April 18, 2025 • 25 mins
What’s it like to play a “bad guy”? Actor Eoin Macken joins Jana and Allan to share all the stories behind his new show “Ransom Canyon”. Jana was almost cast, but you have to listen to find out why Allan is thrilled she didn’t get the part!
Plus, Allan learns how to prepare for a tornado!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Wind down with Janet Kramer and I'm Heart Radio Podcast. Hi. Hi,
nice to meet you up here.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Bonding time. We get to sit next to each other
for more than three minutes.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
I know, Hi. How are you? How's your morning, Ben, It's.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Been busy, yeah, five am, star clients busy.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Would you like to give everybody an update on your
no drinking? Have you caved?
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Have you?
Speaker 2 (00:30):
I told you my willpower is unquestionable. Yeah, yeah, I've
got zero interested in having a drink? Zero zero.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Do you feel better?
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Good question? Yeah? I do. I do. I think my
thinking is a little bit clearer. I think it's still
two weeks. Is still at a point where your body
is transitioning to eventually feel the actual benefits of it.
So I think another week and I'll be feeling I'll
know the differences in my energy levels and focus and
(01:07):
clarity and things. But it's been it's been so much
easier than I thought.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Interesting.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
I don't even think I I even mentioned it to
you once when I drink. I think maybe last Friday
at four o'clock on a Friday on them, Yeah, but
then I never mentioned it again. It's been more difficult
with the enalogy drink.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
That's what I was going to say, because you mentioned
that piece of it that it's been that's been the
hardest pace.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Because I like to when I go and see Devon
at Redline before because I know the sessions are so
difficult and normally grab one on the way. I've not
been doing it, and that's that's actually more difficult than
in the alcohol and then the Twixies. I've come off
Twixies as well than the They're easy.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
No they're not.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Yeah they are.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
I remember you were telling so we have renovated, re
designed our gym, and so Alan was putting in some
gym flooring and your text message you sent me you
were like, I need a I want a case of beer.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
I mean I need twelve beers, I need four energy drinks,
and I need three king sized Twixes to get me
through this. Got an awful experience of down the gym floor,
hyper tough and rubber flooring that I had to cut
with a Stanley knife. Well, good job, Yeah, anyway, we've
got it done. Yeah. So two weeks and feeling good
and zero interesting.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
I have a question though, with regards to that, because
we haven't had a date night since our one night
in Bahamas, which was what month.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Almost almost a month ago?
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Yeah, like three weeks ish. How do you think you'll be? Well, well,
don't have one on the books either, So I'm just
curious how when we go have a date night do
you think because when we go out to dinner, sometimes
it's like, oh, you're not having a drink, and I'm like, no,
I don't want to want to every time, but I
feel like on date nights we always I usually will
(03:16):
save my glass of wine for a date night. Yeah,
so how do you think you'll be when we go
on our little date night restaurant.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
I thought of it that this morning, I'll be absolutely fine. Well,
the other night I bought you a bought the wine
because you felt like a glass of wine, which you didn't.
You didn't drink. I didn't, and you gave it the
old I don't want to drink.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Myself, Well, I just don't like I don't like drinking
a lot.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Well, tough, you're drinking yourself because I'm not drinking.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
So that's for me. I like to have a glass
of wine with you. I like to. I like to.
I don't. I used to drink alone plenty post divorce yeah,
and pre divorce, but now I enjoy just having a
glass of wine with you. I'm I don't. I'm not
gonna say I'm never going to open a bottle of
(04:05):
wine by myself, but I I don't. I don't want
to open it. And then I just feel like I'm
gonna waste it because I don't want more than really
one or one and a half drinks, because again, I
know how it makes me feel.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Yeah, I think that's the big thing with it being
so easy is because it was both so busy at
the moment. Like if I wake up and feel even
less than one hundred percent, I'm not getting up at
five in the morning to sit in the office in
the dark to get done what I need done. Yeah,
I'm going to hit that snooze button and go back
to sleep till thirty by forty five, and I don't
(04:40):
want to do that, right, So, yeah, thank you for asking.
But it's been I've not even had, I've not even
wanted like a non alcoholic drink. I think I mentioned
that once, you did. I mentioned that once, so like,
maybe I'll just get a non alcoholic beer.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
But then again, well I said to you, I was
like that's still the habit of filling that Friday for clock.
So so it's almost like you're got to rip the
entire piece.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Well that's what I've done.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
I just went it doesn't it's still technically have alcohol,
and I mean you do you know.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Some of them have zero point zero five percent and
some of them have absolutely zero. Scene If you're doing
stuff like that, you need to be careful. But what's
the point and half assn't it with a stupid non
alcohol I'd rather have a Zavia.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Those are great, Those are so good. You witnessed probably
not your first because you've had tornado storms, but this
was a This was probably the most tense one you've had.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Yeah, absolutely absolutely. It got to the point where it
is actually quite funny because I was explaining this to
Troy this morning, because he was asking about the tornado
and I was talking to him. In fact, it was
it was Hugo. It was Hugo, my client, Hugo. I
was telling him about you and j and Jolie been
in the bathroom with the kids with a helmet in
(06:04):
Roman next to you, well as close to you as possible,
but he didn't have a helmet on.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
We don't have a helmelet for Roomen, but I need
to get one.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
I was saying to Hugo. So Hugo's like, well where
were you? And I was like, I was outside filming it.
It's like, why is that? Because I needed to know.
