the christmas said really interesting into the about scottish politics and politics in general definitely worth a watch gregg says the 1st we blew but was read by most of my family they don't need convincing by witting somewhere impatiently for the next 5 bags and bags to all those who contributed and a big thanks to alex for having him on your show and finally william ramsey says loving this we roll big moment let's take a look again at still the whole point of going to wings over scotland this is to get a referendum and have another another we believe we can people's hands but if i like francis rob and robert the bruce has his biter and that is where i'm just excited patrice scotland's national key to and the winter of 1306 on the run from his enemies ansel and a very contrast in style from the blockbuster braveheart this new portrayal postulates by the simple patriotism of a peasant family helped the brits overcome his own crisis of confidence and beat the country to freedom.

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each. if. the cool. is that worth. i just. waited to be joined by. your new film robert the bruce playing on screen your dad won for the world health organisation so you travelled a lot so you know you're very scorsese senator judd lots of international experience is there as a boy moved around. for my entire childhood but every every summer or winter we would come back to visit my grandparents

who were from head. collings and so we would go to for elliott road and stay for a couple of months every year when i came to. edinburgh university i came from strasburg read on a year of law discovered to the polio code was not to my liking and came to. international relations because i thought i'll go into politics. and a sort of one day had a voice which sort of stopped me in the middle of the road about 6 weeks in it's just said don't do that don't do that as a sort of tend to listen to these instincts you know and i changed my course and went into english and french literature and language and i was doing the bedlam theater here which is i did 35 plays and 5 for festivals and i never really us was of wire done until 2003 when because i'd have probably become

a labor guy i think because this was the eighty's and. and i discovered that i'd have probably gone into the labor party in some sort of as a politician somehow and have been can have been faced with this dilemma in 2003 i'm going to resign because of this illegal invasion this is the invasion of iraq or iraq for many labor supporters it was a seminal moment it was because people were either they either lost their solo lost their jobs or very many and lost their souls i believe at that moment and so i sort of had this sort of illumination because it was that was what that voice was telling me to take a different path here so you were saved from becoming a leave of paul because a major interest in politics and you did some hard glove the in the theatre and then you are a huge break in the international blockbuster of braveheart and you played robert the bruce was asked to come in for the english prince in it and they said the

casting director pat's pollock said no no you want to come and play with the bruce but you can't because it's been offered to a movie star so forget about that come in to meet mel and talk about this role so what did i do i went in to have a no work for 9 months. and i and he said so you want to talk about this role of the english when i said no i'm not here to talk about that here to talk about river so you told me you could be edward the 2nd yes of course the school is clearly a case that's correct and i was in there for an hour and a half and it was a look of a gun. casting director like crazy talk about this and he said so ok well it was great to meet you you know want to talk about the other guy i said no i'm good good luck with the movie and i left and kicked myself for days afterwards and i haven't worked for 9 months woman doing but i got a phone call 10 days later and i was asked to come back to see him i was a crisis over there now i'm something wrong you know and turned out that the actor who'd been offered the role was trying to get. a role in the other scottish from

which would be made at the time the robbery one which was considered the small the mere script so busy everybody wanted to be in the other one this one was like the cheesy hollywood think right. got invited back and it turned out that this other actor had let the go the day go by by which he should've accepted the offer so they withdrew it and gave it to me so there's a sort of element of destiny in that in such a successful for the brave out there that you're not going to different position assigned to will be able to pick and choose roles or as a struggle forever it's a rollercoaster the business and you're up for a moment you're a film with 5 oscars and it's got 11 nominations and you think well that's that's me set for the rest of the novel you know bring on the next one and then you have like a couple of films i did a film called titus which had hopkins and jessica lange and this incredible cast of people julie taymor directing shakespeare i did a film with tim robbins with just a stellar cast including vanessa redgrave bill murray susan sarandon john turturro

and i was this was 1998 and i was like riding high i did the rat pack with ray liotta from goodfellas and i was like i had these 3 fantastic films in a year and 2 of them basically bombed at the box office and. suddenly the phone goes silent because. you know you're no longer in favor and so you know you're you're spending a year with nobody calling you and you've got to find other things to do right. no direct directing or painting whatever it is that keeps the the wolf from the door as it were but you've been in terms of pursuing it leaving you've been pursuing a plane full of for. years you've had. the side deal of firsts the script to tell the the robert the bruce story suborders to the audience paul who i think there was a way to be looking for for something more because it's

a fundamentally interesting story so we as a been driven from my guess was that driven from your childhood or driven from the . well the success of the petroleum of scott to his student play if people's interest in them and willis as those come right from the gut is just a fantastic idea from a script. i was i was love the experience of braveheart but i was slightly disappointed because the film ended and it was as of a well we don't need to know the rest of the story and say well hang on we've got a guy who became king afterwards and so i wanted to make a more intimate film and also films didn't glorify war which was more of a you know an anti war the rubble of bruce has broken with edward brooke in the king's pieces as the king of ring or deadwood plantagenet ruthless mom in christendom and he's made his bed from the throne so you've set at that point of his life why. i think it goes back to wanting to always tell

