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James Nesbitt

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first: 2008-12-21
most recent: 2008-12-21
sittings or episodes: 1
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“Well, not a huge surprise I wouldn't mind a glass of wine at the end of every night. Oh actually I like a bottle of wine at the end of every night so just like a nice bottle of sauce every night. Listen, you could break it over my head and I'd be happy with.”
2008-12-21 · Desert Island Discs · James Nesbitt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“If I'm allowed, I'd like the collective writings of James Lawton, who is the chief sports correspondent for the independent, magnificent man who, within his writings, doesn't write just about sport. All human life is there, and I could read Jim Forever. He's wonderful.”
2008-12-21 · Desert Island Discs · James Nesbitt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I wanted something for the girls, and I read last year about this girl called Laura Marling, an eighteen year old from Reading, sort of musical prodigy. I bought the album and played it in the car with Peggy and Mary, and we the three of us were just immediately put into a trance, and it's something we share. It's just for my two daughters and I, and I'll always have them as long as I have the memory of this song. It's Laura Marling and Failure.”
2008-12-21 · Desert Island Discs · James Nesbitt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I know I'd better be okay with that, because funnily enough, I think people would think far too gregarious, but actually I'm fairly intolerant to tell you the truth, and I grew up, as I say, spend a lot of time with on, so I'd be happy enough.”
2008-12-21 · Desert Island Discs · James Nesbitt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think not. To tell you the truth no real interest. I was never into doctor who was a kid although my kids and I love watching it now, but David Tennant is far too good for me to replace, I think.”
2008-12-21 · Desert Island Discs · James Nesbitt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I've just finished the piece called Occupation for the BBC. You know, I've been working with a Sky Saxon in that and a mag actor in that, Stephen Graham and Warren Brown. And, you know, as long as there's actors from those areas out there,”
2008-12-21 · Desert Island Discs · James Nesbitt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I am. I would do, he says. No, I've done them before. But it's a lot easier. I think it's a lot easier to act in your own accent, you know.”
2008-12-21 · Desert Island Discs · James Nesbitt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I've been over there, you know, I went over with Philamada years ago waking Ned, but because I've been so lucky here, you know, I feel that there's so much work to do here, and it's never really been my thing. My career utopia is not necessarily about sitting beside a pool and I waiting to get a part in a film with an accent I can't do in a not very good film.”
2008-12-21 · Desert Island Discs · James Nesbitt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, Van Marshen, it's hard to come from home and not pick a Van Morson song. I would have fooled all eight with Northern Irish songs, but Geordie Best and Van Morson to emerge from Northern Ireland during the Troubles is not bad. And I could have picked any Van song, but I've really picked this one not only because it was the title attract Filamenta with Michael Winterbottom. Welcome to Sarajevo, but you just can't believe how Van wrote this as a cacophony of different things kind of shouting at each other, but somehow out of it comes this piece of music which stirs the soul, the way young lovers do.”
2008-12-21 · Desert Island Discs · James Nesbitt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Painful. You know, it's like her tottering off from your life. So Catherine's had to deal with that a lot and very hard for my father. And the only reason I'm talking about it is because I think more needs to be done. There needs to be more support for families around. And my father's been just amazing and I salute him for the way he's dealt with it.”
2008-12-21 · Desert Island Discs · James Nesbitt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Is it your sisters and your father? Unless you such as particularly my sister Catherine, who's the middle one, it's been very hard for her over the last number of years, not only losing a mother but having to deal, you know, because that's what it's like. It's like a slow disappearance. I was home there a while ago when my mum went out for a walk desperate to get out, and this is before she's now in a home. And she was desperate to go for a walk late at night up in Castle Rock, you know, by the sea, and the wind's howling, the rain's coming down. And I said, well, I'll come out with and she said, no, no. I followed her out. And just to see a woman kind of totter off into the distance, you know, is very...”
2008-12-21 · Desert Island Discs · James Nesbitt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“She has deteriorating Alzheimer's, which in a way I suppose I can talk about because my mum, you know, it's terribly sad to me and that my mother will never hear this because I grew up with her listening to Desert Island discs. But it's also something to talk about because it is so devastating. It has such a devastating impact on a family, particularly my father. And it's very hard to find the necessary help and support out there. You know, I think there will be people listening to this all over the country who will go absolutely and it's torture.”
2008-12-21 · Desert Island Discs · James Nesbitt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“They wouldn't without keen on it now, I have to say. I think ultimately they're sisters that love her brother and their parents, that love a son. And if there was any difficulties, I remember I got a card from my mother. My mother's not that well. I remember getting a card from her saying, well, you'd always be my son and I'll always love you. That's kind of forgiving enough, I think.”
