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00:00Hello everybody!
00:02Good evening! Good evening!
00:04Oh, lovely to see you all!
00:08You are very welcome to the show!
00:10Hello, hello, hello!
00:12I tell you, such great guests tonight,
00:14I couldn't be more excited if I was being knighted by the king!
00:18Oh, look at them there!
00:20I wonder what they're saying to each other.
00:22My wife's posh. Really? So is mine.
00:24Er, it's funny, it's because it's posh.
00:30Big show for you tonight.
00:32And joining us later at Singing For Us,
00:34it's the one and only Ed Sheeran!
00:36He'll be performing
00:38the single, Camera.
00:40But first, it's Camera Lights Action
00:42for tonight's guests.
00:44He's a top comedian who's now acting
00:46with some of Hollywood's biggest stars,
00:48from Dwayne Johnson in Jungle Cruise
00:50to Clifford the Big Red Dog in Clifford the Big Red Dog.
00:52Now, he's showing his sinister side
00:54in the dark new thriller Malice.
00:56It's our good friend, Jack Whitehall!
01:00There he is!
01:02Shoot it! Look at this smile!
01:04There you go! That's so cool!
01:06That's cool!
01:08And she was Oscar-nominated
01:10for her role as a vengeful wife
01:12in Gone Girl, stole the show
01:14as Elspeth in Saltburn,
01:16and has just made a triumphant return
01:18to the stage in the hit play
01:20Inter-Alia. Here to tell us
01:22about her latest role in Now You See Me Now You Don't,
01:24It's Rosamund Pike!
01:30Sweet, sweet!
01:32You look great!
01:34Hi! Good to see you again!
01:36Thank you!
01:38We've loved this kick-ass Oscar winner
01:40in films like Everything Everywhere All At Once,
01:42Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon,
01:44and the smash hit Crazy Rich Asians.
01:48Now she's back as Madame Morrible
01:50in Wicked For Good.
01:52It's Michelle Yeoh!
01:54Oh!
01:56Oh!
01:58Wow!
02:00Fabulous!
02:02Let me show you!
02:04That's Rosamund and Jack,
02:05let me say hello to him!
02:08And this movie star has been flying high
02:10since his breakout role in Top Gun Maverick
02:13from the hit rom-com Anyone But You
02:15to Disaster Epic Twisters,
02:17now bringing us the action blockbuster
02:19The Running Man.
02:20It's a first-time welcome to Glenn Powell!
02:23What a very lovely couch!
02:37Hello!
02:38Welcome everybody!
02:39Hello!
02:40And so welcome back to Jack and Rosamund
02:42and Michelle.
02:43First-time welcome to Glenn.
02:45And you are friends with Jack Whitehall?
02:46Oh, yeah.
02:47Oh, yeah.
02:48We got to hang out a little bit
02:49while I was shooting the running man.
02:50Yeah.
02:51The last time we met was at Glastonbury Festival, right?
02:53That was...
02:54Yeah.
02:55We bumped into each other at Glastonbury
02:56and we'd met like a couple of times before that
02:58and I bumped into Glenn there
03:00and I was with my fiancée
03:01and then two of my fiancée's girlfriends
03:03who are both single ladies from Essex
03:05who the minute they saw that I was friendly with Glenn
03:08just like locked in
03:10for the rest of the weekend
03:12that's all they talked about.
03:13So like every day I'd wake up and I was like
03:15oh, so what do you want to see today?
03:16They were like, Glenn Powell.
03:18Or maybe bands.
03:20And then they encouraged me to like message you loads
03:22so then I sent all of these messages to you going
03:24hey, Glenn, what are you doing today?
03:25Like, what acts are you going to go and see?
03:27Like, booty calling you at like 11 o'clock at night.
03:31I did think you were a little thirsty.
03:33A little?
03:34Exactly!
03:35Because you didn't realise that I was with these two girls
03:37and then on the Monday morning I was like
03:39oh my God, he's going to think that I'm like his baby reindeer.
03:42I'm reading two of these messages.
03:44One of them that you did not respond to
03:46and I'm quite within your rights not to
03:4811 o'clock at night on the Sunday
03:50I'd sent him a message saying
03:51Scissor Sisters question mark?
03:55I thought that was some like British slang.
03:57I didn't know what that...
03:58Yeah, they weren't even playing at the festival to be fair.
04:00Good, good.
04:02I was like, never accept the Scissor Sisters emoji.
04:05And here you are, the new action hero on the block,
04:09sat next to one of the greatest action heroes of all time, Michelle Yeoh.
04:13Absolutely, absolutely.
04:17But of course you're not here kicking ass tonight,
04:20you're back with Wicked.
04:21And so last time the Wicked press tour was insane.
04:25So where are you off to this time?
04:26You're off to Paris after this?
04:28Tonight.
04:29Oh wow, okay.
04:30We have our screening in Paris tomorrow.
04:32Then we come back here to London
04:34and then we go to Singapore
04:36and then we go to New York
04:37and then the movie comes out.
04:39Wow.
04:40A new trip around the world.
04:41I guess, I mean, because it's been so many years,
04:43you're going to miss it when it's gone, aren't you?
04:45We are missing it already.
04:46Oh.
04:47It's been such an amazing family.
04:49And also, great that you put all that work in
04:51and then it was a success.
04:53Phew!
04:54Can you imagine if Wicked
04:55didn't turn out the way it did now?
04:58Can't you imagine?
04:59Just limping around the world.
05:01Here's more of it.
05:02There's two and a half hours more.
05:05There's no problem.
05:06Thank God.
05:07No.
05:08Thank God.
05:09Thank God.
05:10And now, it's a warm welcome back to Rosamund Pike.
05:12The last time we were here, it was a zoomy thing
05:14and you were zooming us from a cabin.
05:17Was it in Eastern Europe somewhere?
05:19It was my home, Graham.
