There are probably several errors in here. Probably spelled some stuff wrong (especially the German bands). In some parts there are two or three people speaking at once and I've tried to get everything but I'm sure I missed some stuff. I left out most of the *laughs* because mostly they cut in where someone else was talking. But I included all the very big geeky laughs. Anything in square brackets is me. Also, near the end my tape ran out of space and I had to quickly switch to another tape. It was right in the middle of Elijah talking about auditioning for LotR but he didn't say anything that hasn't been said in a hundred articles.

Also, one more thing. If you are the owner/operater/whatever of a website about Elijah, Franka, or Lord of the Rings I'd prefer that you would make a copy of this and post it on your own site, rather than linking to it. I will be deleting these files within about a month's time probably; I rarely keep this sort of thing around because I'm not running a fan site. I made the transcript for a particular group of people, and while I expected it would get around a bit, I didn't expect it to get around quite as much as it has. So, in short: Feel free to copy the files. Delete my editorial comment if you'd like. Link back to my main site or not. Credit me (BrightEyes) or not. I don't care too much.

Here it is.

Grant Lawrence: Welcome back to Radiosonic everybody, I'm Grant Lawrence and this is CBC Radio Two. And in just a few minutes time Elijah Wood and Franka Potente will be here to talk movies and talk music and spin their favourites. And why are these two big time movie stars on our little radio show tonight? Well, stick around and you'll find out. Basically they just love music and caught wind of our show and wanted to.. heard that we have the guest dj thing happen and they wanted to come down. They'll be playing music like Gomez, Cornelius. They'll be playing some Kruder & Dorfmeister. Old stuff. Television. The Stooges, as well as Clinic and Pulp. Possibly even, if we can fit it in - what was that other one that I saw that was of interest - oh, Idlewild, I haven't heard from them. And something from NZ of course, where Elijah did all that Lord of the Rings stuff. The Clean, I think he's going to be playing for us as well.

[Cut out some stuff like the news and whatever.]

GL: Welcome all our listeners from around the world tuning in tonight on Real Audio. We have had email about this from every pocket of the globe. Little did we know. Thank goodness for computers. It is now time for the Elijah Wood - Franka Potente Escapader Hour.

[Couple of songs.]

GL: Welcome back to Radiosonic everybody, this is the Escapader Hour. My name is Grant Lawrence and this is CBC Radio Two we're going coast to coast to coast in Canada. This is a very special..
Elijah Wood: Is that three coasts? *laughs a bit*
GL: Yeah, three coasts. This is a very special Escapader Hour, might as well, yeah okay sure, it's a celebrity edition of the Escapader Hour. Joining me tonight is Franka Potente. Hi Franka.
Franka Potente: Hi Grant. How are you?
GL: Good thank you. And Elijah Wood. How are you doing?
EW: Very well, thank you.
GL: Thanks a lot for coming down.
EW: It's a pleasure. This is sort of a dream come true, actually. *laughs*
GL: Why don't you first tell us what you're doing in Vancouver, first of all.
EW: Well the two of us are actually here, making a movie, a small movie called Try Seventeen, little independent film. We've been here about a month so far.
GL: Okay. And how are you enjoying Vancouver?
EW: Love Vancouver.
GL: Yeah.
FP: Yeah. I'm actually glad we're not shooting in LA. It's a lot more.. it's less dirty air. It's more cosmopolitan. It reminds me of Berlin a lot, I have to say.
GL: Okay, great. And that's where you're from?
FP: Well, that's where I live at the moment.
GL: And Elijah you're from Iowa?
EW: Originally, yeah.
GL: And but now LA.
EW: Now Los Angeles. I've been there for like 13 years, so I essentially grew up there.
GL: So basically, people are going to be out there in Canada and going what they heck are these guys doing on Radiosonic. You know, usually it's musicians and..
EW: They just ask me that going down the street: "What are you doing in Vancouver?" *geeky laugh*
GL: Yeah and so, you two are bonefide fans of basically the kind of music that we play on the show.
EW: It so happens.
FP: Yes.
GL: And so you've brought in a whole hour plus maybe of songs that we're going to hear tonight.
EW: I could have brought so much more. *geeky laugh*
GL: So, what kind of music are we going to hear?
EW: We're going to listen to some Clean, which is actually a band from NZ that I became familiar with while doing LotR. Some Cornelius, Japanese kind of artists. Uh, Gomez. The White Stripes, which I'm sure plenty of your listeners are familiar with. Idlewild, The Hives.
GL: Great.
FP: Some, I brought some German bands. I want to make them popular here. We're going to listen to Einsturzende Neubauten, which means "collapsing new buildings."
GL: Great, well, again, we're very excited to have you here.
EW: Thank you.
GL: And so, well we'll talk later. I'll ask you about making movies and all that kind of stuff a little later. But uh music now. So uh..
EW: Let's cut to the music.
GL: Let's keep rolling. So what's the first band we're going to hear?
EW: Alright, this is The Sneaker Pimps. This is actually off of their third record, which is as yet unreleased. So this is kind of an exclusive for y'all. *giggles* Pulled this off the internet. They've been around for a long time, since '97 I think was their first record. They had a female vocalist initially. The female vocalist, Kelli Dayton, left the band - creative differences - and they released another record with one of the main songwriters doing the lead vocals. This is their latest effort, to be released on Tommy Boy Records.

