Flaawsome Talk with Kjersti Flaa - October 31, 2026


Sir Patrick Saved Me From MEAN Actor !!

Jennifer Lopez - The new Blake Lively !!

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00:00:00.000 Now, looking back, I really wish I would have told him that afterwards.
00:00:03.840 Like, thank you for making my day.
00:00:05.600 I just had the most terrible experience and you saved me.
00:00:13.920 Hi and welcome to Flossom Talk.
00:00:15.700 I'm Sashty Floor, journalist, Hollywood truth teller,
00:00:18.440 and your voice of reason in a town built on delusion.
00:00:23.640 Okay, so we lost another legend yesterday, Sir Patrick Stewart.
00:00:29.680 And that made me think about the day that he saved me.
00:00:34.820 So I wanted to share that very special moment with you guys.
00:00:38.700 When Sir Patrick picked me up with his kindness and saved me from an unbearable day with another actor.
00:00:47.140 This was in 2014 and he was doing press for X-Men Days of Future Past.
00:00:54.860 You know, when studios set up these press days, you as a journalist jump from one room
00:01:00.600 to the next, interviewing the actor in each room, and this time I think there were about
00:01:06.420 seven people or seven actors promoting this movie, and one of them was Sir Patrick Stewart.
00:01:13.680 This situation of these days are very stressful for the actors themselves.
00:01:17.960 They had to sit and answer questions back to back to back to back from different journalists,
00:01:24.100 and a lot of them just keep asking the same regular questions over and over and over again
00:01:30.260 and they have to sit there and pretend that this is the first time they ever heard that question
00:01:34.960 and play along with all the other rules.
00:01:38.200 I always try to make an effort to make interviews that are a little bit different.
00:01:43.340 I never ask those typical questions like what was the most challenging scene in this film
00:01:48.860 or what was it like to work with this director,
00:01:52.260 Why did you choose to do this role?
00:01:54.560 How did you do research to find this character?
00:01:57.420 I always try to connect with people on a more personal level.
00:02:01.000 And most of the time, actors really enjoy that
00:02:04.080 because it takes them out of all of these really boring, generic questions
00:02:09.880 that they have to repeat over and over and over again.
00:02:13.140 And because Patrick Stewart is known for his deep, rich, commanding voice,
00:02:18.440 I wanted to ask him to do something special for me.
00:02:22.000 So I had prepared everything for the day
00:02:24.520 and I interviewed some of the other actors,
00:02:27.860 Hugh Jackman, James McAvoy.
00:02:30.200 They were both really lovely.
00:02:32.620 It wasn't that?
00:02:34.500 That was amazing.
00:02:36.620 Good question.
00:02:38.980 But then I entered the room with Michael Fassbender.
00:02:43.540 Michael Fassbender was so mean to me.
00:02:47.480 I have to say that it's really up there with my experience that I had with Blake Lively.
00:02:54.960 I had met Michael Fassbender before this for 12 years a slave, and I found him to be so charming
00:03:02.360 and so funny and so engaged, so I was really looking forward to meeting him again. But the
00:03:07.880 Michael Fassbender I met that day was a very different man. That whole interview, I think it
00:03:14.380 was about three and a half minute long and I was just looking at the person who's sitting there
00:03:20.780 counting down the minutes. I was looking at her face and I was thinking you just have to get me
00:03:26.560 out of here. It is really one of the most uncomfortable moments of my life. I just wanted
00:03:32.220 to disappear. I just wanted to run home and hide under my duvet and just stay there after I left
00:03:40.960 that room. So what basically happened was that I brought up one of Michael Fassbender's previous
00:03:46.300 movies called Shame, which was a very controversial film. And I asked him about some of his choices
00:03:53.480 and he didn't like it. And when he was being extremely hostile and dismissive towards me,
00:03:59.760 when I left that room, I was really worried. I thought, okay, I'm going to definitely now be
00:04:07.340 blacklisted by his publicist and maybe by the studio not that I felt that I did anything wrong
00:04:14.200 but in those kind of situations the studio the publicist always blame the journalist and although
00:04:21.460 they actually let me keep that interview they let me keep it physically so I brought it home with me
00:04:27.340 I got a phone call as soon as I had reached my apartment that day from the distributor in Norway
00:04:34.460 and she was so stressed out she said you can never show that interview with Michael Fassbender and I
00:04:41.520 was like okay what was the reason they actually gave you I'm curious because I feel like I didn't
00:04:46.580 do anything wrong and she said you brought up another movie he was in and he wasn't there to
00:04:51.840 talk about that and I was like okay of course they realized that he was acting horribly and they
00:04:57.120 didn't want the public to see him like that but anyways that was a long side story and this is why
00:05:03.080 this meeting with Sir Patrick Stewart was so special to me. So I had just left that room
00:05:09.980 with Michael Fassbender. I was panicking so much inside. I was so stressed out and I knew
00:05:18.720 I still had to do more interviews. And my next interview was with Sir Patrick Stewart.