05:21Wow.
05:22My home in Prague.
05:23Shade.
05:24A cabin in Eastern Europe.
05:25A cabin?
05:26My home in Prague.
05:27It didn't...
05:28Do you have any lights?
05:29It looked very dark.
05:31Well, it was lockdown.
05:33It was...
05:34We were, you know, hunkering down like the rest of the world.
05:39Here's the thing, though.
05:41The last time you were on, broadcasting for your beautiful home in Prague...
05:45LAUGHTER
05:46We all at Envik.
05:48LAUGHTER
05:49You went a bit, you kind of found new fame, but in a very niche way.
05:54Oh, my gosh, yeah.
05:55You asked me about my family, my children speaking Chinese.
05:58Yes.
05:59And you asked me if they'd taught me anything.
06:02And I came out with one thing they'd taught me,
06:05which is a Chinese proverb, I suppose you'd call it.
06:08And apparently that clip went viral around China
06:12and now I am recognised as the girl who tells fart jokes...
06:16LAUGHTER
06:18..and speaks proverbs about farting.
06:20So when I was doing the play in the summer at the National Theatre,
06:23people would come and bring me pillows and teddy bears,
06:26which, when I pressed the button,
06:28would come out with this Chinese phrase,
06:30..and not farting.
06:32LAUGHTER
06:34Loving it.
06:35Yes.
06:36Loving it.
06:37Wow.
06:38It is hard. It is hard.
06:39She really did say fang pee, OK?
06:42LAUGHTER
06:43If it's so funny, Michelle let out a little fart.
06:45LAUGHTER
06:46Let out a little fart.
06:48LAUGHTER
06:49Now, Jackie, you have also found international fame
06:52from a story on the show.
06:54I mean, it's very different to Chinese proverbs.
06:57LAUGHTER
06:58But yes, I do sometimes get recognised for my appearances
07:00on the Graham Norton show.
07:01The last time it happened, I was on tour in Australia
07:04and I was in an airport with my family
07:07and a guy who recognised me was like,
07:09Oh, yeah, we love you, Jack Whitehall, yeah,
07:11that story you told on Graham Norton
07:13about not being able to flush your shit down the dunny.
07:16LAUGHTER
07:17And he stamped my passport and let me through.
07:19LAUGHTER
07:21People remember that story and then they just come up to you
07:24and say it with, like, no context.
07:25OK.
07:26So, uh, Glenn, the challenge is on.
07:28LAUGHTER
07:29I gotta throw something out there.
07:30Do you remember when we had dinner at that place?
07:32What was the...
07:33With Pete, what was the name of the place we grabbed dinner?
07:35Dorian.
07:36Yes, Dorian.
07:37We...
07:38This place has... has one bathroom.
07:40This is the...
07:41This is the most awkward fan interaction I've ever had.
07:44I... I go to the bathroom and, you know,
07:46sometimes, like, you go to the bathroom and there's, like,
07:48toilet paper already, like, on...
07:50In the bottom of the toilet.
07:51Yeah, yeah.
07:52Right?
07:53So I'm just, like, lift up the seat, pee, do the thing,
07:55and flush.
07:57And I realise now why there was toilet paper on there.
08:00It just flipped all this stuff underneath it.
08:05And I was like, oh, my God.
08:07So I'm, like, trying to do...
08:08I'm like, this is crazy.
08:09So, wash my hands, leave,
08:11and as I open the door, there's about eight girls...
08:16outside the bathroom door.
08:18And they go, oh, my God.
08:19Sorry, we had to meet you.
08:20We wanted to say hi.
08:22And they're like...
08:23And I was like, are you guys going in here?
08:25And they're like, yeah.
08:26And they go, it wasn't me.
08:28That was, like, the whole other person.
08:30I didn't do that.
08:31They're like, what are you talking about?
08:32I was like, you're gonna see a whole situation.
08:34I just wanna know, like...
08:35I added to it, but not, like, in that way.
08:38I just want you to know, Jack Whitehall did that.
08:40He's notorious.
08:43He's notorious.
08:44This guy.
08:45This guy.
08:46All right, let's get started tonight
08:47with the new movie from Glen Powell.
08:49It's called The Running Man.
08:50It's in cinemas from the 12th of November.
08:52And before we talk about it,
08:53here's a taste of what's in store.
08:59It is a fantastic kind of action-thriller.
09:02Huge sequences.
09:04You play Ben Richards.
09:05Tell us about Ben Richards.
09:07Ben Richards is a guy who was kind of put on a blacklist
09:12for trying to stand up for some of the guys he worked with.
09:14So he can't provide for his family.
09:17He can't get any job.
09:18And his daughter's really, really sick.
09:19So he signs up for this game show
09:21where no one's ever won it, called The Running Man,
09:23where the entire world can hunt someone down for 30 days.
09:27And it's life or death.
09:29So everybody...
09:30Yeah, and if you win, you get a billion dollars.
09:32Wow.
09:33It's a hell of a show.
09:35And this is based on a Stephen King short story.
09:38Is that right?
09:39Yeah.
09:40Stephen King wrote a book in the early 70s.
09:42Came out in 82.
09:43It's set in 2025.
09:45That's what I love.
09:46I love that he set it this year.
09:47Which is wild.
09:48Because everything that's happening in the story,
09:51it's all about deepfakes and fake news
09:54and all the things that are happening around it.
09:56And this all predated reality TV.
09:59Wow.
10:00It's pretty wild, yeah.
10:01Obviously, it is The Running Man
10:02and clearly there is a lot of running in this show.
10:04Yes, yes, yes.
10:05So who better to advise you than king of running,
10:07Mr. Tom Cruise?
10:09That's correct.
10:10Yeah.
10:11Because he is...
10:12He is...
10:14And did he advise you?
10:15He did.
10:16I mean, you know, I sort of thought Tom was going to give me,
10:19like...
