As part of Joe’s recent interview with British Vogue, which you can read here, Joe also did a video interview with the magazine where he shared his “firsts” such as his first audition, first pet, and more! You can watch the video here
Below is a transcript of Joe’s answers to each question:
First Audition
“First audition I’ve had would likely have been for a school play, when I was about 10, 9 or 10 at school. We had a school production of Tin Tin and I was the dog, Snowy. So I had to crawl around on the floor in cricket whites and I barked a lot. First film audition I had was by a brilliant casting director…who put me forward for a film; put me forward for Love Actually, and I obviously didn’t get the part but I remember reading some scenes with Hugh Grant when I was very young.”
First Job
“I don’t know if it counts as a job but at school, when I was a lot younger I used to burn CD’s and bring them in to sell them to people if they didn’t have them, or their parents wouldn’t let them buy them. So if you needed 50 Cent’s latest album and your parents wouldn’t let you get it then I was the person to come to.”
First Album
“First album I bought would have been, I think What’s The Story (Morning Glory) by Oasis”
First Crush
“First movie crush was, strangely, anyone who was French I liked and I think that just kind of fixated eventually on Marion Cotillard.”
First Pet
“Growing up I had so many pets and animals from tortoises to guinea pigs to mice, but I think the first pet I had was a fish which isn’t as glamorous and was called Rainbow Starr after Ringo Starr.”
First Film
“First film I really, really loved would be Zorro with Anthony Hopkins and Antonio Banderas and I was obsessed with it and I wanted to be Zorro, and I was obsessed with it and I used to go around the house scratching little Z’s like he does with the sword in the film, underneath a table or like a chair or back of radiators and it was actually because of that I took up fencing lessons when I was a lot younger and it was at the fencing lesson that this casting director came around and saw me and asked me to audition for Love Actually. It was because of her I kind of started having interest in doing that. So thank you Zorro.”
Tradução
Primeira audição
“A primeira audição que eu fiz foi para uma peça da escola, quando eu tinha uns nove ou dez anos. Nós tivemos uma produção escolar de As aventuras de Tintim, e eu era o cachorro Snowy (Milu). Então eu tive que rolar no chão e latir. A primeira audição de cinema que eu fiz foi com um grande diretor de elenco…para Love Actually, e eu não consegui o papel obviamente, mas me lembro de ter lido algumas cenas com Hugh Grant quando eu era mais novo.”
Primeiro emprego
“Eu não sei se isso conta como trabalho, mas quando eu era mais novo, eu costumava gravar CDs e vende-los para as pessoas na escola, se eles não os tivessem, ou seus pais não comprassem para eles.
Primeiro álbum
“O primeiro álbum que eu comprei foi, eu acho What’s The Story (Morning Glory) do Oasis”
Primeira crush
“A primeira paixão em filme foi, estranhamente, qualquer uma que fosse francesa que eu gostasse e acho que acabei me fixando na Marion Cotillard.”
Primeiro animal de estimação
“Na minha infância, eu tive muitos animais de estimação, de tartarugas, porquinhos-da-índia a ratos, mas acho que o primeiro foi um peixe, o que não é tão glamoroso e ele se chamava Rainbow Starr depois Ringo Starr.”
Primeiro filme
“O primeiro filme que eu realmente amei foi o Zorro com Anthony Hopkins e Antonio Banderas e eu era obcecado com isso e eu queria ser o Zorro, e eu costumava dar a volta na casa riscando o pequeno Z como ele fazia com a espada no filme, debaixo da mesa, nas cadeiras, na parte de trás do radiador, e foi por causa disso que eu fiz aula de esgrima, e foi na aula de esgrima que este diretor de elenco me viu e me pediu para fazer um teste para Love Actually. Foi por causa disso que eu comecei a ter interesse em atuar. Então obrigada, Zorro.
