Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26443838-20150630150837

There was a interview of Colin talking about the show, the upcoming season, and his upcoming movie "The Dust Storm".

Interviewer: “So you then swashbuckle your way onto it last week for me. Cause you know I’m on season 2. Then there you arrive. And I think, ‘This is great.’ You have a huge part in it. You’re very charming and dashing and bold and mischievous in it. “

CO: “Yeah I decided to make him very different from me, so. [laughs]”

Interviewer: “Yeah, did you have much of a say in how to go with Hook?”

CO: “I did actually. Well. When I met with the guys they’d written this Captain Hook that they wanted to be different from the original Captain Hook and I sort of went in with a very very clear thing in mind as to how I wanted to play him. And, you know, because Pirates of the Caribbean was so big and stuff at the time.”

Interviewer: “Yeah.”

CO: “I think when I was coming in, the first season, the show was getting something like - I think - 25 to 30 million people a week were watching it.”

Interviewer: “It was?”

CO: “Yeah. It was a huge huge thing. And I just decided - right - this is the way I’m gonna play him. And I was trying to figure out what it was that sort of made people- I wanted him to be a bad boy who people actually really just wanted to hang out with. Do you know what I mean?“

Interviewer: “Yeah, you have that sort-”

CO: “And so it was kind of, ‘How do you do that?’ I think, I think it’s -.Well I’m still in the show so I guess they’re happy.”

Interviewer: ”You could have gone down the kind of Pirates of the Caribbean, the cheeky roguish type, versus Dustin Hoffman-”

CO: “He was kind of written- When I first - He was written sli- Not written like that, but you could have tried to do a Johnny Depp impersonation, do you know what I mean? Because I think at the time that’s what people were doing with pirates and stuff like that. So I was very clear that I wanted to go the opposite direction. You know, and sort of make him very kind of suave and sophisticated as opposed to-”

Interviewer: “Yeah. He’s not grimy and sleazy.”

CO: “-as opposed to aloof and funny and stuff, which is fantastic, but that’s just the way I wanted to do it.”

Interviewer: “And how are you coping with your hook and the whole thing?”

CO: “I’m used to it now. Yeah.”

Interviewer: “You’re an amputee essentially.”

CO: “Basically yeah. I’ve managed to figure out ways to use the hook now instead. So I literally use it as a cup-holder. It’s great. It’s the perfect size for a coffee cup.”

[…]

Interviewer: “This series is attracting big names like Robert Carlyle who’s been there from the beginning as Rumpelstiltskin. He’s super. I prefer him as the baddie because he’s just so ridiculous.”

CO: “He’s fantastic. Yeah, It’s great. He actually came over- He very kindly gave us tickets to the game against Scotland and so Bobby came over for the game so we were there and, uh-”

Interviewer: “You went together did you?”

CO: “Yeah. We went together. We were at the game together. So, the story behind that is that when Ireland were playing Scotland, previously, they were beaten one-nil, obviously by Scotland, and I walked into my trailer and there must have been maybe 300 tiny little one-nil stickers everywhere in my room.”

Interviewer: “By him?”

CO: “By him. They were in my - they were in the cistern of the toilet so when you flushed the toilet little one-nil would come in. They were everywhere, yeah.”

Interviewer: “That’s quite an extravagant joke to crack on somebody.”

CO: “Yeah. It must have taken him probably an hour to do.”

Interviewer: “Have you been able to get him back for that? Or..”

CO: “I was hoping that we were gonna win the game. I was hoping that that would be the thing, but-”

Interview: “…One-nil back….“

CO: “Unfortunately it didn’t work out.”

Interviewer: “Is it crack on the set- Is it fun to film OUAT or is it very much a working project for you?”

CO: “No. It’s absolutely brilliant. At this stage we’re now all like a family. So um. We kind of all hang out. And people will come, because obviously we’ve had a baby we can’t really get out that often. So we’ve got a lot of friends from the show and stuff who’ll call round and we’ll have pizza and a beer on saturday night. and all that kind of stuff.”

Interviewer: “Slightly more sober reality with the child isn’t it?”

CO: “But it’s great because, like you know, cause now coming into the fifth season, everyone knows what they’re doing. Everybody…it’s like a well oiled machine really you know?”

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Interviewer: “What about the fact that you - Hook - your character came on for really an incidental moment or two but they just liked you so much they said ‘no I gotta keep this going?’”

CO: “What happened was that I was supposed to be a guest star for a few episodes and then they, sort of, before my first episode aired, they took up the option to keep me on as a series regular. So. Which is great, I was delighted. The response to the character’s been, yeah, pretty good.”

Interviewer: “To say the least. You’re very humble, but obviously the success speaks for itself. So, what next, Colin are you thinking about next or -?”

CO: “Well what happens next is in two weeks we start shooting the fifth season, so that’s next, and then..”

Interviewer: “Broadly speaking after all that?”

CO: “I’m due to do a movie as a well, in between, which I can’t talk really talk about at the minute but, um, I very excited if we can.”

Interviewer: “It’s a big movie obviously.”

CO: “It’s just. It’s got a big cast. So…”

Interviewer: “Okay and how are you feeling about that?”

CO: “If we can make it work then it will be fantastic. But you know I’m contracted to the show and I’m having a blast on OUAT, so you know, whatever happens next I kind of just I’ll take everything as it comes.”

In the Last few lines, is he saying he might leave OUAT to work his role for his next movie? I can't tell. 