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Well, first of all, congratulations. Thank you so much. You have a Tony. I do. It's extraordinary and wonderful
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Thank you. What's made this so special with working on this show for you? I think the special thing is it was a show
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that just started small. You know, we started the Sheffield Theater in England
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in the rainy England, and it was a seemingly impossible project. You know, life of Pi as a set designer
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you don't read that and think, oh, I know how to do that. I read that and thought, I've no idea
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But the no idea was what the challenge was. So that's what's made it really special
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And I didn't think for a minute when I read that script, oh, this is going to be on, you know
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this is Tony material, you know. So the journey has been incredible
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from the Sheffield Crucible to London, to the West End, and of course
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the pandemic has not helped anything. And then this little trip to New York
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And here we are with Tony Awards. You're a little trip to Broadway. Trip to Broadway
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And it's absolute joy. And it's always so low. I haven't worked on Broadway for a long time
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And it's just always so great to come back here. You know, people are very warm and generous
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And I'm just loving it. I'm here all year because I'm working on Back to the Future. So I feel like I've moved in again
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and finding old friends and having a great time. The sets are stunning for this show
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What was the big challenge for you? The challenge was the transitions. Getting from the hospital, from dry land
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to the ocean, to the boat. That was the challenge. And how you do that in seconds
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I didn't want to stop the show. I didn't want to have any pauses
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I wanted to be another member of the company, another actor, and just sort of help the spirit of that
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And that was the challenge. And that's what we tried to pull off. But that's why you have a Tony Award tonight
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Thank you. Yeah, thank you. Hold your Tony up. Spin it. Just tell me what comes to mind. Oh, my God
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It's just magic. Absolutely magic. It's a complete joy. You know, it really makes me happy
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You have a Tony Award. I mean, completely incredible. From where we started with the show
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the whole journey has been kind of roller coaster. You know, jumping from a small regional theater
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West End, Boston, ending in Broadway. I mean, it's like just the icing on the cake
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And I'm absolutely humbled by the reaction the show got when we arrived
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And just amazed that, yeah, me and Tim managed to win this
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What made this so special for you with designing the show? All the way along, it's the collaboration aspect of it
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Just working with both Tims, Tim Hatley, obviously, for set. Tim Luckin for lighting
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Kaz Downing for sound. You know, all kind of design departments working together
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as one to try and achieve a singular vision, which is Max's vision, Lolita's script, Finn and Nick's puppetry
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I mean, you know, the list of people on the show is huge
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But it was the collaborative nature was just the most important thing about the show
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And if one of those pieces didn't work, then we wouldn't have been able to get
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kind of the end result that we had. It's cool to be on Broadway, isn't it
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Oh, it's amazing to be on Broadway. I've only been here once before for the show
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And to come back with something that I love so much as a piece is just incredible
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Hold your Tony up. Spin it. Just tell me what comes to mind. I mean, it's just a bit like a dream, to be honest
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I mean, it's the fact that it's such a whirlwind trip. I literally landed last night
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It's, you know, I've got a flight in, you know, a taxi at 5 a.m
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tomorrow, and I'm just like, it's just a very quick drop in the ocean
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It's just amazing. What a way to return. Congratulations. So well-deserved
