Clark Peters

Thank you.

That was a lovely introduction.

I did all that?

Well, I picked this profession so that I would have longevity, so that I could still be acting at 100 if it comes to it.

But starting out, I always played older people.

So in Driving Miss Daisy, for example, with Dame Wendy Hiller, I think I was in my late 30s playing Hoke, who was well up into his 80s, and I looked at a diary that I'd written, and on one page it was, I'm tired of playing old guys because there's no future in it.

LAUGHTER

But I'm still here playing old guys.

To tell you the truth, honestly, I didn't want to do The Burrows because someone had likened it to Stranger Things, which I hadn't seen before this offer came through.

And what I didn't want to be doing was...

acting as I'm chasing monsters until I'm 80 years old.

But then I read the script and I thought, oh, I can resonate with this journey, with the quest that art is on.

And then I looked at the cast and I thought, oh, there's just no way I can say no to this.

They're still breathing.

Oh, it's so cute.

Yes.

I try to let people know that just because we live in a society where we take the elderly and we hide them away doesn't mean that they're not valued or that they have something to offer.

And I like that.

to at least have that conversation that the elderly remember the past.

And if you want to move forward, you better talk to some older people.