I was looking for flying debris because it was starting
to get really really windy, and I came a point
I was like, oh, I cannot film any longer. I
need to get inside. So I watched from inside, and
I was watching for any piece of flying debris. Then
(06:35):
that would have been right, Okay, let's huddling and uncle
down here. No.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
No, let's like we were already huddling. Yeah, but I'm
calming the shaking children in the bathroom.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Yeah, you're doing an amazing job caving that situation. I'm
thinking about my mom and dad and I've never seen
any Do I need to film this? Put it on
the family chat.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
I cannot.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
I need to fly with a lane of danger here.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
It's interesting though, because when I posted it out, apparently
a lot of husbands do that. I thought it was
just a Scottish thing, but apparently that is what husbands do.
I am starting to freak out a little bit. Though,
because we don't have a great place to hide in
our house.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Your dads wouldn't be a building the house.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
I know.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Some of those. And you're like, no, we don't need that.
We don't need that.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
We have to assess the underneath our house.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Thank you for go underneath. It's fine.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
So what if the house falls on top of us?
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Oh, it sweeps things away and blows all the time.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
You see the people that are trapped under their house
in tornadoes. But one of the moms at baseball yesterday said,
get a whistle, And I'm like, what a great idea.
So I'm going to get a bag of stuff because
if you're trapped underneath and someone's trying to find you,
you blow a whistle. Oh okay, Like what a great idea.
Didn't even think about it. So now we're gonna but
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we have to assess the bottom. Say, I don't want
to the kids underneath unless it's you know, really really obviously,
there was a tornado warring sirens that grow off, So
you know, we grab kids and huddled up in the
bathroom because that seemed it's like kind of by the
stairs and it's interior, but it's really only one door.
So I'm like, I'd like I loved my last house
(08:18):
where we had the closet underneath the stairs and then
it was like a couple doors, so you felt a
little bit more secure. But with this, it's like you
just got that one bathroom door. You just got that
one bathroom door. And so but underneath that crawl space
area would be the best because we can you know,
we can put a little we can stand up there.
(08:38):
It's it's essentially like a basement, like we should have
built a basement because but what we didn't. So if
we kind of make that room a little cleaner down there, yeah,
put the mat, like, put a mat down there. Put
it would be easier to do that because that's at
least under the ground.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
It made me think of my little nana because in
hot house in Scotland in the backyard, she used to
have a bomb shelter that was still there from World
War Two. Whoa, I'm thinking, I wonder if you could
one make one of those, like have one of those
bomb shelters. Well, were just going out and were good
and tondo can't take it away?
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Yeah, go for it.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
I wonder if it's still there, you want to get
it from Scotland they have transported.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Ah well, we survived and it wasn't. Poor kids though.
That makes me sad because they just were so scared
and like I promise you, I wouldn't put you back
to sleep if there was a threat. The reason I
got you out because of bed was there was a threat. Yeah,
so you will be okay. It's just going to be
lightning and thundering. But and now Jace is a sweet
(09:47):
little mommy's Claudia is. Then their tornado is a tornado.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
No, no, nobody siren as well. The siren's so eerie.
All that, isn't it?
Speaker 1 (09:56):
That video you took was so eery. But today's adult education.
We've got Owen MacKinnon. He's an actor, former model, and
he has a new show out called Ransom Canyon. It
premieres April seventeenth. It is a romance fueled family drama
contemporary Western soccer that charts the intersecting lives and loves
of three ranching families set against the sweeping tundras and
(10:19):
rolling rivers of Texas hill Country. Let's take a break
and get them on.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Hello, how's it going good?
Speaker 1 (10:39):
How are you?
Speaker 3 (10:40):
I am fantastic?
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Well we'll just jump right into it because I feel
like you guys are gonna our listeners are gonna struggle
here because my husband is Scottish and they're always like,
we can't understand your husband, like put captions on and
I'm like, oh great, Like you're from Dublin and so
you guys can just have your sweet little que accents together.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
And the Scottish and Irish are kind of the same,
you know, we're all Cheltic.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Absolutely absolutely, I totally agree. It'll be good to if
someone on that actually understands and I don't have to
slow my word to them.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
I didn't get that, was it?
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Okay? So when did you You were born in Dublin?
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Was born in Dublin? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (11:20):
When did you move to the States?
Speaker 4 (11:24):
I was coming back here since I was like twenty
years old. I first I was a twenty one, so
I moved probably like twelve years ago. But I've been
coming back for it for.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Like a long time.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Yeah. I mean, I feel like your accent is not
as thick, is it because you work on the Americans
so much that you're losing it?
Speaker 4 (11:41):
No, I think it so I can do a Dublin
accent when I go home, I end up talking like
this right away. You see the problem is I find
I get picked up my friends and I wouldn't have
a clue what they're saying. She'd start talking really fast,
and America is just start talking slower because it's just
a natural case.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
You have to adopt, don't you. Okay, Oh yeah, it's
just it's like an efficiency thing. I'm gonna have to
talk slot. I'm just going to repeat myself, and you
get sec repeating yourself.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Yeah, you get really frustrated. You're like a hamburger.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Yeah, if you try.
Speaker 4 (12:10):
You tried ordering a drink in the bar with like
a really strong Scottish rivers accent when it's loud.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
It doesn't doesn't get you anywhere. You may as well
like write stuff on a piece of paper at the point,
you know.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Yeah, they just bring you a whisky in a beer anyway. Yeah,
that's right, you're Scottish or you're Irish here.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
That's just when we walk in the door though, right, No,
that is.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Really funny because it's he's definitely slowed down when he
and and you know, when he talks to my friends
and stuff. But you know, I always thought how that
would be, you know, living here and then working too
as an actor and having to speak primarily I'm sure
in an English or in an American accent, so that's
got to be. Was it was that hard or do
(12:50):
you still catch yourself like, how do you do you
work with a coach or how do you how do
you do that?
