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But how much are these now? Is it?

Oh my God.

I'm going to have to take these home with you.

This is the pinnacle of snack.

Blind rank 10 of Britain's most iconic snacks.

Open each bag and answer the film -related question inside, then decide where the snack belongs in your ranking.

1 being the best and 10 being the worst.

Choose carefully.

Snack is a curly whirly and the question is a curly whirly is full of twists

and turns what's the most surprising thing you learned about a co -star during any filming in your career?

I would say

I mean I very recently shot a musical

and I worked with an actor called Harry Melling who is incredible who also has the voice of an angel

and I didn't know he had that in him so

that was a revelation to me he can do it all as for the snack

I'm wearing beige I feel like this chocolate is going to get all in the crease of my pants.

So I might not taste the curly whirly.

But it's so good.

But would I buy it in the shops?

Probably not.

So I'm going to go...

I'm going to go here.

Okay.

Chocolate digestives.

Digestives are a proper comfort biscuit.

Looking back at the very start of your career, what was the job or audition that really felt like your comfort blanket and made you think,

I can do this as a career?

I would probably say my first ever professional job

which was a radio play for BBC Radio 4 in Manchester

and I was 12 at the time

and I was working with a lot of actors who were very familiar to me because they worked on soaps, they worked on Coronation Street,

they worked on Emmerdale and it was those actors who were like,

you know you could do this as a career and you know you just need to get an agent,

you need to get your headshots taken and hopefully with a good amount of luck you can do it professionally.

I mean Stephen Graham has been such a like kind of constant support throughout my life generally

and I feel like he always instilled in me like a reminder to like just not change especially your accent

or yeah kind of celebrate yourself and your individuality and and

and know that that's more than enough

and it's probably what's going to set you apart from everyone else you know again i i actually love eating

but my mouth is so dry right now

that i'm like like a digested biscuit might make me cough um these have got to be here somewhere

i feel like these are a proper comfort food they're a staple

they never let you down maybe here okay a wagon wheel

the bike riders is all about life on two wheels who did these

i love this person what's the most rebellious thing you've ever done for a role

or outside of work i have to say

i don't feel particularly rebellious trying to think what i've had to learn for a role

i feel like the most rebellious thing i've ever done is go on a snowmobile i hit a tree

when i did that i was fine but i kind of learned from

that experience that i can give

that kind of stuff a miss it was at sundance festival i was with phoebe we went for killing eve

and it was just like an activity that we could do

while we were there yeah i don't think

that life's for me um hate these so here that was an easy one next one

jammy dodgers we've all experienced feeling jammy at some point is there a rejection

or disappointment you're secretly grateful for now because it sent you somewhere better yeah Yeah, definitely.

I mean, again, going back to childhood.

It was around the time that I did the radio play, which I just spoke about.

I was doing a talent show in school with three of my friends

and we were doing the cell block tango from Chicago.

We had to change all the lyrics because we were 12 years old.

I'd gone on holiday with my family.

I was on MSN at the time and they told me on MSN

that I was kicked out of the dance because I wasn't there to rehearse it and I was devastated.

And I remember going back to my mum and dad crying.

I'd recently won a drama festival in Liverpool where I performed the monologue.

And my mum was like, well, you know, you go into your teacher and you ask her if you can perform your monologue.

So I did, and it was from doing the monologue in the talent show

that my teacher sent me for the audition for the radio play that came in a couple of months later. So,

you know, I'm definitely grateful for that rejection because I feel like

that was a massive catalyst for me kind of finding my feet.

There's a reason for everything.

Again, I'm going here.

Could give it a miss.

okay a scone scone scone scone big debate scone really uh fortnum

and mason's scone is peak posh britishness you've played aristocrats and royals but what's the poshest thing you've learned to do

Wait for a roll.

maybe riding a horse i feel like riding a horse is quite posh

and i can't even say i learned how to ride

because unless there's a specific role

you're playing usually as a woman well at least in my experience

i was kind of gently being pulled around i think i had one take where i galloped

which was terrifying but you know i was on the cb somewhere

but yeah maybe horse riding delicious it's indulgent it's going up here

i've already seen this is a good one freddo freddo is a british icon true

you've become one of the uk's most recognizable actors what's been the most surreal moment that's made you stop

and think this is a bit mad i mean every time once

i'm on set i kind of have a moment like

that where you know i might just have a quiet moment to myself as i look around

and i just think wow i'm doing what i love

and it brings me so much joy i feel like i have

that on quite a regular basis to be fair oh there's also beautiful moments of like like

so for 28 years later when

that came out all my family came down for the premiere

and that's always lovely to like share a moment like

that with people who you love but yeah working with people who you really admire

or you've like watched for most of your life

and then getting to work along alongside them working with danny boyle was a was definitely

and michael michael saranowski i mean when i met stephen graham i was like um

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and then of course he just was just also the most gorgeous um human being

