Nicholas Hoult sits down to try and guess lines from some of his most well-known movies & TV shows. He discusses being on the "intense" shoot for 'Mad Max: Fury Road', talks about the time he was hit by a bus on set and teases what to expect from the upcoming films 'Nosferatu' and 'The Order.'
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00:00This is a quote that I said.
00:01I'm feeling better. I'm feeling better.
00:03I don't think you really believe that.
00:05This is so embarrassing.
00:07I've got the worst memory in the world.
00:08♪♪
00:12I'm nervous. Oh, here we go.
00:15Keep you safe. Oh, this is a simple one.
00:17This is from Warm Bodies,
00:18and that was kind of the main motto of my character,
00:21was just, keep you safe.
00:23Yeah.
00:24Keep you safe.
00:27I didn't have a lot of dialogue in that movie,
00:28which was kind of a brilliant thing.
00:29Whenever I'd look at the scenes, to be like,
00:31oh, I've got to prep for tomorrow on different projects,
00:33you'd be like, I've got so much dialogue to learn.
00:35Oh, no, how am I going to do it?
00:36On Warm Bodies, I'd look at the scenes,
00:37and I'd be like, grunt, keep you safe, got it.
00:41That was basically it, and then voiceover.
00:44So it was very easy to learn the dialogue for that movie.
00:46Keep you safe.
00:49He looked up at me with this delighted look and said,
00:52pussy.
00:55This is from The Great.
00:56He looked up at me with this delighted look
00:59and said, what was it?
01:02Pussy.
01:02This show has probably all of my favorite dialogue
01:06I've ever delivered, because Tony McNamara
01:09is just a wonderful writer, and it was dialogue
01:11that you'll never get to say in anything else, ever.
01:13And this is a scene where he's become this dying father.
01:16Elle Fanning's character, Catherine,
01:18is kind of not taking to motherhood so well.
01:20She's more concerned with matters of state
01:22and running the country,
01:23whereas Peter has become completely content
01:25to be a stay-at-home father and not be emperor anymore.
01:27And he bursts into an important meeting
01:29that she's doing or something, and he's so pleased
01:32with the fact that Paul has said his first word,
01:34and she's so upset and annoyed and disappointed
01:36because she realizes that she's raising a son
01:39probably to be like the father.
01:42But yeah, very funny.
01:45Do you say shallots or shallots?
01:47Shallots, shallots, shallots?
01:50I didn't know this, this is my line.
01:51Shallots, shallots.
01:52I think this is why I struggled with it,
01:54because I was like, I can't remember,
01:56I think I mispronounced it, even in English.
01:58I'm not a great foodie, and there was lots of things.
02:01This is from the menu, right?
02:03Sh, sh, sh, shallots.
02:04There were lots of things that I was sitting there
02:06and I'd be like, I don't know what this is.
02:07Amuse-bouche, I didn't know what amuse-bouche was.
02:10And I remember one day on, this was really silly of me,
02:12there's somebody on set one day being like,
02:14oh, cacio e pepe, and I was like, what is that?
02:17And they were like, cheese and pepper pasta.
02:18And I was like, oh, fantastic.
02:22Oh, okay, I know this one.
02:23There is a devil in this world, and I have met him.
02:27And that is from Nosferatu.
02:29There is a devil in this world, and I have met him.
02:33I played Thomas Hutter, and this is a scene
02:36that I have with Lily Rose Depp,
02:37where my character, you know, at the beginning of the film,
02:39he's quite naive.
02:41Lily obviously feels like her character,
02:43she feels like she has this darkness inside of her
02:45and is aware of this darkness in the world.
02:47And I think Thomas is someone who is kind of unaware
02:50and naive in terms of that inside of himself
02:54and of it in the world.
02:55And I think that's what the film explores
02:57really beautifully, and Robert Eggers, the director,
02:59does fantastically with this modern imagining of this story.
