Thomas Brodie-Sangster Reveals the Secret to His Youthful Looks | Lorraine

Now, since finding fame as Love Actually's young Sam more than 20 years ago, Thomas Brodie-Sangster has carved out an impressive career, starring in dramas like Wolf Hall, Game of Thrones and most recently in Disney's The Artful Dodger. And for his latest role, he's starring as Ed, the racing superstar in the animated Grand Prix of Europe. Thomas Brodie-Sangster, who plays Ed Euromaeth, joins me now. Good morning. Good morning. This is an adorable little film, isn't it? Kids films are so nostalgic, aren't they? The animations, the sort of thing that if you're when you look back, you think, oh, I really remember Toy Story. There are certain ones that you really remember. And how easy was it for you to say yes to do this? Don't ask me why, but I've always wanted to play a mouse. Yeah, I think it's I think it's a great role to play. Well, Ratatouille obviously was a rat. But those sorts of the little creature ones are always the ones, aren't they? They catch your imagination. You can't do that in live action. No, I'm a human being. So you get the opportunity to play animals in animation, which is great. And also it's racing. I love I love all things cars. I love all things racing. It was an easy yes. What's the story about? The story, it follows a young mouse whose dream and aspiration is to become a racing driver. And she meets her idol, who's played by me, Ed. And he is the he's the real deal. He's a very cocky, but very, very talented racing car driver who has an unfortunate accident and therefore can't take place, can't take part in the in the race. And then Edda has to kind of swap in. He becomes a mentor for her. And do you enjoy doing like animation and voiceover as opposed to? Of course, we've seen you in Warpole, we've seen you in Game of Thrones. You know, the live action stuff, you know, the films that we're used to seeing you in. What do you what do you is it different? Obviously, just the sound booms. It's fun because it's just it's a different skill set. I mean, you can do a whole movie in a well, a matter of hours, really a few sessions. But you tell a whole story within a matter of hours. So you can have a real, real control of the pacing of it. And and also you get to you have to put everything into the vocal because you've got nothing else to rely on. So it's good vocal technique. And just it strips you down to just having one thing to convey any kind of emotion. But do you when you're doing it, is your face very animated? I mean, are you probably the whole body is sort of involved. It's a physical experience, no matter even though it's just the voice. Absolutely. Yeah. It's always annoying when you when you hear a voice that doesn't match what the action is. Yeah, I know you have to put physicality into it. But the challenge is the microphone picks up everything. So you put physicality in, but you can't really move that much. Yeah. The scratchy material squeaky shoe or something. Even a even a ticking watch. Yeah, it's a challenge. And so tell me a bit about Apple Dodger on Disney. Yeah. It's season two. We wrapped up. We're in post-production now, which is it's very exciting. And this is awful Dodger as he's grown up. Yeah. Yeah. And what became of him? He becomes a quite civilized character. Yeah. He ships off to Australia. So the whole thing is based out in Australia. So it's Dickens meets Down Under. And it's it's it's fun. It's it's silly. It's not obviously it's Dickens. It's dark, but it's it's it's in Australia. It's light. It's funny. It's fast paced. It's yeah, it's it's a good romp. Yeah. And what I've loved recently, and I know you get this all the time and you're very like magnanimous about talking about love, actually. And the fact that, you know, you were how old were you when you were in that? Twelve. Twelve. And but the youthfulness of your appearance at I don't know how old you are now. You're in your thirty five. Thirty five. Look at this face. Thirty five. But this is this thing that's been going viral on social media, comparing you at thirty five with Sean Connery. I mean, you look this. I can't believe that you're both thirty five in those two pictures. No, no. Yeah, I see what I see. People's point. Yeah, I do. I'm only half Scottish, you see. So I didn't get the full injection of big burly Scotsman jeans. He looks like he could be your dad there at the same age, isn't it? What is the what is it in your jeans? What do you what's your facial skincare routine? Come on. Spill the beans. I don't I don't I wash. I'm one of those guys that doesn't soap or what? Come on. No, I don't believe you. I use a bit of moisturizer afterwards. That's it. Think if you grew a beard. I can't do that. You can't go back. Does it? I tried and it's not. No, it's really interesting to me. Is it does it hamper the kind of roles you get by being so useful? I can't do bearded roles. You can't do bearded roles. I tried very hard to push out some kind of form of mustache for Queen's Gambit. But that that kind of pathetic amount of facial hair that grew suited the character. But other than that, I haven't. I know I haven't been able to do it. And it's interesting because we were just obviously just before we spoke to you, we're talking there about Billy Connolly talking about A.I. and so on. And we're talking about voiceover work and things. Does it worry you about this? You know, A.I. for actors is particularly a concern, isn't it? Yes, I think it's just because it's unknown. And I mean, even the experts in the field don't really have a full grasp or even understanding of how A.I. really even operates or what it's you know, it's true potential is. Does it worry you? I try to keep life simple. I love what I do and I like I like people. And my job is to kind of almost mimic. You're saying your wife is a bit more of a realist about it. She's a bit more of a realist. What does she say? She's yes, she thinks it's all over. That's it. That's the end of acting. That's the end of acting. Yeah, that's the end of the job. Yeah, I think theatre's safe, but the film's done. Well, at the moment, anyway, we've got your lovely film. Eddie Roma's Grand Prix of Europe is out on Friday. Thank you so much. Lovely to see you, Thomas. Lovely to see you too. And that's a wrap for this video. We hope you enjoyed it. We have all the best moments from the show right here on the channel. And if you like this video, then we think you'll love this one. See you next time.