Why Some Actors Don't Bother Learning Their Lines

[@bassistmike1987]

I work with RDJ on two films and was involved in running this system. I would often listen in on a spare earwig to check the system was working. Hearing a line whilst performing another line is no easy task and it impressed me every day. Especially in his role as Sherlock where dialogue had to roll off the tongue rapidly in an English dialect. It was part of his performance. Occasionally I am asked to supply the system to an actor who’s never done it before and I always try to talk them out of it. Give it a trying try yourself by repeating the words of this podcast a line later.

[@kernowchris]

Mr Downey Junior speaks fast all the time in all his films so it's no stretch for the ego monster to speak his lines out loud in a rambling nonsense.

[@thescowlingschnauzer]

Fascinating. It really is a high wire act. And then people on the ground say "All he has to do is walk straight forward. I saw him wobble!"

[@RetroBytesUK]

I once had to explain to Jonny Depp what a meal deal was, at the time I did not think it was Jonny Depp, as you dont expect to find Jonny Depp in a Sainsburys in Sheffield city centre on a work day afternoon. I tought it was just a guy who looked a bit like Jonny Depp. Turns out he was joining in with someone elses gig at City Hall that night, opposite that Sainsbury.

[@Ulleskelf]

"They [Americans] have no access to Greggs or universal health care. The two tragedies of American life" 😄

[@dominicbriggs2418]

“But they do kinda cancel each other out”😂😂

[@kernowchris]

Ah mentioning that Baker again, what a Tired old tune.

[@jamesbmcauley]

But we do have Buc-ees, and cheap fentanyl; so who really wins? 🎉

[@chrisofnottingham]

To me, RDJ often sounds like he is repeating lines he has only just heard for the first time, so that explains it.

[@f0rth3l0v30fchr15t]

He doersn't read the script, the script reads him.

[@RobbieB2606]

😂😂

[@archgirl7797]

He also pretty much always plays himself or a character he is already very familiar with. Which probably helps him get away with it

[@johngorman6765]

Marina paying out on passengers on below deck. Hilarious

[@captainblack1021]

I remember that sketch by Mitchell and Web, that’s number wang 😂

[@markclawrie007]

13:58 I love the way Marina sits back on that ad read for Sweetpea 😂 missed the right side of the chair and thought - fuck it, this is a one take ad read 😂 👏🏻

[@thenewvoice8]

Back when Star Trek and Stargate SG1 did 26 odd episodes a season, you'd generally get the old 'clip' episode just before the end of season cliff hanger extravaganza episodes

[@Elwaves2925]

Especially in the later seasons. One of the characters would be in some form of coma, or they'd be judged in some way on their past actions or whatever. That would set up a reason to show clips within a plot.

[@jamesbmcauley]

That's why I loved when community would do clip shows of things that we hadn't seen, like a canoe trip on st Patrick's day, or a visit to a ghost town.

[@simonmandrakejones]

​@@jamesbmcauleyI think they did something like that on South Park where they replayed things that happened in previous episodes but differently.

[@dondesmond7969]

Can't read Clive James without his voice in my head. Wouldn't want it any other way.

[@stixdan]

"Depends what game they're playing" - absolutely Richard, I've met some of those sorts of people and they are definitely playing by a different set of rules with different objectives to me!

[@lindagustafsson1337]

I often allow some of my students to read/listen to a book at the same time to encourage reading. Also it's very useful if they have reading difficulties.

[@ILikeBirds80]

Yes! Been proven now to help "paired reading". Wish more teachers did this for their students.

[@CynicalRhys]

My mantra for the day is now "A lot of assholes don't realise they're assholes" Richard revealing the big truths in this one

[@ClayMann]

and there's that one "Villains are the hero of their own story" I like that. Can't remember where its from.

[@patriceevra4]

Love the way Marina explains how americans use 'Quite' to mean alot and how strange that concept is. Then 2 minutes later says use of swear words is 'Quite a big thing' with emphasis on the quite meaning alot! So maybe we do use it to mean that

[@grammapolice]

Yeah. Brits use quite as “a lot” more often than they use it ‘sarcastically’ to mean the opposite- I guess it’s just an awareness thing.