2008-12-21 · Desert Island Discs · James Nesbitt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think they're proud. I think the sisters are proud, but they'll remind me if I'm doing anything that they think is a wee bit out of character.”
2008-12-21 · Desert Island Discs · James Nesbitt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You try to, and again, success gives you that opportunity. I mean, I'll take a few months off now. By the time, after three months, my family are desperate to get me out of the house again because I'm pacing the place, you know. And I love work. I mean, I absolutely adore it. I can't believe what an enormous privilege it is. And I haven't forgotten”
2008-12-21 · Desert Island Discs · James Nesbitt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Why I think it's a mixture of things, you know, I think certainly work generates work. And I think a lot of it's to do with luck. And, you know, I always have been fairly careful about the scripts I've chosen.”
2008-12-21 · Desert Island Discs · James Nesbitt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That next is from the first job I did on film. The film was called Hear My Song written by Adrian Dumbar and Peter Chelsom. It's a film that tells the story of Joseph Locke, a great tenor in Ireland in the fifties. When I hear it, it just reminds me of the very beginning of my career and, you know, drinking Guinness in the evening and singing songs. And well before fame or success and there's an innocence to it that I'll never forget and to Ary I'll always be attorney grateful.”
2008-12-21 · Desert Island Discs · James Nesbitt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You'd play it in a flute band with your dad. Oh, it's close to me, but also culturally. When I grew up, you know, I marched on with the Balamini on Conquers, average age sixty-five with my father's band. You know, it was meant so much, and it was a day out for everyone. And then, of course, the marches became hugely drawn into the political situation with what happened to Drum Cree. And I hugely regret that, because I think, you know, as Greengrass said, if Bloody Sunday can do anything, it can maybe show us the importance of we don't have to embrace each other's cultural differences, but it might mean that we can accept them and not fight over them. And I yearn for a time when I can still go back on the twelfth march with my father.”
2008-12-21 · Desert Island Discs · James Nesbitt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I was worried what people would think, and I sat down and someone tapped me in the shoulder and said, who am I? And I looked round and I went, You're Bobba's Donaky, your first person shot in Bloody Sunday. And he kind of reached across. And just because I'd read it in the book, and that made me think, oh, actually, it'll be okay this.”
2008-12-21 · Desert Island Discs · James Nesbitt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“When for rights from the off when I met Paul he handed me the most astonishing amount of research that he wanted me to go into because when we shot the film he wanted to be very much kind of in the moment and so a lot of the time I didn't know what was happening in the film so I needed to be versed and articulate in the political language of the civil rights movement. I went to spend a day with Ivan in Derry and persuaded him to do the march. Now Ivan hadn't done the march in 30 years because I even felt culpable for what happened but I persuaded him to do the march and it took him back 30 years and it was an incredible odyssey for him I think but also for me because it really helped me see just what it meant to that city what it meant to the future of Northern Ireland you know what happened after that and also at the end of the march I checked into the hotel and I was very nervous about you know a Protestant from up the road coming to tell this story”
2008-12-21 · Desert Island Discs · James Nesbitt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I even, you know, I mean, Ivan Cooper is an extraordinary man. I'm so glad that Bloody Sunday was in sort of politically sort of Renaissance for Ivan, although he went on to a very successful career and other things.”
2008-12-21 · Desert Island Discs · James Nesbitt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think you know I'm not a stranger to a drink, but you know. I am also not a stranger to not having a drink. I mean, I embrace that whole socializing thing. My three best friends are still my three friends from when I was a kid, Alan, Peter and Carcy. And, you know, when we'll go away and we'll have a bit of an eyelash at it, but then it'll stop for a while. Long may that continue. It's just a shame that people then find they need to write about it, but that's the way of things, you know.”
2008-12-21 · Desert Island Discs · James Nesbitt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, you know, I think certainly I've had my fair share of it, self-inflicted, unquestionably a lot of it. It can be very invasive. But nevertheless, that is the world. You know, I don't necessarily regret anything that the papers wrote about me. I don't necessarily regret that there were photographers at times when you didn't want them. I perhaps regret some of the things I've done in my life, and I perhaps even more so regret that we live in a society where there is such an appetite for that. But I can't really blame anyone else for some of the mistakes I've made.”
