The Rest Is Entertainment - Fake Drugs, TV Babies and Hulk Hogan

Episode Date: March 28, 2024

How does Call The Midwife source their newborns, and on-set, what do actors really put up their nose when filming scenes with drugs? And we've be taken in by Hulk Hogan, a correction is needed. Your q...uestions (and answers) on this episode of The Rest Is Entertainment. Twitter: @restisents Email: therestisentertainment@gmail.com Producer: Neil Fearn Executive Producers: Tony Pastor + Jack Davenport 🌏 Get our exclusive NordVPN deal here ➼ https://nordvpn.com/trie It’s risk-free with Nord’s 30-day money-back guarantee! ✅ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Introducing Tim's new Savory Pinwheels, the perfect flaky and flavorful snack for those on the go, like me, who's recording this while snacking. Delicious. Try the roasted red pepper and Swiss or caramelized onion and Parmesan pinwheels only at Tim's. At participating restaurants in Canada for a limited time. Hello and welcome to another edition of the Restors Entertainment Questions Edition. Questions and Answers Edition. Hello, I'm Richard Osmond. And I'm Marina Hyde. How are you? Yeah, I'm alright. I'm still in Manchester filming House of Games, so we're still a long way apart.
Starting point is 00:00:34 I can see you on a screen. We're parted and not happy about it, quite frankly. Next week we'll be back where we belong. Can I start with Amaya Culper from any other business? I would love you to. Last week when we were talking about Meghan's new brand and Gwyneth Paltrow's brand and brand slaps and things, I was talking about Hulk Hogan was originally offered the George Foreman grill and turned it down. And Colin Kelly says, in regards to Richard's passing
Starting point is 00:01:01 comment that Hulk Hogan was the original name attached to the George Foreman grill, it appears that unfortunately Richard has fallen for one of the Hulkster's notorious lies. Other falsehoods include the wrestler director Darren Aronofsky offered him the lead role multiple times. Hogan said he turned it down as he didn't deserve it. Aronofsky has said Hogan was never even considered. That he partied with John Belushi after WrestleMania in 1986. John Belushi died in 1982. He said he wrestled 400 days in one year since he traveled so much between Japan and the USA.
Starting point is 00:01:34 Adding up the time differences made it possible according to Hulk Hogan, but absolute nonsense. So Hogan, listen, that's okay. You're allowed to lie, but oh, he got me. He got me Marina. Yeah, you can't bend time. I tell you what, it would have been different in the ring. He was always scared to face me. It was terrifying to face you, you were getting the better plot lines off Vince McMahon, you
Starting point is 00:01:53 see, so he felt that you could never, yeah, he would never have faced you in that. Can I ask you a question, Marina, please? Well, it's not me who's going to ask, it's Mary Sampson, thank you Mary.. Mary says, I've been binge watching the fallback catalog of Call the Midwife on iPlayer, and it's got me wondering, where are they getting their supply of newborn babies from? Is that something you can answer? Do they get paid? How do they source them? Do they spray them with red goo? Mary asked to give them that newborn look.
Starting point is 00:02:22 Mary, this is very good. The sourcing of newborn babies for Call the Midwife is a big thing because they need a huge number of them per series. And they have to be newborns because of the nature of the show. There are specialist talent agencies that deal with this, but there's one particular one which is called JAM2000. And they really, I think, provide so many TV babies and TV newborns. To be a TV newborn, in our country you can start working as long as you've got the paperwork
Starting point is 00:02:52 within a few hours of your birth, which is quite interesting. In America, I think you have to wait 15 days. I was speaking to someone about this. But you know that thing that people tell you, the camera adds 10 pounds. This is even true for babies. No way. What they want is small newborns because otherwise the camera apparently adds quite a lot of pounds even to a baby that probably weighs a lot less than 10 pounds. So they look for sort of two day olds, four day olds, that's where a lot of the babies in Call the Midwife are.