a story which which strips bare the pomposity and tells the story of a man and far more interested in exploring the characters weaknesses or for him at the lowest point of his life you know with that's where you weigh discover the true character of somebody at that point as to whether they lie down and die oh why did he what was that compelled him. out of that cave and that was really the story came back to being told the story of the the spider and it never been told and i kept on wondering what is that story what happens in that cave because you know the spider cycle psychology symbolizes schizophrenia so when robert the bruce goes into that cave to to die because he wants to just give up. it's not it's not death that he meets it's it's it's this voice

which starts to talk to him because not just bruce at that stage is there a lot to him and has his brothers are getting knocked off all over the place as waif is suspended like the age from a castle that's randomly who have a new room. is getting either the capitated or ruined or that stage you must feel sense of guilt it's not just him being sacrificed it's everybody's of a lovely yes and he seemed he seemed so much death and he's he's witnessed the death because you know you had young boys fighting at the time so everything turns against them is sort of like the story of bonnie prince charlie as well as when he went really got within 100 miles of of london and then turned around for what reason we still don't really know but those people who support of them all the way down were jeering and throwing eggs and cabbage at him all the way back and it just sort of kind of all fell apart from there but you said something

a few minutes ago users almost 90 war film know how the mayor can the story of scotland's human king subdued takes on the the might of the plantagenet empire and winds through it through battle for warfare how can that be an antiwar story well i think because i was was gone for a more intimate story in this in this in this telling of it that it's just i just didn't want to avoid all of the glorification of war scenes and really explore. the loneliness of a guy who has realized that really was what it was worth it at the end and and funnily enough. he actually even once he's healed again it doesn't want to go back to war it's the it's the widow in the house who says to him you know all of those men died for you would have died for nothing if you don't go back and finish this

even at the end he still pushed by external forces towards his destiny and i really like that because it's like when you look at when you look at the world and you see what people who were sent to power and there are so many modern examples right now. you know it's in the in the pursuit of it itself you see the lies the seed of corruption you see these people and they almost have to be sociopathic to to rise to these great positions because this there's so much. the i mean there's so many you know this is they do has gone from one side i think they do very bad things but we do very bad things here too man you know it's that whole concept of you don't even know what's going on behind the scene.

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they are the hells from. god since we. need to learn and don't need. to scare loonies. to give. you a clue to the system distance in. minnesota in our newscycle. welcome back alex is interviewing scott to star 1000 who almost 25 years after the blockbuster braveheart has a precise patricio of robert the bruce but in a very different film however well the new film topping the bill at this year's edinburgh film festival has the wider politically impact which is being cleaned for a brief high school which was of independence wisely fought against a backlog of

a whole unit peon struggle that was going on to involve the papacy of all the plantagenet involved the bruces you know who the strict evil activities scott was but you see the same sort of political but glowed at the present moment with blacks the whole european argument now humans as collusion dependences novelli into linked with that european dimension the the impact of of westminster the new plan type of westminster with a very domineering isolation empire to approach us as you see and direct analogy between the early 14th century scotland the nearly 21st century britain i see is very well right now because. i think that we still live in medieval times we live under the perpetual state of feudalism and and i think that this independence struggle is

a struggle to shake free from ancient concepts and move into a progressive future and i think this is through this this is the story of of really a 1st of one of the 1st progressive kings and so i am hopeful that this film will have some kind of a cultural impact your films having the cinemas and there are a vast of the buzz about it but no was that deliberate or was happenstance the anniversary no i think it was definitely not a deliberate thing i was i was kind of. surprised that the 23rd wait a minute what is that something that's turned out that we were opening the film on the anniversary of bannockburn which i thought was just a wonderful touch again by some kind of invisible hand and you know i just want to say that you know it's an incredibly important award me and the director myself and the director we we actually that was our 1st thing was we wanted to open the film

in scotland in edinburgh because we wanted the scots to see the film 1st this is a film for scotland considering the events which are going on. don't forget that. a couple of years ago which we were nowhere near the mess which we are right now with this whole bridge thing it's just an raveling further and further your someone as a an artist who has a very active position in terms of social media bugle you don't hide your or your clothes at all we've been over the in with you your views not just in place of westminster but scottish independence how does you know enough to. reconcile when you think it's entirely legitimate of them or say as a woman on the right or do you think. of a purpose i think does i think all art is political whether it's if it's been completely apolitical it that's still political if you mean an incredibly violent

movie you're making a movie which glorifies violence so you're making a political statement one way or the other so you know i you know i am more active on twitter right now because you know i do have a film coming out and it happens to be about the subject matter which seems to be consuming very many people's minds at the moment in this country so i've waded into the middle of it usually i keep used to a little bit more private but you know i'm a bit of a blunt talker and i like to say. well i think you know as i said i was going to be a politician but i don't think i would have been able to do very well in the diplomacy department if you know scottish psyche why not be reasonable see that william wallace was loved and robert the bruce at my age. i guess it comes down i see it as some kind of a we you know william was sort of seemed to be much more

a working class hero and i think that was something which mel definitely played on in his movie with a little dash of catholicism in there and the bruce you know being a noble. you know there was a certain distance a certain royalty shouldn't get too close to it so you know that kind of thing i suppose and what was it was what was died and bruce was a winner i suppose there is that isn't that you. you have yes you have the it was it was cut into little pieces wasn't it. why would it be that. full new suit understand scottish istream for those who knew about it and hopefully your film will reintroduce the to many more people but even of those who know the story was that the studio blues or other many aspects is closest if you said the name belle of the winter and then you know 99.9 percent of the population wouldn't know the name of the person who actually wrote the declaration of our proof why is the us.

