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-Keira, thank you so much for coming on the show.
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It's so good to see you. -And you. Thank you.
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-I love that room you're in. What room are you in?
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-I'm in the garage. I'm in the garage.
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And my -- No, but this is so --
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The garage got converted sort of to a studio,
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music studio, because my husband's a musician.
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-Yep.
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-But I've basically been told that I'm not allowed
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to touch anything if I'm in here.
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So, like, the terror.
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I don't know what all of this stuff is.
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But, like, he's literally been like,
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"You touch anything, I'll know about it."
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So I've kind of sat here like this in the garage.
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-No, yeah, exactly. -Yeah, so, that's where I am.
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-There's little nodules and knobs and things that you go,
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"Oh, if you mess with one thing --" No.
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-No. You know, I had to plug my phone in a thing,
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and he's like, "Whoa, whoa!
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What are you doing?!"
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And, so, I mean, everything is --
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-Don't even look at it! Don't even look at it!
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. -No. It's the room of terror.
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Yeah, so, I'm in here.
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But the good news is that there's sort of soundproofing
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so you won't hear what's going on upstairs,
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which is I think my 5-year-old going completely ballistic,
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because it's bedtime and mommy's is not putting her to bed.
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Daddy's putting her to bed, so the whole house is in carnage.
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And I'm locked in the basement, so it's great.
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-Everything's great. Congratulations, by the way.
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You had another baby since I last saw you.
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-Yes. -How is she doing?
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How old? -She's good.
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Well, she's like -- She's a year now, yeah.
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And, you know, we went into lockdown
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when she was about 6 months, so she's had a very strange life.
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And, you know -- And that sort of involved
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my then-4-year-old, who turned 5 in lockdown,
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sort of running around her a lot, you know,
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because we couldn't go out.
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So she's running around her.
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And the baby, who I thought would be sat
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and very easy to look after for quite a while,
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at 9 months, just decided to get up and start walking.
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-No.
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-Which I didn't even think was possible,
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because her feet were like this.
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It didn't look physically possible.
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Her feet were that big. -I love those babies.
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Yeah, yeah. I know that.
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-There's little, tiny --
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You know, big butts and, like, tiny, little feet.
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And I think at any other point, if we hadn't been locked down,
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I would have been like, "Whoa!
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My kid's a genius."
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And, as it was, I was just like, "Sit the [bleep] down.
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We are not ready for this, as well."
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-Like, "Come on. Just go back to crawling."
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-Yes, crawling. Anything. -Skipped over crawling.
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-She didn't crawl at all.
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Like, we put her on her belly to crawl,
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and she'd look at you like,
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"What the [bleep] are you doing?"
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-Like, "This is ridiculous.
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Let me show you what I'm about to do,"
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and starts walking around.
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-Yeah, so it's walking.
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-We talked about your oldest daughter's obsession with
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"Paw Patrol" last time.
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Is she still in that phase or no?
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Something else.
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-No, that phase is gone, and now it's The Beatles.
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-[ Gasps ] Oh, how fun. -Yes.
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I mean, yes, it is fun. It's fun.
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So, she -- But it's really obsessive.
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So it will be -- She knows all of the --
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Well, there's four films, which, you know,
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I'm a fan of the Beatles, but the films aren't that great.
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But we watch the films on a loop.
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So, "Hard Day's Night" --
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she literally knows all the words to "Hard Day's Night."
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Every time -- Paul McCartney is her big one,
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and every time Paul McCartney comes on the screen,
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she just screams.
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-[ Gasps ] She loves them.
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-And we didn't even tell her that that was a thing, you know,
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with The Beatles, that people scream.
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But she just has this natural reaction
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where she must scream at Paul McCartney
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every time she sees him.
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-No way. Isn't that bizarre? -Yeah. It's quite weird.
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-How did you get her into it? Is that you or your husband?
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-It was not me.
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It was the person that this belongs to.
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-Yeah. I love -- I remember listening to, like --
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Did she start off with, like, "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da"
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and, like, go from there?
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-Yeah, we did a bit of "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da,"
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and then, you know, you think,
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"Oh, it's going to be 'Yellow Submarine,'
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and it's not, but her favorite album is "Abbey Road,"
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and "Oh! Darling" is her favorite track.
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You know, I mean, she's deep in. She's, like -- She's deep in.
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And, before that, you know, last year,
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it was Kate Bush.
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And she was so obsessed with Kate Bush
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that if we wanted to listen to anything else,
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we had to pretend that they were related to Kate Bush
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in some way.
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So it was, you know, Bob Marley Bush
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and PJ Harvey Bush and, you know, all of this.
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Yeah, it's like sneaking the veggies in with the food, yeah.
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-Yeah, exactly.
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You know, you're kind of getting it all in there.
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So, now it's only friends of The Beatles.
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We're allowed to listen to friends of The Beatles.
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-Now, is other kids her age
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into The Beatles or any idea what --
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-No. -No, nothing.
