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I didn't know what I was going to do.

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It's different this time because obviously it wouldn't be the film. The challenge is going to be a moment on the road. It feels a bit deja vu with some of the kind of, I suppose you have to set up the characters and the dynamics a little bit. It was a case of the lads getting back into the stride and getting back into character and getting back into acting. They recommend a pea-sized amount but I go, "I'm fucking out, man."

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- Did she leave you anything? - It's not really appropriate. - That's not what I meant. Don't be putting words into me mouth, man. You need to go away on a holiday, man. - She's not even buried you. - I know, but get away from all this shit, like, you know. The fuck is a great auntie anyway, like. - What do you mean? She practically raised me. - I was being rhetorical. - Maybe you should move on then. - Maybe you should move on. Go on a holiday. Do you understand? We'll talk real soon, right? Strong.

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- They weren't very respectful at all. There was a bit of cheek out of them. Eddie invited me on a holiday. See salmon's at the face man, you know. So full of emotion. What do you expect from them? They arrived and brought their own alcoholic drink as well.

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It's not so much them getting into character it takes a while it's more just the actual process of acting that takes a little while to slip back into you know of not talking over each other or you know getting the lines down exactly you know because there's a lot of Hardy books they really enjoy doing ad-libs and throwing lines. Don't ever talk to me when I ask you something. I'm pretty much the same person as the Booth.

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I don't change my voice, don't change my mannerisms and it's just the same. We're a bit like our characters, we're like a caricature of our real selves. Yeah, exaggerated version. Martin and Chris came up with an idea and then we were incorporated into it. People have different views of their friends as well, so Martin had a funny view of us. So we played up to his view of what he thought we were like. So that's how the characters kind of...

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I'm not the tallest of guys. I'm average height by the way. And a great little worker. But Martin always thought that I was very strong, that I could batter fuckers bigger. For some reason he thinks this. So he decided that the boo should be a shadowy figure that's tough as nails. That's his perception of what I'm like. But the boo has changed now. He became... An entrepreneur for some reason. He became an entrepreneur then. Yeah. Which you never were at the start.

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No, no. And nobody knows actually where that came out. You're a bit like... Who's the philosopher? Aristotle or something? Aristotle, yeah. This jacket actually was my brother's. And he was bringing a van over from London. A secondhand van over from London. And this happened to be in the back of the van. So whoever had it before me. Then he started wearing it. Then he outgrew it and realized that he wasn't Fonzie.

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from the school.

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The list of the series, any actors or people we needed to fill stuff in, there have been so many great characters that we've been able to just pick from in and around Swinford, so we've always had brilliant support. I'd be a bit bigger than you, which is marginally. He's bullying, he's bullying, bad form, he's bullying. He looks like a fucking, why is he called that guy out of the fucking Lord of the Rings? The big fucking guy that has it. Oh, tree beard? No, this guy.

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In one night? That's what they say. It depends on 30 days in where? 30 days in one night, it'd be like fucking nowhere there. Exactly. Who says this shit anyway?

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I think with the weather the way it is here and it looks like it's going to go on for a little while we're better off just getting away and shooting in the continent and then hopefully picking up a few days when we come back

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Yeah, take that with you. You'll need that for good luck. Thanks very much. And remember, the women in mainland Europe, make sure you check their Adam's apple. When you're in the middle of it, gear straight, it's impossible to stop. It all goes out the window. Gear straight. Good luck, Eddie. Good luck. Thank you. God bless you. And be careful. Hey, go on. Go on.

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, how you? Fellas, how you know? I've been after trying to do a road trip episode for ages. And originally it was supposed to be kind of across America. And maybe if this goes well. Well, the plan as of an hour ago is that we will get into the mother homes, we will drive to Dublin, we'll get to ferry and we'll head off. So, yeah, we're ready.

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are we're on the move then we'll be heading for Amsterdam from there football is our love yeah we're going well we got lost took an alternative route going by Cheshire car came around and like a fucking choreographed stump just nearly crashed into us and that would have been a whole film fuck yeah it's a nice scenic route yeah I didn't even know it existed

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It's a little bit of the end.

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training for each other than ever.

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on the road, you know, it would have been lovely to stop off in all these different places and do little pieces and vignettes. We all agreed that we thought the fun was going to really start once they got into Europe. Did I think that any of the Hardy books might go off the rails in Amsterdam? To be quite honest, it's like managing a rock and roll band as well as making a movie. You know, you're taking these lunatics on the road, you know.

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"What kind of place is this? In my mind's eye I was like "Oh yeah it's no thing, I've heard about this" and then when you see it up front you're just like "You don't think it's real until you get here." There's always that interesting notion of Hardy books being taken abroad and occasionally whilst we were doing read throughs of the script somebody would say "blah blah blah blah"

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and I said "You know on the holiday?" and I said "Sorry, the what?" and they go "Oh, did I say holiday?" I said "Yeah, you did say holiday." I was actually going to make a banner that went across the inside of the motorhome saying "This is not a holiday."

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and just to go to it's

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and pimps. So you've got a whole tapestry of unsavory characters.

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The campervan was actually an essential part of the journey because that's what we were living in. The lads were actually living in that motorhome. So again the prop became the hotel. So it's a case of you write stuff and you think well if they travel across in a motorhome we can do it because we can travel across in a motorhome.

