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Oli Pages: I do Voices!
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Joining me for the show this week is Oli Pages!
We talk about his roles in the recent 'Jack and the Beanstalk' Pantomime with Tynemouth Priory and the upcoming Picasso at the Lapin Agile with The People's Theatre
We also talk about his acting background and his range of skills as a performer before ending on some Lord of the Rings and Star Wars talk. Oli also does a genuinely amazing impression and you'll have to listen to find out what he's doing an impression of!
Theme Song: Adam Sams.
Show logo: Craig Pearson
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Podcast Schedule Change
00:00:01
Speaker
Hi everyone, it's Ryan in here. This is ah just a quick note at the start of the show about the future of the show. um I guess ah just up front, it's the What Makes You Tick will be sticking around, but I will be changing to a monthly schedule instead of weekly. It's something I've been thinking about for a little while. Quite frankly, it's a lot of work um making the podcast weekly. um it's ah It's relatively easy doing the recordings, but for each recording it takes about four times as long to do the edit. So if my episodes are nearly an hour, then it's probably taking me four hours on top of that to edit, which was fine when I didn't have a job.
00:00:47
Speaker
However, I do have a job now. And um there's also, it's multiple things though. I also, I've been really wanting to get back into doing some writing.
00:00:59
Speaker
um I went to an amazing screenwriting conference, the New Writing North screenwriting weekender the other week. um And it's really just got me wanting to do some writing and I'm needing to find time to do that writing, in which, um you know, if I'm spending four plus hours a week editing my podcast then I'm struggling to find the time to get doing that writing as well as that it's uh again the fault of having a job now when I did not used to have a job it's harder to schedule guests I used to just be able to say to people I will do literally whenever you want me to record Now, obviously, I can't do that. So yeah, that's how things are going to be going forward. i kind of wanted to I kind of wanted to wait until I'd finished these eight promised episodes for season two, but I've run out of guests. I do have a couple of recordings scheduled, but I think it's um i think it's for the best for myself. So yes, um that is why there will not be an episode next week. So that'll be starting in April. So March um march will be completely quiet for the podcast while I try and talk the next episode. And then the first monthly episode will be on Wednesday, the 1st of April. And from there, the aim is to do the first Wednesday of every month. So yes, podcast, no longer weekly, gonna be monthly. Enjoy this episode with Olly Pages, as always, an amazing guest, and thank you to him for his time. Thank
00:02:52
Speaker
Hello and welcome to What Makes You Tick Season
Introducing Ollie Pages
00:02:55
Speaker
2. This is a conversation podcast where I, Ryan Watson, speak to actors, writers, filmmakers and a range of other artists from the North East of England and sometimes beyond about what they do, how they make it work and the media that inspires them to do that work. Today I'm speaking with Ollie Pages.
00:03:08
Speaker
Ollie is an actor who's been training with the Actors Forge since 2019. In that time he's amassed a quite frankly ridiculous number of acting credits. um It's only the end of January at the time of recording and already in 2026 alone. He's completed a pantomime run with Jack and the Beanstalk at Time Math Priory. He features an upcoming project like the feature film that keeps getting mentioned, and A Malevolent World, ah the web series Hell No, and he's currently hard at work with rehearsals for, hopefully I'm going to say this right, Picasso at the La Paz Agile. a player by Steve Martin that'll be at the People's Theatre in March. As well as all this, since starting in 2019, he's been in a whole range of stage, film, music videos, voiceover work, and so much more. Oli, welcome to the show.
00:03:54
Speaker
Thanks for having me, Ryan. I know, it's great to have you. You were one of the first, when I was first planning the show, I remember asking because we were were filming on something, I was like, Oli, will you be on the show? And I ended up getting a bit a bit over overwhelmed by how many people are were are asking to be on it last
Ollie's Acting Journey Begins
00:04:10
Speaker
year. So it's nice. It's nice to finally be able to talk to you on here. Absolutely. Yeah. And thanks for having me. I usually ask at the start, is there anything I've missed in the intro? But um with yours, there were so many things that I kind of intentionally missed quite a lot. i mean, are there any particular projects you really want to mention that you've worked on sort of in the past?
00:04:29
Speaker
I think the first one, I'd definitely say that there's a few that are close to me that are given. I've really enjoyed them. So my first show that got into be back into acting, which was before I joined The Forge in the first place, was a production of Blackadder Goes Forth.