10:20I mean, you've been doing stunts your entire career.
10:22I mean, this was kind of my first, you know,
10:24time being out in front of an action movie.
10:26And, you know, so I was just like,
10:27alright, what do I need to know about, you know,
10:29kind of being in front of a thing?
10:30I thought it was going to be like a ten-minute phone call.
10:31It turned into two and a half hours.
10:33Like, about him being like,
10:34this is how you don't die.
10:35Wow.
10:36Doing an action movie.
10:37I mean, there's a lot of ways...
10:38I mean, I don't think I really realize...
10:40You know, you're like,
10:41okay, like, the explosions are real,
10:43but I know kind of when they're coming.
10:44He's like, no, those can kill you.
10:45Yeah.
10:46And, like, you know, you jump off a bridge,
10:47like, things snap, you know, people are tired, you know?
10:49And break your ankle.
10:54Yeah.
10:55Yeah.
10:56And he was really right.
10:57Like, yeah.
10:58I don't think...
10:59I don't know if the last time, like, you've run on camera,
11:01but you start paying attention to other people running,
11:03you're like, humans are weird-looking things
11:05when they're trying to go fast, you know?
11:07And so, yeah, I tried to, you know,
11:09meet with a sprinting coach and kind of do it right.
11:11Yeah.
11:12And, Tom, I mean, you, I guess, credit Tom
11:14with this amazing career opportunity of Top Gun.
11:17Oh, absolutely, yeah.
11:18Yeah.
11:19I mean, Top Gun...
11:20Yeah.
11:21Yeah.
11:22I mean, Top Gun was a movie that changed my life,
11:25and there was a time in which I wasn't going to do it,
11:27you know?
11:28I originally auditioned for Miles Teller's role,
11:31The Ball of Rooster.
11:32Oh, yeah.
11:33Yeah.
11:34And so then I get a call from Joe Kaczynski,
11:35who's the director, and he called me.
11:37I remember it was on July 4th,
11:40and I was wearing an American flag tank top.
11:44And I was on my balcony having a tequila soda,
11:47and Joe Kaczynski called me and said,
11:49hey, you know, we're not giving you the role,
11:50it's going to go to Miles.
11:51And my buddy thought I was getting Top Gun,
11:53so it's me sad in an American tank top.
11:55He was filming me getting this, like,
11:56super sad phone call on an American flag tank top
11:58on July 4th.
11:59Just not great.
12:00But then Tom and I sat down,
12:01and, you know, he kind of gave me the advice.
12:03He's like, you know, I said, I just don't think the role
12:18was up to snuff.
12:19And I was a little bitter.
12:20I was kind of like the, you know,
12:22you don't want to get broken up with,
12:23and then be like, hey, can we still be friends?
12:25You know what I'm saying?
12:26So I was kind of like, you know,
12:27I didn't think the role was really there.
12:28And he said, do you know how I've, you know,
12:30kind of done my career?
12:31And I said, how?
12:32He said, well, I don't, you know, choose, you know, the roles.
12:35I choose the movies.
12:36You know, he goes, I choose good movies,
12:38and then I make the roles great.
12:40And so he kind of convinced me right then and there,
12:41and it was like the best decision I've ever made.
12:44That is really good advice.
12:45Because, Rosamund Byg, you worked with the great Tom Cruise
12:47and Jack Reacher.
12:49You reached out to him for advice, didn't you?
12:50Tom is amazing.
12:51You remind me of him, actually.
12:52Oh, OK, great.
12:54You know, in a kind of, there's a lovely warm quality about you.
12:58All right, Rosamund.
12:58He has.
12:59Oh.
13:00You know, I mean, we've, we've had...
13:01You're on television.
13:05I'm going to get the Scissor Sisters text a little later.
13:10Maybe.
13:11I think I might write better texts.
13:12You've had more than enough to drink, Rosamund.
13:17But Tom, no, I mean, he is a, he does sort of strike one as a mentor,
13:21because he's been in the business for so long and he started so young
13:24and he's been a lead for his whole career, really.
13:26I mean, I love his advice about, you know, not choosing the roles,
13:29choosing the movies, but he has had the best roles in all the movies.
13:32Totally.
13:32He's done.
13:33It's great advice, but also, you know...
13:36LAUGHTER
13:39But the night before I started filming Gone Girl, I was so frightened,
13:43because I'd never had that sort of pressure of a character in that
13:47kind of book with that level of director and those eyes on me and having
13:51to be American and all the rest of it, and I couldn't sleep.
13:54And at four in the morning I thought, who can I write to to get something?
13:58And I wrote to Tom saying I'm not up to this and I'm terrified and I'm...
14:03And he wrote me back the kindest letter that immediately,
14:07because he obviously knew the call time was coming in about three hours.
14:11Yeah.
14:11And he sort of said, you know, you've got this and you are ready,
14:14and other things, but it was a very...
14:18It was a very significant gesture.
14:20Yeah.
14:22Of someone with that level of fame and people writing to him
14:25and probably how busy he is.
14:26I mean, the guy sleeps one hour a night or something.
14:28LAUGHTER
14:30I mean, you know, that could have been his hour of sleep,
14:32that he said that was amazing to me, you know.
14:35He was very tired the next day.
14:36LAUGHTER
14:37And, Glenn, tell me this, because Topcon, you know, you were in it,
14:40you saw it, you knew that you were good in it,
14:43this is going to change your life, and then it got delayed,
14:46and I don't know if you remember this, because of COVID,
14:48it kept getting delayed.
14:49You must have been going out of your mind.
14:52Well, it's also like, you're going out of your mind,
14:53you're also running out of money.
14:55LAUGHTER
14:57You're also like, oh, man, I'm sort of waiting for this movie
14:59to come out for my career to start.
15:01I'm a very poor movie star.
15:02I'm a very poor movie star, it's like, it's not great, you know.
