00:00Your American co-star already problems, already issues.
00:04Hello, I am Jeremy Irvine.
00:06And I'm Hermione Caulfield.
00:08And this is Common Courtesy for Town and Country.
00:11Do I have good manners? Absolutely.
00:15I do when I want to.
00:16That makes you sound horrible.
00:20You are up for the same role as a close friend,
00:24but ultimately learn they have been selected over you.
00:27Later you discover they're romantically involved with the director.
00:30Jesus, this is good.
00:32This is juicy.
00:33Do you speak up?
00:34I think that was right.
00:35But speak up to who?
00:36I think speak up to them, I don't think I would.
00:39I think you look salty.
00:40So the only thing really would be to go and shag the director as well.
00:44That is the only answer in this scenario, isn't it?
00:46I think that's the only answer.
00:47And use your manners, so say thank you afterwards.
00:49Be polite about it.
00:51You're asked to deliver a toast at your friend's wedding,
00:55but you privately disapprove of the marriage.
00:58How do you proceed?
01:00I would deliver the toast if I'm being honest.
01:03I don't think you can ever say that you don't like someone close to you's partner
01:07because ultimately they'll always choose the partner.
01:10Yeah.
01:10So you've got to be smart about that.
01:12If you want that person in your life, you've got to keep...
01:15Yeah, or a mistake that I've made, which is they break up.
01:18You then slag off their partner.
01:19Yeah, that's a good one.
01:20Tell them you've always hated them.
01:21Yeah.
01:22And then they get back together.
01:25You observe your co-star engaging in flirtatious behaviour with several extras on set,
01:29despite being married.
01:31You share a close relationship with their spouse.
01:34Do you address the situation?
01:36Well, firstly, we don't call them extras anymore.
01:38That's...
01:39They're called the supporting artists.
01:40So already bad manners.
01:42Impolite.
01:42Bad manners already.
01:44I've seen someone exchanging numbers with essays before.
01:48Just try to see the good in people.
01:49Maybe the marriage isn't working out.
01:50Yeah.
01:51You know, maybe they've found true love.
01:52But is that just an excuse not to say anything?
01:55Yeah, it's maybe...
01:55Oh, God.
01:56Actually, that scenario fills me with a bit of fear.
01:58Yeah, I feel like we've all seen that.
02:00I'm sweating.
02:00Far too many times.
02:01Yeah.
02:03An industry friend begins giving you unsolicited acting advice.
02:08That is a good one.
02:09What is your response?
02:10I think other actors giving each other acting advice is more of an ick.
02:15I wouldn't go into you in a scene, hey.
02:17I think you should do it.
02:19You should get punched.
02:20Yeah, I think I'd get slapped.
02:22Get hit.
02:22The fury that that ignites is quite extraordinary, isn't it?
02:26Yeah.
02:27I get it from family a lot.
02:28Do you?
02:29We finished watching the first Outlander, Blood of My Blood with my wife.
02:34And it finished.
02:35She went, told you.
02:36Told you you shouldn't have done it like this.
02:37You should have done it like that.
02:39I went, you're joking.
02:40I'm far too honest.
02:43Anyway, she was wrong.
02:44Yeah.
02:45Olivia Williams gave me really good advice when I did the house scene when I was about 22nd.
02:49Oh, yeah, I did my second film with her.
02:50When I was 22.
02:51I found her advice really helpful.
02:54I can't remember any of it, but I remember it being good.
02:57Your American co-star, already problems, already issues.
03:01Right, your American co-star asked to run lines saying they've modeled their British accent after yours.
03:07But the accent is a bit more.
03:09How do you approach this?
03:11I wouldn't dream of it, I don't think.
03:14And you go positive reinforcement.
03:15Yeah.
03:16So you go, I think the effort's great.
03:19Maybe we try one in American accent.
03:20You're a natural accent, so we've got one of those, we've got one of those, and yeah.
03:24And then secretly go and talk to the director about recasting.