00:04:43
Speaker
So I loved the show Blackadder there. And to be hit in a production of it on stage was something I liked there. And then another good one was um my first musical, which was October 2024 in which I did at the Whitley Bay Playhouse. That was something else I loved as well. the The other thing I just wanted to quickly mention before we get into the the questions is just you've pretty much been rehearsing or performing like the whole year already. And it's only the end of January. Like, how's how's it going for you?
00:05:11
Speaker
I'm pretty good there. I mean, I started rehearsals for Jack and the Beanstalk about the beginning of December there. So that was only a short period because that show was... over two weekends in January and then I got cast on during the second weekend in Panto for Picasso and it was just straight into it so but there are times usually where there's gaps in between the projects I do so it's not like ah I'm just constantly doing work there but I just find things and it keeps me busy oh okay so it's like you're in a particularly busy period at the minute a little bit yeah but this is the only thing I'm rehearsing right now though uh yeah that's just quite impressive
00:05:46
Speaker
um So I guess ah usually the first sort of question I ask people is just you tell me about your background, how you came to acting? I knew that you started the Actors Forge in 2019, but you just mentioned before you were actually acting before that. Well, I started getting into it when I was at school. I did a few school plays then. I really got into it, but I didn't do any more with acting afterwards. And then it wasn't until I finished uni that I thought about going back into acting just to like see about it there, which is I then joined the People's Theatre about 2017 and although I didn't really do anything until getting cast in Blackadder, which was my first show there, but it was following that I found out about the Actors Forge from two people who were members of the People's Theatre that originally went there and then ever since I joined the Forge I've been there ah since it started and I've just kind of never left.
00:06:39
Speaker
Were you one of the first people who joined the Actors Forge? Were you in the three that Dan mentioned at the very
Growth of the Actors Forge
00:06:45
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start? I think I was, yeah. Oh, wow. I mean, that must have been quite a change then over time, front because it was a lot more Dan trying something at the start, wasn't it? It was, yeah.
00:06:54
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big How has it sort changed over the years? like what's the It must be quite different for you. Very. To be fair, it wasn't what it was now, so there was no class structure or anything, no like Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday classes there.
00:07:07
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It was basically all on a Saturday, pretty much for the whole day in one location there. And the numbers were just very small. And it was a drop-in, drop-out session there. It wasn't until during COVID that Dan started to do the whole class structure there. And originally, it was just going to be Wednesdays and Thursdays because I think he wanted his weekends back. But now he's got two Saturday classes. so Weekends are done forever. Yeah. ah i'm sorry Sorry, Dan, for mentioning that, by the way. um i also just wanted to ask, you know the People's Theatre? You said that Blackadder was the first thing you did there. So you were involved with the People's Theatre for a while before doing anything. What what sort of thing did they offer there to be involved involved in? Well, me personally, I didn't do anything. I joined them, but then I thought about auditioning for some shows, but didn't get them. And Blackadder was the first show could cast in.
00:07:57
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But it's not just acting that you're involved in there. There are other departments as well. Some people go into like directing, being stage manager, props, wardrobe, for example. That's just to name a few there. So it's pretty much a bit of a community there. Blackadder was the first thing you were you were I mean, that was at the People's Theatre. How long were you sort of in things at the...
00:08:17
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people's theatre before you started like looking elsewhere for other other opportunities? did they just come up quite naturally? or After I joined the Forge, I didn't really ah actively look anywhere else for most acting things because I wasn't so sure what what about it there. But it wasn't until maybe we did like the first showcase with the Actors Forge, which was 2021, that I thought just lucky maybe joining some other communities just to do a bit more with what I love. So I've since joined a relatively new one, which was also formed during the COVID years there, called the Wild Roses, which is based in Wall's End.
