Layer Cake

My character was originally written British also, and then he ma- made the modifications, and, uh, it made perfect sense for me to be a part of it.

Then I had a chance to see, uh, Layer Cake and The Business prior to him actually coming.

So when he told me that it was Danny and Tamer, it was exciting, and then I thought it was an amazing...

They, they pulled off, uh, the, the hat trick when they got Brenda involved.

[laughs]

But there's, there's a line in the movie The Layer Cake, "The art of good business is being a good middleman." So I'm hoping that, uh, you know, there's, there's, there's a way of doing it, but it has to add value, right? It has to add value and be, you know, vis- that value has to be visible at every step.

Uh, frictionless for, like suppliers, clients, and agencies, um, and enable better collaboration.

Yeah, right.

[laughs]

Make that happen.

And I, I loved the first Layer Cake quote on the pod as well.

Excellent.

The score in that-

That or Layer Cake, but yeah.

Layer Cake.

W- Doesn't, doesn't Matthew use the John, the John Murphy Adagio in D Minor moment in when, when, when Hit-Girl, when, uh, Cage is going in to save Hit-Girl?

Oh, this is that music cue, yeah.

It's bizarre.

[laughs]

But dude, Layer Cake, dude, Layer, Layer Cake...

With Gandhi? Yes, it was definitely Gandhi.

And [laughs] and also Layer Cake.

So I was kinda like-

Mm

You know, it was that cool Britannia.

You know, a lot of guys that were up and coming, and it was a fu- that was a fun time in film, and it's kinda gone away, and I'd like it to come back.

I'm going with a movie you mentioned very beginning of the podcast, and I'm gonna go with Layer Cake.

Oh, okay.

... shoot a guy and, and sort of get tough and, like, you know, slap guys around.

Um, and instead of that, it's something really different, and something that I think has an enduring appeal and an enduring deconstruction of masculinity that I think makes it really, really good for us.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah, it rocks.

Mm-hmm

... you show s- a, an actor who's not really expressing anything but a neutral expression, and you put that, you know...

You put something before that or after that, and people recontextualize it in their own heads, right?

Mm.

For more than two decades, he has been one of the most recognizable faces in British film.

From the Football Factory to Layer Cake, Game of Thrones, he has played the man on screen that we all admire.

But the man behind that is also a devoted husband, a friend, and an employer.

And in my personal opinion, one of the most honest voices we have in the entertainment industry.