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The Human Face - Fame
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Hello, I'd like to introduce
some friends of mine
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This Norman, and down there's Sarah,
and this is little Bert,
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and I can recognise them because I know
their faces and their bodies, of course
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But over here are some creatures
that I think you'll be able to recognise
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because they are very,
very, famous
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Here perhaps one of the most
famous actors in the world,
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and here's another equally famous
and I'll give you a hint - female
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Here's another, possibly more
famous even than the first two,
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and finally a particularly
fine actor or actress,
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characteristic little dark mark
there, just above the right hip
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Now, did you miss any?
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Well, if you did,
here are the answers
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Faces help, don't they?
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Wherever we go we're
assaulted by famous faces
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Cinema, television, magazines,
papers, hoardings
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- you just can't escape
the gaze of the famous
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And what drives this
mad merry-go-round
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is the simple desperate
craving - to be famous
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Performers, actors, people who
become actors want the fame
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A star is someone and from the moment
they would get up in the morning,
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go in, go to bed at night, they are
obsessed with only one thought,
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"How can I be a bigger star
tomorrow than I am today?"
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That's what consumes them
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I don't think it improves
who they are,
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because it's gratuitous the kind
of fame that we're talking about
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I mean, it's, by chance, it's flukish
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You've done very little to
deserve it, normally
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Certainly television fame's like that
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I mean, if you're - if you're
Winston Churchill well you
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- you've done the bit, you know,
but by and large famous people
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are not Winston Churchill
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Good morning
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Good morning Mr. Figus,
we've been expecting you
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Do sit down
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Now, I understand that you
wish to become an icon
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Is it difficult?
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Well, that depends
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Would you say that your life has been
marked by an unusual amount of suffering?
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Oh yeah, definitely
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Drugs? Drink? Sexual addiction?
That sort of thing?
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Lots
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Excellent. And, would you say that
you feel very vulnerable most of the time,
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and would you be prepared to talk about
that at inordinate length?
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Oh yeah, no problem
Is that it?
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Well, there is one other thing
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You have to die young, and preferably
in tragic circumstances
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Is that a definite requirement?
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I'm afraid it is, yes
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Phew. Alright then
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Oh I forgot to ask,
have you actually done...?
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Oh, never mind
Give me the Daily Mail, will you
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Some people are just
dying to be famous
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A young actor called Ryan
Martin is one of them
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I think it would be a wonderful
thing to be famous
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To see people, you know,
happy with your work,
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and happy to see your face when
you're walking down the street,
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say, "Hello. How are you today?"
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I say, "Great. I'm doing good."
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They say, "I remember you man
You're the one from"
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- you know - "the picture on the screen."
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I say, "That's me."
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The music is
- was an off-shot
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I kinda - got a little bit
disgusted with acting for
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about two years
- two or three years
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A couple of weeks ago
when I came out here,
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I mean no one even looked at me,
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you know, it's very humbling
very humbling
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I'll do whatever it takes
I mean, I don't care
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I wanna be famous, you know
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That's all - that's what
it's all about
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If Ryan wants his face
plastered all over Sunset Boulevard,
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he'll have to impress
someone like Mali Finn
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She's one of the world's
leading casting directors,
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she persuaded James Cameron to cast
Leonardo di Caprio in Titanic
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and Curtis Hanson to give Russell Crow
his big break in LA Confidential
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I think that anybody
can be famous,
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and I don't think you have to have
the face of a Leonardo di Caprio
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or of a Mark Damon to
- to be famous,
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I think you simply have to have
a face that is distinctive
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Not surprisingly, she knows exactly
what kind of faces she likes
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See, some of these guys don't
have a distinct enough look
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OK. See this is - this is something that
just doesn't do anything for me at all
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Again - some of these look like
they are - are - they're so
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- there's some
typically contemporary
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Rick Edwards is
an ex-Chippendale
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He's come out to
Hollywood for one thing
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I would like to walk down the
street and have people say,
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"Hey, look at -
that's Rick Edwards."
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Well I can't speak for everybody,
but I would assume or imagine that
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- that a little boost on the ego,
when you first get started,
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and you first start getting recognised,
it must be great
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Three years ago I joined Chippendales
and I was on the US National Tour
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That was a - a great time
A different city every day
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You're travelling around in a tour bus
Different State every week
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Being on stage. Bright lights
Screaming women. It's just the job
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He's now working as the Scotch whisky
Ambassador for Los Angeles Orange County,
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so of course he wears a kilt
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It's not Disneyland where we're
dressing up as a character
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What it is is, the kilt
is a very formal wear,
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and the Scotch company I work
for is a very formal company,
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and so it's no different than
if I was wearing a tuxedo
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- doing it, but because
it's Scotland,
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and it's Scotch Whisky,
it's the Scottish tuxedo
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"Ladies and gentlemen
the next Scotch that
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we're gonna sample tonight is
the Johnnie Walker Gold Label
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This one specifically just splits my kilt.
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"This is my favourite one right here
It's very smooth
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You're going to detect
a lot of..."
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When I was seventeen years old,
I enlisted in the army
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Spent six years in the army
as a paratrooper
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My nickname all through
the army was "Hollywood"
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That's my drill sergeants called me
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That's what everybody
in my unit called me
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- "Hollywood" - that was my name
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And in 1992, when I got out
of the army I figured
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"Do I wanna go back to lowa or Minnesota?
Go to Hollywood."
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So as they say in Scotland, our toast of
Slangiva which means Good Health
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and Happiness to you everybody. Slangiva
Good Health and Happiness to you."
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Unfortunately for Rick,
the Hollywood the competition's tough
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There's an estimated
six million actors,
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every one of them trying to
get their face noticed
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A fair number of them are filed
in Mali Finn's office
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This is where everything just
gets spread out all over the place
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We have file drawers here
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We have African
American men/women here
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Actors with tattoos. Bikers
We have speciality men down here
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Foreign actors. Martial artists
Musicians. We have teams here
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Models and Asian Actors. Boys, girls,
so, this is the work space
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How many pancakes
do you want Mary?
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How many pancakes?
