Sope Dirisu talks meeting Gary Lineker & Gangs of London S3 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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00:00I felt like a cat sometimes, just like wriggling out.
00:02How are you watching out here?
00:03I swear like TV's embargoed and everything.
00:05Maybe until I've like confronted him and be like,
00:07hi, I love your work.
00:09I loved you as a footballer.
00:10Soppy, how you doing, mate?
00:11Yeah, I'm good, thank you.
00:12I'm very well, mate, I'm very well.
00:13Congratulations on the show.
00:14Thank you very much.
00:16It's always good to do one of these
00:17when I'm already a fan of the show
00:19and the message goes around the office and like,
00:20do you watch this?
00:21I'm like, yeah, I'm already, I'm too serious deep, mate.
00:23I'm in, I'm in.
00:25Third one down, how are the knees, how are the elbows?
00:28You know what?
00:29I'm so grateful to the stunt team
00:31for keeping me all in one piece.
00:33I don't think I've ever got like a serious injury
00:35doing the show, which is crazy
00:37because I take pride in doing a lot of my own stunts.
00:40I remember in the second season,
00:42I got thrown over Billy's back and landed.
00:45And then normally we'd absolutely have a stunt man
00:46doing this because we couldn't pad the floor.
00:48So like, are you okay today?
00:49I was like, yeah, let's do it again and again and again.
00:52And I just found a way to sort of either disregard
00:55what my body needed in terms of safety
00:57or just, you know, I felt like a cat sometimes
01:00just like wriggling out and finding a way to land softly.
01:03Yeah.
01:04So yeah, I've definitely developed
01:06this excellent proprioception to avoid danger.
01:10But-
01:10I suppose you're going to have that
01:11when you go into like a Gareth Evans sort of projects,
01:14I mean, just watch the raid,
01:15you're like, I'm going to get beaten up on this.
01:19How has kind of life changed over the last few years?
01:22It was great to see you pop up in the gorge
01:25and was it slow horses?
01:27I was very disappointed
01:27with the way your character ended there
01:29because it's like, yes, I love this guy.
01:31So many people were just like,
01:32oh, so are you going to join the slow horses?
01:33It's like, you didn't finish a series, did you?
01:35Like, you don't know what happens.
01:38But how has life changed?
01:39I mean, I'm really grateful for how my career's progressed.
01:43And I'm so grateful to Sky, Pulse and Gangs of London
01:46because I think without this job,
01:49I wouldn't be where I am now.
01:50You know, like this job has traveled across the world.
01:54And I remember walking through Havana in Cuba one time
01:57and being stopped like,
01:58oh my God, are you in Gangs of London?
01:59I was like, how are you watching it out here?
02:00I swear like TV's embargoed and everything.
02:03But no, yeah, I'm really proud of the work that we've done
02:06and I'm glad for its successes.
02:08I remember this cut out, yeah, your violent scenes
02:10and it just has you looking pensive
02:11and then suddenly you've got like a face covered in blood.
02:13I'm like, I wonder how that happened.
02:14Oh, he's crying blood, he's so emotional.
02:17I watched a really interesting interview with you last night
02:19from a few years ago
02:20and you talked about the most like starstruck
02:22you'd been in your career.
02:23I remember seeing Gary Lineker from like across the bar.
02:25Have you managed to top that since the start of the show?
02:27Or is that still a pinnacle?
02:29I think when you are in spaces
02:32in which you see a lot of people
02:34that you recognize from television or music,
02:37more and more you get more accustomed to it.
02:39So there's something about how young I was
02:41when that happened and the impact of it.
02:44And I've still never said hello to him.
02:45Maybe until I've like confronted him and been like,
02:47hi, I love your work.
02:48I loved you as a footballer, love your journalism.
02:51And so I've like put that to bed.
02:54But maybe it was still just always be him.
02:55Oh man, when he's like stepping down
02:56from match of the day, isn't he?
02:57So maybe you'll have a bit more free time.
02:58You'll be able to catch him around at some place.
03:01Let's go on to series three then.
03:03Elliot's always been the kind of the moral compass
03:06of the show.
03:07The guy you see yourself in those situations through
03:10as kind of crazy and violent and fantastical as they are.
03:13Is he still, or is he just so consumed
03:16with like rage and revenge now that he is very much,
03:20he's part of the furniture
03:21of this kind of criminal underbelly of love?
03:23Yeah, I was going to say,
03:24it depends on your own personal moral compass.
03:26If Elliot can still be your North Star
03:29based on what happens at the end of season two
03:30and during season three.
03:33But I would also challenge anyone to go through
03:38what he's gone through and maintain their moral integrity.
03:42I think at the end of the day, he's a human being,
03:43not a superhero.
03:44He's not Captain America, you know?
03:48So he's responding to the stimuluses,
03:50but maybe there's hope for him yet.
03:53I don't know.
03:54We'll see.
03:55It's just on Captain America there.
03:55Let's look at future, what might be,
03:58what might come across after this.
04:00Your castmate may have just been announced as Snape.
04:05Oh yeah.
04:05Did that happen today?
04:07Well, it's in the last,
04:08it's been bubbling around for a while
04:09and now people are kind of,
04:10they think it's confirmed.
04:11What's your thoughts on that one?
04:13I'm delighted for him, you know,
04:15like the character of Harry Potter
04:21and the world of it is something that a lot of us
04:24grew up with and is very close to our hearts.
04:26And like speaking specifically about that world,
04:32I'm sure it's a great honour for him
04:33to be representing that and like flying the flag
04:38for us in it.
04:39I'm really proud of him.
04:40I'm really delighted.
04:41Hopefully they'll give you a call.
04:42Maybe you'll get yourself a wand
04:44in some time in the years to come, you never know.
04:46We'll see.
04:47All right, mate.
04:48Well, I hope you make a few more of these first
04:49because I'm a big fan.
04:50I'm not quite finished with, well, I don't know.
04:53However, these kind of shows make you feel
04:55a little bit dirty in a way, but it is a thrill ride.
04:59Congratulations.
05:00I'm looking forward to seeing what you do next.
05:00I appreciate it, man.
05:01Thank you very much.
05:02All right, mate.