[@archgirl7797]

I see why you think that but actually for the 'quite' part, we still mean 'a little / a bit'. So, saying 'quite a lot' is less intense than just saying 'a lot' in British English. Whereas, 'quite a lot' makes the 'a lot' part more intense in American English. When we emphasise the word 'quite' in a sentense when saying 'quite a lot' . We mean 'a really tiny bit less that a lot' / 'almost a lot'. Whereas Americans use it to mean 'even more than a lot'. It's easy to misinterpret and sometimes it doesn't matter too much which way you interpret it, particularly in the phrase 'quite a lot'. But if you said it's quite stormy, quite heavy, quite expensive ect, that's where it can make more of a difference and becomes confusing if you misinterpret. Americans can do what they like with language, I don't mind that. It would just help if they understood the difference here when speaking to a Brit. They get confused from us saying 'quite' quite a lot 😂 As an aside - I think the word 'quite' in America can be kind of posh, at least in some circumstances. They way it's used in America seems to be a sort of posh understated thing of saying a little to mean a lot instead. We don't use it that way. We are literal with the word, always. But Americans tend to have in their mind that Brits are more posh than them so the thought that the Americans are being posh with a word and we are not adds to the confusion I think. I might be totally off the mark but that's my interpretation from watching too much American TV 😂

[@grammapolice]

@@archgirl7797 since its first use in the 1300s it has meant “a great deal” in rather recent history, it has been employed occasionally by some dialects sarcastically to mean the opposite. Brits use it both ways, but if you listen closely, the sarcastic use is actually less common.

[@petergilbert7106]

@@grammapolice Quite often the deviation from old English has been done by the English and the Americans have hung on to the original definition/spelling.

[@stuartbadminton]

She missed the opportunity to explain to Americans that "Quite good" means "Absolutely atrocious", in British English.

[@DSQueenie]

6:34 I worked on a yet to be released TV series where a big American actress didn’t have an earpiece but an autocues for her lines. Watching her work you wouldn’t have known she was reading her lines, she performed very well.

[@DuncanEvans-t7q]

It's lovely to hear "quite" an amount of swearing within the first 5 minutes of a podcast haha. I always remember the tale of the 3rd Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy book, where an entire extra page or so of prose was added to the American edition to explain that Belgium was an offensive swear word throughout the galaxy. For the British version Douglas Adams just used f***

[@lyndsayanderson3199]

I read and listen to technical documents all the time, it makes it easier to understand and improves my reading.

[@davidshead1323]

I will say earwigs are more commonly used to provide an actor with sound that they need for their perforance that would compromise the recording of the dialogue. Say a karaoke scene for instance, we dont want to record any music outloud but it would help the actor to perform the song and hear the beat. Very simple example there.

[@simac3880]

I must say, Marina's jumper is awesome (for Americans... her sweater)

[@soothingsense9396]

M&S I think (or there is, at least one that looks the same there!)

[@thebagelsproductions]

Often has a Wendy Craig in Butterflies vibe to the outfits. Tres chic

[@lakrids-pibe]

It's quite something

[@longjonwhite]

Isn’t it a pullover? Or a jersey?

[@simac3880]

@@longjonwhite I think either of those would also be acceptable, but jumper seems to me more apropriate for the wollen garment

[@geezertechhead]

Brando in 'Island of Dr Moreau' has now become a reference in a number of films/TV shows… South Park and Modern Family probably being the biggest examples.

[@kosefix]

In Fellowship of the Ring Sean Bean read the famous "can't just walk into Mordor"-line from a note on his knee. But that was because they rewrote the lines all the time and it was impossible to rememember everything. I wouldn't be suprised if that is another common reason it happens.

[@lakrids-pibe]

Yes. Sometimes they're not given enough time to prepare and memorise.

[@ronanmartin1990]

28:31 "If you do this please write in and explain yourself" lol

[@jonharvey6277]

The "one does not simply walk into Mordor" meme with Sean bean comes from him having his lines written on his leg

[@daylightrambler]

25:14 Leslie Jones of SNL extensively re-wrote her book whilst recording the audio version; 288 pages in print became 16 hours on tape!!

[@mikerichards6065]

'They have no access to Gregg's. Or universal healthcare.' Savage.