00:05:25.840 I walked into the room and I was so nervous. I thought for some reason that he was going to be
00:05:32.960 really intimidating because he always plays these kind of intimidating characters. I don't know why
00:05:38.780 I thought he would be similar to anyone he's playing but I had that worry and on top of that
00:05:44.560 I had all this anxiety inside of me because what had just happened with Michael Fassbender. I just
00:05:50.200 have to add another thing here quickly by the way that I did interview Michael Fassbender again
00:05:55.520 after that interview and he was really nice. So maybe he just had a terrible terrible day and let
00:06:00.860 it out on me or he is just that kind of person who switches on and off like that I don't know
00:06:07.500 so I entered the room to Sir Patrick Stewart and he just gives me the biggest smile
00:06:15.360 here's Steve Flott you have speed and I just felt instantly the energy in that room there's a lot
00:06:25.360 of people sitting in these rooms when these interviews happen they're up to like six seven
00:06:31.080 people in that room and the way he looked around him and just acknowledged everyone in that room
00:06:37.280 and smiled at me being so in that moment he just made me feel so much more comfortable
00:06:44.620 looking at this interview now it makes me really cringe because I feel like I look so nervous and
00:06:50.520 I feel like I ask stupid things, but I'm gonna share it with you anyways. So I asked him what
00:06:56.620 people say when they recognize him, how people approach him, because he is a legend and there's
00:07:02.340 a big fan base out there. So I asked him about it and his answer was just priceless. I mean,
00:07:09.280 what do people say when they meet you in the streets or in an elevator? I'll tell you exactly
00:07:14.400 what someone said to me on the streets here in Manhattan two days ago he said William Shatner
00:07:21.420 it's great to meet you I promise you would I lie about that and he wouldn't believe it that I
00:07:31.100 said no you've got the wrong person no no but then it's flattering too isn't it yeah I guess
00:07:39.500 It is, absolutely it is.
00:07:41.220 He is a guy who has reinvented himself again and again and again.
00:07:44.960 An outstanding guy.
00:07:46.060 And a friend, so.
00:07:47.600 Yes.
00:07:48.520 To me, that just says everything you need to know about Sir Patrick Stewart.
00:07:54.040 He did not want to take the credit even for people recognizing him.
00:07:58.120 He's like, yeah, they think I'm William Shatner.
00:08:00.820 It just happened.
00:08:01.860 And then again, he's looking around in the room,
00:08:04.560 letting everyone know that it did happen.
00:08:07.020 I'm not lying.
00:08:07.920 like this is a conversation with all of us it's not just me and him sitting there he's just like
00:08:14.000 including everyone and I was really taken aback by his answer I was not expecting that to happen
00:08:19.380 I don't know if I actually had a follow-up question regarding that because I kind of
00:08:23.400 lost my train of thoughts there and I had to look at my notes straight away usually I memorize all
00:08:28.980 my questions so I don't lose that connection with the person I'm talking to and then after I lost
00:08:33.840 my train of thoughts he followed up with this that was a little bit of a divergence wasn't it
00:08:40.220 that we took there yeah you must forgive me my brain is a little bit scrambled and the way he
00:08:46.160 was just apologizing to me for the diversion of the conversation i was like oh i love this man
00:08:54.400 then i wanted to talk to him about his career you know all the things that he'd done and i started
00:09:00.580 up by saying that you know you started your career in the 60s and then he responded like this
00:09:06.100 50s 59 i became a professional yeah just just before the 60s were about to begin
00:09:13.620 i might have been responsible for the 60s actually being what they were oh really
00:09:19.520 well i had a colorful life you know is that all you're gonna say about that now you started to
00:09:28.000 You need more details, isn't there?
00:09:29.400 Yeah, tell me about The Colorful Life.
00:09:33.440 No, I was a dedicated actor.
00:09:36.120 I didn't even know that the 60s had happened.
00:09:39.600 In 1964, I used to walk up a back street in Liverpool,
00:09:44.160 heading to the theatre.
00:09:45.080 I did this every day for 10 months,
00:09:47.020 and I walked past a weird-looking place called The Cavern,
00:09:51.120 and I didn't know what it was.
00:09:53.360 That's how much the 60s meant to me.
