:00:07. > :00:17.fled on a motorbike. It is time for five minutes with Matthew Stadlen.
:00:17. > :00:17.
:00:17. > :00:23.We are in a TV studio. It is very flashy. I only have five minutes.
:00:24. > :00:30.Tommy one thing about yourself we may not know about you. I love Kite
:00:30. > :00:35.surfing, it keeps me fit and healthy. Idea that a lot in the
:00:35. > :00:41.Caribbean. Is there at how you got into it? The got into it eight
:00:41. > :00:51.years ago when it was invented as a sport. The new are away from the UK
:00:51. > :00:51.
:00:51. > :01:01.what you miss most about it? Family and friends. The theatre, good
:01:01. > :01:02.
:01:02. > :01:07.music. Describe yourself in one sentence? I think I am somebody who
:01:07. > :01:13.has great difficulty saying no. I love saying yes. That has got me
:01:13. > :01:19.into trouble on occasion. A love a challenge. Tell me about trying to
:01:19. > :01:23.break records, what appeals to you about this. His is the
:01:23. > :01:29.technological achievement and the personal achievement. Trying to
:01:29. > :01:35.achieve things that mankind has not achieved before. I have tremendous
:01:35. > :01:41.fun doing it. Who got you into breaking records? I suspect it was
:01:41. > :01:46.my mother. She would make us stand on our own two feet. She would Army
:01:46. > :01:50.to make my own way to my grandmother's house or the shock me
:01:50. > :01:55.on a bicycle. She was determined we did things ourselves and did not
:01:55. > :02:02.watch other people doing things. What is the best piece of fice you
:02:02. > :02:08.have been given? Again, I think it was my mother. Look for the best in
:02:08. > :02:12.people. Do not criticise other people. She would make me stand in
:02:13. > :02:21.front of the mirror and say it would reflect badly on myself that
:02:22. > :02:26.as I criticised people. Have you ever had a disaster? On my balloon
:02:27. > :02:32.crossing across the Pacific, I lost some fuel. And I had to find wind
:02:32. > :02:39.that would carry me across the Pacific. I got extremely lucky and
:02:39. > :02:45.must allow by 4,000 miles. I ended up on the Antarctic -- Arctic and
:02:46. > :02:50.survived. Were you ambitious as a boy? I'm not sure these were it is
:02:50. > :02:56.correct. I wanted to change the world. I left 15 to start a
:02:56. > :03:02.magazine. It was to stop the Vietnamese war that I started the
:03:02. > :03:12.magazine. Is the one business decision you have made which has
:03:12. > :03:13.
:03:13. > :03:18.been key in getting you to will you are now? Starting an airline, I ran
:03:18. > :03:22.a record company and hated the experience. But that put Virgin on
:03:22. > :03:30.the map globally. How much time to use been running your business
:03:30. > :03:36.interests? I have delegated most of my business interests. Now I spend
:03:36. > :03:41.time on a not-for-profit interests. The Centre for disease Control in
:03:41. > :03:47.Africa for example. I find it fascinating. Do you think you have
:03:47. > :03:51.to be ruthless to get to will you have got to? I think being ruthless
:03:52. > :03:56.is counter-productive. People like to deal with people who Playfair
:03:56. > :04:00.and I think it is a stereotype of the ruthless entrepreneur pushing
:04:00. > :04:10.their way to the stop, it is not an accurate portrayal of how to get to
:04:10. > :04:11.
:04:11. > :04:18.the stop. IUD half? -- argued half? The fine taking on British airlines,
:04:18. > :04:21.I will to fight like a line. Were you born an entrepreneur? I think
:04:21. > :04:26.entrepreneurs can become entrepreneurs by getting out there
:04:26. > :04:31.and doing it. Teeth in the UK is a good place to be setting up a
:04:31. > :04:36.business? It is a good place to be setting up a business. We need to
:04:36. > :04:41.set up more businesses. Especially in the Internet world. We do not
:04:41. > :04:46.have those great Internet entrepreneurs we should have.
:04:46. > :04:53.is it like being a billionaire? It is to lot of responsibility but I
:04:53. > :04:58.can do things I am proud of. Can you ever have enough money?
