Episode 6 - Bradley Scott - Actor and Writer

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Bradley Scott is an actor-writer from east London who graduated from Drama Studio London in 2018. His focus is primarily on new writing theatre and has performed at Theatre Royal Stratford East, Bush Theatre and Theatre 503, and has also had his work performed at each venue on separate occasions. He's worked with Rikki Beadle-Blair as both a writer and actor several times, as well as worked with BAFTA winner Gbemisola Ikumelo on various projects as an actor. He is currently co-writing a dystopian series with friend Thomas Arensen, founder of Luminaries Productions.

Performance extracts are written by Bradley Scott and holds full copyright over his writing. Do not claim this as your own. Legal action maybe taken.!

Performance script found here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/16PqE7nL5LSEcepUVrMPINFucHZt16gUU/view?usp=drive_link   

WARNING: Performance extract from Love Hurts contains a moment of STRONG LANGUAGE: 

 
Viewer discretion advised.

Music By Pixabay.

Bradley Scott's Links:
Twitter:   / bradleypscott 
Instagram:   / bradleyscott_16_18 
Facebook:   / bradley.peter.942 

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Website https://warrentellingtales.buzzsprout.com/
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Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:00

Hello, everyone. Welcome to the podcast. Welcome back to some of our listeners. This week we've got Bradley Scott on the podcast, a phenomenal actor and script writer. And I'm very honored to have him on board today. How are you, Bradley?

SPEAKER_00 0:16

I'm glorious. Thank you. Good to be doing this.

SPEAKER_01 0:19

Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's good to be. Good to see you again. Yeah, good to see me. Yeah, good to see you too. It's been it's been a while. Um, and uh it's in fact it's been a long time since we worked together. I'm trying to think the last time it was, it was back in uh think back in my London days. London days, you know, London.

SPEAKER_00 0:38

Yeah, um, I think it was 2012. Yes, you're right, yeah. You did your research, mate. Very good impressed. No, because I thought about it, I was like, it has been quite some time. So before the interview, I was like, it has been a while. So um, good, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 0:57

So for those that don't know, Bradley and I actually worked together on a script. Uh it was a sort of like a showcasing for script writers. Um, and it was organized and directed by Ricky Beadle Blair, who lots of people Blair. Yeah, the great, right? Um, so uh I mean lots of people will be very familiar with his name. He's a a massive influence in the theatre and TV and film scene in in London and and well in many places really. Um, but yeah, he uh he put together this event for us, and you wrote a a phenomenal uh piece, uh you know, a play, a great, a great piece of script called Shook. Uh, and I was was in that. You you you you got me involved with that, which I was super excited about. Um, and uh yeah, what was uh can you talk to us a bit about that that particular script, Bradley? Like how how did it come about? What what inspired it? It's very gritty, it's very it's very sort of uh London street. It was a phenomenal piece of script. Uh, you're a brilliant script writer, and I really enjoy being part of it. Yeah, can you talk to us about that, you know, the inspiration behind the story? That would be awesome.

SPEAKER_00 2:04

Um so uh with some with some scripts, I mean it's it's different for each one, but for this one, it was I really had this idea of two brothers because there's several stories going on throughout it. It's a bit like love actually, but the the ghetto version.

SPEAKER_01 2:23

Um so that's quite a picture you've just painted there. Love actually, the ghetto version, Kira Knightley doing street. I would love to see that.

SPEAKER_00 2:32

No, that's a true, yeah. That would that's a casting, that's what she needs. Um, not that she's not doing well for herself already, or not. She's doing it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Um, but yeah, so I had this idea of two brothers, um, two quite streetwise, not quite hood rats, but people who had grown up on the street, shall we say. Um, and one of them feeling like he has to do the other one harm to help him. Um, and it all sort of originated from that. And I had a few other pieces I was working on, and this is what I mean about the the love actually thing, because I had a few other pieces that I was working on, and I just decided to throw them all together. So you had a really rich um, you had all these different stories and characters that felt like they were kind of like the main, yeah. That they their story was the main story, so it so it became a very um ensemble sort of story.

SPEAKER_01 3:40

Nice, man, nice, nice, nice. Um, yeah, it's a it's a brilliant piece. So what what's the uh do you have any plans for that particular script at the moment? Is it is it something that you would like to to bring back and uh or have you done? I don't know, I've not seen you for so long. I've been I've been around and about like here, there and everywhere. But um uh it's been yeah, as you as we said, it's since 2012 is the last time I saw you. So that what's what's been going on in terms of your script writing, and yeah.