2008-12-21 · Desert Island Discs · James Nesbitt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“On a Water cooler. It was wonderful, you know, and it was just so exciting, you know, at a brilliant time. I remember reading the pilot which has been made for next to nothing, but it was such exciting writing Mike Bullen and Christine Lang and they just captured something that was of its time, you know I'm very proud of. I loved it.”
2008-12-21 · Desert Island Discs · James Nesbitt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The next piece is Frank Sinatra, who I don't know when I was introduced to Frank Sinatra, but I'm glad I was. I've often said I'd give up all my acting just to be frank for one night walking onto a stage. And this is him singing live at the Sands with Count Basey, and the song is Come Flight.”
2008-12-21 · Desert Island Discs · James Nesbitt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well she's strong, tremendous mother, doesn't suffer fools, doesn't take things too like my career, you know, understands the absurd nature of it, but tries to keep me, I suppose, grounded within it, is incredibly protective of her family and of her children and is funny and bright.”
2008-12-21 · Desert Island Discs · James Nesbitt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I was prepared to take them off from a very early age I cartoned on that singing to women's not a bad thing to do. I signed a sauna one like that, but she was asleep through all of it, partly. I was out there for hours in the rain. And the next day said, what do you think? She had no idea.”
2008-12-21 · Desert Island Discs · James Nesbitt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No sign I met them she was at the same time as me she was going to the much more demanding and challenging drama centre which had split from central bank in the 60s um We both met on one of the first jobs I did out of drama school, which was a world tour of Hamlet. It was a very odd production of which we took around the world for ten months.”
2008-12-21 · Desert Island Discs · James Nesbitt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh why, but now I'm sure that's the whole thing, so I can just about fillin' people. But it was brilliant, you know, and Central wasn't too austere. You just basically went to go to school every day and acted.”
2008-12-21 · Desert Island Discs · James Nesbitt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I was always been a bit thranz in Northern Irish were there a bit stubborn about learning things but I just didn't get round to it and also I went over and I stay with a friend the night before the audition I know and even though I was auditioning for the next part of my life really and the rest of my life it seemed to make more sense to go to the pub and so I did the best bit of acting I've done in my life I just went into whole I don't know I started crying and stuff and said something terrible had happened at home and I hadn't been able to learn it and blah blah so I think they felt sorry for me and let me in”
2008-12-21 · Desert Island Discs · James Nesbitt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“For my addition, well, I hadn't learned how to do to... Shakespeare speeches in a modern, and I'd only learned one Shakespeare.”
2008-12-21 · Desert Island Discs · James Nesbitt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I had a mop of curly hair, I had my father's old sheepskin jacket. I looked like an out of work football manager in the seventies that had gone down on his luck. I was very green, you know, I was patting me boy arriving in London, but I loved it.”
2008-12-21 · Desert Island Discs · James Nesbitt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I thought so. I thought I knew everything about everything, but actually discovered very quickly I knew very little about everything.”
2008-12-21 · Desert Island Discs · James Nesbitt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Track number four is, well, I got to teenage years in Korean. By this stage I'd moved to Corain. My dad had gone to a much bigger school of mass if there was all of 70 in it. The undertones were a huge band from just up the road in Derry. And at difficult times, you know, even though I was distanced from the troubles, you couldn't help but know that you came from a small place that the rest of the world saw as a place of terror and I saw very negatively and the undertones through that were this raw, magnificent superb band and I would love to have picked teenage kicks but I think Mr. Peel had the monopoly in that but this is my other favourite which starts with a whistle. It's called Get Over You.”
2008-12-21 · Desert Island Discs · James Nesbitt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Against the wall, the three posters. It's a constant worry, I suppose, but you know, they have a sense of it, and they have a mother who's very aware of that as well. I mean, I think it can be awkward for the girl's, the notion of their dad being famous, but actually girls don't really, they don't really care that much. They just care that I'm around a bit of the time to kind of, you know, show them love and tell them I love them and buy them the odd thing. I mean, I think they're happy enough with that.”
2008-12-21 · Desert Island Discs · James Nesbitt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I know. Well, I think Northern Ireland was a wee bit behind other places, which is no bad thing necessary. I mean, Saturday night favours just opened in Belfast. But addition for Santa got in and away I went.”
2008-12-21 · Desert Island Discs · James Nesbitt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“She was very king, yeah. I mean, I will think because, you know, they talk about God fearing people. Mum and dad were God-loving in that respect. They were never austere or strict. Although funnily enough when I think about it on Sunday nights, and this will seem insane and so alien to people. But, you know, on Sunday nights we would occasionally, we'd sit around a piano and sing hymns and stuff”
2008-12-21 · Desert Island Discs · James Nesbitt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh I, terrified, you know what would happen to me'cause she probably knew what kind of allegiant I was, you know, and knew that it wasn't a very good marriage.”
