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00:00Hello! Hello! Hello!
00:02Good evening, everybody!
00:04You are so welcome to the show!
00:06And can I just say,
00:08Happy Black Friday, everybody!
00:10I know!
00:12Have you all done your shopping?
00:14Now, you know what I've ordered?
00:16Yeah! Five amazing guests,
00:18and they've all arrived!
00:20In a singing chorus later, look who's back!
00:22It's only Jessie J!
00:26She'll be performing her new single,
00:28J-A-P-P-Y!
00:30But first, we've a very happy sofa for you tonight.
00:32We've loved her as Claire in Derry Girls,
00:34as Lady Whistledown in Bridgerton,
00:36and as Diplomat Barbie.
00:38Now she's back on stage
00:40in the classic Playboy of the Western world.
00:42It's Nicola Coughlin, everybody!
00:44CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
00:46Yay!
00:48Hello!
00:50Nice to meet you!
00:52Have a seat!
00:54Nicola Coughlin!
00:56This wonderful woman
00:58is a BAFTA-winning star of stage,
01:00cinema and television,
01:02and a Vogue cover girl to boot.
01:04Now she brings us the A to Z
01:06of her stories and opinions
01:08in the Little Book of Miriam.
01:10It's always a pleasure to welcome
01:12Miriam Margulies!
01:14CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
01:16This smouldering Swede first made his mark
01:36in vampire series True Blood,
01:38before starring in Viking epic The Northman,
01:40and hit shows like Big Little Lies and Succession.
01:44His new film is called Pillion.
01:46It's a first-time welcome to
01:48Mr Alexander SkarsgƄrd!
01:50CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
01:52And this Hollywood great is an eight-time Oscar nominee,
02:08who starred in films like Fatal Attraction,
02:10Dangerous Liaisons and 101 Dalmatians.
02:12Now she stars in the latest Knives Out mystery,
02:14Wake Up Dead Man,
02:16it is the great Glenn Close!
02:20CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
02:22Hello!
02:24So great to see you!
02:26Welcome back! Thank you!
02:28There you go, meet everyone on the couch!
02:30Oh, lovely, lovely, lovely, lovely, lovely.
02:32Nice to see you all.
02:34Leave the guests alone, Miriam.
02:36Sorry.
02:38Miriam, are you paying homage
02:40to Where's Wally?
02:42Why the scarf?
02:44Arsenal!
02:46Oh!
02:48You've heard of Arsenal?
02:50Oh, I have.
02:51Certainly the first part.
02:52LAUGHTER
02:56Was there a big game tonight or...?
02:58Yesterday there was a big game, yeah.
03:00I'm technically an Arsenal supporter too.
03:02I had a driver called Mickey who drove me on three different jobs
03:04and he said, do you have a team?
03:05I said, no.
03:06He said, you're an Arsenal supporter.
03:07So, me too.
03:08So you are as well?
03:09I don't know anything but...
03:10Yes.
03:11Well, the thing is,
03:12I'm going to join the working classes.
03:14LAUGHTER
03:15And...
03:16I'm so middle class, you know?
03:18I can't help it.
03:19But Arsenal is working class.
03:21OK.
03:22And I thought, if I support Arsenal,
03:24you know, people will accept me.
03:26LAUGHTER
03:27There's nothing like a scarf over sequins to suggest working class.
03:31LAUGHTER
03:33It's lovely to see you, Miriam.
03:36Glenn Close, I was saying to you,
03:37I feel like you're a frequent guest.
03:39You haven't been here for, what, 18 years?
03:4018 years, yes.
03:42What did you do to her the first time?
03:44Nothing bad happened, I don't think.
03:45But now, is it true you nearly worked with Miriam?
03:48Yes.
03:49Don't you remember?
03:50Yes, I do.
03:51Well, it was...
03:52You phoned me.
03:53I think it was Albert Nobbs.
03:54Yeah, Albert Nobbs, that's right.
03:55Yes, the movie Albert Nobbs,
03:56it was shot in Dublin,
03:57and I was dying for you to play the hotel proprietor.
