Quintessa Swindell and Leo Woodall star in new Apple TV+ series Prime Target, but Leo reveals to Melissa Nathoo how much he actually understood of the maths he was writing, and how they feel about surveillance. 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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00:00Wait, that happened in our show?
00:01Yeah, which means I'm the more paranoid one.
00:04Where are the cameras in every room, you know?
00:06I did not expect a show about maths,
00:08maths equations, to have me this hooked.
00:12Like, two o'clock in the morning, three episodes in,
00:14I was like, can I get another one in?
00:16Yeah, really, really enjoying it.
00:18But Leo, did you understand anything that you're writing down?
00:23All of it. All of it.
00:25Really?
00:26No.
00:28Did you try to understand it?
00:30I did try. I did try, and I understood some of it,
00:33but really, you know, it's a level of mathematics
00:36that no one can really reach apart from those very few people,
00:40one of which was our consultant, which was helpful.
00:43But it's so, it's such a serious show.
00:47It is such a serious show.
00:49Were there moments where both of you did actually get to have some fun on it?
00:52Oh, we had loads.
00:53Oh my God, yeah.
00:55Yeah, you should see the outtakes of, you know,
00:57very serious scene cut, and we just start giggling about something.
01:02I feel like every scene, there was like,
01:04we were in a new place, new environment, different set,
01:08and that was also really exciting.
01:10I feel like we also started off the season shooting in, I don't know.
01:15We were in...
01:19The tree.
01:21Yeah.
01:22Oh, the...
01:22Right.
01:24It doesn't matter.
01:25No, it doesn't matter.
01:25It doesn't matter, but...
01:27I don't think that's a spoiler, though.
01:29Every, it was always something new and something different,
01:32so it was so much fun.
01:33Does a show like this, though, make you really suspicious
01:37about, like, surveillance and all of that?
01:39I was watching this, I'm like,
01:40how much are we being watched, really?
01:43And especially for you as actors, right?
01:44Like...
01:45I feel like it made me look at surveillance a little bit differently.
01:48You know, like, seeing which community,
01:52like, how communities are surveilled differently.
01:55And also just walking down the street,
01:57how many times you're captured and where cameras are.
02:00But I think that was also from a past project of mine, too,
02:03that was, like, about, like, shoplifting.
02:05So it was kind of like, where are the cameras in every room?
02:07You know?
02:09It just got doubled.
02:10Next, it'll be even worse.
02:11No, I definitely, after watching this, I was like,
02:13I'm very aware there are cameras around in buildings and all sorts.
02:18Not that I have anything that I need to worry about, frankly,
02:20so it's OK, because I'm not doing anything to hurt.
02:24I do look at fire alarms differently now, though.
02:26That's nice.
02:27Yeah, there's a lot of fire alarms in the show that are secretly cameras.
02:30All the fire alarms.
02:31Yeah, yeah, yeah.
02:33And also just, like, if something looks like it could be a camera,
02:37but it's maybe just a light.
02:40Yeah, sometimes I compare the light in the ceiling.
02:42I'm like, well, that's different to that.
02:43So what is that? It must be a camera.
02:45Are you serious?
02:46Yeah.
02:46Wait, did that happen in our show?
02:48Yeah.
02:49Just not the scenes you were in, really.
02:53And before I go, if we did get ourselves into maybe the situation
02:58where we're being followed around, out of the two of you,
03:01who is going to be the best at formulating an escape plan?
03:04Who's my best bet?
03:06No, no.
03:08I'm being nice, it's obviously me, but...
03:10I'd be oblivious to it.
03:11I'd be like, no, she seems great.
03:12Yeah, you didn't even notice that there were fire alarms.
03:15Oh, yeah, no.
03:16You could get one over me very easily.
03:18Yeah, yeah, maybe.
03:19He means well, it's just...
03:20Yeah.
03:22So, hold on, who do you think?
03:23Him.
03:23I think let's go with me.
03:24Yeah, for sure.
03:25Which means I'm the more paranoid one, maybe.
03:28I don't know.
03:28Just aware.
03:29Yeah, let's go with that.
03:31We'll go with that.
03:32Like I said, guys, I thoroughly enjoyed the show.
03:34I finished the whole thing, so it's great.
03:36It's great.
03:37So good luck with it, guys.
03:38Thank you so much.
03:39Lovely to see you.