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00:00We've a very happy sofa for you tonight.
00:02We've loved her as Claire in Derry Girls,
00:05as Lady Whistledown in Bridgerton,
00:06and as Diplomat Barbie.
00:08Now she's back on stage
00:09in the classic Playboy of the Western world.
00:12It's Nicola Coughlin, everybody!
00:16Yay!
00:18Hello!
00:20Yes, so good to see you!
00:22I'm good to see you!
00:23Nicola Coughlin!
00:25This wonderful woman is a pasta-winning star of stage,
00:30cinema and television,
00:31and a Vogue cover girl to boot.
00:33Now she brings us the A to Z
00:35of her stories and opinions
00:37in the little book of Miriam.
00:39It's always a pleasure to welcome
00:41Miriam Marguerite!
00:42CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
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00:46So lucky!
00:48Yay!
00:52Thank you, thank you!
00:53Thank you, thank you!
00:54Thank you, thank you!
00:56Thank you, thank you, thank you,
00:58thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you!
00:59Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you!
01:01Thank you, thank you, thank you!
01:01Thank you, thank you, thank you!
01:02Thank you, thank you, thank you!
01:03This smoldering Swede first made his mark
01:05in vampire series True Blood
01:07before starring in Viking epic The Northman
01:10and hit shows like Big Little Lies and Succession.
01:13His new film is called Pillion,
01:15it's a first-time welcome
01:17to Mr. Alexander Skarsgård!
01:19CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
01:20CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
01:20CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
01:21CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
01:22And this Hollywood great is an eight-time Oscar nominee
01:37who starred in films like Fatal Attraction,
01:39Dangerous Liaisons and 101 Dalmatians.
01:42Now she stars in the latest Knives Out mystery,
01:44Wake Up Dead Man.
01:46It is the great Glenn Close!
01:48CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
01:50Oh, lovely, lovely, lovely, lovely, lovely.
02:02Nice to see you all.
02:05Leave the guests alone, Miriam.
02:06Sorry.
02:06LAUGHTER
02:07Miriam, are you paying homage to Where's Wally?
02:11Why the scarf?
02:13It's Arsenal!
02:14Oh!
02:15CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
02:17You've heard of Arsenal?
02:19Oh, I have.
02:19Certainly the first part.
02:21LAUGHTER
02:22Was there a big game tonight or...?
02:27Yesterday there was a big game, yeah.
02:28I'm technically an Arsenal supporter too.
02:31I had a driver called Mickey who drove me on three different jobs
02:33and he said, do you have a team?
02:34I said, no.
02:35He said, you're an Arsenal supporter, so, me too.
02:37So you are as well?
02:38I don't know anything, but in, yes.
02:39Well, the thing is, I want to join the working classes.
02:43LAUGHTER
02:44And I'm so middle class, you know?
02:47I can't help it, but Arsenal is working class.
02:50OK.
02:51And I thought, if I support Arsenal, you know, people will accept me.
02:55LAUGHTER
02:56There's nothing like a scarf over sequins to suggest working class.
02:59LAUGHTER
03:00It's lovely to see you, Miriam.
03:06Glenn Close, I was saying to you, I feel like you're a frequent guest.
03:08You haven't been here for, what, 18 years?
03:1018 years, yes.
03:12What did you do to her the first time?
03:13LAUGHTER
03:14But now, is it true you nearly worked with Miriam?
03:18Yes, I think...
03:19Yes, I think...
03:20Don't you remember?
03:21Yes, I do.
03:22Well, it was...
03:23I think it was Albert Knobbs.
03:24Albert Knobbs, that's right.
03:25Yes, the movie Albert Knobbs, it was shot in Dublin,
03:27and I was dying for you to play the hotel proprietor.
03:29And why didn't I?
03:30What happened?
03:31I don't know.
03:32You would have been marvellous.
03:33I would have loved to have done that.
03:34Yes, yes.
03:35It's a beautiful piece of work.
03:38And I really admire you.
03:40You know, I don't admire all those people in Hollywood, but you, I do.
03:44I don't live in Hollywood and I never have.
03:46LAUGHTER
03:48I work there.
03:49You know, we all work there sometimes.
03:50Yeah.
03:51But you're a class act, darling.
03:53Oh, my goodness.
03:54Glen Class, I would say.
03:55Yes.
03:56Glen Class.
03:57Glen Class.
03:58Glen Class.
03:59I mean that.
04:00I mean that.
04:01I mean that.
04:02It's a first-time welcome to Alexander Skarsgård.
04:05So, hello.
04:06Hello.
04:07Hello.
04:08And now, here's an odd thing.
04:09I think you know Miriam.
04:12Uh...
04:13No, you don't.
04:14LAUGHTER
04:15What's that about?
04:16I clearly made a strong impression on Miriam when we met.
04:19What?
04:20Well, I...
04:21LAUGHTER
04:22We have actually met, yes.
04:24Uh...
04:25I believe you own or used to own a condo in Santa Monica.
04:30Is that correct?
04:31I did, yes.
04:32Yes.
04:33Were you looking to rent out a room in that at one point?
04:35This would have been like...
04:36When I was coming back to England, yeah.
04:39OK.
04:40What were you doing there?
04:41Well, I was...
04:43You were...
04:44Because you were going back to shoot...
04:45Was it Harry Potter maybe?
04:46Yeah, I think so.
04:47Yeah.
04:48And, um, I...
04:49It was an ad.
04:50I was looking for a room to rent.
04:52I was, uh...
04:53And why didn't you take it?
04:54Well...
04:55LAUGHTER
04:56Tell her.
04:57Tell her.
04:58Uh-oh.
04:59Was it not clean or something?
05:00No, I...
05:01It was an incredibly...
05:02It was a gorgeous apartment, and I remember that you were very charming, and I...
05:09And expensive?
05:10No, I don't think it was that.
05:11I think it was...
05:12I think, in hindsight, I probably misread the cues, but I felt a strong...
05:17sexual connection.
05:19LAUGHTER
05:20And I think that...
05:21No, no.
05:23It was...
05:25Probably a...