15:05And so, you know, and every time it got delayed,
15:10I would get a call from Tom to, like, let me know it was getting delayed,
15:14which was really sweet of him.
15:15But it was also like, you start, like, dodging Tom's calls like a loan shark.
15:19LAUGHTER
15:21You're like, shit, Tom's calling me again, I know what this means.
15:23Please don't call me again.
15:24Yeah, please don't call me again.
15:25But then, it's funny, I'm actually hosting SNL next week.
15:28Oh, cool.
15:31Yeah, and it's, I'm really excited about it.
15:34And what I was supposed to host SNL, that fault, like, so they had to literally,
15:40Warren Michaels had to take back the offer for me to host SNL.
15:44So I was supposed to host SNL, like, four years ago.
15:46Wow.
15:47And so I finally get to host it next week after.
15:50So every time Top Gun got delayed,
15:53Lauren called me up and I'm like,
15:54is everybody taking everything in my life and everything?
15:57I'm a movie star.
16:00Let me be a movie star.
16:01Well, listen, you can see Gled in The Running Man from next Wednesday.
16:05Very good.
16:06CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
16:14Meanwhile, in another part of the forest, Michelle Yeoh brings us the epic conclusion to the Wicked Saga,
16:20Wicked For Good.
16:22It's out on the 21st of November.
16:24So this is essentially like the second act.
16:27Yes.
16:27Right.
16:27So if people miss the first act or...
16:29Doesn't matter.
16:30Yeah.
16:31But you know the yellow brick road.
16:33Yeah.
16:33So...
16:34You should watch the first one.
16:35Of course.
16:36Of course.
16:37So where do we find Madame Marble now?
16:40What's going on as we join act two?
16:42So act two is much more emotional because as in act one,
16:46you've met all the different characters and they've made choices.
16:49And with choices, there are consequences.
16:53Um, the yellow brick road is being built and then Elphaba has been ostracised.
16:59She's now living by herself in the...in the forest.
17:02And she's got the Book of Spells, which is something that Madame Marble wants back most desperately.
17:09So she's made Elphaba the Wicked Witch.
17:12When, in all honesty, Madame Marble, MM, flip it around, Wicked Witch.
17:19Oh, ooh, ooh, ooh.
17:21Yes.
17:21Oh, ooh.
17:22She's a real manipulator.
17:24Yeah?
17:26Wizard of Oz.
17:27I'm still trying to work it out.
17:30LAUGHTER
17:32Yes.
17:33Yeah.
17:34World Wide Web.
17:35LAUGHTER
17:40It's...it's stunning.
17:42Um, I mean, John Chu, as usual, with Alice Brooks, um, is such a cinematic experience, like one.
17:50But this one leads you down paths.
17:52Um, you meet who's the Tin Man, who is the Scarecrow, who is the, the cowardly lion.
17:58Yeah.
17:59Um, and most important, what happens to Elphaba and Glinda?
18:04LAUGHTER
18:05And part of Madame Marble's, uh, job is kind of promoting Glinda as the good witch.
18:10And we've got a clip, and this is you helping Glinda on her way.
18:14LAUGHTER
18:16CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
18:18Oh, so amazing!
18:20And, uh, and love me Ariana Grande there.
18:23Oh, she's brilliant.
18:24And am I right, you've never been in a musical before?
18:27Never. This was my first time.
18:29I, when John Chu, bless him, because we worked together in Crazy Rich Asians.
18:33Yeah, yeah.
18:33And so he wrote to me and he said, Michelle, can you read the script?
18:37I would love you to play Madame Marble.
18:39And I was like, Madame who?
18:41And Wicked.
18:42I knew, I've heard of Wicked, but I hadn't gone to see it in West End or in New York.
18:47There's a gasp of horror.
18:48I know.
18:49How could you?
18:51LAUGHTER
18:51So anyway, I read it and I go, I call him back and go like, uh, excuse me, it's a musical.
18:55She sings, you know?
18:56LAUGHTER
18:57And she go like, you know I don't sing, right?
19:00He goes, nah, you'll be fine.
19:03And typical of John, he can convince you to do the impossible.
19:07And so he convinced me.
19:08Wow.
19:09And I'm so glad he did because the first time when I walked onto the stage and it was a forest scene
19:15and I suddenly, you know, it's like you walk in, it's silence like this.
19:20And suddenly you hear a voice.
19:23And it was just Cynthia warming up.
19:26She wasn't even singing a song yet.
19:28Her voice is just so incredible.
19:30Yeah.
19:31So when I had my singing, and thanks to her, I'm in billboard 100 in that song because of her.
19:39Yeah.
19:41That was amazing.
19:44They sing live.
19:47Both her, Cynthia and Ariana, even when she's in the harness doing all those somersaults,
19:52she's singing live.
19:53It's amazing.
19:55These two girls are just like little angels.
19:57And when it came to my turn to sing with her, typical, you know, we have the tick, tick, tick,
20:03tick, and then it's your turn to sing.
20:04I'm like.
20:07I literally was just doing, like, miming the words.
20:10And Cynthia just took my hand.
20:12She goes, like, I know you can do this.
20:15I've heard you before.
20:17And having that kind of, you know, when someone takes you and giving you that confidence,
20:22was one of the most beautiful things I had.
20:24And so I sang with her.
20:26And we were on billboard 100.
20:28Yeah, you did.
20:32This is rare.
20:34Very rare.
20:35We have not one, but two Bond girls on our sofa.
20:38Rosamund was in Die Another Day.
20:46And then, Michelle, you were in Tomorrow Never Dies.
20:51Both of your Bonds were Pierce Brosnan.
20:52Is it true?
20:53You said no to this.
20:54You didn't want to do it.
20:55Or is that not true?
20:56That's not true.
20:57I thought I was offered to play 007.
21:02You're like, yeah, good idea.
