Paul Mescal Plays 'Irish or Not Irish' | Ask a Local — Transcript

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1. 0:00you'd be surprised the amount of people
2. 0:01that you ask in America to point out
3. 0:03where Ireland is on a map they point
4. 0:04over towards like Mexico or someplace
5. 0:06like they've just no idea where where it
6. 0:10[Music]
7. 0:15is fourleaf
8. 0:18Clover fourleaf Clover is probably a
9. 0:24const an American Construction I'm going
10. 0:26to say it's probably not Irish is that
11. 0:29am I right about that yeah so Shamrocks
12. 0:31are three it's like a little clover with
13. 0:34three I think it was used by St Patrick
14. 0:36to talk about the Father the Holy Spirit
15. 0:39and the what's the other one father the
16. 0:41Holy Spirit and the son yeah I'm not uh
17. 0:43religious anymore so yeah that's the
18. 0:45difference Americans probably confused
19. 0:47the two things the GAA oh Big Time Irish
20. 0:52it's our national sport it's like both
21. 0:55Gaelic football hurling and handball
22. 0:59which you get bonus points if you know
23. 1:00that handball is included so very much
24. 1:02Irish and I played both gay football and
25. 1:05hurling growing up you can't really make
26. 1:07a career at playing G football because
27. 1:09it's an amateur sport but it's a
28. 1:11national sport so that like all of the
29. 1:13players that you idolize growing up they
30. 1:15play a match on a Sunday to 880,000
31. 1:18people and then they go back to work on
32. 1:20Monday which I think is pretty unique I
33. 1:23think if you went to Ireland in the
34. 1:24summer you would see lots of boys and
35. 1:26girls going around in what we would call
36. 1:28Tiny shorts but they're just gaic
37. 1:30football shorts they are the
38. 1:31standardized length of GAA football
39. 1:35shorts gilga gilga Irish yeah yeah gu is
40. 1:40is our national language it's spoken
41. 1:44today in areas called gu tucks which are
42. 1:46kind of portions pockets of the country
43. 1:48that still that would be the language
44. 1:51that you would use say going to school
45. 1:53going to the shops but I think in the
46. 1:55last couple of years there's been a
47. 1:56Resurgence and you see like the kneecap
48. 1:58boys doing it in using the language in
49. 2:01their film and and things like that so
50. 2:03it's having a Resurgence which is great
51. 2:05because it was in Decline for for a
52. 2:08second there I can speak a bit of my
53. 2:10primary school that I went to was all
54. 2:12through Irish and I did my junior CT
55. 2:15which is not the SAT is the one below
56. 2:18that all through Irish but then it's
57. 2:21kind of like any language it kind of
58. 2:22disappears a little bit when you don't
59. 2:24use it but the bit of Irish that I have
60. 2:27I would be very proud of you'd be
61. 2:29surpris the amount of people that you
62. 2:31ask in America who have not if you were
63. 2:32to ask them to point out where Ireland
64. 2:34is on a map they' point over towards
65. 2:37like Mexico or someplace like theyve
66. 2:39just no idea where where it is top of
67. 2:44the
68. 2:45morning and not Irish I feel like we're
69. 2:48going to come to a lot of like American
70. 2:50structions of Irish things and that's
71. 2:54not something any Irish person would say
72. 2:56things that I American people think is
73. 2:59Irish are like leprechauns four leaf
74. 3:02clovers top of the mornings Irish
75. 3:05coffees I would say we don't drink as
76. 3:07much so those would be the main ones I
77. 3:10would say I'm sure more will come up a
78. 3:13lock in big Irish yeah so a lock in is
79. 3:17when the bar is closed but if you know
80. 3:20the owner of the bar he'll kick out say
81. 3:24a certain say 70% of the the bar and
82. 3:28then 30% of you be left they'll close
83. 3:30the curtains normally involves like sing
84. 3:32songs afterwards if you can come across
85. 3:35a lock in I would highly recommend
86. 3:37they're like normally around like Irish
87. 3:39weddings or funerals Irish people I
88. 3:41think are pretty famous for their their
89. 3:43funerals they're they're actually like
90. 3:45just big celebrations unless there's
91. 3:47like an innate tragedy involved but
92. 3:48there's lots of drinking and lockin and
93. 3:51yeah weddings and funerals I think Irish
94. 3:53people do pretty well
95. 3:56Halloween Irish apparently I only found
96. 3:59out about this today they love Halloween
97. 4:01in America don't they like they big into
98. 4:04it we call it ehaa in
99. 4:06Ireland St Patty's
100. 4:09Day no oh again I think Americans do St
101. 4:15Patrick's Day which is Irish not St
102. 4:18Patty's Day I mean that's a good that's
103. 4:20a good holiday in Ireland it's it's
104. 4:22always fun it's an excuse for lots of
105. 4:25like kind of like underage drinking like
106. 4:27you kind of Escape for the day and then
107. 4:29and try and return home and appear sober
108. 4:32to your parents it's kind of a right