SPEAKER_00 4:05

So immediately afterwards, I was all hyped up because of it. Um, so I went uh one of the issues that I personally found um was that the female characters weren't strong enough. Um, so I wanted to work on that. I also wanted to expand it a little more. So I immediately started working on it, but my brain is very like new idea, new idea, new idea. So I was working on it and I was enjoying it, but then I had this idea for another script, so I started working on that, and then also I've always found it quite difficult to balance acting and writing, so then uh I got a few um a few acting roles, so yeah, it kind of just fell fell away at the wayside, but I still get people talking to me about it today, so that does, and I really thought recently, it's particularly recently, that I want to it's been long enough now to uh to get it out there, to work on it again, get it fully ready, and um and yeah, put it out there. Nice. And if Ricky would uh direct it, I'd be blown away.

SPEAKER_01 5:16

There you go, Ricky. If you're listening to this, then let's do this. But uh Warren's only a phone call away as well. I'm just over in Sweden. It's it's not too far. Um we can do this. Um good, good, good. Nice man. So you are um have you always been a script writer? Like how when did it when did it start? When did you start actually writing and making scripts? Because you're like, I mean, immensely you the your work, your standard of as people will find out. We've got a we're very lucky to have a few monologues that you've written for us, and we're gonna we're gonna show those at the end of the episode, which I'm gonna perform. You're you're you truly are a serious talent, and I wonder how how you got how long it took you to to develop those skills, like when did it all start?

SPEAKER_00 5:59

I think I think there was always just uh enjoyment of of writing.

SPEAKER_01 6:05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 6:05

Like I remember doing this project in in school, um, I must have been about 11. And we was making this little um this little comic book, but I got so focused on the on the writing part of it. The story was so long, and I'd always I'd always over-detail everything. So when I even in if I was doing exams, school exams, um, in English, you know, I'd have a certain amount of time to do stuff, and I'd focus so much on doing the first question, writing as much detail as I could that um I'd have barely any time left at the end. So I think it was just a very early thing. I I really have always enjoyed words, um, particularly dialogue. Like, I think dialogue is kind of my favorite part of writing, to be honest.

SPEAKER_01 6:58

Okay, nice, nice, nice, nice.

SPEAKER_00 7:01

Quite a love affair with words, that's what it is.

SPEAKER_01 7:04

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Cool. And did you do any training? Have you trained as a writer? Is it just a God-given talent, or like have you attended workshops? I'm just thinking for other people out there that you know might might want to follow in your footsteps, like the best way to go about you know, actually developing scripts and and and getting them out there and getting them seen. Like, did you get guidance or mentoring from somewhere? Or yeah, what was the what was the process?

SPEAKER_00 7:30

None specifically. I kind of just ran with my own thoughts. Um and also I've read, I've obviously read plays, I've watched plays, I've watched movies, I've read books, you know, all of that stuff is influence. But of course, there are influences that I'm not even aware of. Yeah, you know, like watching Ricky's um Ricky's plays, of course, did a did a number on me. Um my the first play uh badly.

SPEAKER_01 8:06

Is that a technical term? Did a number on me. I'm enjoying that a lot, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 8:12

Uh I watched um uh I watched Bashment. That was the first ever um Ricky play that I watched. I saw that as well, yeah. And it was just that was the first time I think I ever thought, oh, I would like to be a writer. Before then, it was just something I did for for fun. And I I would have been um in college at that point, so I guess 17, 17, 18, and yeah, I saw it and I was like, Yeah, I this is kind of a great thing. And then Ricky came on stage uh at the end, and he was just I was like, Yeah, this is the guy I gotta I've gotta work with him, and then I was lucky to do so.

SPEAKER_01 8:55

Yeah, yeah, but yeah, um have you worked with him on on other occasions apart from that particular time, or I'm I'm lucky to say I have worked with Ricky I think it's four times now.

SPEAKER_00 9:08

Wow, um twice twice was on my own work, so I'm very I've been very lucky because he is actually my my hero. When I as I say that first time I saw his um I saw Bashman and I saw him, I and then I saw other pieces of his. I just thought he was brilliant. He was my he is my hero. So I was so glad to work with him. And pretty much, if ever he calls me up and goes, Hey Brad, would you like to do this? Would you like I'll be like, Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't know what the role is, I don't know what it is you want me to do. Yeah, but if you're involved, I'll be involved. Yeah, nice man, that's great.

SPEAKER_01 9:47

Um, yeah, he is he is a cool guy and uh very easy to work with as well, a very nice person, but also supremely talented.