21:03Yeah, I'll do that.
21:04Yeah.
21:05Because I didn't fit in the traditional Bond girl.
21:10I thought.
21:12So I had to prove them wrong.
21:14Yeah.
21:14Yeah.
21:15Yes.
21:18But Pierce was keen that you did do fighting.
21:21Yes.
21:21He's amazing.
21:22He's, you know, when you're confident as a man, right?
21:27When you see a woman fighting, you go, good for you.
21:30You know how to take care of yourself.
21:32I don't have to lift you up all the time.
21:35So when we did the action sequences, Barbara Broccoli and Michael Wilson were fantastic.
21:39I'm sure you knew them.
21:41And she, they, I brought my own team from Hong Kong.
21:45I would love for you to do stuns in Hong Kong.
21:48If you love to do your own stand, that's the place.
21:51I will not be a Bond girl.
21:52No.
21:54Okay.
21:55We'll do the Bond girl thing.
21:56Okay.
21:57And we did this whole action sequence in the bicycle shop, you know, and the,
22:03because in Hong Kong, we don't have rehearsal times.
22:07We walk onto the set fully dressed, ready to go, and we are told exactly what we have to do.
22:13So right there and then, they'll say, okay, these two guys are coming at you, and we shoot it right away.
22:21That's how...
22:22Oh, my God.
22:22I know.
22:23Super dangerous.
22:24Super dangerous.
22:25But I think that's the way we've always made movies in Hong Kong in the 80s, because that was how it was.
22:33And Pierce would just come onto the set, fold his arms, watch, and go like, yeah, I like this.
22:38So yeah, he was really, really cool.
22:40He didn't have any feeling that, and I, and it's true.
22:44You're James Bond.
22:45Who's going to take that away from you, right?
22:47Totally.
22:47Yeah, so we had a great time.
22:50Because Rosamund, am I right that you, you didn't know a lot about Bond?
22:54No, I mean, this story makes me sound like an idiot.
22:58I was so young, but that's very sweet of you.
23:00It's not really an excuse.
23:03Yes, I hadn't, no, yes, I hadn't, I hadn't seen a Bond film when I got cast.
23:07Is that because your parents were very protective?
23:08They thought they were too...
23:09We didn't have a television.
23:10OK.
23:12Weirdo.
23:16She grew up in a cabin.
23:17I know, by the way, it's like the whole bed.
23:19It's lovely, it's really nice.
23:21It's not committed at all.
23:22She lives off-grid in Prague.
23:24But then you got invited to...
23:30To audition, yeah.
23:31Yeah.
23:32And they said, you know, just wear, you know, some of your own clothes,
23:34you know, some business attire and an evening dress.
23:38And I didn't have, well, I didn't have business attire,
23:40so I had to go to my neighbour and borrow that.
23:43But I did have evening dress, because my mother was a singer.
23:47So she had a great sort of 80s evening dress made by my grandmother,
23:51which was beautiful, kind of big silk taffeta, you know, like a peacock.
23:55It had huge roses on it.
23:57I thought the roses were a bit much, so I took them off.
23:59Anyway, I arrived with this dress in its huge bag, you know, at the audition.
24:04And the costume designers and Barbara Broccoli looked at this dress,
24:07and they said, well, that, that is a very, very beautiful dress,
24:11but Bond girls wear things more like this.
24:14And they held up what looked like, to me, like five pieces of string.
24:21And I realised then that I had a whole education yet to happen.
24:25But you got the part.
24:26I did.
24:27Well, they thought, we've got to teach this poor girl something.
24:31Listen, you can see Michelle in Wicked For Good from the 21st of November.
24:35Yeah, meanwhile, Rosamund Pike's latest movie offering is
24:42Now You See Me, Now You Don't.
24:44It's in cinemas from the 14th of November.
24:46That's next Friday.
24:47So, yeah, so this is the third item in this series of kind of magicians,
24:55kind of Robin Hood magicians who do these big heists.
24:57So, how do you fit into the world?
25:00Have any, has anyone seen the Now You See Me movies?
25:04They're gorgeous, they're gorgeous movies, which is why I wanted to be part of it.
25:07It's, it's, it's a, it's a group of magicians who are a motley crew,
25:10a kind of motley family, a dysfunctional family, if you were.
25:13And, um, there's, they set out to tear down some of the nastiest people on the planet
25:20and, and redistribute their wealth.
25:21People who've earned wealth through very, you know, nefarious methods.
25:27And I play one of those people.
25:29It's my villain era.
25:30And, um, I play a diamond, uh, a diamond heiress who's heiress to a diamond mine.
25:36She's South African and she's definitely trading with people she shouldn't.
25:40It's, her diamonds are covered in blood.
25:43Her money's covered in blood.
25:44It's, it's all the nasty stuff.
25:45And we will relish.
25:46I love her name.
25:47Tell us her name.
25:47Her name is Veronica Vanderberg.
25:51Or Veronica Vanderberg, if we're South African here.
25:56But listen, we have a clip.
25:59This is you as Veronica Vanderberg, uh, showing off your diamond
26:03to one of the four horsemen played by Jesse Eisenberg.
26:05The wonderful Jesse Eisenberg.
26:06Ooh!
26:12Now, Rosamund, you are known for doing research for roles.
26:15So, how do you get into this?
26:17Did you, did you kind of meet people who own incredibly, uh, big diamonds and things?
26:22Well, I tried.
26:22I mean, I tried to meet all the people who deal with, you know,
26:26in the arms trade and who sort of fund small wars.
26:29And I, I mean, I, I really tried.
26:31I tried to...
26:31I'm playing a horrible person.
26:33Would you like to be a...
26:33Would you like to be my muse?
26:37Can I take you out for lunch and ask you all about the nefarious dealings you do?
26:40And, and of course they were all, everyone I managed to find was, were utterly reasonable,
26:45very kind of ethical, and that was just not what I wanted.