00:08:52
Speaker
But they have performed at different venues, these parts around the Northeast, including the Exchange, the Playhouse as well. And then I joined joined the Time Mouth Priory only last year when I did my first show with them a year ago, which was a production called Bowing Bowing. And Time Mouth Priory is where you've just done Jack the Beanstalk as well, isn't it? That's right, yeah. So are these sort of all quite similar to the People's Theatre, where it's like sort of a venue that you can get involved with all sorts of things? You can do acting, but yeah other things as well. have you Have you been involved in any of the other aspects other than acting? I've thought about it, but i haven't really tried it too much there, mostly because I don't know if I'd be any good there. but
00:09:28
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I might be keen to learn some new skills, though. I've wondered as well. um I've looked through your spotlight and you've done quite a lot of like workshops and you know all sorts of casting workshops. You've done... that is it the but This is the one I was really interested in. Is it the Bader Northern
Stage Combat and Opportunities
00:09:46
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Forge?
00:09:46
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Is that how you say it? Bader Northern Forge? Oh, Badek. Badak, yeah Badak, oh, Badak, is it? Yeah. Oh, okay, I missed the C off the end. So you've done stage combat classes. have, yeah. it's um what Can you tell us what stage combat is first?
00:10:02
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Obviously, the name speaks for itself with fighting on stage there, but it's more of a course so you can understand how how to show the fights on stage to make them look convincing and just some of the skills that you learn for that there.
00:10:16
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yeah So I did three of the courses, which was organized through the Actors Forge. What sort of skills? Because it's different. so ah ah is it Do you say different weapons or is is it different types of weapons? And is it sort of hand-to-hand stuff as well? It's a bit of both there. So i've done I've done three courses with them there. So the first course was standard unarmed, which was your basic unarmed and single sword, which is little similar to a fencing sword, but it's quite different in some way.
00:10:44
Speaker
And then the second course I did was long sword and bow staff. And then the last one I did was advanced in arm, which was a bit more heavy with unarmed, including getting flipped over and tomahawk. So what goes into it? Because um of it like I've done karate classes, but karate classes, you're actually supposed to hit each other. I guess I imagine there's a lot around safety and...
00:11:07
Speaker
making something look convincing without actually hitting the other person. And like, what what sort of thing goes into that? Well, especially with the weapons there, you arch you are trying to use the right amount of force to make sure the hit looks convincing, but you're obviously still trying to pull back just at the right moment there. For example, with the long swords there. So we used actual metal swords in the actual exam that we took for them. Obviously, they weren't sharp or anything, so they couldn't do any damage. But still, if you get hit by them, it's going to be painful.
00:11:41
Speaker
So if you're in the middle of a strike there, so you're just like... right before you're there, making sure there's still enough impact when your sword hits the other blade. So the blades, so they they do connect, but it's just yeah obviously not with the force of someone wanting to kill the other person. Yeah. um And then, so, how have you have you applied that then in any other the projects you've been involved in? Have you used the stage combat?
00:12:08
Speaker
There have been one or two there. I remember doing one for a music video I did, but I was mostly just helping out a friend with that. But... I think that was part of the main reason I got cast in it there. The only other thing I remember using it for was um a project with Newcastle Film Club where I was playing a henchman in their film called Nails there. So I was just going to be in the background, but then they saw i had some stage combat skills. Those are right. You're going to be fighting in there. I mean, it's just, it seems quite handy. Like you've been to a lot a lot of other workshops. I guess that's just sort of a case of kind of building out yeah your repertoire of skills. How do you sort of seek those those things out? Do you have like a list of skills you've wanted to sort of achieve so you can present them to people? Or is it just sort of something that's come up quite naturally?
00:12:53
Speaker
It's probably come up naturally there. There are times where I do consider... getting certain skills for other projects there. An example might be, um take horse riding for example, if I wanted to try that for instance there.
00:13:05
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But other times they just come up there and just see what I feel like there. But I haven't really thought about you know the skills there. I just, if they're mentioned and if anyone's interested, they're like, okay, yeah, or maybe not, thanks.
