Lashana Lynch & Eddie Redmayne have put their on spin on 'The Day of the Jackal' with their new Sky TV adaptation & the pair spoke to our Melissa Nathoo all about it. Report by Mccallumj. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00Guys, lovely to see you both. I so thoroughly enjoyed this. I probably got into it. I can't
00:06wait to see the rest of it now. Just tell me though, Eddie maybe, what it's been like
00:11reinventing one of cinema's most famous assassins. It's pretty cool.
00:17I'm not going to lie. So I grew up watching The Day of the Jackal, the original movie
00:21with Eva Fox and I loved that film. It was one of those VHSs in my family that was kind
00:27of completely worn through. So when the scripts arrived in my inbox, I opened them with great
00:33trepidation because when you hold something in such high esteem, you don't want to be
00:37the one to butcher it. But what I read was something completely contemporary. So it's
00:41set now that retained the DNA and the kind of love for the original, this love of the
00:49craft of being an assassin that I describe it as kind of being analogue rather than nowadays
00:55with computers and all that sort of stuff. It's really about the building of clever gadgets
00:59and the kind of planning and the chess playing. And I also just thought the Bianca character
01:06was so fully fledged and knotty and both of them were morally complicated that it was
01:12a no brainer for me.
01:13I love that also it was on VHS. That makes me feel so much better. Thank God. We're all
01:20that old. It's okay.
01:24Lashana, for you, is it MI5 or MI6?
01:27MI6.
01:28It is MI6. Honestly, that's always going to confuse me in my head.
01:31Me too. I'm exactly the same. I'm like, yeah, MI.
01:35She's an MI.
01:36Yeah, she's an MI. That's great. But you're our go-to girl for that, right?
01:39Oh, that's nice to hear.
01:41But that must be pretty cool when they come to you and you're like, yes, I know what I'm
01:44doing.
01:45Yeah. I mean, obviously there's a lot of training and experience to lean on there,
01:51but I do like to try and lean into the student of it all, or else you'll just get complacent.
01:58Really early on when I was doing weaponry training for No Time To Die, I was taught
02:04about how weaponry is like an extension of yourself.
02:07Right.
02:08And in molding that into what stunts look like for each character, you want them to
02:13have their own style.
02:14Yeah.
02:15No Time To Die's Nomi had a very clean, sharp, finessed style. And that's not to say that
02:21Bianca isn't completely trained and a specialist, but she's just a lot more rugged with it.
02:26Right.
02:27And I had to approach it differently, or else you would just see Nomi again. And that would
02:30be the bane of my life, to go back to this world and do the same thing again.
02:34Yes.
02:35Yes, I'm wearing a wig. She's not got short hair again. That's fantastic. We've got 10
02:40episodes. It's a TV show, not a film. But you want it to be completely different. You
02:45want to have a dead stamp on something that's going to, I don't know, push you further in
02:50your career as well, which is what it's doing.
02:52She's so clever, though.
02:53She's so clever.
02:54I love how she's just on it with everything. I'm curious whether the two of you are very
03:00good at figuring things out. When you watch a movie, do you already know who the killer
03:05is, or things like that? Because I feel like she's that kind of person. She's got it figured
03:09out in her head.
03:10She does. I don't. You know, I just thought of, is it The Accused? The Apple show that
03:20Jake Gyllenhaal did.
03:21Oh, Presumed Innocent.
03:22Presumed Innocent. I hate The Accused. I was convinced. Oh, it's the mum. Oh, no, it's
03:27the lawyer who's representing him. Every episode, it's a different person. I am useless when
03:32it comes to that.
03:33I love that you've referenced a TV series recently, because I remember I used to watch
03:36Poirot with my family when I was a kid, with David Suchet. Literally, I was nine or ten
03:42years old, and on a Saturday night, we'd get a Pizza Express takeaway, eat some pizza,
03:45and I'd be like, it's the old lady. And I never, we used to have bets. I never ever
03:50won.
03:51Really?
03:52So, answer your question.
03:53No.
03:54No, good. You're as useless as me.
03:55Great.
03:56We're all in it together. And obviously, we know Jackal is the codename for Jackal. Did
04:03you guys have codenames for each other? Or if you could give each other codenames, what
04:07would it be?
04:08What did you say the other day?
04:10I was asked this question the other day, and I have this thing where, in China, people,
04:15like, fans give you a nickname. And I arrived in China, and I was, they said, do you know
04:22what your nickname is?
04:23Oh, my God. I think I actually, I think.
04:25Do you know? Please say it again.
04:26I think we mentioned it in Fantastic Beasts, but please go ahead.
04:30Little Freckle.
04:31Little Freckle.
04:32So, maybe that, I think just maybe, maybe get rid of the little. Just give Freckle.
04:36I love that it's still stuck. I love that after all these years, that one's still stuck.
04:40I know. 42, and they're still calling me Little Freckle.
04:42Little Freckle.
04:43I'll take it. I'm in my 80s.
04:45Oh, that little Freckle.
04:47Gosh, I can sing it now. I have decided that I would like to go the Prince route and have
04:54a sign that you can't pronounce, but you can only write down.
04:57Show us what sign.
04:58Yeah, I was going to say.
04:59Oh, yeah. I decided this. I decided this.
05:01What's that?
05:02Is this?
05:03Not a wand. It's a feeling.
05:05It's a thing.
05:06It's a feeling and a thing.
05:07It involves arm and head and shoulder movement.
05:09Exactly. And shoulder. And your toes won't get involved as well. Literally.
05:13Oh, here it comes.
05:14Literally. And together we are the Little Freckle.
05:18Can't wait till I come in to you next time. I'll be like, how are you?
05:22Everyone's like, is she okay?
05:26And just tell me before I go, what is the coolest thing that you got to do for this
05:30series?
05:34You've got to exhale.
05:36Yeah, what was yours?
05:40You know what? It's a simple thing, but it was really important to me. I got to work
05:45with this wonderful-
05:48Actor.
05:49Other person outside of Eddie. I got to work with this brilliant young child actor, but
05:56she's grown now, called Florissa Kamara, who has played my daughter before for a Sky
06:00series, Bulletproof. And I'm just so proud of her. And I just felt like she was my daughter
06:05for all of those months. And that was like a warm feeling for me. Genuinely felt like
06:10I had a family. And I just love her. That's really nice when you get to work with people
06:17a second time and you see them grow. And I think I worked with her when she was eight
06:20years old, and now she's like 14, 15. And I'm just like, you're teaching me things.
06:25I was bouncing off of her. So of all the incredible things we got to do, that was like a nice
06:30thing for me.
06:32I'm going to run with that and say one of my favourite things was-
06:35Me.
06:36Was you.
06:38Outside of me.
06:39Mic drop.
06:41Perfect.
06:42No, no.
06:44I also got to work with an actress who I had not worked with. Last time I'd done television
06:49was about 10, 15 years ago on Birdsong. And I shot it in Budapest, which is where we shot
06:56this. And one day I was doing a scene with, and this actress walked in, this Hungarian
07:02actress, doing one scene. And we had shot together 15 years ago in Budapest. I hadn't
07:07seen her for 15 years. And she was there on set and she's so good. And on the last job
07:12she was playing a French woman and here she was playing a German funeral parlour owner.
07:18And it was just incredible to get to see her again.
07:20That's really nice. Well, guys, good luck with the rest of the show.
07:24Well, the rest of the show. The whole show.
07:25The show.
07:26And the rest that I will watch. Thank you so much. Lovely to see you.
07:30Lovely to see you too.
07:32Nice to meet you.