Speaker 3 (12:55):
I did? I did.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
I worked as a coach for for a couple of
years and I first came over to do an American show,
and I think I struggled with it a little bit
at the start, because it is it is kind of
you know, initially you do try and almost want to
keep your own accent and to kind of at the
start it was it was very specific words because you know,
when you get agitated, you get stressed, and then you
start losing your temper and you start shouting as a character,
(13:16):
not just in life, but but then you just kind
of just drop into being real Irish and then you
start to try.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
And that was the kind of the thing that was
the hardest to figure out.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Did your mates call you out on your American accent
keep it into your Irish?
Speaker 3 (13:31):
Yeah, yeah, my mom would as well. I call my
mom and be like, I don't know who you were,
and I'm like, I'm just talking like me and they're like,
you're not just stopped doing this? This is this is
when then my mom would hang up on me.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
So yeah, that is really funny because yeah, his buddies
are always and then you get mad at yourself too,
Like today you said garage and you got really upset
about that when we were talking about our garage.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
Yeah, you see, you can change the accent, but you
got to keep your own words though, you know, if
you start saying trunk.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
And garage, you know, Listen, the other day I said
garden and that was like he caught me, and I'm like, no, no, no, no, sorry,
I mean backyard. Apologies, in our backyard, not in our garden.
But do you guys no, we say a garden is
the things.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
That you grow, so right, we actually grow stuff in
the garden.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
No, it's just our backyard. Mid Midwestern girl here. But
you know, okay, Ransom Canyon, how how fun you know?
Speaker 3 (14:34):
Was that?
Speaker 1 (14:35):
My heart's still a little sad, but I didn't get
cast it. It's fine, but but.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
But the brideside is that there's you know, hopefully Touch
would do the season two and they didn't come and
do that.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
I know, there you go.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
That would be so fun, A nice, fun group of
people and it's all like, you know, everyone knows what's
going on. You have a blast.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Well, I know. It premierees April seventeenth, and Alan was
saying there's a lot of nudity in it, because he's.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Like, yeah, no, no a trailer that unless it looks
really good, I got the date on this.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
Loads of nudity in this one.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
He's like, okay, yeah, he's He's like, I said that,
you would have been great for that. I was like,
remember we auditioned for it. And he's like, oh yeah,
there's too much nudity in this one.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
So too many kissing. But but yeah, so you I
thought it looked. It looks really good. It's Kina, like
a mixture.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Of Yellowstone meats, Yellowstone meats.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
Friday night lights.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Because great, not just because of Minca, but also because, yes, stylistically,
that does look that way.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
I've told Minka it's purely because.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Of she's sweet. Love her.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
Yeah, she's very nice.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
It looks good. It looks good. Watch Sam Josh de
Hamel like to work with me.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
He's incredibly, incredibly sweet, and incredibly chill and a lot
of fun. He makes some terrible jokes, some of which
you just have to kind of go, okay, we'll go
with it. But he's very funny and he's incredibly nice.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
I really is.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
He just had him He just had a little boy,
I think, just at the start when we're about to shoot,
and and it's funny then and then I just had
a little girl four months ago.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
So once he found congratulations you congrats.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
He was one of the first people I told on
set because he'd been talking to me about it, and
like I think, early on we're kind of hanging out,
he's like, you should be a dad, and I was like,
all right, and I hadn't. We hadn't told anybody we
were actually pregnant. And I was going, oh, yeah, I'll
just say that, and he goes, I don't know. I
just think and he goes, you know, and I'm a
dad and you should be a dad. And I was going, nah, nah,
I shouldn't be a dad. And then I told him
(16:40):
when I you know, he was one of the first
people I told because he was so he was so
generous about just his advice and about kind of being
a dad. About having a kid, and also about how
when he had his first son and it just changed
his way of acting, a way of being because he
just found being on set to be kind of a
lot more because you're not worried about, you know, they
(17:03):
kind of you're not worried about certain certain you know,
micro things.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
He might be as much like, I've got a I've
got a little.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
Person on the way, right, are you married not married
to You're just is that wedding bells in the future.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
Or the step of time? You know things, I can
do it once, you know, I die.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
I get that we had a we had a we
had a baby before we got married. Yeah, you know,
just the new way of the new way, the new
age way.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
It's very anti Irish and anti Scottish, it is really.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
I did not want to tell his mom. I was like,
you need to put a ring on it real fast,
because I do not want to break that woman's heart.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Well, you're right, though. It gives you a different perception
when when your your kids are born, because you're almost like,
like you said, you don't you don't sweat the small stuff.
One of my most successful seasons as a as a
footballer was the year that my my he's now he's
nearly eighteen now, but he was when the year he
was born, when I wasn't in any sleep, and but
(18:21):
you don't care about stuff like that. And I went
and had my most successful season the year that he
was born, because you forget, you don't you tend to, well,
that's I'm not worrying about. That doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
It puts a lot of things into perspective. And then
the reason that you work so hard is then for them,
not just for your own selfish not saying we're selfish
for wanting to work, but it's all the perspective put
in there.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
And then does that change as they get older and
you're like or is that just said the very start?
Speaker 1 (18:51):
I would say it's you you want to work even harder,
but you're also not going to miss certain things. So
like I've moved productions because I'm like, I'm not missing
their first day of school if they want me that
I'm coming in the next day, or I don't want
to miss their last game or their you know. So
it's when they start playing sports and doing it's like
it's I don't know, maybe it's different for men and women.
I think the mama mama guilt and that mama poll
(19:12):
is maybe a little bit not to just forget a
little different of the guys have that we're going to
provide and this is what we do and that's that.
