Fin Taylor • Films To Be Buried With with Brett Goldstein #192

them they've died. Then I get them to discuss their life through the films that meant the Most of the previous guests include Barry Jenkins, Kevin Smith, Sharon Stone, and even Cred Blambles. But this week it is the brilliant

comedian and writer mister Finn Taylor. Get over to the Patreon at patreon dot com forward slash Brett Golstein, where you get an extra fifteen minutes a chat with Finn, You get secret it, you get chat about beginnings and endings, you get video, You get the whole episode, uncut and ad free. Check it out over at Patreon dot com. Forward Slash Breck Goldstead Ted Lasso Season two is all available now on Apple TV plats along with season one.

You can watch that all in one go. You can also see Super Bob and Soulmates on Amazon Prime in most countries. So Finn Taylor, Finn Taylor is one of the best UK stand ups there is. I've loved this stuff for years. He's fucking brilliant. He's got a new stand up special that I believe is on YouTube now, so you can go and watch that. We recorded this on Zoom a few weeks ago. He was fucking brilliant. It was a lovely time and I think you're gonna

love this one. So that is it for now. I very much hope you enjoy episode one hundred and ninety two of Films to Be Buried With. Hello, and welcome to Films to Be Married With. It is me Brett Goldstein, and I am joined today by a writer, an actor, a presenter, a comedian, an award nominee, an award winner, a husband, a father, a legend, a controverse, the magnet, and a controversy magnate. He don't care what you think. He's fucking brilliant. Please welcome to this show. It's the amazing.

It's mister Finn Taylor. I I don't know where you've got an actor from. I've seen you do a couple of like sort of sketches where you're not entirely yourself, unless that was yourself, in which case it was a phenomenal performance. Well, I am the only thing I've been. I was a I was. I had one line in Alicia Vikanda's tomb Raider reboot. Shut up having No. I

didn't even audition. They just they think they cut a scene and then they filmed the whole thing and they got to the last week and the like, we need that scene actually, and so they just called my agent were like, have you got anyone that looks like they could live with Lara Croft in East London because that

was the what the reboot was about. And then yeah, I did a scene for a day on a film set in Watford and had a trailer and everything and was just playing Lara Croft's flatmate one please do your care. So she came back from so she was a delivery driver in this reboot before she's Laura Croft, and she comes in with like a broken bike and she's covering green paint and my line was, oh, Lara, what the and then she cuts me off right, Oh Lara, what there?

And then the last take, the last last take of the day, the adrector was like, Finn, you're a comedian, do something, make it funny, do go in a different direction or this whole ship. I wasn't expecting it. So she comes in, she's covering green paint, and I'm like, hey, Laura, what you've been doing sucking off the hulk? And he's like, cut, it's you can't. It's twelve A probably we can't. You can't do that, And then but she laughed, so I made belit of a candle laugh. But then but then

obviously the scene was cut. They didn't need it in the end, but they sent me a hat saying too made the cast and crew, which was the only evidence that I was in the film. And then I was on a ferry in New Zealand and it just blew off my head on into the sea. So my acting career has gone with the wind. Do you think if you were like, let's say, walking through Leicester Square and there was a premiere for a new Atlasive the candid film and you sort of went to the sort of shouted, Hey,

it's me. I said, you were sacking of the home. Do you think she She might, but then I might get arrested. So it's a It's a fine line, isn't it. I don't know me, I don't know. All I will say, and I don't mean this to sound creepy, is that she smelt absolutely incredible. There is a class of celebrity that I don't know where they get their smells from, and it's like it really separates them from the rest of us picks because I don't know how they smell.

I don't even know how you describe it. It was angelic. Finn Taylor, I haven't seen you in ages. I'm upset about that. I'm delighted to see you. Since i've seen you, I mean, you've had a baby, You've had a wife, and you've had a baby. Yes, I've given birth to a wife and then she gave birth to a baby. Congratulations, Thank you. Yeah. I can't remember the last time. I was trying to think last time I saw you, But

my life you've become it must have been. My life has become very wholesome and folksy since I last saw you. I mean, I was up last night painting my daughter's nursery. That's the kind of yees do you love it? Yeah, it's great you became mega famous though in that time I don't know when that happened. It's very disconcerting. You were, you were painting a nursery, you were in my audience in my Edinburgh show. Yeah, and then I turn on