[Songs.]

GL: Welcome back to Radiosonic everybody, this is the Escapader Hour CBC Radio Two.
Someone - EW?: Escapades. [Said in a kind of childish voice.]
GL: I'm Grant Lawrence and that is Elijah Wood, yes I said Elijah Wood from LotR. And over here is Franka Potente. And uh, from yeah, Run Lola Run. Yes, the same. *Franka giggles* And they're here in Vancouver doing a movie called Try Seventeen. What's the movie about?
EW: Uh..
FP: It's about Elijah. Only about Elijah. *Elijah laughs* And about wet dreams and cleaning those up and having..
GL: What is it, like a teen thing?
EW: NO
FP: Cause he gets to kiss Blondie in the film.
EW: Debra Harry was actually in the film.
FP: He's making out with her in the film.
GL: Really, she was flown to Vancouver to be in the movie?
EW: She actually was here for..
FP: To kiss Elijah, yeah. *Elijah laughs*
EW: She was here for something else. It kind of worked out that she was here. So she worked with us for two days. Debra Harry was on set for two days.
FP: Just Elijah.
EW: Yes, yes.
FP: Well that's a good reason to see the movie, don't you think?
EW: It was a, I had to kind of make out with her to a certain degree because my character.. I have a fantasy about her.
GL: Okay.
EW: But the movie is basically *Franka kind of snort/laughs* a coming of age story *E and F both laugh* about my character named Jones, who moves to this house with, that's seperated into apartments and it's about his relationships with the people in the apartment building.
FP: I'm amongst those people.
EW: I'm, I'm.. Jones kind of falls in love with her character.
GL: Okay, and, this movie going to sort of come out amidst the LotR stuff right. Is it sort of hard to come maybe down from a epic..
EW: It's great. It's a relief. I think I, I've been particularly going for something a lot smaller. So I was much more interested in the smaller kind of scripts than anything. That's partly why I chose it.
GL: And uh, you're obviously, you're both music lovers and that's what we're doing tonight, you're picking this whole hour. All these music choices are yours. *Elijah makes a weird noise* So why don't you tell us what we just heard there.
EW: Uh, well, we did, we heard The Bee's, that was the last track. The Bee's are from the Isle of Wight, I believe. Pretty new band. They only have an EP out at the moment, called Punch Bag, and that was the name of the song that we heard. Before that was Brian Eno and David Byrne, from the album My Life in the Bush of Ghosts. It's a wicked kind of mixture of two very interesting artists. And before that was The Sneaker Pimps. A song called "Sick" off of Bloodsport.
GL: Okay, great. And I hear that that you have been frequenting our local independant record shops quite a bit. *scary Elijah laugh*
EW: It get's around.. I think I have.. It's something that Franka's had to become very used to because every weekend I have to have my time for CD shopping.
GL: Really
EW: Yeah.
GL: Like how many do you buy a week?
EW: Uh...
FP: Twenty for me, ten for you. *GL makes an'is that so' type noise* Yeah, I'm lucky, I get everything.
EW: I buy her a lot of records.
GL: K, now, I don't know if you want to pick favourites but what's your top Vancouver independant record store?
EW: Oh... *FP whispers something - I think "Scratch"* You know, Scratch is really good, actually. And I hadn't been to Scratch before. Because I've spent some time in Vancouver before and the last time I was in Vancouver I frequented Zulu, which moved across the street and up a block. I loved Zulu. [So do I! Clearly it's like.. meant to be or something. *g*] So I'd have to say Zulu is probably still my favourite.
FP: We just went there today.
GL: So what's next?
EW: We're actually heading into a little bit of Gomez, a band from England that I've been into for a while and this is off their new record, called In Our Gun.

