love. >> oh, yes absolutely >> whatever "in love" means. >> seth: please welcome to the show, josh o'connor-- anybody who's watched the show, of which many have -- this is a very buttoned-up family, needless to say. but when gillian anderson was here, she showed us some off-camera video and it does seem like you're actually a pretty fun, happy lot. >> yeah. i mean, we're kind of -- it's bizarre. we're sort of like -- you know, we're obviously playing these very buttoned-up characters and that video is incredibly embarrassing, obviously. but also, it sort of shows how we all were. you know, whenever we're together we're sort of -- usually when the whole cast comes together on "the crown," it's for a jubilee or a wedding or something, some grand occasion so we're dressed up quite smart. and then -- but it's carnage i mean, it's complete carnage. dance, gillian and tobias, we're lizzo. >> seth: from that clip, we also see what a nice job you did nailing the prince charles voice. was that -- did you know much about him going into this? >> do you know what? actually, i really didn't. i feel like

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and so i was on a zoom call when i got a text from josh o'connor, who plays prince charles in "the crown and he had the live feed, and you know, i think i blacked out. i think there was a lot of screaming, like a lot of screaming. and it's like, i don't know, nobody expects this thing. especially when you make an independent film you know, so it's just the most incredible thing ever. >> seth: it's an independent film it's also an incredibly unique film when did this idea first occur to you as a screenplay >> well i think, you know, i've just been thinking a lot about growing up and the kinds of things that were jokes in movies and in tv shows. you know, the concept of girls waking up with bodies next to them, not knowing who they were. and, you know, guys spying on women in their locker rooms and getting people drunk or waiting for the drunk girl at the end of the party. you know, it was just like banter it was just stuff that was just completely normal. and that was, you know, regrettably part of our lives. and so, i think i've just been thinking about that a lot, the kind of very distu