But you as much as I can have them with me,
I always feel like I'm better at my job when
they're when we're all together as a family as opposed
to me on location and missing them and not having
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them around.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
That makes sense, That makes sense.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Yeah, you're going to do great.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
Yeah, No, it's been a blast so far, you know,
so you know, we'll see, we'll see how's going.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
What's your character in Ransom Canyon?
Speaker 3 (19:48):
So I played Davis Collins, who does have his son.
So it was an interesting and interesting kind of thing.
Speaker 4 (19:55):
But he's the I guess is essentially a sort of
a love a bunch of different love triangles and Ransom,
which is what's kind of interesting about it because they
kind of have a different age groups going through. But
it's a little love triangle between myself, Josh and Minka,
and so Davis is trying to trying to get Quinn's affection.
But he's kind of a very complex, dark character and
(20:19):
a lot of the things he does are not exactly
they're a little bit nefarious. So but he from my perspective,
I think he balances it because he's doing everything for
his son, but the things that he's doing are not
necessarily good for everybody else.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
He's he's he's kind of he's got a lot of
darkness to him.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Buddy, So you're the bad guy.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Yes, I should have said that. Yes, but but he's
a bad guy. What have reasoned? Because he's got his
doing it for his son, right, see.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Justified behavior.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
I don't know if that's.
Speaker 4 (20:49):
It's okay if it's a weird child, right, sure?
Speaker 3 (20:56):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Do you.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
All this? I was like, God, this is a great
little start. I was like, how important kids are? And
I think and that's why it's okay.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
It's what has been your most challenging role that you've
in your career that you've played?
Speaker 4 (21:12):
Uh, The hardest thing I had to do actually was
I did a show called night Flyers about six seven
years ago, which is a George R. Martin Or book
that he wrote, and that was a Netflix thing, and
that was a very heavy sci science fiction type thing
with my Jeffrey Bueller and it was great, but it
(21:32):
was very heavy and very emotional, and that was like
one of the tougher, tougher projects to do, just because
so much of it was you know, when you're you're
kind of there's a there's a you know, you want
to you want to go play certain characters, and even
when they're kind of heavy, you want to have a
certain freedom to it.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
But this was just there was so much happening that
was all very.
Speaker 4 (21:51):
Writ to his past, and he had a dead child,
he had a dead wife, and I was trying to
save the future of mankind and you're in space and
everyone's going insane.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
So that was kind of a tough one.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Yeah, yeah, that sounds Dave. Do you want to ask
him anything as someone who wants to pursue acting world,
She says that in jest. I don't say that in jest.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
No, I tell you, I did go to I did
a bit of dabbled in acting school, and I actually
I did. I know you were you did a lot
of modeling back in the day, So I did a
bit of modeling.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
That's okay, as long as you did it with.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Ford back in the day. And I was going to
transition into the acting side. But at that time, I
was still playing professional football, as I was modeling and
I was playing professional football, and I was actually starting
the coaching business, but I wanted to go into the
acting side of it and started started classes at Evana
Chubbuck's place.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
Yeah she likes them, boys does.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
And I just couldn't. I couldn't sustain the time to
actually do it regularly and properly. It's like everything you
have to you have to master your craft and put
the time, and then I just couldn't prioritize it that
at that phase of my life. And I've always wanted to.
I've always wanted to go back and explore it. And
then we we have a baby, and it's like, okay,
(23:18):
no time again. But maybe one day, one day, I
was kind of, I'll get involved in it.
Speaker 4 (23:25):
Maybe maybe now is the time to do it when
you had a baby, because the priorities have, it become
a lot easier, right honestly, Because I mean so when
I first started acting, I always wanted to be professional
football or some envious But my very first movie actually
was playing football was a football movie, and I got
(23:45):
I got cast in it because I could play football
and because a lot of the other actors there couldn't
do it, and I hadn't done any I hadn't done
anything yet. But thankfully I could play football.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
And they're like, can you act?
Speaker 4 (23:56):
And I was going, I think so, And then I
was like, all right, you can play. We need somebody
who's like not terrible. But although the worst was we
ended playing against by my old football team at the
time for one of the one of the montage sequences,
and I couldn't. I couldn't perform against them because they
just spent the whole time ripping the pists out of me.
And they were trying to do they were trying to
do these set pieces and I don't know if you've
done it when you're trying to Actually, when you're trying
(24:17):
to do set pieces for football for a camera, it's
almost impossible, right because you're not.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
Thinking when you're trying. They're like, all right, we're going
to cross over here and you're gonna do a sort
of an overhead kick in the top corner.
Speaker 4 (24:27):
And I was going, am I I was like all right,
And of course I was against all my my old
mates and they just like just give me a little
pushing the ribs and just pushing the balance and then and.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
I'm like, god, you have to film this thing? They
getting paid the long over here?
Speaker 2 (24:43):
What movie was it?
Speaker 3 (24:44):
It was an Irish movie called Studs is Brendan Gleese
and Donald Gleason.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Oh I've seen it. I've seen it.
Speaker 4 (24:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
When you mentioned Brendan Gleeson, yeah absolutely, I have seen it.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
You seemed like every movie was it was it filmed
in like a country?
Speaker 3 (24:59):
So yeah, yeah, Irish is all?
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Yeah, yeah, absolutely, I remember that.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
Oh my goodness. Well we know you have a flight
to catch, So thank you for coming on, and everyone
watch Ransom Canyon and premieres April seventeenth. I cannot wait
to see the love triangle and the struggles for your son.