Yeah
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Michael Rix is another young actor
who wants his face to be famous
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It's cool, you know going down
the street and seeing head on a big,
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giant billboard with -
premiering a movie, and everything
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It makes - it does make
a lasting impression,
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but it makes more of a lasting
impression that's really good
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Did you sleep OK? I live with
my two great-aunts
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I actually hadn't seen
'em since I was a child,
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and I kinda ended up here because
one of them broke their hip,
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so, I'm here and I take
care of them - rent's free
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And - it - it keeps me grounded
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I - I play basketball regularly
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It's something, it's another
form of expression for me
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I play with a lot of passion
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I'm not Michael Jordan but - you know
- I don't like losing
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I came here, because it felt like
I had a void in my life
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I worked at the Ford Motor Company
as an assembly man, for four years
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I just didn't wanna grow
old doing a repetitious job
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Gosh put - the thing - man,
I - I put it all off
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It's so simple it sounds dumb
But all Michael,
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Ryan and Rick have to have
is a face that Mali Finn likes.
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I don't think he's
classically handsome enough
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There's a long face with
this jaw that sticks out here
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His eyes are most liquid
- of all of these
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It looks as though it's going to be
an enlightening meeting for all of them
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Film, television, magazines
Faces, Faces, Faces
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Why? Actually, the people who
first realised how important
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faces are to us were in advertising,
because they discovered,
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early on, that faces
sold things,
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and that famous faces
sold things even better
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But why? What's underlying this obsession
of ours with famous faces?
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Well, maybe part of the answer
is to be found here
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Faces are virtually all that we draw
when we're first given a pen or a brush
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Now, these children aren't painting
pictures of Roberts, Cruise or di Caprio
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The most famous people around them,
are their mothers and fathers
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They just have some paint,
same colours of paint
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Four colours, and they have
- they're each doing in a circle,
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but if you look at the circles,
and the noses and the eyes,
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each face has their own personality
on them, which is like a footprint,
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a fingerprint - the child's style,
and it's imbued with their own emotions,
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and their own experience of
their mother looking at them
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The mother's face is telling
them how she feels about them
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Crucial to live to know
that mother loves you
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They're interested
in the pop stars
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They're interested in princes,
but I think they draw the person
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that's showing experience
that is significant in that face
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there is a faces
oh, is me!
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Our obsession with famous
faces isn't a new phenomenon
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It began a hundred and
forty thousand years ago,
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when our modern minds
were being formed
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Most of the important things
that happened to human beings
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happened during our remote history
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The history of civilised
human beings is so brief
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that it's not had any time
to affect our minds,
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so we still have stone-age minds
living in silicon-age bodies
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Lots of animals live in social
groups, with a social structure,
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including us, and if you do that
you have to know the boss guy,
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you have to know one another, but
particularly you have to know the boss guy
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You have to have someone
that you want to look up to,
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that you actually enjoy
looking up to because
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he kind of takes responsibilities,
and you have to recognise him
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So, fame is one way in which
you recognise somebody
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in a crowd who isn't just one of those
sitting around there just like you,
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but he's the guy up there, and that
is nice for the guys up there,
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but actually the rest
of people down there,
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are also glad that there
is someone up there
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So, as your tribe got larger,
so large that
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now you couldn't know everybody
in it, it became possible,
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for the very first time,
for someone whose face
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you've never seen before to have
a major influence over your life
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So, how could you know what this
very important person looked like?
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Well, the only place you could
see their face was here - on money
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Another famous JC
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Good day
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Good day
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I'd like to have my
head on a coin
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Well - who are you?
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I'm a peasant but an
outstanding one
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Alright. Well, there's three
things you've gotta do
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You've gotta pay me twenty groats,
and then, you've gotta fill out this form
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Thank you
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Thank you
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What's the third thing?
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Well, then you have
to become King
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Have you got a pamphlet
on how to become King?
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Yeah, there's a box at the back
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Oh
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The other way that you could have
your face in a public place
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for people to see what you looked
like was to put up one of these
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And the great advantage was that
you'd be surrounded by other statues
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- most of them of Gods - which made
it clear how special you were
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But you see no dress designers
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No footballers
No - restaurant critics
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And let's not forget,
no chat show hosts
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Ladies and gentlemen
It's the Julius Caesar Show
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And on tonight's show the King
of the Senate, Mark Antony,
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the King of the Coliseum, Maxius Lucius
And here's Julius
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Thank you, thank you so much
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Until recently, if you were famous,
you were powerful - seriously powerful
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Life and death powerful
In fact, in medieval Europe,
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the only thing that really
mattered was your power,
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not what you actually
looked like
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In those days, if they
wanted an image of the king,
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they took anybody's face,
and I mean anybody's,
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stuck a crown on it, and wrote
the name of the king underneath
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It seems extraordinary to us,
but they didn't expect
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a portrait of the king
to look like him,
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and we have to wait until 1500 for
the first portrait of an English king,
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and this is Henry the seventh,
it was Henry the eighth there,
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that was actually painted from life,
and looked like him
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His left eye looks a bit odd
- was that the painter or His Majesty?
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Take the greatest ever
- William Shakespeare,
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here at the National
Portrait Gallery
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Did he actually look like this?
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Well, we don't know, cos there's
academic squabbling about
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whether this was painted from life
or painted after he died from memory
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And here's the point
- it's Shakespeare,
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and we've got one dodgy
picture of him - one!
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And the reason why famous
faces weren't well known?
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Well, they just didn't
have the technology.
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Thank you Alfonso, excellent
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Thank you Sir
Excuse me Sir, the paparazzi are outside
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Do you want me to - shall we give
them a couple of minutes?
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If we must
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That's it. That's enough for tonight
Thank you
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If you wanna be famous today you
start out with a photograph,
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a simple eight-by-ten photo
called a head shot is the fuel
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which powers the whole fame machine
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Head shots - actors send out
to casting directors
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On the back of the
head shot it'll say,
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"Went to college. He can fence
He can ride horseback. Speaks a little..."
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All these are lies
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"Speaks a lot of languages
Is a great story flair"
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blah, blah, blah
On the front is the head shot,
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and you're hoping
someone will say,
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"Wait a minute. That's kinda
- let me see that guy."