SPEAKER_00 9:53

Um I was always very intimidated to be honest, just because you know, because you look up to this person for me, he's like unfairly perhaps. I've put him on like a pedestal, so it's like okay, I don't I've got to make sure I do everything right. I don't wanna I don't want to mess up here. Um but yeah, so I think I think it was just a case of uh of luck. I've never really um joined a writing course or I did do creative writing in um in college, I was only there in um in uni for it was only one term. I was a I was a dropout. Um and it was they wanted us to tell a story that we already knew in a in a new way, and I chose uh um Aladdin, which is my favorite um Disney film, and I just I told it in a very sort of well, a bit like I gave it, I gave it a shook. Um gave it the shook. Aladdin, the screen version of Aladdin. Yeah, I love it, I love it. Um and yeah, once again, I got really attached to the descriptions um and the and the and the dialogue of it all. Yeah, so yeah, I think that's the only sort of course I've ever done. But of course, you never know everything, so I would happily do more courses and yeah, it's just about finding the one that's right for you and finding the right time and all that, all that jazz. All that jazz.

SPEAKER_01 11:35

Is there a particular genre that you uh you prefer to write? Like do you prefer comedy or action or um you know thrillers, etc.?

SPEAKER_00 11:44

I like I like drama peppered with comedy. Yeah, um I think they could I think there's a term for it, isn't it? Uh a drama comedy, drama dramedy, maybe is it a trademark?

SPEAKER_01 11:58

A dramedy, I think it's dramedy, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 11:59

I'm not sure. We'll have to uh someone let us know. Someone someone send us a yeah, yeah, someone please let us know. But yeah, I I really like human stories. I'm very big on stories that could happen to you, me, Patricia down the down the road, you know, anyone, but maybe they're not they're not the sort of thing that the world the world won't be changed by them, but those people's lives will be affected by them.

SPEAKER_01 12:26

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 12:27

Yeah, very I I love a human story, me. Love them.

SPEAKER_01 12:31

Yeah, as as as I witnessed or as I well, through doing Shook, but also the the scripts that you've sent, uh, they really are powerful. There's one in particular, um, which is about parenting and about your expectations or your hopes and dreams for your child. And myself having two young kids when I read through it, it's it did definitely uh choke me up, and I'm gonna have to I'm gonna have to try hard to uh to get through that without you know without the waterworks. Or maybe I'll bring you a bit of waterworks. I'm really excited, man. I've read through them already, and they they they just um the words come off the page really, really, really easily. So it's um yeah, it's gonna be cool. Looking forward to it, mate.

SPEAKER_00 13:17

There's a lot of uh painstaking stuff that goes over like like if you're gonna use the word and or or I don't know, with yeah, it's like but someone else is like it doesn't really matter, it's and or with. And you're like, but how does that work with the rest of the sentence? Well, how do they introduce the word? Yeah, it does, it really does.

SPEAKER_01 13:38

Yeah, I didn't even think about that, but yeah, you're right, it's those little words can completely completely turn a whole sentence, can't they? Um makes such a different creates such a different message. Um good. So you're you're not just a writer, Bradley. Uh, as we mentioned at the beginning, you're also an actor, an actor, or just an actor, however you want to say it. He is a he is a phenomenal performer. Um, and uh when did that all start your acting journey? Did you did you begin with that before writing, or was that after, or did you do them at the same time?

SPEAKER_00 14:09

Yeah, acting is my first love. Um, I uh you know when you're a when you're a child and you realize that what you're seeing on on the screen isn't real, that people are pretending. Yeah, and from that moment I was like, oh, that sounds before I had an idea of what money was all about and careers and all that sort of stuff. I was like, that seems like fun. I just get to pretend to be someone else for for a day or whatever. Um so ever since then I've been just in love with acting, and you know, there have been times where I've also hated it. There's been times where I'm like, you know what? I give up, I'm done. Yeah, um, but it just keep just keeps pulling me back, man. Keeps pulling me back. I can't get away from it.

SPEAKER_01 14:58

And can you give us any examples of any work that you've been any projects you've been working on uh over the years since I last saw you? Because I know you're often busy. I thought I f I I follow your social media and you're you've always got something going on, Bradley. You're a you're a busy guy, you're a busy guy. You're a busy guy.

SPEAKER_00 15:15

Yeah, well, recently I've been very lucky, extremely lucky. Um, no, I went to drama school for for two years, so I was kind of out of the loop for a while. Um, because I was doing I was a professional actor before, of course, and then I just felt like I should know the basics because I always felt like I was sort of learning on the job, okay. And I wanted to study and sort of get an idea of the fundamentals, yeah. Technique as well, isn't it? Technique that you can draw upon if yeah, yeah, of course, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 15:50

Nice. Which school did you go to?

