Aidan Turner and newcomer Ella Lily Hyland talk new tennis drama and reflect on Aidan's own big break. Report by Nelsonj. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00 Aidan and Ella, hello there.
00:01 Congratulations on the show.
00:05 Decent timing as well.
00:06 I mean, it's not long since the old,
00:08 what is it, Zendaya's Challenger sort of trailer came out.
00:10 I think getting people quite hot under the collar
00:12 for kind of raunchy tennis content.
00:15 You can't buy like marketing like that.
00:17 Are you guys hoping to kind of feed people's desires,
00:22 people's urge for this kind of content
00:24 before that comes out?
00:25 - I suppose that's, I mean,
00:26 it is coming out a week after Wembley, is that right?
00:28 Is it a week after? - Yes.
00:29 - I mean, I don't think that's by coincidence.
00:32 So I think there's certain thought
00:35 the marketing team would have with that.
00:37 But saying that, you know, I don't think it needs to,
00:39 it doesn't necessarily feel like it's a themed show
00:42 that would need to exist, you know,
00:43 at a certain time of the year or whatever.
00:45 I think it works at any stage.
00:48 'Cause I think the more you,
00:49 although it's obviously the title sake and stuff
00:52 is all tennis related and they're in this world of tennis,
00:54 I think anyone who watches it sort of very quickly
00:59 can see that it's about more than that.
01:01 And it's about the relationship between these characters
01:03 and where they go.
01:04 - I was thinking about the moral ambiguity
01:06 of relationships in sport in the way that people,
01:10 the pressures that people are willing to take
01:12 or impose on others in order to sort of like reach a goal,
01:15 which seems quite specific in sports, I think.
01:18 And I wondered if there was any parallels
01:21 in the world of acting for you guys
01:24 or pressures, undue pressures you've put on yourselves
01:27 to sort of achieve something
01:29 or whether this was a complete like sort of
01:31 fish out of water feeling for you guys
01:32 embodying characters like that.
01:34 - That's a good question.
01:35 - What do you think of that?
01:37 - God, I'm not sure.
01:38 I guess like you kind of understand something in your body
01:41 when you're doing it.
01:42 You're like, I get this.
01:43 Like I think there's power dynamics everywhere.
01:45 And also like, yeah, like the pressure to succeed, I guess.
01:50 - It's huge.
01:51 I mean, it's a ruthless business the same way, isn't it?
01:54 And I think like sport,
01:56 I've never really made that correlation
01:57 to what we do in sport, high end sport or whatever,
01:59 but you're competing with your friends all the time,
02:04 I suppose for roles or for different things.
02:06 And it's to keep that world still neutral and not,
02:11 somebody said to me before, like you don't,
02:14 I think comparisons are really hard
02:16 and I'm sure it exists in sport too.
02:18 Although there's a clear cut, like ranking,
02:21 where you lie in something so you can adjudicate
02:24 or you can tune, high tune things differently.
02:27 But with acting, it's not that kind of thing.
02:29 And you look at somebody else's career,
02:31 sometimes you might go,
02:32 oh, like they're working with these people.
02:33 I'd love to do that.
02:35 You know, they've got amazing reviews for this thing.
02:37 I would have liked them for that thing.
02:38 Or you're constantly doing it.
02:40 And I think that's, it's so harmful and it's so dangerous
02:44 'cause you just, you don't know,
02:46 you don't know what's going on with anyone
02:47 and what you can actually get from that.
02:50 'Cause it's not supportive.
02:52 It's just, I want, I'm just sort of like envious
02:54 of that thing.
02:55 And it doesn't, I don't think it helps creativity
02:57 or anything like it.
02:58 So yeah, in a world that I think can be as ruthless
03:01 as professional sports, I think maintaining still
03:05 like mental health relationships with your peers
03:08 and people you work with, you know,
03:10 stepping back from the business from time to time
03:12 and just getting, you know,
03:13 a relative sense of the landscape and not,
03:16 it's a business that can take over a little bit sometimes.
03:19 You go from one job to the next
03:20 and you're working for this thing
03:21 and to work with that.
03:22 And then you kind of, you know, years pass by
03:25 and that's all you are.
03:26 And it all feels a bit vacuous and like it's, you know.
03:30 So yeah, again, don't know if I answered your question,
03:33 but I do think-
03:34 - No, that was great.
03:34 That was really, that was thorough.
03:36 And whatever brought you guys to this show over the years,
03:39 I think it's certainly been worth it.
03:41 I can't believe it's 15 years since being human.
03:42 We don't have time to talk about that,
03:43 but I was looking at that, I was like, holy crap.
03:45 I can't, if anything, it's gonna make any of us feel old.
03:49 - Yeah, I'm working with somebody at the moment
03:50 who is a props guy who works on props
03:53 with the properties department on being human.
03:55 And he showed me a picture of both of us.
03:58 That was worth missing.
03:59 I mean, 15, I looked 35 years younger.
04:02 (laughing)
04:03 - Don't be daft, don't be daft.
04:04 But there's a lot of young, a great young cast on this
04:06 and you should definitely,
04:07 you should definitely get them onto that
04:08 if they missed it the first time around.
04:10 Guys, congratulations on the show.
04:12 I'd love to speak to you longer,
04:13 but you've got plenty more of these to do, I'm sure.
04:15 But all the best with it and have lovely summers.
04:19 - Cheers, you too.
04:20 Take care. Nice to speak to you. - Thank you.