Twitter and you're You've want to fucking what did you win? Yeah? Were insane, absolutely insane. It is the same. But it's equally insane to me that you got married and that a kid, because anyone who knows me knows that was definitely it's definitely it's very off brand. Yeah, it seems like a weird, a weird sort of choice, but also so happy. It's a weird choice. But then I do

think you're you're a big old tough guy. Your comedy's are big and tough, but deep tail, you're a big old you love you just love love Well, it's yeah, it's an act. The comedy is an act. It's an event. It's a release from the you know, boring, wholesome, every day life. Now, all right, let's quickly talk about it. But if there's anyone listening to this, it doesn't know Finn Taylor's comedy. And if you don't get into it because he's fucking brilliant, you are, I suppose even more

unusual these days. You do how do we do? You have a way of describing what you do? And by the way, I say this generally for people listening for Finn Taylor is one of the great comics. He's fucking amazing. Thank you, but you you very fearless. I'd say, yeah, gets that gets used a lot my gig. On my gig on Saturday, I was like, I was doing one of those nights we're doing like four or five spots. I was running, so I ran off from stage as the audience were coming out, and this guy just I

walk passed this guy and each went shameless, shameless. And I think I've toned it down, but I don't know. I just think that's what stand ups for. It's just saying things that you can't get away with anywhere else. So to me, it doesn't it. To me, it's not. I always get called provocative that that word follows me around like a therapy dog. But yeah, it's just you know, it's quite spicy, but that's what I find funnily. Yeah, I agree. I also think maybe you're not going to

let hearing this. I think that no matter what I've heard you talk about. You know, I've heard you on ComCom PUD for example, and I've heard you say like, I don't think comedy. You know, you don't. We as audience don't need to know your politics. We don't need to know anything your morality, you're you're playing both sides or whatever. But I think it's inherently there. I think we watch you and we listen to you, and we know,

no matter what you're saying, you're good. Well. I I like to think that I beg but I think audiences can smell yeah, and you're like, you know, but Jimmy Carter something fascinating. He said, what's the point in mild comedy? And I've been thinking about that every day since you said that, because I totally agree. People who go up and are all tweet and like I was at the bus stop and I fucking doing people play fifteen quid? You know what I mean? Yeah, I do, But it's

it's like subconscious intent or something like it's interest. Like you could do a joke about a certain thing that I would think was brilliant, lovely, and someone else could do that same joke and I would think it was horrible, because you can feel there in itself is dark and horrible. Do you know what I mean? Yeah? Maybe, well that's nice. I mean yeah, I mean that that is I guess that is my last, isn't it? Sometimes this our this inarticulable sense of goodness that I radiate. Yeah, but well,

thank you for all the kind words. No, I uh yeah, I mean it's not. It's not for everyone, but then the people that like it really like it. And it's not very British. I think that's what I'm discovering. It's not very British. You're an American comic. Yeah, I'm an American comic trapped in a privately educated British male. Yeah, so yeah, that's what I do. Quick question, I'm having a baby. I think I asked this to most people

who have babies. I think I know what you're going to say because I listened to an episode of this podcast before. Am I going to ask you? You're gonna ask me if as soon as it came out. I felt apparent sense of love. Yeah, it did. Ye. Yeah, although it was quite, it was all quite. I mean, it's a very intense. It's just two months premature. It was one of those situations where everyone was going to die. I wasn't going to die. I was. I wasn't gonna

I was. I wasn't with the gun. Say if this spector doesn't come out, no, but yeah, my wife they had to deliver early because the baby was fine when my wife wasn't. It was this old school thing called pre eclampsia, where the only curious to get the baby out. I don't really they don't really know much about it because it's women's medicine and they don't they don't invest any signs in that anyway, So it was just a

fairy it was. It's more just like as soon as the baby came out, we didn't get a hold of straight away. So but then when everyone was fine, I just I did just go in person into seas and then when I actually went and held her the first time later that day, it was like, I mean she was tiny. Yeah, so yeah, I did feel this overpowering sense of like, so I guess protect protectiveness. But then also as a dad, it does. I think it does.

You lose that initial like hormone rush, and then you have to build it up as they become more, as they need you more, because the first three months they don't really need you as a dad. Yeah, but now now she's like you can see her personality and she's great, and it just gets better every day. What it sounds like having a baby from by the way, she's all healthy and well now right, yeah, yeah, absolutely fine, Yeah good.

Having a baby sounds like being a new comic in that the first gig, big rash, Baby comes out, big rash and I love you. Then massive drop off, massive drop off for a good few months where like you're like, this doesn't really work, it's horrible gigs, and then at some point baby laughs at you and you're like, best thing I ever did. It's so it does make a difference when they start laughing. Yeah, yeah, it's great. You

should have one. Yeah yeah, all right. Do you Someone told me the other day about their daughter saying I love mummy more than you just said it out of the blue. How would you feel about that sort of feedback? She doesn't know what she's on about She's good, right, give it. Give it a few years and you'll see, you're fucking see, you'll see baby. Um, yeah, well she can't talk. She can't talk yet, so I'm not. I'm

not getting that anyway. Don't worry about that. I've forgotten to tell you something in all this, in all this catch up, go for it. I've just lit down on my notes and there's something here I probably should have mentioned earlier. Let me just see if it's yeah, it's definitely you. Hold on, finn't Oh, you've died, right, You're dead? That all for? That was it? That was good? Though? That was good. How did you die? I died defending the territorial integrity of Ukraine? Wow? No, I didn't know.