[@nathanbinford5715]

Marina has the best sweaters

[@borlach_]

I wouldn't call myself a fan of Wil Wheaton as a general rule, but having heard audiobooks read by him (Ready Player One for instance) I think he is top notch at this particular skill, and have bought books I would otherwise have never read just because he is the narrator.

[@billswifejo]

Stephen Briggs and Benedict Cumberbatch are great too.

[@SarahL-v5t]

Yes! Starter Villain is an amazing listen because of his read.

[@borlach_]

@@SarahL-v5t Added to my wishlist, thanks!

[@dibdab101]

it worries me that americans are in charge of The Thursday Murder Club, as for me the British quirkiness of the characters is one of the main attraction and I fear a lot of it will be 'autotuned' for the american market.

[@andrew66862]

For the American audience, my understanding is that "quite" means "nearly" or "rather" in British English and "very" in American English

[@philroberts7238]

Usually, that is indeed the case. On occasion, however, we Brits can also use 'quite' to mean 'very' - and intonation is the clue as to which is which. Often, it's used to express annoyance: ("That's QUITE enough!"), but you can also hear it in a more positive, though slightly affected, sense: ("That's quite delightful, darling!")

[@philroberts7238]

....Or the Noel Coward line: : "Where he took to pig-sticking in QUITE the wrong way!"

[@emmad-ul4tn]

Yeah it depends on how you say it

[@MrThemaskedavenger]

We use it like a contronym.

[@tom5216]

For me quite means ‘a bit’ not ‘a lot’

[@SkinnyObelix]

Localization is something fascinating. Even more so here in Belgium, where in the Dutch speaking part we generally don't want changes from the original, even if we're not familiar with the references. While in The Netherlands even the names of people get translated. To the point that there often are two translations, one for The Netherlands and one for Belgium. This wasn't always the case and I couldn't get over the bad translations, so I ended up reading most of my books in English rather than Dutch.

[@tombarnett5542]

The opening tease was 🤌 nice to see them matching the times

[@felinetherapy4782]

Do love Questions and Answers - great questions this week!

[@billswifejo]

I recently wrote to an author about the English/American word usage. She had an English Victorian gentleman saying the word ‘period’ to mean full stop. I explained that my mother (born in 1920) would never had said the word as in the UK it refers to a menstrual bleed, I suggested that she obtained a British editor, and she was kind enough to answer to say that it was a helpful idea.

[@MrHerrGotlieb]

I always assumed that Netflix House of Cards had 13 episodes per season so that after 4 seasons there'd be 52 episodes, like cards in a deck

[@abzulooks6012]

If you've ever seen the Taiwanese edition of the Thursday Murder Club books, the covers are gorgeous.

[@grammapolice]

@28:00 this is a rather common practice for people who are dyslexic or have other learning disabilities.

[@PianoKwanMan]

Like group reading in school, i listen and read at the same time. I used to record my university textbooks, then listen to them and read at the same time. I have trouble reading and understanding at the same time

[@hedgehog1965uk]

One moving example of an author asking to have another specific person read their audiobook, is Dawn French's 2008 autobiography "Dear Fatty". In the Audible description, it say "Dear Fatty is read by Liza Tarbuck at the request of the author. With an introduction from Dawn French". In the introduction Dawn explains that the reason she asked her "good friend Liza Tarbuck" to read the book was that it contains a lot of detail that she would find difficult to read herself. When you listen to the book, you find that she talks a lot about her dad's suicide when she was 19 and in fact a lot of the book is written as though it is a letter to her deceased dad, so her decision is completely understandable.

[@pjsaythis]

I do both because i get easily distracted and interacting with the book on multiple input (reading and listening) helps me focus. Whilst i absolutely love being read to, sometimes i want to flip back and say when was this character introduced again... or a particularly poetic line deserves a second read, a pause to appreciate it and an underline... I need both to really engage with a book. When an audiobook is not available i will use a screenreader with the ebook. Not the AI one though, the flattening really is maddening...

[@stuffhereprojects]

I like to have the audoo book playing whilst reading from time to.time. i guess its sort of like that thing at school where your having a voice aloud as you read along, something helpful about it. And when the narrator is doing an especially good job it really adds something. Plus, if its a famous person's autobiography Im going to read it in rheeir voice anyway!