SPEAKER_00 15:52

I went to drama studio London, it was an absolutely fabulous um school. I I loved it every minute of it. To this day, I I had graduated two years ago, oh 2018. Um and to this day I I miss it. It was such a great atmosphere, you know. I know some dramas um I know some people who graduated from various drama schools, and there's kind of mixed reviews about it, but uh oh, it was a great time for me personally.

SPEAKER_01 16:23

You had a positive experience.

SPEAKER_00 16:25

Oh yeah. I mean, there were times, of course, where it's like, oh, I don't want to do this, but um but no, it's all it's all great, it's all very it's fun. I had a great time.

SPEAKER_01 16:36

Cool man. So after drama school, what happened?

SPEAKER_00 16:39

So after drama school, I uh I spent you know, a lot of times I've fallen into the trap of oh, I just need to make money, so uh I fell into just like money jobs, so working in bars and and stuff like that. Um but I must say at the end of uh last year, or throughout last year, actually, that's when stuff started picking up. I was doing more short films and music videos, and I had my first commercial in December. Nice. Uh, that was for McMillan.

SPEAKER_01 17:18

So yeah, when can we see that, Bradley, for for anyone looking that wants to check you out in that McMillan commercial? Um when can when will we see your wonderful face on the screen?

SPEAKER_00 17:28

Oh, it's it's already out, it's already out. I've had yeah, I've had people, um, it's so amazing. I've had people um texting me and saying, Bradley, I've seen your face on on TV or this, that, and it's so I'm I'm still not tired of it. It it happened so the day it came out was the 25th of January. And yeah, I've had various people text me, and I'm still I'm still not bored of it. I don't think I would ever get bored of someone going, Oh, I just saw you on my TV. So yeah, that's pretty good.

SPEAKER_01 17:58

Commercials, you gotta love a commercial when they they were so nice, they don't come regularly, but when they do, they are uh they are awesome. And uh I've done one or two in the past, and they are they are I know a lot of fun. I know.

SPEAKER_00 18:10

I saw on your social media the other day you um you talked about one that you did in I want to say, was it Tokyo?

SPEAKER_01 18:19

No, not in Tokyo. Uh maybe it would have been Hong Kong. No, I've not done Hong Kong.

SPEAKER_00 18:23

That is it.

SPEAKER_01 18:24

I wish I had done a commercial in Tokyo. That would be that would be like like Hong Kong is a great I'd be like Joey Tribiani, you know, when he does that itchy ban from then, you know, the let the colourful one, you know. I'd love to do something like that, that would be brilliant. Um, but yeah, no, yeah. Hong Kong, I did one or two. It is fun, it is fun. But uh, I think that one of them I did was a toothbrush, it was about a fancy toothbrush that massaged your gums and your teeth. So it didn't just clean your teeth, he actually got a massaging sense. I feel like I'm going back into the commercial now. My voice changed and everything. Um, anyway, not about Did you get to keep the toothbrush? Uh I did. Sorry, I can't imagine someone else. I think I actually got one for the family. I told them that I had two kids and I got a couple of kiddie ones as well. Oh, that's cool. So that was nice. They enjoyed that. Um, they love a toothbrush, which is great, you know. It's what you want from the kids. Yeah, who doesn't write? Yeah, who doesn't? Who doesn't love a toothbrush? Uh good, good, good. So you've been busy then, Bradley, by the sounds of things.

SPEAKER_00 19:26

Yeah, yeah, I've been um writing. Um, I I wrote a a virtual play. It was this a short virtual play that was done entirely in um is it is a two-hander, done entirely in rhyming couplets. I was I was a channeling my inner Shakespeare. Um and yeah, no, it's it went really well, and I I also performed in it, so it was really weird because um when you're because we filmed it ourselves, obviously, because of lockdown and such, um, and we did it as if they were uh uh vlogs, so it's really weird when you have to when you're the cameraman and the the um set designer and the performer, and it's just there's so many things to sort of because I had it on uh selfie stick, I'm just trying to catch everything and make sure I've got everything right behind me whilst doing the performance and stuff. It was very interesting um experience, but yeah, no, that was I was really happy with that actually.

SPEAKER_02 20:36

Nice.

SPEAKER_00 20:36

Um who did you do that? Yeah, it was who's uh um showface festival. Okay, yeah, and that I've just um so the uh one of the plays that you're going to perform, um I submitted to them for a uh for a monologue piece, and yeah, they loved it. They're gonna they're gonna run with it. They bachelor asked me to extend it. Wow, so yeah, so um yeah, it's going pretty well. It's amazing. Everything seems to be happening all at once, but uh 2021, baby.

