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#AD Martin Compston takes us down memory lane, from leaving Scotland for his first acting gig, to how much his family have shaped who he is now.
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So who are your guests today
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So I've got Martin Conston, line of duty. I can't wait to find out what goes on behind the scenes
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to help someone like him get on that stage. How you doing? You alright
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Come take a seat. So obviously everybody in whatever line of work they're in
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has a sort of support network, has that person, that one person who has their back
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maybe from childhood right the way through to getting on stage, getting on line of duty
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Who is that one person to you? Obviously my wife really is an incredible support
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She really has, to the extent sometimes I say too much, like when I know I've been a bit of dafty, she'll still have my side, you know, she's brilliant for that
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But the kind of answer to this is my mum. You know, she's sort of been literally the person who's been there since I came into existence
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You know, she's been there from the start. And I think, you know, and I'm very lucky that she's still here
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Your mum's such a huge bearing on who you become as a person, you know
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And she is, I think most people kind of would think their own
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but I mean, I genuinely do feel like she's a super mum. She's kind of an older person
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It took me a long time to kind of realise, and I actually think it was when my acting career was starting to take off
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that she can't fix everything, you know, because you just assume that she can, because she always did
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Oh, yeah. You know, whatever situation, if you're ill or you're in trouble or something
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you're always going, my mum will fix it. my mum would personally go to and I think it was the first thing I met
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I think I went to an audition in London and it was my first time
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kind of going out of Scotland going down to the big bad city and all that stuff and I messed up an audition
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and I thought I could do that better and I remember coming out of here and I was telling my mum
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and I was like surely you can fix that and I still laughed this day
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she tried like she was trying to call up like London casting directors to try and go get them back in
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you know but that's just how that's the exact woman you need
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to have your back in an acting career. Why hasn he got the part Well she was even just getting back in the door and she was trying everything And it to this day that still makes me smile that the fact she just went she knew nothing I knew nothing about that world And she went I try and fix it
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How have you shown your appreciation for her in terms of what she's done to have your back
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How have you maybe had her back? They might dispute it, but my
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I'd probably say within, we've got my brother and my dad, probably say me and my mother
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are a bit more cultured of the two. Like we sort of, we're like reading
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and all that kind of thing. so we probably have a bit more grown up conversations. We're probably between the two of us
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if things are kicking off in the family. We can phone each other and kind of go be the calm heads
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So you do that for her? Yes. Have you ever had a moment with her where you've kind of properly wrapped your arms around her
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or celebrated her or gone, just thank you for having my back
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I think what was really, again, incredibly lucky with this job when I think I was 17 or 18
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I was on a film tour and I managed to take her to Japan, which was wonderful
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at that age to be able to take your mum across the world to go see this amazing
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country somewhere I was desperate to see and be able to share that experience together the Japanese are such a wonderful people
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they were so kind they always knew they'd be very polite and that was my own probably bad preconceptions
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in terms of I thought they'd be just very polite maybe a bit cold standoffish
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they couldn't be more lovely they couldn't take more care of me and my mum it's how I think your mum
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or that person in your life shapes your life as well like my mum I remember her always saying to me never look up to people and never look down on
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people focus straight ahead is there a way that your mum has kind of influenced how you've tackled
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life you know having children getting married the big stuff I think just the amount that she's there
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for me that it's it's definitely influenced me as a father like I'd I want to be for my son what she
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was for me she's just a kind person you know she's just a good person and I think that's got to to
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to rub off on you and as I said she always sees the best in people especially myself
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and my brother you know she'll try and do everything and I see how much joy she takes
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in her grandkids is is amazing to see and it really nice like when she kind of it really nice you know I very lucky to split my time between um Scotland and America but when she comes over to Las Vegas
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yeah she comes over to Vegas and sort of hangs out with my wee boy and stuff it's do you know
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what I've loved is everything you've said so far has been family centric yeah you know when you say
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about who inspires you who are these big people that kind of drive your career etc I think there's
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always an expectation that it's you know a big mentor in your life etc it's actually so close to
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home what's the kind of best advice uh you've been given in life by your mom or by anybody else that
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has kind of catapulted you to where you are today well it's funny you said that would the best advice
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would have been from a mentor figure it was um ken loach the great ken loach who um what a legend
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yeah i mean one of britain's one of the world world's greatest directors you know and i was very
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lucky that he sort of gave me this career you know he believed in me in that in my first movie
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sweet 16 and sort of everything since then is i owe to him but he said something to me
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which has always stayed with me what is that something energy is something that communicates
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really well through through screen now that doesn't mean you need to be running about and
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shout like a madman all the time it just means that little twinkle in your eye that you're enjoying
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what you're doing just have an enthusiasm for what you're doing um and i try and bring not just
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that into the parts that i'm playing but also just in the morning when you get in the makeup truck
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and stuff in the morning and everybody's around just come in with a smile on your face come in
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sort of with a bit of joy that being happy that you're going to be it's a hard hard job but
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people would love to be in the position we're in and i always try and remind myself that now we've
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spoken a lot about some important people from your mum to Ken yeah like what is the one thing in your
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life right now that you would ensure that kind of I suppose means the most to you in this moment I
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mean of course my son so something changes in you when you do have a kid you know it's I think it's
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the first you cry a lot more now well I don I don cry a lot more but it you can I think as an actor because i do need to cry sometimes for my job that a lot more accessible but yes i think it the first time
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look because you you've got your mum around you and obviously my wife and your partner and stuff
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but i think it's truly the first time you're not the center of your world you know that new little
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thing is the most important thing and will always be the most important thing in your life so it's definitely my son
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but yeah people always come to me and talk about my smile and stuff and I'd hate
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I'd ensure your smile you know it's not so much even a smile I just hate not to have a reason to smile anymore
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you said the word cheeky earlier there's mischief a bit of mischief yeah
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would you ensure your mischief that's a good one yeah that's absolutely what I would ensure
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ensure my mischief because we have this saying a friend of mine Gordon
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and we call ourselves resourceful rascals. That sounds like a brilliant boy band
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Resourceful rascals. You've really got to ensure that. Yeah, that is good
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But yeah, I'd ensure my mischief because I think you've always got to have that bit of fun about you
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You've got to enjoy what you're doing, you know, a bit of carry on. Or what's the point
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So to ensure your mischief, your son, your mum. Yeah, and I've learned that as well
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you have family members and stuff that have health issues and it's scary
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and stuff but something I kind of learned last year when I say like in many families
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you face something they always say there's a light at the end of the tunnel sometimes just being in the tunnel is enough sorry
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that's it as long as you're there just make the most of that
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that is so beautiful I love that, thank you so much Martin
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and thanks to Heart and Ava today for I was going to say cracking the nut
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but you were pretty open from the start there wasn't much digging to do with you Martin
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thank you Paul, appreciate it, thank you for having me
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