New video with Rock-n-Rolla

[Dianne]

I will do my best to get the text going by tonight.




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Here's the text...

Interviewer: We’ll talk about drugs and any homosexual experiences you’ve had…{LOL! Look at Gerry’s face, after he asks that!}

Gerry: Uh Huh…

Interviewer: Move on with the film and finish with the <mumbles>… Cool… You’re not quite awake yet…

Gerry: I know… You kinda had me there as well…. Let’s see…heroin, ummm… I was like 16 or 17 and I let guys kiss me…

Interviewer: First of all when coming to a character like One Two, he’s like a lovable rogue or a criminal and I wonder if it’s easy to tap into that because you know we got to like him and we do like him but is it just fun to do, or is there a little bit of work involved?

Gerry: I don’t think that there’s too much work involved. I would like to say that I came and hung out with gangs for two months..no… but we went and visited this speiler (?) and hung out there for a little bit. But other than that, I didn’t see these guys. Nobody on the street would look at these guys and automatically think that they are criminals. They don’t necessarily act like that, it’s more like you put these guys in that situation and that’s how they are and that… and you know instinctively how to be that way. There is a Richie-ism… there’s a way to be and you try to relax in it so that’s what I did, and Guy seemed pretty happy with it so.

Interviewer: Guy seemed to be tapping into Lock Stock and Snatch and it seems like a very healthy thing to do given that Revolver and Swept Away didn’t quite hit the mark for a lot of people. Were you, was there <mumbles> is he going to try to revisit something here, will I be able to do it justice, he’s planning on a trilogy, do I really want too at involved in this or?

Gerry: I just took it at face value, you know? I have… I’m a big fan of Lock Stock and Snatch. I knew this was more like this than that, than anything and I also knew it was Guy Richie and the point is he made those movies. And I think with other directors you maybe a little more cynical but I read the script, I loved it, I loved my roll. I looked at who else was in the film and I thought this is going to be a riot, that was it, this is going to be a lot of fun and I’ve seen the movie and that’s exactly what it is… a riot.

Interviewer: I met you a few times through out the years; your first film in 97 Mrs. Brown. The moments especially like with Dracula and Phantom of the Opera, and Dracula and all that, you think this is going to happen and all that but really the film that began 300 was more like later on and I don’t know whether it’s everything you ever imagined in regards to breaking through like that whether it was a real wonderful sense of, of achievement or another day at the office or…

Gerry: It was neither really it wasn’t another day at the office and it wasn’t a wonderful sense of achievement it was done and was very hard to come to terms with, 300 did well… it was a phenomenon in a way and you know it was kind of hard to accept and it was only about a few months later that things started to settle in and you got used too what that meant and you could see how it had effected my life and… So then I would say it was 50% another day at the office and the other thing you said which I never forget.

Interviewer: You got quite a few interesting films, you got the Untouchables hopefully with the Jimmy Malone thing and I’m not sure if that’s going to happen or not. But just quickly let me mention P.S. I Love You being that I’m from Ireland, I know you’ve been there before for Ring of Fire and all that. The Irish accent is very difficult; I can’t do the Scottish accent and I know you kind of have a feeling of where I’m heading. Was that I kind of daunting thing for you to do? You were you thinking I’ve been to Ireland enough to know that they’ll accept this, this is Irish America you can be a little bit….

Gerry: I was hoping that they be a little forgiving of me being that me being a little Scots boy whose whole family is Irish, you know cause they really are, my family is from all over Ireland so and I also thought that film… when I read that film in a very kind of innocent was it was so like kinda beautiful to watch Ireland and and the Irish people so I’d just go in there and do my best and I notice when people bring it up they try not to say anything and I get the feeling that it wasn’t that good, cause they always go… It was awesome! So the Irish accent…I can tell….

Interviewer: It was fine, it was fine, but if you want to apologize?

Gerry: I would like to apologize to the nation of Ireland for completely abusing your accent, I realize it’s a much more beautiful language and accent than what I, what I gave but I tried my best… I made you look like funny people.

Interviewer: Rock-n-Rolla, good to talk to you sir.

<Note from me… This was one of the hardest interviews I have done text for with the interviewer. He talked very fast and a couple of his questions ran on and on and they didn’t quite make sense but here it is…>

[Leppardlady]

Awww... he was so cute in that interview. Thanks for sharing that, Dianne. I don't think he has the Untouchables on his roster anymore; it wasn't on IMDB anyway. That makes me sad because I would like to see Gerry in that one.

[Dianne]

Stop the video right in the beginning when the interviewer asks about drugs and homosexual experiences. Thw look on Gerry's face is priceless!

[dawne27]

Dianne - thanks for the dialog (sp?) for some reason couldn't see/hear the web. it's amazing how you can script word for word these conversations. english spoken not same as written, very awkward. none the less, GB gives good 'talk'...i thought he did well with the irish brogue. it sounded authentic (i was raised with it). : ) + irish/italians (yippy-skippy)

[Dianne]

Jan 31, 2009 15:20:25 GMT -5 dawne27 said:

Dianne - thanks for the dialog (sp?) for some reason couldn't see/hear the web. it's amazing how you can script word for word these conversations. english spoken not same as written, very awkward. none the less, GB gives good 'talk'...i thought he did well with the irish brogue. it sounded authentic (i was raised with it). : ) + irish/italians (yippy-skippy)

Thanks Dawn, I try to get most of what is said. It's funny listening to it and reading the text gives you a whole lot of perspective. I must say this was one of the most difficult ones I did because the interviewer spoke so fast without taking a breath and a lot of his questions weren't questions at all. They were kind of observations and Gerry went with it.

I am also not used to the Irish accent and I found I wanted to listen to the rhythum of his speach rather than what he was saying. I really think that is the problem Gerry had when he came to the USA. He said people would talk to him and they would say, "I love your accent but I didn't catch a word of it." It's kind of like you want to listen to the accent like its a song without listening to the words, its not that Gerry and this other guy don't talk clearly, they do. I don't have that problem with Gerry's accent anymore or the English accent, probably because the English accent is so familiar.

[Leppardlady]

I get so entrance with Gerry's voice that, I too, will miss what he's saying. The man distracts me, but in a very good way.

[Dianne]

Feb 2, 2009 23:10:59 GMT -5 Leppardlady said:

I get so entrance with Gerry's voice that, I too, will miss what he's saying. The man distracts me, but in a very good way.

He does have a beautiful accent. I knew a gal from Australia and the Australian accent is so cool. I had a hard time understanding her at first because her accent would distract me. One accent that I am very familiar with is the German accent, I had a couple of close friends growing up whose parents were from Germany and I and then my church is founded by German people that came to the USA sometime after WWII. So I am very used to hearing it.