00:13:18
Speaker
Just approaching and based on interest and i guess I guess what seems fun at the time. So I've noticed you'd been to quite a lot of casting workshops um based on your spotlight profile. I guess my hope my question sort of with those is,
00:13:32
Speaker
Because there's so many of them, like, are they similar or does it differ based on who's leading the workshop? What what sort of insight does sort of different casting directors bring to different workshops? It depends on what they specialize in, in regards to, like, genres, for instance. So, but they, sometimes they are the same there, but other times they just see what they can bring based on their own experiences, for instance. So one good example I can think of there was from the Ford casting workshop where Dan got in Ali Shainer, who was an known American casting director who actually lives over in the Northeast now. And she gave a session about how it would be in a real casting environment. And she just gave us a script extract there so we could just give it a go one way. And then obviously she would then give us notes and try it another way. I guess, what are we talking? So are we talking like full differences in the emotions of the scene or is it a case sir
00:14:24
Speaker
like notes on how you've given certain lines it can be a bit of both sometimes there just varies really i'm not the best at explaining all this i'm sorry no don't don't worry don't worry it's ah i feel like sometimes this is like the the the most kind of interested part of it because it's like some of this stuff seems so like inscrutable to me sometimes and it's like just getting as many different sort of perspectives on on on what people have taken from things uh is it's just like really useful and helpful to me. um So, I mean, have you have you sort of taken that stuff into into sort of cast in the casting process yourself? Well, I've tried to. Whether whether it comes out right there is because it can one way or the other, but that's the business for you. I guess, though, it's like nothing ever comes out 100%. That's where sort of creativity comes from, isn't it? It's like your own presentation of something you've been shown.
00:15:21
Speaker
Yeah, pretty much, yeah. Because obviously you'd think about how you want to do your own take on it there, but what you think it might go may not be the same as what they see it as there. um Could you tell me about Jack and the Beanstalk first? I guess Jack and the Beanstalk, but sort of being in a panto generally as well.
Theatrical Performances and Roles
00:15:39
Speaker
So you've just finished Jack and the Beanstalk with Tymeroth Priory.
00:15:44
Speaker
That were a couple of weeks ago you finished that. So, I mean, i mean how did it go? I feel as though went pretty well. but Both the last two shows were sellouts, which is always something. Doing a panto, obviously, it it does take a lot there, especially usually sometimes there's more rehearsals involved, just particularly when there's singing and dancing in there too.
00:16:03
Speaker
But more so more so for the ensemble work as well there, which, I mean, I was only in the ensemble, but still part of the show there. And it's just making sure you get the moves right. And you you're constantly smiling as well there. So...
00:16:17
Speaker
ah What's the ensemble, sorry? So the ensemble's just like the chorus in the background, just like the other people in the show. They're not the named characters, basically. That sort of thing always always looks like it takes a lot of energy. Oh, very much so, yeah. Especially some pantos there with other theatres. It's usually like for a full week there. But this one, it was eight shows spread over two weekends. We have one on a Friday, two on Saturday, yeah and with the rehearsals as well, they're usually are four days a week in time out. So Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sundays.
00:16:46
Speaker
But luckily for the first few bits until after Christmas, I was only needed on Fridays and Sundays. And then after that, it was just four days a week of going to time out for that. Oh, wow. Is there a difference in how you approach a panto versus something like the show you're working on now?
00:17:03
Speaker
um I'll let you say the name this time. Picasso de la Pantagile. Obviously, this one's still a comedy. I mean, it's Steve Martin, so you can expect it to be funny. And you're still it's still quite a bit over the top there. But with a pantomime, obviously, it's very over the top there. And you're all always' got and and you know the audience is there you because there's a lot of fourth wall breaking.
00:17:24
Speaker
Whereas with this, it's more like you just act like the audience isn't there usually. So you just got to still be over the top, but be conscious that the audience is not there. You just got to...
00:17:35
Speaker
do react with the characters who are on the stage with you. Some of the panel, it's like the audience is actively like participating in the show. Yeah, because the hence all the whole shouts like he's behind you. Yeah, yeah. um and I mean, I guess, can you just tell us a bit more about Picasso? I'll do it I'll do it. Picasso at the La Pâne Agile. So it's set in the La Pâne Agile, which is a bar in Paris, and the it's the year 1904, about a meeting between a young Picasso and Einstein,
00:18:03
Speaker
and coming across about what they define as geniuses and they're clashing over it but still defines them as geniuses because they're just yet to reach their goals there so Picasso hasn't got his masterpiece of an artwork just yet and Einstein hasn't published the theory of relativity yet. My character's called Schmendeman who is An American self-declared young inventor who thinks he's going to change the world with this invention all, but he's not really. He's basically a bit of an idiot. So pretty much describes Saul like the idiot inventor who's, even though he's hardworking, he's overshadowed by the work of Picasso and Einstein. Okay. It sounds like it's good fun to play. Yeah. And there's a lot of accents in it mostly French though, given where we're setting it. Oh, that that does make sense. Accents is something that you have quite ah quite a range with as well, isn't it?