:04:58. > :05:03.only need one breakfast and one lunch and one dinner. The money
:05:03. > :05:08.aspect is not that important. It does wealth change you? It has
:05:08. > :05:14.given me the freedom to do the things I want to do. Hope for be,
:05:14. > :05:24.to make a difference in the world. What you do in your free time?
:05:24. > :05:25.
:05:25. > :05:33.Tenor us, skiing, ballooning. Any type of sporting activity. What is
:05:33. > :05:41.the most challenging thing about being an actor? Learning the lines.
:05:41. > :05:46.That is the most scary thing. do you learn your lines? IA use of
:05:46. > :05:54.visual and aural technique. I use a dictaphone and I use the script. I
:05:54. > :06:00.shut my eyes and I play it back and I look at it. I do it again and
:06:00. > :06:05.again. I dictate my lines into the machine and put it into my pillar
:06:05. > :06:12.hoping my subconscious will teach me. Do you get stage fright? I hear
:06:12. > :06:16.spend my life having terrible stage fright. Lately I have been going to
:06:16. > :06:20.a hypnotherapist. I've never done a good first night since recently.
:06:20. > :06:25.That has been a big disadvantage because the critics are always
:06:25. > :06:31.there on the first night and I have never been at my best. Is there an
:06:31. > :06:36.equivalent of stage fright for when you do a film? If you have a very
:06:36. > :06:39.tricky scene. And they want to not to muck up your lines. My husband
:06:39. > :06:43.used to get very irritated with people who did not know their lines
:06:43. > :06:49.because you do not want to waste time. Sometimes you need to learn
:06:49. > :06:53.them overnight. It is scary, but you know you can do it again not
:06:53. > :06:58.like the theatre. Did you learn your lines with your husband to
:06:58. > :07:02.help you? Know, and we never worked together. If we were doing
:07:03. > :07:10.something very tricky, I would say it cannot win this speech he would
:07:10. > :07:13.help me, but no. We just tried to be parents and people at home.
:07:13. > :07:19.you think spending your life pretending to be other people makes
:07:19. > :07:23.it harder to find out what once off his? I think people pretend to be
:07:23. > :07:28.other people all the time. You are different with your boss then you
:07:28. > :07:34.are with your lover. We act all the time. That is only at four o'clock
:07:34. > :07:39.in the morning when you think hello, this is me. How do G become an
:07:39. > :07:44.actress? I became an actress when women did not have many
:07:44. > :07:50.opportunities. I did go to a grammar school on a scholarship. My
:07:50. > :07:56.choices were, being a teacher, being a nurse, not a doctor or a
:07:56. > :08:02.specialist, a secretary. A few odd people went on the stage. My sister
:08:02. > :08:09.was a variety artist. Have you changed as an actor over the years?
:08:09. > :08:14.I had got more confident. I have more fun. The experience, life
:08:15. > :08:20.experience, you have to have experience to express them. That is
:08:20. > :08:25.the way I work. I have to key into my memory and my emotional memory.
:08:25. > :08:32.The more emotional things you have happened, the more armour you have.
:08:32. > :08:37.To you learn from watching other actors? Mainly I learned what not
:08:37. > :08:42.to do. And I see what is not working and I analyse them. If they
:08:42. > :08:49.are very good it puts me off. much you have an influence on the
:08:49. > :08:55.direction of your character? That are pence on the director. Some
:08:55. > :09:00.directors want you to do exactly as they say, if they are good, I will.
:09:00. > :09:06.But I've been working with one director who creates an atmosphere
:09:06. > :09:13.where everybody contributes. Once I worked with a woman who would stop
:09:13. > :09:18.and say what do you think? She made sure everybody was involved. I love
:09:18. > :09:23.that. Hard difficult is it to develop chemistry between you and
:09:23. > :09:29.another actor? It is not difficult. You develop this during the
:09:29. > :09:34.rehearsal process. You need to be emotionally open. If you do that to
:09:34. > :09:41.get very close to people. We do as actors. People are slightly jealous
:09:41. > :09:47.of that. Journalists are nasty to us because we have these tight
:09:47. > :09:52.families and we protect one another. Do you look for something in
:09:52. > :09:56.particular in a part? I look for a challenge. I have got to an age
:09:56. > :10:01.when I have enough money not to look for money, look for something
:10:01. > :10:05.that is different. At the moment, I will be doing, the role because I
:10:05. > :10:11.have been doing something serious. Anything that is different and
:10:11. > :10:18.challenging. Is there something you would change about your Career?