Starting point is 00:03:20 And what they want is that the agencies, particularly because they think it's helpful is twins because then they are normally smaller. And also twins is great because you get to have double work. They can only work for 15 minutes at a time, the babies. And they're the biggest divas. They're joking. The people who've worked with them joke about it, saying, the baby's like everything gets ready in the scene.
Starting point is 00:03:40 They rehearse with something called a jelly baby, which is a silicon model of a baby. So the actual real life baby goes in at the very last minute, does 15 minutes work, bit like sort of Liz Taylor in the heyday, then goes away. And there's a chaperone always on set to check that the mother and the baby are not being exploited in any way. Sometimes you've got a really good baby and the woman who runs the agency, I read an interview with her, and she said that sometimes you've got to get a baby and it's a really good baby but then that will just be the day that it has a meltdown and there's nothing you can
Starting point is 00:04:10 do about it. They now have robot babies, animatronic babies. Animatronic babies obviously are great because they can work as long as you like and they don't have any labour laws protecting them but you do need a crew to operate them. They're really expensive. You are seeing more way robot babies, but your production is going to have to have a lot of money because you've got a crew to operate them. They're expensive and most productions can't afford this. So they go with a real newborn. But you need a performance license. So you can't just take your newborn along to the set. And apparently a lot of people do write into Call the Midwife saying, I'm about to have a baby. I really want it to be featured in Call the Midwife. And they have to say, look, I'm really sorry, but we can't
Starting point is 00:04:47 really fit in with your schedule because you don't know when it's coming. We have to have babies that will fit in with our schedule. But the woman who runs this agency for newborn babies says she does actually, if she sees pregnant people in the street, give them her card because she needs babies all the time. I mean, that's a sort of a weird job, isn't it? But you know, that's a job that sounds dodgy, but you go, actually, I think it's okay. Years and years ago, I worked on a sitcom for Channel 4 called Boys Unlimited, and there's a-
Starting point is 00:05:11 Oh, about the band. About the band, yeah. And there was a scene in a national childbirth NCT class with pregnant women, and then there was a scene when a baby is born. And the baby, maybe it was different back then because we just had the receptionist at Hatrick, which was the production company, who just had a baby, Sue Gosby, and she bought her little baby Mitchell and he played the baby. Terrifying to think he
Starting point is 00:05:34 must be 25 years old now. But I remember in the NCT class, I've got various people I knew and various people other people knew who were pregnant who came in and played that so when you're an extra you get paid a certain amount at daily rate but what I hadn't realized was if you're if you are a pregnant extra you're a speciality extra and they got paid a fortune it was amazing it was great just they sat around it's a nice fun day and yeah they got like a like a grand each or something just for Sydney because because they were pregnant Which would have been much more than the base rate. Yes. I didn't know that that's interesting I'm gonna look up Mitchell Gosby now and see you see what he's up to might be it might be an actual show another
Starting point is 00:06:15 Show exactly. I've heard he's in the running for the new bond. Yeah This is definitely a question from you from Sam Taylor I recall seeing a tweet that said that the majority of the pre-recorded laugh tracks we hear in American sitcoms were recorded in the 1950s, meaning that we are in fact somewhat morbidly hearing the laughs of a room full of dead people. Is this true, or would the laugh tracks have been re-recorded using better quality microphones, etc.? Oh goodness me.