SPEAKER_01 21:08

2021! Yeah, it's a new year, it's a new year. Good, good. Well, we'll we'll talk more about 2021 in a bit, but let's uh you touched on lockdown and and everything. And uh, for those that don't know, Bradley is is in the UK, he's based in London. Uh, where in London are you right now, Bradley?

SPEAKER_00 21:26

Uh East London. To be specific, Leighton. If anyone wants to look it up, you can see exactly where don't give us your actual address, Bradley.

SPEAKER_01 21:33

I'm not giving the I don't know who I have no idea who is listening to this podcast. So be careful. Keep it at Leighton. I'm sure everyone's lovely. Um, but don't do it. Um, yeah, Leighton, Leighton, let's go with it.

SPEAKER_02 21:45

Yeah, Leighton.

SPEAKER_01 21:46

Nice. Yeah. So you're in Leighton, uh in London, and lockdown is still still happening. Um, what was what was 2020 like for you as a creator, as a performer, uh Um obviously, you know, they maybe perhaps it gives you more time to do certain things. Maybe it suited your writing. I don't know. Can you talk to us a little bit about your experience through through that year?

SPEAKER_00 22:12

Well, in general, I think 2020 was probably the best year I've had creatively, professionally. Um, maybe I think ever, to be honest. Um, just because you had so much time. And at first, I think I did what probably a lot of people did, which was the first week, two weeks, a month, I was just sitting there, chilling, yeah, stuffing my face. Um what were you stuffing your face with, Bradley? Biscuits, mate. Biscuits. Biscuits and tea. You want to get on my good side? Bring me. I mean, everyone's on my good side anyway. But if you want to get on my extra good side, biscuits and tea is really delayed.

SPEAKER_01 22:54

A particular biscuit, or is it just any biscuits?

SPEAKER_00 22:56

Um, I'm kind of open to anything. Um partial to chocolate chip cookies or a chocolate digestive, which is odd because I'm not really that that fussed on chocolate, but um, yeah, biscuits, biscuits, biscuits.

SPEAKER_01 23:11

This was not one of my questions, by the way. It just randomly popped up in my head and I thought I'd ask it. So good. Chocolate chip biscuits and tea. That is uh the key to Bradley's heart, and everyone out there. Um dangerous combination. Sorry, man, I interrupted you.

SPEAKER_00 23:26

No, it's talking about um just getting through 2020. That's it, yeah. And yeah, so I the first let's say month, I just sat around doing nothing, and then after a while, when the days start to like just stretch, and you're like, I'm so it's it's a weird, I don't know about yourself, but a weird feeling where it's like I'm bored, um, I want to do something, but I'm too bored, and I don't want to do anything, you know. I want to do something, but I don't want to do anything.

SPEAKER_01 23:56

But it's the not doing something that gives you it, it it kind of just shuts off your energy levels a little bit. Like you can be super tired, but if you're always doing something, some you know, your energy, the I don't know what it is, like uh um the adrenaline or you know, something just just being animated and engaged in something, it just that sort of pushes you forward. But but yeah, I mean yeah, I was lucky enough I've not actually experienced a proper lockdown, so I'm very blessed in that sense. I I I can't really um I can't speak from experience as to how it how it would be, but but so you're saying that it even though you wanted to do stuff, you felt like you didn't have the energy to actually get out and do it.

SPEAKER_00 24:37

You don't have the energy, the drive, um, the the willingness, really. Um and I mean I'm lucky because obviously I'm in a position where I can create something myself.

SPEAKER_02 24:50

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 24:51

So obviously I could I can do some writing, I can so I can go through a hell of a lot of emails that you know you always get as an actor. Um, a lot of admin stuff, yeah. Which no one ever tells you.

SPEAKER_01 25:03

No one tells you the amount of admin that's coming your way. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's one thing they should tell you in drama school. Learn how to ship emails and learn how to learn how to use social media. I think they're the two most important things for any actors.

SPEAKER_00 25:16

Exactly. Exactly. I remember in drama school, just a short segue. Um uh in drama school, they we had a class on on uh taxes and financials, and I remember thinking, I don't think I want to be an actor, no, I changed my mind. Yeah, exactly. Um, but yeah, so I was quite lucky. I I had something that I really love and I could work on. Of course, there are plenty of people who once they're away from the office or whatever it is, when everything's shut down, it's very difficult for them to continue. But yeah, I was um I was very lucky. Um, but you do feel it's odd because of lockdown and because you've spent so much time doing kind of like nothing, it feels like you don't have as much time in the day. Whereas before lockdown, I was going this place, that place, the other place, squeezing so much into a single day, and now it's just like you know, if I if I manage to do one thing a day, I've like today was productive, you know.