2008-12-21 · Desert Island Discs · James Nesbitt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I felt that that was at the time. I needed something that sort of ludicrous to happen. So the reaction was very poor. My mother didn't talk to me for about a month.”
2008-12-21 · Desert Island Discs · James Nesbitt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Aye there they were all over the place apart from me books really but I had my equity card from quite a young age so I was working professionally with the Ulster Actors Company in Belfast and really spending very little time at college so I went around to my eldest sister Margaret who was living not far from Belfast and that said can you ring mum and Admiral and tell him I'm giving up my degree courageous to the end”
2008-12-21 · Desert Island Discs · James Nesbitt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Actually, as now called the University of Ulster, but it was then the Ulster Polly, which I'd sort of scraped into, because I was bright, you know, and I'd done well, I'd done well on the Ovels. When it got to A-levels, I had lost the will, I think. Well, you're a 10.”
2008-12-21 · Desert Island Discs · James Nesbitt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“While the other band Andrew, my adored cousin, introduced me to, which again, for a boy from the braid who basically wore one pair of flared trousers and an iron jumper that made granny admit, I was amazed and astonished by the fantastic excess of Slade. And in my room, you know, now with kids, as you know yourself, there's so much in a kid's room now. I mean, I had a poster at George Best, a poster of Manchester United, and a poster of Slade. They sort of to me promised that there was excitement out there and no more so than in this song come on through the noise. I know I always loved that as well.”
2008-12-21 · Desert Island Discs · James Nesbitt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, I've loved it. From the minute I walk on to the set I absolutely adore, I love everything that comes with it. I love the process. I love the collaboration. I love the right from the nascence of the script to the very, very end until you wrap everything about appeals to me.”
2008-12-21 · Desert Island Discs · James Nesbitt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think so, but you know, to tell you the truth, I've worked an awful lot the last 20 years. So if anything, the problem work, I think, is the very boy that has made me work as much as I do and has given me the belief to work as much as I've done. I think only now do I realise that all along I kind of felt that I fitted in the job that I do.”
2008-12-21 · Desert Island Discs · James Nesbitt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I know, and I think that it takes a long time, you know, because I was from that kind of work ethic. I was from a deliriously happy background.”
2008-12-21 · Desert Island Discs · James Nesbitt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, all the girls are talented. I'm dead, the district closest to me. She's the talented one. You know, it's only now at that thirty years later, thirty years after playing the Dodge, I'm beginning to think that maybe I knew that that's what I wanted to do. Maybe I'm at a stage now where I might be able to admit that, you know, which is crazy in a way.”
2008-12-21 · Desert Island Discs · James Nesbitt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I hadn't planned the same role ever since, just different character names. Then it sort of took off from there. I mean, it was a great way to get off school sometimes, to do Christmas shows. It was a great way to meet girls, and I enjoyed it.”
2008-12-21 · Desert Island Discs · James Nesbitt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Following the family tradition. You know, I think there was not really a conscious expectation, but there seemed to be the way things were going, you know, but I started a degree in French, I suppose, with the notion of becoming a teacher, but I'd already started acting then. I acted from a very early age.”
2008-12-21 · Desert Island Discs · James Nesbitt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, the first sort of band I got into really was the Beatles. I was introduced to them by my cousin, my adored cousin Andrew Shannon, because not having any brothers, and growing up in the country, you know, where I spent a lot of time just by myself kicking a ball against a wall, Andrew was about five years older than me and he was just God to me. Very hard to pick a Beatles song, but in my extreme arrogance, I didn't want to let either the deceased John or their life Paul down by picking just one so I picked if I fell, which uses the book of the world. The”
2008-12-21 · Desert Island Discs · James Nesbitt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I was a wee bit young for George. I was born in'65. But my father loved him and I saw George play actually after George died. They kept showing the famous disallowed goal that he scored against England where he took the ball out of Gordon Bank's hands and I was sure all my life that I had been there with my father pressed against the fence of the spy on Cop at Windsor Park in Belfast and now thanks to modern technology when they showed that go I was able to freeze frame and there in shot just as George finds out the goal has been disallowed you have my two heroes you have George and in the background you see my father in his cap and then this tiny little head beside him it's amazing”
2008-12-21 · Desert Island Discs · James Nesbitt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source