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  • >> James: NOW PATRICK, I DON'T KNOW IF PEOPLE KNOW THIS ABOUT

  • YOU, YOU STARTED OUT YOUR CAREER, BEFORE YOU BECAME AN

  • ACTOR, YOU WERE A JOURNALIST.

  • I DIDN'T KNOW THIS, WHAT SORT OF STORIES DID YOU COVER?

  • >> WELL, JOURNALIST IS A RATHER AGGRANDIOZE TERM STO DESCRIBE

  • WHAT I DID, I WAS 15RBGS MY EDUCATION WAS OVER BUT STRINGS

  • WERE PULLED IN THE ROTARY CLUB AND I-- MY HEAD MASTER HAD GOT

  • ME A JOB BECAUSE SHE KNEW THE EDITOR ON OUR LOCAL WEEKLY

  • NEWSPAPER.

  • I WAS A JUNIOR REPORTER.

  • BUT I HAD MY OWN LITTLE DISTRICT.

  • BUT THE PROBLEM WAS I HAD ALREADY STARTED ACTING.

  • >> RIGHT.

  • >> James.

  • >> I WAS SO OBSESSED WITH AMATEUR THEATRICS AND I WAS

  • WORKING WITH THREE OR FOUR COMPANIES SIMULTANEOUSLY IN THE

  • EVENING.

  • BUT JOURNALISTS HAVE TO WORK IN THE EVENING, SO I GOT INTO THE

  • HABIT OF BEING A LITTLE CREATIVE AND INVENTING STORIES.

  • >> FAKE NEWS, THAT IS WHERE IT STARTED.

  • >> AND ONE NIGHT.

  • >> James: WERE YOU THE FIRST FACEBOOK.

  • >> YES, HEY, THAT COULD BE MY BYLINE.

  • >> James: THERE ST. >> ANYWAY ONE NIGHT THE EDITORS

  • PHONE RANG AND THEY SAID THERE IS A HUGE FIRE IN A MILL, I

  • LIVED IN AN INDUSTRIAL TOWN.

  • HUGE FIRE IN THE MILL IN THE MIDDLE OF MEURFIELD AND WE HAVE

  • TO SEND SOMEBODY OVER THERE RIGHT NOW.

  • AND SOME EDITOR SAID OH NO, PATRICK IS AT A COUNCIL MEETING,

  • RIGHTS THERE ALONGSIDE THE MLKER IS HE ON THE JOB.

  • WE DON'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT ANYTHING.

  • SO I WAS AT A REHEARSAL.

  • AND SOMEBODY WAS GOING TO CALL ME IN THE EVENT, SO THE NEXT

  • MORNING I WAS CALLED INTO HIS OFFICE AND HE SAID PATRICK,

  • OKAY, YOU GIVE UP THIS STUPID ACTING LARK YOU ARE ON AND YOU

  • WORK AT BECOMING A JOURNALIST OR GET OFF MY NEWSPAPER.

  • AND I WENT UPSTAIRS AND PACKED UP MY TYPE WRITER AND WENT HOME

  • AND SAID TO MY PARENTS I'M GOING TO BE AN ACTOR.

  • >> James: AND THANK GOD YOU DID.

  • WE'LL BE RIGHT BACK WITH MORE OF THE SHOW.

>> James: NOW PATRICK, I DON'T KNOW IF PEOPLE KNOW THIS ABOUT

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