:10:19. > :10:23.could have gone to America with a play. But I chose to stay home and
:10:23. > :10:33.have a baby. He had written about your marriage and joy life after
:10:33. > :10:35.
:10:35. > :10:42.him, now you are writing a novel? should be writing it now. What is
:10:42. > :10:47.it like being hulk Hogan? It is like being normal. It is great to
:10:47. > :10:57.be myself. It is great to walk out the front door and have everybody
:10:57. > :11:04.say, how are you doing? I say, how are you doing brother. Do you
:11:04. > :11:11.switch off from being hulk Hogan. When I get home. My wife does not
:11:11. > :11:15.go with my attitude. When I get home I am Terry. I take the bandana
:11:15. > :11:22.off the bald head and hang out with my dogs. How did you come to
:11:22. > :11:26.cultivate your very famous look? did not have much choice going bald.
:11:26. > :11:32.It happened naturally. I have always had long here because I
:11:32. > :11:38.played music and played rock and roll. One of my girlfriends at high
:11:38. > :11:42.school, she dated this boy who was a surfer and she was always
:11:42. > :11:51.breaking about his moustache. I wish you would grow a moustache. I
:11:51. > :11:55.grew a moustache for her. I have had it ever since. Year of not
:11:55. > :12:05.shaved for a long time? It has been shaved for movies but it has always
:12:05. > :12:07.
:12:07. > :12:13.been there. How do you trim it? They eerie carefully. Help -- tell
:12:13. > :12:20.me about hulk mania. It is a lifestyle intertwined in society
:12:20. > :12:30.from America to UK for 30 years. People have watched me for 30 years
:12:30. > :12:36.and people know it is a very positive character. I say Etal
:12:36. > :12:42.fight in London believe in yourself. In the 90s, people thought it was
:12:42. > :12:49.kind of hokey. But things have come full circle. People are looking
:12:49. > :12:55.positive and have a happy. Like attracts like. If you are a
:12:55. > :13:01.positive person you attract more of the same. If you are miserable and
:13:01. > :13:08.upset, you attract more of that. People realise it works. To you
:13:08. > :13:14.enjoy being famous? I thank God for it. Many people that have been
:13:14. > :13:19.famous, a lot of people do not care about them any more. I walk down
:13:19. > :13:25.the streets of London, or wherever I go, people are excited and happy
:13:25. > :13:32.to see me and they are loyal. If how did you get into wrestling? I
:13:32. > :13:38.was a wrestling fan. I was a studio musician. McCain back from being on
:13:38. > :13:44.the road and I had a very hot looking girl friend. And some
:13:44. > :13:50.people at a bar or tried to grab her. And I wrestled them very well.
:13:51. > :13:57.Some one called me and asked me to try out for wrestling. I went down
:13:57. > :14:00.there and I wrestled. I won the first game. There you are in
:14:00. > :14:10.America because you're getting involved in wrestling. Tell me
:14:10. > :14:11.
:14:11. > :14:16.about that. Are you actually What does that mean, get involved?
:14:16. > :14:24.Do you still throw yourself around? Theresa May cast and crew of bad
:14:24. > :14:34.guys. Sting caught me and said I heard he will be in Manchester. He
:14:34. > :14:34.
:14:34. > :14:39.told the become down. I told him I would be there. Your sort of
:14:39. > :14:45.wrestling. Is it all choreographed? No. It is not. The ending is
:14:45. > :14:53.predetermined. How much room for improvisation is there? I don't
:14:53. > :14:58.know. The whole thing is improper. You're out there and listen to the
:14:58. > :15:08.crowd. He not plan anything. A seen some of the young guys try to
:15:08. > :15:09.