Starting point is 00:06:41 I often read people talk about canned laughter and say they've ruined this with canned laughter, But almost always if you're hearing laughter on a sitcom or a panel show or anything like that It's the laughter that was in the room at the time I've certainly never worked on a show where you've sort of got a library of laughter and put it on if you know if you do A show like if I got news for you or eight out of ten cats something like that you've got the entire audio recording of the audience, all of whom are mic'd up, and you'll go through the edits and someone will do a joke and you'll get the laugh off that joke. And it will always be that specific laugh. Now, sometimes someone will do a joke, it'll get a laugh, and someone else will have said something else which you want to get rid of in the edit or something, you know, there'll just be an extraneous noise. If that happens, you have to
Starting point is 00:07:24 take the beginning of the laugh that really happened, you then have a catalogue of laughs from the same show, always from the same show, and you will put a tail on that laugh so that you can go into the edit for the next thing that's on screen. Because you can't always use a whole laugh because if you're not using the thing that happened directly afterwards as well, then you'll lose the tail of that laugh. But you can only use native laughs from that show, that's hilarious. Certainly I've never been in a room or an edit where they've used a laugh from a different show, ever. Sometimes if you're recording a panel show or a game show or something like that, someone will say something quite quietly that was very very funny, the audience didn't really pick it up. But in the edit you see it you go. Oh my god. That was brilliant
Starting point is 00:08:09 I didn't even notice that happening and you want to put it in it is very peculiar for everybody if you put in something It's very very funny and nobody laughs So on that occasion you might go do you know what that person got this laugh for a very similar joke? Occasion you might go. Do you know what that person got this laugh for a very similar joke? Let's put that laugh on but you are trying as much as possible to show what really happened in the room and what the audience really really responded to Interestingly since kovat and now there are no audiences For most shows most game shows anyway There are no audiences and so you want to have a sort of atmosphere track
Starting point is 00:08:45 for that sort of thing. And so the cheat that will happen there is if you have no audience at all, it sounds haunting. Yeah. And you're sitting on edit and just go people, people will not be able to handle this. Britain will be plunged into crisis if they have to watch this sort of the silence around this. Oh, no, it was like the football in the pandemic. I always put the crowd noise on. Everyone, only animals watched it without. Always. Don't write it. Yeah, but always with the crowd noise.
Starting point is 00:09:13 And so in there, you'll have the floor managers and you have the crew and they'll applaud where they would naturally applaud. They'll laugh where they naturally laugh. And you will boost that in the edit. You will absolutely just go, that's the guide. And you won't boost it a huge amount. You will absolutely just go, that's the guide. And you won't boost it a huge amount,
Starting point is 00:09:26 you're not suddenly having huge gafors, but you know, you just go, let's have a little smattering of applause when that smattering of applause happened in the studio. I see a few things now that are clearly recorded without an audience, which put laughs on. And you'd say, ah, I don't know. Well, firstly, I don't know where you got that laugh from.
Starting point is 00:09:45 And secondly, it's certainly not a normal response to the thing that was just said on camera. So I think since COVID, there's more sort of shenanigans going on. But by and large, in terms of those panel shows and in terms of British sitcoms, certainly the laugh you're hearing is the laugh that was in the studio at the time. If it can be the exact laugh, it always is. If you've had to do an edit, then you might hear the start of one laugh and the end of another. Here's one thing, whenever you're in a studio, everyone, every single time you record,
Starting point is 00:10:18 there's someone who at the end of like a laugh or a laugh applause will wait an extra second and do an extra clap because they're thinking, oh my God, this is brilliant. That means I'm going to be, I'm going to hear my clap when I watch this on telly, I'm going to hear it. And of course you'll never hear it because you're never going to leave that in. All it does, if you've ever been in the studio audience and done a late clap, then all it means is you've made the editor's job so much harder. Because at the end of every single laugh applause, they've got to chop that out.
