Why Role Model wants to SWAP bodies with Harry Styles! | Capital Interview

Who would I switch bodies with? The obvious thing is Harry Styles, just because you could sort of put your hands on yourself. I'm obsessed with famous people. Touring with her changed my career. Tooker, great to meet you. So nice to meet you. Congratulations on being our capital buzz artist. People might know you from your massive, massive song, which I love, Sally, When the Wine Runs Out. There are thousands of videos of you performing this. I see it on my TikTok all the time, partly because you like to get a famous person up on stage with you to sort of dance when you perform this song in your live shows. I love famous people. You just love them. I'm obsessed with famous people. Well, they're sort of your friends, really, aren't they? I don't know. Friend's a strong word, but some of them have become friends from doing it. Well, it's quite a bonding experience dancing on stage. It is. I think sometimes it'll tie you close to the person, and then you can call them a friend, but yeah. You bonded for life. So you've had Olivia Rodrigo's done it, Niall, Hilary Duff, Natalie Portman, Kate Hudson. Have you got a dream celebrity, Sally, you'd love to get on stage with you? I feel like we did them all. I mean, we ran that bit. It's a pretty good list. I think we're done. I think I'm not probably going to do it anymore. I think some of those are hard to beat. Yeah, yeah, yeah. This is Sabrina Carpenter's second cousin we've got for her today. Great booking. Yeah, fair enough. We're not here to talk about Sally, though, even though that is a brilliant song. I want to talk about your new tune, High Hopes 3000. That is what we are celebrating all month long as part of you being our Capital Buzz Artist. Tell me everything I need to know about this song. That song is like born from one line that I was holding on to for a long time. Does love come around or does one come around to it? And there's a question and a lyric I didn't have a song for yet, but I knew I wanted it to set up the album and also be the first single to set up the whole thing. Usually I write these things on my guitar and this one I didn't. I just had that one line and I brought it in and I just started singing over it. I guess that's all you need to know. But that must be amazing when it comes together like that, when it just feels really natural. That's cool and very unique. Usually I need to have a fleshed out idea and I'll write it at home and then bring it in. But this time, that was cool. You talk about ending your day the way you started it in the song. How does a typical day start for role model? Alone. I mean, that's the next line in the song. What's the first thing you do? I don't know. I wake up. I make my coffee. I like routine. What time do you normally wake up? Around six. Really? People who get up at 6am every day through choice just blow my mind. It could never be me. I love it. Especially living in LA, a lot of people aren't awake yet. So it feels like a quiet town for like three hours. That's quite nice, actually. I like it. You're going to be in a film. You're so busy. It is all going on for you right now. It's coming out on Netflix called Good Sex with Natalie Portman and Mark Ruffalo. What was more daunting for you, acting alongside Natalie Portman or performing to a sold out Madison Square Gardens? With Natalie Portman. With her, yeah. Of course, she was Sally, right? She was. That was fun because she was really nervous for that. And I don't really get nervous on stage anymore. But she was nervous. And then it was fun to swap and now I'm very nervous in her world. And she's very comfortable. But that was scary. The first day of shooting, I was the most nervous I've been in years. And I think that was good for me because I don't really get nervous on stage anymore. So I think it was cool in the middle of touring and doing festivals to be shooting that movie and to have a new experience that made me very scared. Yeah. Push you out of your comfort zone. That's a good thing though. You're right. It's good. I feel like every actor, when they do a movie and they do the press run after, they're always like, it was a humbling experience. And it's such a cliche now. And I was always like, ugh. But I get now why they say that. And it is humbling. You are but a tool to the movie and to service the film. And it is humbling. It's cool. Did you have a moment during filming where you're like, oh my god, I'm making a movie. This is so cool. Yeah, for sure. It was, I mean, every day. It was really strange. I did get comfortable. But I don't know, when you're speaking to Natalie Portman and you have grown up watching her, it's very crazy. Really weird. Very crazy. I love, you do sort of a bit on stage. You have introduced