:15:09. > :15:15.choreograph staff. It looks horrible. The really good wrestlers
:15:15. > :15:18.go out and added. They have this into the crowd. If I grab your arm
:15:18. > :15:21.and Star wrestling with her arm and it does not work I will do
:15:21. > :15:28.something different. It is the wrestlers who going plan stop and
:15:28. > :15:35.gets worse. Have you ever got scared going into the ring? I have
:15:35. > :15:41.been really scared. Andre betrayed beeping up for the first eight
:15:41. > :15:48.years every day. I used to keep on the way to the ring. Then we became
:15:48. > :15:56.friends and he started to like me. How many books do you have in your
:15:56. > :16:01.library at home? It is about 15,000. It is probably a bit more. That was
:16:01. > :16:09.the last estimation and I keep buying them. They have actually
:16:09. > :16:15.spilled over from the many Schulz and Darren that will piles. Had he
:16:15. > :16:21.acquire so many books? I go into places and buy up a great many
:16:21. > :16:30.every time I go out. Even though her know perfectly well they cannot
:16:30. > :16:36.get them all red, I am still blame them. Why? I love to read. As a
:16:37. > :16:41.child I mostly just went to the library. I love going to light
:16:41. > :16:44.breeze but it is wonderful to actually possess a book. Whenever
:16:44. > :16:51.you suddenly think about it and I wish I could read read that, every
:16:51. > :16:57.case. What percentage of those books that you actually read?
:16:57. > :17:02.Probably a quarter of them. What you get from reading? It is the
:17:02. > :17:11.most wonderful way of having a life as well as living your when life
:17:11. > :17:16.and getting inside people's heads. Had you stay up to date with what
:17:16. > :17:21.is going on in Young People's lives? I get lots of letters and
:17:21. > :17:30.lots of e-mails and do lots of events were I am talking to the
:17:30. > :17:35.children and signing. I chat to them and hear what they're seeing.
:17:35. > :17:40.Do you feel a sense of responsibility to your readers?
:17:40. > :17:43.feel an immense responsibility. My job is to entertain them and
:17:43. > :17:46.sometimes I used quite controversial material. I want to
:17:46. > :17:53.put it across in a way that children can understand and
:17:53. > :18:01.sympathise with. I do not want to upset them too much. I am trying to
:18:01. > :18:07.be truthful and also reassuring. How important to you think reading
:18:07. > :18:14.can be? I try not to be too didactic, but there are hidden
:18:14. > :18:20.morals. If any child reads my book they would pick up on the facts
:18:20. > :18:24.first lots of children feel like outsiders and hit his main duties.
:18:24. > :18:31.Even if a child looks strange or acts in a peculiar way they are
:18:31. > :18:36.just the same as anybody else. there hidden meanings in your work
:18:36. > :18:40.that a reader would have to work hard to get out? Sometimes an IT
:18:40. > :18:45.feel that somebody might read a book when they're seven years old
:18:45. > :18:50.and it is just for the story and funny bits. Then when they are 10
:18:50. > :18:54.or they may we read the book and have a different idea. They me re-
:18:54. > :19:00.read it again later and find a different meaning. It is up to them.
:19:00. > :19:10.Do you enjoy having fans? De Silva people enjoy at relationship with
:19:10. > :19:11.
:19:11. > :19:17.you? I think they do. I am immensely privileged. When people
:19:17. > :19:25.cheered when I go into events I feel wonderful. Added to become an
:19:25. > :19:31.author? I always wanted to write. I managed to get a job when I was 17
:19:31. > :19:37.at a magazine. My first book was published when I was 22. I had just
:19:37. > :19:43.kept at it since. Do you think he was a best-selling novel in all of
:19:43. > :19:48.us? I think lots of people want to write. I think he require a little
:19:48. > :19:58.bit of talent and an enormous amount of determination and stamina
:19:58. > :20:01.
:20:01. > :20:08.and luck. Have you got better as a writer? I think I have. I hope that
:20:08. > :20:13.one day I will write a book when I think, yes, that is exactly how I
:20:13. > :20:19.wanted. Is there a book that you have not written that you know you
:20:19. > :20:29.will write one day? I used to think I would like to write a Victorian
:20:29. > :20:35.book. Now I had done that. Am not sure what the next book will be.