05:26Probably misread the cues, but I felt this could potentially get messy if I rent a room
05:30in this apartment if I'm...
05:31If I'm your tenant.
05:32Darling, I'm 84 and gay.
05:36LAUGHTER
05:37And I've been with my partner for 58 years.
05:40Again, I...
05:41I probably misread the situation.
05:43LAUGHTER
05:44But, uh...
05:45But, uh...
05:46You're talking through your bottom.
05:47LAUGHTER
05:48But, you know, it is...
05:49I was actually there, and I do remember that, uh, we had a lovely afternoon, which you
05:54obviously don't remember, but it was, um...
05:56It was...
05:58LAUGHTER
05:59That bit's...
06:00That bit's true, Miriam.
06:01He did spend the afternoon, then.
06:02A lovely afternoon.
06:03Yes.
06:04Uh, Nicola, have you nearly worked with Miriam, or nearly lived with her?
06:07LAUGHTER
06:08Yes!
06:09Miriam, I'm your daughter.
06:11LAUGHTER
06:12LAUGHTER
06:13And I am your father.
06:15LAUGHTER
06:16LAUGHTER
06:21Oh, my God.
06:22Happy family.
06:23Oh!
06:24That is lovely.
06:25Yeah, yeah, yeah.
06:26I feel like it's a Christmas special.
06:27LAUGHTER
06:28Long lost families.
06:29Beautiful.
06:30Ellis, we've got lots to talk about tonight.
06:33We've got two great films, a classic play, and a new book from Miriam.
06:36So, let's get started.
06:37Glen Glose brings us our new star-studded whodunit,
06:40Wake Up Dead Man, a Knives Out Mystery.
06:43It opens in cinemas tonight, and then it'll stream on Netflix
06:46from the 12th of December.
06:49So, this is the latest Benoit Blanc mystery, played by Daniel Craig.
06:53It's an all-new cast, all-new story.
06:56Who are you?
06:57What's going on?
06:58Ah.
06:59Well, it's gothic.
07:00It's more gothic than the others.
07:02And it takes place largely in and around a church,
07:05and I am Martha Delacroix, the woman who is, I would call,
07:10the church lady.
07:11Yeah.
07:12She takes care of everything.
07:14It's a great part for you.
07:16I mean, it's...
07:17It was fun.
07:18Yeah.
07:19And, like always, the cast is amazing.
07:21Daniel Craig, you...
07:23Joshua Connor is so good in this film.
07:24So good.
07:25He plays a priest in it.
07:27Yes.
07:28Oh, there he is.
07:29He's fantastic.
07:30I think he's kind of like a young Jimmy Stewart.
07:33Oh, that's a...
07:34Yes.
07:35You know, you can't help but love him.
07:36Yeah.
07:37Listen, we've got a little clip.
07:39This is Joshua Connor as the priest.
07:41Yes, who's just arrived.
07:42He's just arrived.
07:43He's discovering something of the church's past.
07:46Yes.
07:47Good.
07:50And Connor's head of church in that clip as well.
07:54But apparently, and I know people always say this after films,
07:56particularly when there's a big cast, that it was a very happy...
07:59It was, yes.
08:00But apparently you weren't hanging out in your own trailers at all.
08:02No, not at all.
08:03In fact, it's kind of what Rian Johnson does.
08:06Wherever we were, we had a movable greenworm.
08:09And that's where we would gather and laugh and sleep and tell stories and try those...
08:16At one point, somebody brought in those really terrible British...
08:20They're piggy thumb, the candies.
08:22Peppa pigs?
08:23Yeah, Peppa pigs.
08:24We were all trying Peppa pigs.
08:25Percy pigs.
08:26Percy pigs.
08:27Percy pigs.
08:28Percy pigs.
08:29Things like that.
08:30Yeah, yeah.
08:31Wow.
08:32Yeah, we had a great time.
08:34The bar was quite low.
08:35But those things that were drawn on the...
08:39Whatever it was, they looked like genital organs.
08:43Yes, Miriam.
08:44Am I right?
08:46Am I right?
08:47Yes.
08:48Oh, of course.
08:49I mean, it was an approximation, but yes.
08:50It's a while since I've seen one.
08:52And now, the other thing, it's a lovely cast, and you all hung out, but you also brought
09:01your lovely dog, Pip.
09:02My dog, Pip.
09:03Yes.
09:04Who doesn't appear in the film.
09:05No.
09:06But he's backstage right now.
09:07Oh, is he?
09:08Oh, yes.
09:09You should have brought him on.
09:10This is you and Pip on set.
09:12By the way, I should say, this isn't a spoiler.
09:16Did the dog do it?
09:18He wants you to think he did.
09:22Those eyes...
09:23I get lost in those eyes.
09:24I know.
09:25Yeah.
09:26And now, this crucifix, is this the crucifix you brought from another film?
09:30Yes.
09:31Yes.
09:32I have an incredible costume collection from my first movie.
09:36And that crucifix was actually given to me by my father when he visited St. Peter's
09:41a long time ago.
09:42And I wore it in House of the Spirits.
09:44Yeah.
09:45And I said, wouldn't it be nice to get it and wear it again in this film?
09:49And I did.
09:50And it really meant something to me.
09:52And is it true, the thing about your contract...
09:54Yes.
09:55About costume.
09:56Yeah.
09:57Yes.
09:58I can pick whatever I want.
10:00Not if...not if it's rented, though I have nicked a couple of things.
10:05I have to say.
10:06And what do you do with them all?
10:08Well, first of all, I...I spend a lot of time in fitting rooms.
10:13And especially in movies where you don't have a lot of time to rehearse, if any at all,
10:18it's in that costume room when they're constructing the character.
10:22You're literally part of constructing the character as they're putting the clothes on you.
10:27So I've kept all of them from my first movie.
10:29Plus, I have 101, 102 Dalmatians, so I have the original Sunset Boulevard costumes.
10:34It's an extraordinary collection, which has already been shown in two different museums,
10:39you know.
10:40You could raise money for charity.
10:41I could.
10:42I could.
10:43But she chooses not to.
10:44No.
