Hi and welcome to the Team Deacons podcast. This podcast is a dialogue between Roger and James Deacons, joined by Matt Wyman,

starting from a submitted question, and ending, who knows where.

We're also joined by guests on occasion.

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We're so pleased today to have a special guest and friend with us. He's a prolific actor who's been working non-stop since he began.

We had the pleasure of working with him on 1917, although we've only worked on one film with him because, what with Prep, Shooting, and Press,

we spent a year together on the movie, it's a little like we've done three movies together.

So we'd like to welcome George McKay with us today.

Thank you.

George, could you start us at the beginning?

When did you know you wanted to be an actor and how did you get started in the business?

I think, well I was always into drama when I was when I was a kid,

just I don't know like impressions and you know just big imagination I guess and would like I put on a show once in a park with with my friends we did Peter and the Wolf

when I was really little and I just basically just so I could wear my Batman costume and hang from a rope as the wolf.

And then my first job was when I was 10 a casting lady called Shaheen Be,

came around my school and she picked out a bunch of boys

to go along for a workshop

because she was looking for a mixture of the darling children

and lost boys for the film Peter Pan.

And there wound up being three of us boys from my school

got parts as lost boys. And that was my first filming job. First audition, first everything.

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