109. 4:33right of passage in
110. 4:35Ireland an Irish goodby oh big advocate
111. 4:38of an Irish goodby I'm going to stick to
112. 4:40my guns and say that it's Irish if
113. 4:42you're at like a party with lots of
114. 4:44people if you have naturally avoidant
115. 4:47Tendencies goodbyes can be difficult so
116. 4:49I would tend to if you're close enough
117. 4:52with the people you can kind of just
118. 4:53when your time has come to say good
119. 4:55night you will just instead of being an
120. 4:58evolved human being you will
121. 5:00just head for the exit and tell
122. 5:02everybody the next day that you didn't
123. 5:04say
124. 5:05goodbye happen the crack spelled c r a c
125. 5:08k no not Irish not Irish I spelled c r a
126. 5:12i c incredibly Irish but uh I think it
127. 5:16would get confusing if you spelled it uh
128. 5:18c a c k what's the crack we would
129. 5:22associate we use the word crack for fun
130. 5:25or like what's the story that it's a
131. 5:27kind of versatile phrase yeah what's the
132. 5:30crack it confuses Americans cuz they
133. 5:32think it's probably something to do with
134. 5:34something else I appreciate the attempt
135. 5:35though it's it's it's IR it's kind of
136. 5:37this is what I would say that spelling
137. 5:40would mean the Bon the Bon Irish it's
138. 5:44like a little um hand drum I would say
139. 5:46is quite a stirring instrument yeah very
140. 5:54Irish a session is a like music session
141. 5:57so you'd have like fiddle players Bon
142. 6:00players guitarists tin whistle players
143. 6:03and they'd kind of sit in the corner of
144. 6:05a pub and just start kind of it feels
145. 6:07like they're improvising but they'll
146. 6:09just play music for hours and hours
147. 6:11normally associated with a
148. 6:13lockin Andrew Scott that's don't get me
149. 6:16started on this this is a thing that
150. 6:20British media Outlets tend to do when
151. 6:22Irish people have a moment of like
152. 6:25success or a moment in the sun you'll
153. 6:27like read some headline being like tror
154. 6:29Andrew Scott or dror S cersa Ronin or
155. 6:32Jesse Bley have been nominated for X
156. 6:34award but it's only it's always around
157. 6:37that kind of subject so Andrew Scott
158. 6:41very much Irish Jesse Buckley very much
159. 6:44Irish cerona Irish all of these um
160. 6:47amazing Irish
161. 6:49actors Daisy Edgar Jones honorary Irish
162. 6:53person Daisy has Irish family so we
163. 6:58we're doing the reverse I claim her as
164. 7:00Irish one of the few non-irish actors to
165. 7:03do the Irish accent as well as anybody
166. 7:08I've ever seen so I'm going to do this
167. 7:11depends on the day Irish not Irish
168. 7:14yeah
169. 7:15Gladiators GL uh Gladiators are not
170. 7:18Irish very much Roman yeah people should
171. 7:22be very excited for the film coming out
172. 7:24I've seen it now the scale of it is kind
173. 7:26of something that I haven't seen in
174. 7:28years now that kind of old school Studio
175. 7:32picture style of big film making but I
176. 7:34think it ties to the kind of spirit of
177. 7:36the first one where it's got these
178. 7:38massive set pieces But ultimately it's a
179. 7:40character drama that's got all of the
180. 7:43bells and whistles that come with uh
181. 7:45ridly Scott at his best so yeah I I'm
182. 7:47super excited for people to see it now
183. 7:49what's the key to becoming a gladiator
184. 7:51there's lots of training that goes into
185. 7:52it Gym training sord training you kind
186. 7:56of got to get into a mentality that I
187. 7:58would have associated with with kind of
188. 7:59playing sports before like there's a
189. 8:01kind of robustness required yeah I think
190. 8:04all all of the casts when we heard that
191. 8:05Denzel was going to be in it were kind
192. 8:07of like blown away I feel very proud to
193. 8:09say that like regardless of whatever
194. 8:11happens I can say that I was in scenes
195. 8:13opposite danzel Washington having seen
196. 8:16Pedro's work for a couple of years now I
197. 8:17think people should be really excited
198. 8:19for what he does and the kind of
199. 8:20Gravitas that he brings to his role and
200. 8:22he plays it with such ease and nobility
201. 8:25so that's the benefit of stepping into
202. 8:27something that has the Legacy that
203. 8:28gladiator does
204. 8:30it instills you with a good healthy dose
205. 8:32of of fear which is
206. 8:35great the look of the Irish that feels
207. 8:37like a left Boni statement doesn't it I
208. 8:40think historically Irish people haven't
209. 8:42been that lucky like you if you look at
210. 8:44certain things but uh I would
211. 8:48say yeah not
212. 8:50Irish what's something that's inherently
213. 8:56Irish supermax is very Irish supermax is
214. 9:01like an Irish McDonald's the best super
215. 9:05Maxes in gallway if anybody's ever
216. 9:07heading out that way I would recommend a
217. 9:10chicken burger from super max
218. 9:13[Music]