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but this icon love these as a kid

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but how much are these now i think it's like 35p

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now something they used to be what was it it's got to be more hasn't

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it you think it's more than that is it i feel for

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that reason it's going above the curly wheelie

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but okay i'm actually definitely going to open this one i've already seen

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that this is monster munch villanelle in killing eve could be terrifying one second

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and hilarious the next how did you get yourself into

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that mindset each day without taking her home with you i

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have to say villanelle was not a heavy character for me at all that

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experience was such a it was nerve -wracking

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because especially the first season it was so new

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and tonally we were discovering it but it was so playful

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and she has such a disregard for responsibility

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and consequence there was a levity to her i didn't find it dark at all

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so it was fun as for mindset you know there's a lot of kind of languages

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and accent work on that

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so i always just try to stay open you know you'd be in a different location

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and you'd all you'd be constantly being met with new cast

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you know i was always kind of had the luxury of meeting all the new the new cast

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because she was constantly moving around and moving into all these new worlds

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so you have to kind of be adaptable and be ready for spontaneity

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and and something unfamiliar

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so um did not put you down as a monster munch kind of person

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i love it i'm gonna have to take these home with you

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This is the pinnacle of snack.

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Oh, these remind me of my nap.

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Wine gums.

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You've taken on a real mixed bag of characters over the years.

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Who was the easiest to slip into and who took the longest to find?

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Hmm, this is a good question.

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I mean, I have to say, playing Sister Bridget in The Death of Robin Hood, there was a real ease to playing her.

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There was something very calm about the whole experience

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and she herself is kind of very poised and graceful and observant and smart.

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Like, there was just something about her that, I don't know, I really enjoyed playing.

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It wasn't like I had to kind of withstand too much.

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She holds a lot of space for the other characters, so I naturally kind of fell into that.

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So I'd probably save

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Sister Bridget for that.

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And then who took the longest to find?

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Phil and I took some time.

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I feel like, you know,

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it wasn't until, like, a good few weeks into the shoot where I felt like I was finding my feet with her.

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Again, Stuffed, which was a musical I shot last year.

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I'd been saying for years that I wanted to do a musical

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and then I was met with it and it was absolutely terrifying

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and it was a million times harder than I ever thought it was going to be.

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So I really had to break some mental boundaries within myself

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and that felt like it was just there for the entire shoot.

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But it was thrilling, all the same.

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Sorry, this is a nightmare sound.

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So they remind you of your.. yeah my nan lives off

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sweets like she got them coming out of her ears

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and these remind me of being a kid and they're like

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so i don't know if it's the nostalgia of them

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that makes me enjoy them more but i do actually rate them highly

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and i think i'm gonna go above above the scone for

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that reason okay can't

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i have ever bought these pork scratchings your new film the

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death of robin hood is a grisly tale set in harsh conditions what was the hardest day

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you had on set physically or emotionally

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and what got you through it um again i have to say the amazing thing about

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when we filmed the death of robin hood is we filmed it in belfast

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and the irish are just fabulous so the energy

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And the morale and the kind of camaraderie that was on that set was so beautiful.

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And Michael himself, as a director, is so talented at what he does,

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but is also like a very level -headed guy who has a lot of humility

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and will be the first one to kind of crack a joke.

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So there's just like a, there's an ease on his set.

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So I really didn't feel the difficulty.

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Hume might have a different answer

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because I feel like he had lots of night shoots

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and lots of stunts in a healthy amount of Maud it was definitely windy

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and it was definitely cold but it was stunning it was so beautiful

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and i'm you know i'm from liverpool i'm like we're we're used to the yeah no coats i don't know

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if i care about these maybe i'd like to try them more than a wagon wheel

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so i really want more people don't you know okay rebels you've mastered more accents than there are rebel flavors

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which accent has been the hardest to perfect and what weird trick finally made it click

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Oh, God, it's so hard to remember examples now.

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I feel like I had a lot of fun learning the jaw, the accent, for 28 years later.

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I feel surprised at myself when I say strange things, but I say them anyway.

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I have an amazing dialect coach, and we kind of put together weird little sentences that we can just drill.