00:18:51
Speaker
I do try to, though. Accents and impressions are kind of what helped when it's stuck when I looked into acting there. what what What do you mean by that, sorry? Usually when it comes to... I picked up quite a lot of accents and impressions there before I got back into acting there, which is kind of what helped...
00:19:04
Speaker
you look into it a bit more? Ah, okay. That's really interesting because I'm i'm kind of finding in this recently, like, as i've as I've built up a bit more confidence with acting classes and things, that, like, for years, me and my friend, we'd just do stupid accents at each other. But for ages when I started The Forge, I didn't dare do anything like that because I was like, well, that's just me being stupid, not real acting. But as my confidence has grown, I'm like, ah I really a enjoy just doing, like, sort of putting on a voice or something. now and well just do with that I mean for me for example when it comes to voice and impressions they Robin Williams has been one of my biggest inspirations when it comes to acting in general as well but he's just hilarious with everything he does as well
00:19:48
Speaker
ah You see, that's really interesting as well, because again, like as I've grown up, of of you know when people go, who's your favourite actor? And i'll I'll try and think of someone quite clever, but I was thinking about it the other day, and I like, you know, Jim Carrey's the person who, like as a kid, was like, that guy's an actor, and he's funny, and I like him. And I feel like Robin Williams, like I know that they're quite different performers, but I feel like they're of a similar era, and they're both doing quite... comedic things and and i don't know it's sort like almost like there's a kind of instinctual like love of them as opposed to when i when i get a bit older and i'm like i'm like i don't know i really like timothy shallamine his nuanced performance or whatever
00:20:29
Speaker
ah yeah Well, obviously, you're going to have new book actors to look up to and have inspiration for there. But you still look back and see about what got you into in the first place. And you still hold a place in them and see this is what I liked that back then. I still think they're great performers as well.
00:20:47
Speaker
Lastly, I kind of just want to ask you about, you know, things like ah music videos.
Music Videos and Musicals
00:20:52
Speaker
You've done quite a lot of music videos. is Is that just something that that comes up for you? Sometimes, yes. So the first one I did, I was helping a friend out there, and because mostly because of my stage combat skills that I helped out with.
00:21:05
Speaker
Then I did another one with a film company I'd worked with before, which... Really fun day. spent all day covered in fake blood. they're nice. That was an interesting experience. And then I did another one for a challenge with the Newcastle Film Club. And as a matter of fact, I'm filming one on Saturday.
00:21:20
Speaker
oh wow. Okay. Is it like sort of music you're interested in or is it just things that that come up? Mostly just things that come up there. If you like the music, that's fine there, but you'll just see what it comes up there. Yeah. I also wanted to ask about musicals because musicals you've been in, have you been in multiple musicals?
00:21:39
Speaker
I'd love to be in multiple there. And the only one I've done so far was Footloose. That's right, yeah. um And also just because I bumped into you the other week. ah ah Well, no, it wasn't the other week. It was about three months ago. ah Oh, my God, I forgot what we're called. Miss Sego. And you mentioned when I asked you about it, you said you love musicals. So musicals are a big, big thing for you then.
00:22:02
Speaker
Very much, yeah. And... Again, that's another thing where it's like you need quite a lot of additional skills. So there's there's things like singing, dancing. Are there things that you were already, i mean, first of all, are there things that you use? And then are the things that you were already familiar with or have you tried to develop those in order to to pursue those things?
00:22:24
Speaker
Well, the singing, would definitely had it there, but i I feel like I've improved it a bit more in regards to it. So it kind of helps with that there. Dancing, I'm quick to pick up choreography, but whether it looks good is another question, though.
00:22:36
Speaker
But it's still something that I have and try and do. How does choreography, ah I know how choreography works, but how does how does it sort of work in practice and being sort of taught a routine? Is it someone demonstrates it and you...
00:22:50
Speaker
It's more of a case of we have a choreographer who like teaches us the moves then. we just They take walk us through it first and just step by step. And then eventually when we do add the music to it. So it kind of just picks it up there. And then sometimes they even do videos of it as well. So we can just refresh ourselves. So eventually it'll become muscle memory.