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Head shots are important in Hollywood
because looks are important in Hollywood
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The look is the only thing
that anyone remembers
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People often forget
what somebody's been in
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What someone's name is
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What someone's resume says,
but they see the face,
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they suddenly get terribly excited
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You know, if you have a Ferrari you want
to show it off to people and say,
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"Hey look, I've got a great
Ferrari here you know,
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and look at the brochure
This is beautiful."
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And you wanna say
"Well I've got a good face
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This is what I look like
Put me in something."
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This is again your call
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So, if you want to have a famous face,
Mali Finn has to like it
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We're looking for one thing only
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We're looking for warriors,
and that somebody who has very strong,
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frightening facial features that
just jump off the page at you
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A lot of handsome guys here,
that look a - ooh! There we are
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It's very easy when you look at head
shots to say "OK this person's it."
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You can see it in the face
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And other faces it's like you
see the mischievous eyes,
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or you see the dimples,
or you see some distinctive feature,
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but something's happening
there that says,
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"Ho ho, I wanna - I wanna
get to know this person
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I - you know
- I like what I see here."
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So how long have you got
to get your face noticed?
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On average, nearly half a second
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These are mine, so of course
they're all brilliant.
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Actually I've never put him here
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So for Michael, Ryan and Rick,
that means a trip to see the king
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of the Hollywood head shot,
Kevin Major Howard,
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who makes a virtue out of working
at the back of his garage with no lights
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I don't pursue the lighting schedule of
a studio photograph. It's portraiture
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Here Ryan I want you
just doing this
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Look straight ahead like this
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I think because of the style that
I shot in I have enabled the industry
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- the actor within the industry
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- to really get authenticity
about whom he is,
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or she is, to the performance
level that when people
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look at my work they actually feel
that they're meeting that person
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How's the career going?
It's going good
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Yes?
It's going very good yeah
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Tell me what's been going on?
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Well I - I - I - I - well just
- just kinda moving along, you know
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What I try to do with
available light is just
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that's the light that's
God given us
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It's what we look like
everyday of our lives
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Every minute we walk somewhere
Let's use that light
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Rick, what I want you to do here
You're gonna start off this way
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Like - like this
Butt back in the chair, just hang out
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Really nice. You know who you
remind me of a little bit?
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Eric Robert
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No, Ray Leota
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I hear that
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It would be smart for you to actually
to take your eight-by-ten,
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find - send it to Ray Leota, send it to
Ray Leota's manager, and his agent
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Well, Ray Leota...
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Photo double
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We - not - no...
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You could be cast simply as
his brother, or twin
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I like to recreate in the camera
what I physically see in life
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When you and I both meet
we look into each other's eyes
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When we do such things, our ears are
not in focus, Our shirt is not in focus,
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this background is not in focus,
so I really try to record
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that authenticity
within the photograph
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For instance, when you look in my eyes,
you see that relationship
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but that's not being in focus
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It's the same thing I'm trying
to create in this photograph
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You can see her eyes
They really come off the page
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But it's because of I've
shown you within the camera
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that illusion of our ears are
not in focus, like hers are not
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The clothing is not in focus,
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and so all you get is her representation
of who she is authentically
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OK, Michael. Kevin Major Howard,
nice to meet you
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My favourite...
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Nice to meet you. Right, what I want
you to do is sit up with
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Pan down just a little
Oh yeah
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Good Michael. Good. Right there
Where are you from, Michael?
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Eh, Detroit, Michigan
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Detroit?
Yeah
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How long you been out here?
Eh, three years
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You're a baby out here?
Yes I am
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And how's it going?
Eh, it's steady
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Photography gave birth to me more
the concept of a famous face,
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but the people having their picture
taken a century and a half ago,
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when the camera was first invented,
had actually done something significant
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Well, the Victorian era
was one of rapid change,
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of technological developments,
not only in things like photography,
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but the development of the railways,
the canal systems,
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and people looked after the sort
of makers and shapers of that era,
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and wanted to record their
impact on that world
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and the best way to do it was
through that idea of eminence,
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that portrayal of biography
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and the promotion of the image
through the photograph
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Local clerics were
incredibly popular
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So they had - they were sort of local
celebrities in their own right
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There were writers, scientists,
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the sort of leading figures
of the new technologies
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You're on my toe
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Sorry
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The next development, which led to
the democratisation of fame,
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was the revolution in publishing
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Now, one of the things
that emerged was
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a whole genre of
celebrity publications,
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and they were called things
like "Men of Mark"
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"Men and Women in the Women
in the Day", "Our Celebrities",
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"Living Celebrities" and their titles
give away really people's responses,
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and attitudes to - to what was
in those - those albums
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So now we've got photographs
and the popular press
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Well, the third invention to transform
the human face is the movies,
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because you try and think of all
the famous faces that you can
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- I bet about half of them are movie
stars, and yet, here's the odd thing
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When movies first started, from the point
of view of the actors' faces,
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it wasn't that different
from going to the theatre
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To prove the point, here's an
old piece of film from 1909
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showing one of my acting ancestors,
Sir Stilton Cleese, playing the Dane
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To be, or not to be?
That is the question
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When movies first started,
they looked a bit like theatre,
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because they were filmed in a wide shot
But that didn't last very long
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Movie-makers soon came up
with the close up,
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and fame and the face were
never the same again
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The close up I think changed everything
because suddenly you were
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looking at a different head than
you'd ever seen before
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You were looking at a giant head
I see your head
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You're what? Six five? Six six?
