‘I get lost going to the bathroom’: John Hannah on world journey, stealing props and being ‘the Scottish Eminem’ | Movie

How usually do you get requested to recite that WH Auden poem from Four Weddings and a Funeral, and might you do it from reminiscence proper now? mattyjj and simoit
Not for a very long time. I may most likely do the primary couple of traces: Stop all of the clocks, lower off the phone / Prevent the canine from barking with a juicy bone / Turn out the lights? And with muffled drums / Something, one thing … let the mourners come. There you go. Terrible!

In Steve Coogan’s Paul Calf’s Video Diary, your character praises Orson Welles’ The Trial for its “tremendous energy”, whereas Paul says he would “rather watch Dave Lee Travis playing Macbeth”. What’s your precise opinion of The Trial [by Franz Kafka]? AdrianH1
God, it’s a very long time since I’ve learn that. I learn quite a lot of these books in my youthful days, however most likely, like lots of people, even those that are graduates of English literature, I’d be exhausting pushed lately to inform you what it was about, apart from the persecution of some minor character.

As a preferred jobbing actor, you’ve got a large listing of credit. Has anybody ever come as much as you to precise their appreciation for a sure function and also you had no concept what they have been on about? Kevcoe
No. It’s all the time heartwarming when any person comes up and affords their congratulations on one thing a bit of bit decrease down the pecking order. Fortunately, folks hardly ever ever come as much as inform me that they thought I used to be shit in one thing. I very often get Paul Calf’s Video Diary, and that Macbeth line. To be frank, I can’t fairly bear in mind the context.

Should Eminem be thanking you for Stan, somewhat than Dido, provided that he first heard Thank You on the Sliding Doors soundtrack? vammyp
It’s unusual how Sliding Doors and Four Weddings have travelled the world. It’s definitely cool to assume that any person as far out of left area as Eminem has truly even seen one thing you’ve finished. Although, the story I heard was he was so sickened by the sweetness that he determined to complement it with an obsessed fan attempting to homicide his girlfriend.

What’s your Sliding Doors second? Murdomania
It’s fascinating that “sliding doors” as an expression has turn out to be such frequent parlance, hasn’t it? I definitely don’t run for trains any extra.

I used to be so traumatised by your characters in Truth or Dare and Carnivàle that at any time when I see you in anything, I believe: “Oh no, it’s that horrible man.” Do you take pleasure in taking part in characters like that? FioreSebek
There you go: a chief instance of one thing coming from left area. I do assume that outdated cliche is true about dangerous guys all the time being extra enjoyable. I additionally get to play quite a lot of scientists or docs, as a result of for some cause, my Scottish accent makes me sound educated.

Which was most enjoyable: filming Charlie Brooker’s police procedural parody A Touch of Cloth, or showing in an episode of Black Mirror? MrMustard
A Touch of Cloth was nice enjoyable. We definitely needed to do quite a lot of takes for all of the laughing. Black Mirror felt extra like a Eighties darkish BBC late-night psychopath drama. Working with Charlie was fairly high-concept in Black Mirror, however excessive camp in Cloth.

Apparently, you nicked some props from The Mummy to embellish your then-new residence. What have you ever pinched since? Ludders
It’s just like the outdated joke: you shag one sheep … You nick one prop. It was this fibreglass, spray-painted gold, Egyptian canine head with arms all going in several instructions. I had a tiny backyard on the time, and thought it will be one thing to take a look at apart from a wall. But Brendan [Fraser] took the piss out of me, and always mentioned I nick stuff. I can think about Ridley Scott’s allowed to steal Aliens and put them in his winery. Richard E Grant’s a little bit of a klepto too – he’s bought shitloads in his backyard. And Alan Cumming is a bit sticky-fingered.

If you took half in Celebrity Race Across the World, would you continue to narrate it within the third particular person? AngryTomato
Well, the underside line is I wouldn’t be doing Race Across the World. I get misplaced going to the toilet. I’ve missed planes, turned up on the improper day, bought off the practice on the improper cease … I’m no good at stuff. So I’d be horrible.

Have you ever had extra enjoyable on a set than on Spartacus – thundering nice large traces of fruity dialogue about “Thracian whores” while lounging about in numerous states of misery with Lucy Lawless? mikebhoy
It was fairly spectacular. As we talked about earlier, it’s all the time enjoyable taking part in the villain. You solely bought the scripts as you have been capturing, so that you by no means knew what was coming subsequent. Some of the stuff, you would not consider. I believe in episode two, I come into our chamber with Lucy Lawless. We’re about to have a little bit of how’s-your-father, but it surely’s been a worrying day, so she will get one of many servants to get me going by fellating me, so I needed to ship all this dialogue, whereas pretending to be fellated. If I needed to dwell in Roman instances, I do know the place I’d prefer to be. I’d positively need to be upstairs.

Did the Co-op make use of you to do their voiceovers as a result of you’ve got the proper Scottish accent to rhyme “good” with “food”? OnTheEdgeOfEurope
No, I believe that was a kind of blissful coincidences. I don’t assume they realised that it may probably rhyme. It’s like when Eminem rhymes all these items with “orange”. I’m the Scottish Eminem!

In Agents of SHIELD, you created Life Model Decoys of individuals. If you would make one among anybody in actual life, who would you select? NotCEEFAUXhonest
My dad. He died 11 years in the past. My mum, too. It’s humorous, you continue to miss them. I want I may cellphone them up and inform them what was occurring, what was occurring. As a dad or mum, my children are by no means off their telephones, however you by no means hear from them except they need cash. I believe again to after I left residence at 16 and, if I needed to cellphone my dad and mom, I’d need to seize a handful of cash and head throughout the road to the cellphone field, which I most likely did as soon as a month. Recognising how issues at the moment are as a dad or mum, I type of want I’d bought to know my dad and mom higher. If you requested me who I may have dinner with, alive or useless, I’d converse to my mum and pa. I’d ask all of them this shit I want I may have requested them earlier than.

You’ve had a extremely various profession, regardless of some folks’s makes an attempt to pigeonhole you as a Scottish mummy’s boy. What’s left on the bucket listing? AmongstTheWaves
Well, after I turned 60, I joked with my children that I used to be retiring. What that meant was I felt snug with what I’d achieved. Maybe there have been type of gaps, perhaps it wasn’t fairly as nice a profession as I might have favored, however I used to be going to step again from attempting to have a profession. I believe I spent too lengthy seeing jobs as a step to the following job, and didn’t actually recognize the second. So turning 60 I believed: “Bollocks to this, I’m just going to do stuff that I like, that’s filming somewhere nice, or is especially well paid. If it’s got two out of three of those things, I’ll do it.”

The actuality is that I’ve most likely by no means been busier. Stuff like Bad Day on the Office comes out of left area. After a long time of complaining about taking part in cops and being a Scottish mummy’s boy it was good to do one thing that was so ridiculous, unusual and experimental that, at 64, you would by no means have imagined it.

Do you and James Nesbitt ever exit for a pint collectively simply to observe the confusion on folks’s faces? RobinGoodfellow
We used to play five-a-side again within the 90s. The final time I ran into him was when his daughter and my son graduated from Manchester uni, final summer season. It’s good if folks assume I’m Jimmy Nesbitt, as a result of I can then swear at them and be impolite and he will get the blame.

When did you final use the expression “by Jupiter’s cock”? wellywearer2
This morning, funnily sufficient.