[@Sarah.H5]

I had an American also share his observation about the British 'quite' with me about 15 years ago. Funny to hear it come up again

[@leonnehaaijman4709]

Totally, totally love this podcast.

[@geozeo710]

Robin Williams managed to somehow get a character called 'Mr Wanker' in Mork and Mindy. He knew it was naughty, but got away with it.

[@Buckaroo_Baldwin]

In Married With Children, Wanker was Peg's maiden name.

[@geozeo710]

@@Buckaroo_Baldwin awesome!

[@RobDW24]

Big Question: When will Marina be on House of Games?.

[@abzulooks6012]

Random comment on numbers of episodes in a season: In Japan, anime seasons are split up into four seasons of thirteen episodes each, so most anime seasons... are thirteen episodes. Even now that's pretty standard.

[@philippaclarke2844]

Yes! Mark Billingham is amazing, reading his books!

[@f0rth3l0v30fchr15t]

I've never really got on with audiobooks. Probably because I like reading to be my primary activity when I do it(I might have music or the football on in the background or something), and audiobooks just encourage me to do something else which steals the focus and then something will happen in the audiobook that hooks my attention back but I've not really been paying attention for the last 15-20 minutes and I've got no context for it at all. Whereas if I zone out with a book, it stays on the same page.

[@ohmightyzeus6135]

I find I can really focus on an audiobook when I drive. I'm not sure that is great, but I can do it. Listening while walking the dog works to a point, but I feel when out with the furry boy my attention really should be on being with him and reveling in having a lovely dog in my life, so I stopped doing that.

[@Mullinino]

I think there's a point being missed here - learning lines should really be for the stage, we don't learn everything we're going to say beforehand in real life, and actors saying cool things flawlessly has really put me off 99% of all films made today...Marlons reasoning wasn't laziness - as he said himself people don't automatically just spew out words but think in their heads what they are going to say first so there's a slight delay (which on screen is him reading his line or hearing it in an Earwig). I'd love to see a film where the whole cast are wearing them or reading their lines out of sight, I just think it would be so much more believable as people don't talk like Hollywood especially thinks they do. Actually I've changed my mind - do it on the stage too. Not in cartoons, though.

[@alicemay5453]

I read the book while listening to the audio book, I'm an english lit student so I have really too many books to try to get through. It makes it go far quicker than just me reading would, I think I get distracted thinking about other random stuff if I'm just reading so listening helps keep me on track.

[@GoldenBlaisdale]

the book audio thing is real .. I do it more with non-fiction books but you can get the Kindle book audio synced with the audible book and the kindle book words actually light up as they're being said it's brilliant for non-fiction you take in so much more information

[@geoffz100]

My favourite time of the week

[@johntilsley9111]

Trying to explain how Pointless works every evening to a family member with dementia can actually be the lowest point of the day.

[@KevinClairSoutham]

Binging has lead to shorter seasons but streaming has lead to longer seasons. I’ve lost track of the number of shows out there that - pre streaming - would be 3 x 1 hour or 2 feature length. These days they stretch and pad them to be 9 hours or more. It’s another example of something you guys discussed a few weeks ago about the lack of oversight leading to flabby narrative. In this case the lack of time pressure means a lot more gumph stays in that previously would have been edited out for reason of length.

[@TheAdArchive]

Back in the mid 90s I did a radio Ad in London and the VO had just come back from the filming of The Island of Dr Moreau and boy did he have some stories about what an utter sh11t show it was.

[@chrisknight2631]

With the American/English words thing, it is something that annoys me. I was watching Black Mirror on Netflix with my son the other day (Shut Up & Dance) and it’s set in England with an all English cast, but Jerome Flynn’s character refers to a car he has to pick up and says he’s been sent the ‘License Plate’ so he can find the car in the ‘parking lot’ and I just looked at my son and he had a disgusted look on his face!! The characters then said they were getting the ‘elevator’ and we both shouted shut up at the TV! I always found that annoying, and I guess I’ve brainwashed my son into it as well, which is not a good thing really. As long as you know what they mean, it shouldn’t be a problem!

