Anna Maxwell Martin - Ant & Dec’s Leading Lady!

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2:00What's this? What's this?

2:02Ant McPartlin:It's a pill. It's not this. What? This. My tea. Where's mine? I brought that in. Hello, sorry if you just listened, I've got a cup of tea on the table and seems very perturbed by the fact I've got a cup of tea. Well, I'm parched. I don't have a cup. I don't have a coffee or water or anything. I thought you had a coffee. yeah it's not in a branded cup is that what you got told yeah because it's not in a branded cup we're not allowed to drink it what so you have to drink all your drinks now have branded cups apparently so oh gosh so we've all got no more branded cups we do have cups can't you just sip it out of a sippy cardboard cup apparently not because it's not branded it's not it's not on brand it's not hanging out with Ant and Dec so I'm not allowed it apparently see you're doing such a good job job you've got you've got to be on brand it's all about and nobody moves to get me anything nothing happens and nothing happens wonderful can i just welcome the listeners and the viewers yeah you can if you want hi everybody welcome back to the hangout for another hanging out with him and me and we are on the air um it's great to be back with you again this uh bonus episode hi ed you got he's got a branded cup you've got a branded cup so we just need to do this sorry to you will get the podcast in a second, but I am podged.

3:22But first, I need a coffee.

3:25Ant McPartlin:Branded cup. I bet I've got a branded cup and a coffee. Now I'm happy. Are you happy? Uh-huh. How are you? I'm okay. How are you? I'm good, thank you. I'm intrigued as to why we've got a third microphone. Sorry, I couldn't make a barbecue at the weekend. Yes. Sorry about that. That's a shame. I had a barbecue at the weekend and didn't come. I didn't come. I went up to Newcastle. I did invite you. I know you did. I didn't invite you. I'm not saying it sarcastically. Well, it sounded sarcastic. Well, how else do you say that? Sorry, I didn't call you barbecue on Sunday. I did it. Yeah, you did. I did it.

3:59That's in the mind of the listener, that is. It wasn't in the mind of the speaker. Right. There's a third microphone.

4:05Ant McPartlin:There's a third microphone. Let's get down to that. I can declare I do not know why there is a third microphone here today. Don't you? No. Well, I can declare I don't know either why there's a third microphone here today. The plot thickens The mystery deepens Anybody? Heckler's Corner We know You know We know Heckler's Corner Knows Yeah We arranged for this guest We wanted You know a while ago We were talking about Your film scripts Yes Yes And we mentioned A leading lady Yes Yes We've gone out And we've got you A leading lady Amazing Wow Right well We'll just wait For the door to go We'll just wait For the I'm excited I'm excited Come over here Come over here You get it, you get it, you get it I'm too embarrassed, you get it, you get it You get it, you get it No, I just shout, come in No, no, you get it, get it, get it Come in Well, that's a combo cut out of deck Come on in, deck Oh, it's Anna Maxwell Martin You're good What a treat, this is lovely How are you?

5:15That's my face as a trophy

5:17Ant McPartlin:For those of you just listening, Anna's now checking out the shelves, having a little look around. Case in the joint, seeing what she can steal. Do you like that? We had it on a series of Saturday Night Takeaway years ago. Oh, is this you? Yeah, can't you tell by the big forehead? You've got a nice little... Pixie nose. Pixie nose, yeah. Thank you for coming. This is a nice surprise. This is a nice surprise. Yeah, it is. It is a nice surprise. It's always a lovely surprise. For those of you that don't know, Anna was on the last series of Saturday Night Takeaway with us. Yes, when it ended. You were, yeah.

5:52Ant McPartlin:It wasn't your fault. You didn't get us cancelled. But Anna was a star guest announcer for us. Yes. We had a fantastic night. And you played Read My Lips, where we come down and you had to put the headphones on. Oh, God, yeah, I shrieked my way through that. I freaked my way through everything. I remember you being very excited. I am very excitable. Oh, yeah, yeah. I feel like, because I didn't expect it, and I was thrilled. No, do you know, when I did Would I Lie to You? I got so, I was with Lee Mack. He's funny, isn't he? Really funny, yeah. I was like, the whole time. My crotch was sodden when I was, honestly.

6:33I got just like, I've got to chill. Yeah. Calm down.

6:44Ant McPartlin:I kept receiving a play. Which one? You and James Corden. Oh, the constituent. Yes. Yeah, we had a good laugh on that. Did you? Yeah, James is a laugh. Yeah. He keeps everyone really jolly. Yeah. He loves work. He's good energy, isn't he? Yeah, he wouldn't let anyone moan about, ooh, can't be able to do it tonight. He'd be like, no, no, fuck up. Yeah. It's true though. I love work. Yeah. I love work. Yeah. I love work. We're very lucky to be in a career where we love going to work, aren't we? Yeah, we really, really are. That's why I really don't moan about it. I'm like, I really love my job. I'm so lucky to be doing my job.