00:09:55.580 Wow.
00:09:55.980 Yeah, I love that he just offered me something really personal and something funny.
00:10:01.100 He didn't really elaborate on his colorful life, so I don't know exactly what he meant by that.
00:10:06.360 But he was very, very dedicated to his craft.
00:10:10.820 And looking at this interview this morning, it reminded me of another legend that I interviewed that passed away in 2021,
00:10:19.540 Christopher Plummer, who also talked about his crazy colorful life.
00:10:24.360 I love the 50s because the 50s, apart from being the last golden age of theatre in America,
00:10:36.040 it was rampant with booze.
00:10:39.040 And we just boozed our way through the 50s with such pleasure and nothing will ever top
00:10:45.480 it.
00:10:46.480 When you talk about it like that, do you kind of get nostalgic looking back?
00:10:50.700 Do you look back a lot?
00:10:51.700 thirsty when i talk about it when you leave can you sneak me a drink what you prefer
00:10:59.300 yeah i just had to share that as well i had some of my best memories with some of these older
00:11:09.220 actors who's not afraid anymore to be themselves and to be honest and the way sir patrick stewart
00:11:15.080 as well, has this kind of distance to Hollywood. He never looked at himself as this famous movie
00:11:22.160 star or anything like that. He just saw himself as an actor. He loved Shakespeare. He loved the
00:11:30.440 craft of acting. And we also spoke about that. I had no part of the film industry for a long,
00:11:36.660 long, long time, nor indeed looked to have. And television came quite late in my career too.
00:11:41.980 And I asked him one of my favorite questions. I've asked this to so many different actors.
00:11:47.480 It's one of my go-to questions, I have to say, because I always feel like I get really interesting answers from it.
00:11:53.360 So I spoke to a lot of actors who say that acting is kind of therapeutic. Can you relate to that?
00:12:00.420 Absolutely. It is the greatest therapy, and it's fun, and you get paid for it, sometimes quite well.
00:12:11.980 Look, we are asked formally to examine who we are
00:12:18.400 and how we might live different lives.
00:12:20.980 And that involves a certain amount of self-analysis,
00:12:23.880 a certain amount of processing about who you are
00:12:27.060 and what you could be.
00:12:28.860 And for most of us, a lot of it is about
00:12:32.220 finding this character inside you that's already there.
00:12:36.720 So rather like a sculptor with stone, you know,
00:12:40.020 The finished sculpture exists.
00:12:42.760 It's just a case of getting rid of all the other stuff around it.
00:12:46.100 It's a little bit like that.
00:12:47.660 I love his answer to that,
00:12:49.820 that you have to find this person inside of you that's already there,
00:12:53.700 that all the characters are living inside of you
00:12:57.240 and you just have to find them.
00:12:58.880 As a side note here,
00:13:00.080 Sir Patrick Stewart was not offered a role in Hollywood
00:13:03.300 until he was 47 years old.
00:13:06.200 That's when he got the role in Star Trek
00:13:08.940 and that's when he rose to fame in Hollywood.
00:13:12.560 Before that, he was a theater actor
00:13:15.200 and he became a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company
00:13:18.460 when he was only 25 years old.
00:13:20.360 So he had a very long career as a theater actor
00:13:24.420 before he entered the world of movies.
00:13:27.740 And I also think that's what made him so special.
00:13:32.800 Okay, so at the end of this interview,
00:13:34.420 I wanted to do something fun with him.
00:13:37.780 I don't know how I came up with this idea now looking back I get really embarrassed about it
00:13:43.320 I just have to say that I don't know if this was a good idea and now today I feel a bit bad about
00:13:47.960 asking him to do this but I'm going to share it with you anyways. But before we get into that a
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00:15:14.740 get back into it. So I don't know where this idea came from, as I said, and now I'm like,
00:15:19.740 why did I do that? Sometimes I have these really silly ideas in interviews, and then afterwards I
00:15:26.420 look back at it and I'm like that was maybe not such a good idea like asking Anne Hathaway to sing
00:15:32.360 in that Les Miserables interview that went terribly wrong and she was not having it but I kept wanting
00:15:38.640 to come up with interesting ideas because I felt sometimes when I did something out of the ordinary
00:15:43.580 I got to see more of the real person behind the character that's sitting in front of me because
00:15:50.820 you know these people are actors they act all the time they're acting in these interviews they're
00:15:55.560 acting like they're interested in your questions, even though they heard it 45 times already that
00:16:01.020 day. So for me to catch people a little bit off guard, I always feel like you get to know them
00:16:05.820 a little bit more. So that was also my idea for Patrick Stewart that day. So I asked him to read
00:16:13.000 something in Norwegian, and I did not tell him what he was actually reading. And now I'm really
00:16:20.440 surprised thinking back that he could have read whatever and he didn't understand what he was
00:16:25.580 reading and I could have asked him to read something extremely politically incorrect or
00:16:31.440 something that he would not want to come out of his old mouth but I didn't I would never do that
00:16:36.380 to anyone by the way but you know how would he know that I didn't have a hidden agenda here
00:16:41.500 anyway so I had it written down for him and I gave him the paper I feel so I was just gonna ask
00:16:47.280 if you could do something.