Starting point is 00:10:50 They've then got to rebuild the beginning of the next bit. So all you're doing there is making someone's life much, much harder. But you're never going to hear it. Have a heart. Have a heart, late clappers. Don't do it anymore. Don't do it anymore. Oh, another sort of filming behind the scenes question here, Marina, from Andy Bywater. Andy asks, what is substituted for drugs in scenes? If an actor is doing ten takes of snorting prop cocaine up their nose, I expect that
Starting point is 00:11:16 has to burn after the first couple, no matter what substance it is that they're snorting. That is a very good question and I have asked some props people about this. What they tend to use is a substance called inositol, which is actually real drug dealers sometimes cut pure cocaine with it, but it's a sort of, it's a kind of vitamin B complex or maybe was it vitamin, no I think it's vitamin B. Now the trouble with it is that it also has a slight laxative effect. Oh wow. I love where this is going. This is like the babies all over again. Yeah. Well, Ray Liotta and Debbie Mazar, do you remember she plays Sandy, his mistress in Goodfellas, and they really run the coke business together. She said it had a real laxative effect,
Starting point is 00:12:01 and he said it really cleans you out. But you do actually snort the substance but the props department said what they want is you to get as little as possible in your nose or whatever it is because it does obviously have an effect as you say Andy. So they put Vaseline inside the rolled note or the straw or whatever you're using to snort it so that as much as possible sticks to the inside and doesn't go up your nose. That's clever. However Jonah Hill Hill was actually hospitalized on the Wolf of Wall Street. He said, I was basically doing fake cocaine for seven months and even though they do all these tricks and they have the Vaseline and all this stuff, he still ingested quite a lot of whatever this, you know, inositol is and he got bronchitis from it and was hospitalized
Starting point is 00:12:42 from the fake cocaine. So, you know, don't try any of it at home. So the message to kids is don't even do fake drugs. Don't even do fake drugs on a multi-million dollar production because you could still end up in hospital with bronchitis. This is a good one from CJ Cordes. What makes a celebrity and can you leapfrog celebrity and go straight to national treasure status?
Starting point is 00:13:04 That is, yeah. CJ Cordes is a good name by the way. Yes, celebrity, I think we used to know what a celebrity was. Funny enough on House of Games yesterday we had a question about the 2012 Olympics, people who won gold medals, and Phil Daniels was on. Phil Daniels was saying, in the 80s we only ever won like one or two. So in the 80s the only people winning gold medals were Duncan Goodhue and Daley Thompson. So everyone knew who they were immediately. So you immediately become a celebrity. These days we had like, I think there's about 40 gold medalists from that Olympics. So even
Starting point is 00:13:34 winning an Olympic gold medal doesn't automatically make you a celebrity now. Finally, I'll think about House of Games because that's what we're just doing. And you think about the lineups of people that are coming on and you look through them and you think, okay, so the other day we have Michaela Strachan on, right? So Michaela Strachan has been famous since the 90s. Everyone has seen her on something, whether you know her from Hitman on her or from, you know, Springwatch, she's done enough things for enough years that everybody knows Michaela Strachan. So Michaela Strachan is an absolute sort of solid gold celebrity. If you've got a younger stand up, then I would essentially go down the list of stand ups and I've seen them all and if someone, if I think someone's brilliant, I say book them
Starting point is 00:14:18 on the show. Now, that person is not a celebrity necessarily. That person probably will become a celebrity because they're very funny and they'll do lots more telly. But so long as I've got two people on there, each show that my mum knows, then I can have two people that my daughter knows. So celebrity means different things to different people. Yes, it means a different thing to me, I would say. When I think about it, because I don't have a popular quiz show to produce, I think of celebrities... Not yet. Not yet. I think Clive James said Elizabeth Taylor was the first celebrity in that even
Starting point is 00:14:51 though she was obviously very good at something, in her acting, she was more famous for being famous than she was for the thing that had got her famous in the first place. I often think that anyone can attain a form of celebrity nowadays, but something that's very different. I'm not sure that you leap for celebrity and go to straight to national treasure status or perhaps you do, but something that I think is very different is a star. Now there are very, there are a lot of celebrities but there are an incredibly small number of stars. There are very few people, there are people who are in
Starting point is 00:15:20 movies now and who can command many many millions of dollars per picture. I would still not call them a star. I don't think of them as a movie star and some people will still say to you Tom Cruise is the last movie star he's the last real serious movie star. I actually think that when I saw Barbie I remember thinking there's something about Margot Robbie she is a star there's something about her she is a star and there are other people who can helm really quite big franchises who I don't think are stars in the sense that I would understand the idea of stardom which I think is something an incredibly small number of people actually have.
Starting point is 00:15:53 Oh this is good. Okay Ryan Gosling. Yes he's a star but he's still to some extent for me a B-movie actor. So Ryan Gosling's star. I know, I know, I know. But I'm, you know, he's not Gary Cooper is he he? He's not John Wayne. He's not Tom Cruise. He's not the absolute kind of the top of the firmament. No, he isn't. He's on a rung or two below that for definite. He's a minor star.