10:45Just don't tell yourself.
10:46I mean...
10:47Glenn hates charity things.
10:50Oh, boy.
10:51Designers love it because otherwise they're rented out and torn apart and...
10:57Yeah.
10:58Yeah.
10:59The only thing I kept from Harry Potter was a pair of socks.
11:03Because they were nice kind of thick woolen socks.
11:06Yeah.
11:07Like socks.
11:08And you wear them in life.
11:09I do wear them in life.
11:10Is that all you've kept from all the things you've been in?
11:13Yeah, because I don't hang on to the costumes, you know, like...
11:17Go on.
11:18Because, Alexander, you like to collect things from films.
11:20You've kept some things, haven't you?
11:22I do have a bloody G-string that I wore in the Northmen framed in my bedroom.
11:27Framed?
11:28Framed.
11:29By the costume department as a wrap gift.
11:31Oh, I see.
11:32You didn't take it into the framers.
11:34Yeah, I got a couple of...
11:37I got my fangs from True Blood.
11:41And two heads.
11:44One from Infinity Pool and one from Murderbot.
11:48Do you hide it, please?
11:49It's just scary.
11:50No, I...
11:51Yeah, well, no, I do.
11:52Like, I put them, like...
11:53I tuck them in.
11:54If I have guests staying over, I usually tuck one of them in under the sheets in the guest
11:58bed.
11:59Oh!
12:00And then I'll appear in the middle of the night with the fangs.
12:05Fun.
12:06You're glad he didn't rent the room now.
12:08Yeah.
12:09And, Nicola, your Barbie dress, did you get to keep that?
12:13Yes.
12:14I didn't, but they made me...
12:15I had a two-second role in Barbie, but Jacqueline Duran, the costume designer, was like, what
12:19do you want to wear?
12:20And she made me a record of a dress of a Barbie I had as a little girl.
12:24Oh!
12:25I know.
12:26It was amazing.
12:27She was called Sparkalize Barbie.
12:28They didn't let me keep it, but I've stole knickers on every set I've ever been on.
12:31Really?
12:32Because I got a text...
12:33That's very useful.
12:34Very useful.
12:35But you go home in them, and then you get a text to be like, hi Nicola, well done today.
12:38Could you please bring back the underwear?
12:40Because you've taken all of the characters under, and I'm like, yeah, fair.
12:43I think there's none left.
12:45Actually, we've got a very cute picture of you.
12:47Is your Barbie in this picture?
12:49No.
12:50But that's the...
12:51I think I was about six, and that's with my Barbie convertible.
12:54Look how bloody delighted I am with myself.
12:57I never knew you were rich, Nicola Coughlin.
12:59Oh, yeah, pretty fancy.
13:00Look at you in your Barbie convertible.
13:01But you have red hair there.
13:02It looks a bit red in that.
13:04It does, a little bit.
13:05Yeah, yeah.
13:06My dad set up the camera in front of the Christmas tree, and I was posing, thinking, I'm pretty
13:10cool.
13:11Well, you are.
13:12Thanks very much.
13:13I mean, look at the size of that thing.
13:14Yeah, it was huge.
13:15It was amazing.
13:16You could have driven it to school.
13:17I've got a nightie in that material, actually.
13:20That's interesting.
13:21Yeah, yeah.
13:22But I mean, I just happened to know you.
13:24No, no.
13:25I know.
13:26I share with the group.
13:27Yeah.
13:28Now, Glenn Close, you have been in something else very fun.
13:33All's fair.
13:35Because Kim Kardashian and Sarah Paulson were here telling us all about it.
13:39Yes.
13:40That was before it came out.
13:42And...
13:43Oh, no.
13:46Listen, we can laugh about it, because it's an enormous success, and there's a season
13:52two coming, isn't there?
13:53There is.
13:54Yes.
13:55Oh.
13:56Were you slightly taken aback by the reviews?
14:00I didn't read any of them.
14:02OK.
14:03No.
14:04One doesn't read reviews, especially if you know they're terrible.
14:06I won't say anything then.
14:07No.
14:08You must have known something, because you did post this cartoon.
14:11Yes.
14:12Which is Critic Bunny Stew.
14:14Yes.
14:15Did you draw this?
14:16I did.
14:17It's very good.
14:19Yeah.
14:20I thought it was appropriate.
14:23And pretty good likenesses.
14:24You can tell who they all are.
14:25No, you can tell whoever it is.
14:26Yeah.
14:27And talking of Critic Bunny Stew, you had a movie night, you and the rest of the cast.
14:31Yes.
14:32Yes.
14:33Because it came out that Kim had not seen Fatal Attraction.
14:37So a lot of you probably haven't either, if you're, you know.
14:39If you haven't, you should.
14:40Yeah.
14:41It's a really good movie.
14:42It's a scary movie.
14:43Um, so everyone said, what, what, what?
14:45And, uh, so Kim said, let's all go over to my mother's house in our Skims pajamas and
14:52watch Fatal Attraction.
14:53Oh, there you are.
14:54There we are.
14:55Wow.
14:57And we did.
14:59Was it awkward for you, everyone just watching your movie?
15:02Well, I hadn't seen it in a very long time.
15:05I mean, memories flew back into my mind.
15:08Especially, I didn't know that I showed my breasts so much.
15:12I mean, they weren't anything spectacular to see, but they were visible.
15:18Good.
15:19Good.
15:20Yeah, yeah.
15:21It's still streaming, Miriam.
15:24You can get it.
15:25Yeah.
15:26I've seen it.
15:28But you didn't have an intimacy counsellor then?
15:32Oh, no.
15:33No.
15:34No.
15:35What do they call them?
15:36Coordinator.
15:37Yeah.
15:38Intimacy coordinator.
15:39They also...
15:40I can't imagine such a thing.
15:41I can't either.
15:42But they also, don't you have those, those, you meet somebody and it's called, um, if
15:46you get along or you want to...
15:47Oh, a chemistry...
15:48A chemistry read?
15:49A chemistry read?
15:50Yes.
15:51A chemistry read.
15:52Oh, that's absurd.
15:53Isn't that absurd?
