All right, tell me about the movie I want.

I want to hear you to describe the movie.

And then what do you think it means?

Okay, um, so the movie, either.

My very quick pitch for the movie is that it's a body comedy adventure movie in which one of the bodies is dead.

It would be you that would be may I am the dead body.

You're the corpse on the court with a magical corpse.

Is he's a magical dead guy.

That's the term we sort of started using for him instead of zombie, because there's no kind of Zone B horror to money like he's a dead person that happens to be coming back to life.

But he's not like trying to eat your brain.

No, he doesn't even is there about, um, sweet on yet?

He's really sweet, Andi.

So that's sort of the broadly speaking.

That's the That's the quick pitch.

But I think it's a movie about accepting our own weirdness on.

Being kinder to each other is actually got a very sweet message.

That, I think is is it's about the idea that sort of, um shame, eyes.

What keeps us from love on dhe finding self acceptance and in doing that you'll be able to find love and happiness is like those of the themes of the movie that just dealt with in a kind of an archaic, uh in a way that people might have heard about online.

Paul Dano is stranded on a desert island.

He's a basket of suicide when he sees the corpse walk up what washed up on the beach and, um, really takes to this corpse, which has these magical powers you must have felt by the end of it, like you and Paul Dano had been lovers because so much of the emotion depends on line hit.

The physical contact between the two of you.

There's there's a lot of it.

There's a lot of it, and it started off really like Day one.

I think what they want office.

He was carrying me for some parts of it on pool really did like, I mean again, 99% of the movie he really is carrying or driving me rather than the dummy they had made just because that I think that only was only about like 30 or £40 lighter than me, and he was rather like, I'll just have the real thing.

It's fine, Um on.

But then, like there was, Ah, the one power that money has that I suggested was that I suggested that Paul should use my teeth to shave.

So, like on day one or two of the job, he's like opening my mouth and, like dragging my face down his cheek.

And then there's a scene on the boss where I'm getting excited.

He's he is talking me through the process of human excitement and what it is to get excited by something on dhe on, he says.

And then your heart's beating really fast and then let you start sweating and he spits on his hands to simulate sweat, just like rubs it in my face.

So because I'm dead, I can produce wet.

He's like, This is what's what feels like for a person.

And doing that shot was, I don't think I think there was.

I think the one take that is in the movies, the only take they had available to them that I did not laugh so I could because that was the point.

Whatever or throw up?

No, no, that's things like I was, I guess, like going into I'm no practice about So I was like, Yeah, it's fine, It's lighted Spirit is not gonna kill you.

But then like, But I was on, like, eye level with Paul's behind me during that.

And then you are our camera operator, Larkin, who is also losing hit thing.

And so it's Yeah, it was.

It was an incredibly fun shoot because it was it was insane every day and on duh get just a joy toe work.

There was no like hierarchy.

The crew and everybody was just We're all in it together.

And, yeah, it was wonderful on a lot of sets have been on.

Actors are very conscious about.

They're always breath mints around because actors were in each other's faces.

And I thought you and Paul Dano must have gone through so many breath mints in this movie.

I think we probably did, Yeah, yeah, I think that that there was a lot off a lot of that.

We also do case at one point in the movie underwater.

That's important Breath mint right there Yeah, exactly.

That's, you know, you wanna be very conscious of that.

But yeah, I think I think Paul and I just reached an acceptance very early on, like we're going to get super intimate physical with each other on this film.

There's also this very weird, like, incestuous triangle thing that's happened now we'll pull a nice girlfriend, Zed like, because my girlfriend Erin played Poole's wife in love and mercy, and Paul's girlfriend, Zoe, was with me.

And what if?

And now Paul and I have also kissed on screen, so it's a very leg.

It's sort of a Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice sort of situation.

Yeah, it's a very It's a very quirkily or like Caligula is Rome.

Yeah, like the late Roman Empire.

Yeah, for my career.