I don't want to. I tell you what would be funny is you know when people get so old that there they die. I mean, it's like it's kind of pathetic. Really. They just they died because it was winter, right, okay, because the season's changed that they couldn't handle it. That's how I died, even though I'm thirty one. I die because I die because summer turned to autumn. That's quite room. It sounds romantic when you put it that way, I got hit by a falling leaf and apart. Okay, do

you do you worry about death a bit? But not? You know, I look before I cross the road, right, I know I'm going to die, but I don't feel uncomfortable about that. I don't want to die soon, but I am. I feel quite zain about the fact it's going to happen one day. I find it quite refreshing. Actually, yeah, yeah, because when when my wife gives me a job and I'm finally a difficult I don't want to do it. I'm like, well, it doesn't matter because we're all dust,

aren't we. Would you like it if I if you knew the day you were going to die, If I could say, I know when you're gonna die properly, would you want to know? I don't think I would. Okay, well it's today. So do you What do you think happens when you die? Well, I mean you live on in the minds of the people that love you. That's the only after laughter is, isn't it. I think? Oh, dear, roy, dear, oh dear. I was like, oh that's the answer. Oh sorry,

that's right. Now you go to heaven and talk about films. Yeah, I mean that's what I'm meant to say. You go to heaven. There is a heaven. I'll tell you what. They are checking your pockets at the door. That's not happened before. They're like, they're sugging up with this Geezer. I've come in, I've said listen, and then he's good. He's good. Don't worry about it. You come into heaven. Everyone's excited to see you. They're big fat that's that's

a big psychological red flag there. You you you think you are so good that you're letting people through the pearly gates. I'm in charge of this fucking place, right Sorry, Yeah, okay, I didn't say it was like living there. I work. I work for the Geezer. Okay, So I was like, come in, You're very welcome. Everyone's excited to see you, and they wanted to talk about complex bloody anyway. They want to talk about your life. They want to talk

about your life through the idio of a film. The first thing they ask you is, what's the first film you remember seeing? Finn Taylor, Well, I think I would have a very vivid memory of being in the cinema in Glasgow, which is where I lived while I was seven with my younger sister, and it was her first film. I'd seen the film already, but I can't remember. I've been to the to the Jungle Book, but I can't

remember that well. I remember it's going to see a hundred month Darmatians, the live action version, with my dad and my sister and I must have been maybe five and my sister was maybe two, and the size of the live dogs made my sister go mental and we had to leave after about ten minutes because she thought that she thought we were being attacked by a pack of huge hounds. That's my first memory of the cinema.

That's amazing. Your sister was like the person who had like the very first time film was made and they played a train exactly fuck and ran out of the cinema. Yeah, yeah that but with dogs. That's great. Were you furious there? Yeah? I was like, get your act together. It's Glenn close. Yeah, we've we've we haven't even got past two dalnay since

we're ten minutes here. Yeah, I remember. I remember. I remember being like this is pathetic and I was five, that's fine, and my dad was just like trying to calm my sister was going absolutely ape shit, and I was like, gared a grip. It's just a film, love, Is it just the two of you? You and your sister? Yeah? Are you? Are you super tight? Yeah? Quite close? She lives. She looks quite close to me in London, so quite a lot. That's very nice. What's the film that scared

you the most? Do you like being scared in Taylor? Do you get scared? I don't. I don't. I don't particularly like horror films. But that's not because I am weak. It's because I find once I know the film is there to scare me, I don't really. I sort of think, well, what's the point in the film. I'm just waiting to be scared, and I don't, you know, there's no plot or like acting. It's just everything's there to scare me. So it's like I see it as quite functional when

I get bored. Does that make sense? I guess if it's not working on you, yeah, you're you're looking at it sort of objectively. Still I'll still I'll still jump if it's a scary moment. But I just find like a horror film is designed to scare you. So it's not surprising I'm scared. Yeah, it's like it's like, it's right. I get the point of it. But I'm not gonna do you know what I mean, it's but it'sn't it. Listen. I don't want to. I don't want to argue this.

It's interesting how your brain works. But what I could say is, isn't that the same for a romantic comedy you know what it is, you know where it's going. The same for a thriller like yea? So are you saying as No? I love. What I have realized in talking to people who like films and listening to this podcast episode I didn't listen to last night, is that I think my taste in films is frowned upon by cinephiles.

But yeah, the film that scared me the most, it's not really it more left me with a deep sense of unease that I found incredibly addictive and couldn't stop thinking about was The Dark Night when I saw that in the cinema. I think it remains the most like adrenaline fuel I've ever been on leaving a cinema. I must have been. I don't know when did that come out.