well sort of like asking why nobody actually knows about the darien jungle and what happened there because there's another project that was actually taught in schools what we've been taught and. i want to know what you were taught when you were a kid but. i found i find things out over time which i'd never heard of before i will be like that as you did the story from my case my grandfather's knee i got taken alone the insurance calistoga lived to and on my grandfather's i got to explain to me what actually happened as of last week or last month or the year before or not and when i have the stories of abuse in my in my mind's eye i thought that maybe it hum or maybe just before the same little war or something like that it was it was recent it was a meteor it wasn't something which was long lost in history. or your film of us and

me just think i will offer people yeah i think i think that's definitely if you can make a good film which reaches in and grabs people by the heart of the balls or whatever it is it's not an intellectual experience it is an immediate experience and any good film i think. does that it sort of takes you inside these people's lives and you you see in the human condition and it's not you're not sort of divided at that point you're not going well this is the i don't care about this guy because he's you know he's. the bad guy but you actually kind of become interested you get caught in into these characters lives. immediacy is the word so i was with. was a success of this film of knocking on good king robert was bruce was called of the there on time for the chronicles and then one of the delian scheme one of the one of the great disasters in scottish history in

a fascinating story some people say it was what ended scottish independence back in the in the early 18th century and where else where else isn't the midget perspective where are you bumming to do who well you know i mean the there is that and i've got that script ready to shoot in panama and scotland and i've also you know i don't think i've quite finished with this 1st of the the other section of robert the bruce for haven't quite finished the cave i don't think and i think i'm going to play which have been writing about this the spider and the bruce and the cave being the actual theater the spider being the voice of modern the you know the modern world of living almost afghan like a cockroach except it's a spider. skin everything and this sort of old world this guy in the cave and they're having this debate about about the world and i just want to finish that and will you believe it to their face where you got your teeth all these years ago

that's right it'll be here hopefully somewhere like the trash or the lyceum was something i should probably the bedroom where i started so robert the bruce opens in scotland to model the 20th of june in the cinemas and then what are you hoping for the film after that launch in the launch a new old country. well it's slightly out of my hands but. i'm hoping for some interest from europe we were opening the c.n.n. film festival in september perhaps the logano film. festival and other places we were talking to and then you know also that the states and i i feel like this film is would do quite well in middle america it's sort of that you know there are so many scots and irish there but also the universal appeal of ministers. overcoming the crisis of conscience yes uncertainty the doubts yes and then set back on the road in that sense it's like it's really nothing to do with nationalism

because it does actually cross all boundaries and it is a lovely thing shit over that matters about people getting back on to whatever the best name is going to be. freedom is sort of like the tide coming in and going out there's no there is no line really this is the been invented by man he's a man made symbols the tide comes in and out and fish swim free every day and you go up a little protection on this the end game of the new struggle with in terms of scottish independence against the european back wall well you know i've got my hopes and dreams as you do and i have a few questions for you after the show about where it's all going but during the 2nd interview you interview me yes that will be the one you've got to do the groundwork in order to be ready is the readiness is or sound that says well i'm just going to do my own play or police rather bruce was a lord or they also he was

a gallic for loving cup whiskey liquid holy scotch roe no your pals thank you very much but where is the whiskey that would cause the ones. thank you. braveheart was once described as a war cry of a movie this new film by angus macfadyen is more of a clue to cooler for make 5 gin the legend of robert bruce in the spider holds the key a tale told to scottish children down the generations hunted alone lost coding in the cave the scottish seas a spy the attempts 7 times to spend his web before final success and take that as a sane to try once again and claim the clone in the country in that sense the story is deeply personal and universal but a human being overcoming a crisis of confidence to find a true path in the film the bruce also as

a sucker the support of the simple patriotism of the scottish families the bedrock on which the nation has been built that's less of a legend than the spider robert the bruce may like the holywood glitz and glamour of braveheart but the heart rending story beautifully shot by people who know the business and the subject having tried for 13 years to make this movie i would not discuss the ability of pick faction to complete the trilogy and take the blue steel to do new more nor would under the weight of more than the impact of this magnificent story well told. next we move from the medieval power plays to the politics of protest over the last century we contrast working class glasgow taking to the streets a 100 years ago with middle class london taking to the theatrical boards to day protest against h s 2. joining us to find out who won that new battle and those from taza me and all the show is goodbye for now.

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