[Songs.]

GL: And welcome back to Radiosonic, the Escapader Hour. I'm Grant Lawrence and we're joined by two very special guests tonight. Why don't you guys introduce yourselves.
EW: I.. uh.. Elijah Wood, over here.
FP: Franka Potente over here.
GL: And thank you so much for being here and that was a great track.
EW: Yes, Cornelius. *F laughs, then so does E* YES! Cornelius. I was actually in Japan for the first time recently and I wanted to try and see if Cornelius was playing or
FP: At the Japanese [something.. EW's voice covers it]
EW: .. see some Japanese bands. Yeah he's Japanese. And uh, Buffalo Daughter, I had a friend to go hang out with who kinda hooked me up with hanging out with Buffalo Daughter but I never did anything about it. I had like Sugar's number and I didn't call her.
GL: But you're a Buffalo Daughter fan?
EW: Yeah, love Buffalo Daughter, absolutely. And the new records very strange and I still haven't gotten into it quite yet. But Cornelius is wicked. And before that was Gomez, off of their new record.
GL: We were talking about how we, by fluke, both saw them..
EW: Around the same time.
GL: Around the same time. New York City. I think 1998 for a CMJ [? I think..] I might be maybe a year off. For CMJ and were both bored by them and we both now appreciate them.
EW: Yes. Yeah. I was even more bored, actually, when I heard their first single and I thought umm.. no. And it actually took me a good two or three years to come around. But uh, they're fantastic.
GL: Now, I want to ask you, I've just been looking over some of your old bios here and there. Seen a couple of weird things. Is it true that you both fence? *Elijah laughs*
GL: Is there any truth to that whatsoever?
EW: He's done his research.
FP: I used to fence.
GL: You used to fence.
FP: I don't do it anymore.
EW: I used to fence as well.
GL: So is that just a complete fluke..
EW: Total fluke.
GL: that you're now friends and I'm mean this is kind of..
FP: Friends and fence and friends
GL: Fence and friends. It's a new sitcom!
FP: We should fence together..
EW: *In dorky announcer type voice* It's 'Fence and Friends'
FP: Fencing friends.
GL: But so uh,. you fenced in your own separate lives..
FP: I fenced in Munich actually.
EW: What year? Maybe that intersected?
FP: Oh, um. Probably seven years ago.
EW: Uh... yeah.
FP: When I was 20. I don't know how old you were seven years ago when I was 20.
EW: Yeah, that's close to what I was [something..] as well.
FW: *laughs* That's close to what..
GL: It's kind of an aristocratic sport, isn't it fencing.
EW: It's very good for the posture.
GL: And so, have you ever fenced each other?
EW: No. We're thinking of taking lessons again.
FP: Yes. In LA we'll start the fencing thing.
GL: So you're chatting with each other and then one day one of you just said "You know, I really love to fence." And then you said..
All: So do I! *laughs*
FP: I don't know, I think we had, I think it was raining and we had an umbrella and one of us was doing fenching movements with the umbrella and this is how it came up.
