18th century, what is it? 18th century sort of courtroom dancing. Can you demonstrate? So I have to lead. Oh my God, this is the worst day of my life.

Mine too.

So happy to have you here because I'm such a huge fan of your work.

Oh, thank you. Pleasure to be here. Thank you.

I think you're a wonderful actor. You've been acting since you were how old?

Probably about 11 or 12. Yes. I was in a Welsh language soap opera from the age of 11.

Really?

On and off for about 8 years, so you could see me sort of, uh, go through my puberty on television.

Oh, you did! Oh, you did! So how was that?

Yeah, I was a very late developer shall we say. I sort of went through very late puberty which was all very

What is late puberty? How old is that?

I mean I was at drama college when I think I hit the height of my puberty and I had you know breakouts and everything. So it was all, my nose was slightly misshapen compared to the rest of my face. Um, those were the hardest years because I'd left school and I'd gone to London to the big city and, uh, I didn't, I didn't look the way that I should have looked at that age.

Dance classes, I did read something about 18th century, what is it? 18th century sort of courtroom dancing, yes.

The the the Gavotte and all these sort of dances. Yeah. So we literally did it was because if you think about all the plays that are out there that require those sort of court, uh, court scenes.

Sure. Can you demonstrate your skills?

I could demonstrate from here up. Which is all you need to do for film and television. It's so clever that they agree to film us from the waist up. And make us look like geniuses on film.

Are we okay with that?

Yes. Why not?

We're nodding. They're nodding. So I have to lead. Oh my God, this is the worst day of my life.

Mine too.

Well we could do pretend we're doing a waltz which is one two three, one two three. We sort of uh, one and we'll hop on. Get ready. And one, two, three, one, two, three, one, two, three, one, two, three. I feel like Keira Knightley suddenly. Well, thank you very much. So can we simulate a little San Andreas now?

San Andreas. Yes.

No, you're acting, I mean, obviously you're on a green screen. I watched this film and there's a lot of films that you watch and you see the special effects and you go, I can see where they did this here by CGI. You really believe that this is happening. California dreaming. California dreaming. Now for people who did not, I went to the screening and they said, do you want to see this movie in 3D or do you want to see it in 4D? Which meant that your seats simulate the motion of the earthquake and you're really, I mean what better film to do that in? So were you aware of this when they were filming?

I was not aware. No, I thought you were pulling my leg there for a second.

No, but I had no idea that this existed. I'm not that good of an actress. So would you be? I was a little nervous at first when they said 4D, I said, I don't know, sometimes those rides get you. So literally the chairs moving and vibrating, is it?

Right, right. There's vibration.

Now, I the I think you were interviewed for this movie and you said something about, what would you do in that situation? Because you're faced with a situation where your girlfriend's daughter, you either have to try to save her or help save your own life. What do you think you would do if faced with that

Well, look. I I've been very fortunate in my career that I've played and represented real life heroes and, um, for example, in Titanic, that was a character that I represented who was a Welshman from North Wales.

You said the word. I'm not going to go there after this. Yes. Okay. Okay.

Being put in that situation myself, who knows? Would I run into the burning building? I I don't really know and I think that's those are the interesting questions that we pose in in the movie. Goodness knows what would one do in in a life or death situation.

I would run. I think it's you're all for yourself. You're on your own. Okay. Thank you. So there you go.

Yeah. No, I wouldn't be a hero in that situation. I can tell you hands down. I'd be running for my life. But it is a great role because you sort of get to play the duality of it all and It's a fun role. Yeah. Well I guess the things that I've done in the past has lent my services to this sort of character that you believe that he is a good guy that he's a nice guy and But when he snaps. Leave that out young Hollywood. What would you do with in in that in that situation?

So you brought up Titanic. Yes. I didn't even realize it that that was you rescuing the lovely Kate.

1996 we shot that movie. That's how old that movie is.

Unreal. I wasn't even born yet.

I was going to say. It was way before your time.

That's how I didn't know. It was you.

I was just coming out of puberty. Yes. Because I was such a late developer. Yeah. Um, what was that audition process like? Working with James, the King of the World, like?

I mean, he was obsessed with the story of the Titanic. And to the point where he came to the UK and auditioned British actors and specifically Welsh actors for this part. So all of us Welsh actors went and auditioned and he was there in the room. And eventually I I won out. I guess because I looked somewhat similar to Harold Godfrey Lowe, his name was. Um, one interesting thing that I'm sure the fans of the movie know that the ship was actually pointing the different direction when it left port in the UK. But the ship was facing the wrong way to shoot that scene. So they flipped the film to make the ship look like it was pointing the right way. So therefore we had to flip all the numbers and all the symbols running on the car had to be a right hand drive to make it look like a left hand drive or vice versa. It was it was all fascinating stuff.

And back then a young Leo. I read somewhere you and Kate and Leo just sort of hanging out and playing PlayStation or sort of video games in the trailer.

Leo was an incredibly generous, lovely young man. Yes, there were evenings, long evenings playing PlayStation with Leo and having delicious cups of tea with Kate, yeah.

You're Welsh. You're not having shots. Like what's the deal?

That was um, you know, off the when when on wrap, yes. Don't forget the movie was shot entirely at night for about six months.

Oh, the more recent. Yes.

So in those evenings off we're more often than not if we were weren't on, you know, weren't called that day. And suddenly Jim had this decision. We're going to shoot this scene. The second AD's would have to run out into Rosarito itself to all the known bars to grab the actors out of the bars and drag them to set.

Oh, wow. That would have been a fun set to be on.

It was an amazing set to be on.

This was such a pleasure. I'm such a huge fan.

Oh, I'm flattered. Thank you for having me.

You're delightful. Thanks for the dance.