own thing.
04:56But then if we wanted to get together, it was, you know.
04:58Swim in the sea.
04:59Swim in the seas in the morning.
05:01Because I was going to say, it didn't look glamorous.
05:04Like, one of my notes I wrote down was like,
05:06it's a lot of toilet scenes in that first scene.
05:09That was a special request from me.
05:11Yeah.
05:12Yeah.
05:13Okay, we said biggest party animal.
05:15Who's the person on the cast who's most likely to get you into trouble?
05:19Again?
05:20Yeah, sorry.
05:21Sorry, Corin.
05:22Yeah, Corin.
05:23Oh, wow.
05:24Yeah, yeah.
05:25He's lovely, though.
05:26He's the most generous, kind human being.
05:29Big heart.
05:30Big heart.
05:31Yeah.
05:32He's heart's so big, in fact, that he doesn't, like,
05:35he's got no spatial awareness.
05:37So often on nights out, we were like, okay, just watch your back.
05:42Sorry, sorry about him.
05:44And no, no one would get us into trouble, I don't think.
05:47We're a pretty, you know.
05:49Sensible bunch.
05:50Sensible bunch.
05:51If you want to know then, well, you're probably not going to have one,
05:53what's the wildest trip that you guys have been on?
05:56Filming stags.
05:58I don't believe that.
06:00It sounds tame.
06:01You weren't even there for the big night out.
06:03I had my own.
06:04I had my own, that's why.
06:06I can't think of one.
06:08No, I can't.
06:09I can't.
06:10I mean, I have done one stag do before,
06:13and it mainly involved singing England football songs
06:17throughout the whole trip, which is, like, you know,
06:20embarrassing, really.
06:21And I'm Italian-Irish at heart,
06:24so I don't want to be singing Gareth Southgate's name too loud.
06:29But, yeah, I think stags this trip was pretty wild, yeah.
06:35You guys need to go and do a few more.
06:38I've never been on one, so.
06:40On a stag do.
06:41Or even a big trip.
06:42Have you been to Ibiza?
06:43Once, and I stayed indoors for the entire week.
06:46It was such a waste.
06:47Not indoors, sorry.
06:48I stayed in the complex.
06:50Yeah, yeah.
06:51I didn't go partying once.
06:52You were not doing Ibiza right.
06:54No, we completely did it wrong.
06:56Definitely did it wrong.
06:57I need to do it again.
06:58You must have been in a nice place.
06:59You know what?
07:00It was just a nice group.
07:01OK.
07:02And so we were like, we don't need anything else.
07:04This is perfect.
07:05I did that, though, with a family.
07:07We hired, like, a nice place, and there was, like, ten of us there.
07:11We barely left.
07:12Yeah.
07:13And we just brought food in, cooked it.
07:15It wasn't part of the plan, but it just happens organically
07:18You guys are too wholesome.
07:20This is what I'm finding.
07:21Well.
07:22I had a wild night out in Monaco, and I blacked out in the club,
07:25and I can't even remember it.
07:26Love that.
07:27Love that.
07:28Invite us.
07:29Highly recommend.
07:30Highly recommend.
07:31Especially if someone else is paying for the alcohol.
07:32OK.
07:33Guys, good luck with the show.
07:35Lovely to meet you.
07:36Thank you so much.
07:38Cheers.
07:39Nice one.
07:40Take care.
07:41Pleasure.