Tuning in…
Tuning in…
Castaway
1 appearance
Actor known for cockney hardman film roles and as EastEnders' Mick Carter, also for viral political commentary.
On the island
Eight records
I love this tune anyway, and it's a part of my rival's journey, which is where I find myself at this very moment.
It just reminds me of masculinity and my dad who might sort of nod his nut to a tune.
It reminds me of my mum and dad sort of splitting up... it just reminds me of her and her strength as a matriarch and a beautiful woman.
I sort of discovered this in the 90s... it was me fantasizing about a bigger world out there. I feel like I can achieve something.
Playing With KnivesFavourite
This is a tune that takes me back to a time of freedom and hedonism... just raving until the sun came up.
Oasis came along... this is the greatest rock and roll tune that has ever been written. It got a whole generation of working class people into guitar music again.
It's a story of a frustrated straight male that just wants to dress up and dance. Something I'm probably most proud of out of all the stuff I've done.
It was mine and Joe's wedding tune... we're still very much in love.
In conversation
Presenter asks
2:15The critics gave you raves across the boards. What did that feel like?
What did that feel like? Look, listen, I'm always grateful to be working. … So Dominique Treadwell Collins … offered me the part … I said, just sum the character up for me … and he said, well, he's a teddy bear with a bite. I thought, I'm in.
Presenter asks
6:44When you think back to your childhood, what do you remember?
Well, there was love … my dad left when I was nine … I was brought up by very strong matriarchs that swore a lot … A lot of danger in the air … the masculinity thing … I had a lot of love … There was eighteen months between me and my brother … He didn't like football and sport. He liked playing with girls and playing hopscotch and skipping.
Presenter asks
12:39Your parents split up when you were nine. What happened?
My dad was painting somebody's house in Paddington and he had an affair with this woman … He basically was flitting between two families … for about three years he was running two families … he's one of the best actors I've ever seen … how on earth did he do that? … My mum found out 'cause the person he was having the affair with knew about my mum and stuff so she rang up and told her. … I remember my mum sort of collapsing on the floors on the phone land line back in the day with my sister in her arms and me and my brother sort of going, Oh, wow, this is heavy.
The keepsakes
The book
Ray Mears
Yeah, I think that would be the move, wouldn't it? Just because, you know, sometimes I need some sort of reference of what I can eat mushroom-wise.
The luxury
it would be a Lego of the Millennium Falcon. I'm sure it has probably about six, seven thousand pieces. So I'm quite good with mindfulness and I need that.
Presenter asks
18:29You didn't enjoy school much, but there was one class that proved to be life changing, drama with Miss Flynn. What did you love about it?
I just felt I found it so easy. I couldn't believe other people couldn't do it. English, I was rubbish at maths don't even go there. Science, I couldn't understand sociology … I just loved it so much. I felt I came alive in that class.
Presenter asks
33:01Harold Pinter died in 2008. How did that affect you?
I hadn't spoken to [him] in a while. I did go off the rails for many years … I found out by looking on the front of a newspaper … pinter dead. … this really sent me on a spiral of madness … guilt … of not being around him anymore … Just being lost in I was a bit of a lost soul, really, I think, and again, angry at the world.
Presenter asks
37:29You had therapy for the first time. What made you decide to go to rehab then?
Do you know what weirdly, I think it was after the NTA's … I was sitting in my toilet on a en suite … I looked up and I looked at my wife. And I could just see how tired she looked … Kids running around … I need to sort of have a think about addiction … as it affects so many people around you, it's not just yourself.
“I think what I've managed to do, or what the show's managed to do, is make kindness in a man sexy, which I don't think's been a thing for a long time.”
“I thought there's a bit of elitism within our industry.”
“I'll tell you what it was about the masculinity with well I felt that masculinity you're not allowed to be affectionate. My granddad … really affectionate with kids. … I went, oh you can be masculine and affectionate.”
“I looked up and I looked at my wife. And I could just see how tired she looked, and I could hear kids running around … I need to sort of have a think about addiction … as it affects so many people around you, it's not just yourself.”