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-No. So, I think this has been a bit of a problem,
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because schools have just reopened here.
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So she's just gone back to school,
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which, you know, has been tricky, because at home,
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she's just been watching the iPad
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and having chocolate shoved down her throat
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to try and get her to do schoolwork.
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And now she's going to school, and, obviously,
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yeah, that's not happening anymore.
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So, yeah, but the other thing is that all of the kids
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obviously think she's a bit weird
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because they're not into The Beatles,
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and when she tries --
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And she really has a lot of knowledge,
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so she'll talk about Ravi Shankar
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and she'll talk about sitar playing
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and she'll do the whole thing.
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-What?! That is awesome.
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-So, I think that's what we managed to do during lockdown
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was create a Beatles maniac,
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but maybe reading and writing -- not so much.
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-No. Hey, look, you start with The Beatles,
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that's a good investment.
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-So far, her record has been nine hours
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listening to them solidly.
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-Wow.
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-And, yeah -- Yeah, it's been intense.
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But she does actually -- At the moment,
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she's saying that what she really wants
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for her birthday party when she's 6
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is a Beatles birthday party.
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And she wants it "Sgt. Pepper's"-themed
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and she wants to go as Paul McCartney,
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which I'm so hoping happens.
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But I feel like, you know, she's back at school,
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and all the kids are looking at her like she's a freak.
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And it's going to be, like,
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princess, sparkly, unicorn party, you know?
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-That's where I'm at, too.
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I'm at princess sparkly unicorn, yeah.
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But You could throw in a couple of ob-la-dis or ob-la-das.
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-Yeah. -Yeah.
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-The walrus man will maybe come into
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the princess-sparkly party at some point.
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-Right? Why not? -Why not?
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-I was reading you had an obsession growing up
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that wasn't as popular in other kids's houses.
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-Yeah. It was "The Godfather."
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-How did you get ahold --
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How did you watch "The Godfather?"
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-Well, I was about 11 or 12, and I think --
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You know, it was back in the time when we had VHSes,
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and my parents had the video.
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So, I stole the video.
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I think I'd watched it -- I really remember watching it
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through, like, the banisters or the stair
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and, like, being, "This is the best thing
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that I've ever seen in my life."
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And so I stole it and I'd watch it secretly.
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But so much that I actually knew the whole thing off by heart.
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I was, like, completely obsessed,
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and I lost friends over it, because friends would come over,
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and I'd be like, "We've got to watch 'The Godfather.'"
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And they'd be obviously more interested in
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princess-sparkly things.
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-Who did you like being?
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Were you Marlon Brando? Were you Al Pacino?
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Were you -- -No, I was Al Pacino.
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I was Michael Corleone. -[ Gasps ]
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-So you were slowly closing your door and stuff.
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-Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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And, you know, that kind of psychotic
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sort of quiet, brooding power.
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I mean, oh, I loved it. Oh!
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I mean, literally when I was 11.
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I mean, power-hungry 11, wannabe Mafia boss.
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You can see it, right?
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It's, like, obvious in my casting.
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That's what I should be.
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-Now I'm going to look more every time I look at your films
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and be like, "Oh, that's --
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She's doing Al Pacino right there.
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I can see it." -Yeah, yeah.
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That's the Al Pacino moment.
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-Can I tell you? This is a real, true thing.
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This is before I was even researching you
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coming on the show.
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The last two days, two of my friends, separate friends,
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told me that they watched "Pride & Prejudice"
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and how much they loved it.
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-Oh, that's nice. -And I go, "That's so bizarre."
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I go, "Keira's coming on like today."
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I go, "I just had these discussions
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with two separate people about how much they love it
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and they love the direction."
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People were talking about Joe Wright,
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and I was saying how fun he is, 'cause I hung out with him
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years ago, and we had just fun.
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But I'm like, "It is great. I haven't seen it in so long."
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But it's bizarre that, like, you're on, like,
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all these different lists of quarantine viewing.
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-Am I?
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-Yes. -That's -- Oh.
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I mean, I understand it with -- Yeah, "Pride & Prejudice,"
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because it's so pretty and lovely,
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and you sort of want to, you know --
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We all want to live in that land, don't you?
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It's like, "That would be nice." -Yeah, you don't want reality.
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-Yeah. No, no, we definitely don't want reality.
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We want, like, you know, a nice party
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where everybody is lovely.
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Yeah, no, that's lovely.
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But it's funny, because I didn't know that,
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but I have been being recognized an awful lot
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walking around the street, and I'm not normally.
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And it's weird, because I've got a mask on, as well,
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so I'm not quite sure how people are recognizing me.
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But maybe it's because I'm clearly --
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I'm on these quarantine lists, which is great, you know?
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-It is.
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I want to talk about your new film, "Misbehaviour."
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Would you mind sticking around for a few more minutes?
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-Absolutely.
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-Thank you.
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More with Keira Knightley after the break.
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Come on back, everybody.