Speaker 4 (25:20):
And then the fariest bad guys love triangle justified, bad
guys justified.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Yes exactly. Thank you so much for coming on.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
Pleasures to meet you, guys. I did luck with everything.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
Thanks you too. Can look for acting.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
Thank you
Wind down with Janet Kramer and I'm Heart Radio Podcast. Hi. Hi,
nice to meet you up here.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Bonding time. We get to sit next to each other
for more than three minutes.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
I know, Hi. How are you? How's your morning, Ben, It's.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Been busy, yeah, five am, star clients busy.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Would you like to give everybody an update on your
no drinking? Have you caved?
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Have you?
Speaker 2 (00:30):
I told you my willpower is unquestionable. Yeah, yeah, I've
got zero interested in having a drink? Zero zero.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Do you feel better?
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Good question? Yeah? I do. I do. I think my
thinking is a little bit clearer. I think it's still
two weeks. Is still at a point where your body
is transitioning to eventually feel the actual benefits of it.
So I think another week and I'll be feeling I'll
know the differences in my energy levels and focus and
(01:07):
clarity and things. But it's been it's been so much
easier than I thought.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Interesting.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
I don't even think I I even mentioned it to
you once when I drink. I think maybe last Friday
at four o'clock on a Friday on them, Yeah, but
then I never mentioned it again. It's been more difficult
with the enalogy drink.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
That's what I was going to say, because you mentioned
that piece of it that it's been that's been the
hardest pace.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Because I like to when I go and see Devon
at Redline before because I know the sessions are so
difficult and normally grab one on the way. I've not
been doing it, and that's that's actually more difficult than
in the alcohol and then the Twixies. I've come off
Twixies as well than the They're easy.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
No they're not.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Yeah they are.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
I remember you were telling so we have renovated, re
designed our gym, and so Alan was putting in some
gym flooring and your text message you sent me you
were like, I need a I want a case of beer.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
I mean I need twelve beers, I need four energy drinks,
and I need three king sized Twixes to get me
through this. Got an awful experience of down the gym floor,
hyper tough and rubber flooring that I had to cut
with a Stanley knife. Well, good job, Yeah, anyway, we've
got it done. Yeah. So two weeks and feeling good
and zero interesting.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
I have a question though, with regards to that, because
we haven't had a date night since our one night
in Bahamas, which was what month.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Almost almost a month ago?
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Yeah, like three weeks ish. How do you think you'll be? Well, well,
don't have one on the books either, So I'm just
curious how when we go have a date night do
you think because when we go out to dinner, sometimes
it's like, oh, you're not having a drink, and I'm like, no,
I don't want to want to every time, but I
feel like on date nights we always I usually will
(03:16):
save my glass of wine for a date night. Yeah,
so how do you think you'll be when we go
on our little date night restaurant.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
I thought of it that this morning, I'll be absolutely fine. Well,
the other night I bought you a bought the wine
because you felt like a glass of wine, which you didn't.
You didn't drink. I didn't, and you gave it the
old I don't want to drink.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Myself, Well, I just don't like I don't like drinking
a lot.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Well, tough, you're drinking yourself because I'm not drinking.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
So that's for me. I like to have a glass
of wine with you. I like to. I like to.
I don't. I used to drink alone plenty post divorce yeah,
and pre divorce, but now I enjoy just having a
glass of wine with you. I'm I don't. I'm not
gonna say I'm never going to open a bottle of
(04:05):
wine by myself, but I I don't. I don't want
to open it. And then I just feel like I'm
gonna waste it because I don't want more than really
one or one and a half drinks, because again, I
know how it makes me feel.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Yeah, I think that's the big thing with it being
so easy is because it was both so busy at
the moment. Like if I wake up and feel even
less than one hundred percent, I'm not getting up at
five in the morning to sit in the office in
the dark to get done what I need done. Yeah,
I'm going to hit that snooze button and go back
to sleep till thirty by forty five, and I don't
(04:40):
want to do that, right, So, yeah, thank you for asking.
But it's been I've not even had, I've not even
wanted like a non alcoholic drink. I think I mentioned
that once, you did. I mentioned that once, so like,
maybe I'll just get a non alcoholic beer.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
But then again, well I said to you, I was
like that's still the habit of filling that Friday for clock.
So so it's almost like you're got to rip the
entire piece.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Well that's what I've done.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
I just went it doesn't it's still technically have alcohol,
and I mean you do you know.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Some of them have zero point zero five percent and
some of them have absolutely zero. Scene If you're doing
stuff like that, you need to be careful. But what's
the point and half assn't it with a stupid non
alcohol I'd rather have a Zavia.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Those are great, Those are so good. You witnessed probably
not your first because you've had tornado storms, but this
was a This was probably the most tense one you've had.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Yeah, absolutely absolutely. It got to the point where it
is actually quite funny because I was explaining this to
Troy this morning, because he was asking about the tornado
and I was talking to him. In fact, it was
it was Hugo. It was Hugo, my client, Hugo. I
was telling him about you and j and Jolie been
in the bathroom with the kids with a helmet in
(06:04):
Roman next to you, well as close to you as possible,
but he didn't have a helmet on.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
We don't have a helmelet for Roomen, but I need
to get one.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
I was saying to Hugo. So Hugo's like, well where
were you? And I was like, I was outside filming it.
It's like, why is that? Because I needed to know.
I was looking for flying debris because it was starting
to get really really windy, and I came a point
I was like, oh, I cannot film any longer. I
need to get inside. So I watched from inside, and
I was watching for any piece of flying debris. Then
(06:35):
that would have been right, Okay, let's huddling and uncle
down here. No.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
No, let's like we were already huddling. Yeah, but I'm
calming the shaking children in the bathroom.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Yeah, you're doing an amazing job caving that situation. I'm
thinking about my mom and dad and I've never seen
any Do I need to film this? Put it on
the family chat.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
I cannot.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
I need to fly with a lane of danger here.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
It's interesting though, because when I posted it out, apparently
a lot of husbands do that. I thought it was
just a Scottish thing, but apparently that is what husbands do.