Starting point is 00:16:17 Yes, what would I say? He's in the supporting category on that movie. Julia Roberts. Star without any question, obviously star. Jennifer Aniston. She's a television star for me even though she makes huge amounts of money in movies as we discussed but mainly on streaming services but yeah she'll always be an unbelievably mega TV star for me but I don't think of her as a movie star. So she's more like Michaela Strachan for you. Yeah she's on a par with everyone's seen her in something. So that's fascinating the Hollywood thing I always think on a slightly more parochial English level, who you can book on
Starting point is 00:16:49 TV shows and who you can't. Yeah. An interesting sort of ladder is by and large, you can't book someone on TV show if they haven't been booked on another TV show before, right? That's the difficult rule of television. If you're last leg or if you have I got news for you or any of these shows, if someone hasn't already been on something it's very hard to get the channel to agree to them to be on your show. The lovely thing about House of Games is we can book whoever we want because we've got the same people on for five days and because I always make sure there's somebody there who's a you know proper kind of someone everyone knows. We have a lot of
Starting point is 00:17:24 freedom to book people who wouldn't be booked on other things and book people who haven't done other shows. So the end of Five Days with You, you have incubated a new TV celebrity. Yeah, exactly that. What a service! Yeah, sometimes you see it, sometimes you put people on and you see how much people love them and you think, well, this is great. And immediately afterwards, you know, I used to work for the company,
Starting point is 00:17:47 make would I lie to you? And often after a week on house of games, I'll say that we had this new young comic on, or we had a guy called Mike Bovins on recently. He was great. And I said, he would just be great on what I lie to you. And because that person's just been on house of Games, there's another box that's been ticked and they can immediately be booked on What I Lie to You. And once you've been booked on What I Lie to You, you can be booked on anything. And that's how celebrities are
Starting point is 00:18:14 grown. The flywheel effect. Eight out of ten cats, which we made for years, we would have tryouts all the time with incredibly new comics who've never been on anything and then you'd give them the first chance on telly and once they've had their first chance on telly the ones who were going to make it absolutely make it and they make it very very quickly. So you know there are certain nursery slopes where you can turn someone from an unknown into a celebrity to speak to the question to go immediately to national treasure status. The last person I can, no, the last two people I can remember that went from zero to national treasure immediately,
Starting point is 00:18:55 very different ends of the age range, they would be Luke Littler, the 17 year old darts player, and Captain Tom. You know, both of those two came straight out the traps. They didn't waste time with sort of mini fame. They immediately became massive and they both would have been welcome on House of Games at different times. But I think you can absolutely burst onto the scene and be huge immediately. Can I ask you something? Just very quick processing. Does the presenter of the show, if they're not also a producer or an
Starting point is 00:19:30 exec on the show as you are on your show, do they have any say or who's booked or do they just have to take what they get? It's tricky. If you're a comedian and you're doing a show with other comedians, you will probably have a view on people. So some hosts definitely will say yay or nay to people. Something on pointless celebrities, because you film so many,
Starting point is 00:19:49 I wouldn't know who was on until I walked onto the set on that. But House of Games, because you're spending a whole week with people, you make sure that it's people who are going to get on with each other. Some hosts will just talk to whoever you put in front of them. Some hosts, like Michael McIntyre in front of them. Some hosts, you know, like Michael McIntyre on the wheel, he will definitely reach out to people. He
Starting point is 00:20:09 would love to be on that show. You know, he would definitely say, I think I could do a good job if this person was on the wheel. So if you've got a presenter who is a decent producer and Michael McIntyre clearly is, then yes, of course they're going to have a view on who comes on. By the way, this is a subset of celebrities, but all of the gladiators are instantly celebrities now. Okay? All of them. They instantly all become celebrities.
Starting point is 00:20:37 And, you know, if you have Nitro on House of Games, everyone's like, I know exactly who that is. Okay? That's Nitro. That's a proper celebrity, and that sort of thing is a dream when suddenly someone gives you ready-made 16 brand new celebrities that you can book on any show that you want. And believe you me, that's what we're doing.