You have the head of a man that height
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That's all I ever see. I don't see
a head like this. That is Godlike
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That brings it kind of importance
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"My God, he's fifty feet high
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He must be able to be
champion of the world
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He must be better than
anybody else
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And the first person to experience what
that was like was Charlie Chaplin
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He was for a period of time the most
famous man in history because in Africa,
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they would run his one-
and two-reelers on sheets,
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so the natives in Africa could see him,
and so there was no place on earth
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where he could go where
his face wasn't famous,
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and I don't think that
had happened before
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Chaplin had just happened
and he was beautiful in a way
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That famous shot at the
end of City Lights,
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and that face, that smile
that he makes,
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that ends and irises
out of the movie
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It's an amazing shot. It's - but it
only works because of his face
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And its power only became
evident when he came back
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to Britain for the
first time, in 1921
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And remember, England's
a little country
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When he left, he was an unknown guy who
went and he toured America for a while,
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and suddenly this thing
happened in that prop room,
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when he discovered the
character of a tramp
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I mean, it's a very, you can't
fabricate - you can't repeat it
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And suddenly he was coming home, and it
was, you know, to their little place,
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and my God they went nuts,
didn't they?
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Because, he was returning to us
It was like the prodigal's son coming back
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Where Chaplin went, everyone else followed
But now it's all much quicker
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There's this insatiable appetite
for famous faces,
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driven by the inexorable
expansion of modern media
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The media has changed the
concept of fame
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There's just so much more media
than there ever was before
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Not just because of television
and radio, but because of the Internet,
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because of this vast proliferation
of magazine publishing, and they need faces
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They need - they need to have something,
an image, to put on their cover,
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and inside it's gonna make you,
the reader, stop and pause and look
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So this desire to be famous
is matched by this machinery
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that says we need famous faces
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We need famous faces or faces
that we can make famous
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because that's somehow the
- the fuel on which all of this operates
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The magazine cover that everybody
wants their face on is Vanity Fair,
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the ultimate barometer of how
famous your mush really is
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In terms of celebrity - in terms of
Hollywood is a very important cover to get
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To get yourself on that cover it kind
of signifies that you've arrived
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It's Jude Laws' turn to be
officially declared famous
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on this cover of Vanity Fair
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But how much of this great British
actor did they really want?
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...all great covers, they are all great
covers, I think we need to come in...
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On a beautiful face
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On a beautiful face
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There you get the eye contact,
which is nice
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00:30:09,007 --> 00:30:11,373
This one's the best one that
shows intensity on the face,
442
00:30:11,543 --> 00:30:13,238
and the different kind
of character he could do
443
00:30:13,411 --> 00:30:15,538
I love these large
- these larger scale...
444
00:30:15,713 --> 00:30:18,876
I think they always look
so much better on news-stand
445
00:30:25,323 --> 00:30:26,654
It's whether they can
sell magazines
446
00:30:26,825 --> 00:30:29,020
Whether there's something instantly
appealing about their face
447
00:30:29,194 --> 00:30:30,786
that's going to get them
on the magazine cover
448
00:30:30,962 --> 00:30:32,589
Not that they're particularly
good at what they do
449
00:30:32,764 --> 00:30:34,356
I mean, how often do you
see Woody Allen
450
00:30:34,532 --> 00:30:36,022
on the cover of a magazine,
for example?
451
00:30:36,201 --> 00:30:39,534
How often do you see any of
the really powerful directors?
452
00:30:39,704 --> 00:30:42,605
When's the last Martin Scorsese
cover you saw in Vanity Fair?
453
00:30:42,774 --> 00:30:44,799
Well, you didn't see one
because why would they?
454
00:30:45,543 --> 00:30:46,635
That's not the nature of fame
455
00:30:48,980 --> 00:30:52,438
Michael, Ryan and Rick are still some
way from the cover of Vanity Fair,
456
00:30:54,586 --> 00:30:57,282
but today they have a once
in a lifetime chance
457
00:30:57,455 --> 00:31:00,822
to get a bit closer,
by meeting Mali Finn
458
00:31:05,063 --> 00:31:06,291
I'm very excited about it
459
00:31:06,798 --> 00:31:09,358
It reminds me of a Shakespearean
quote from Taming of the Shrew,
460
00:31:09,534 --> 00:31:12,367
Petruchio, goes Such wind as scatters
young men through the world
461
00:31:12,537 --> 00:31:15,802
to seek their fortunes further than
at home where small experience grows
462
00:31:16,174 --> 00:31:18,142
Ryan is definitely a character actor
463
00:31:18,309 --> 00:31:21,972
He would never play a leading man
role for me at the get go
464
00:31:22,447 --> 00:31:25,939
I have thrust myself into this maze
happily to arrive and thrive as best I may
465
00:31:26,117 --> 00:31:30,281
He has almost hawk-like
round nose here
466
00:31:30,688 --> 00:31:32,747
Crowns in my purse I have,
and goods at home
467
00:31:33,191 --> 00:31:34,818
Very tight, little thin lips
468
00:31:34,993 --> 00:31:36,688
And so I'm come abroad
to see the world
469
00:31:36,861 --> 00:31:38,624
Very squinty eyes
470
00:31:38,796 --> 00:31:41,731
I'm very excited. I hope that she'll
call me in for an interview
471
00:31:41,900 --> 00:31:44,733
His face is so ill proportioned
472
00:31:44,903 --> 00:31:47,303
And cast me in a major motion picture
That's my ultimate goal
473
00:31:47,472 --> 00:31:49,997
His face is a very
closed face to me
474
00:31:53,177 --> 00:31:55,509
What impression do you
think your features get?
475
00:31:55,880 --> 00:31:58,678
Well, my nose is the
first one to the door
476
00:31:58,850 --> 00:32:00,943
So that's an interesting
impression I suppose
477
00:32:01,119 --> 00:32:02,848
You have a very
- very prominent nose...
478
00:32:03,021 --> 00:32:03,453
Yes it...
