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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Ladies and gentlemen, Good afternoon, Welcome on the Culture News.
My name is David Sebbro and have the pleasure to
have today on iHeartRadio and several other platforms. A wonderful,
wonderful actor. His name is Alex Johnson. Alex Johnson. He's
part of an upcoming film which I invite everyone to
(00:23):
check out. It's called Out of This World. It's a wonderful,
wonderful upcoming film. He is playing the part of Logan
Con is going to talk to us about it, and
they are quite impressive cast in it, including f Murray Abraham,
which we love a lot. Right now over the phone
to talk to us about it. This is the one
(00:44):
and only mister Alex Johnson. Alex, how are you today.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Hi, David, Yeah, thank you so much for having me on.
I'm great, Thank you.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Well, it's a pleasure having you, so would you be
so kind to tell us a little bit? Who are you,
where you're from? And how did you start in this industry?
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Well, we're already begin I started. I started learning acting
when I was a teenager, which happened very much by accident.
I was accidentally sent to an acting school. My sister
went to a certain school which at the time that
she was at the school, it didn't actually offer any
(01:26):
acting classes, and I think my parents didn't really know
where which which school to send me to, so they thought, well,
we'll send him to the same school we sent his
older sister to. And when I arrived at the school,
they had a completely different program which was very, very
focused on It was focused on theater and media and
they insisted as part of the school that you did
(01:49):
theater studies.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
So it started me off.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Very young as a teenager learning that craft for lack
of a better word, and that was really what sort
of allowed me to connect or I already was very
passionate about film, but I never had understood the power
of being in front of the camera. And I think
that that initial younger exposure has always been it's always
(02:16):
been a good thing. It's something that has allowed me,
over my life to come in and out of this
world in quite a fluid sense, which I think, I
think is something that gets instilled in you when you
do something, when you train to do something, when you
do it at a young age.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
And indeed you did very well for yourself. And so
are you from London.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Yes, yes, I'm from London. I've certainly lived in a
few other places, but I am from London.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Well, good for you, Good for you. So how do
you feel being, you know, an actor from London coming
to the US to start to work with the American actor?
Do you think it's easier because you have this Shakespearean
background that is part of your roots or you think
actually it's more difficult because you have to melt yourself
(03:04):
into the American culture.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Tough question.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
I think I think that there is always something that
is is somewhat somewhat different or glamorous or unusual about
anything that is, for lack of lack of a better word,
than an import.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
You know, we see it with with fashion.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
We always like to have things that are imported, sunglasses
from Japan and you know, cars from Italy. The the
the idea of an import is always quite fascinating. So
perhaps perhaps there's some element of you know, actors coming over.
I think it's also quite a proven, proven model for
actors from the UK to come over, expectations of them
(03:48):
doing accents. You know, In most of my films so far,
I've had an American accent, which has been something that
I've always been quite good at accents from a young age,
have always been able to do pretty much pretty much
any accent. So that's been a fun thing to get
to to get to explore and and I think, I
(04:09):
think in this in this space, you know, being being busy,
particularly particularly now what's what's going on with the industry,
is an absolute privilege.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
And you know you have to work very hard to.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Get the roles and to to meet the right people
and to get the right exposure.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
So it's it's a it's a lot of hard work.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
And it is, but you are doing everything for it.
You're a very very hard worker, very passionate. We can tell.
So who are your your heroes? Like, who are the
actors that you were really looking up to growing up?