I am starting to freak out a little bit. Though,
because we don't have a great place to hide in
our house.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Your dads wouldn't be a building the house.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
I know.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Some of those. And you're like, no, we don't need that.
We don't need that.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
We have to assess the underneath our house.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Thank you for go underneath. It's fine.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
So what if the house falls on top of us?
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Oh, it sweeps things away and blows all the time.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
You see the people that are trapped under their house
in tornadoes. But one of the moms at baseball yesterday said,
get a whistle, And I'm like, what a great idea.
So I'm going to get a bag of stuff because
if you're trapped underneath and someone's trying to find you,
you blow a whistle. Oh okay, Like what a great idea.
Didn't even think about it. So now we're gonna but
(07:57):
we have to assess the bottom. Say, I don't want
to the kids underneath unless it's you know, really really obviously,
there was a tornado warring sirens that grow off, So
you know, we grab kids and huddled up in the
bathroom because that seemed it's like kind of by the
stairs and it's interior, but it's really only one door.
So I'm like, I'd like I loved my last house
(08:18):
where we had the closet underneath the stairs and then
it was like a couple doors, so you felt a
little bit more secure. But with this, it's like you
just got that one bathroom door. You just got that
one bathroom door. And so but underneath that crawl space
area would be the best because we can you know,
we can put a little we can stand up there.
(08:38):
It's it's essentially like a basement, like we should have
built a basement because but what we didn't. So if
we kind of make that room a little cleaner down there, yeah,
put the mat, like, put a mat down there. Put
it would be easier to do that because that's at
least under the ground.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
It made me think of my little nana because in
hot house in Scotland in the backyard, she used to
have a bomb shelter that was still there from World
War Two. Whoa, I'm thinking, I wonder if you could
one make one of those, like have one of those
bomb shelters. Well, were just going out and were good
and tondo can't take it away?
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Yeah, go for it.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
I wonder if it's still there, you want to get
it from Scotland they have transported.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Ah well, we survived and it wasn't. Poor kids though.
That makes me sad because they just were so scared
and like I promise you, I wouldn't put you back
to sleep if there was a threat. The reason I
got you out because of bed was there was a threat. Yeah,
so you will be okay. It's just going to be
lightning and thundering. But and now Jace is a sweet
(09:47):
little mommy's Claudia is. Then their tornado is a tornado.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
No, no, nobody siren as well. The siren's so eerie.
All that, isn't it?
Speaker 1 (09:56):
That video you took was so eery. But today's adult education.
We've got Owen MacKinnon. He's an actor, former model, and
he has a new show out called Ransom Canyon. It
premieres April seventeenth. It is a romance fueled family drama
contemporary Western soccer that charts the intersecting lives and loves
of three ranching families set against the sweeping tundras and
(10:19):
rolling rivers of Texas hill Country. Let's take a break
and get them on.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Hello, how's it going good?
Speaker 1 (10:39):
How are you?
Speaker 3 (10:40):
I am fantastic?
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Well we'll just jump right into it because I feel
like you guys are gonna our listeners are gonna struggle
here because my husband is Scottish and they're always like,
we can't understand your husband, like put captions on and
I'm like, oh great, Like you're from Dublin and so
you guys can just have your sweet little que accents together.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
And the Scottish and Irish are kind of the same,
you know, we're all Cheltic.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Absolutely absolutely, I totally agree. It'll be good to if
someone on that actually understands and I don't have to
slow my word to them.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
I didn't get that, was it?
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Okay? So when did you You were born in Dublin?
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Was born in Dublin? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (11:20):
When did you move to the States?
Speaker 4 (11:24):
I was coming back here since I was like twenty
years old. I first I was a twenty one, so
I moved probably like twelve years ago. But I've been
coming back for it for.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Like a long time.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Yeah. I mean, I feel like your accent is not
as thick, is it because you work on the Americans
so much that you're losing it?
Speaker 4 (11:41):
No, I think it so I can do a Dublin
accent when I go home, I end up talking like
this right away. You see the problem is I find
I get picked up my friends and I wouldn't have
a clue what they're saying. She'd start talking really fast,
and America is just start talking slower because it's just
a natural case.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
You have to adopt, don't you. Okay, Oh yeah, it's
just it's like an efficiency thing. I'm gonna have to
talk slot. I'm just going to repeat myself, and you
get sec repeating yourself.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Yeah, you get really frustrated. You're like a hamburger.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Yeah, if you try.
Speaker 4 (12:10):
You tried ordering a drink in the bar with like
a really strong Scottish rivers accent when it's loud.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
It doesn't doesn't get you anywhere. You may as well
like write stuff on a piece of paper at the point,
you know.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Yeah, they just bring you a whisky in a beer anyway. Yeah,
that's right, you're Scottish or you're Irish here.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
That's just when we walk in the door though, right, No,
that is.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Really funny because it's he's definitely slowed down when he
and and you know, when he talks to my friends
and stuff. But you know, I always thought how that
would be, you know, living here and then working too
as an actor and having to speak primarily I'm sure
in an English or in an American accent, so that's
got to be. Was it was that hard or do
(12:50):
you still catch yourself like, how do you do you
work with a coach or how do you how do
you do that?