SPEAKER_01 26:21

Everyone's everyone's level has been brought down massively. Yeah, I opened up that packet of biscuits and I drank the tea. That's a huge achievement.

SPEAKER_00 26:31

Exactly, yeah. Yeah, if I if I send like if I send one email, I'm like, I'm good.

SPEAKER_01 26:36

Look what I've done today. Yeah, I can rest easy tonight. Um, awesome, man. Awesome. Uh good. So well, so it seems like a relatively uh a mixed experience for you 2020, but but not you're not drastically negative. There you there were some positives in there as well, and um you weren't as affected as as some people may have been. Um all right, Bradley. Let's talk, let's talk about life achievements. Okay. Um, one or two things that stand out for you that you've done. It doesn't have to be work-related, it can be anything. Uh, it could be that you climbed a mountain, that you swung off a tree, that you polished off a packet of biscuits in 30 seconds, what whatever it is, what whatever something that means something to you. Um, one or two things for our lovely listeners.

SPEAKER_00 27:27

Um, it would have to be uh Shook. Um because when I when I was set there, I mean just being just working with Ricky anyway, but I remember and Warren, of course, and Warren, Warren. Um as you are but wait, I was you coming in, you just you jumped the gun, that's what that was, right? Just working with Ricky and John. I I've forgotten John, John Gordon. Yes, he was a brilliant guy. Um, just working with those guys, and then being in the room and watching you guys perform the words that I've written, and doing it so brilliantly, exactly like how I'd imagined it. It was that was sensational. And the night that you guys performed it, I'm sat there watching. I had my little, I felt really good. I was uh in the back with a notepad, like, yeah, yeah. Oh, that's brilliant. They've done it like that. Um, so yeah, it was a fantastic experience. I would have to say that is highlight thus far of my of my life.

SPEAKER_01 28:31

I remember that the character that I played was it had it was one of the best characters I've ever actually had the chance to play. And I'm not saying that just because you're on the call, it's um his journey and his arc was just so incredible. And you know, when you initially looked at him, when you initially read him, you thought this guy is, you know, he's hard, he's tough, he's um not the most likable person. I mean, he's quite aggressive and violent, this, that, and the other. But then as it sort of transpires throughout the story, you find out more and more about the reasons as to why he behaved in the way he did and this sort of exterior that he had created for himself. And by the end of it, you know, he was just a blubbering wreck and he was completely destroyed. And I remember as an actor, it was just such a such an awesome character to be able to play. And I remember being there with the lights on me, and I had friends and family that came to watch, and just like the final monologue that he had at the end, it was just like I was I was completely wrecked by by the end of it and exhausted. And I think that's like you know, I've done other shows in the past, and I I mean I always try and give give my all, but but I was just completely and utterly destroyed by the end of doing that, and unfortunately, we didn't get to perform it, you know, many, many times, but uh who knows what the future holds, eh? Uh, but um, but but it was uh it was such an enjoyable experience to be to be involved with that play.

SPEAKER_00 29:55

Oh you it was fantastic to watch, and you did look knackered by the end of it, which is but not in a negative way, knackered in that the character is completely drained of so much of what they have. So it the right kind of drained. Yeah, you you look the right kind of knackered, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 30:17

Yeah, good, good. I achieved my goal. That's yeah, yeah. Um, awesome, man. All right, let's uh let's give our listeners a chance to connect with you if they would like to, if they want to hear more about Bradley, uh, they want to find out more about your work, they want to listen to the extracts that that you have put out there and and any other work that you're you're currently doing or have done. Uh, where's the best place for people to reach out to you?

SPEAKER_00 30:43

Okay, so Facebook, I think, is the probably the best because it's universal. Um I uh and I will how's best? Do you want me to tell you now? It's just Bradley Scott, actually.

SPEAKER_01 31:00

Facebook, Instagram, website, whatever.

SPEAKER_00 31:02

Yeah, you can find me on Instagram as well. Um type in Bradley Scott. There's a very awkward. I'll I'll give you the details at the you can put it in the um in the caption or something because it's quite it's quite a difficult one. I'll tell you now, but it's quite an odd one. It's um so for Instagram, it's Bradley Scott underscore 16 underscore 18. So it's not actually that difficult, but when you're trying to type, there's there are simpler ways of doing stuff.

SPEAKER_01 31:32

Why underscore 16 and an underscore 18? Is there a personal reason behind that?