Speaker 2 (04:45):
I mean, for me, this is honestly, this is this
is a pretty easy one.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
The too.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
The two people that I've always had an incredible admiration
for is Paul Betany. I think Paul Bethany is one
of the greatest actors of our time. And I also
think that Christian Bale. Christian Bale is I think what's
quite quite fascinating about both of these actors. And I've
I've spent obviously a lot of time thinking about this
(05:10):
is it's the range with which when they go into
different characters, they don't just you know, change their accent
or or change certain mannerisms. They also have this incredible
ability to change their their the way that they express
an emotion. So so you might see Christian Bale in
(05:33):
one film versus another, and in both films he might
be expressing, for example, sadness, but the way that.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
He expresses the sadness is completely different.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
And for me, this is this is the highest tier
of acting because you do see certain actors who effectively
are always a different version of themselves, Like even even
if they're doing a different accent, they're still expressing the
same emotional range the same way.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
And I I find that fascinating.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
I think that's that's just a I think it's the
highest level of performance that you can achieve.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Yeah, for sure. And when he did American Psycho, it
was I think one of the greatest ever performance on
the screen. Really was absolutely extraordinary.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
So yeah, and it's hard work, I mean the physical,
physical preposence saying as well the way I mean at
the time, I don't think anyone ever ever seen on
screen you know, a body change like that, and the
way that he changed his physique for different scenes in
the film. I mean, it's it is, it's extremely impressive.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Yeah, indeed, and he made the villain, you know, fascinating.
You know that, you know, that's one of these these
performance that we that we don't forget. So now fast
forwarding to this new film of yours called Out of
This World. It is written and directed by Albert Serah.
(06:59):
He has an extraordininary cast. Can you talk to us
about it and tell us a little bit about the story.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Yeah, I mean, it's a he's an incredible guy. He's
he's truly a very creative, innovative individual. He's he's someone
who you can see very clearly from his work, is
someone who creates very much a an extremely unique style.
(07:26):
And it's not it's not someone who kind of he's
not blending together two styles. He's not building on what
someone else did and changing it a little bit. He's
he's really doing his he's really truly doing his own thing,
which I find, you know, it's very unusual to find
that in this day and age where where I think,
you know, we're fed so much media and and and
(07:48):
there's so much stuff constantly hitting us. I think it's
it's it's challenging to do that naturally. And and the
film itself, I mean, out of this World is is
it's it's in many ways, it's it's such a it's
such a such an obscure subject matter. It's it's about
an American delegation that that travel to to Russia in
(08:09):
the midst of the Ukraine War and they try to
find a solution to to this ongoing sort of economic dispute.
That it's all it's all linked to economic sanctions, and
it's you know, there's elements of where the characters spiral
and very unusual things happen. I mean, I don't want
to spill spoil the film for anyone, but it's it's
(08:31):
definitely got layers, let's put it that way.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Yes, indeed, it is a beautiful film. Congratulations again for that.
So before we say goodbye to each other, what are
your next projects after after that?
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Well, I have I have a crime thriller that will
hopefully be announced pretty soon, so there'll be more details
on that and that's going to be the next exciting one.
So I'm looking forward to when we we press go
on that and hopefully announced make an announcement pretty soon
on what's exactly happening with that, and yeah, that that
(09:05):
should be pretty exciting.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Well, we'll definitely be there to upload you in to
support your congratulations.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Really, thank you.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Your hard work and congratulations for all your wonderful achievements.
What would you like to say to our audience? You
still have thirty seconds?
Speaker 3 (09:23):
Oh my goodness.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Well, the only thing I would encourage audiences to do
is still watch, keep watching movies, keep watching films that
really inspire, because I think I think there's some magic
in movies and we have to keep it alive.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
And what a better way to end this interview. This
was absolutely wonderful Alex Johnson wonderful than David very much,
of course, of course, wonderful actor. He is starting this
great new film called Out of This World, and indeed
it is out of this world, you know, invite you
really to watch it. Hopefully he's going to go to
(09:58):
can pray for you. And this is done by an
extraordinary director named Albert Sarah, a wonderful director. I know
him for a couple of years. He did the Death
of Louis the fourteenth, a wonderful film. Uh, this is
an extraordinary director and you have an amazing cast in it,
(10:19):
which I invite everyone to check out and you can
follow of course, Alex Johnson right now, more music to
follow up on our Art Radio. Stay tuned with us.
It's a beautiful day.