479
00:32:03,621 --> 00:32:06,488
...a very hawk-like nose
There are other noses like that
480
00:32:06,658 --> 00:32:09,684
It is a very big nose,
and it's - and - and it's
481
00:32:09,861 --> 00:32:13,262
- it's one of those features
that stands out immediately, and
482
00:32:13,431 --> 00:32:18,425
- and it's going to - it could either
limit you in terms of what you apply,
483
00:32:18,603 --> 00:32:22,562
which naturally will - to a great extent,
but there - also because
484
00:32:22,740 --> 00:32:26,540
- because it is so prominent,
actors have had prominent, you know,
485
00:32:26,844 --> 00:32:30,871
features that have - that have
really made them stand out, so
486
00:32:31,716 --> 00:32:33,149
You have crooked teeth
Crooked teeth yeah
487
00:32:33,318 --> 00:32:34,876
I love crooked teeth
Oh really
488
00:32:35,053 --> 00:32:37,886
Yeah - yeah - yeah - yeah
They're very good teeth
489
00:32:38,056 --> 00:32:40,616
Very crooked. That works fine
OK
490
00:32:40,792 --> 00:32:41,724
They work for you
That's good
491
00:32:41,893 --> 00:32:43,884
And very big ears
Yeah
492
00:32:44,696 --> 00:32:47,790
That you're hiding right now
And probably a smart thing to do
493
00:32:49,767 --> 00:32:53,931
No, so I imagine the comedy,
you know, the comedic characters and
494
00:32:54,105 --> 00:32:56,437
- and every once in a while,
the nasty side kick
495
00:32:56,607 --> 00:32:57,733
Yeah
496
00:32:58,476 --> 00:33:00,569
I feel a little humbled
497
00:33:00,745 --> 00:33:03,179
It was very shocking and I felt
a bit uncomfortable at first
498
00:33:03,348 --> 00:33:06,146
because I'd never had anyone done
it before you know, but it was
499
00:33:06,317 --> 00:33:11,482
- it was - refreshing to
have someone so honest
500
00:33:11,656 --> 00:33:15,183
and so professional to
really confront you with
501
00:33:15,360 --> 00:33:19,558
what you need to do to
be successful or unsuccessful
502
00:33:28,639 --> 00:33:29,799
I think it's a great opportunity
503
00:33:30,174 --> 00:33:32,642
Rick's face is more
beautifully proportioned
504
00:33:32,810 --> 00:33:34,072
I'm just looking forward to it
505
00:33:34,245 --> 00:33:38,147
It's a stronger, fuller,
wider jaw line
506
00:33:38,316 --> 00:33:40,181
I think I can get a lot
of direction from her
507
00:33:40,351 --> 00:33:42,285
This eye looks like it's
a little bit smaller
508
00:33:42,453 --> 00:33:45,149
She'll kind of give me
a - her opinion
509
00:33:45,323 --> 00:33:49,726
Both of them have quite
- large foreheads
510
00:33:50,128 --> 00:33:52,289
Her ideas. A recommendation maybe
511
00:33:52,463 --> 00:33:54,897
There's an openness about his face
512
00:33:58,903 --> 00:34:01,599
If you were the casting director,
how would you cast yourself?
513
00:34:02,073 --> 00:34:03,233
What kind of roles?
514
00:34:04,809 --> 00:34:13,239
Probably a kind of soap opera type
- maybe leading man
515
00:34:14,018 --> 00:34:15,212
Soap opera leading man
516
00:34:15,386 --> 00:34:15,909
Sure
517
00:34:16,087 --> 00:34:18,214
Why do you say that?
Be specific about that
518
00:34:18,389 --> 00:34:19,083
Um?
519
00:34:19,257 --> 00:34:21,088
In terms of your eyes,
your lips, your nose...
520
00:34:21,259 --> 00:34:22,920
Shape of the face
521
00:34:23,094 --> 00:34:24,721
I've been told I have
striking features
522
00:34:24,896 --> 00:34:25,453
Ahum
523
00:34:25,630 --> 00:34:27,325
You know, so
524
00:34:27,498 --> 00:34:30,228
Well, everything is
- very well proportioned
525
00:34:30,401 --> 00:34:32,869
You have these beautiful
eyebrows here
526
00:34:33,037 --> 00:34:36,666
You have this - you know,
you have this strong jaw line, and
527
00:34:36,841 --> 00:34:43,770
- and you have - you have
- looks like you know your ears and your
528
00:34:43,948 --> 00:34:47,349
- your cheek bones, everything
seems very well proportioned
529
00:34:47,919 --> 00:34:52,413
Your face is too pretty for me
And I would put you in a soap opera
530
00:34:52,590 --> 00:34:53,818
You would?
Yes, I would
531
00:34:53,991 --> 00:34:55,219
So you kinda agree with me, then?
532
00:34:55,393 --> 00:34:57,554
Yes I do. I do. And I think that's
a good place to start
533
00:34:57,728 --> 00:35:01,459
We could start it in soap operas, Meg Ryan
A lot of people started in soap operas
534
00:35:01,632 --> 00:35:02,155
They do...
535
00:35:02,333 --> 00:35:04,801
...But don't come to me until you
get a few bruises and you know,
536
00:35:04,969 --> 00:35:06,163
until you have a scar on your
537
00:35:06,337 --> 00:35:08,328
And until, you know, your teeth
are a little crooked...
538
00:35:08,506 --> 00:35:09,165
A little chip in the tooth?
539
00:35:09,340 --> 00:35:10,807
Exactly. I want all of those things
Right
540
00:35:10,975 --> 00:35:14,001
Because I really like real faces,
and that's what I try to populate
541
00:35:14,178 --> 00:35:18,114
my films with, are faces that have
blemishes, and have a reality to them
542
00:35:18,282 --> 00:35:20,375
It's terrible to look at
somebody's face and say,
543
00:35:20,551 --> 00:35:22,951
"Your face doesn't look real."
You know...
544
00:35:23,488 --> 00:35:28,824
I felt a connection just talking
to her, and felt a lot of honesty
545
00:35:30,394 --> 00:35:32,726
It's just a vibe. It was a great
vibe sitting in there
546
00:35:41,339 --> 00:35:44,035
For my special play it's gonna go
real well, I'm gonna make sure of that
547
00:35:44,242 --> 00:35:46,107
I don't know whether he
has any of the stupid features
548
00:35:46,277 --> 00:35:50,475
that are going to really
mark him as a film
549
00:35:50,848 --> 00:35:54,045
It's very important, you know,
being an up and coming actor
550
00:35:54,218 --> 00:35:56,243
to meet as many casting
directors as you can
551
00:35:56,420 --> 00:36:00,379
His face is more perfectly
proportioned than Ryan's
552
00:36:00,658 --> 00:36:03,218
The more casting directors
you meet, of course, the better
553
00:36:03,394 --> 00:36:07,524
His eyes are the most
liquid of - of all of these
554
00:36:07,932 --> 00:36:11,060
This is like - like a piece
of pie like golden
555
00:36:11,235 --> 00:36:16,798
He would definitely play the
supporting, the best friend of in films
556
00:36:17,175 --> 00:36:20,633
It could really skyrocket your career
almost over night if - if they like you
557
00:36:21,179 --> 00:36:24,671
There's a - a sweetness
and an openness about his face
558
00:36:29,854 --> 00:36:31,185
Talk to me a little bit
about - how
559
00:36:31,355 --> 00:36:32,947
- what kind of roles you
think you'll play?