00:23:11
Speaker
Okay, right. And ah how how long does it take you to sort a to get into the the muscle memory? Depends on how many times ah I get it. I try and practice it and depends on when I'm needed for. Because depending on the rehearsals for musicals, they can take up some days there. I mean, Footloose was only twice a week when I did it. It wasn't too bad. It just depends on the rehearsals, if it was a singing rehearsal or a dancing rehearsal, because they do change from time to time. If it was a dance rehearsal, so sometimes it does stick with you and then you make sure you stick with it because maybe the next rehearsal is not a dance one, but then obviously there'll still be videos out there. So, OK, go back to this, go back to this. and
00:23:48
Speaker
But by the time the show comes, yeah it's already in your head there. I mean, does does the sort of muscle memory work a little bit differently to like line like learning lines? um or Or do you consider learning lines to be a kind of muscle memory as well?
00:24:02
Speaker
Line learning comes, it's a bit more memory because people have their own techniques of how they but learn lines there. And whatever works for them will work for them. of the do Do you have any particular techniques you'd like to share with? your learning The only thing I do when it comes to line line learning is the fact that I pick a section of a script there and I go through that a few times and then make sure that sticks. And then when I know it's stuck, I then move on to the next section and so on and so forth.
00:24:31
Speaker
I've just found it effective because obviously, especially ah if there's like a monologue, like a massive chunk of dialogue there and you're like, oh God, how am I going to remember this? Then I'm just like, okay, I'll do all this first and then I'll see about that one day.
00:24:43
Speaker
Before we move on, I'm going to ask you about, um do you have any like advice you'd offer to people who ah who are maybe either starting up with acting or they've had an interest in acting?
Advice for Aspiring Actors
00:24:56
Speaker
ah Maybe they've been doing something like the Actors Forge, but maybe are looking to kind of push themselves a little bit further, seek opportunities outside of the Actors Forge or whatever class they may be part of. I would just say if you feel as though you want to branch out, go for it there. But it's a case of knowing knowing where to look as well. So try and network with other people as best as you can. So other actors who who have worked with certain people, they can see if I can help you get in touch with them, get their details, and then put yourself forward to them.
00:25:25
Speaker
and For instance, just say who you are. you you're bait You're an actor looking to try some new material there. And if you said they can send them over the details and then they can probably put you on their books or get in touch with them, see about what you want to do with them. Are there any particular steps you you took that were particularly helpful for you?
00:25:43
Speaker
Well, I came across ah one company called Terabithia Pictures there who I've worked with a few times. um I just dropped them an email just to say I was interested in working on any projects with them. They just then saved that my details to that you to their email and then put them on their books there.
00:25:59
Speaker
And so they can, if they wanted to and thought I was good for a part, they would email me for a self-tape request, which I would do and then see what what happened from there. But the same came about with the Newcastle Film Club as well. I just came across them and thought might be a good way to see about your joining and seeing being part of another community. So that's a good way to know because there's always like directors and scriptwriters there so you can join with them and see if they've got any projects outside of it as well. So um I guess just to wrap up the conversation, I usually end by talking about a film or TV show or another piece of media that my guest is, ah that means something to my guest or that is their favorite.
Favorite Films and Influences
00:26:43
Speaker
Usually they tell me in advance, ah but but you've you've been quite mysterious. that and i'm I'm so curious to to know what you're going to...
00:26:51
Speaker
ah What are going to talk about? Well, be honest, ah ah there's so many films that I do love there. I'm bit of a nerd. I'm into my nerd culture there. So I would definitely say ah Star Wars and Lord of the Rings are very much up there.
00:27:04
Speaker
Another personal favourite of mine, which doesn't really fit that culture, but is always is hot for us. That is a definite favourite of mine there. I mentioned Robin Williams as well. that Mrs. Doubtfire is definitely up there. I can ah just love the interview bit there where he does all the voices. I can actually do that myself now, which I can demonstrate if you want.
00:27:22
Speaker
Oh, yes. You know, I always think it's rude to ask for demonstrations on my podcast, but I definitely want them where where I can get Well, I do voices.
00:27:32
Speaker
Yes! The communist plan looking for intelligent life. Oops, made a mistake. Oh, happy to be in America. Don't ask for green card. I want you in the worst way. It's certainly rough me and it's not looking too well for her either.
