4. J
ASON, HOW WAS IT that point, I felt the scale had WHAT ABOUT THE BODY to sit on the sofa and not be a I f**king hate the green screen
ON THE SET WITH changed from the first movie, COUNT? WERE YOU part of it? I’ve made movies that acting [the CGI stuff they do
ALL THESE AGEING because there was Arnie! KEEPING SCORE OF WHO were a bit of a headache, but in an empty room]! I’d pay
ACTION HEROES? WERE THERE ANY BIG GETS THE MOST KILLS IN this is not that. This is a bunch significant amounts of money
A lot of fun. Everyone was WEIGHTLIFTING THE FILM? of good guys getting together. to never have to do it again.
messing around and making COMPETITIONS? Ha! I’m sure I have second We all love making action You can’t be yourself against
wallies of themselves. You need Have you seen the size of that billing in terms of a body count. movies. That’s what we do. a green screen – you cannot
a bit of light relief from all the guy Terry Crews? You can’t lift Actually, maybe third or fourth SO IT WOULD BE FAIR TO fake adrenalin!
punching and shooting! more than him. His arms are 25 – further down than some of the SAY YOU ENJOY YOUR FINALLY, A NEW JAMES
SO YOU DIDN’T GET inches wide! With those chaps other chaps, anyway! DAY JOB, THEN? BOND MOVIE IS COMING
STARSTRUCK? and Sly around, you can forget WAS THERE ANY ON-SET It beats what I used to do: UP. EVER THOUGHT
Well, they’re just a bunch of the weights contests! BRAINSTORMING ABOUT selling perfume and jewellery ABOUT BEING 007?
normal chaps – but just a little SO YOU WEREN’T ALL A THIRD EXPENDABLES on the street! That’s not really Sure. Who wouldn’t want to
bit bigger than the average guy! PUSHING EACH OTHER IN MOVIE? as glamorous as running play James Bond? It’s the best
They like fooling around, so THE GYM? Sly has an insatiable appetite around in a big blockbuster film role in the world, so I don’t think
they are no different from No, everyone does their own for more, so I’m sure he’s with the likes of Stallone and there’s a working actor who
friends who I’ve got. Although thing. Although I will say Scott thinking about the next one Schwarzenegger, is it? There wouldn’t. I’m British, and he
they are slightly more Adkins is probably one of the – and the one after that! are a lot of perks. There are the stands for something I grew up
recognisable. greatest on-screen fighters WOULD YOU BE negatives, too, but that’s life in on. I’ve seen more Bond movies
YOU CAN SAY THAT there is. He had a bad knee INTERESTED IN DOING general, right? than anything else, so there has
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AGAIN… injury when we had our fight A THIRD ONE? AND WHAT ARE THOSE to be something in that…
My very first day on set was scene and was due to go for an Yeah, of course. Do I want NEGATIVES?
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friend.” But have they ever want this dog team going out is just as well. “A lot of the time, action. As there are never more Guards in Sangin, Dave and at this job is guaranteed to thought we were a threat, it the celebrity status gone to his
spent every day risking their and finding what they’d taken Treo and I were right at the than a few metres between the Treo soon racked up a series irritate one group of people: the meant we were doing our job.” head, or is he still a hard case?
life alongside their canine time to put in the ground!” front of the patrols, because animal and his master, both are of crucial, life-saving finds, the Taliban. And thanks to the “In the Army, Treo bit quite
chum, just to save the lives of we needed his nose to make constantly at risk. pick of the bunch being the interpreters assigned to British Going big time a few people because he was
other people around them? If Fronting up sure there were no IEDs there “Yes, I was scared,” admits discovery of a daisy chain – troops, Dave learned Treo had It’s no real surprise Treo picked a little grumpy,” says Dave.
not, they should probably listen Treo – a black Labrador-spaniel to kill our guys. Dave. “But I used that fear to five IEDs linked together. become a Taliban target. up a variety of awards when he “But since he got the award,
to what Dave Heyhoe has to say cross – was first handed to the “I would know we were make sure neither of us “It was what we call a “We were getting orders for returned home. But the big one he’s gone all big-time!
about his furry friend, Treo, Army by a family who couldn’t on the verge of finding became sloppy. Even so, collapsing circuit,” explains an operation and they kept was the Dickens Medal – the “He gets hugs and kisses
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before uttering those words handle him. With Dave, though, something because Treo’s every time we went out Dave. “If someone was to clip talking about this person they animal equivalent of the and rolls around on his back.
again. it was instantly a good fit. temperament would totally on patrol, I’d still be one wire, the others would go were going to use as bait. It Victoria Cross. Only 63 have You see him thinking, ‘Yeah
Back in 2008, Dave and Treo “It was love at first sight! If change. He would suck thinking, ‘Is this up around him. That would wasn’t until the end they asked, been awarded since its creation baby!’ All I’m thinking is, ‘What
were out in Afghanistan. Treo I hadn’t joined the Army, harder on the ground going be the last have killed an entire patrol. ‘Are you OK with that, Dog?’ – in World War I. So, it was for happened to the Army dog?’”
was an arms explosive search I would probably have ended up and his body would go one with my I remember an American which is what everyone called both of them, right?
dog, and Dave was his handler. in prison. Treo was the same; rigid, as he entered best mate?’ officer looked round and said, me! For the past two weeks “No it’s for animal gallantry,” It’s All About Treo: Life
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wound or kill British troops. doggy world! You could see that Being at the my best think about the damage that because we were so successful.” my reward was retirement and is out now, published by
And they were so good, even when he was ripping the heads front of a patrol mate.” one device could have done, It meant they could flush out to have my best mate at home. Quercus at £18.99
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Perhaps a qualification should be made before I reveal today’s IT world, Caplin is perhaps not your archetypal ex-
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was the post-punk, avant-garde band Haysi Fantayzee.
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Magnet. Greg wears suit
STEADY Made up of Paul Caplin, Kate Garner and Jeremy Healy They had one major hit: Welcome to the Monkey House, a and shirt by
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song. But, as he tells experiencing its third or fourth shot
in the arm thanks to his appearance
Hugo Greenhalgh, it’s on Dragons’ Den. But this time Levi
Roots, Mobo Music Awards Best
not his first brush with Reggae Performer Nominee in 1998,
fame in a life that has founder of the highly influential roots
group Matic16 (named after the M16 -
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was coming back as an entrepreneur.
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