15:54Amazing.
15:55No, I don't understand.
15:56I don't think I'd have a career if I had to have a chemistry read.
16:00But when you screen test, isn't that like a chemistry read?
16:06Like, do they make you screen test with Michael Douglas?
16:08Oh, my God.
16:09Well, I screen test for Fatal Attraction.
16:11It was a nightmare.
16:12I've never known what to do with my hair.
16:13My hair was long.
16:14And I didn't know what to do with my hair.
16:16It was like...
16:17And I took a Valium because I was so nervous.
16:19So, I was walking across, you know, to the parking lot in LA, kind of like this.
16:24And you walked into a room and there's a camera.
16:27And there's Michael Douglas.
16:29And I wanted to just crawl into a hole.
16:33Do you guys know each other at all?
16:35Or was that the first time you met?
16:36No, no.
16:37And we do these scenes and Ed and I say,
16:39Hotter!
16:40Hotter!
16:41Hotter!
16:42What do you do when somebody says,
16:43Hotter!
16:44Hotter!
16:45I'd say, fuck off!
16:46You can see Glenn and a great company of stars in Wake Up Dead Man and Knives Out Mystery
16:56in cinemas now and coming soon to Netflix.
16:59But now, Alexander Skarsgård brings us what we've all been waiting for,
17:03a gay biker rom-com.
17:05It's down there.
17:07Finally.
17:08Finally.
17:09Wow.
17:10It's called Pillian.
17:12And it's in UK and Irish cinemas from today.
17:15And before we talk about it, let's watch a clip.
17:18This is your character, Ray,
17:20meeting the parents for the first time.
17:27Douglas Hodge and Leslie Sharp there as the parents
17:30and Harry Melling as Colin.
17:33So, Colin and Ray, tell us about...
17:36Because it is kind of...
17:37It's all sorts of things, but there is a romance at the heart of it.
17:40Yeah, it's a...
17:41It's a sort of a love story.
17:43It's a sub-dom love story.
17:45Ray, my character, spots Colin in a crowded bar
17:49and decides that this could be a potential great sub for him.
17:53So, he...
17:54They go out on a date and...
17:56And then...
17:58That's the beginning of something quite intense.
18:01Yes.
18:02And it's...
18:03It is very intense and it's quite out there, but there's a kind of a sweetness to it as well.
18:08Well, in a way, it's a coming-of-age story for Harry's character, Colin,
18:14because it is his first relationship and he's figuring out what Ray wants out of this relationship.
18:20And then, as we get into the movie, 30, 40 minutes into the movie, he starts to realize that,
18:25well, is this exactly what I want out of a relationship?
18:27And then, he's kind of...
18:29Has to come to terms with that and deal with that.
18:32So, um...
18:34So, yeah, it's a...
18:36It's a classic...
18:38Dom-com.
18:39But you're not gay, are you?
18:41You're not gay.
18:43Are you?
18:45No, not really.
18:46No.
18:52You do...
18:53You do remember that day, 20 years ago.
18:55I don't know how long ago.
18:56Not at all.
18:59It's just fascinating, because, you know, I've been enthusiastically gay for a very long time.
19:06And I'm always surprised by fellas who...
19:11who come across it later.
19:14But you...
19:16You...
19:17You're having to act it.
19:19And how did you research it, if you didn't know much about it?
19:23Because you do...
19:24We all do research.
19:26I mean, these are all the questions I was going to ask, Alexander.
19:29I'm so sorry.
19:37A lot has been made about the sex in it and...
19:40But it's...
19:41But it's interesting.
19:42It is...
19:43It is really out there.
19:44But it's always...
19:45It is always kind of pivotal to the plot and the characters.
19:48Yeah, I mean, I find sex scenes are only uncomfortable if they're...
19:55If they...
19:56If you don't understand why you're shooting the scene.
19:58If it feels gratuitous or if you're...
20:00Like, why am I walking around naked in this scene?
20:02It doesn't really serve the story or the narrative.
20:04It doesn't push it forward.
20:05And yes, there are some graphic scenes in the movie, but they're all kind of pivotal moments
20:11in the relationship and in Colin's journey.
20:13Um, so I was quite excited about shooting them because, again, it's like they were key components
20:20to the narrative.
20:21You had a wrestling one and I was like, you're gonna murder him.
20:25It was like...
20:26I was like, have you wrestled before?
20:27But then...
20:28And then we ended up making Sweet Love.
20:29You did make Sweet Love.
20:30I mean, it wasn't Sweet Love.
20:31Oh, yeah.
20:32Yeah.
20:33Sweet Love.
20:34But, like, you...
20:35Yeah, I was like, you're gonna kill him.
20:36That was the first time we met, actually.
20:37No.
20:38We met two days before we started shooting and we rehearsed that wrestling scene, Harry
20:43and I.
20:44Wow.
20:45And really got to know each other well.
20:46I would say so.
20:47Yeah.
20:48Because, again, Harry's character is very inexperienced and has to learn from Ray in
20:55these scenes.
20:56So it wasn't supposed to be good.
20:58And it's confusing so many Harry's.
21:01But Harry Lighton, the writer, director, also wanted it to feel clumsy and had a thing,
21:06which I love, that, like, often sex scenes are...
21:09It's too kind of polished and the lighting is always perfect.
21:12And it's too, like, hands grabbing sheets.
21:15That kind of crap.
21:16Like, what was so great about this, like, he was like...
21:18He's not seeing Bridgerton.
21:19Yeah.
21:23Go on, keep going, keep going.
21:24Nicholas sheet grabbing.
21:25Nicholas sheet grabbing is second to none.
21:27Yeah.
21:28It's like the romanticized version of sex.
21:31And what was great about these scenes and what made me excited about it was
21:35yes, they are hot and intense, but there's also room for awkwardness.
21:42And when people change positions, it can look clumsy and weird.
21:47And it's kind of fun to leave that in rather than cut around it.
21:50So, like, everything is not a perfectly choreographed dance.
21:53And why do we think we...
21:55I think we all have an impression that the Swedish people are unshockable,
21:58that they're very kind of bohemian, or have we just made that up?
