Bikeriders star Toby Wallace has bought a Harley. (Don't tell his parents)

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The actor joined Austin Butler, Tom Hardy and Jodie Comer at the UK Gala screening. 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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00:00I'm seeing my man. Last time I saw you was the premiere to Pistol, I think.

00:04Oh, was it?

00:05Yeah, way back when. It was slightly warmer then.

00:07There you go.

00:08But of course, that story was kind of an exploration of what?

00:10Kind of subculture identity, young masculinity in a really specific period of time.

00:14Pistol, you mean?

00:15Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:16Did you see a few parallels, though, between this film and that?

00:18Yes.

00:19And that they helped kind of, like, unlock a character which was, I don't know,

00:23did it just come out a very specific period of time?

00:25Yeah, yeah, for sure, yeah. This is very much of that period, yeah.

00:30You do face off against a grizzled Tom Hardy in this, and whenever I see a young actor

00:34do that in a movie, I always think about when Shia LaBeouf was with him in Lawless,

00:38and they said after the movie he was terrified of him on set because of the way he immerses himself

00:43in a character. Did you get any of that, or was that dispelled during the film?

00:47You know what, it was, you know, we didn't really say that much to each other before

00:51I had the first scene that I had with him, and all the scene was was me staring at him

00:55from across the fireplace, and we were block shooting it, and I ended up just sort of

00:59staying in it for the whole time, so for, like, an hour.

01:02And I'm having all this dialogue in my head, and I realise I'm sort of staring at him,

01:06and then he started staring back at me, and I was like, well, I can't look away now,

01:10so then I'm in this sort of, like, inadvertent weird stare-off with Tom,

01:14and then after a while he was like...

01:16And then I kind of did that back, and then it became, like, a kind of funny joking thing.

01:20And then it was awesome after that. We got along like house and fire.

01:23And it was just a quick move to the bathroom, a quick change of trousers.

01:26Exactly, yeah, and then back to my trailer to hide.

01:29And how do you do with all the bikes, man?

01:31I mean, various actors, I know Tom's big into his motorcycles,

01:34and now Austin's, like, dad and his granddad are into it.

01:36Yeah, yeah.

01:37Was this, like, one of those new things as an actor you had to kind of train yourself

01:40to be comfortable on, or...

01:42I'd never ridden a motorbike in my life, and then I did a couple of days

01:46sort of training course leading up to it, and now I'm obsessed with it.

01:51I just bought a Harley.

01:53Really?

01:54Yeah, I just bought one, yeah.

01:55Oh, my God.

01:56I don't know how I feel about that, but...

01:57I bet the parents are absolutely freaking out over that.

01:59They don't know yet, so...

02:00Well, good luck with that.

02:01I'll sell that to a few more camera crews along here.

02:03Yeah, yeah, yeah.

02:04I'll show you lots of new bikes.

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