another we believe because people's hands but if i like facets rob and then robert the bruce has this biter and that is where i'm just excited parties scotland's national kito and the winter of 1306 on the run from his enemies ansel and about a contrast in stealth in 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. were. something. like gets h. . you've changed me. it's

changed the king i'll be the landrieu live in. as it comes to a fight some of us might not see the sunset but that's just the true nature of war . to this. i see now. in your eyes. it's. just felt. her teacher. is at the office so it's quick to jump ship to the blood i just touched the cold cruel skin. we. have scotland clutched in the cup. and now. we're set up. is that what.

i guess my father jenna delighted to be joined of. rome of the british playing on screen your dad one for the little tear for committed so you travelled a lot so you know you're very scottish senator judd lots of international experiences as a boy moved around. for my entire childhood but every. every summer or winter we would come back to visit my grandparents who originally were from bar had moved to collins and so we would go to for elliott road and stay for a couple months every year when i came to. edinburgh university i came from strasburg rather than a year of rock discovered that i probably on the code was not to my liking and came to edinburgh to do 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 it was 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 either they either lost their soul 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 live opponent is a major interest in politics and you did some hard glass of the theatre and then you go to 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 i said the casting director pat's pollock said no no you're going to 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 rubber so you told me you could be edward the 2nd yes of course the script was 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 thing 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 goal 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 that brief that put in a different position assigned to will be able to pick and choose roles or as

a struggle forever it's a rollercoaster the business and if you're up for a moment you're in 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 1908 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 dream full of. years you've heard. the side deal of firsts the script to tell the the robert abuse story suborders to target audience but who have think what a way to be looking for for something more because of some fundamentally interesting story so we been driven from i guess without robbing from your childhood or of them from the. well the success of the prelude is going to his student play for people's interest and that means we're with us this come right from the gut as 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. 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 ignore deadwood plantagenet was ruthless mom in christendom and he's made his bed for 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 or 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 or why did he what was that compelled him. out of that cave and that was really the story came back to. been told the story of the the spider and 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 it's not just bruce stages that locked him in has his brothers are getting knocked off all over the place his wife is suspended like the age from a castle that's randomly who have a new room. is getting either the capitated or ruins you know and that stage you must feel huge 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 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 of a few minutes ago users almost 90 war film know how and their faith in the story of scotland's huell king subdued takes on the the might of the plantagenet empire and winds through it through battle through warfare how can that be an antiwar story well i think because i was there was gone for a more intimate story in this in this in this telling of it that it's just the i just didn't want to avoid all of the glorification of war scenes

and really explore. the loneliness of a guy who realized that really was what wasn't worth it at the end and and funnily enough. he actually even once he's healed again he 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's 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 the so much. the i mean there's so

many you know there's a they do as as went on trump once and i think he said that with 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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a man i. mean don't hate. this kid who in the. video coming from a system definition in. minnesota didn't run shit. welcome back alex is interviewing scott to star 1000 who almost 25 years after the blockbuster braveheart as a priest his portrayal 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 has been queens 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 aren't restricted no activities to

scotland but you see the same sort of political but gload at the present moment will break the whole european argument now humans as scottish independence as novelli into linked with our 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 seek and direct analogy between the 14th century scotland the nearly 21st century britain i see 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 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 break that thing is just under raveling further and further your someone as a an artist who has a very active position and 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 your laughter. reconcile when you think it's entirely legitimate of jealousy as a woman i'm an actor or do you think. of a purpose i think art does i think all art is political whether it's if it's been completely apolitical it still political if you mean an incredibly violent movie you're 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 you have you know scholars psyche why not be reasonable say that william wallace was loved and robert the bruce at my art. 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 you 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. is the spartacus effect. and the. why would it be that. for the new suit i 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 quite a bit of the story was that the studio blues or 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 well prove why you think. well that sort of like asking why nobody actually knows

about the darien jungle and what happened there because there's another project that 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 all the time which i'd never heard of before i will be like that as you did the story from my case my grandfather's me and i could take a loan the insurance calistoga liverpool and on my grandfathers i got explain to me what actually happened as of last week or last month or the year before martin and then i have the stories of abuse in my in my mind's eye i thought that maybe it happened maybe just before the same little warner 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 as a me just think of all 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. 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 arjun the. was a success of this film of knocking on good king robert was bruce was called of the for the runtime for the chronicles and then one of the darien scheme one of the one of the great disasters in scottish history in a fascinating story some people say it is what ended scottish independence back in

the in the early 18th century and where else where else isn't the midget perspective where 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 with 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 theatre the spider being the voice of modern the you know the modern world of living almost after a cockroach except it's a spider from god 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 trousers or lyceum or

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 and 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 feel that 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 is universal appeal and this is a film overcoming the crisis of conscience yet uncertainty the doubts yes and we've set back on the road in that sense it's like it's really nothing to do with nationalism because it does actually cross or boundaries and it is

a love relationship 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 and he's a man made symbols the tide comes in and out and fish swim free every day and you go up to little protection on the endgame of the new struggle with in terms of scottish independence against the european back will 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 or sound that says well i misspoke to do my own play or polish 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 dylan's. thank you. braveheart was once described as a war cry of a movie this new film by angus macfadyen it's more of a clue the cure for make fudge in the legend of robert bruce in the spider holds the key a tale told to scottish children don't the generations hunted alone lost coding in a cave the scottish king sees a spy the attempts 7 times to spend his web before final success and takes that as a sign 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 theft in years to make this movie i would not discuss the ability of picked to complete the trilogy and take the bruce tale to do new more nor would i under rate 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. join us to find out who won that new bottle i know from tarzan me and all the show is good bye for now.

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