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  • Mr Is.

  • Thank you both.

  • Well, away from the acting.

  • Yeah, you're deep into your music stool and you spit.

  • That's right.

  • Yeah.

  • Yeah.

  • How long you been speaking for?

  • I've been speaking for ages, man.

  • About 15 years.

  • I mean, that's how we first met each other, I think, Jim.

  • And now I'm about to release a solo album.

  • Theo.

  • Later.

  • When you're gonna be performing your track.

  • Where you from?

  • What?

  • What is the track about?

  • The people have asked you that question when they go, like so.

  • Where you from?

  • Would you be Bridgeton?

  • What does a minute?

  • Let me put it to told in your waistcoat.

  • Know you check it out, just like in the field, you know, decide that result in the voice and the way.

  • It's kind of about that.

  • In a way.

  • You know what some people ask you?

  • Where you from in already?

  • Sure that.

  • What do you mean?

  • Like, do you mean like, if I say Wembley, are you gonna be like now?

  • But where you really from?

  • It's about that annoying question of right now.

  • It feels that we're going really fast in two different directions.

  • On the one hand, he really man prime time.

  • We got big, nasty mode.

  • They have taken over the chat show game in the UK So big yourselves up, Theo.

  • On other direction, we've kind of got this other movement with people.

  • I want my country back on it to go back to a time when it was, you know, simpler and people weren't talking funny languages.

  • Andi feels that it's just like a really divided time right now.

  • So it's about someone asking you that question.

  • You got a simple answer, though.

  • It seems like you guys saw the way you say that because you just stood up like Brixton.

  • What thing?

  • I know something.

  • What's gonna break your mind?

  • You know, you start the shifty film.

  • Yeah, Yeah, I'm from Hollow.

  • Yeah, I know the real shifty.

  • It's a guest.

  • It's so fucking custody.

  • That's kind of scary.

  • Can we not talk about the real drug dealers that this film is about?

  • I've been trying to lay low for a little.

  • I've found out that you got cast in the film because of you, because your haircut originally well, my film career started because of a bad haircut.

  • Yeah, Yeah, that's the film was wailing in it.

  • So explain this story.

  • Basically, I was at drama school on a drama school, had this thing called a showcase.

  • And I thought, Let me get fresh cut on dhe.

  • I just want some random barbers.

  • And he gave me a straight up bowl cut.

  • And the crazy thing is, accosting director came to my drama school that day and was costing a film with the main character from real life.

  • You look just like me with that.

  • So the only reason I got my first job as an actor is because I accidentally had that bad haircut.

  • So I got that.

  • Did that film went to Afghanistan?

  • Amazing weed in Afghanistan.

  • But come on.

  • So when this film in Afghanistan and was called the road to Guantanamo was about this true life story these guys that were locked up in Guantanamo Bay and we finished that film come back, go to Berlin Film Festival, win an award.

  • We land back at Luton Airport now on British Intelligence Service Is all there waiting for us and start going.

  • Why did you make a film You know about this?

  • Did you become an actor to further the Muslim struggle and I was now became a nectar to get goes.

  • This is no why.

  • And so I came out that they were like this and you should sue the government.

  • You should give an interview about it.

  • And I thought, You know what?

  • I don't want a first time on TV to be is a victim I want to make Some are about it.

  • So I made my first rap song, post 9 11 Blues, and when I was making a music video for it, the only director was desperate enough to make.

  • It was this guy.

  • Aaron Creavy made that music video within became friends.

  • Three months later, he's like, Yo, I got film called Shifted You want to do So.

  • That's the long way around about bad hair up into me up here.

  • Did you also auditioned for Slumdog Millionaire as well?

  • Yeah, we're not talk about that.

  • So I've really wanted this role.

  • Obviously turned out to be an amazing film, you know?

  • So I went for this audition, and Danny Boyle, the director, is amazing guy, super friendly, you know, he said, I was a bit nervous and it was an argument scene And so we were doing the reading, and I was a bit shook.

  • And then he said, You know what's gonna put the script down?

  • I just really have an argument with me.

  • You know, you can You can, you know, you can come at me, Do whatever you want.

  • I'm not sure I can't quite remember exactly what happened next.

  • I remember when he called Cut.

  • I had him up against the wall with his show.

  • I just heard car and I just looked up.

  • Is that thank you very much for So yes, I got bit excited.

  • Start was years ago, You know, the O ther e mail saying are like that.

  • So it was like a non disclosure things.

  • You couldn't say anything.

  • Goodbye.

  • So it was like, you know, my manager said, art is this, you know, audition.

  • That's come up for a huge film.

  • So I call.

  • And then it's like Star Wars.

  • In my mind, I don't tell no one in it.

  • Listen, I was in the barbershop.

  • A film.

  • You know what kind of food you are going to be, What 1 may You're Well, we're Norman.

  • You got me and stop Johnson vision yet I'm gassed.

  • And I think you know what?

  • What role do I want?

  • I might mean stormtrooper, You know, the double light sabre way.

  • In addition, Richard, I know you're right.

  • Okay, That's a script to give you two minutes.

  • Read it.

  • Yes.

  • Two minutes.

  • We mean to you.

  • It is.

  • Listen, this was the lights.

  • This was the right thing.

  • The woman.

  • Okay, when you're ready.

  • But no, stop.

  • Wait, wait.

  • Get a polish.

  • I was watching that way.

  • You know what it's really like.

  • Amazing things like Buckingham Palace.

  • You met the queen was not meeting their Her Royal Highness.

  • What was that?

  • The queen?

  • That was all could I was a good man.

  • I mean, so it's really weird because first we're going to the castle and we have to form a long line on Basic.

  • When you go up to me or there's two people stood on the side of a and they read out your name and we blow the people.

  • There was like a British film industry thing like addresses, their loads of people there squeal, lining up.

  • I'm gonna go to my attorney when you know res are made actor.

  • She put a handle on this.

  • Exactly.

  • So where you going to do so?

  • I would like this security of shit go like this.

  • I think I'm gonna punch the queen.

  • So if you imagine so at this point, she goes last minute like this, I was gonna go like this.

  • So in the end, I just went.

Mr Is.

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