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The Mortal Instruments: City Of Bones is just around the corner, and here you can find out more about it from the cast and the director, you lucky things.
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00:00I've literally been in this line for the last hour and a half.
00:02Literally flew in this morning flying out tonight, so I'm like...
00:05Oh, really? Okay.
00:06Yeah, yeah, yeah. How have you enjoyed yourself here thus far?
00:09Yeah, I've been good when I get out of this room, it's not bad.
00:12Did you get here on Wednesday?
00:13I got here on Tuesday.
00:14Okay.
00:14Yeah, so chance to acclimatise, get over jet lag, everything's good.
00:18There you go.
00:18But you're in and out.
00:19I'm in and out.
00:20You don't get a chance to walk the floor.
00:21I'm on seven weeks.
00:22I mean, I came two years, no, three years ago for Twilight
00:26and I had a TV show called The Prisoner,
00:28so I came here and had a great time.
00:31So I got a chance to walk the floor then.
00:33And this time I'm like on seven weeks at all, so it's just like it's crazy.
00:36So I'm just like, I've got to...
00:38I just go where I'm told at the moment, basically.
00:41And say what you're told to say.
00:42Well, no, not mainly, not mainly.
00:45I just get whipped when I don't.
00:47Tricky one to regulate, aren't you?
00:48Yeah, exactly, yeah.
00:49So who do you play in City of Bones?
00:52What do you call it, Mortal Instruments?
00:53How do you refer to it?
00:54The series is The Mortal Instruments
00:56and then the first one is The City of Bones.
00:57So it's The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones.
01:00Okay, but that's a mouthful, so...
01:01That is a mouthful.
01:01We could just exchange, you know, change it up so we could just call it Cobb.
01:06All right, yeah, so Cobb.
01:08Who are you in Cobb?
01:08In Cobb, I play Jace Wayland.
01:10He's a Shadowhunter.
01:13The introduction of Clary in his world, like, changes his entire life, like, just completely
01:19changes everything for him.
01:21And so he's sort of, he's confused because all of a sudden he doesn't, he's not just thinking
01:29about himself.
01:29He's quite a selfish character anyway, and then all of a sudden this chick comes along
01:32and he's like, oh my God, oh my God, why do I feel all these nice things?
01:36I love you, oh my God, I'm such a teenager.
01:39Does he write poetry at any point?
01:42No.
01:42He doesn't, but he plays music.
01:44Okay.
01:44He does play music.
01:45And it's me playing the music in the film.
01:47Really?
01:47I learned to play the piano.
01:48Well, I didn't play the piano already, so I learned the pieces.
01:50I learned a bit of Chopin, a bit of Bach.
01:52Really?
01:53Yeah.
01:54So can we expect, like, Jeremy Campbell Power plays the blues?
01:58Can we expect that?
01:59Yeah, absolutely.
01:59I'll go for a Hugh Laurie situation.
02:01Yeah.
02:02I was thinking more like a Richard Clayderman kind of thing.
02:06Can we expect that?
02:06I want to be the acting version of Michael Buble.
02:10Take from that what you will, Empire.
02:12Take from that what you will.
02:14So can we expect you on Anthony Deck's Saturday Night Takeaway then?
02:16I hope so.
02:17I hope so.
02:18Maybe they'll take me away.
02:21So you seem to be drawn towards this sort of fantasy stuff.
02:23Is that where your heart lies or is this just coincidence?
02:27I think it's just coincidence.
02:28I think, look, I've always been drawn to a really good story.
02:30Always, always, always.
02:33And we're fortunate enough that, you know, in England that we have, you know,
02:37such a, like, vast plethora and history of, like, great franchise films.
02:42Like, you know, Potter, for instance.
02:43Yeah, yeah, yeah.
02:44You look at the cast that was in Potter, you know, you get people popping up all the time.
02:46I was very fortunate enough to be a tiny, tiny part of that.
02:50Like, a minuscule part, but a part enough.
02:53And, you know, just because it was a great story, I would have done anything.
02:56Like, I would have done anything in that movie.
02:58Like, literally someone would go, you want to walk on with your knees out?
03:00I'd be like, yeah, absolutely.
03:01I'd walk out with my knees out.
03:02You can just shoot my knees if you like.
03:05Just walk on with my knees out?
03:06You know, just the knees.
03:08Just the knees out and about.
03:11So, you know, I'm just drawn to great storytelling and this is a great story for me.
03:19Like, I love it.
03:20Yeah.
03:21So, Potter fans, Twilight fans, pretty much, you know, very focused.
03:26They're very vocal.
03:27Very serious, yeah.
03:28Very vocal, indeed.
03:29Have you met Cobb fans yet?
03:30I have met some Cobb fans, yeah.
03:33I've been doing a bunch of stuff in London, actually, just because, like, I think it's
03:37home and, like, I guess, like, I really appreciate the fact that I realized that without those
03:42people, without those fans of the books, I wouldn't be able to be standing here promoting
03:45this film.
