Fifteen-Love: & 15 years since Being Human for Aidan Turner!

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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.

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