:20:35. > :20:38.Are you are a disciplined writer? Very disciplined. I will set my
:20:38. > :20:43.alarm for early and get up and write for one hour before I do
:20:44. > :20:50.anything else. Interests and passions outside of writing?
:20:50. > :20:56.Reading, swimming, art galleries... There may be others that we will
:20:56. > :21:05.never know. I will put the bare tree in he can
:21:06. > :21:13.you countdown from five? You would be to do it in time with this? I
:21:13. > :21:23.will say five now. I have not put the Bactrian. It is on five. You
:21:23. > :21:25.
:21:25. > :21:31.have to start there. OK, go. Four, three, too, one. Do you enjoy being
:21:31. > :21:40.stopped and talked to in the street? Sometimes but not by the
:21:40. > :21:47.tax. Do you like being the centre of attention? In laboratory
:21:47. > :21:53.controlled conditions. On stage every show yes. Anywhere else know.
:21:53. > :21:57.My wedding was nerve-racking for that reason. When he became famous
:21:57. > :22:05.did your friends treat you different? Yes, they now call me Mr
:22:05. > :22:12.Anderson. Dimitri be different leak? No. Tell me the difference
:22:13. > :22:18.between comic acting and stand-up. I prefer which ever one I am doing.
:22:18. > :22:26.A stand-up routine you were completely in control. It is not a
:22:26. > :22:30.character. It is a kind of character. Comic acting is nice
:22:30. > :22:36.because the race team work. But somebody else has the final say and
:22:36. > :22:41.what gets said. You have lost control. When you do you stand up
:22:41. > :22:51.how do you remember your material? I remember it because they get to
:22:51. > :22:52.
:22:52. > :22:57.the theatre at Burghley in spray- painted on the back of the theatre.
:22:57. > :23:03.It is ever quite a long period of time. If somebody gave you a chunk
:23:03. > :23:09.of things to be delivered tomorrow it would not be good. Because
:23:09. > :23:17.you're right over time and had little bits it all comes together.
:23:17. > :23:20.Had you come up with the ideas? What they should do is carry a
:23:20. > :23:26.notebook around a train and when the funny things occur to me or
:23:27. > :23:32.happen note than down. But you do not do that? Mostly lazy. Imagine
:23:32. > :23:38.if you're in a pub and he said a thing and stop to write it down. It
:23:38. > :23:44.would be incredibly unnerving and unpleasant. I don't do that. A few
:23:44. > :23:50.months or a couple of months before I go out on tour I go to my office
:23:50. > :24:00.and try and think of something funny. Do you to meet when you are
:24:00. > :24:03.
:24:03. > :24:10.with France? 1am with friends? No. and when not to I had to buy a
:24:10. > :24:16.programme to stop myself using Twitter when I was working. I had
:24:16. > :24:23.to buy the programme and it stops you from being able to access
:24:23. > :24:27.Facebook or Twitter. It is life- saving be brilliant for a writer.
:24:27. > :24:35.When did yoould make a career after being a
:24:35. > :24:40.comedian? It happened quite early. I started on Easter Monday 1995.
:24:40. > :24:44.One year later I went pro. I started in the right place at the
:24:44. > :24:54.right time. It was Manchester in the mid-90s. It was very
:24:54. > :24:56.
:24:56. > :25:04.fashionable. It was a huge thing in Manchester. It was still small
:25:04. > :25:09.enough for us to be able to do quite a lot. Even getting quite a
:25:09. > :25:18.long way quite quickly. Did you ever learn how to act what did you
:25:18. > :25:28.teach yourself? No. Sometimes I feel very under-prepared for that.
:25:28. > :25:31.The first acting I have ever done. I find that a need to - be thing I
:25:31. > :25:36.had to differ skins were had a big scene I did not have the tools for
:25:36. > :25:43.it. I bought myself a book to try and learn some of the things I have
:25:43. > :25:50.never had. I have not learnt and do not know how to do that. When
:25:50. > :25:57.you're on a panel showed you feel competitive? Yes. Th?
:25:57. > :26:02.way. Collaborative is the best. When someone says something and be
:26:02. > :26:11.all built on the idea that his wages at its finest. Did you go to
:26:11. > :26:16.university? We did you get to interest in science from? Until the