I know this is an old podcast but u just wanted to say this is probably one of the best most informal interviews i have ever heard of Derren and I really wish more people would do it this way as it’s so much more genuine and relaxed. Thank you for the content :)
Fantastic Interview!!! This was the interview I would have liked to have seen on the Joe Rogan podcast but sadly it became very clear that Joe hadn't been too familiar with his work. you asked the questions and got the insights I was hoping for! Awesome stuff!
That insight on directors is fascinating. I started out as a kid actor - after I heckled a magician during a show when I was onstage as a spectator. He found it endearing and he also was a manager and director for one a specific TV clown in the 70s here. And so I was the plant in the audience and they told me how to act and what to say. And I acted until the age of 11/12. Then became a musician in a tribute band and we also had a director there who focused on the “choreography” and having a more dynamic stage image. He said: “you are a great band but you are as appealing to look at as a dog taken a shit!” And we got booked as opening acts. Onetime I emailed with Andy Nyman (he also is an honorary member of Psycrets) of his movie he was in about Herman Brood (Dutch rock legend). And we had opened for Brood once, nice coincide. Then I became a stage hypnotist and did my own thing without a director. I saw Derren in early 2000s on TV and figured he did “pre show hypnosis” and I started to fuse that. And later a fellow mentalist led me into the more easier way of mentalism. And I never had a director as I always figured, it my audience members that are the stars. And I merely direct them. When I got hired to technically consult and coach for The Next Uri Geller I realized that a nagging producer and director really does push your boundaries. I created the most insane acts there, and I was really pushed to the point of wanting to kill either one on several occasions. And I learned so much about live TV and stage direction and also writing for a TV medium; which is wholly different from a stage show. And I’m glad to have had that opportunity because I for to work for different production companies on different shows and through that found a new sub-career in creating special effect and visual effects. And by trade I’m an electronics engineer with computer science so those two really come close to my education combined with my passion of film. But mentalism also really combined those skills of building highly technical props, writing my own music for the show. But I’m at the point that I don’t have the urge to perform anymore. I know that I’m probably more valuable backstage that on stage or on screen.
shame there was no video with this but im so glad you did this interview derren is such an amazing person and everyone always asks the same things i feel you got stuck in there and got to the point very interesting so thank you
Wow yet another good insight that I relate too. You gotta keep yourself challenged not to the point that you are stressed but to the point you can hone a new skill. Whenever I pick my projects whether it’s as a freelance IT consultant (always has been my stable income) or FX/VFX I tend to bid on things that I know I can master but have not yet have extreme exposure to, but I want to delve deep into that. In film that’s relatively easy because often this idea is that nobody has done that special effect or visual effect, so they are just curious about your bid (least amount of money wins) and your approach. In IT it’s more conservative and there’s a general understanding that it’s nothing new. When in reality the Devil there is in the details and organization rigidity and compliance laws etc. Where in film or TV basically anything goes!
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I know this is an old podcast but u just wanted to say this is probably one of the best most informal interviews i have ever heard of Derren and I really wish more people would do it this way as it’s so much more genuine and relaxed. Thank you for the content :)
Fantastic Interview!!! This was the interview I would have liked to have seen on the Joe Rogan podcast but sadly it became very clear that Joe hadn't been too familiar with his work. you asked the questions and got the insights I was hoping for! Awesome stuff!
i felt exactly the same about the joe rogan interview i felt he could have done some research on derren first then it would have been so much better
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That insight on directors is fascinating.
I started out as a kid actor - after I heckled a magician during a show when I was onstage as a spectator. He found it endearing and he also was a manager and director for one a specific TV clown in the 70s here. And so I was the plant in the audience and they told me how to act and what to say. And I acted until the age of 11/12. Then became a musician in a tribute band and we also had a director there who focused on the “choreography” and having a more dynamic stage image. He said: “you are a great band but you are as appealing to look at as a dog taken a shit!”
And we got booked as opening acts. Onetime I emailed with Andy Nyman (he also is an honorary member of Psycrets) of his movie he was in about Herman Brood (Dutch rock legend). And we had opened for Brood once, nice coincide.
Then I became a stage hypnotist and did my own thing without a director. I saw Derren in early 2000s on TV and figured he did “pre show hypnosis” and I started to fuse that. And later a fellow mentalist led me into the more easier way of mentalism. And I never had a director as I always figured, it my audience members that are the stars. And I merely direct them. When I got hired to technically consult and coach for The Next Uri Geller I realized that a nagging producer and director really does push your boundaries. I created the most insane acts there, and I was really pushed to the point of wanting to kill either one on several occasions. And I learned so much about live TV and stage direction and also writing for a TV medium; which is wholly different from a stage show.
And I’m glad to have had that opportunity because I for to work for different production companies on different shows and through that found a new sub-career in creating special effect and visual effects. And by trade I’m an electronics engineer with computer science so those two really come close to my education combined with my passion of film.
But mentalism also really combined those skills of building highly technical props, writing my own music for the show. But I’m at the point that I don’t have the urge to perform anymore. I know that I’m probably more valuable backstage that on stage or on screen.
very thoughtful questions and polite way of asking them, very enjoyable! Thank you!
shame there was no video with this but im so glad you did this interview derren is such an amazing person and everyone always asks the same things i feel you got stuck in there and got to the point very interesting so thank you
Wow yet another good insight that I relate too. You gotta keep yourself challenged not to the point that you are stressed but to the point you can hone a new skill.
Whenever I pick my projects whether it’s as a freelance IT consultant (always has been my stable income) or FX/VFX I tend to bid on things that I know I can master but have not yet have extreme exposure to, but I want to delve deep into that. In film that’s relatively easy because often this idea is that nobody has done that special effect or visual effect, so they are just curious about your bid (least amount of money wins) and your approach.
In IT it’s more conservative and there’s a general understanding that it’s nothing new. When in reality the Devil there is in the details and organization rigidity and compliance laws etc. Where in film or TV basically anything goes!
Thanks for this, I really enjoyed hearing it. Derren has an awful lot of layers.
Great interview mega intersting well done. The only down side is you didn't ask about my fave trick of his.
whats your fav trick?
@@redandwhitewizard77 the one with the barefoot volunteer and the cups
Dean Chadwick I think President Kudsi has a thing about feet! Lol
@@ollie241189 what ever gave you that idea ?
President Kudsi cause your a weird guy