[@DSQueenie]

I was about to say there are a lot of Americanisms these days but “parking lot”, “license plate” and “elevator” aren’t good examples! 😅 I do hear a lot of people say “drivers license” rather than “driving license” these days.

[@ladygwarth]

I love to listen to audio books when I paint and I have listened to all your Thursday Murder Club books and We Solve Murders. All excellent, I do buy the hard copies too and read them as well., not at the same time though 😉.

[@thescowlingschnauzer]

Earwigs aren't an easy fix. Most actors who try them have very stilted performances. There's a delay in how they react to others. RDJ can be present in the moment with another actor, hear someone saying lines in his ear, and make decisions about how to deliver the line, without it coming off stilted and unnatural. Now I think about it, I wouldn't be surprised if he has a specialized assistant for the earwig linereading. Can't imagine RDJ would put up with a producer rushing him.

[@bassistmike1987]

Sherlock was his dialect coach. Avengers was done by his standin.

[@waiting4more]

90 seconds after saying 'quite' has a different meaning in America you were yourself using it to mean "a lot": "...you have to be quite careful on that"

[@DavidJones-pi8rl]

I rely on Audio Books because I have bad sight, have a wife who doesn't like lights and I use CPAP, so totally love a good Audio Book reader. By the way, I really missed the Reader chatting with Richard at the end of "We solve Murders"!

[@simonmandrakejones]

I wonder whether RDJ had to learn his lines for something like Oppenheimer. It really came across like he had to work at it

[@johnking5174]

The brilliant Heartstopper on Netflix is 8 episodes per series. They have done three series, but all episodes are roughly a half hour each, which for a drama seems a little bit stingy of Netflix.

[@thescowlingschnauzer]

"Americans quite enjoy reading British slang." But do Americans enjoy it really? Or just quite?

[@lakrids-pibe]

Ra-ther !!

[@lynnedelacy2841]

My Turkish friend had problems with British use of ‘mostly’ He thought it meant the ultimate version of most rather than a qualifier

[@lukedinsmoreharris3068]

I listen to audiobook and read at the same time but only when the book is in Spanish. It's a good way to practice listening skills in another language.

[@flickflack18]

Damn, that's really clever. I've never thought to do that. You've maybe just changed my life!

[@chrisofnottingham]

I appreciate the effort that has gone into some snappy inserts and other fun editing but frankly I could live without it :-)

[@simac3880]

I hope you'll manage the challenge between your appreciation and overall dislike. Great to hear about the journey

[@pixel.catcher]

I once worked on a studio-based reality show where I had to paint out earwigs worn by the presenters, in a situation where you'd reasonably expect them to be wearing them 🤯

[@daylightrambler]

7:25 speaking of coverage, while shooting the dramatic back of the car scene in "On The Waterfront", Rod Steiger dutifully sat through Brando's part, then they reset and Brando had his stand-in take over for Steiger's lines 🙄

[@simonmandrakejones]

In Adventures in the Screen Trade, William Goldman writes about Paul Newman being off screen during the making of Harper while they got Robert Wagner's coverage. Robert Wagner was quite moved by this as it wasn't normal for a big star like Paul Newman to hang around to do that, but he cared about getting the scene right and helping his fellow actors.

[@dannyquinn9128]

Pointless is the easiest gameshow to explain, it's just Family Fortunes in reverse.

[@lakrids-pibe]

What is 'Family Fortunes' ?

[@dannyquinn9128]

@@lakrids-pibe The opposite of "Pointless".

[@lakrids-pibe]

@@dannyquinn9128 Ah! Thank you. This clarifies everything quite nicely

[@dannyquinn9128]

@@lakrids-pibe Told you it was simple.

[@slake9727]

​@lakrids-pibe it's the British version of Family Feud.

[@mikefarley8563]

Re.audiobooks..One of my most disappointing examples of this was when I heard Jack Kerouac reading "On the road",I had heard the Matt Dillon version,and also extracts during an old Channel 4 docco named "Road Dreams"[look it up],in which many extracts were read by Mark Murphy,many included a sign off of the same passage after every eprsode[of 6]which sounded so perfect,and for some reason I expected Kerouac to sound like,but no..not at all,and,to go off tangent,Peter Coyote is used fantastically for voice-overs on many of the wonderful Ken Burns documentaries,which in themselves are works of art..

