Jude: Yeah, ya know, he�s about, you must ask him, he�s about to ride around the world I think with his friend on his bike. He�s gonna try and do a circumnavigation [makes circular motion with finger].

Jay: Ride around the world� [looks at watch] Well doesn�t that take a lot of time?

Jude: It does, and it gets very wet as well� on a motorbike.

Jay:
Now do you guys ever get into trouble together? Do you ever sort of�

Jude: Um� I remember we celebrate, uh� firework night, you know we have Guy Fawkes night on the fifth of November [an audience member goes �Woo!�, Jude realizes this and is kind of surprised, so he looks out at the audience, throws his arm up and whispers �Yeah!�, and the audience screams and laughs and more �Woo!�s are heard] and, uh, we set off a few fireworks I seem to remember one very� sober evening [starts laughing to himself] back in November, yeah, 10 years ago.

Jay: Did you get arrested?

Jude: [perks up] No no! No no no, �cause I mean, that�s the thing. Because it�s sort of a pro royal, the whole Guy Fawkes night, you just get [says a word I can�t understand here, sounds like �kitsing�?] off fireworks for weeks. You walk straight into a shop and buy, you know, �Seven bangers please and fourteen rockets, thank you�.

Jay: Wow.

Jude: And you walk out and set �em off. It�s kind of crazy, isn�t it?

Jay: So you didn�t get into trouble.

Jude: Well, no�

Jay: See? That�s not getting in trouble.

Jude: Oh, you�re right, no�

Jay: So you just followed the lay of the law, and you did exactly as you were told.

Jude: That�s right. Set off minor explosions on your roof [smiles].

Jay: Now I didn�t say �did you have a goody-two-shoes experience?� [Jude laughs] I said did you have a�

Jude: You must ask Ewan when he�s on�

Jay: Yes�

Jude: About his brother Colin, �cause his brother is in the RAF.

Jay: Okay� that�s their air force.

Jude: [turns to the audience, to make sure they understand] Their Royal Air Force� and was at the time working at the Ministry of Defense�I think for certain divisions you have to work for the Ministry of Defense� so he would go off to work just as we were kind of coming in and I always remembered poor Colin coming in with his tie and his sort of overcoat on [smiles] and there�d be me and Ewan, you know, in a state of disarray, going [waves in the distance and
says in a tired, goofy, kind of wiped out tone] �Morning Colin!� [audience laughs] �Say hello to the Prime Minister for us!� [audience laughs some more] and all that�

Jay: It felt good knowing he was protecting you guys.

Jude: [laughs] Exactly.

Jay: Now I know you�ve done a lot of theater.

Jude: [perks up a little] Yes.

Jay: Have you been injured or have you had an experience that was like one of those nightmare�
Jude: I work a lot at the Young Vic, which is this terrific theater in south London. Uh, I did Faustus there, actually, last year which is the� Marlowe, famous Marlowe play about the guy who sells his soul to the devil.

Jay:
Oh okay, okay�

Jude: [licks lips] We had�I had a bad experience, actually. I got very sick in that play, lost a lot of weight, um� just �cause it was so exhausting, I was just sort of dehydrated every night, and um� we do fundraisers there because it�s a very, it�s a low budget theater, they run on a shoe string, and we have these nights where you invite, uh� celebrity audiences and they pay high prices for tickets and the tickets prices�eh, sales go towards the theater. And� the play was going so brilliantly and literally 10, 20 minutes in, just as I�m about to write my kind of contract with the devil in my own blood, I cut my hand open [holds up hand to show Jay and points where he was cut] you can see it there, you can see that scar there and there.

Jay: Oh, yeah, okay.

Jude:
And so I just start bleeding profusely from my hand, like I�d bandage it up [imitates this by pretending to wrap something around his hand] and of course the audience thinks �this is fantastic, it�s so realistic!� [audience laughs]

Jay: This is method acting!

Jude: [spreads arms apart] And blood all over the stage� I played it up of course, and used my own blood that night!

Jay:
And the show must go on!

Jude:
[very seriously] Always.
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