7:17What age did you start acting? I was singing first. So like I, I'm not, obviously not at the level you two were. You couldn't really call it singing. Yeah, come on. I had my own album out, actually. Did you? In the shops. Yeah. I didn't think you two had an album. Three? We had three? What? I can't even believe it. Well, four of you count the greatest hits. You had four albums? Yeah. God, in my mind, you only did one song. Yeah, I know. In most people's minds, we've only done one song.

7:47Ant McPartlin:We'll send you them if you want. Do you want us to send you them? Oh, please. We'll send you the greatest hits on CD. I'm going to do a little video for each one. Like I'm in the video. Do you do that game in the car when you pretend you're in a video and it's that song? I make myself cry in the car. Yeah, you know, you really pretend like you're in a really bad place and you're listening to the song. I love it. It's one of my favourite games. My friend Charlotte and I both play it. And actually my friend Neil and I both play it together at parties. that is I mean that is as an actor to be able to do that anyway it's actually difficult it's way more difficult you try and play that next time at a party or a barbecue you two together you won't stay you won't not laugh I'll give you five seconds if it's a serious song you have to take it really seriously you'll laugh within five seconds you won't be able to sustain no way it's a very difficult game very difficult game to cry more difficult than football no not to cry not to laugh oh okay right you've got to stay in it yeah We did quite a lot of pop videos because we had more than one record.

8:47Yeah, but that's just you two jumping around in tracksuits, wasn't it? Well, we had a couple of ballads where we had to stand at windows. Oh, no! We did. And then the rain would come down on the outside and we would kind of, no? No. Have you ever done Who Do You Think They Are? No, no, it did happen. You said no, like it didn't happen. I'll tell you, it did happen. When I say no, I mean, I couldn't. I couldn't look out of a window. You could. I couldn't. I couldn't. I couldn't. On Who Do You Think They Are? Me and Diane were talking about this. They do say, oh, just have a little think about what you've heard.

9:18I never think about anything. Do you think about that? You're 88, do you, aren't you? I don't think about that. No, nothing. There's nothing coming through. No, really. So they go, right, just think about what you've just heard there. There's quite a lot. And I'm like, I'm not thinking about anything. I'm just not thinking about anything. They just try to think about something. And look out to the sea.

9:41I can't, I can't. I can't. I was like, I can't, I can't look out. I can't look out. Please, guys. They went, please, we're going to put the characters to do it for half a second. Just look out.

9:54I can't look through a window. I can't look out to see.

9:58Ant McPartlin:I could just do it a lot. But if you had that in your script saying Anna looks out or Patricia or whoever your character is looks out to see contemplatively. I could do it. There you go. Right, okay. Your character can do it but you can't. No way Anna could look out to see. My daughters are older now and I was talking about starting off in Biker Grove and acting and stuff. She said, I can't imagine you as an actor. I was like, why? She said, well, could you cry? I was like, well, yeah, I'm sure I probably could. I said, we'd have to give it a good going Biker Grove when I was like 15. I said, so I'd have to try.

10:27What were you crying about on Biker Grove? I cried a lot of things. Look at the ocean. Look at the ocean and cry. What were you crying about? Look at the wind and cry.

10:35Ant McPartlin:I was crying because I was addicted to our kid machines. That's not funny. Well, that would have been funny if you were crying whilst on the arcade machine. I got caught stealing money to fund my arcade addiction. Dressed as a teenage mutant here at Earl. Oh, I tell you what, I did see recently, I saw you on the assembly on ITV. Oh, yes. And apparently you said you had a crush on him. Yeah. On Declan. I want to clarify. Yeah, please do. I was really clutching. It wasn't that when you were addicted to arcade machines. I was clutching. Right, okay. because they said tell us a secret they said tell us a secret my mind my mind it was like a white a white sheet went yeah I thought I can't say I'm a klepto I although you did did I didn't you did I talk about shoplifting yeah oh he said I've got no the problem is I've got no filters I've got no recollections of things that have happened I can't I'm having no thoughts.

11:40I'm just like a goldfish. Ding, ding, ding, like that going around. So I was, I just plucked something out of the air. I'm sorry. I couldn't think. So I just said that. I thought it was something that's...

11:52Ant McPartlin:Is it special? How special do you feel now? It's charming. I'm about to show you how easy it is to cry on camera.

12:00He seems to be swallowing a lot.

12:03Ant McPartlin:That's very good. Your throat goes tight. I think to cry you just have to don't you do that really widen your balls

12:17I'm trying that it's not working on my eyeballs oh I get it now listen the thing is lads when I was at school I went into the careers room yes pretty similar to you so they went what do you want to do Ant and Debbie what do you want to be singers so they went I went in and said what do you want to do Anna I want to be an actor. And I went, right, let's think of something more sensible for you. So you have to do your work experience, don't you? Yes. So I thought, well, I'll go and do archaeology. Did you? Did you? Oh, my God. Was it amazing? Oh, my God. By the look on your feet. The first night I cried.