I must have been like late teenager or something, seventeen or eighteen, but just the whole story of Heath Ledger and how his performance in it was part of what led to his death. I just when I watch it, it gives me such hebgbs in it, but also in a good way. I just think it's phenomenal and I can't not watch it. And also the film's great. That's the one that's kind of unsettled me the most. That's a great answer, is it. Yeah, great, it's a really

good answer. Yeah, you should be believe in yourself. What's the film that made you cry the most? Do you ever cry in a film? A grand life? I do? Yeah, I do, but I don't. I don't seek out weepy films, but I cry it weird things. I mean, I cry quite a lot a old sport. If I need a cry, I'll watch the feder in the Dial final from twousand and eight, when the dial finally wins and runs up to the crowd. That always gets me. I tell you, the film that actually made me cry the most was

Manchester by the Sea. Yeah, and I watched it on a plane to Australia. Have you ever done that flight. No, you enter a very weird psychological state because you're on a you're in one place for so long, and you're just consuming stuff to distract you and you're not talking or anything, so it's very weird. It's like twenty whatever it is twenty hours, and I think by kind of hour eighteen, like you you're you get to you get to mainland Australia, and then you've still got five hours,

because that's how big it is. So you're just like, I am bereft. I need to feel something. And then I watched this film not really knowing anything about and then there's this sucker punch reveal at the end or towards the end. I don't know if I can spoil it, but basically you find out that Casey Afflecks kids had all died in the house fire. Yeah, and that's why

he's just so damaged. And I just I don't know whether it was the like altitude or cabin pressure or the fact that I just wanted to feel something after eighteen hours, but I just burst out into tears. But also I think it's a phenomenal film. Yeah, were you on your own on this plane? Yeah? I was on my own Fern Brady was at the back on Zanex. So that's great. I got really excited at the airport. I'm bean a phone on the plane. I'm taking all right, we'll see it later. Then i'll see you a day.

I guess, so much for camaraderie. Yeah good, that's what i'd say. Very good film. Actually I haven't seen it since then, but i'd like to watch it again, would you maybe? But it's one of those it's one of those films that's like, you're good, but you're like, I don't need to see it again. But it has been a while, so I maybe I can watch it again. Have you written you a TV show yet? No? I don't think I'm going. I'm think I'm going to. I don't.

I don't really like writing scripts. I've written, I've written. I wrote a couple of books over a lockdown, but I need to go back over them before I do anything with them. Oh yeah, yeah, you were going to be another list. You've written two books? I have. I mean I say that I've written two first drafts. I think most of the actual writing happens when you go

back over it. So, but I'm focusing on stand up at the moment because I need to earn money for my work and childs, right, But I will when I get I think when you go to nursery, I maybe try and get get back on that because I really enjoyed it. That's great. But the thing about screenplays is that you're just writing instructions for actors, and I find that a bit boring. Well, I quite like language, and like you know, I like a sentence. I'm a man of letters, britt, I'm a literature Yeah, so I don't.

I just don't get this. I find screenplays I just switch off from trying. I know. We may just told me before to write a TV show. I just don't get the same buzz out of it. I find it quite mechanical. Yeah. What's the film that people don't like? They don't love it. It's not critically acclaimed, but you love it uncondicently. Die Hard three. I love die three. Diehard three is the best die Hard film. And yet you say that on the forum and you get shocked.

People release your personal details to the highest bidder. But listen, Jeremy Irons is phenomenal in that film. Yeah. Die Hard two I think was a misstep in the franchise. I didn't love it. I think it's saved by the ending. Die Hard one is obviously a great film. Ya. Die Hard three, they go somewhere else with it. Samuel Jackson is amazing. The scripts incredible. The film opens with Bruce Willis wearing a plaquard saying I the N word in

Harlem as an opening gambit that is strong. You're like, wow, they're doing this, you know, m hmm. I think it's a great movie. It's really good. It's really funny, really good scripts, it's exciting, and they fucking go first one's die in in a building. Second day I did in an airport at third Ones, die id in a city.

Let's fu move this about. Yeah. And I actually remember seeing die Hard four and I was really excited because I was old enough to go and see it in the cinema when it came out, and we all got like die Hard four cups, big like commemorative cups for our drinks, and then we left being like that that. I think maybe it's over. Actually he's too old. Die Hard five is particularly unpleasant. I've not seen had five. Like,

there's a weird bit. He's in Russia, He's in Russia, he like smashes like steal someone's car, and the man like because he needs to chase someone, and the man whose currents goes like in Russian, Hey, what the fuck's going on? And Bruce Willis goes, do you think I speak your language as if that's meant to be like a cool thing to say. I mean, but that is what he would say though, So yeah, that's consistent, if

a bit unsettling. It seemed to realize pase. But anyway, this is a man who has shot the bad guy through his own columbone at the end of the die Hard four. Yeah, that is pretty cool. I mean that's a pretty cool ending as well. Yeah, and he does it falls where he kills a helicopter with a car with a taxi. Yes, and he surfs he surfs an F sixteen. Yeah. I mean it's a bit much, isn't it. I think you need to get that cut back? Did for its sounding pretty good to me? Now it's it's

dial three. It's still three. Okay. What's a film that you used to love very much but you've come back to it recently and you do not feel the same way anymore. Well, I'm a massive Bond fan. That's my being. That's the films I get the most excited about. I didn't learn this about you when I was when I was a kid. ITV did like a maybe this was before they before like Golden Iles, remember the Eyes came out.