00:27:43
Speaker
Hey boss, give a chance. Go and loosen up any minute. Look at me right now, Moneypenny. I'll undo that boy and get to know you. I'm crazy make a deal with you! Nancy and I are still looking for the other half my head. Just in there. I'm sitting on a cold mine.
00:27:57
Speaker
Don't make me smack sweetheart. do it. Here you go. I don't want impersonation of a hot dog. Wow, that was I found that's been a popular one recently. Any any any particular reason or it's just a... It's just come up there, really, there. Plus the stage show's coming up here as well. And I saw it in London last year and it's fantastic. I have not watched Mrs. Doubtfire since I was a child. you know, like, you know when you just remember certain films that were just always, always on and then suddenly you're like, wow, I've not watched that year.
00:28:29
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uh but you know i'm not it's possible that i never even sat and watched the entire thing all all the way through but i saw all the bits because it was just on in my house and my friend's houses so often when i were a kid so you mentioned lord of the rings as well though those are films that uh i don't know i've i've actually just been watching through them for the first proper time in these last few weeks Sometimes that happens with lot of people.
00:28:53
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Although, are you doing theatrical or or extended edition? I'm just theatrical. They're so long. They're so long. That's fair enough. I'd say starved theatrical, and then if you want, move to the extended. Yeah.
00:29:05
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little Little fact as well. i The Tyneside Cinema, every bank holiday in May, they do a marathon of the whole trilogy extended editions, which I've done twice.
00:29:17
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Twice. How long is that? that so that must be That must be a good 12 hour. eleven Because it starts at about 11 and then there's half hour breaks in between each film there.
00:29:28
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Oh, wow. I did. Yeah. um But no, I'm really like, I'm so enjoying Lord of the Rings. ah i did watch. I did watch the first one when I were a kid. my granddad used to go to a club and he'd buy dodgy copied videos off of someone who worked there and had loads in her suitcase. So when Lord of the Rings, the Fellowship of the Ring came out, he got us that and a bunch of my friends came around and we watched it. But then we all fell asleep. and And so we're like, oh, I don't really want to watch Lord of the Rings. And now, 25 years later, I watched it um around...
00:30:05
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New Year's Day-ish. And I was like, this is an amazing film. I loved it so much. much It's so weird watching something like the Helm's Deep fight, because there's so many huge fantasy battles in Game of Thrones and things now, but just to sort of see something like that and be like, none of that stuff existed back then. and like And c CGI was still relatively new back then as well, it made it look so so good as well, though.
00:30:34
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Yeah, that's like the other thing. Everything just looked completely perfect and and and real, and Like, it's it's, like, yeah, just properly impressive impressive filmmaking. Yeah, I'm sure I'll watch the extended extended editions one day. They're just the're so long. They're so long. oh One day, yeah. One day. One day. um and And, you know, of
Star Wars Discussion
00:31:01
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course, star Wars. You know, you know star wars Star Wars is great. Everyone loves Star Wars. No, I...
00:31:08
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Okay, i will ask just before just before just before we end. I mean, are you like a star was Star Wars in general kind of person or a Star Wars films kind of person? yeah Are you sick of Star Wars TV shows like I am?
00:31:24
Speaker
I'm just a Star Wars person. that I enjoy the films. that um And I've joined some of the series there. I mean Clone Wars... perfect there. i got I got through Rebels there. Wasn't too fussed about the Bad Batch. I did enjoy at least the first two seasons of The Mandalorian. I was one of those people that liked the cano both the Kenobi show and Ahsoka. Nice. I actually really enjoyed I've not watched Ahsoka because I've not got all the way through Clone Wars. Not because I quite enjoyed it. There were just a lot it.
00:31:50
Speaker
Oh yeah. i mean, seven seasons worth for Clone Wars. I got through Andor as well. but that That's a good series there. I've heard Andor's really good. I keep meaning to watch that There's a cup with somebody who was in the cast of it who found out that I went to school with her. Do you not want to ah sent send some emails, you know, cashing on the... She won't remember me. Okay, i'm fair. um But the Obi-Wan Kenobi series, i really they liked i know like it. It got, like, a terrible refut reputation, hadn't it? But I just...
