I mean, Simon, do you remember your 50th?

I do, I do.

It was, as I said to you before, I find it easier to cope with as a number than I did with 40.

I think because you get there and you think, no, I don't feel old.

I feel kind of young and vivacious.

And yeah, my wife threw me a surprise party and my birthday is on Valentine's Day.

So she said, oh, we're going to go to this Valentine's bash at Soho Farmhouse and we'll have that as your party.

No,

Mm-hmm.

And Norman Cook messaged me and said, "How do I book you?" And I, and I was like, "Really?" And, and, and so he booked me to the, the, the All Back To Mine head- Oh, yeah, yeah ...

last November, which I didn't realize was actually, like, an audition to open for him at the Big Beach Boutique in Brighton this year.

What? Which, uh, Nick and I went to in 2002.

Uh-huh.

There's actually footage of me and him in the crowd.

Uh-huh.

Mm

(laughs) Yes, yes.

I'm the guy that, that does the, the...

But then most of the dialogue in Mission is exposition really, because all we're doing is explaining why we have to get to the next place.

And that, that happens, you know, it's become more like that recently.

I always think that when...

Tom's always obviously done his own stunts and he's very eager to, to make that part of those films.

But when we did the Burj Khalifa in, uh, Ghost Protocol, the reaction of the audience was so visceral that I think a little light bulb went off in Tom's head and, and he thought, "Oh, okay.

Yeah.

I mean, that, do you feel that was a moment in time? Is that replicatable or are we-

It's difficult because back then, in 2004, we still weren't at the point we are now where there were so many different ways to, to watch movies.

Like now, we all have, you know, the right aspect ratio for movies in our houses.

Our TVs are all, you know, the right size.

They're big.

They're not that expensive.

We have all the streamers.

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