Ladies and gentlemen, Good afternoon, Welcome on the Culture News.
My name is David Sebbro and have the pleasure to
have today on iHeartRadio and several other platforms. A wonderful,
wonderful actor. His name is Alex Johnson. Alex Johnson. He's
part of an upcoming film which I invite everyone to
(00:23):
check out. It's called Out of This World. It's a wonderful,
wonderful upcoming film. He is playing the part of Logan
Con is going to talk to us about it, and
they are quite impressive cast in it, including f Murray Abraham,
which we love a lot. Right now over the phone
to talk to us about it. This is the one
(00:44):
and only mister Alex Johnson. Alex, how are you today.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Hi, David, Yeah, thank you so much for having me on.
I'm great, Thank you.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Well, it's a pleasure having you, so would you be
so kind to tell us a little bit? Who are you,
where you're from? And how did you start in this industry?
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Well, we're already begin I started. I started learning acting
when I was a teenager, which happened very much by accident.
I was accidentally sent to an acting school. My sister
went to a certain school which at the time that
she was at the school, it didn't actually offer any
(01:26):
acting classes, and I think my parents didn't really know
where which which school to send me to, so they thought, well,
we'll send him to the same school we sent his
older sister to. And when I arrived at the school,
they had a completely different program which was very, very
focused on It was focused on theater and media and
they insisted as part of the school that you did
(01:49):
theater studies.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
So it started me off.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Very young as a teenager learning that craft for lack
of a better word, and that was really what sort
of allowed me to connect or I already was very
passionate about film, but I never had understood the power
of being in front of the camera. And I think
that that initial younger exposure has always been it's always
(02:16):
been a good thing. It's something that has allowed me,
over my life to come in and out of this
world in quite a fluid sense, which I think, I
think is something that gets instilled in you when you
do something, when you train to do something, when you
do it at a young age.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
And indeed you did very well for yourself. And so
are you from London.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Yes, yes, I'm from London. I've certainly lived in a
few other places, but I am from London.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Well, good for you, Good for you. So how do
you feel being, you know, an actor from London coming
to the US to start to work with the American actor?
Do you think it's easier because you have this Shakespearean
background that is part of your roots or you think
actually it's more difficult because you have to melt yourself
(03:04):
into the American culture.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Tough question.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
I think I think that there is always something that
is is somewhat somewhat different or glamorous or unusual about
anything that is, for lack of lack of a better word,
than an import.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
You know, we see it with with fashion.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
We always like to have things that are imported, sunglasses
from Japan and you know, cars from Italy. The the
the idea of an import is always quite fascinating. So
perhaps perhaps there's some element of you know, actors coming over.
I think it's also quite a proven, proven model for
actors from the UK to come over, expectations of them
(03:48):
doing accents. You know, In most of my films so far,
I've had an American accent, which has been something that
I've always been quite good at accents from a young age,
have always been able to do pretty much pretty much
any accent. So that's been a fun thing to get
to to get to explore and and I think, I
(04:09):
think in this in this space, you know, being being busy,
particularly particularly now what's what's going on with the industry,
is an absolute privilege.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
And you know you have to work very hard to.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Get the roles and to to meet the right people
and to get the right exposure.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
So it's it's a it's a lot of hard work.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
And it is, but you are doing everything for it.
You're a very very hard worker, very passionate. We can tell.
So who are your your heroes? Like, who are the
actors that you were really looking up to growing up?