But ITV did like I was showing all of the Bond films every Saturday for whatever that is, four months, and I recorded them all on VHS and like paused it between the ad breaks, and then made my own homemade Bond collection that I still have at home my parents' house. Somewhere. Films was Man with the Gold Gun, Roger Moore, Thailand,

Odd Job, Christian Lee. I went back and watched that a few months ago, and wow, it is painfully slow, insanely racist in a way that I don't really I mean, a lot of the Roger Moore films I'm not going to watch again because I think I know what I'm going to feel after them. It's I mean, in octopusity he flicks an Indian man accordion says that should keep you in courage for a couple of weeks. I mean, yeah,

and you forget this stuff. You're like, oh, there's a fun film and then you watch it and you go wow. But Golden guy. I just what struck me was how slow it was and how like painfully long establishing shots. And also they did this amazing stunt where they flip a car over the bridge, but they add a tin whistle over the top of it. Remember they did a stunt which they did live. It's a live action stunt where the car like goes over a bridge and it turns on its own axis in midead there's like a

one eighty. And then in the final edit I don't know who signed this off, they get a guy on a penny whistle to go like that. You go, what are you seeing? You've just done an incredible live stack. It's true YouTube and now it's awful. I can't believe it goes seriously and it comes out of nowhere. There's no other action sequence in the Bond franchise where they put a penny whistle over the top. It's awful, fucking insane. I like that. You're like, the racism I can handle,

but the establishing shots, Jesus. Yeah, there's a lot of strong stomach, but something and sometimes you pushed too far. Fig Taylor, what is the film that means the most to you, not necessarily the film itself is special, but because the experience you had around seeing it will always make it meaningful to you. Fim Taylor. The example you said when you sent this question through was like, if you're going a date with someone. The only time I've gone to the cinema on a date, we actually walked

out because it was so bad. I think it was part of the Caribbean two or some of three. I don't know. I was boring. But the film that means the most to me, I think is The Blues Brothers because when I was maybe nine or ten, my dad gave me a copy of it on VHS for Christmas and it was a fifteen, but he was like, you're going to love this. I don't care that it's a fifteen because I was really into that kind of music

as well. I was really into soul and like funk as a kid, and he was like, this is also your sense of humor, and he was so right, and I just watched it over and over and over again, and so whenever I see that film, I just feel really warm and gooey about my dad giving it to me. And it's a great it's a great film. And I heard someone slagging off recently, looks like back back the

fuck down. That's a brilliant film. You've got only you've got John Blushan Denacroy, but you've got James Brown, Aretha Franklin, Ray, Charles cab Callaway. It's insane. It's brilliant film, biggest cart chase ever, so funny. Princess Laiah doesn't say anything for two hours, just shoots, just shoots a buzuka. I mean, it's hilarious. That is a lovely story. Thanks Matt. Really like that. Yeah, you get ten points for it. What

is the film you most relate to? Well, this is an interesting question, but I tell you now, I don't know. Oh was it on Netflix or is it something else? Over Christmas just gone? We watched a film called Silent Night. Oh right, the Kiera Nightley. Yeah, I watched. We watched that and I was buzzing at the end of it.

I loved it so much because really it feels like it is the exact film that subverts everything I hate about films in that it is like, go on, so the premises, it's all it's this kind of kitch Christmas movie.

And it's playing Christmas music and Kiera Knightley is in it, and she's sort of playing a similar kind of smiley, middle class mumsy person like she doesn't have actually, and people are all arriving at this country house and then it slowly becomes apparent that there's some kind of impending apocalypse happening, and it's very dark and they're all talking about suicide. But it's it's really funny in that they're they're all talking, they're all like airing all their dirty

laundry and who's who's the actor? Who is? He's also in camping with Judia Davis. Do you know how I mean it's a British I think he's called Russell. Yeah, yeah, because this phenomenal. He's so funny in it. He plays as kind of like like wet husband who his wife just wants to have sex with all the other friends there.