560
00:36:35,993 --> 00:36:39,053
Leading man. I've got
a very domineering presence
561
00:36:39,463 --> 00:36:40,794
And how do you see your face?
Tell me about your face
562
00:36:40,965 --> 00:36:42,159
Talk to me about...
563
00:36:42,333 --> 00:36:51,332
My eyes are piercing
My - my smile is enticing
564
00:36:54,545 --> 00:36:55,409
You have beautiful teeth
565
00:36:55,580 --> 00:36:58,447
Yes, I have very beautiful teeth
Never had any cavities
566
00:36:58,616 --> 00:37:00,481
And you have very full lips
567
00:37:02,153 --> 00:37:03,620
Yes... Carry on,
you'll make me blush
568
00:37:03,788 --> 00:37:04,755
Good
569
00:37:06,090 --> 00:37:15,021
I can be just as kind-looking on the wing
and too can I say Lucifer himself
570
00:37:15,333 --> 00:37:19,030
I perhaps would never cast
you in a mean-spirited
571
00:37:19,203 --> 00:37:22,434
or villainous or bad guy
role initially.
572
00:37:22,607 --> 00:37:23,403
Well, that's good
573
00:37:23,574 --> 00:37:25,474
I would - yeah - I've been
quite blunt with you
574
00:37:25,643 --> 00:37:27,133
I don't know if you're gonna play
the leading man. You may.
575
00:37:27,311 --> 00:37:27,902
Right
576
00:37:28,079 --> 00:37:33,949
Usually I - I think of leading men
has having something that is
577
00:37:34,118 --> 00:37:37,986
- that is - that has - of someone who
has something very facially distinctive
578
00:37:38,155 --> 00:37:42,148
the minute they walk in, that just
really holds my attention
579
00:37:42,326 --> 00:37:45,318
She told me that she didn't really
see me in a leading man type,
580
00:37:46,230 --> 00:37:51,327
and that deflated me, because I
- I always thought me as that, but,
581
00:37:51,502 --> 00:37:53,936
then I thought about it, you know,
most really, really,
582
00:37:54,105 --> 00:37:59,543
great actors are supporting,
they help and I'm good so
583
00:38:00,411 --> 00:38:06,839
I'm - I'm inflated now about the
- you know - the interview but yes,
584
00:38:07,018 --> 00:38:10,476
initially I was a little
- I guess inside myself
585
00:38:10,655 --> 00:38:12,850
- a little disappointed
to what she said
586
00:38:13,024 --> 00:38:15,754
Not that she said anything wrong,
it was just different
587
00:38:15,926 --> 00:38:17,723
from the way I viewed myself
588
00:38:18,229 --> 00:38:22,689
But, I'm a very optimistic person,
and I can work with what I get
589
00:38:27,638 --> 00:38:31,438
So, which face will Mali choose?
Would she go for number one,
590
00:38:31,609 --> 00:38:36,342
Ryan who has a nose for Shakespeare?
Or what about number two, Rick?
591
00:38:36,647 --> 00:38:40,879
Would she go all soapy about his
pretty-boy looks? Or is it number three,
592
00:38:41,052 --> 00:38:43,247
Michael, who thinks
he's a bit of a devil,
593
00:38:43,421 --> 00:38:45,150
but does he have the
face of an angel?
594
00:38:50,027 --> 00:38:55,021
Michael has a face that
invites me in immediately
595
00:38:55,599 --> 00:38:58,830
There are - his eyes as
he says - and he said
596
00:38:59,003 --> 00:39:01,631
"I have piercing eyes"
and he's absolutely right
597
00:39:01,806 --> 00:39:06,834
And his wonderful warm smile. I would
use Michael more than the other two
598
00:39:16,120 --> 00:39:19,248
I remember one last thing about fame
It's luck. It's luck
599
00:39:19,423 --> 00:39:24,417
Almost every movie star that
we could mention got famous
600
00:39:24,862 --> 00:39:29,060
because they had a good part in a hit
movie that someone else turned down
601
00:39:30,201 --> 00:39:32,897
So they didn't, basically,
except for a man like Stallone
602
00:39:33,070 --> 00:39:36,301
who wrote his own part,
or Ben and Matt Damon,
603
00:39:36,474 --> 00:39:40,968
who wrote their own parts in Goodwill
Hunting, stars become stars by accident,
604
00:39:41,145 --> 00:39:45,377
and they know that, and that
insecurity goes with them for ever
605
00:39:47,585 --> 00:39:50,884
And what's waiting for Michael
if his face does become famous?
606
00:39:52,022 --> 00:39:54,957
I mean, when I came here to
America eighteen years ago,
607
00:39:55,126 --> 00:39:59,495
and I did Remington Steele, I remember
when Remington started coming out
608
00:39:59,663 --> 00:40:04,259
on TV going through the shopping
mall with the - the family,
609
00:40:04,435 --> 00:40:09,134
and you know somebody would recognise
me and my kids, my children,
610
00:40:09,306 --> 00:40:10,898
would say, "Dad, someone
recognised you."
611
00:40:11,075 --> 00:40:14,806
And I'd say, "Where, where..."