[@KevinClairSoutham]

Bruce Willis was another one who frequently used an earwig but for very different reasons - his mental decline - to allow him to complete as many (bad) movies as he could before the inevitable retirement.

[@andrewmontague9682]

Yeah, I’d give him a pass on this usage. He knew what was coming and just wanted to secure his family as best as he could. Even the rich worry about family.

[@lakrids-pibe]

This episode is quite good

[@colinmcconnell827]

I'm quite sure.

[@MrGavinReid]

I listen to audiobooks while reading along because, with dyslexia, it helps me focus and keeps my mind from wandering. To keep costs down, I try to find affordable copies of both formats, second-hand book shops and audible help. It gets tricky when I have the book, but there's no audiobook version available. Is anyone out there interested in recording an audiobook for George Melly’s autobiography, Rum, Bum and Concertina?"

[@simonmeadows7961]

With the first question about 'translating into American' do published books introduce spelling mistakes to suit US audiences? For example, if you picked up a copy of Harry Potter and the Goblet Fire in a Los Angeles bookshop, would the letter u be dropped from every use of the word 'colour'?

[@vickiekostecki]

I've never done the listening while reading thing, because I'm a fast reader and I find audiobooks unbearably slow. But I've got a couple of audiobooks where I own the e-version too so might give it a try.

[@daylightrambler]

Most audiobook formats these days have the option of increasing the speed in increments. It takes some getting used to, and definitely gets some weird looks from people who happen to overhear it.

[@serkles8597]

I suppose listening to and reading a book at the same time is a good way to improve your English language skills. You pick up on what punctuation does and the spelling of words. Learning pronunciation is another point but could be skewed by the voice actors background.

[@sky33liner]

Tony Hancock used to have his lines stuck to parts of the set.

[@pch2230]

If you want a challenge, explain the rules of The Chase without visuals

[@Graysonn1]

I still don't understand where the Poindexter insult comes from in the simpsons.

[@daviebananas1735]

Yeah I didn’t either. It’s from a genius nerd character in an old cartoon from the 50s.

[@hedgehog1965uk]

The whole thing about reading the book whilst listening to the audiobook at the same time...do they not know that if you have the audiobook on Audible and also have the book in the Kindle app (both owned by Amazon, of course) many books are synched so that the words can be automatically highlighted in Kindle as they are read by the audiobook. I have tried this on a couple of books, and have found it "quite" (English meaning) effective, but found that not all books have been synched in this way. I don't know if you can do this on an actual Kindle device, cos I don't own one and don't think the Audible app can be run on those. I use both apps on my Android phone.

[@steveambrose5580]

wow, so many actors looking into the middle distance then.

[@peoplevrobot]

I once saw a group of English people horrified at an ice rink when an American woman, they were with, told them that she fell on her fanny. In America that means your bum but in the UK it means .... eehh.. you'll figure it out.

[@MrThemaskedavenger]

Front bottom

[@jamesbmcauley]

But that's why they have bum bags and we have have fanny packs... you can't visit the statue of liberty without packing your fanny.

[@neillrobbins7508]

I remember seeing Richard Dreyfuss in Complicit on stage in London in late naughties, and he had a earpiece. Thought it strange that such a successful actor should need such assistance.

[@DavidF-y4t]

Could have been out of practice at learning whole scripts after decades of film work and not stage work. Fallout from his substance abuse years. Or just plain age. All are possible impacts on memory. An earpiece is better than a prompter lurking in the wings and muttering at the actor - I saw that with Sian Phillips once and it takes you right out of the performance.

[@Elwaves2925]

You also have to consider age and loss of mental capacity as factors. He would have been old then and may not have been up for remembering the whole play. It's possible it was only there as a backup sort of thing, in case he forgot.

[@kevin-z7v8q]

richard thinks everything on tv is great. that is not the case with marina who is straight to the point and on the money.

[@jonathanwilliams7436]

What does "quite" mean in British English. When you say "quite careful" do you not mean "very careful"?

[@AlexPowerish]

I’m afraid arseholery is entirely in the eye of the beholder.

