The Untold Truth Of Matthew Rhys

Publish date: 2024-05-06

In addition to Matthew Rhys' work as an actor, he also participates in another less serious venture: "The Wine Show," a TV series in which he and fellow actors James Purefoy, Dominic West, and Matthew Goode are joined by wine experts as they indulge their mutual love of vino by traveling to some of the world's most famous wine regions to sample the bounty of the local vineyards. 

Discussing the show during an interview with W, Rhys was asked "how drunk" he became while enjoying all that wine. "Absolutely wasted. Wasted!" he responded. According to Rhys, while filming the first season in Italy, he discovered that "Italians firmly believe that you do not spit the wine like the French do when they do tastings." 

This came into play during the series' extended production days. "So, if you imagine we start at 8:30 in the morning, we would stop at like 6:30 in the afternoon — by midday, we were on our knees!" he joked. "All the producers would say, 'You've got to stop slurring, you've got to say something more than, "Oh, this is nice!"' As Rhys recalled, producers soon began to rejig the production schedule to accommodate the drunkenness of their cast. "They started scheduling that into the day because around 2 o'clock we wouldn't have a single linear thought in our heads, and they'd give us time to sleep for a little bit, and see if they could get any more out of us in the afternoon," he explained.

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