03:46Like, I just wouldn't.
03:46Like, and that's a fact.
03:48So, for me, it's, like, really important to be able to connect with those people and
03:51give them five minutes, you know, like, and have I met some of them?
03:54Yeah.
03:55Did someone name their baby Jace at WonderCon in Anaheim a couple of weeks ago?
03:58Yeah, they did.
03:59Did I think they were going to give me that child?
04:01Yes, I did.
04:02Did they?
04:03No, they didn't.
04:04Paperwork takes a long time to fill out.
04:06Yeah, but look at me.
04:07I'm daddy material.
04:09Absolutely.
04:09I've got a little pocket handkerchief and everything.
04:12What about the, uh, possession of 910 to the law rule?
04:14Did you try and use that?
04:15It's my baby now.
04:16Well, I could have tried that.
04:17Or, like, squatter's rights.
04:18Yeah.
04:21I'm not entirely sure what that means, either.
04:22I don't know.
04:23I don't know.
04:23This is getting weird.
04:24What's next for you, apart from stealing people's babies?
04:26Uh, we're going back to do number two.
04:27I've got seven weeks of press tour on this, and then I have two weeks off, at which point
04:32I'll probably be furiously learning lines, because they won't have given me any time
04:35to learn any lines whilst I'm on tour.
04:37Um, and we'll go back and do number two after that.
04:39I've got a picture called Overdrive, um, with a director called Antonia Negrette.
04:44Um, it's Pierre Morel's team who did Taken, um, and was shooting in France.
04:47Oh, great.
04:47So, yeah.
04:48Fantastic.
04:48A lot of stuff.
04:49Wish you all the best.
04:50Nice to see you, man.
04:51Likewise.
04:51Thanks.
04:52Take care.
04:52Yeah.
04:53Thank you, Terry.
04:55I'll just finish on a high note.
04:56Fantastic.
04:57See you later.
04:59Good to see you.
04:59How's it going?
05:00Yeah.
05:01Last time I saw you, you were interviewing Martin McDonough and Sam Rockwell on stage.
05:05Holy shit.
05:06I was.
05:07Yeah.
05:07Where were you?
05:08Where were you?
05:08I was in the throng that evening.
05:10Oh, my God.
05:10I was actually in the front row.
05:13Really?
05:13Yeah.
05:13I didn't see you.
05:14Maybe because you didn't have a huge sign or a massive spotlight on you or something.
05:17Yeah.
05:17And I was like, ah!
05:18And I'm sure you felt the pressure a little bit.
05:20A little bit.
05:21Yeah.
05:21A little bit.
05:22There was a lot of people in that room.
05:23There was a lot of people.
05:24Yeah.
05:24And it was up to you to keep it all going.
05:26Yeah.
05:26And I think I just about managed to communicate.
05:30You may say that.
05:31Yeah, yeah.
05:32I'm not sure I should say that.
05:33But anyway, yeah.
05:34So that was a lot of people in that room.
05:35You mean you're about to go into this room or you've been in Hall H?
05:38You're about to go or you've been?
05:39Oh, the Hall H.
05:39It sounds like, you know, it sounds like Judgment Day.
05:43Do you know what I mean?
05:44Going in.
05:44Going in in front of the masses.
05:47The masses of nerds.
05:49All six and a half thousand of them.
05:51Yeah, absolutely.
05:52Yeah.
05:53David Morrissey, I was just talking to him.
05:54He was saying that they were kept behind a cage.
05:58They were.
05:59The actors were?
06:00Yeah, yeah.
06:01For one, like, discussion panel thing.
06:04I don't think it was the main Hall H thing, but I think it was like, but the Walking
06:07Dead cast were behind, like, a chicken wire cage.
06:11And there were, like, hundreds of fans on the other sides.
06:14Pressing against it.
06:15Like, clawing at them.
06:16Yeah.
06:16Throwing beer bottles at the cage.
06:18Zombie in a way, yeah.
06:19Jesus.
06:19So are you nervous about this?
06:21You're a guy who takes things in stride, right?
06:23Yeah.
06:23You know, I tend to get really, really fidgety and show offy around all this, to be honest
06:29with you.
06:29The only thing that would worry me slightly is getting in front of a crowd of, like,
06:34six and a half thousand people is just don't say anything mad.
06:38Don't say anything too mad.
06:40I couldn't help it.
06:40Because you know there's going to be a lot of video evidence of that.
06:43Yeah.
06:43There's going to be a lot of stuff.
06:44You have to keep it somewhat, you know, keep it somewhat on a tangential way and don't
06:50go too mental.
06:51Do you have to be family friendly as well?
06:53Because I couldn't help but notice in the previous interview you were talking about
06:56helmets and ridges of helmets and whatnot.
06:59What's wrong with that?
06:59It's, you know, Star Wars.
07:00Darth Vader.
07:01He's...
07:02He had a big, big black helmet.
07:04He did.
07:05It was there.
07:05On display all the time.
07:07That could breathe, bizarrely enough.