26:48So I knew that within about five minutes of meeting them and thought,
26:51now what do I talk about for the rest of the lunch?
26:54Because, you know, all I'm interested in is how you do this job,
26:57how you do ill in this business, which of course, you know, for all I know,
27:02they were my character and they were just hiding it, but, you know, maybe.
27:05Well, weirdly, someone who does know about the whole jewellery industry is Jack Whitehall.
27:11This is so weird.
27:11What? What?
27:12Didn't you do it to you?
27:14Oh, no.
27:14No, didn't you, you did the...
27:16No, I did an event recently.
27:18Yes. The Louvre?
27:19No, it wasn't the Louvre.
27:20It was this.
27:22Your new year did not fall off.
27:25It was so bad.
27:26Good work.
27:27I was doing this thing, I was booked to do the jewellery awards,
27:30the Grand Prix de la Haute Jewellery in Monaco, and it was full of French speakers.
27:35It was like the sort of Oscars of jewellery.
27:38They put me as host for some reason, and I was like, what the hell am I going to talk about
27:42at the jewellery awards?
27:43And then it was the same week as the Louvre heist.
27:46So I was like, oh, my God, thank you, comedy gods.
27:48Like, there's my monologue.
27:50I turn up to this event, it was all French speakers.
27:53I was the only person speaking English on the stage.
27:56The woman that came out before me was like the Anna Wintour of jewellery,
28:00and she gave a speech in French that obviously I did not understand,
28:03but I was subsequently told that in the speech she had said quite earnestly,
28:07that the Louvre heist was one of the most tragic things ever to happen
28:12to the French people, and that the nation would rally together
28:15and get through this difficult time.
28:17Ladies and gentlemen, Jack Whitehall, I walked out in a high-vis vest...
28:23..with a load of prop jewellery that I bought on Sheen.
28:25And I was like, right, who wants Napoleon's tiara?
28:28Fucking tumbleweed.
28:30LAUGHTER
28:32Oh, right on my arse.
28:34It was... Oh, no.
28:36That is amazing.
28:37Oh.
28:39APPLAUSE
28:41I think I said the word heist five times in my monologue,
28:44which it turns out at Jewellery Awards saying heist
28:46is like shouting bomb at an airport.
28:48LAUGHTER
28:50It was horrendous.
28:51I love that thing that came out a couple of days ago,
28:53that their security password is Louvre.
28:56LAUGHTER
28:58Probably with a zero instead of an O.
29:01No, no, just a...
29:02Not even an exclamation mark at the end.
29:04LAUGHTER
29:04Just Louvre. Louvre.
29:06Yeah, got it.
29:07Reminder that Now You See Me, Now You Don't,
29:09that opens next Friday.
29:11But...
29:14If psychological guerrillas are your thing,
29:16Jack Whitehall brings us a new series.
29:18It's called Malice, and it's out on the 14th of November
29:21on Prime Video, and here is a bit of the trailer.
29:25APPLAUSE
29:30I was saying to you backstage, Jack, this is so impressive,
29:33it's a really different sort of role for you.
29:35So, tell us who you play, what's going on.
29:37Yeah, so I play Adam, who is this very charming manny tutor
29:42that's invited into this wealthy family's home
29:46to look after their kids, but he's got an ulterior motive
29:50and is sort of hell-bent on getting vengeance
29:53on David Duchovny's character, who plays the sort of patriarch
29:56of the family.
29:57And it is properly, it goes to really dark places.
30:00Yeah, I mean, it's kind of got a White Lotus-y vibe,
30:02there's a little bit of, as Rosamund was saying backstage,
30:05wealth porn.
30:06LAUGHTER
30:07There's definitely a bit of that sort of, you know, glamorous,
30:09you know, picturesque Greek island and all of that,
30:13but then, yeah, it's got a kind of talented Mr Ripley vibe as well,
30:18this cuckoo-in-the-nest thriller.
30:19But, yeah, for me, it's just a completely different part
30:22to anything I've ever played before,
30:23because I'm playing a proper villain in it.
30:25And, yeah, it was really fun.
30:28And now, there's quite a lot of sexy time in Malice.
30:32There's a little... Yes, my character is also sexually
30:36quite adventurous.
30:37Oh, yes.
30:38And...
30:39Episode two, everybody.
30:40Yes, episode two.
30:41Episode two.
30:43In the second episode, he attends a sex club
30:47and participates in an orgy.
30:49Oh, wow.
30:49Of the homosexual variety?
30:51Well, I think it's all welcome.
30:53Every variety. Everyone's welcome, yes.
30:54Yeah.
30:55And a phrase just came into my head there
30:58that it's definitely not appropriate for a television show.
31:00We can cut it out afterwards.
31:01Any holes of gold.
31:02No, I, uh...
31:03LAUGHTER
31:04Please do, and please do.
31:05Um, anyway...
31:07Oh, God, my mum and dad are in tonight.
31:09Right, so, yes, he goes to an orgy.
31:13And I read that on the page, and I was like,
31:14oh, you know, in my head it's like sort of eyes wide shard,
31:17it'll be quite erotic.
31:18Far from erotic.
31:20We filmed it at eight o'clock in the morning on a Tuesday
31:23in a strip club in Watford called Beavers.
31:25LAUGHTER
31:27And I was there with a lot of other people,
31:30and there was one gentleman in particular
31:31who I had to have quite a lot of intimacy with,
31:34and he was, uh, not a Bond girl.
31:37He was a middle-aged man from Hemel Hempstead called Jeff.
31:41LAUGHTER
31:42He was stood there with, like, a cushion strapped round his midriff,
31:45and the actual intimacy with him was quite awkward,
31:49but the most awkward bit was, like, the breaks in filming,
31:52when there was, like, a little pause, and then we had to...
