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CHAPTER

Exploring Scotland's Beauty and Communities

This chapter discusses the stunning landscapes of Scotland, the isolation of small villages, and the disparities in ownership, housing, and education. It also highlights shooting a film in the southwest, including Lead Hills, and the advantages of real discomfort in acting.

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Well you know
Speaker 2
it's still like everything is i guess it's still it's a heightened version of of what the reality actually is i hope i hope that community doesn't exist. Somewhere in Scotland but i know what you mean there are places in Scotland you know it's the it's probably the most beautiful country in the world in my opinion but. There's all these incredible beautiful beaches and landscapes and forests and glands yeah but there is sometimes. You will sort of stumble upon these tiny little communities of these tiny little villages that are sort of quite untouched because it's strange Scotland there's a there's the. There's the sort of landy gentry Scotland where you know vast tracts of Scotland are owned and by sort of a couple of couple of blocks with some shotguns and some dogs. Yeah and then you have you then you have the sort of income is. Yeah from down south which who make wonderful successes of places that have really sort of gone downhill and then you have places particularly in the west of Scotland the west coast is one of the most beautiful parts of the world but there's there's there's still a lot of them there's a real. Death of housing in the west of Scotland and you speak to people up there. As a death of good educate good teachers and things like that you know because that it needs a sort of big injection of cash up there so the community in caliber is not too far away from. From being real but i mean we shot a lot of that down actually down in the very south west of Scotland down in them for sure in the sort of.
Speaker 1
Deepest darkest and freeshire and a place called lead hills it's going to say me another thing that particularly the English don't realize is how big Scotland is always remember in my touring days with. Go and play in Aberdeen for example and would cross the Scottish border and kind of thing all right here we are in Scotland and it's another. Five hours and yeah until you're up in Aberdeen is. And then yeah you from the the the fast southwest but the corners it stretches off to and things like that there's. Yeah some hidden places
Speaker 2
the south west is quite an incredible part of it's sort of because everybody associates the sort of gal at culture the speaking of gal at sort of all dalba Scotland with the highlands. But the southwest is one of was one of the sort of last real bastions of that culture and it's a remarkable place and with like i said we shot in a place called lead hills which is that i think claims to be the highest village in Scotland if not the UK. And it's a fascinating place we got snowed in there also shooting. Really really incredible place and the barn that that i eventually get dragged to with Martin McCann was in the middle of nowhere in the free so we shot that film in like November. It was fucking freezing it was terrifying the barn that we shot in yeah and we i remember i saw a crowded around some of these iPhone because i think Scotland were trying to get. Trying to qualify for either the use of the world cut right i remember i fucking freeze and stood woman ourselves up through sort of hope. Yeah watching this tiny screen it was a mad experience that i mean how is that because i think i
Speaker 1
definitely spoken to people like tom Hardy about it who will get on to as. As well because of other projects and Florence pure in fact spoke about when doing. Lady mcbeth kind of the advantage in a way as an actor of having certain parts of the acting taking care of for you for example it genuinely being fucking freezing and uncomfortable. It kind of right that part of it i don't have to act i don't have to pretend anymore i can focus on on this bit of character so is is that handy in a way in hindsight that you know it really was.

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