GL: I see.
EW: Is that your story? *F laughs*
EW: She's just made up a complete lie.
FP: No!
EW: But it sounds good.
GL: Alright, well.
FP: I was.. *Elijah laughs* ..whatever. I'm not going to fence with you now, anymore. Fence yourself. *Franka laughs*
GL: Is it true Elijah that you're going to shows with the kid from the Osbornes?
EW: Uh,. yeah. My sister actually hung out with the Osborne family before I got to know them. But Jack and Kelly I know quite well.
GL: Are you surprised by the rampant sucess of this tv show?
EW: No, because they're incredibly fascinating. Um, I'm not surprised. They're funny. They're endearing. And the fact that they have their own show so that people can get a look at them is absolutely brilliant. And I'm not surpised they're so sucessful. It's fantastic. But strange, I'm sure, for them.
GL: I was mentioning earlier to you before we started doing this, that I'm picking up what I thought was a NZ accent but you were saying its more British.
EW: Probably because I spent so much time, well I spent so much time in NZ, but mostly around, you know, the British actors. So yeah, probably pieces of NZ as well.
GL: I saw you on the Academy Award there with uh, is he sir yet?
EW: Sir Ian McKellen. They apparently flashed to me 15 or 20 times, which is really bizarre. I don't know what I was doing up front.
GL: I can't believe.. I was sh..
FP: You were looking good, that's why. *Elijah laughs*
GL: I was pretty choked that he didn't win.
EW: Yeah, so was he, I think.
FP: They'll win next year. Next year.
GL: Oh right, cause he's got like three shots at it.
FP: Yes.
EW: Yeah, he does.
GL: Who was that guy with him.
EW: Uh, that's his boyfriend, who's actually from NZ as well.
GL: Oh really. Everyone wanted to know, 'who's that guy?'
EW: "Who's that guy?"
FP: Well, they were holding hands. It's probably not his brother.. or his uncle.
GL: Could've been his son.
FP: I don't know.
GL: Looked like a fairly young man.
EW: Yeah, that was his boyfriend. And his boyfriend is from NZ. So he actually met him on the film and imported him *GL and FP laugh* to London.
GL: Okay, how about music from NZ. You were down,. how long were you down there for?
EW: I was down in NZ for 15 to 16 months.
GL: And you have to go back, right?
EW: I have to go back for like..
GL: For like another month?
EW: ..two, three weeks of pick ups for film two.
GL: So you're down there. You obviously, wherever you are, you discover music wherever you go and NZ was no different. So you got a NZ track for us, lined up
EW: We have a track here by a band called The Clean, which was apparently highly influential to The Pixies. The Pixes have cited them as an influence. They're part of a sound in NZ called the Dunedin sound. There is a place in NZ called Dunedin, and during the mid to late 80s there were quite a lot of bands to come out of Dunedin, and this is one of them.

