Hi everyone. Thank you very much for joining us this afternoon for a live recording of the Hollywood

reporters Awards Chatter Podcast. The host Scott Feinberg executive editor

at the Hollywood reporter and for those of you tuning in and watching or listening.

This episode is coming to you from the Carlo Vivari International Film Festival,

the Premier Film Festival in Central Europe,

which takes place in Carlo Vivari, a beautiful centuries-old spot town in the Czech Republic.

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The Hollywood reporter is very proud to be associated with such a magnificent company and we thank them for their support of this podcast. My guest today is a

59-year-old English actor who has done standout work on stage and screens big and

small. He's a BAFTA and Golden Globe Award winner and an Oscar Emmy SAG and Critics Choice Award nominee

who's been described by The Guardian as one of our finest actors by the New York Times as a thinking

person's hunk who possesses volcanic charisma and by Interview magazine

as one of the most intensely watchable actors on screen and stage. I'm so

excited to get to pick his brain about his life and career so would you please join me in welcoming the recipient of the

President's Award at this year's Carla Vivari International Film

Festival, Mr. Clive Owen. Clive, congratulations on the honor from the festival and thank you for doing this really appreciate it.

Thank you.

So on this podcast we go right back to the very beginning.

Can you tell our listeners where were you born and raised and what did your folks do for a living? very in the Midlands, very working class family, come from like a council estate, went to a pretty rough

school and I did a school play when I was about 13 playing the artful Dodger in Oliver and I said to myself this is what I have to do.

It was like a very unlikely scenario from because of where I come from but there was a little youth

theater in my hometown called the Belgrade Youth Theater and the guy who ran that

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