And it makes you swell doesn't it
612
00:40:14,979 --> 00:40:16,446
It makes you feel good, you know
613
00:40:16,614 --> 00:40:19,674
I think the biggest emotional effect
was when my Estee Lauder campaign
614
00:40:19,850 --> 00:40:22,546
started kicking in, and I was
in South Africa making a movie,
615
00:40:22,720 --> 00:40:27,885
and I went into a mall, and suddenly
there were enormous posters
616
00:40:28,058 --> 00:40:31,994
of myself selling the perfume
Pleasures, mascaras and stuff,
617
00:40:32,163 --> 00:40:35,098
and they were massive,
I was completely freaked out,
618
00:40:35,266 --> 00:40:38,258
it was so weird that I felt
embarrassed to be standing there
619
00:40:38,436 --> 00:40:41,496
and looking at myself in case someone
saw me, and to this day I still feel,
620
00:40:41,672 --> 00:40:43,833
you know, in the front of the
magazines where all the ads are?
621
00:40:44,008 --> 00:40:45,703
And so if I'm sitting
on an aeroplane,
622
00:40:45,876 --> 00:40:47,434
I, of course I want
to look at the ads,
623
00:40:47,611 --> 00:40:48,669
number one I love
other people's ads
624
00:40:48,846 --> 00:40:50,313
and number two I want to
have a look at my own,
625
00:40:50,481 --> 00:40:52,608
but I could never dare to open
the beginning of a magazine
626
00:40:52,783 --> 00:40:55,445
in case an air hostess walks
past just as I'm looking at myself
627
00:40:55,753 --> 00:40:57,914
I've found that the greatest
single advantage of it is
628
00:40:58,088 --> 00:41:00,556
that it gets me to meet people
I wouldn't otherwise meet
629
00:41:00,724 --> 00:41:02,555
Oh yes, much of them, sure, oh,
630
00:41:02,726 --> 00:41:05,490
you can think of lots of advantages,
I mean like money
631
00:41:06,997 --> 00:41:08,089
Oh yes!
632
00:41:10,901 --> 00:41:12,368
I think it's part of
a business deal
633
00:41:12,536 --> 00:41:14,163
You know, I think it's very
similar to you know,
634
00:41:14,338 --> 00:41:17,239
if I give you, you know,
a book - from my bookshelf,
635
00:41:17,408 --> 00:41:20,070
it doesn't mean you can come and
take as many books you want any time,
636
00:41:20,244 --> 00:41:23,213
and that if I go to a premier,
to publicise my film,
637
00:41:23,380 --> 00:41:25,940
you'll take some photographs,
sell them and make some money,
638
00:41:26,116 --> 00:41:29,313
my film will be publicised, and that's
- that seems like a fair deal to me
639
00:41:29,487 --> 00:41:32,285
I don't see why, that suddenly
means you can put a lens
640
00:41:32,456 --> 00:41:33,582
through my bathroom window
641
00:41:33,757 --> 00:41:38,592
I think once - once people identify
certain characteristics in you,
642
00:41:38,762 --> 00:41:41,162
and fame sort of inflates
all that, you know
643
00:41:41,332 --> 00:41:42,492
You have to be famous
for something
644
00:41:42,666 --> 00:41:44,156
- I'm famous possibly
for being nice
645
00:41:44,335 --> 00:41:45,495
- being agreeable,
for being genial
646
00:41:45,669 --> 00:41:47,637
So a lot of people
project onto me,
647
00:41:47,805 --> 00:41:50,296
"Oh he'd be very sympathetic
about this, that, and the other."
648
00:41:51,642 --> 00:41:57,444
...They see a kind of completely
simplified version of what you really are
649
00:42:12,830 --> 00:42:16,960
The trouble with fame is that
you can't ever switch it off,
650
00:42:17,501 --> 00:42:19,594
which is why I like spending time
in Santa Barbara,
651
00:42:19,770 --> 00:42:22,534
a small town in California well
clear of Los Angeles
652
00:42:23,274 --> 00:42:27,370
I like the relative anonymity I have
here, I can walk down the street
653
00:42:27,545 --> 00:42:29,513
and nobody really
takes any notice
654
00:42:34,151 --> 00:42:37,780
Back in London, well, I enjoy being
recognised by the people
655
00:42:37,955 --> 00:42:39,582
who live and work in
my local community,
656
00:42:39,757 --> 00:42:42,885
like the Greek Cypriot fellows
who run the local greengrocers
657
00:42:43,627 --> 00:42:44,924
What are these Turkish
cherries then?
658
00:42:45,996 --> 00:42:46,621
What?
659
00:42:46,797 --> 00:42:48,526
Turkish stuff you've got here?
Does your mother know?
660
00:42:49,800 --> 00:42:50,664
Is my mum here?
661
00:42:56,607 --> 00:42:57,767
No. Flash of alarm there
662
00:42:58,509 --> 00:43:00,067
Seriously, what do you think
of the black cherries?
663
00:43:00,244 --> 00:43:01,973
They're nice
The black cherries are nice, yeah
664
00:43:02,146 --> 00:43:03,579
Oh well give me about
a half a pound
665
00:43:03,747 --> 00:43:04,645
Give me about half a pound?
666
00:43:07,117 --> 00:43:11,349
Hold on, you haven't paid for those
Unfortunately we know where you live, mate
667
00:43:11,522 --> 00:43:12,784
So, you can't get away
668
00:43:12,957 --> 00:43:15,187
If you're as slow as that,
you don't deserve to get paid
669
00:43:15,359 --> 00:43:16,849
Oooh
670
00:43:17,027 --> 00:43:19,495
Right, out we go
Do you wanna bag?
671
00:43:19,830 --> 00:43:21,422
No - no the hands
are working just...
672
00:43:26,103 --> 00:43:29,664
You see, that's the kind of recognition
I like, and I think everyone does,
673
00:43:29,840 --> 00:43:31,967
because it makes you feel part of
the community, you know,
674
00:43:32,142 --> 00:43:35,600
to those guys I'm just the man who
lived round the corner for years
675
00:43:35,779 --> 00:43:39,875
and who apparently is sometimes on
the television, which is - is great,
676
00:43:40,050 --> 00:43:44,646
cos it feels natural, and they
know me a bit, so it's real,
677
00:43:45,356 --> 00:43:48,689
whereas this business of getting
recognised from the television
678
00:43:53,864 --> 00:43:56,992
- to be totally honest, I've never been
a hundred per cent comfortable with it,
679
00:43:57,167 --> 00:44:02,901
because it feels, well, artificial
I mean, they don't know who I actually am
680
00:44:03,540 --> 00:44:04,404
You shot him!
