Tamsin Greig Discusses Not Giving Up On Acting After Drama School Rejections

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2 жыл бұрын

This week Rob is joined by actor and comedian Tamsin Greig. They talk about meeting for the first time on the set of Black Books, the differences between working with scriptwriters and being given the freedom to improvise, and how Tamsin will always stick to her acting roots rather than moving to presenting. Tamsin also tells Rob all about finding herself in a West End musical having never sung before, and they also discuss their shared experience of being rejected by RADA!
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@RobBrydon 2 жыл бұрын

Listen to the full episode free and exclusively on Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/3RyAm4Km9q0buxKadwoOoZ

@jakeriese4862 2 жыл бұрын

Nice. Thanks for this. Saturday just gone, I had a sezuire, so this cheers me up

@Kim_Miller 2 жыл бұрын

I first came across Tamsin in Black Books and loved her character. I still remember the episode where she gets a delivery to her shop of a strange round thing the size of a volley ball with a little spigot pointing out of it. Nobody can figure out what it is but the episode ends with somebody showing how to work this arty-farty cigarette lighter. Her manic dippiness in Black Books was infectious.

@petew5399 2 жыл бұрын

I rewatched Green Wing during lockdown. literally nothing like it. Best ensemble comedy I've ever seen

@AndersWatches 2 жыл бұрын

This is really heartening. I applied to drama schools and didn’t get into the big ones. In fact, Staffordshire university of all places, who are not exactly known for having a great drama department (it was a back up option because I’m local), rejected me and told me to give up because I apparently just didn’t have it and would never get anywhere in acting (he could not explain what ‘it’ is, either, claims he has an instinct). He told me to try working behind the camera. It hurt. But I ended up going to an actual theatre school. And I have an agent. And I’ve had acting work. Now it’s just a matter of finding the next step up. Acting is the one thing I can say with confidence that I am good at. It’s the only thing I could ever imagine myself doing. There is no plan B. I love it, and I am good at it, and I will never give up.

@Walperion_Music 2 жыл бұрын

Heartwarming story! And how the hell those guys can say things like "You should give up you just don't have it"? I mean that's just so wrong and wing-cutting wtf. Those people's words are dealing with people's whole careers and their self-beliefs here. They should choose words more carefully than in any sphere of life maybe. I'm of a conviction we can do 95% of things as long as we have a dedication to be beter every day. "Every skill is learnable". Anyway thanks for the life-affirming story! Hope to see you in something great one day! )

@hensonlaura 2 жыл бұрын

Always thought Tamsin had a unique & compelling beauty. As a straight woman, one of my few female crushes.

@renejean2523 2 жыл бұрын

Great interview. Tamsin was absolutely wonderful in Episodes.

@jaybee9552 2 жыл бұрын

She's got such a great, and distinctive, voice.

@TheDavidfallon 2 жыл бұрын

Wonderful to revisit. I'd completely forgotten the Bryden Black Books moment. The mock-cockney accent is priceless. The Fixer | Black Books | Series 2 Episode 3.

@euansmith3699 Ай бұрын

What a lovely chat.

@alihart 2 жыл бұрын

she is a giant ear of niceness

@C64_Mat 2 жыл бұрын

"Hello, Fran....."

@tonymccake3057 2 жыл бұрын

".... And now the shipping forecast...."

@Elnefial 2 жыл бұрын

"You look Frantastic.”

@merlinsclaw 2 жыл бұрын

The utterly brilliant Tamsin Greig. Fantastic. 😀

@datgrrl5698 2 жыл бұрын

Tamsin is worth the listen... cheers for uploading

@angeladawn805 2 жыл бұрын

She is indeed a class act. Thanks for such a lovely interview 😊

@shaolinpunkFTW 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome. Thanks for your top show Rob always enjoy watching. Tamsin is wonderful in Black Books and Love Soup among many others.

@andypalin3287 2 жыл бұрын

Great interview Rob. Tamsin is a brilliant guest! 😎🎸🤘

@BernadetteNason28 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Rob, for this super interview. I've been an admirer of Tamsin Greig since I saw her in JUMPY at the Royal Court Theatre. I knew she'd be a delightful person, too, and you've given me a chance to prove that right!

@sirdidymus2530 2 жыл бұрын

The episodes hiking conversations are some of the funniest stuff.....

@ebneigh5191 2 жыл бұрын

She is supremely brilliant, funny, unrecognisable as the Mum in Friday Night Dinner

@spongebobsquaretits 2 жыл бұрын

Tamsin is soooo pretty

@TheShmoo123 2 жыл бұрын

Brilliant, just got on me bike & now have this wonderfulness to help me through 🙋🏽‍♀️👍🏽💛

@fitgirllegbusta2406 2 жыл бұрын

I love that Rob will stitch up any of his guests while holding that smooth tv host timbre.

@Pugwash. 2 жыл бұрын

Nice. I liked her slightly dippy character in Black Books.

@Troll_the_Trolls 2 жыл бұрын

Tamsin is awesome

@gwynevans6440 2 жыл бұрын

Loved this one, she's unique and whatever she's in you just can't imagine anyone else doing it. And, in Peter Serafinowicz sexy voice, she looks "Fran-tastic".