Starting point is 00:20:57 Thank God we talked about gladiators, because I had realised we hadn't for a second this episode, so we have to cover it on every single thing. Without gladiators talk. Are you able to reveal which gladiator or gladiators are on House of Games? We've got two gladiators coming on. Yeah I'm not going to tell you who they are just now because I know your daughter listens to this podcast and I want to keep it as a surprise for her. She will be hugely excited. I wonder which ones they are. Okay I'm not going to ask because I won't disappoint her.
Starting point is 00:21:26 And on that lack of a bombshell, shall we go into an advert? Let us do so. Welcome back. Kieran Garland has a question. Marina, how significant are the recent tax cuts for the independent film industry? Oh, that were announced in the recent budget. They are very significant actually and we should say that so much stuff gets made in the UK. I was speaking to a big producer this week who was like, yeah, like literally nothing is being made in LA. And she was slightly exaggerating for comic
Starting point is 00:21:57 effect but really so many things are being made in the UK. The studio I'm currently in at the moment Leavesden, they made Wonka there, they made Barbie there. Shepperton has just announced it's become the biggest studio in Europe and I think it's really second as a hub, but only to sort of Hollywood. Yeah, Pinewood is expanding. Pinewood is huge. Amazon and Netflix are in at Shepperton. Now, Hollywood studios can claim 25% tax relief on a production in the UK, which is, and a lot of stuff is, as I say, a lot of stuff is made here. The recent budget have said 40% tax relief on movies under 15 million pounds. So that's basically relatively small independent films. That is huge. It's a lot of money if you're involved in one of those films and it's the difference between
Starting point is 00:22:41 being able to make them and not. So that is actually rarely quite a good support for the creative industries from this particular government. They've also done some stuff for VFX because what happens is a lot of stuff now has VFX post-production and it tends to go to Canada, India, even France I think had better incentives. That was also addressed. Even France? Even France had better, yes, tax incentives. And high-end television tax relief is also very big. But what you have to understand about incentives, because you think, well, why should these things be incentivised?
Starting point is 00:23:12 It is, film is such a difficult, and television is so difficult to get things made, they really chase the incentives. Around the US, part of the reason that people aren't making so many things in Hollywood is because certain states like Georgia made it hugely attractive to make their films there and Marvel were effectively working out of Georgia. Then there are other states that, I mean Cleveland, there's a lot of interviews you'll see about Cleveland where people will let you shut anything, they'll let you shut a freeway for two weeks and say, yeah, no one really ever goes there anyway or whatever.
Starting point is 00:23:41 They prostrate themselves before these industries in order to get them to come and bring their business there. So in order to be competitive in those things, you really have to offer a system of tax incentives. Somebody else, I think of previous weeks, someone wrote in and asked and said, you know, what are you supposed to do if they're going to close up all these tax loopholes? Well, first of all, if you want to give your money away tax free and you're a funder of these sort of things, you can always sell your art to a museum or a gallery or something like that. But in general, I would say that you have to incentivise this business and it's something that we do very well and more and more things are being made here and fewer and fewer things are being
Starting point is 00:24:15 made in Los Angeles and places where you might expect them to be made. So that is definitely very significant for independent film, the thing that happened in the budget recently, and it's been really welcomed in the industry. Yeah, pretty much any big project, because film especially and TV dramas are hugely expensive to make, and I've very rarely been involved in a project that didn't at some point go, we're just, we're 10% off what we need, we just need another 10% from it, and actually the tax incentives can do that, and it keeps work in this country, you know, it keeps work for all the different trades that work around drama and entertainment. It keeps that in
Starting point is 00:24:48 this country. I think it adds an enormous amount of money to the economy as well. We really are some of the very, very best in the world, in the world of entertainment and in drama. Yes, and as a form of soft power, it obviously has always made sense for the government to back these kind of industries because there's a great reputation for them around the world and things like the BBC, which is a separate thing to what we're talking about here, but that is a form of soft power and it's sort of mad to constantly cuss away at it because you're hobbling yourself where there's absolutely no need to.