SPEAKER_00 31:36

Or uh it's because those were the years that I was in drama school, and as I say, I absolutely loved drama school, and I I didn't have I was quite late to the uh Instagram game. Uh and by the time I got it, I'd already finished drama, I'd just finished drama school, so I was like 16, 18. Um, yeah, so that's the reason for that. Um, I also use Twitter quite a lot, but I know that's not as international, but um, it's big in the UK, isn't it?

SPEAKER_01 32:04

For sure. Yeah, uh, but but yeah, you can fire away with Twitter as well because we've got hopefully we have lots of UK listeners out there as well.

SPEAKER_00 32:10

Good, good.

SPEAKER_01 32:11

Uh so it's at Bradley P Scott. Oh, nice, and I'll put all of those links down in the description for the podcast and on the YouTube channel as well. So it's nice and easy for everyone. Uh good. All right, mate. Before we go, I am going. We're gonna play a game. Are you excited? I'm excited. I love a game, I love a game, I do. I love a game. Uh good, good, good. All right, so it's would you rather? Five questions. Uh, don't give it too much thought. First thing that pops into your head, are you ready to go? I'm ready. Nice. All right, number one, would you rather the aliens that make first contact be robotic or organic? Organic. Interesting.

SPEAKER_00 32:58

Number two roboting doesn't even compute to me. It wasn't even something that came to my mind.

SPEAKER_01 33:05

Oh wow, there we go. I love it. Uh, number two, would you rather lose the ability to read or lose the ability to speak?

SPEAKER_00 33:14

Uh lose the ability to read, I think. Yeah, because communication is so much harder if you can't speak. True. Well, yeah, I'm I'm dyslexic, so it would be quite tricky if I only it'd just be a lot of work to have to only read. Um, if I lost the ability to speak.

SPEAKER_01 33:35

So oh well, that's just spark. Let's just put the game on hold for a second because you've just sparked a question for me. Um, sorry, those that are massively into the game. We might even go back and do the whole thing again. Let's see what happens. I'm in a very strange mood today. I'm freestyling and I'm enjoying it immensely. Do it, do it. So you said that you're dyslexic. Is that something I presume that's something you've had for the you know the large part of your your life? Um when did that be? When did you realize that you had dyslexia?

SPEAKER_00 34:04

It's it's really weird. So I think they missed it in school. Um I don't think it was perhaps as big a an issue, or not an issue, but as big a um uh a point in in school because I only um discovered it when I was 25. Okay. Um and as I grew up, when I was growing up, I always just thought that I was um I just wasn't very smart. I thought, oh, I I can't I can't read as well as everyone else. So there must be something something wrong with me. Um and then when I found out that it was I was just as dyslexic, I was like, oh, well, that's okay. Now I've I've got a reason for it. It's just not it's not me just being slow, it's it's uh there's an actual reason for it. So um, and you know what? Sometimes it's quite fun being dyslexic. I'll read something that would make sense to someone else, and I've misread it, and I'm confused, and I'm like, why would they put it like that? And then I read it a couple more times, and then I realize what it actually says, and I think it's hilarious after me saying they've done this all wrong. Yeah, um, so yeah, it is quite funny, and in in text messages and stuff like that, I'll say something completely random. I think I've said one thing and I've said something else, and yeah, so it's a fun, it can be quite funny, it can be quite stressful as well.

SPEAKER_01 35:30

So I have a I have a follow-on question. Um, how has this dyslexia affected you as a writer and as an actor? Has have you have you found it to be um uh a hindrance for you? Have you been able to use it to to help you? Like have you how how has that all worked? How have you uh dealt with that in in this industry? As a writer, it's not it's not too difficult.

SPEAKER_00 35:57

Um, I mean, because nowadays we have uh there's spell check everywhere, so right, you know, I I may make mistakes, although I did read a script I did um quite a few years ago. I read it recently, and the very first line is there was a there was a one word where I'd made a mistake and it completely changed the whole sentence. Um and I I just again I laughed out loud because no one ever pointed it out to me in rehearsals or anything, no one ever said, Brad, do you know that actually this says that? They all knew what it was supposed to say. Um, but yeah, so it doesn't really hinder me too much as a writer, it does hinder me quite a lot as an actor. Um when I'm going for auditions or yeah, anytime where I have to, it's really important for me to have to learn um the audition piece. Like even if I've got it really um really last minute, I try to learn it, I let them know that I'm dyslexic because otherwise I feel I get really stressed about it because I want to I don't want to seem like I don't know what I'm doing. I'm in an R in and really I'm just trying to find where my where I am on the page. Um so yeah, is it I would say auditions are where the most amount of stress of being dyslexic comes from.