Speaker 3 (12:55):
I did? I did.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
I worked as a coach for for a couple of
years and I first came over to do an American show,
and I think I struggled with it a little bit
at the start, because it is it is kind of
you know, initially you do try and almost want to
keep your own accent and to kind of at the
start it was it was very specific words because you know,
when you get agitated, you get stressed, and then you
start losing your temper and you start shouting as a character,
(13:16):
not just in life, but but then you just kind
of just drop into being real Irish and then you
start to try.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
And that was the kind of the thing that was
the hardest to figure out.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Did your mates call you out on your American accent
keep it into your Irish?
Speaker 3 (13:31):
Yeah, yeah, my mom would as well. I call my
mom and be like, I don't know who you were,
and I'm like, I'm just talking like me and they're like,
you're not just stopped doing this? This is this is
when then my mom would hang up on me.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
So yeah, that is really funny because yeah, his buddies
are always and then you get mad at yourself too,
Like today you said garage and you got really upset
about that when we were talking about our garage.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
Yeah, you see, you can change the accent, but you
got to keep your own words though, you know, if
you start saying trunk.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
And garage, you know, Listen, the other day I said
garden and that was like he caught me, and I'm like, no, no, no, no, sorry,
I mean backyard. Apologies, in our backyard, not in our garden.
But do you guys no, we say a garden is
the things.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
That you grow, so right, we actually grow stuff in
the garden.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
No, it's just our backyard. Mid Midwestern girl here. But
you know, okay, Ransom Canyon, how how fun you know?
Speaker 3 (14:34):
Was that?
Speaker 1 (14:35):
My heart's still a little sad, but I didn't get
cast it. It's fine, but but.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
But the brideside is that there's you know, hopefully Touch
would do the season two and they didn't come and
do that.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
I know, there you go.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
That would be so fun, A nice, fun group of
people and it's all like, you know, everyone knows what's
going on. You have a blast.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Well, I know. It premierees April seventeenth, and Alan was
saying there's a lot of nudity in it, because he's.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Like, yeah, no, no a trailer that unless it looks
really good, I got the date on this.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
Loads of nudity in this one.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
He's like, okay, yeah, he's He's like, I said that,
you would have been great for that. I was like,
remember we auditioned for it. And he's like, oh yeah,
there's too much nudity in this one.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
So too many kissing. But but yeah, so you I
thought it looked. It looks really good. It's Kina, like
a mixture.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Of Yellowstone meats, Yellowstone meats.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
Friday night lights.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Because great, not just because of Minca, but also because, yes, stylistically,
that does look that way.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
I've told Minka it's purely because.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Of she's sweet. Love her.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
Yeah, she's very nice.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
It looks good. It looks good. Watch Sam Josh de
Hamel like to work with me.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
He's incredibly, incredibly sweet, and incredibly chill and a lot
of fun. He makes some terrible jokes, some of which
you just have to kind of go, okay, we'll go
with it. But he's very funny and he's incredibly nice.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
I really is.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
He just had him He just had a little boy,
I think, just at the start when we're about to shoot,
and and it's funny then and then I just had
a little girl four months ago.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
So once he found congratulations you congrats.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
He was one of the first people I told on
set because he'd been talking to me about it, and
like I think, early on we're kind of hanging out,
he's like, you should be a dad, and I was like,
all right, and I hadn't. We hadn't told anybody we
were actually pregnant. And I was going, oh, yeah, I'll
just say that, and he goes, I don't know. I
just think and he goes, you know, and I'm a
dad and you should be a dad. And I was going, nah, nah,
I shouldn't be a dad. And then I told him
(16:40):
when I you know, he was one of the first
people I told because he was so he was so
generous about just his advice and about kind of being
a dad. About having a kid, and also about how
when he had his first son and it just changed
his way of acting, a way of being because he
just found being on set to be kind of a
lot more because you're not worried about, you know, they
(17:03):
kind of you're not worried about certain certain you know,
micro things.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
He might be as much like, I've got a I've
got a little.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
Person on the way, right, are you married not married
to You're just is that wedding bells in the future.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
Or the step of time? You know things, I can
do it once, you know, I die.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
I get that we had a we had a we
had a baby before we got married. Yeah, you know,
just the new way of the new way, the new
age way.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
It's very anti Irish and anti Scottish, it is really.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
I did not want to tell his mom. I was like,
you need to put a ring on it real fast,
because I do not want to break that woman's heart.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Well, you're right, though. It gives you a different perception
when when your your kids are born, because you're almost like,
like you said, you don't you don't sweat the small stuff.
One of my most successful seasons as a as a
footballer was the year that my my he's now he's
nearly eighteen now, but he was when the year he
was born, when I wasn't in any sleep, and but
(18:21):
you don't care about stuff like that. And I went
and had my most successful season the year that he
was born, because you forget, you don't you tend to, well,
that's I'm not worrying about. That doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
It puts a lot of things into perspective. And then
the reason that you work so hard is then for them,
not just for your own selfish not saying we're selfish
for wanting to work, but it's all the perspective put
in there.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
And then does that change as they get older and
you're like or is that just said the very start?
Speaker 1 (18:51):
I would say it's you you want to work even harder,
but you're also not going to miss certain things. So
like I've moved productions because I'm like, I'm not missing
their first day of school if they want me that
I'm coming in the next day, or I don't want
to miss their last game or their you know. So
it's when they start playing sports and doing it's like
it's I don't know, maybe it's different for men and women.
I think the mama mama guilt and that mama poll
(19:12):
is maybe a little bit not to just forget a
little different of the guys have that we're going to
provide and this is what we do and that's that.