[Songs.]

GL: Welcome back, this is Radiosonic on CBC Radio Two, the Escapader Hour, a very special one because we have two film stars with us today. Elijah Wood from LotR *elijah makes a musical noise which I can't possibly explain* and the first movie I ever saw you in, The Good Son.
EW: Oh, right. With Maculey Culkin.
GL: With Little Home Alone, yeah.
EW: *laughs* Little Home Alone.
GL: And I think I also saw you in Internal Affairs, which was a couple years earlier.
EW: You know, I didn't actually get to see that until I was 15 or 16.
FP: That's a movie with Richard Gere?
EW: Yeah.
GL: Yeah, yeah.
FP: He's in there for two seconds. I saw it. I saw you too.
EW: But I wasn't actually old enough to see the movie when it came out.
GL: And what were you like?
FP: He doesn't say anything...
EW: Eight.
GL: You were eight.
FP: ..he just gets hugged by his mother in the film, I think.
EW: And I said "No don't. Stop that."
FP: Really.. *laughs*
GL: And Franka Potente is here from Germany. And we're going to get to some German music in just a second. Because, Franka you've been sitting her so patiently as Elijah..
FP: Oh, I have nothing to say, I'm very boring.
GL: Elijah has picked most of the music we've.. in fact.. pretty much all of it since we've heard so far this evening.
FP: That's okay.
GL: What don't you tell us what we heard in that last set.
EW: That last set was uh, the last song we heard was Idlewild off of 100 Broken Windows. They're a band from Scotland. They're pretty wicked. Uh, before that was The White Stripes, off of their new record. And before that was The Clean, which is a NZ band. So if you weren't sitting down I'm sure that probably knocked you on your ass that set. *laughs*
GL: Yes, I would think so. And again, a little more rocking. The White Stripes we were talking about them, out of Detroit, and many things are happening for them, they're exploding all over the place. They were on Letterman. And all this stuff.
EW: It's unbelievable.
GL: People are calling Detroit the new Seattle, which I'm sure uh..
EW: We've got bands like The Von Bondies now coming out and..
GL: I heard that you two went down to see them in Vancouver.
EW: At The Pic. [Piccadilly Pub. Here's a picture from that show. Of the band, not Elijah. (Thought I should clarify.)]
FP: So how was that show?
EW: That was a great show.
GL: Yeah, what'd you think of that club?
EW: Uh.. narrow, or long.
GL: Yeah, yeah.
FP: Is that the one we could smoke at?
EW: Yes, well that was a bonus, we could smoke there.
GL: You both smoke.
FP: Yeah.
GL: And you're just put off by this Canadian movement to ban smoking everywhere.
EW: But it's not as bad as LA. It's actually better than LA. LA is much worse.
GL: Oh really.
EW: So it's a little more of a relief.
FP: Germany is much better.
GL: Oh yeah. Europe, forget about it. Everybody's puffing.
EW: Oh it's great.
FP: Yeah.
GL: Now Mar, in the booth here, our AP, she was like "You smoke?"
EW: Yeah, I'm sorry. She's against it. I really enjoy it.
GL: Do you get heat..
FP: Elijah has great skin, you wouldn't think he smokes like he does.
GL: Do you get heat from your fans over your smoking?
EW: No, not so much and if I do I don't really pay attention to it.
GL: Just go with it.
EW: Yeah.
GL: Okay, so now over to you Franka, just give people a little bit of background. *Franka laughs* Run Lola Run
FP: Run Lola Run
GL: Everybody's seen it, everybody knows you from that. But of course, your first US film was Blow. That's correct? With Johnny Depp?
FP: Correct. With Johnny Depp.
GL: But you've also music in your background, because - now correct me if I'm wrong - did you compose the theme to Run Lola Run?
FP: I wish I did. No, I didn't compose it. I just basically sang three songs for that.
GL: Okay.
FP: I got an MTV award for it.
GL: Oh really? Congratulations.
FP: MTV Europe.
GL: So you did three songs on that soundtrack?
FP: I think three, yeah.
GL: We gotta dig that up. I gotta find it.
FP: Yeah. Try and find it. Play "Wish" though, that's my favourite of the three.
GL: Now you have some German music for us to play, so..
FP: *Franka laughs* Well, I'm glad you enjoy that wonderful music that Elijah got because the next song from Einsturzende Neubauten, which means - what did I say? - collapsing new buildings
GL: collapsing new buildings. And Elijah you had some metaphor..
EW: It's just anti-establishment.
FP: Yeah well. Because it's awful. It's very progressive. But it's loud and weird. It's I guess what we call Industrial. Actually, a very very very important band. Didn't only influence German bands, also they had connections to London, English music. Besides music - you will get an idea when you listen to it - they did a lot of spoken word, all sorts of arts. Very influential.
GL: We'll hear them and a couple more. Then we'll chat some more. This is Franka Potente's picks on The Escapader Hour, Radiosonic CBC Radio Two.

[Song that starts with a barking dog. Then some other songs. In my not very humble opinion, the third song in this set kicks at least 15 different kinds of ass. LOVE IT.]

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