03:02And this is in a scene when Thomas has been
03:05to visit Count Orlok, and he's kind of experienced
03:07these horrors and this evil, and he knows what's coming
03:10and the terror that's coming for everyone in their city.
03:12So he's trying to convince Ellen to leave.
03:15He is aware that there is evil and a devil
03:17and all these horrible things out there,
03:19and he's trying to protect her from that.
03:21Oh, okay.
03:23Hey, fuck you, I got hit by a fucking bus,
03:26that fucks you up.
03:27Well, I've only been hit by a bus on one thing.
03:29Not true, I've been hit by a bus twice,
03:31but this must be from Skins.
03:33Hey, fuck you.
03:35I got hit by a fucking bus, that fucks you up.
03:36I played Tony Stone in Skins when I was 16, 17.
03:40A great show, like such a wonderful cast,
03:42and still a lot of the people from that show
03:44are some of my best friends,
03:45so I feel lucky to have been a part of it,
03:46because also, it was kind of quite progressive,
03:49I think, at the time, for what a teen drama could be.
03:52It really pushed the boundaries
03:54and set a new tone and idea about that for people.
03:58My character in that got hit by a bus,
03:59but I got actually hit by a bus
04:01filming a TV show called Keen Eddie.
04:02My character was meant to be getting bullied,
04:04and he got pulled out of bed in the middle of the night
04:06from his boarding school, tied to a chair in his boxers,
04:09and then hung from a bridge,
04:10and this double-decker bus was meant
04:12to drive towards me and stop,
04:13and the brakes locked up on the bus
04:16whilst we were doing this stunt,
04:17and the bus didn't stop.
04:19It was an old Routemaster, like the red London buses,
04:21and I saw it, and I was like,
04:22I'm sitting there just hanging in this chair
04:24with my arms tied and everything in my boxers,
04:25and then this bus is coming,
04:27and I'm like, that's not gonna stop, it's still going,
04:29so I put my foot out,
04:30and you know where they've got the number on the bus,
04:31like the 23 or whatever?
04:33I put my foot out, and it went through the glass of the bus,
04:36and then the bus did stop, but it hit into my leg,
04:39and the glass broke, and then it pushed me back,
04:41and I was just penduluming, hitting against the bus,
04:44and then I remember hearing my mum being like,
04:45get him down, get him down,
04:47and everyone was like, oh, this is terrible.
04:49We just hit that kid with a bus.
04:53Witness.
04:54Witness is from Mad Max Fury Road.
04:59Witness!
05:00This is when Nux believes that he's about to go to Valhalla
05:05and die in battle and reach his peak goal in life,
05:09I suppose.
05:10This is something that just before these war boys
05:12would commit suicide and do this,
05:13they would spray silver paint on their teeth
05:15and then jump into whatever fireball or destiny
05:20they were choosing for themselves,
05:22which is occasionally something
05:23that people still will say to me.
05:25Obviously, the environment of that set was so intense
05:28and loud, and the smell of petrol,
05:30and I remember all the engines would start up on the cars,
05:33and the hairs on my arm would stand up,
05:34and suddenly it was very intense
05:36and easy to get into that state.
05:38Plus, we had an incredible stunt team,
05:40and all the cast playing the war boys and all that,
05:42everyone would be so hyped up.
05:44Okay, I've got a couple of them now.
05:46After all, what is language for?
05:49I would imagine this is from Tolkien.
05:51Yes?
05:52After all, what is language for?
05:53It's not just the naming of things, is it?
05:55It's the lifeblood of a culture.
05:58The poignancy of this conversation
05:59is because the war has just been announced,
06:02and you're seeing all these people,
06:03all these young boys celebrating the idea of going to war,
06:06some celebrating, some thinking
06:08that it's gonna be a great adventure,
06:09and others realizing the horror
06:11of what could be about to come,
06:13and obviously that was something
06:14that influenced Tolkien's writing hugely.