00:16:48.820 What? What do you want me to do?
00:16:50.440 My voice actually today is a little tired
00:16:53.500 because I've been talking too much.
00:16:54.960 What do you want me to do?
00:16:55.800 I was just gonna see if you could read something
00:16:57.320 in Norwegian.
00:16:58.460 In Norwegian?
00:16:59.340 Yes.
00:17:00.160 Is it written phonetically?
00:17:01.100 No.
00:17:04.660 Okay. You ready for this?
00:17:07.000 Yes.
00:17:10.340 Ja, vi älskar dette landet.
00:17:13.760 Som det stiger fremführt
00:17:16.720 This sounds like verse, or it's a quotation from, is it Shakespeare?
00:17:46.080 No, it's a Norwegian National Anthem.
00:17:49.080 Oh lord, I hope I haven't given offence.
00:17:52.080 No, it was great.
00:17:54.080 Really?
00:17:55.080 Yeah, it was really, really great.
00:17:57.080 I once went to Norway. I went to Stavanger.
00:17:59.080 Oh, that's nice.
00:18:00.080 To do some lecturing in the theatre school there.
00:18:03.080 Cool, did you like it?
00:18:05.080 Very much. It was deepest, darkest winter.
00:18:08.080 I thought it was wonderful, I loved it.
00:18:10.080 I find it a bit depressing.
00:18:12.080 How was it?
00:18:13.080 it was amazing it was so good it was so good we have a 200 year anniversary of the national anthem
00:18:18.920 now so oh i see yeah and you're gonna broadcast this of course if you let me yes so it was the
00:18:26.660 norwegian national anthems that i gave him and he thought it was something from shakespeare that was
00:18:33.220 translated to norwegian maybe because he was thinking that she's probably going to give me
00:18:38.820 something from Shakespeare because she knows I love Shakespeare but I didn't do that. I don't
00:18:42.860 know. I was like okay I am going to give him the national anthem from Norway. I was working for
00:18:48.460 Norwegian TV show and I knew that they would really appreciate that. If you are an international
00:18:53.840 journalist you always want to connect the Hollywood stars to the country you're from
00:18:59.680 because everyone loves that. Anyways he did such a great job with it. His pronunciation was really
00:19:06.880 really good. And then he felt terrible afterwards because he was like, this is such an important
00:19:12.200 song. I hope I didn't butcher that. And I was just so happy that he did that for me. And I think he
00:19:18.040 says a lot about what kind of person he was. What really happened in this interview was that he
00:19:24.140 made such an effort to make me feel comfortable. That's supposed to be my job. I'm supposed to make
00:19:31.000 the person that I'm interviewing feel comfortable. But Sir Patrick switched those rules up and he
00:19:36.900 will never know how much his kindness meant to me that day. How his warmth and engagement just
00:19:43.480 made me forget about all my anxiety in that moment I was sitting there with him. Now looking back I
00:19:49.340 really wish I would have told him that afterwards. Like thank you for making my day you know. I just
00:19:54.560 had the most terrible experience and you saved me. And I'm sure that he did the same thing to
00:20:00.520 so many other people in his life. I was looking at his Instagram this morning because he was on
00:20:05.920 Instagram and that's also where his family announced his passing yesterday and I saw that
00:20:12.160 he had posted a clip from the next Avengers movie, the one coming out in December this year,
00:20:17.500 where we can hear his voice clear and loud and I can't show the clip but I can say what he says.
00:20:24.880 in the clip, he says, death comes for us all. That's all I know for sure. The question isn't
00:20:33.040 are you prepared to die? The question is who will you be when you close your eyes? Yeah, so if you
00:20:40.520 want to get the last performance from Sir Patrick Stewart, you can see him in theaters in Avengers
00:20:47.220 Doomsday. Anyway, that's it for me today, you guys. Thank you so much for watching and thanks to my
00:20:54.140 executive producer Oscar. As usual he wants to remind everyone to subscribe to my channel
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