22:01I think that is not quite true.
22:04I think it was, um...
22:07But you run around naked a lot, don't you?
22:09Well, my family, yes.
22:10But in general...
22:12I think it's from a movie called Joannifik and Gull from the 60s
22:15that was kind of made a big impact around the world
22:18because it was, like, sexually very liberating and, um, in Swedish.
22:22So that kind of...
22:24After that, people were like, oh, they're so liberated and free.
22:26So you are Swedish, are you?
22:28Um, yes.
22:29Can you do the accent for us?
22:32I'd like to hear that.
22:34I think he has been.
22:35Anything for you, Miriam.
22:37Aw!
22:38It's very sing-song.
22:39It's Swedish.
22:40It's kind of like...
22:41It is.
22:42That was gibberish, but...
22:43Yeah, there is a sort of music in it, like, you know.
22:53And here's the thing.
22:54You're doing a press tour, but you're not doing it by yourself
22:56because the real gay bikers club that feature in the film,
23:01they've been travelling around with you, right?
23:04They come to the show.
23:05Some of them are here.
23:06Gay bikers?
23:07I think we can spot...
23:08There they are.
23:09Hello.
23:10Yay!
23:11Oh, that's amazing.
23:12Yeah.
23:13Hello, guys.
23:14Hi.
23:15Nice to meet you all.
23:16Paul and Kevin.
23:17Hey.
23:18Love you.
23:19We've got a picture of them all on the red carpet.
23:22There they are.
23:23The London Film Festival.
23:24Lovely.
23:25Is that Matt?
23:26Is that the pup?
23:27Oh, are you the pup?
23:28Yeah.
23:29Honestly, it's like the show back in the Channel 4 days.
23:31We're off.
23:32We're off.
23:33I'm having flashbacks.
23:34And they've been biking around with you.
23:35They've been to various...
23:36That's not the only one.
23:37Yeah.
23:38A bunch of these guys came down to Cannes for the world premiere, which was pretty incredible.
23:52Wow.
23:53That was the first time I watched the movie with an audience.
23:56To do that with Harry and Harry and the guys and the fact that they came down just meant
24:03the world to me.
24:04It was an incredible night.
24:06Well, it's a really special film.
24:08It's very hard to describe, but I really hope people see it because it's just terrific.
24:11Oh, thank you.
24:12You're great in it.
24:13It's a pillion and it's in cinemas now.
24:16Very good.
24:17Woo!
24:18Oh, the treats when Miriam Margulies puts pen to paper.
24:24And this is a goodie.
24:26It is called The Little Book of Miriam.
24:29It's out now.
24:31And this is your third book, I think.
24:33It is, yes.
24:34But you've sold almost one and a half million books, Miriam.
24:38Amazing.
24:39It is amazing.
24:40Congratulations.
24:41I feel quite humbled.
24:42How do you write it?
24:43On your computer?
24:44Computer.
24:45On my computer.
24:46Yeah.
24:47No, I never thought I was a writer and some people agree with that.
24:53I've been immensely lucky, actually.
24:56And honestly, being on this show helps to sell it.
25:01And that's why we have...
25:04That's why she's here, ladies and gentlemen.
25:06I thought you were going to say he inspired you when you told me.
25:11No.
25:12No.
25:13I would like to sell.
25:14It's a flogging opportunity.
25:15It is.
25:16It is.
25:17Tom it up.
25:19You are a writer also and your books are lovely.
25:23Oh, that's very kind.
25:24I really urge people to buy Graham's books and read them.
25:28Read them.
25:29People don't read enough.
25:30You're scrolling and scrolling.
25:32I agree.
25:33Read.
25:34Read a fucking book.
25:35Read this book.
25:36Yeah.
25:37And you tour the country with your books and you play these big theatres and this is night
25:45after night you do this.
25:47Do you enjoy it or is it kind of exhausting?
25:49Oh, I do.
25:50I mean, I think you would agree with that.
25:52You're an actress and you're an actress.
25:54It's wonderful to be in front of an audience.
25:57You know, I'm an old tired lady.
26:00Well, hardly a lady really, but I love being in front of an audience.
26:07It gives me a buzz, a thrill.
26:09I get energy from it.
26:11I get joy from it.
26:12I really do.
26:13And I think most actors do.
26:15I don't like cameras.
26:17I'm not interested in them.
26:19But to be with a live audience, to get the response from them and to feel that they're
26:24listening to me and sometimes quite liking what I'm doing, that is magical.
26:30The book is kind of an A to Z of your thoughts and your stories.
26:35Yes, it's alphabetical.
26:36And there's a story.
26:37And I know people ask you to tell this story a lot when you're doing your live shows.
26:40I think it was when you were on with Will.I.Am and you told the story.
26:43And you know the one I'm talking about where you're going home in Edinburgh late at night.
26:47In Edinburgh.
26:48And you, there's a man up a tree.
26:50You assist him.
26:52And, but what you reveal in the book is, there's more to this story.
26:57I know, I didn't, I didn't tell it on television.
27:01Because I felt nobody would believe me.
27:03But after I had helped and supported the troop.
27:07There was a soldier up a tree.
27:09Oh, wanking.
27:10And Miriam helped.
27:11And I, er...
27:12He wasn't stuck.
27:13No.
27:14He was just up a tree.
27:15He was up a tree.
27:16I saw the rustles.
27:17I saw what was going on.
27:18I asked him to come down.
27:19I finished him off.
27:20So to speak.
27:21LAUGHTER
27:22Very pleasantly.
27:23And there was no threats.
27:26I was wiping my hand in the, in the grass.
27:31LAUGHTER
27:32And a voice from the bushes.
27:36This is, by the way, this is the new part of the story.
27:38LAUGHTER
27:39When we left this story, you were wiping your hand on the grass.
27:42Yes.
27:43I heard a voice come, er, from the seat that was just where I'd been.
27:50And a very nicely dressed gentleman came forward and said,
27:55erm, I couldn't help noticing what you had done for that young man.
28:02And I wondered if, if it was at all possible,
28:05whether you would do the same for me.