It's so funny. And then also they actually follow it through, like they follow the disaster through and everyone I don't want to ruin it, but basically they go and I just have so much respect for like to take a dark thing and it's funny for an hour, and then you're like you know what, No, let's do let's finish it off. It's like it's like Rogue One is the best Star Wars film because of the ending? Yeah yeah, yeah, because it actually leaves you with a sense of like

the darkness, like one. But it was funny along the way that makes it. I don't know why I relate to it, but I just is that your how you and I think you do achieve this? But is that you're a stand up hour with you? Is that? Well? Maybe? But although not everyone dies at the end, I don't murder the audience at the end of my show. But it's maybe you can see why I like it. I don't know. I just have a lot of respect for

I thought. I also think it's it's filmmakers will have a have a respect for the audience and they go, you know what, We're going to treat you like adults. This is not a kitch film. We're going to go all the way. I really like that. I'm not joking when I say this. Have you ever seen Hunchback of the Disney film I will have done? Yeah, it's the animated one. Yeah, not at I would put this in

that category and watch it again. It's it's a it's fucking brilliant on every level, but it is fucking dark and at the end, at the end, it's a Disney film that says, yeah, it doesn't matter how much of a great guy you are, if you're the hunchback, you're not getting anymore. I'm afraid you are fucked. Yeah, you're not. You're not going to end up with them anymore. She's still going to end up with the fit soldier even though you saved. That's good because that teaches kids about

the reality of life. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. It's a it's a it's a really dark film that I have a lot of respect for that. I like that as a yeah because you because you're always predicting that I was going to be a happy ending though, oh it's not going to be all yeah, the kids haven't all died, and then they do. You go, oh fuck, wow, okay, fair you know what fair play? I feel really empty now, and you got me. I feel really empty down upstairs?

What is the film you found the sexiest Finn Taylor calendar girls? Good lord, I couldn't stop coming. No, I don't, I don't know, I don't know. I don't know how to answer that question. I mean, when I was a kid, I used to watch Basic Instincts. Yeah, I was a nineties kid or hopped up on hormones. But I don't do you mean sexy in terms of like the way

it's shot. I mean it. However, you might think Chinatown is a very alluring aesthetic, like I love all that oldie worldye stuff, and you know the style of it, and Blade Run a Blade Runner as well, like that that cityscape is so sexy. Yeah, I don't really know. Maybe I'll say Chinatown, do you know what I mean by the aesthetic of it is? So I do? I do. But you're you're saying you're you're going for incests. Okay, what Yeah, there's a subcategree, there's a subca agree. Traveling

Bone is worrying. Why I don't a film you found a rousing that you weren't sure you should. I always kind of had a thing for Jessica Rabbit the cartoon. Yeah, but that's not That's not troubling, isn't it? But then women find that weird. You see, I know you don't find that weird because you're we're just we're just flashing blood. Yeah, but my wife's like, how do you find to that as a drawing? I'm like, yeah, but what what? What? How did he finish that drawing? You must have been

so horny the whole time. That's why that film, That's what animation so long, every animation with Jessica Rabbit to keep stuffing? Can you just finish Jessica Rabbi his desk? There's all these buckets filled with just fluids. Right, we're cutting down Jessica Rabbits that much. We're never going to fit in. She's got two minutes. But yeah, I don't. I don't know if I've ever been troubled by an erection during a film. Sorry, okay, now listen, you're you're shameless.

As they said, what is objectively the greatest film of all time? Clin Taylor? Not necessarily your favorite, but objectively the one objectively The Rock? Now this is where this is where cinephiles. But I genuinely think because my yeah, right, so The Rock is fucking really brilliant, and also I don't think it gets appreciated enough. In three years, Nicholas Cage did Conner The Rock and Face Off back to

back to back what run. The thing is. What I find annoying about the film industry, and particularly the awards system, is that it just rewards films that are important rather than films that are fun. And I feel like we've lost a lot of films that are fun because they're either massive budget spectacles like the I don't watch the sort of marble, you know those films. I'm quite stressful. I don't know what's going on. But you know, the rock is the dialogue is ridiculous. It is ridiculous. Winner

should go home and fuck the prom quit. You know, it's stupid, It's so quotable, it's high octane. It's cage is just utter silliest. His wife is ludicrously attractive for a scientist. He's called Stanley goodspeed Um. Sean Connery is kind of playing an old Bond, even though that's never really spoken about. It's just it's you know, Alcatraz is in there. Ed Harris is brilliant in it. And and I will say this, the bad guy has a point, has a real motive. He's fine for veterans. He's for

a veteran. Yeah, I'm Harris. And also what I love about it is how when Britain was preparing dossiers on whether they should invade Iraq. They basically they said that Sadam Hussein had these beads of nuclear weapons or chemical weapons which they had just taken from the rock. So it was complete there and their intelligence in quotes, was just the plot of the rock, and so the Iraq will happen because of the rock. Yeah, let's say that.

Let's say that the entire the fall of Sadam whoisone, was down to Nicholas Cage and that is why it is objectively, But I just it's like it's on maybe three or four times a year. It seems to be constantly on eye player, and I will always watch it because it's so fun and there's always a line of dialogue that I forget about the actions great, It's just pure escapism in a way that I think a lot of films aren't now. Fun fun film. I love it.

