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The Big Picture ✕ Remove Ads Magpie is the thrilling brainchild of producer and lead Daisy Ridley and her partner, actor and writer Tom Bateman. This independent project was conjured from Ridley's personal experiences on the set of a previous film, when the actress contemplated the loneliness of movie shoots and the psychological effects it could have on someone.
SHAZAD LATIF: It's a lot of bad food. There's a lot of bad stuff to eat on set, isn't there? It's never what you think.LATIF: The UK’s bad, yeah. The UK specifically. ✕ Remove Ads LATIF: I had to smash a piece of glass underwater but while holding your breath for, like, a minute and a half. We got trained by some weird guy who teaches surfers how to hold your breath for, like, seven minutes. So, learning that and then doing that. But then watching the dudes who are there to help you eating sandwiches underwater — that was the hardest thing I've ever had to do, but that was also great.BATEMAN: Mine's a water one, as well.
✕ Remove Ads RIDLEY: I'm gonna talk about a recent one involving our mutual friend, Martin Campbell. I did a film with him last year, an action movie, and there is a sequence in the movie where I drop from the ceiling with a plastic bag. So, as I land, I have to put the plastic bag over a man's head, and then there's a barrel next to us, and I have to swing him into the barrel, and then I have to swing him out of shot.
RIDLEY: I’m gonna say The Force Awakens. You guys might have heard of it. It wasn't just the day before, it was the month before and the month before that, and then the day of. I remember it being, really specifically, so hot. There was a wider shot, and I was behind the speeder, and I had to come around. I had never really properly been on set before, outside of, like, two weeks on something, so it was all very new. Someone had an umbrella over me, and that was new.
LATIF: I don't know if there's any specific thing. I just read it over and over again until you get it. But the time I got it, like, four hours before, I think I was doing Star Trek , and there was no way of learning it, so I just got them to write it up. I remember them just putting it up and just reading it. Sometimes you need to read it off the board.
How the Original Idea for 'Magpie' Changed Jumping into why you guys are here tonight. Daisy, this is a story you came up with. Where did this idea come from? ✕ Remove Ads We pitched it. Three days later, they came back and said, “We want to make this with you. Let's go. We want a first draft soon.” Daisy just started cracking the whip, so I was waking up every day at, like, 4 a.m., writing. I’d just make a jug of coffee, write from four until 10, Daisy would come down, and read everything. I’d just pace up and down, chain-smoking, terrified, nervous.
✕ Remove Ads Shazad, what was your reaction reading the script for the first time and playing a character like this where maybe some women aren't gonna like you? ✕ Remove Ads There's a possibility that men and women are gonna view this two different ways. Have you noticed that during the screenings?
✕ Remove Ads A lot of it was just being very savvy. Daisy was amazing. Daisy really did produce this whole thing, and Kate . How savvy they were getting things, like, “Oh, okay, let's get our trailers, and that's just our set for free,” because it's the trailers that the actors were actually in, and you just flip the cameras around. Our crew were amazing and said they'd be in it. That's a lot of our crew actually in it when you see that crew up there.
For the two of you who were there while they were filming, when you saw the shooting schedule in front of you, which day did you have circled in terms of, “I can't wait to film this,” and was there any day where you were like, “How exactly are we gonna film this?” RIDLEY: It's tough. Over the years, one grows a thick skin — well, one tries to grow a thick skin — because people tell you how they feel. It's weird when the business and the creativity meet because, in a lot of ways, I had an amazing time doing it, but I could take a second before I do that again because it's so revealing, I suppose.
Do you have any favorite memories from set? Is there a day or a scene or a moment that's the first thing that comes to your mind? LATIF: It’s a revenge story. Indian Prince, Captain Nemo, finds the East India Company. It’s a swashbuckling adventure, brown guys on a ship. That’s what I keep going to. It’s all of that. His wife and child have been murdered, and he's trying to get back to the East India Company. It’s the origin story of Captain Nemo, Jules Verne.I'm so excited to see it.
✕ Remove Ads It's an amazing film. The cast is incredible. Nina Hoss is in it, me, Tessa, Imogen Poots, and Nicholas Pinnock. It's really, really cool as a movie. We shot it all night shoots. The action takes place pretty much over the course of one night. I play Hedda’s husband, and it's our coming-home wedding party where everything goes horribly wrong, and it’s brilliant. We shot it all in England earlier this year in the freezing cold, night shoots.
Did the person in the park know you were there? What was their reaction when you were walking up? I can't imagine. We'll Be Getting a Star Wars Update Soon ✕ Remove Ads As long as you're here and we're talking about Star Wars, do you want to give anyone an update? How are things going? Is there any news?Thank you for answering my query. I just have to ask, are you guys watching Andor ? If not, for the love of God, you need to watch Andor .
RIDLEY: We got in from the airport, and I had already Uber Eated Le Botaniste, this unbelievable vegan restaurant. They do a quinoa pasta bolognese thing and some cookies. Shout out Le Botoaniste. So good. LATIF: I really like this restaurant called Trullo. It's not really in the city, but it's a really good pasta. Very good pasta.
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