681
00:44:05,209 --> 00:44:06,198
Only a bit
682
00:44:14,952 --> 00:44:18,513
In this frenetic, crowded,
yet socially isolated modern world,
683
00:44:18,689 --> 00:44:23,490
the ability to quickly spot
a famous face is essential
684
00:44:27,231 --> 00:44:30,166
If you lived in a - in a village
of three hundred people you knew
685
00:44:30,334 --> 00:44:32,768
who the squire was, and the doctor
was, and all that,
686
00:44:33,137 --> 00:44:36,834
and so everybody had a role, and everybody
recognised who they were,
687
00:44:37,007 --> 00:44:39,271
even if you were the
ploughman's boy, you know,
688
00:44:39,443 --> 00:44:42,241
people knew who you were and what
you did, and why you were there
689
00:44:43,614 --> 00:44:46,913
When you live in this enormous
anonymous aggregation of,
690
00:44:47,084 --> 00:44:49,109
I don't know how many million people
there are in Greater London,
691
00:44:49,286 --> 00:44:54,223
but it's a heck of a lot, and nobody,
you don't know when you get on
692
00:44:54,391 --> 00:44:56,951
the tube unless you've been travelling
on it with three other people
693
00:44:57,127 --> 00:44:59,789
for the past fifteen years, you don't
know who you're sitting next to
694
00:44:59,963 --> 00:45:02,557
You don't know what they do
They are anonymous
695
00:45:02,733 --> 00:45:07,193
So by and large you avert your eyes,
you don't want to recognise them
696
00:45:07,371 --> 00:45:09,532
They are - and so you listen
to your Walkman
697
00:45:12,443 --> 00:45:16,937
You do actually need to - to have
somebody who you recognise
698
00:45:17,114 --> 00:45:21,778
It's as well as your friends,
or - or and so a famous person is
699
00:45:21,952 --> 00:45:25,615
- is useful to you because you
orientate yourself towards him, and
700
00:45:25,789 --> 00:45:29,418
- and see yourself within the
social structure, with him up there
701
00:45:50,380 --> 00:45:51,574
Here's my take on it
702
00:45:51,749 --> 00:45:56,209
I think most of us today aren't
quite sure what our life means
703
00:45:56,587 --> 00:45:58,487
or what the purpose of it is
704
00:45:58,956 --> 00:46:01,516
And then we see someone over there,
and everyone's looking at them,
705
00:46:01,692 --> 00:46:06,026
and we think to ourselves,
"They must know something that I don't"
706
00:46:06,897 --> 00:46:09,889
Well, unfortunately they don't
707
00:46:10,868 --> 00:46:13,996
Whereas back when Florence
Nightingale, Duke of Wellington,
708
00:46:14,171 --> 00:46:18,608
Abraham Lincoln were famous,
well, they had something to say,
709
00:46:18,776 --> 00:46:20,744
they were seriously interesting
710
00:46:21,044 --> 00:46:23,478
Which is perhaps why we now put
them on our bank notes,
711
00:46:23,647 --> 00:46:26,775
but I can't help wondering who
are we gonna be putting on
712
00:46:26,950 --> 00:46:29,942
our bank notes in
a hundred years' time?
713
00:46:30,988 --> 00:46:33,684
How about Posh and
Beck's on a fiver?
714
00:46:34,391 --> 00:46:38,350
Or maybe George Clooney
on a dollar bill?
715
00:46:45,803 --> 00:46:49,534
We still have the same notions
of fame in a modern society
716
00:46:49,706 --> 00:46:53,574
as we did in ancestral
hunter-gatherer societies
717
00:46:54,144 --> 00:46:56,578
but the whole thing has been
hugely amplified
718
00:46:56,747 --> 00:46:59,341
and detached from the reality
of our own everyday lives
719
00:47:05,489 --> 00:47:08,458
What seems to be happening is
that we're - our brains our wired up
720
00:47:08,625 --> 00:47:15,224
so that fame is assumed to be a
result of high achievement
721
00:47:15,399 --> 00:47:17,959
In the modern world that's not the
case but our brains are still
722
00:47:18,135 --> 00:47:21,002
operating on the basis of a world
where fame was something you earned
723
00:47:24,575 --> 00:47:28,978
So all the trivia on these racks,
all this obsession with air-brushed
724
00:47:29,146 --> 00:47:35,449
show business pond life, clear example
of evolutionary wiring gone wrong,
725
00:47:35,619 --> 00:47:38,850
because all these very famous people
726
00:47:39,022 --> 00:47:42,890
don't have a single idea between them
that will help your lives
727
00:47:43,060 --> 00:47:48,555
So my advice is - ignore 'em
Don't listen to a single word they say
728
00:47:58,442 --> 00:48:01,605
Ryan Martin is still playing
his guitar in Santa Monica
729
00:48:01,778 --> 00:48:05,407
and stacking shelves in a
supermarket to make ends meet
730
00:48:05,749 --> 00:48:09,082
He's just finished playing Hamlet
in the Redonda Beach Players Winter Season
731
00:48:09,753 --> 00:48:13,621
Rick Edwards has auditioned for a
number of roles in daytime soap operas
732
00:48:13,790 --> 00:48:15,417
He's not been cast yet,
but he continues to represent
733
00:48:15,592 --> 00:48:17,389
Scotland's main interest on
the west coast of America
734
00:48:17,728 --> 00:48:19,593
Michael Rix has been
cast by Mali Finn
735
00:48:19,763 --> 00:48:21,230
as a warrior in a sequel
smash hit movie
736
00:48:21,398 --> 00:48:22,865
The Matrix.
737
00:48:26,069 --> 00:48:31,701
Action
No, no, no, no, no
738
00:48:31,875 --> 00:48:32,842
They're wrong?
739
00:48:33,010 --> 00:48:36,104
They're wrong,
they're wrong. Oh
66298
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