12:53I got in the bath of SoCo. I went, Mummy, I can't go back. My mum is hardcore. She was like, you're going back. Did you go to a site then? I went to a site. I did. But all you do, honestly, have you ever done any of this? I'd love to. You wouldn't love. Right, you go like this, you're like this.

13:12But for those of you just listening. That's all you're doing all day. And I'm slowly moving a finger across the desk. You're moving, you're looking for tiny fragments of nothing. You're just very slowly going through the dust. Well, it's not dust in Beverly Hills. With a brush, a little brush. A brush or a thing. And then you go into the shed and you have your cup of tea. They've all got Leveller's t-shirts on and you're so frightened. I'm so scared to be like that. I'm sure this won't be the experience for everybody because they'll be in the different bands now, right? Yeah. They don't all love the levelers, right?

13:47Ant McPartlin:Levelers aren't even together anymore. No, they're not. They're not. There'll be different bands around. When you were doing your rocker, did Tony Robbins did not even turn up? No. Oh, God. God, he was big news then, wasn't he? Yeah, he was. Time team. Time team. Time team. God, that was the biggest show on TV. That was. It was. that was a cool thing I think in my opinion that was a cool thing to do for work experience what did you do for yours? I worked at HMV front of house chatting with everyone no not really selling CDs back in the stocking room in the stocking room yeah and I was in Biker Grove at the time so I was I was acting in Biker Grove that's why they had to keep in stock room because the girls would have gone mad maybe front of house I never thought of that what did you do Ant?

14:29I worked well I was on Biker Grove and so they wouldn't give me days off because I was filming. So when I had an afternoon free, I would go into the office and photocopy the script.

14:39Ant McPartlin:We were working from when we were 13 years old. Is it from 13? Yeah. Wow. It was brilliant though. But we still had to go and do work experience to take a box, I think. Do you ever get bored on sets? No. Kids, sometimes they get really bored, don't they? When you're on a kid's show and you've got loads of other kids around. Oh, two mates. Yeah. We'd get bored on set because we had more fun in the green room because we had a pool table. So we loved being in the green room. Yeah. And then if we weren't on set or in the green room, then you would have to do, if you're under 16, you had to do schoolwork upstairs.

15:09Did you meet on Biker Grove? Yeah. How soon did you fall in love? Was it like the first day? No, it wasn't actually. We weren't in scenes together for a good few months. And then it wasn't until our characters were friends in Biker Grove that we kind of hung out together. And let's get ready to rumble. Our first date was a Newcastle United game. Right. So we went to see Newcastle together. Okay. And we hit it off. Can we talk about Motherland? Yeah. Did you love doing it? I loved it.

15:40Ant McPartlin:It was so good. I love them. I love them. Oh my God, I love them all. They're so funny. Yeah. We're all sort of comedy in different ways, but I tell you, so funny. Paul Reddy. It's so, so, so funny. Like 12 hours a day, me and I, be like, sweaty crotch. Really? Stop it, Paul. Stop it, Paul. Paul. Not again. He is very funny. Really? Yeah, they all are. It's brilliant. Oh, it's brilliant. It's such a good show. There is nothing better, though, than coming to work and just knowing that you're just in for a laugh all day. All day. I think I approach every job like that. Do you? Yeah. Yeah, we tend to, though.

16:23I want 12 hours of having a laugh. But even when you do something like Line of Duty,

16:28Ant McPartlin:because I think that was... Oh, I don't write a laugh. Did you? Yes! Because you never smiled in it once, did you? Because your character in it was kind of a badass. Yeah, and I've just played the worst badass in this show I've just done. She tortures people. She's a terrible, terrible Russian KGB operative. Is this Star City? Yes. So I've seen the trailer. Yeah, it's really good. I really never say that. It's actually quite good. But it looks right on my street. I like everything about it. I like Soviet spies. I like the space race. It's epic, Anne. I can't tell you. Yeah, you're like, whoa, oh, oh my God.

17:06Yeah, it's great.

17:07Ant McPartlin:So for anybody that hasn't seen the trailer like Anne has, can you give us a little tiny... And me. Can you give us a little synopsis of what it is about? It's set in 1969. It's behind the Iron Curtain in Russia. And it's about, it's set in a sort of space hub, space station. And they want to be, the Russians want to be the first to do everything. So it's an alternative telling of the first person landing on the moon. and that happens for Russia rather than the United States. And then it's all the machinations after that. So at the Space Centre, there's massive intelligence, KGB listening in. You know, it's a very dangerous place to be.