28:10LAUGHTER
28:11And, erm, I said, er, I thought to myself,
28:15well, I can't say no, can I?
28:18LAUGHTER
28:19Because I've done it.
28:20One, sorry about it, but you can say no.
28:22LAUGHTER
28:23I just felt I couldn't.
28:24OK.
28:25That's the thing.
28:26I think you're going to love Pillian, by the way.
28:28LAUGHTER
28:30This could be a scene from Pillian.
28:32LAUGHTER
28:33So, I did what he asked me to do.
28:36Right there?
28:37Right there.
28:38There was nobody else there, you know.
28:40Oh.
28:41So off he went, and I was wiping my hand in the grass.
28:44LAUGHTER
28:45And lo and behold, this is the bit nobody believes,
28:48but it is true, a voice from the same place...
28:52LAUGHTER
28:53..said, hey, Miriam.
28:56And it was someone I knew.
28:59LAUGHTER
29:00He was a young student that I had known in Oxford.
29:03I went to Cambridge, but he, I met him in Oxford
29:06because I lived there.
29:08And he said, listen, we're old friends, you know.
29:12LAUGHTER
29:13I said, oh, come on.
29:15LAUGHTER
29:17That's fair.
29:19And he said, oh, come on, Miriam, you know.
29:21So I did.
29:22LAUGHTER
29:24Three for the price of one.
29:26LAUGHTER
29:27Beautiful story.
29:28It's true.
29:29It is honestly true.
29:31LAUGHTER
29:32I'm surprised you're not still there, Miriam.
29:35LAUGHTER
29:36Safety price.
29:37Yes, of course.
29:38LAUGHTER
29:39Oh, no.
29:40LAUGHTER
29:41Now, Miriam...
29:43LAUGHTER
29:44I feel...
29:45I feel...
29:46Thank you for your service.
29:47You tell these great stories, we love having you on the show,
29:49but I feel that often it takes away from the fact
29:52that you are this great actor.
29:54Well...
29:55So I'm delighted to say that you are in a short film
29:59that's coming out in the new year.
30:01I am very good in this film.
30:03LAUGHTER
30:04It's called A Friend of Dorothy.
30:06LAUGHTER
30:07But the real star is that young boy up there, Alastair Ntooku.
30:12Yeah.
30:13He's wonderful.
30:14It's...
30:15And my agent has taken him on.
30:17He's so good.
30:18So good.
30:19And so lovely.
30:20And he helped me to be good too, as did the writer and director,
30:26Lee Knight.
30:27It's just a wonderful film.
30:29So it...
30:30I believe it's going to be on one of those streaming channels.
30:33It is.
30:34Very soon.
30:35Yes.
30:36I can't tell you which one because it's a secret.
30:37But I know it's the 1st of January.
30:39On the 1st of January.
30:40Yes.
30:41Rush to see it because it's really wonderful.
30:43It is.
30:44It's a very, very sweet film and you're both so good in it.
30:47It's gorgeous.
30:48We look forward to that.
30:49And don't forget The Little Book of Miriam.
30:51That is out now.
30:52Bye.
30:53Bye.
30:56Good news, everyone.
30:58Ms. Nicola Coughlin is returning to the London stage
31:01in the Playboy of the Western world.
31:03The National Theatre from the 4th of December.
31:064th of December.
31:07Oh, that's next week.
31:08I know.
31:09How are you all set?
31:10You ready?
31:11Well, we did our first sort of run today in the room.
31:14It was our last day in the rehearsal room.
31:15And they said, you know, two or three people will be coming in.
31:17And there was sort of three rows on either side of the room.
31:19And I went, oh, no.
31:20And it was terrifying.
31:21But like you said, very exciting to have an audience there to perform to.
31:25And, yeah, it's very, very exciting.
31:27And obviously the Playboy of the Western world, classic play.
31:29Yes.
31:30If people don't know, if it's somehow passed them by, who are you in it?
31:34What's it about?
31:35So I play a young lady called Peggyn Mike.
31:37And it's set in the west of Ireland in 1907.
31:39And there was big riots when this play came out.
31:41Because they talked about women's shifts, so women's underwear in it.
31:45And people were like, no, Irish women, you know, they would never talk about underwear.
31:48We couldn't be so crazy.
31:49And then they tore up the theatre to prove how not badly behaved they were.
31:54So, yeah.
31:55So she runs this pub in the country and everything's sort of going along a bit humdrum.
31:58And then a young, good-looking man walks in.
32:01And everyone sort of goes, well, who are you?
32:03Where did you come from?
32:04And they barrage of questions.
32:06And then he sort of says, leave me alone.
32:08I killed my father.
32:09And instead of being horrified, they'll go, that's amazing.
32:12That's really cool and exciting.
32:14And we all fancy you.
32:16Yeah.
32:17And you've reunited with Derry Girls co-star Siobhan.
32:20Yes.
32:21Have you ever been on stage with her before?
32:23I never have, but she is the Queen of Ireland.
32:25We sort of play love rivals for Christie, played by the lovely Anna Hardwick in the middle,
32:29which is great fun.
32:30Because my character, we did a show together called Derry Girls.
32:33I know that.
32:34Oh, do you?
32:35Yes, I fucking do.
32:36Oh, sorry.
32:37It's brilliant.
32:38Oh, my goodness.
32:39Thanks very much.
32:40You're brilliant.
32:41All of you.
32:42Oh, thank you.
32:43Thank you very much.
32:44But my character in the show was very scared of her character.
32:47Because she was a nun.
32:48Very scary nun.
32:49But in this, we're rivals.
32:50So we get to go toe-to-toe, which is great fun.
32:52And here's the thing.
32:53It's a return to live theatre for you.
32:54Yes.
32:55Yeah.
32:56And so you'll be in front of a live audience,
32:57and people are talking about how great that is.
32:59Yeah.
33:00But it's also quite...
33:01It can be quite intimidating, because audiences have changed, I feel.
33:04Well, it's absolutely terrifying.
33:05I mean, I've done theatre before, a lot of direct-to-dress theatre,
33:08where you're just speaking it out to the audience.