07:09It could breathe in and out.
07:11That's what's weirdest about it.
07:12What a strange...
07:13It's a future man.
07:13It's like a little...
07:14Amphibian helmet.
07:17God bless him.
07:18Yeah, yeah.
07:18Indeed.
07:19So, I was talking about the Jamie Campbell Bower about this movie.
07:22Yes.
07:22What's wrong?
07:23Neil.
07:24Sod.
07:24Who's there?
07:25Superman 2.
07:26Oh, cool.
07:26Terence Stamp.
07:27Terence Stamp.
07:28The original and best, Sod.
07:30Sorry.
07:30I keep derailing your interview but he's...
07:32Wasn't he a handsome fellow as well?
07:33He was an extraordinarily handsome fellow.
07:35And still is.
07:35Do you know, he was living in a...
07:37What's it called?
07:39Bedside.
07:40Not a bedside.
07:41He was in India for like two years before he got this role and he just stepped off the
07:43plane.
07:44He'd been enjoying lots of lady love with ladies.
07:47Naturally, yeah.
07:48And walked straight into Superman.
07:50And walked straight into Superman.
07:51And walked straight into Superman.
07:51There you go.
07:51Awesome.
07:52I saw that when I was a kid.
07:53It was awesome.
07:54It is awesome.
07:55Sod.
07:55It is amazing.
07:56I'm getting the sense though.
07:57You're not much of a geek slash nerd slash comic bookie slash superhero-y type person.
08:03Yeah, do you know what?
08:03That said though, we just did live television, right?
08:07About an hour ago and they gave us like a geeky trivia quiz.
08:10Right.
08:10And I answered all the questions for us.
08:12Pretty much.
08:13Pretty much.
08:13I answered all of them.
08:15They're like...
08:15One of them was, where's Thor from?
08:18It's like, Asgard.
08:20That's just simple.
08:20That's beginners though.
08:21I think it's because when I watch films, all of the useless trivia goes in and sticks.
08:26And all of the stuff that could be profound or meaningful in my life just tends to go in one
08:31year and out the other.
08:32Absolutely.
08:32Same with me.
08:33Same with me.
08:33But I was talking with Jamie about this movie and we can't decide whether to call it The Mortal Instruments
08:38or City of Bones or The Mortal Bones or The City of Instruments.
08:40What exactly do you call it?
08:42Well, I call my genitals The Mortal Instruments.
08:46Not City of Bones?
08:47Yeah.
08:49No, that's when me and a bunch of mates get together.
08:53Wonderful.
08:56Yeah, I've been calling it the whole thing because I don't know what to call it.
08:59I've been adding all the words in in their right order.
09:01Just a bit of a mouthful.
09:02We arrived at Cobb.
09:04Cobb.
09:06Doesn't that sound like an 80s detective show on the BBC?
09:10Cobb.
09:11Or like, you know, Touch of Frost.
09:13Robert Sheehan is Cobb.
09:15Cobb, yeah.
09:16Yeah.
09:17I like that.
09:18What's the other guy?
09:19The other one.
09:20Not Frost.
09:22Morse.
09:22Morse, yeah.
09:23There you go.
09:23There you go.
09:25But who do you play in Cobb?
09:26In Cobb?
09:27I play an elderly detective in Midsommar.
09:31Midsommar.
09:32Oh no, sorry.
09:32That's John.
09:33He's very good at solving crossword puzzles.
09:34Yes, indeed.
09:35Yes.
09:36In Cobb, I play a young man who is the best friend of the main character, Clary Frey, who
09:43Lily Collins plays.
09:45And she finds herself being kind of drawn into this very magical world that exists in tandem
09:50with our world in New York.
09:51And I kind of go along for the crazy ride with her.
09:54And I think I'm holding on to her, you know, extra hard because I'm like her best friend, but
10:01who is secretly harbouring feelings of love for her.
10:05And non-friend love, sexy love.
10:07I want her to be my love girlfriend, my lover.
10:10Come into my city of bones.
10:12Exactly.
10:12Yeah, yeah.
10:13Look, you went to his city of bones.
10:15You never saw mine.
10:16Yeah.
10:17Do you have a pining secretly for Lily Collins' sexy time face?
10:21Of course.
10:22I mean, who doesn't?
10:23Crikey.
10:25Yeah, yeah.
10:26Do you know what?
10:27In fairness to her though, in fairness to her though, she, right, I saw the film a couple
10:34of days ago and she's honestly, man, she's like the heart and soul of the thing, you
10:39know, and she, you just, you just, you know, she's, she's absolutely that brilliant classical
10:46protagonist.
10:46You know, she's an absolute pro and incredibly talented all joking aside, really, truly.
10:51Fantastic.
10:51Grant.
10:52Well, Rob, cheers, man.
10:53Good to see you, man.
10:54See you back in the dark caverns of London.
10:56Oh, who knows where I'll pop up next.
10:58Anyway.
10:58See you later.
10:59Cheers, man.