Hi, I was wondering what the story is about with Steve sending Reece the voice note with Tubbs and Edward’s song and where it’s from? I’ve seen it mentioned before but I’ve had some trouble finding it. Thank you so much :)!
helloooo. it was definitely told at the bfi event they did for the release of the dvd, but that video doesn't seem to be up. someone has handily done a little transcript of the event though!
Audience question: How did the song between Tubbs and Edward come about? And it’s ridiculously catchy.
SP: Well I think I wrote it, didn’t I and I can’t write music or anything but that kind of call and response song and the notion of him being stuck on the surface and her being stuck below. I don’t know, it’s one of those moments I was just…cos Reece was away doing a play in New York, I was on my own and obviously just missing him (audience laughter) and this song came into my head and so I recorded it and I still love it.
RS: I got this big long message of Steve singing it…
SP: I sang it into my phone and sent it to Reece and thought this is just an idea and he said ‘I love it’ and we sent it to a composer and he composed what I sang and yeah that’s how we did it.
RS: It was the perfect beginning of the second half.
I thought it was also in the "a bit of a chat with ken plume" interview reece did while he was in new york, but i scanned through and couldn't find it. there was another funny/sweet thing though: reece sounding very excited about having recently skyped steve so he "physically saw him!!" only you later find out he's still in rehearsals for his play so he can't have been gone long...
RK: Reece! Happy birthday!
CA: Happy birthday!
RS: Thank you!
SP: Wheeeeeeey!
(applause)
RK: We thought we'd get it-
(drowned out by applause)
RS: Thank you.
RK: Thank you so much for being on the One Show.
RS: You're very welcome. I weren't doing anything else.
Unedited TLOG Apocalypse BTS interview clip with Reece from 2005, part of the Huntley Archives < watch the full vid there, and my transcript is below the cut
NB: Video starts with 2 seconds of a high pitched tone
Interviewer: So Reece, I mean - I have to ask you to be, you know, as objective as possible here. In as much as, obviously, it's been... well it's actually probably been about 15 years hasn't it?
Reece: (frowns, sighs) Oh God...
Interviewer: That you guys have all been together.
Reece: Yeah. Yeah, it is. I mean... we've known each other 15, 16 years now, yeah. (giggles)
Interviewer: You know to the- 15 years on, and 10 years after the origin of Vasey...
Reece: Yeah.
Interviewer: When you're... maybe you're not involved in a scene on any given day, you're looking across that that set and you're seeing Mark and Steve perhaps...
Reece: Yeah.
Interviewer: ... you know, delivering the lines from the script that you've written and I mean, do you think "Christ! They're really good. This is a still a really good idea and this is..."
Reece: (shakes his head, grins) No. Nah.
Interviewer: "This is funny! This is good!"
Reece: Yeah. No, exactly that. I was going to say that before you kind of... put it in his mouth. I marvel at Mark and Steve. I genuinely do. I watch them and when they're in the outfits of some of the Vasey characters, I'm intimidated sometimes by them. I see Steve turn up as Herr Lipp and it's "Oh God, that's Herr Lipp!" and I genuinely - I get over it quickly - I have to, because I have to do the scenes with him. But it isn't kind of a given that I'm just one of them and I do it with them. I'm able to step out of it sometimes and think what it might be like to just not know them and and enjoy it for the fandom of it and think, "Oh, there's Hillary" and there's Hillary and there's Herr Lipp and Tubbs and stuff. And I'm able to kind of step back and enjoy their performances. I love it when I'm not in a scene or if I haven't seen a scene and I can watch it back and just... 'Cos it's the most I can do to be completely removed from it and enjoy it for what... how I imagine anyone else - not being involved in it, not written it - can enjoy it. You know, that's great to have the distance from it because then I can kind of fully - maybe not fully, because I know the lines - but at least kind of get an idea of the freshness of it, and of them and their performances. But, you know, I feel that we've... we're still working well together. There's no boredom or tiredness between the three of us acting or the four of us working together that's going to - I don't think - stop us wanting to do it in the future. I thought the film... writing it was hard, and I thought we argued more than we ever did. Because of the nature of the writing of it we were arguing over the same scenes. We'd never done that before 'cos we have sketches and me and Steve do our bit, and then they do their bit, and all the difficulty was only ever knitting it together. And so it was hard to suddenly have the same scene arriving written slightly differently and think "Well, that's funnier than that." You had to... It came down to realising - we were forced to look at what we find funny. And it's not all the same! Which I think is correct and it should be, otherwise it'd be maybe a blander programme with a less diverse following. Because our audience is you know, weird. It's from children to old people. So, you can't fathom it. (laughs) Like an MB game - 6 to 60. But yes, I think we're very happy with each other. It's like marriage guidance. (laughs) Er, what can I say? Um... but yeah, your first question, I do watch them and think, "God, they're brilliant." And I just sometimes I am I have to gee myself up to kind of try and get to as good as I think they are. Which I think, hopefully, they're doing the same as well - we're lifting all our performances 'cos... There is vying for the funny joke in the scene. I rarely... No, I think actually I've grown up a little bit and I allow whoever is meant to be funny in the scene to be funny. I don't steal the moment from people now. I remember I think I used to try. I never used to succeed.
Interviewer: That's not what Mark said!
Reece: (grins)
Interviewer: (laughs) He was just saying in the last interview he said - I can't remember what the scene was. He said he said "Yeah, bloody Reece was over my shoulder as Geoff and he was pulling this face and he completely stole the scene."
Reece: (laughs) Oh ho, really?
Interviewer: (laughs)
Reece: (laughs) Not even aware of it! I can't even think what bit he means. There is a terrible bit. I thought bad on Steve when there was a - And it's not a funny line he's delivering. So, I thought, "Well I may as well do something funny." There's a shot of - Hillary says to the pair of them "They're in there, they must be doing something. They're at a computer. What are they doing?" And Steve as Herr Lipp goes "Erm, writing?" So, and I was just stood next to him as Geoff and I thought, "Well, I won't just stand here." So, in the "erm" whilst they're thinkingof what they must be doing, Geoff goes (frowns and pulls a 'thinking hard' face) and he goes "Writing?" (sighs and points in exasperation) As if like (laughs) you must be something you think of it but because he gets it he's really annoyed with himself. "Yes, of course it is!" And that to me is the most that I would do to steal a scene. Because you should be looking at Steve I think, in a way. But... hopefully you'll be looking at me. (grins, laughs)
