Eddie Izzard Broke Into Pinewood Studios When He Was 15 | Joe Rogan

Is that what you enjoyed the most? The stand up? Yeah. No, dramatic films I probably enjoy the most because I wanted to do that when I was a kid. I discovered that films existed. I broke into Pinewood Studios, one of our big studios when I was 15. Broke in? Yeah. Like illegally? Yeah. Yeah. Got in. Well, I was watching a film, Battle of Britain, and at the end it says filmed on location in Spain and Pinewood Studios, Iverheath Bucks. And it was the 70s and if you remember we didn't have videos. We couldn't freeze things. We just had to scribble things down. So I was scribbling down stuff off the end of films. And I said, Pinewood Studios, Iverheath Bucks. Okay, Iverheath, what is that? So Bucks. Okay, Bucks is short for Buckinghamshire. That's a play. Iverheath must be a town. It's a weird name town. City? Village? That must be a village or a town. So I got a map of the United Kingdom which had alphabetically every town and village and city there going, listed alphabetically. And I went all the way down and I found Iverheath, but okay, that's where it is. So I took a train from the south coast of England up to London, a tube train, underground train to a place called Uxbridge and a bus to this roundabout. And I got off, I said, Pinewood Studios, yeah, they said it's about half a mile down that road so I marched down the road and I got to the big gabled entrance where all the big stars would come in and I went up and I hadn't got this bit worked out. So I went up and I said, I'm going to be in films. Can I come in, please? It's what? I'm going to make, I want to be an actor. Can I come in? I just want to do, just piss off kid. No, no, it's just, and he just told me to piss off and I thought, no, I've come miles. This is a big... So I thought there must be another way in. So I went up and there was another entrance that was near it, but it wasn't the main star entrance. It was just the kind of more lorry entrance, the track entrance, the bringing stuff in. And I saw people going in and out. There was a drawbridge, a bit like where Eagles dare the film, where, you know, anyway, someone on the gate and some people were showing them passes and stuff and other people were just walking in. So I thought, okay, you've got to have the confidence to walk in. So I did the 16, 15, 16 year old confidence and I just marched in and something I was through and I was in. I was into Pimewood Studios. Wow. So then, you know, Spielberg broke into Universal. I broke into, into thing. He got a career going pretty immediately. I didn't get nothing going. Well, you're 15. I know. What did you expect was going to happen? What was your anticipation? Well, anticipation was, as I've said in a piece of standard, because I had to walk at a certain speed. If you're moving at a certain speed, I thought no one's going to stop you. So you can't creep around looking, what's this? Because they say, what are you doing here? You know, I just thought, in fact, it's kind of loose inside studios. No one really knows what everyone else is doing. So you can actually creep around a bit. But I moved around at a certain speed and I sort of marched. So I was marching down streets and up aisles and past studios and I was hoping someone would go, hey you, kid. Yeah. You're marching around. Yeah. We're doing the film called The Marching Around Kid. Our lead kid has just exploded. Can you continue marching? Yeah, I can march around. Can you say words? I can string a few words together. How did you leave? I marched out at the same speed. I marched around for two hours and I marched out. And I have since filmed twice or three times in Pinewood and I'm going to, I want to do it. And every time I go back and I'm actually filming there, I go, I broke in here. And I just walk at very slow speeds down the streets, knowing that anyone could stop me and I'll go, I'm just filming around the corner. It's yeah. Yeah.