Starting point is 00:25:19 Richard, because you're recording House of Games at the moment, there is a very specific House of Games question that I feel I have to ask you on behalf of Robert Kirkwood. When Richard does the House of Spiele round in House of Games, does he get pronunciation help in his earpiece? Okay, that's around where all the questions are in foreign languages. So yeah, there's questions in French and German and you have to sort of try and work out, you know, sometimes there's some proper nouns you can work out and then you have to come up with the answer. How I do that round, there's always six and by and large is there's sort of this French, German, Italian, Spanish and those I try and do myself. I'm not a linguist, I will say that, but I try. I think my German is quite good. If I'm in Germany and I say Wundt't hog people think I'm German
Starting point is 00:26:05 It's the only country in the world where that happens when I was in Italy recently doing a book thing I sort of went on stage and I just went chara got so and my translator Translated that into Italian. I said if you just translated Italian yes, I'm sorry. I had to So yeah, my accent is not the best, but Italian, this is such a great specific question. This must be the most boring question in the world for people who don't watch House of Games. Italian, French, German, Spanish, I will try and do myself, but we often have Swedish and
Starting point is 00:26:39 Icelandic. Oh my God. And when we do Swedish and Icelandic, I have one of our lovely question writers Tom Banks in my ear. He will go through it phonetically. Now, I have no idea if Tom knows very much Swedish or Icelandic, but certainly I literally repeat exactly what Tom says. But how does he go through it phonetically, sorry to pull you up on the process before you go on, how does he go through it phonetically at the right speed? I mean, I'm mean, how can you do it at the right speed and be having it fed into your ear? It's just one of those things that you can, it's weirdly that you can do and because you're
Starting point is 00:27:13 speaking in a foreign language, the cadence is slightly different to one's normal cadence anyway. So, but yeah, you can, if I was talking to you... With your lovely Icelandic accent, of course. Exactly, it comes very naturally. And so, yeah, I just, the second after he said something, I say the same thing, and then I immediately apologize to the people of Iceland or Sweden afterwards. But yeah, that's one of the many, one day we'll do a huge dive into every round
Starting point is 00:27:37 on House of Games and the various things we have to do. But that's the one, if people choose, like the German category, I'm so happy, the second they choose something that I know is Icelandic, I'm like, oh no, here we go. Well, you've really issued a challenge to future contestants now. You're not going to get any Germans now.
Starting point is 00:27:54 There will be no German. Respectfully, they also know that they're probably not going to get the answer to the Icelandic one right. So listen, they'd be cutting off their nose to spite their face. They'd be cutting off their schrumpgung to spite their galampon You know who wants to do that?
Starting point is 00:28:09 Question from Katie here who's been coy about her surname or perhaps she doesn't have a surname perhaps like Madonna She just goes by Katie Why does superstar actors end up doing adverts for things like money supermarkets war buttons or as there is it simply for the money? Or is it an equity thing and they need to work? They are not required to keep their hours up, Katie. And if they lose them, then they're no longer counted as an actor. They do it for the money. Could be a divorce, could just be because they like money. Yeah. And quite often they do efforts that are not shown in their own country. So, you
Starting point is 00:28:43 know, Stallone will do Warburton's and it's just shown in the UK and like he cares and someone's just given him an absolute fortune. So yeah, like so many things that so many actors do, that one's for the money. It's nice to have a question that's easy to answer for once. Yes, that was a very good one, Katie, but yes, always for the money. Actors love money. And on that note, I think we better say farewell for another week. Yeah, that was a fun one. And next week, I'm hoping I'm going to be, I should be back with you. Yes, thank goodness.
Starting point is 00:29:10 More and more questions. They're wonderful. Thank you so much. It's therestisentertainmentatgmail.com and I'm sorry we can answer so few, but we enjoy answering the ones we do. Richard, I will see you next week for the main edition of the show and some questions as well, of course. I will see you in person. Yeah, thank goodness. See you all next week. Bye bye.

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