33:10And you have interesting things when that happens,
33:12because people assume that you can't see them,
33:14and you really can sometimes.
33:15And I did a show once where I looked up in the audience,
33:17and a man just took out a lunch box
33:19and just started eating, like, a microwave shepherd's pie.
33:22And I was like, right, this doesn't make what I'm doing quite difficult,
33:25but, um, so please, if you come to the National,
33:27just, like, don't eat the shepherd's pie before or after.
33:29That would help, like, a lot.
33:31And the phones thing is...
33:32The phones thing.
33:33Oh, yeah.
33:34It illuminates your face.
33:35I stopped the show once.
33:37Yeah.
33:38Did you?
33:39Yes, I was doing Sunset Boulevard on Broadway.
33:40Yeah.
33:41And, you know, you prepare, prepare,
33:42and you make a great entrance, and it was like,
33:44flash, flash, flash, flash, flash, flash.
33:47And as you're doing this song, you're thinking,
33:49what am I going to do about this?
33:50What am I going to do about this?
33:51And I walked to the end of the stage, and I said,
33:53we can either have a photo shoot or we can do the show.
33:56You decide.
33:57Yeah.
33:58Ooh.
34:05Alexander Sparsgård, have you done any theatre?
34:08Yeah, in Sweden years ago.
34:10It's probably almost, well, 15, 20 years ago now.
34:13Wow.
34:14No temptation to get back on the boards.
34:16It's a lot of work, my friend.
34:18It's a lot of work.
34:19So, no.
34:20I'm incredibly lazy.
34:22And you come from this big acting dynasty,
34:24the Skarsgårds, to your dad, Stellan,
34:27but then how many of your siblings are...
34:28But what's your father?
34:29Yeah.
34:30Oh, he is a good actor.
34:32Oh, he really is.
34:35My favourite Skarsgård, yeah.
34:37I didn't mean that in a nasty way.
34:40No, no.
34:41I absolutely mean it.
34:42He's a wonderful actor.
34:43But I heard you were very jealous of your father being in Mamma Mia.
34:46Oh, God.
34:47I mean, who wouldn't be?
34:49I mean, look at that.
34:50It was, yeah, he was just obviously a big ABBA fan.
34:54But was that in the film of Mamma Mia?
34:56Yes.
34:57Yes.
34:58Oh.
34:59What?
35:00It's a great movie.
35:01Have you not seen it?
35:03I did see it.
35:04Yeah.
35:05It's not disappointed.
35:06I thought it was dreadful.
35:07It's not for my father's performance.
35:10No, no.
35:11I don't remember your father's performance.
35:16But it really wasn't to my taste.
35:19I think what I was jealous of was the experience.
35:28Because I remember, like, he was having the most fun he's ever had.
35:31I think they all did.
35:32There were all the people in it.
35:33And that's also kind of why I appreciated the movie so much.
35:37Because you can tell it was kind of infectious, like, how much fun they were all having.
35:41Yeah.
35:42And, like, my father is not a great singer.
35:44But he was just melting it out and laughing.
35:46And it just looked like it was a joyous experience.
35:53I'm glad he had a good time.
35:56Have some notes.
35:57I know.
35:58I hesitate to mention Nicola's new film.
36:01But no, you haven't seen this.
36:03Mamma Mia 3.
36:04No.
36:05No, Nicola, you've got it.
36:06This is such a posh, it's a kid's film, but it's a posh one.
36:09The Magic Faraway Tree.
36:11Yes.
36:12It's you.
36:13Who else?
36:14It's an amazing cast.
36:15Ridiculous cast.
36:16Claire Foy, Andrew Garfield, Rebecca Ferguson, Jennifer Saunders, Michael Palin.
36:21Wow.
36:22It's honestly...
36:23Oh, wonderful.
36:24It was amazing.
36:25I mean, I read the script and had no idea who was involved with it.
36:27But I thought it was Simon Farnaby who wrote Paddington 2, which is one of the best movies ever in the world.
36:33Yeah.
36:34And I was, like, desperate to be involved.
36:35And, yeah, it was just a joy.
36:37And it's a lot of people's favourite, you know, childhood book.
36:40I'd never read it, but I love meeting grown-ups.
36:43They're like, oh, my God.
36:44And I got to play a fairy.
36:45And I got lovely, lovely ears.
36:47Well, they've got a picture of you, have we?
36:48Oh, yeah.
36:49There you are!
36:50Oh, yeah.
36:51Good ears.
36:52Yeah, great ears.
36:53It was so much fun.
36:54And there's three gorgeous kids who lead us.
36:56And we got to lots of magical lands.
36:58And it was just a joy, I loved it so much.
37:00And when's that out?
37:01It's out in March.
37:02Oh, OK.
37:03Yes.
37:04But the trailer's out very soon.
37:05They won't tell me when.
37:06But soon.
37:07Yeah.
37:08Well, just a quick reminder, you can see Nicola Coughlin in the Playboy of the Western World at the National from next Thursday.
37:14Good luck to you.
37:15Yay!
37:16Thank you very much.
37:17All right.
37:18It is time for music.
37:21This Brit award-winning artist sold over 20 million records worldwide.
37:26And now, after a seven-year break, she is back with a new album.
37:31Here performing the single H-A-P-P-Y, it's Jessie James!
37:35And her band.
37:36That was gorgeous.
37:37Come on over and do.
37:41So good to see you.
37:42Thank you so much for that performance.
37:43It was fantastic.
37:44Just loved it.
37:45H-A-P-P-Y, that is off the latest album, Don't Tease Me With A Good Time, which is out today.
38:11It is.
38:12It's in the world.
38:13Yeah, yeah, yeah.
38:14It's out.
38:15Congratulations.
38:17Yeah.
38:18Hello.
38:21Because time does all these strange things.
38:24Yeah.
38:25I have no idea.
38:26It's been seven years.
38:27It's been too long.
38:28It's very rude.
38:29Yeah.
38:30I'm so sorry to eat on the price tag and then I just disappeared.
38:33No.
38:34It's just life just happens, doesn't it?