31:54Yeah, the chit-chat. Yeah, the chit-chat.
31:55Yeah, yeah, yeah.
31:56During one of the breaks of this very intense scene,
31:59he genuinely turned to me and went,
32:01Jack, I hope you wouldn't mind, but could I get a selfie?
32:03LAUGHTER
32:05I was like, uh, yeah, maybe we could wait till after the orgy.
32:08LAUGHTER
32:10It's not orgy etiquette to have a selfie.
32:12He was like, it's just that my son's a really big fan of yours.
32:15LAUGHTER
32:16I thought he fucking won't be when he sees this.
32:18LAUGHTER
32:20Mala starts next Friday.
32:23Jack Whitehall, everybody.
32:24CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
32:26OK, it is time to meet our music guest tonight.
32:31This man has won four Grammys and seven Brit Awards,
32:35and is one of the biggest names in pop music.
32:37Please welcome Mr Ed Sheeran. Here he comes.
32:40CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
32:42There you go.
32:55Yeah, it's Ed Sheeran.
32:57I know.
32:58Whoo!
32:59You're good.
33:00I'm good.
33:01Excellent.
33:02Now, do you know Glando?
33:04No.
33:04No? Oh, well, now you do.
33:05I know who he is.
33:06Oh.
33:07He's not as close as me and Jack, but we'll get there.
33:10LAUGHTER
33:11Were you in the orgy as well?
33:12I was, I was.
33:13LAUGHTER
33:14It's a busy time, yeah.
33:15I'm still left out.
33:16LAUGHTER
33:18It'll be season two, don't worry, Ed.
33:20Michelle Yeoh, a big Ed Sheeran fan.
33:23Big fan.
33:23We've met before, yeah, yeah.
33:25He met at the Met Gala, you were so sweet.
33:26Oh, you too.
33:27You were with Stella.
33:28That was a mad night.
33:29It was the first time I'd ever been to anything like that,
33:30and it was like, you know, you go in on your own,
33:33and suddenly there's just everyone you've ever seen, ever.
33:36Wow.
33:37Is that the first Met Gala you've been to?
33:39Yeah.
33:40I don't know, I'm kind of like, I feel like I've done it now.
33:42You know, it was like, there was a curiosity.
33:44Yes.
33:45And, um, it was fun.
33:46You could walk up to anyone.
33:47They did, no-one had any entourage.
33:49You could just walk up to anyone and be like that.
33:50Sounds like my orgy.
33:51LAUGHTER
33:52But he had a beautiful suit on, OK?
33:54Yes, yes.
33:55Yeah.
33:56It's nice.
33:57It's not just a cushion.
33:57LAUGHTER
33:59It's a cushion.
34:00LAUGHTER
34:03Have you been...?
34:04Is that what it was for?
34:05LAUGHTER
34:07Have you been back to Beavers since?
34:09No.
34:11You knew it.
34:12I think it's amazing that there's a strip club called Beavers.
34:15You're called Beavers.
34:16LAUGHTER
34:17I love that.
34:19Now, we're very excited, Ed, because you are performing for us tonight.
34:22I hope so.
34:23Yeah, no, you are.
34:23I hope so.
34:25We all hope so.
34:26There's a lot of lights over there.
34:28Something better happen.
34:30What are you performing for us?
34:31I'm playing a song called Camera.
34:33Ah, OK.
34:34Whoa!
34:34That is off the album Play, but now Play is out in a deluxe.
34:39You've got the new version.
34:40Yeah, this is the deluxe one.
34:41It's out on the 28th of November.
34:43And it's sort of like a...
34:43It's almost like a coffee table book.
34:45It's gorgeous.
34:45Yeah, do you know what?
34:46There was a few, like, iterations of this record.
34:50I did a lot of, like, exploring musically and different things.
34:54And then I ended up just moving to India for a bit and making the record there
34:59and finishing it with, like, amazing Indian musicians and producers
35:02and, uh, translators and blah, blah, blah.
35:04But there was, like, a good two months where I made a load of songs with Dave
35:08as a producer on this, but they sort of live in their own world,
35:12but they didn't necessarily live.
35:13So the iterations of the record are essentially the extended version of this.
35:18Now, this one's called Play, and we know, you know,
35:21a lot of your album titles were kind of the mathematical symbols,
35:24multiplied, etc.
35:25So, Play, is this... So, this is a new era?
35:28Yeah, so this... I kind of see this as it's called stereo.
35:31It would be, like, play, pause, rewind, fast-forward, stop.
35:34And I don't want to bring everyone down,
35:36but you have already got a plan for a posthumous album.
35:39What?
35:40Yeah, I think that's just sensible.
35:41I think... I've had friends die without wills,
35:45and it's fucking chaotic.
35:46And all I'm saying is I have a, uh, I have a plan for when I pass away.
35:51I know what songs I want at my funeral.
35:53I know where I want to be buried.
35:54I think that's a sensible thing to have.
35:55And there's so many...
35:56Ed, you're very organised.
35:59I don't know, but I think that, uh, there's a lot of posthumous albums
36:02that have come out of artists that we know and love
36:04that I don't know if they'd have wanted them out in,
36:07in that sequence or the mixes of it or blah, blah, blah.
36:10So all I'm saying is when I pass away,
36:13the thing that comes out is the thing that I want to come out.
36:15And has that album got a title?
36:17Eject.
36:18LAUGHTER
36:19What?
36:20Eject.
36:20Eject.
36:21That's amazing.
36:23APPLAUSE
36:27What does that tour look like?
36:29What, the Eject tour?
36:30Yeah. I don't know.
36:31Maybe I'll just be putting formaldehyde and just sort of taking it over.
36:33LAUGHTER
36:34Listen, very exciting.
36:35We must mention the documentary film One Shot.
36:38This is going to be on Netflix.
36:40It's directed by, uh, Philip Barantini.