But you as much as I can have them with me,
I always feel like I'm better at my job when
they're when we're all together as a family as opposed
to me on location and missing them and not having
(19:33):
them around.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
That makes sense, That makes sense.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Yeah, you're going to do great.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
Yeah, No, it's been a blast so far, you know,
so you know, we'll see, we'll see how's going.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
What's your character in Ransom Canyon?
Speaker 3 (19:48):
So I played Davis Collins, who does have his son.
So it was an interesting and interesting kind of thing.
Speaker 4 (19:55):
But he's the I guess is essentially a sort of
a love a bunch of different love triangles and Ransom,
which is what's kind of interesting about it because they
kind of have a different age groups going through. But
it's a little love triangle between myself, Josh and Minka,
and so Davis is trying to trying to get Quinn's affection.
But he's kind of a very complex, dark character and
(20:19):
a lot of the things he does are not exactly
they're a little bit nefarious. So but he from my perspective,
I think he balances it because he's doing everything for
his son, but the things that he's doing are not
necessarily good for everybody else.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
He's he's he's kind of he's got a lot of
darkness to him.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Buddy, So you're the bad guy.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Yes, I should have said that. Yes, but but he's
a bad guy. What have reasoned? Because he's got his
doing it for his son, right, see.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Justified behavior.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
I don't know if that's.
Speaker 4 (20:49):
It's okay if it's a weird child, right, sure?
Speaker 3 (20:56):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Do you.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
All this? I was like, God, this is a great
little start. I was like, how important kids are? And
I think and that's why it's okay.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
It's what has been your most challenging role that you've
in your career that you've played?
Speaker 4 (21:12):
Uh, The hardest thing I had to do actually was
I did a show called night Flyers about six seven
years ago, which is a George R. Martin Or book
that he wrote, and that was a Netflix thing, and
that was a very heavy sci science fiction type thing
with my Jeffrey Bueller and it was great, but it
(21:32):
was very heavy and very emotional, and that was like
one of the tougher, tougher projects to do, just because
so much of it was you know, when you're you're
kind of there's a there's a you know, you want
to you want to go play certain characters, and even
when they're kind of heavy, you want to have a
certain freedom to it.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
But this was just there was so much happening that
was all very.
Speaker 4 (21:51):
Writ to his past, and he had a dead child,
he had a dead wife, and I was trying to
save the future of mankind and you're in space and
everyone's going insane.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
So that was kind of a tough one.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Yeah, yeah, that sounds Dave. Do you want to ask
him anything as someone who wants to pursue acting world,
She says that in jest. I don't say that in jest.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
No, I tell you, I did go to I did
a bit of dabbled in acting school, and I actually
I did. I know you were you did a lot
of modeling back in the day, So I did a
bit of modeling.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
That's okay, as long as you did it with.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Ford back in the day. And I was going to
transition into the acting side. But at that time, I
was still playing professional football, as I was modeling and
I was playing professional football, and I was actually starting
the coaching business, but I wanted to go into the
acting side of it and started started classes at Evana
Chubbuck's place.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
Yeah she likes them, boys does.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
And I just couldn't. I couldn't sustain the time to
actually do it regularly and properly. It's like everything you
have to you have to master your craft and put
the time, and then I just couldn't prioritize it that
at that phase of my life. And I've always wanted to.
I've always wanted to go back and explore it. And
then we we have a baby, and it's like, okay,
(23:18):
no time again. But maybe one day, one day, I
was kind of, I'll get involved in it.
Speaker 4 (23:25):
Maybe maybe now is the time to do it when
you had a baby, because the priorities have, it become
a lot easier, right honestly, Because I mean so when
I first started acting, I always wanted to be professional
football or some envious But my very first movie actually
was playing football was a football movie, and I got
(23:45):
I got cast in it because I could play football
and because a lot of the other actors there couldn't
do it, and I hadn't done any I hadn't done
anything yet. But thankfully I could play football.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
And they're like, can you act?
Speaker 4 (23:56):
And I was going, I think so, And then I
was like, all right, you can play. We need somebody
who's like not terrible. But although the worst was we
ended playing against by my old football team at the
time for one of the one of the montage sequences,
and I couldn't. I couldn't perform against them because they
just spent the whole time ripping the pists out of me.
And they were trying to do they were trying to
do these set pieces and I don't know if you've
done it when you're trying to Actually, when you're trying
(24:17):
to do set pieces for football for a camera, it's
almost impossible, right because you're not.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
Thinking when you're trying. They're like, all right, we're going
to cross over here and you're gonna do a sort
of an overhead kick in the top corner.
Speaker 4 (24:27):
And I was going, am I I was like all right,
And of course I was against all my my old
mates and they just like just give me a little
pushing the ribs and just pushing the balance and then and.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
I'm like, god, you have to film this thing? They
getting paid the long over here?
Speaker 2 (24:43):
What movie was it?
Speaker 3 (24:44):
It was an Irish movie called Studs is Brendan Gleese
and Donald Gleason.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Oh I've seen it. I've seen it.
Speaker 4 (24:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
When you mentioned Brendan Gleeson, yeah absolutely, I have seen it.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
You seemed like every movie was it was it filmed
in like a country?
Speaker 3 (24:59):
So yeah, yeah, Irish is all?
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Yeah, yeah, absolutely, I remember that.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
Oh my goodness. Well we know you have a flight
to catch, So thank you for coming on, and everyone
watch Ransom Canyon and premieres April seventeenth. I cannot wait
to see the love triangle and the struggles for your son.
Speaker 4 (25:20):
And then the fariest bad guys love triangle justified, bad
guys justified.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Yes exactly. Thank you so much for coming on.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
Pleasures to meet you, guys. I did luck with everything.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
Thanks you too. Can look for acting.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
Thank you
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