SPEAKER_01 37:31

Well, there we go. But so you you make them know clearly in advance that you that you have dyslexia, and then beyond that, there is no other, there's nothing else you do, you just sort of embrace it and get on with it, and uh and you're getting plenty of work, and it's amazing, man. It's good, it's nice, it's good to hear.

SPEAKER_00 37:48

I I didn't always used to tell them, I used to just try to because I didn't want it to be a factor, but it's it's always gonna be a factor because um I'm always gonna be this dyslexic, you know. I can be I can be stronger, but I'm always gonna be dyslexic. So yeah, I do tell them, and I just when it comes to um highlighting is very important, I think, for me personally. Um so I highlight with different colours and stuff, and that that helps. And obviously, I have a friend actually who is um heavily dyslexic, and he has um special glasses that help him. So um, yeah, there's all different methods for different people.

SPEAKER_01 38:31

Well, that's very interesting for anyone else out there that has dyslexia. Um, so highlighting different words using different colors, and you found that to be very beneficial. Um, it might be worth trying for other people that that are struggling at the moment um with that. Uh all right, mate. Well, that's uh that's uh we I don't know whether we should go back to the beginning or just jump straight back into our game, but I had to ask you about that because I'm super interested to to find out how you've managed to navigate that. Um let's go. Let's we're gonna go back to number three. Would you rather have a golden voice or a silver tongue?

SPEAKER_00 39:07

A silver tongue, because that way you can you can talk your way out of things and you can talk your way into things. If you want to get into a VIP area only, maybe the silver tongue is gonna help you.

SPEAKER_01 39:19

There we go. Uh number four, would you rather be covered in fur or covered in scales?

SPEAKER_00 39:26

Oh, that's a tricky one. I think I'm gonna actually say scales. Interesting. Because I feel uh, I don't know, because if fur, once it gets wet, it's not as nice and all that stuff. Whereas scales, it really affects you in no way. So um, yeah, I think I'm gonna go with scales, which is an odd one. But I think most people would go with uh fur, wouldn't they?

SPEAKER_01 39:48

Probably would, yeah, they probably would feel softer, it's not yeah. I think even when I said scales, I went scales, like um, but fair enough, each to their own, Bradley, each to their own. Uh, number five, would you rather be in jail for a year or lose a year of your life?

SPEAKER_00 40:07

Oh, tricky one. I think I would rather um be in jail for a year just because um, you know, to you to lose a year of experiences. I mean, in jail, they're probably mainly going to be bad experiences, but at least it's experiences that you can learn from and draw on. And obviously, as an actor and a writer, experiences are very, very important. I mean, for all of us in general, anyway, but but very much so for someone in the in my sort of position.

SPEAKER_02 40:41

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 40:42

Okay, good. Well, there we go. That's our game done. And finally, uh, we would love, we would love Bradley Scott's final thoughts for our audience, something uplifting uh on life, ideally, uh dealing with positive and negative change, that kind of thing. Final thoughts, okay. An approach, an approach to life.

SPEAKER_00 41:05

Okay, I think um say say yes to things, not everything, of course, but you know, say like someone invites me somewhere that might not exactly be my cup of tea, like heavy metal, uh heavy metal concert. Yeah, I might not might not be right up my alley, but if I say no, then I I won't know what it's like. If I say yes and I go to this place, maybe I I have a really great time, maybe I meet a really nice person there. You know, there's there's so much to be said for saying yes to things, yeah. So you just give things a try.

SPEAKER_01 41:48

Give things a try, right? And opening opening yourself up to opportunities as well.

SPEAKER_00 41:53

Yeah, opportunities, yeah. Even the things that scare you or might not really seem like your sort of thing. Yeah, just say say yes to things and go just try to grab life by the by the well, you know.

SPEAKER_01 42:08

Well, go with horns, go with horns.

SPEAKER_00 42:10

Go with horns, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 42:11

Grab life by the horns. Yeah, there we go. Um, very good, very good. Love it, Bradley. Thank you so much for joining us today, mate. I really appreciate you coming on.

unknown 42:21

Thanks.

SPEAKER_01 42:22

It's been very interesting, man. Very interesting, and uh, yes, everyone needs to to check you out, mate, and and uh connect with you on online. And uh Bradley is immensely talented, and we we need to see and hear more of your work, mate. All right, I'll do my best.

SPEAKER_02 42:37

I'll do my best.

SPEAKER_01 42:40

Thank you, Oren. Man, have a lovely afternoon, and uh, I'll be in touch. I'll speak to you soon.

SPEAKER_02 42:46

Bye.