36:42Now, he's the man who directed Boiling Point and Adolescence.
36:46So, One Shot is the thing.
36:48So, what is your One Shot, Ed?
36:50Well, I think, I honestly think that this is the best thing
36:53that I've done in my entire career. I love it.
36:55It was...
36:56While I was doing it, I kept looking at Phil being like,
36:59you're mad.
37:00The fact...
37:01What his mind does, like, the fact, it was one camera
37:04and we start in a venue and then we go out the venue
37:07and bear in mind it's all live, there's no, like, extras,
37:10it's just people that we meet on the street.
37:12And by... We did three takes and by the third take,
37:15it was, like, chaotic.
37:15People knew that we were doing it.
37:16We couldn't really, like, move around.
37:18But we go from the stage into a taxi.
37:20We then drive in the taxi to the High Line
37:22and then we walk across the High Line
37:24and then we play a gig, all playing songs as we walk.
37:28And then we get on the top of a bus and the bus gets...
37:30There's a traffic jam, which we didn't, like, take into account.
37:34And then I get off there and then I go into a hotel.
37:36We go up to the top of a hotel, they then put the camera on a drone,
37:39which flies down as I'm performing,
37:41and then I run across to an Irish bar
37:43and then I leave the Irish bar and get in a car
37:45and then I drive from the car to the subway,
37:47then I get on the subway, travel,
37:50then play another song walking to the venue and then play a gig.
37:53It is... It's mad.
37:54Like, really, really mad.
37:56I love it. We've got a clip.
37:57This is... I just love this.
37:58This is very near the end.
38:00Yeah.
38:00So this is your inner shop.
38:01I love it.
38:05I genuinely think that's the best thing I've ever been involved in in my career.
38:08Well, listen, seeing you walking to that theatre has got us all in the mood
38:12for hearing you sing.
38:13Right.
38:14So if you'd like to head over to that stage...
38:16CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
38:20There goes Mr Ed Sheeran.
38:23He's approaching the stage, he has arrived.
38:25Here, performing camera, it is Ed Sheeran.
38:29Sit, sit for your land, sit for your land.
38:31Erm, that choir, so lovely.
38:33Flames.
38:34So good, yeah, yeah.
38:34So good.
38:35Well, thank you very much, guys.
38:36Thank you so much.
38:37CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
38:40And...
38:42Talking of young performers, Ed Sheeran, you've had...
38:46This sounds unlikely, you've had a busy week in Parliament.
38:48Yeah. Yeah.
38:49Yeah. Tell us what happened.
38:51Er, I wrote Keir Starmer a letter,
38:54because I feel like the arts in general, but in schools,
38:58have really been, like, underfunded and cut over the last...
39:03Well, ever since I was a kid.
39:05And I feel like I went to a state school in Suffolk
39:09and my music teacher was fantastic
39:11and I feel like he is one of the reasons why I am where I am.
39:16And we were just sort of rapidly losing that.
39:19And I feel like, as a country, like, yes, we have a lot that we offer
39:23as a country, but the thing that we're most proud of,
39:25like, that we're really proud of,
39:26everywhere we go around the world,
39:28is our art, it's our painters, it's our filmmakers,
39:32it's our actors, it's our musicians, it's our poets and comedians.
39:37LAUGHTER
39:39No, but seriously, but the arts.
39:41And it's the thing, you know...
39:43I wasn't even mentioning television.
39:45LAUGHTER
39:47If, you know, and also not just that, like, financially,
39:50it brings 7.6 billion music alone into the UK economy.
39:55And so to, like, defund all of that and then wonder where the next
40:00generation of, like, art is going to come from.
40:02And, you know, so I wrote a letter to Keir and I said,
40:06for one thing, there's a thing called e-back that was put on music
40:09that basically, it made it the DOS subject, that if people took it,
40:13it wouldn't count as much for universities and blah, blah, blah.
40:15So I asked for that to be removed.
40:17I asked for funding to be put into underprivileged schools for music.
40:21I asked for the curriculum to be changed so it wasn't so classically focused.
40:25It could be, like, pop music or it could be rock music
40:28or it could be things that make kids want to go,
40:30do you know what, I want to learn a Taylor Swift song,
40:32not I have to learn Bach and be able to read,
40:34cos that's not the way that I learnt music.
40:36So I asked for curriculum change and I asked for instruments
40:40to be bought for schools and I sent this letter maybe, like,
40:44eight months ago and I just thought he'd just read it and gone,
40:47do you know what, like, I'm in enough shit at the moment.
40:52But I got a letter back from him maybe two months ago,
40:55just basically saying, thank you for your letter,
40:57I'll have a think about it.
40:58And that was kind of it and then about two, three days ago,
41:01they said, oh, they're going to bring it up in Parliament
41:04and he approved it.
41:05And it's, yeah, it's gone, it's gone, yeah.
41:07And it's like...
41:11That's so amazing.
41:13Yeah, I think it's like, it's the first step in a lot of things.
41:19I think that Keir Starmer has listened to the first step,
41:22that my foot's in the door now and then I can continue badgering him.
41:25Ed, thank you for caring and I'm sure kids up and down the country,
41:29thank you for that.
41:30Always a treat to see you and thank you for that amazing performance.
41:33Ed Sheeran, everybody!
41:37That's it for tonight.
41:38No time for Red Chairs, so please say thank you to the rest of my guests.
41:41Jack Whitehall!
41:45Rosamund Pike!
41:47Michelle Yeoh!
41:50And Glenn Poe!
41:52Next week is Children in Need, so we won't be here,
41:56but do join me the Friday after that with the music from Sombra,
41:59Oscar-winner Divine Joy Randolph, comedy genius Ben Stiller,
42:03and the stars of Song Sung Blue, Kate Hudson and Hugh Jackman.
42:07I'll see you then.
42:07Good night, everybody.
42:08Bye-bye!
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