Speaker 2 (04:45):
I mean, for me, this is honestly, this is this
is a pretty easy one.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
The too.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
The two people that I've always had an incredible admiration
for is Paul Betany. I think Paul Bethany is one
of the greatest actors of our time. And I also
think that Christian Bale. Christian Bale is I think what's
quite quite fascinating about both of these actors. And I've
I've spent obviously a lot of time thinking about this
(05:10):
is it's the range with which when they go into
different characters, they don't just you know, change their accent
or or change certain mannerisms. They also have this incredible
ability to change their their the way that they express
an emotion. So so you might see Christian Bale in
(05:33):
one film versus another, and in both films he might
be expressing, for example, sadness, but the way that.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
He expresses the sadness is completely different.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
And for me, this is this is the highest tier
of acting because you do see certain actors who effectively
are always a different version of themselves, Like even even
if they're doing a different accent, they're still expressing the
same emotional range the same way.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
And I I find that fascinating.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
I think that's that's just a I think it's the
highest level of performance that you can achieve.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Yeah, for sure. And when he did American Psycho, it
was I think one of the greatest ever performance on
the screen. Really was absolutely extraordinary.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
So yeah, and it's hard work, I mean the physical,
physical preposence saying as well the way I mean at
the time, I don't think anyone ever ever seen on
screen you know, a body change like that, and the
way that he changed his physique for different scenes in
the film. I mean, it's it is, it's extremely impressive.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Yeah, indeed, and he made the villain, you know, fascinating.
You know that, you know, that's one of these these
performance that we that we don't forget. So now fast
forwarding to this new film of yours called Out of
This World. It is written and directed by Albert Serah.
(06:59):
He has an extraordininary cast. Can you talk to us
about it and tell us a little bit about the story.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Yeah, I mean, it's a he's an incredible guy. He's
he's truly a very creative, innovative individual. He's he's someone
who you can see very clearly from his work, is
someone who creates very much a an extremely unique style.
(07:26):
And it's not it's not someone who kind of he's
not blending together two styles. He's not building on what
someone else did and changing it a little bit. He's
he's really doing his he's really truly doing his own thing,
which I find, you know, it's very unusual to find
that in this day and age where where I think,
you know, we're fed so much media and and and
(07:48):
there's so much stuff constantly hitting us. I think it's
it's it's challenging to do that naturally. And and the
film itself, I mean, out of this World is is
it's it's in many ways, it's it's such a it's
such a such an obscure subject matter. It's it's about
an American delegation that that travel to to Russia in
(08:09):
the midst of the Ukraine War and they try to
find a solution to to this ongoing sort of economic dispute.
That it's all it's all linked to economic sanctions, and
it's you know, there's elements of where the characters spiral
and very unusual things happen. I mean, I don't want
to spill spoil the film for anyone, but it's it's
(08:31):
definitely got layers, let's put it that way.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Yes, indeed, it is a beautiful film. Congratulations again for that.
So before we say goodbye to each other, what are
your next projects after after that?
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Well, I have I have a crime thriller that will
hopefully be announced pretty soon, so there'll be more details
on that and that's going to be the next exciting one.
So I'm looking forward to when we we press go
on that and hopefully announced make an announcement pretty soon
on what's exactly happening with that, and yeah, that that
(09:05):
should be pretty exciting.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Well, we'll definitely be there to upload you in to
support your congratulations.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Really, thank you.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Your hard work and congratulations for all your wonderful achievements.
What would you like to say to our audience? You
still have thirty seconds?
Speaker 3 (09:23):
Oh my goodness.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Well, the only thing I would encourage audiences to do
is still watch, keep watching movies, keep watching films that
really inspire, because I think I think there's some magic
in movies and we have to keep it alive.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
And what a better way to end this interview. This
was absolutely wonderful Alex Johnson wonderful than David very much,
of course, of course, wonderful actor. He is starting this
great new film called Out of This World, and indeed
it is out of this world, you know, invite you
really to watch it. Hopefully he's going to go to
(09:58):
can pray for you. And this is done by an
extraordinary director named Albert Sarah, a wonderful director. I know
him for a couple of years. He did the Death
of Louis the fourteenth, a wonderful film. Uh, this is
an extraordinary director and you have an amazing cast in it,
(10:19):
which I invite everyone to check out and you can
follow of course, Alex Johnson right now, more music to
follow up on our Art Radio. Stay tuned with us.
It's a beautiful day.
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