@gdr1174 2 жыл бұрын

Only recently discovered Friday night dinner. She's brilliant 👏

@irvos6003 6 ай бұрын

oh man, the cast in Black Books was a dream! And Tamsin among them.

@JessieCori 2 жыл бұрын

Oh, I love Black Books!

@scottdonnell191 2 жыл бұрын

You are both national treasures.

@layalabi1667 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@TapDancerDood 2 жыл бұрын

@Rob Brydon I auditioned for Central School and remember the trauma of the sifting process... finally being split into two groups - one that had got through and the one that hadn't. Terrifying! I got through and spent three wonderful years. Carrie Fisher was in the year above me, left in '77 and went straight into Star Wars. 'Green Wing' was one of my all-time favourite TV shows, followed by 'Episodes'!! I slowly fell in love with Tamsin - what an amazing actor. I'd love to work with either of you two, anything coming up? I'm a young 65... x

@hazelanderson1479 2 жыл бұрын

I loved Tamsin on The Archers. She has a very sexy voice.

@Simon_Hawkshaw Жыл бұрын

What an incredible lady. Thank you so much for this video.

@mandylavida 2 жыл бұрын

I love love love Tamsin, the queen of the second look.

@TheDavidfallon 2 жыл бұрын

Everything Tamsin has done is wonderful, but for me the epitome is as Anne Trenchard in Belgravia. The sadness and anguish underlying that character, just sitting beneath the surface, is played with such dignity, which funnily enough is how she also does comedy. From Fran in BB to Caroline Todd in Green Wing, or Jackie in Friday Night Dinner, there's always a sense that beneath the situation there's a whole other world where she is thinking, really, is this it, why am I here? How did this happen? I could be doing something else, surely? In comedy this comes across as hilarious. In drama it's heartbreaking, but completely involving.

@TheDavidfallon 2 жыл бұрын

@AnMal 01 "The scenes between Tamsin Greig and Harriet Walter could be cut out and shown in a museum as great art." Perfectly put.

@thewordofgog Жыл бұрын

Ah Tamsin is every bit as lovely as I hoped she'd be however I do have a point of order. I myself have used the 'fall down seven times get up eight metaphor' on occasion and used it, only last year, on my now nearly seven year old grandson. He looked at me and said 'No Grandad you get up seven times'. And he's right you know🙂

@polyglotuk 2 жыл бұрын

Love Tamsin.

@salmonesque 2 жыл бұрын

Beautiful. Thanks Rob.

@rollingmetal949 2 жыл бұрын

The classiest innuendos and jabbing😅

@luzdeld Жыл бұрын

She is just brilliant.

@hoisin75 2 жыл бұрын

ooh, how lovely

@vagabondfeet 2 жыл бұрын

Good one Rob! Nice way to maintain it.

@ncmartinez_his 2 жыл бұрын

I loved Tamsin Greig in Black Books.

@drbosommd 2 жыл бұрын

She was also great in a great comedy show called Green Wing. Check it out .

@millwallholdings 2 жыл бұрын

He mentioned it

@phillipedwardness9591 2 жыл бұрын

Rob is fantastic, Tamsin is amazing, but the full version of this on Spotify is one of the less wonderful interviews. Lots of awkward bits, not going with each others stories or picking up on each others humour - likely at times due to the delay in the call.

@griffonwing 2 жыл бұрын

I think Tamsin would be a great contestant on Taskmaster

@brynwest4495 2 жыл бұрын

Would you look at that! I think you could be my cousin! It's like looking in a mirror!

@timothygraham4304 2 жыл бұрын

How do you not get into RADA? They are supposed to teach you how to act. If you're shit at acting, they're your man. It's a school, not an award.

@dielaughing73 Жыл бұрын

You'll be shocked to learn they don't take just anyone into any university or academy. I don't know anything about being a lawyer but that's not the actual qualification required for entry to law school..

@Matthew-mp2qz 2 жыл бұрын

between you and me rob she my friend is a bit of a saucepot( a good looking woman)

@LUFC123 2 жыл бұрын

A nice bit of squirrel

@johnhetherington8830 2 жыл бұрын

great teeth

@chrisb8075 Жыл бұрын

Sorry, not one of your finer moments Rob. Tamsin had so much more to say but you talked way too much and spoilt what was, potentially, a great chat. Disappointing 😔

@bristolspotlight6387 2 жыл бұрын

I wish Ms Gregg had given up acting, she is so unbearably arch, pleased with herself and not nearly as funny as she and her agent clearly believes she is. Good face for radio though.

@gilliankirby 2 жыл бұрын

If you dislike her so much why watch this interview and why take up your precious time putting out such a negative and unnecessary comment?

@bristolspotlight6387 2 жыл бұрын

@@gilliankirby I didn't watch the interview, I was referring to the tag line underneath. My time isn't precious and I've wanted to get my opinion about Greig off my chest for a while - she represents a form of smugness and entitlement that I have long resented. I can't be the only person who finds her irritatingly self-regarding ergo I wanted to give these people a voice, as is my right.

@dielaughing73 Жыл бұрын

@@bristolspotlight6387 how incredibly altruistic of you

@bristolspotlight6387 Жыл бұрын

@@dielaughing73 One does one's best in the cause of truth, freedom and the American way.

@user-qr8up7xp7d 2 күн бұрын

A touch of (un)professional jealousy from “English speaking world's oldest continuously working theatre” perhaps?