00:32:18
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Like, the prequels were coming out when I was a kid, and it was just nice. was nice to see Ewan McGregor again. I grew up with the prequels too, so. don't know. Like, i don't care that much when people are like, you know, Obi-Wan and Darth Vader fight, and then there's that line in New Hope where it's like, oh, last time I saw you. with an um i'm just looked don't like People don't like retcons or anything like that.
00:32:43
Speaker
yeah just i don't know you gotta have them fight you gotta have them fight if they're in a series together exactly and i know this year but there's going to be a new darth moore series because darth moore's one of my favorite characters in star wars Oh, nice. That'll be cool, yeah. ah Because I know he's Clone Wars quite a bit as well, isn't he?
00:33:01
Speaker
From Season 4, yeah. From Season 4, is it? that's the stuff This is the thing with Clone Wars. I will quite and ah quite enjoy the early ones, but I'm like watching it really like, I can't wait to get to the Darth Maul stuff.
00:33:14
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Then Season 2 of Ahsoka is also coming out this year, but obviously you're going to have to wait for that. We'll see you finish Oh, yeah. Yeah, I've got a watch Ahsoka and possibly Clone Wars. Can I watch Ahsoka without having watched Clone Wars? You possibly can, yeah. Also, ah give the original Clone Wars a go as well. they're The 2D one, which came up but in between episodes two and three. That's a good one.
00:33:35
Speaker
I loved that when I were a kid because i watched them on Cartoon Network. You know, I'd watch like Dragon Ball Z, but it were like they'd put them on for five minutes before episodes of Dragon Ball Z and all sorts. And I probably loved them. I even had the DVD of like the full, like all cut together as one thing. Yeah. And then they did that for the, they made the second one volume ah just a little longer. So like 15 minutes long. And that was supposed to lead right into Revenge of the Sith.
00:33:59
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Yeah, that led right into it, didn't it? Yeah. And then did they redo it? Like then the CGI Clone Wars does a different leading or something, doesn't it? Yeah, is a different leading. But there's elements of that in it there. So that you know it's kind of retconned, but not too much.
00:34:14
Speaker
Like it seems interesting because I'm definitely like, I've heard that that last series of Clone Wars is really good because that would have been after Rebels and everything, wasn't it? Yeah, especially especially the last four episodes of the final season, because they tie in with and coincide with with Revenge of the Sith.
00:34:30
Speaker
I mean, I've even considered just skipping to that last series, but i want I want to see the Darth Maul stuff. Well, how far are you, first of all? probably About halfway through season two. Okay, so you've still got a bit to do. it's Season 3, second half of Series 3 is when it starts to get more interesting there. like Because it's weird, because I don't really want to skip anything, because I do generally think that individual episodes are good. It's just there's so many of them that it's hard to to keep watching individual 20-minute things. And there's a lot of story arcs as well, because some like going over for other episodes.
00:35:03
Speaker
There is. I've watched... This is in Series 2, innit? I've watched an episode about... Basically Obi-Wan's girlfriend. Satine. Yeah. Yeah, so that you're welcome to introduce to the whole Mandalorian culture as well there.
00:35:16
Speaker
Ah, right, that were it. Yes, yes, it has been. Yeah.
00:35:22
Speaker
Yeah, ah okay. maybe Maybe I'll go back to it. I need to get Disney+. plus I don't currently have Disney+. Fair enough. But, ah yeah, okay. Well, I guess we'll wrap up there unless you have any other quick quick Star Wars things you want to want to fire out there.
00:35:39
Speaker
No, I'm all good. Thanks. Okay. ah Yeah, so I guess I usually just end the show by asking if you can tell us where we can find you and if there's anything you'd like to plug. Well, I'm on socials there if you want to find me there.
00:35:53
Speaker
It's Master Pages, isn't it? That's right, yeah. Yeah, at Master Pages on Instagram. um I guess you've got your show, Picasso at the lapi La Pan Agile coming up in March. Yeah. um Okay, no, great. and Well, thank you for thank you for talking to me. I really appreciate it, and I'll see later.
00:36:10
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that me, Ryan? Yeah. What Makes You Tick is hosted, produced and edited by me, Brian Watson. Thank you to Adam Sams for the brand new theme music and to Craig Pearson for the show logo. Thanks again to Ollie for speaking to me for this episode. The next episode of What Makes You Tick will be available on Wednesday, the 1st of April. And keep an eye on at What Makes You Tick pod on Instagram weekly preview. Thanks for listening.