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God, I can't think of any examples, though.

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I think languages are hard.

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I remember in Kill and Eve I had quite a few languages

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that i had to learn i thought french was particularly hard like we also learned french

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and spanish at school but i can't remember anything like i also think that's another thing like

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if i ever had kids i could feel like that would be something i would just try to

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instill in them of like at a young age you think it's the you think it's

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so uncool and you're like uh like whatever i'm not gonna need this

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and then as you get older you're like actually it's

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so impressive to to know another language i actually really like these

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but i'm not gonna lie i go more for the coffee

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and the I like the coffee and the

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and the um the orange I actually think I think it's meant to be

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so are you happy with your final ranking I think

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I am yeah yeah got a coffee then as well guys

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we should just cut now I got my coffee

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I'm happy looking at all the snacks in front of you now is there anything

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that we haven't included that you're sad didn't make the lineup oh um no I I think this is a good selection.

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I do like a Biscoff, but they're very Moorish.

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And they're not good dunkers either.

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They don't last, if you dunk it in your cup of tea, it doesn't last very long.

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So no, I'm happy with the digestive.

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No, I'm happy.

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You can take whatever you want with you.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This speaking lesson is built on the video “Jodie Comer Ranks 10 Iconic British Snacks”. This video has 206 sentences and 2423 words to shadow. The speech runs for 12:30. The speaker talks fast, about 194 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. Only 80% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is demanding.

Key vocabulary in this video

15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
snack noun	/snæk/	A light meal.
accent noun	/ækˈsɛnt/	A higher-pitched or stronger (louder or longer) articulation of a particular syllable of a word or phrase in order to distinguish it from the others or to…
curly adjective	/ˈkɝli/	Having curls.
rank noun	/ˈɹæŋk/	A row of people or things organized in a grid pattern, often soldiers.
comfort noun	/ˈkʌm.fət/	Contentment, ease.
remind verb	/ɹəˈmaɪnd/	To cause one to experience a memory (of someone or something); to bring to the notice or consideration (of a person).
robin noun	/ˈɹɑ.bɪn/	A European robin, Erithacus rubecula.
hood noun	/hʊd/	A head covering placed on falcons to inhibit their vision.
grateful adjective	/ˈɡɹeɪtf(ə)l/	Of a person or their actions, feelings, etc.: expressing gratitude or appreciation; appreciative, thankful.
ease verb	/iz/	To free (something) from pain, worry, agitation, etc.
graham noun	/ɡɹæm/	Flour made by grinding wheat berries including the bran.
icon noun	/ˈaɪ.kɑn/	An image, symbol, picture, portrait, or other representation, usually as an object of religious devotion.
rebel noun	/ˈɹɛb.əl/	A person who resists an established authority, often violently.
rejection noun	/ɹɪˈd͡ʒɛkʃən/	The act of rejecting.
wagon noun	/ˈwæɡən/	A heavier four-wheeled (normally horse-drawn) vehicle designed to carry goods (or sometimes people).

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
go back to verb		To stem from; to originate in.
come out verb	/ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/	To be discovered; to be revealed.
go up verb		To move upwards.
live off verb		To depend on financially.
look around verb		To inspect a building or area.
move around verb		To relocate to new homes repeatedly; to not live in any one place for long.
put together verb		To assemble, construct, build, or formulate.

Sentences worth repeating

Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:

I'm going to go here.
I can do this as a career?
I'd gone on holiday with my family.
God, I can't think of any examples, though.

Grammar in this video

The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:

Structure	In the video
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now	has been · you've ever done · i've had
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it	was kicked · being pulled · being met
Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing	people who you · Stuffed, which was · guy who has

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 76 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, don't, you've. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “th” sounds: thrill /θɹɪl/, withstand /wɪðˈstænd/
The “sh” and “zh” sounds: rejection /ɹɪˈd͡ʒɛkʃən/, audition /ɑˈdɪʃən/, luxury /ˈlʌk.ʃə.ɹi/, delicious /dɪˈlɪ.ʃəs/, harsh /ˈhɑɹʃ/
Long words — get the stress right: naturally /ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹə.li/, difficulty /ˈdɪfɪkəlti/, hilarious /hɪˈlɛə.ɹi.əs/, emotionally /ɪˈməʊʃənəli/, disappointment /ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪntmənt/

How to practise with this video

Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like snack, accent, curly.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

Key vocabulary in this video

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Sentences worth repeating

Grammar in this video

Pronunciation to watch

How to practise with this video

What is the Shadowing Technique?