[@thenewvoice8]

I'd have assumed that in the UK they just randomly ask a Glaswegian for any advice on swearing

[@terencechipchase1761]

Glaswegians don't swear any more than most; they just sound as if they do

[@fightthepowerman]

8:16 everyone dogs on Brando for his behaviour on Dr Moreau as if his daughter didn't commit Minecraft months before the start of filming. The human mind does not have a mechanism for processing something like that.

[@Buckaroo_Baldwin]

No it's not just because of Brando there were a lot of factors in the failure of that movie.

[@fightthepowerman]

@@Buckaroo_Baldwin The accepted narrative i always heard pre-internet was that this Brando guy got pay or play contract for nearly half the budget and then ruined the film by refusing to work.

[@deanmcloughlin2360]

If you can't wrap your head around pointless in under 10 minutes, there is definitely something wrong with you 😅

[@wjoboogie]

odd the audio version is in a different order to this video ep....not a problem, just odd....i listened to half on the bus, then tried to watch the rest on vid, was a bit confusing

[@anare3050]

Erm - Northerners don’t say Arse always. It’s an accent thing. Come on Londoners.

[@PaulMcCaffreyfmac]

I've never liked the cut of RDJnr's jib. He strikes me as someone who would bully gentler folk for his own amusement.

[@ChrisH78]

He's supported the likes of Depp and Armie Hammer during their controversies so yeah he is a bit of a weird guy.

[@timg5011]

This Dr Moreau thing on KZbin she talks about... Is it *really* beyond the wit of you people to link it in the description?

[@Scottymol]

Thumbnail changed half way through this episode ?.

[@philipellis7039]

KZbin are running an experiment where some videos can have three interchangeable thumbnails.

[@dominicbriggs2418]

I think it’s “ im this much of a dick and still rich as fuck”

[@monkeymansingsSKA]

AI voice overs on KZbin videos have become my pet hate of 2024

[@kernowchris]

It's nice to know Richard is watching all the truly shite TV but infuriating that He seems to think it's all lovely. If we all ignore the never ending stream of reality dirge maybe it would go away.

[@philipellis7039]

Do some celebs not know the rules of the game show…who wasn’t thinking about Patsy Kensit on House of Games.

[@vurogj]

The week she was on was the most uncomfortable (but also funny in a way) week of House of Games to watch. Hard to see anyone ever topping that "performance".

[@philipellis7039]

@@vurogj I used to be on Twitter then (given it up now) and her agent posted something like ‘proud to represent Patsy Kensit who is on House of Games this week’ and that trended for a few days as it was unintentionally hilarious.

[@angelica351a]

Never knew ass was pronounced different in England

[@euansmith3699]

It is also spelt differently, "Arse". 👍

[@DavidF-y4t]

​@@euansmith3699 Also, for some reason "Arsehole" is a stronger pejorative than "Asshole". It implies a more active annoyingness, possibly because the two parts of the word are more distinct in an English accent.

[@greabo9544]

An Ass is a big f'kin donkey mate. Pick the bones out of that one.

[@brendajarvis4026]

In England an ass is a donkey, an arse is a behind.

[@SE1Deadaim]

oh no, the clickbaiting titles are bleeding into the intro video. Did someone from the sun edit this?

[@flickflack18]

This "quite" conversation (like these always are) is just based on your misunderstanding of what Americans, and really even the English say/understand. You use the word yourself to mean "very" like a minute later, lol

[@daviebananas1735]

Not exactly. Quite a big thing means a reasonably big thing. The “quite” here modifies it to make it less big. It can of course be used sarcastically where the quite is ironic and actually indicates it is a very big thing, but it’s not used as a straight word meaning very in English. In American English it is used simply to mean very.

[@flickflack18]

​@@daviebananas1735 Not quite. There is no irony in America.

[@daviebananas1735]

@@flickflack18 That’s not true, obviously but I didn’t imply any irony on the American side. They use it straight. it’s used ironically in the UK on occasion.

[@flickflack18]

@daviebananas1735 It's used both ways in America - that's all I'm saying. It really doesn't matter.

[@jamesbmcauley]

Yeah, as a Texan, I barely speak American (and even fewer English). But even I know 'quite' is quite literally a contronym.

[@nicr5911]

Isn't the reading the book with audio book 80s cassette and book