38:35And I suppose the big question is, you know, how are you feeling?
38:38Because I know you have been through a ringer with health things and all sorts.
38:42Yeah, this has been.
38:43This has been wild, yeah.
38:44So I'm good.
38:45I've just, I've just recovered from breast cancer.
38:47Wow.
38:48That's fabulous.
38:49Wow.
38:50Did you?
38:51I never know how to react to.
38:54Yeah, I do everything with jokes, so sorry if I say things that feel a bit awkward, but
38:59yeah.
39:00I'm just, yeah.
39:01No, it's good.
39:02Yeah.
39:03It's good.
39:04I've got one really hard boob and an album out.
39:06You could ask for anything more.
39:08Exactly.
39:09I'm just happy to be here, honestly.
39:10Yeah, yeah, yeah.
39:11I'm happy to have you.
39:12Yeah.
39:13And what has it been like kind of getting up in front of audiences again and doing performances
39:17again?
39:18Honestly, everywhere I've been, it's like, it's like I've been de-iced and I've come
39:24out of the Natural History Museum.
39:25And there's people like, you haven't been around for years.
39:28And I'm like, I'm back.
39:31I don't feel any different, to be honest.
39:34And since we last saw you, you've done this thing, which I feel like not enough people
39:39know about.
39:40Oh no.
39:41So, no, you went to China.
39:42I did.
39:43You went to China.
39:44Yeah, they know about it.
39:45They know about it.
39:46He was there.
39:47You went to China and you did this show called Singer.
39:50Yes.
39:51And so it's a talent show.
39:52Yes.
39:53But it's, it's a talent show on a scale you've never heard of.
39:57So how many people, look, how many people...
40:00It's actually in the...
40:01When I went, my management, I was, I was writing my last album a hundred years ago.
40:05And they were like, this TV show want to like, have you on?
40:08And I was like, just say yes.
40:10And they're like, do you want to know the details?
40:12And I was like, no, just, I need a shake up.
40:15Just say yes.
40:16So I fly over to China thinking I'm a guest on a TV show.
40:19No, no.
40:20I'm a contestant.
40:21No.
40:22And I'm competing against other Chinese artists that are massive and fully established,
40:27like do stadiums and it's 500 million viewers a week.
40:31No.
40:32Yeah.
40:33The final, I did 13 weeks, 13 episodes.
40:35It was the most amazing experience of my life.
40:37It was a reality TV show.
40:38I had to sing in Mandarin.
40:40Please don't look that up.
40:42And the final was 1.2 billion people.
40:45What?
40:46Isn't that incredible?
40:47Isn't that insane?
40:48So I, I mean, me and China, I like, I go back all the time.
40:51Yeah.
40:52You were a contestant?
40:53Yes.
40:54Did you win?
40:55I did.
40:56Wow.
40:57I was so scared.
41:01I sang, I sang I Will Always Love You by Whitney Houston.
41:04And people have asked me to sing that song a lot, like growing up.
41:07And I was like, no, I only want to do it and I feel like it's the right moment.
41:10And I just felt, I don't know why I chose to do it in front of 1.2 billion people live.
41:15But in a dress where I look literally like a sparkly penguin, I could not walk and I was just like walking to the mic.
41:21But it was life changing.
41:22It was the most amazing experience.
41:23Yeah.
41:24Wow.
41:25Congratulations.
41:26And people can see you on tour here.
41:28Yes.
41:29Is it next April?
41:30Next April.
41:31I'm going on tour in, yeah, all the time.
41:32I'm just singing anywhere.
41:33I'll be singing in a lot of places.
41:36Yeah.
41:37I'll come over to your house.
41:38I'll sing.
41:39Yeah, yeah, yeah.
41:40No, literally.
41:41Listen, it's so great to see you.
41:43Amazing performance.
41:44Good luck with the tour.
41:45Thank you so much.
41:46And the album.
41:47Jessie J, everybody.
41:49Thank you, my love.
41:51That is nearly it.
41:52But before we go, just time for a quick visit for the big red chair.
41:56Who have we got?
41:57Hello.
41:58Hi.
41:59Hi.
42:00I have high hopes for you.
42:01There's a spark in your eye.
42:02What's your name?
42:03Alison.
42:04Alison, lovely.
42:05And where are you from, Alison?
42:06Devon.
42:07Devon, lovely.
42:08And what are you doing, Devon, Alison?
42:09I'm a government manager for a financial services network business.
42:11I almost said that.
42:12Yeah.
42:13OK.
42:14Off you go.
42:15Off you go with this story, Alison.
42:16Back in the 70s, growing up as a child with a strict mother, we were always taught not
42:22to leave any food on our plate.
42:24And it was Christmas Day, Christmas dinner, and as usual, you would have sprouts on your
42:29Christmas dinner, which I hate.
42:31So everyone had left the dining room table, and I was left with my plate, which had just
42:35had the sprouts left on there.
42:38We had a Jack Russell terrier called Timmy at the time, and I thought, well, it would
42:42be quite nice.
42:43No one's going to see.
42:44I can put the plate on the floor, and the dog will eat the sprouts, and I'll get away
42:47with it.
42:48I put the plate on the floor.
42:49The dog licked the gravy off the sprouts, but left the sprouts.
42:53But unfortunately, I couldn't admit to the fact that I tried to get the dog to eat the
42:59sprouts, so I still had to eat the sprouts.
43:02You can walk, Alison.
43:04I like that story.
43:06Very good.
43:08OK, that really is all for our time for you.
43:10If you'd like to have a go over there and tell yourself and tell your story, you can
43:13contact us via our website at this very address.
43:15Please say huge thank you to all of my guests tonight, Jessie J!
43:19Nicola Coughlin, Miriam Margulies, Alexander Skarsgård, and Glenn Close.
43:32Join me next week with music guest Kat Burns, US talk show host Seth Meyers, celebrity traitor
43:40King Alan Carr, Oscar winner Kate Winslet, and the former Prime Minister of New Zealand,
43:45Jacinda Ardern.
43:46I'll see you then.
43:47Good night, everybody.
43:48Good night.
43:49Good night.
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