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is a lot of low budget filmmaking, you know, it's actually great, you kind of have to make up a lot of things as you're going along, you know, and with Hardy books it's great because you've got the guys, you know, they are the cast, they're with us 24/7. See that bull there? That bull is just a normal bull here, but if that was in Ireland, it'd be in the paper and there'd be fat lads around it just touching it. It'd be the best bull, it'd be like, you know, the top bull in its town. Being in the camper vans, it's tight enough.

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for sleeping and moving about and that. Hopefully when we get to Poznań, it'll be a bit more relaxed. We're now just at a local five-a-side football match in Swinford, which we're using as we're... What we've done is we've rebuilt... This is just a green screen set that we've got here.

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I think for the last count it was 300,000 extras. When we shot the final scene in Poland outside the stadium, it was the Ireland Italy game and what I really wanted to do was use that as the backdrop because it was a great backdrop and it was a case of we didn't fake this, we are here in Poland at the game. And I was worried about that scene because I thought there's going to be thousands upon thousands of drunk

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on the Irish fans all wondering around how we're gonna get this shot you know and it was it was quite tricky you know we're running around it was like shit you know quick quick another take another take another take quick reset you know and it was just it was just mayhem see you later I've been out to Posner a couple of weeks before the shoot to do recce you know and it's an absolutely stunning city really really truly is you know but you look in the church that one of the the church

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and it's just absolutely stunning. I think without doubt, Posnan was the best place to shoot. It was just fantastic. When you're making a film for a micro-budget, really, one of the key things you need to do is write what you can afford, or write about the locations you've got. The gun range, for example, in Posnan, it's a case of looking at Posnan. Well, we need to go to Posnan. What is there in Posnan? So look at everything that's in Posnan and go, ah, there's a gun range, great. So you write the gun range scene in, because it's what you've got, rather than trying to write stuff

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ish, I was thinking, shit, where can I get these props or these locations? How long have you known? I don't know in my life, like, you know, learning how to read. You know, things I didn't know before I knew them and then he told me them. I went to the fucking gun club and fucking pulled them then, where they let any cunt just come in and shoot fucking guns until you drop. I once remember on a phone call to some cunt from up to the Curryway. He was giving me shite and I said, listen, man, your talk's been nothing against a fucking magnum.

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This thing is a target. That's... Pretend it's a lad up the town. Holy fuck! Jesus, she's a cuntish! Fucking hell. This is for all the cunts up the town who said I could never make it. This is Creepy up the town. Creepy. Are you watching me now, are you? Creepy, you cunt. Creepy, you fucking stole my hat. Fuck yeah. Don't fuck around with me, you daft cunt.

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on a fucking chipper on a Saturday even death zone, maybe I can even transport some of these guns back to Ireland But I think here I should say something like Roman who's Roman? I know what's that? I've got you know, I should say I have your heart I'm going abroad and overseas We did need key actors to fill certain roles. I mean we've got a guy called Daniel Obrowski who plays Roman now he's actually Poland's biggest actor, you know, he's an absolute East European actor

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The acting legend, you know, he's the kind of Michael Caine or Jack Nicholson of Eastern Europe. You're not going to shoot us, Mr Mussel. No, I'm not going to shoot you. Of course, I don't shoot you friends for 5,000 euros of hajj. That's stupid. I'm not going to, how you say, a bit of crack. Hilarious. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

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It's a good thing to take a few minutes from a partial time. - I don't get someone to call us free. - Try to break it. - Do you have a knife? - Making any kind of TV programme, particularly films, you're faced with an inordinate amount of challenges. It really is a constant case of how can I overcome this challenge, how can we make this work, how can we make that work.

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and the number of all of those challenges are magnified. We had a really, really tiny crew which was necessary to be able to take everybody right across eight countries from the west of Ireland across the east of Europe and back again and make a movie on the kind of money we would make it. So the crew had to be tiny so a lot of people were wearing a lot of hats as well so that made things even more difficult. We shot a couple of series in Swinford,

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They were a bit more magnified. The shoot was five weeks in total. And do you know what? It was just absolutely fantastic. It really was. I think the guys hadn't been in each other's pockets prior to making the movie. It was a really great bonding session for them. We had some very, very interesting situations with the motorhomes. We got stranded for a day coming back because the battery was completely flat.

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and we had to go to go to the end of the day and we had to go to the McDonald's which wasn't good, that was another incident. But we really had to hoof it back because of the issue, the breakdown issues, we had to really sort of, it was quite, and it's a long, long drive, but coming back we were doing like 16 hours, you know, just driving straight. Yeah, it was great to get back, you know, it was a fantastic trip, it really, really was. It was great to get back to Ireland. The very last thing we shot was the Phantom footage which was for the title sequence and we thought we'd save that for last because that was just a really, you know, we just had a really good laugh on the football pitch doing that.

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It was a very stress-free day. It was great fun to shoot. It was a nice way to round off the movie. I'm going to do it all again. We're going to do it again. Hardy looks too.

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and we're writing for the next movie so we certainly won't involve traveling across eight countries to Europe and back but definitely yeah definitely gonna make another movie