03:28Yeah.
03:29You discover that your colleagues have a group chat that excludes you.
03:32When you bring it up, they deny its existence.
03:34How do you choose to respond?
03:36That would be soul-destroying.
03:37I honestly don't know what I'd do.
03:38I think that would be soul-destroying.
03:39I think I'd burn everyone's houses down.
03:40I don't know.
03:41I would be so upset.
03:42I would choose violence.
03:45I would maybe convince myself it's because they're organizing like a prize for me.
03:49Yeah, surprise for me.
03:50If I thought it was like a group to organize my birthday.
03:52Yeah, that is what you'd have to think, isn't it?
03:54Until you find out that's not, until it gets the end of the job, and then you still don't know why.
03:57Don't go looking for things you don't want to see.
03:59Yeah.
04:02We do.
04:02We've got a couple.
04:03We've got several.
04:04We've got one with Hermione and one without.
04:05The passenger seated behind you on the plane is replicably kicking your seat.
04:13Do you use the life jacket or the air mask to strangle them?
04:17No, it says, how do you manage the remainder of the flight?
04:21The thing is, I always like to think in these scenarios I speak up, but I've had it, like when people play videos loudly on their phone and that kind of thing in public transport, I've never told them to stop.
04:31No, I've never told them, no, I know.
04:31And I just sit there fuming.
04:34So I imagine with this it would be a similar scenario.
04:36Actually, if they're kids, you turn around and you passively, aggressively smile at the parents like that.
04:41Yeah, I think I'd be getting escorted off the plane at the other end.
04:49First time I came to New York to do a press tour like we're doing here, I had some bad shrimp or something on the plane and got aggressive food poisoning.
05:00That's miserable.
05:01Then had to land, go to, it's when David Lessman was doing his late show, go on to that, first chat show I'd ever done.
05:09And I vomited just off before going in to the most white knuckle.
05:15I just thought, great, the first time I'm on American TV and I'm going to f*** myself.
05:20Perfect.
05:23You've brought a date to an exclusive industry event, only to notice that their primary interest appears to be engaging with your famous friends.
05:31How do you address this with them?
05:33I think you'd get dumped.
05:35I think, like, if you're a star f***er, no.
05:38Well, I've got mates who get quite excited and go and ask for photos from people.
05:42That's different.
05:42But, like, I think there's, like, you know, there's a sweet version of that, which is being excited.
05:47And then there's ditching you to go and work the room, which is big ick.
05:51And they're ditching you to go and do it.
05:53But as long as they're still with you, my mum's pretty bad at that.
05:55Is she?
05:56I don't know why she doesn't think that people can't see her with her phone out.
05:59She did it right in Paul McCartney's face once.
06:01She looked at it and I thought, what am I going to f***ing do?
06:06While dining at an upscale restaurant, a fan approaches your table and asks for a photo, drawing attention and causing a commotion.
06:13Do you oblige?
06:15Yeah, normally.
06:16Yeah.
06:16I think if I'm eating, I'd say, let's do it after this.
06:18Well, I'll do it when I finish this.
06:20Yeah, yeah.
06:21Sorry, that's not an open invite for people to come up to me when I'm eating.
06:24Where's the greatest place you've been asked for a selfie?
06:27I was doing a film in Abu Dhabi and we got, for some reason, we ended up losing our location and we were standing in the middle of the desert.
06:34That was nearly a sense of humour failure, actually, because it was so hot.
06:37But that was probably, in the middle of the desert, was quite mad.
06:41I was dating someone much more famous than me.
06:43I remember sort of literally having one of those sort of break-up dinners and people kept coming up and that was...
06:49Oh, no.
06:50Yeah, I could have done without that.
06:51But you were breaking up and they were asking for selfies.
06:55Yeah.
06:56That is grim, isn't it?
06:59Thank you for watching us play Comic Cursity with Town and Country.
07:02Watch Outlander, Blood of My Blood on Starz.
07:13That is grim, isn't it?
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