I can't work out if it's my favorite Michael Bay, it's that or Bad Boys too, Yeah, but they're both. They're both magic. Michael Bay did Point Break as well? Or was that someone else that was Kevine Bigger? Point Breaks a growth films A great film? What is the film that you could or have? What's the most over and over again? Well, the rocker side. I think Skyfall is the perfect Bond. I think it's majestic. I don't see why they don't just copy the formula they did

for that all the time. What did you make of No Time for Day? Really really liked it except the theme tune. It's like, look, I'm sorry, Billie Eilish, you're a skinny little girl. You need a big old woman to sing the theme tune. That's or Tom Jones that is bot. I don't know who this Billy Eilish is. I've just seen a photo of her. It's very fine, did you know? Probably make sure that I don't care Adele before she lost the way, Shirley Bassie, Tom Jones,

these are the people who sing Bond theme shits. Do you know what I mean? Yeah? No, I hear you're you weren't you weren't short establishing shots and big lungs big yeah. But I think sky for I think Bardom is brilliant. The kind of homoerotic tension was something you haven't seen in the Bond franchise. And then I think

after that, I think the other films recently. I thought No Time to Die was brilliant, but the one before, which was called Specter, I thought was a bit weak and a bit rushed, and they were trying to crowbar in this narrative like you were trying to join it all up. I thought Christoph Waltz was sort of criminally under used. As when I've heard about that casting, I was so excited. I was like, that's perfect. Christoph Waltz is Blowfeld. I just didn't think it really ever came off.

But I think sky For as a standalone film, Oh yeah, I love it. It's just it's just I feel I feel so proud to be British watching that. Would you play? Of course? I would bring to it the Steel of Dalton with the camp anger of Roger Moore. I do everything that massively cocked eyebrow, and I keep looking down the camera whenever, whenever a woman slinked up to me, I just look at the camera with a massive eyebrow,

and you know what's going to happen. Just to give them something else in the edit, you know, they could just cut straight to the next scene if they didn't want to. You know what's going about to happen. I'd be like Austin Powers. It'd be like Austin Powers in a natural Bond film. I like it now. I don't like to be too negative thin, so we'll do it fairly quickly. What's the worst film you've ever seen? Toss up between Scorsese's Silence and I was that controversial? You've

just lost your ten point? Really? That fucking garbage that film? And I won't hear it is garbage? She with what was your second choice? The last word? Anderson film, the most recent one. I can't remember what it's called. Dispatch. That is that is the most self indulgent fuck you the audience. I'm with Anderson tripe that you could ever see. You can have that, but you're not having silence. Silence, right?

Does it not bother you? That? Okay? Everyone's a seventeenth century Portuguese missionary and they're doing accents like Adam Garfield and the other and Adam Driver doing Andrew and I'm Driver doing accents. And then they're sent to find Liam Neeson, who is a Portuguese missionary that lives in Japan, and they get to him and he's just all than irish because they're like, there's no way you can handle this

level off travel that this character. So just do you just be un Liam just yea, you know, but they're still speaking in Portuguese. Yeah, and he's just going right there, what are you doing? I love in Japan? You know it's it's mad. It took me out the whole film. I mean I also saw it. I saw it on New Year's Day, like, oh my god, so I will I will can see that. But I thought Scorsese, I thought Samurai. I thought brilliant, it's gonna be great. And then it was just like, oh, we get it, mate,

you're religious really upset about this. Really yeah funny. But also I barely know a single person he's seen Silence. You might be the first person talking to he's ever seen it. Did it not bother the name nation thing? Does that not? I'll tell you out the whole film. No, Because I mean you're saying that, I go like, yeah, okay, I think I just just go. It's like having Ray Winston in a film. He can't do an accent. You're

just lucky to have him. He'll do what he does and you've just got it in your in your head. Make the connection of so after like, you know, two and a half hours of building up this character. You just may have you seen Black Widow. You know Ray Winston's playing arresting in Black Widow. I think I've seen a clip of him trying to But at the same time, it's this weird thing where you're going, well, that's not the accent Ray. But on the other hand, you're so

carrious about Yeah you are, Ray Winston. I'm filling the gaps. I'm going to put a bet on actually, yeah, you know what, So you're going like, I'll just I'll make that. I'll do the little bit of work I have to do to make this work. In my head, it certainly didn't ruin the film for me. No, when I when he started talking, I just could I couldn't stop thinking about him going classic drumming song in love actually, and I was just like, well this films. I was also

really hungover. Yeah, a terrible hangover film. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, I can see that. I'd say, what's the worst hangover film? Silence? Yeah, okay, yeah, yeah, riddle me this. You're in comedy, you're a comedian, you're very funny. What's the film that made you laugh to make the other guys with Will Ferres, Mark Wahlburg Man, that's funny. The running joke about Will Ferrell is married to Eva Mendez and he keeps calling at her. He

keeps apologizing for his plain wife. She's the most like you know, she's like a sexist dream in that she's this gorgeous woman who' always running these low up tops, who's like cooking all these amazing meals and invites Mark Warbo for dinner and she says something really funny and he's like, oh, she's so boring. I'm playing, oh man.