06:16I mean, I reread The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit,
06:18and then just as a bit of a fun thing for me,
06:20I went back and watched the movies as well,
06:21because I was like, it doesn't hurt.
06:23It's research, technically, and I love the movies, so.
06:27I actually remember thinking
06:28he really, really means it this time.
06:31Is it from About a Boy?
06:33No.
06:34This is so embarrassing.
06:36I've got the worst memory in the world.
06:37Oh, it's from Renfield.
06:39Okay.
06:40I actually remember thinking
06:42he really, really means it this time.
06:46Nicolas Cage, who plays Dracula in the movie,
06:48has said that he's gonna care for me or do something nice,
06:50and my character has been duped once again.
06:53He's such a fun actor to be in scenes with,
06:55because the inspiration he brings,
06:57how he creates his characters,
06:59where he gets ideas from,
07:00he's a real cinephile and loves movies,
07:02and he's also bold in his performances.
07:04I love watching him, so to get a front row seat,
07:06to get to be in scenes with him,
07:08and to play opposite that is magic.
07:11I think it's the best time with him.
07:13Okay, what have we got here?
07:15That's your problem.
07:16You're running out of time,
07:17and you've got nothing to show for it.
07:19Okay, so this is Bob Matthews.
07:20This is from The Order.
07:21That's your problem.
07:22You're running out of time,
07:23and you've got nothing to show for it.
07:26This kind of ideology that the Aryan nation is pushing,
07:29and they believe that they can gradually take over Congress
07:33and the White House, and all these sorts of things,
07:34whereas Bob believes that progress
07:36isn't happening fast enough.
07:37He's taking the reins, I suppose,
07:39when you think about what he's planning
07:40and putting into motion.
07:42We would look through, learn about where Bob grew up,
07:45where he moved with his family,
07:46how he would have talked,
07:47but then also we found real audio of Bob as well,
07:50and so I could listen to him,
07:52and I didn't want to do a complete impression of his voice,
07:55but it meant that the accurate sounds
07:57that were very specific to him, I could get.
08:00I'm doing pretty well now.
08:01I started off to a shaky start.
08:02The war is well, we should sue for peace.
08:05I think this is from The Great as well.
08:06No?
08:07The war is well, we should sue for peace.
08:09I have no idea.
08:10Oh, it's from the favorite.
08:11The war is well, we should sue for peace.
08:13I just had a flash of being on set in my brain
08:17and throwing oranges at a naked man,
08:20and I was like, there's nothing sane about that movie.
08:22Emma, Rachel, and Olivia's performances in that movie
08:24are all so wonderful,
08:25and I think that's what's really interesting,
08:27the love triangle and the dynamic between all of them,
08:29and they're all equally insane and sane at times,
08:32and that's what's so great about the performances
08:34that Yorgos captures,
08:35it's like there's never one thing.
08:37You can love someone in one scene,
08:38and he really investigates the good and bad
08:40and the gray of human nature,
08:42and that's what's wonderful about the movie.
08:44Yeah, I don't think anyone's completely sane.
08:46Watch yourself.
08:47Show me what you're working with.
08:48Okay, this is an easy one.
08:49This is from About Boy.
08:50This is when Marcus, my character,
08:52is walking down the hallway,
08:54and he's listening to Mystical's rap album
08:56that he's just been gifted.
08:58Shake your, watch yourself.
09:00Shake your, show me what you're working with.
09:02That was one of the first rap albums I ever listened to,
09:06and I did listen to that album quite a lot.
09:08I can't remember what the album's called,
09:09to that Mystical album,
09:10but I know a lot of the lyrics to it,
09:11and it's also something funny
09:12with my older son at the moment.
09:14He started wearing over-ear headphones
09:16when we're on flights and stuff,
09:17and he can't control his volume when he's got them on,
09:20so he shouts so loud across a plane to me and stuff.
09:23He's not listening to Mystical.