yourself as different people before. Yeah, lots of. Sabrina Carpenter, Ed Sheeran, Harry Styles. Yeah. Which celeb would you love to swap bodies with somebody? Freaky Friday style. Yeah. I guess like the obvious thing is Harry Styles, just because you could put your hands on yourself. And what sound it would make if you just like go like this. Yeah, I guess that's my answer. No, that's a great answer. And you have got such a busy summer. You're touring all around the world, including a bunch of festivals right here in the UK. Yeah, I can't wait. Have you played a UK festival before? Well, see, I did. I did Reading and Leeds in like, I think it was 2022. And it was the year that the 1975 filled in for, I think Rage against the Machine. Yeah, I remember that. Yeah. I was going into it so excited because I was like, we are the last to play on this stage. That's so cool. We're like closing a stage. Day of, I find out that we're playing at the same time as the 1975. Oh no. And no one else is playing at the same time as them. And so there are about 10 people at my set and that pretty much ruined my experience. Oh mate, that is good. But we get Redemption next month and I'm excited to see who they booked me with this time. Definitely. Yeah. Well, I mean, Brits are known for going absolutely wild at festivals. So just be ready. No, I'm ready. It's going to be a lot. You toured with Gracie Abrams last year and you opened for her. She's incredible. I love Gracie so much. What was that experience like being on tour with her? Did you love it? It was amazing. I mean, I owe her a big... That was a huge... Touring with her like changed my career. And I think that's rare. Being an opening slot for someone and for it to have that kind of effect on the opener's career is rare. And that's her and her fans. They're amazing and they are caring and they pay attention. They're not talking over you or ignoring. It's like she has a very respectful fan base. And so it was just fun. I felt very included in her world. There's something that I like to do with all of our Capital Buzz artists. Okay. I like to hack their Wikipedia pages because I think Wikipedia, it's often the first stop, especially for a professional broadcaster like myself who takes their research very seriously. And it can be just a bit boring. I want to jazz it up a little bit. I'm with you. Let's get some fun stuff on there. Let's get crazy. Let's go. Let's do it. Okay, you're up for this? Yeah, I'm up for it. Okay, just answer these questions, please. And leave it with me and I'll get it all updated. Great. First one, very important. TikTok, Instagram, YouTube or Pinterest? YouTube. You're a YouTube guy. Yeah, I'm a big YouTube guy. I watch comedy podcasts and they help me fall asleep. I watch them every day and they help me fall asleep. Yeah, I do that as well. I just have it on my phone next to my bed. It's like my TV. Like I don't have a... Constantly need voices. I know, it's weird. What is that? What does that mean? What does that mean for us? I think let's not dig into it, actually. Let's keep the game going. Let's move on from it. Okay, forget it. Move on. Have you ever broken a bone? Yes, many. My wrists. Have you? Fingers. Oh my God. I tore my ACL or MCO. Broke my ankle. Are you clumsy? Are you accident prone? I'm not clumsy. I just, I used to like skate and I used to ski and things and do dumb things. That'll do it. Yeah, that'll do it. Okay, that's all going on the Wikipedia page. What is your wine order? I don't love wine. But like orange, like I like the natural stuff that's all funky and like gross. This is like when I asked Conan Gray about vodka cranberry, he was like, oh, I don't really drink it. Yeah, we just make it up and we put it out. Have you got like a memorable story from a showbiz or a celebrity night out? Something I used to do and I have now learned the hard way to stop doing. But when I go to those events where there's like celebrities or like famous people and musicians, before I was well known, I liked to like make things up about myself and fake name. Like a different character. Make it untraceable and like make things up. Not for any reason. It was just like a thing to do with my friends, but definitely have made a fool of myself now because then you meet the person. Oh, and they're like. And now I'm in those rooms in a more professional way. Hang on a minute, you're not an astronaut at all. Are you lying to me? All right. Okay. And finally, I asked this to everybody. Arguably the most important question. Any allergies? No. No allergies. This is going to be the weirdest Wikipedia. Like no one's going to learn anything from this. Just trust me. This is going to be great. Mate, thank you so much for being on the show tonight. It has been an absolute pleasure. Please give it up for Role Model.