And also the just the slapstick in it. I'm a big sucker for like Leslie Nielsen films, there was a yeah, it was either the other Guys or it was draftedly dead and loving it, which me and my sister used to be obsessed by. But yeah, the Other Guys is I think the most I've laughed at a film in the last few years, and I've watched it several times. It's really got that amazing bit where they jump off the building Samuel. It's really quite something like that bit.

It's quite a high budget for a stupid Yeah, that's why this is why I like The Blues Brothers is that they just wreck an unspeakable amount of cars. Must have cost them so much money, and at the whole point of the film is that it's a laugh. Yeah, you know what I mean. I like that. You ever seen Ted two? No? Are you in that? No? But it's a really funny filmed It must have cost one hundred million. Is that a talking bear? Yeah? Talking bear? Yeah.

I'm not saying that people hated it. It's really funny, but I think you'd respect the amount of work that's gone it. Like there's like a throwaway one line joke that's filmed underwater with a I'm that must have cost ten million that Yeah, yeah, I respect that. Yeah, I mean there's a level of respect for that, isn't that. Yeah? Finn Taylor, you've been wonderful. However, you were thirty one years old summer as summer turned towards him, and you went for a walk just to take in the new

new colors of the day. But you're surprisingly weak and thin. Skin. Was struck by a fooling leaf, a sycamore leaf, and it and it sliced out, it was spinning and it actually what happened was sliced open. You're jagging. I like that. Yeah, it's open to a film, Matt, Yeah, slice doping Jagger and you were like what and you but as you went to speak, blood came out and you set fall

into the ground. You were trying to cool out, but the blood was so hoking you and you just fell on the ground and leaves then pile on top of you, so no one even noticed. And I'm walking around now it's an autumn. I'm kicking leaves the best. No one knows because you were covered by leaves at this right, okay, And I'm walking around with a coffee, you know, I'm like, I'm kicking leaves this autumn. I'm like, this is lovely and a kick and my foot hits something quite weak,

is what it hits. But it's it's solid and cracks and I'm like, what is that? And I look under the leaves and it's you dead neck open squirrels of eating your insides. There's rot, there's maggots coming out of here where your eyes were. You're a fucking state. Anyway, I do what I can, chop you up, get you in the coffin. But you can deeald with bits of the earth and leaves. It's a lot more of you than I expected. Put you in the coffin. It's absolutely jammed.

I would to stuff it him with sticks rammed in there. There's only enough room in this coffin for you to take one DVD that I could slide in the side for you to take across to the other side. And on the other side. It's movie night every night, and one night it's your movie night. What film are you taking to show the inhabitants of heaven when it's your movie night? Finn Taylor, God, that was a lot. Yeah. Yeah. Do you know what I'm gonna say? My wedding video?

Are you? No? No? I take I love it. I'll take the rock. No, you're taking your wedding video. The thing is you're having to do a Q and A in like a commentary to your wedding video. I would like to see it. I mean it's quite nice. It's five minutes though. No one else has taken your wedding video. Good. That would be weird. Yeah, No, I think it's a good It's a good choice. Okay, Finn, You've been wonderful. Is there anything you would like to tell people? To look out for, or to watch out for, or to

listen to. I just released a full hour of stand up a special for free on YouTube YouTube, Finn Taylor, you'll find it. It's called So My Wife. It's my last tour show that filmed to put on YouTube for free so that people could watch it and they could share it easily. So that's very exciting. Film it. Let's squea. It looks great, really happy with it. How many shows did you film? Just want me have one take? And

it was great, one and done. And also they should do that and then subscribe to my YouTube channel because I have just finished filming sort of I guess a video podcast or maybe a web series you'd call it. But it's like sort of like between two funds, but for people who are big on social media. So that's coming out in the next I don't know month or two. But check out my YouTube. Basically that's what you should do. I want to see it. Did Taylor? God bless you

have a wonderful death. Good day to you, sir, Good day, thanks Brett. Thank you. So that was episode one hundred and ninety two. Head over to patreon dot com forward Slasbert Goldstein for the extra fifteen minutes of chat, secret and video with Finn. Go to Apple Podcasts give us a five star rating. But right about the film that means the most to you and why lovely thing to read my name and Marien loves it. Thank you so much to Finn for doing the show. Thank you to

scoopis piping the distraction piece of network. Thanks to Buddy Peace for producing it. Thanks to ACAS for hosting it. Thanks to Adam Richardson for the graphics and please to allow them for photography. Comes to me next week for another excellent guest. Thank you all very much for listening. That is it for now. In the meantime, have a lovely week, and please, now more than ever, be excellent to each other.