03:59And why didn't I?
04:00What happened?
04:01I don't know.
04:02You would have been marvellous.
04:03I would have loved to have done that.
04:04Yes, yes.
04:05It's a beautiful piece of work.
04:08And I really admire you.
04:10You know, I don't admire all those people in Hollywood.
04:13But you, I do.
04:14I don't live in Hollywood and I never have.
04:17LAUGHTER
04:18You work there.
04:19You know, we all work there sometimes.
04:21Yeah.
04:22But you're a class act, darling.
04:24Oh, my goodness.
04:25Glenn Class, I would say.
04:26Oh, well done, yes.
04:27Right?
04:28Glenn Class.
04:29Glenn Class.
04:30That's true.
04:31That's right.
04:32I mean that.
04:33I mean that.
04:34It's a first-time welcome to Alexander SkarsgƄrd.
04:36So, hello.
04:37Hello.
04:38Hello.
04:39And now, here's an odd thing.
04:40I think you know Miriam.
04:43Uh...
04:44No, you don't.
04:45LAUGHTER
04:46What's that about?
04:47I clearly made a strong impression on Miriam when we met.
04:50What?
04:51Well, I...
04:52LAUGHTER
04:53We have actually met, yes.
04:55Uh...
04:56I believe you own or used to own a condo in Santa Monica.
05:00Is that correct?
05:01I did, yes.
05:02Yes.
05:03Were you looking to rent out a room in that at one point?
05:06This would have been like...
05:07When I was coming back to England, yeah.
05:09OK.
05:10What were you doing there?
05:11Well, I was...
05:12You were...
05:14Cos you were going back to shoot...
05:15Was it Harry Potter maybe?
05:16Yeah, I think so.
05:17Yeah.
05:18And, um, I...
05:19It was an ad.
05:20I was looking for a room to rent.
05:22I was, uh...
05:23And why didn't you take it?
05:24Well...
05:25LAUGHTER
05:28Tell her.
05:29Tell her.
05:30Was it not clean or something?
05:31No, it was an incredibly...
05:33It was a gorgeous apartment.
05:34And I remember that you were very charming.
05:38And I...
05:39And expensive?
05:40No, I don't think it was that.
05:41I think it was...
05:42I think, in hindsight, I probably misread the cues,
05:45but I felt a strong...
05:47..sexual connection.
05:49LAUGHTER
05:50And I think that...
05:51No, no.
05:53LAUGHTER
05:54Again, I...
05:55It was...
05:56Probably a...
05:57I probably misread the cues,
05:58but I felt this could potentially get messy
06:00if I rent a room in this apartment,
06:02if I'm your tenant.
06:03Darling, I'm 84 and gay...
06:06LAUGHTER
06:07..and I've been with my partner for 58 years.
06:10Again, I probably misread the situation.
06:13LAUGHTER
06:14LAUGHTER
06:15Wow.
06:16But, uh...
06:17You're talking through your bottom.
06:18LAUGHTER
06:19No, it is.
06:20I was actually there,
06:21and I do remember that we had a lovely afternoon,
06:24which you obviously don't remember,
06:26but it was, um...
06:27It was...
06:28LAUGHTER
06:29That bit's true, Miriam.
06:31That bit's true,
06:32A lovely afternoon.
06:33Yes.
06:34Nicola, have you nearly worked with Miriam,
06:36or nearly lived with her?
06:37LAUGHTER
06:38Yes.
06:39Miriam, I'm your daughter.
06:40LAUGHTER
06:45And I am your father.
06:46LAUGHTER
06:51Oh, my God.
06:52Happy family.
06:53Aww.
06:54That is lovely.
06:55Yeah, yeah, yeah.
06:56I feel like it's a Christmas special.
06:58LAUGHTER
06:59Long lost families.
07:00Beautiful.
07:01Alice, we've got lots to talk about tonight.
07:03We've got two great films,
07:04a classic play,
07:05and a new book from Miriam,
07:06so let's get started.
07:07Uh, Glenn Close
07:08Yes.
07:09brings us our new star-studded
07:10whodunit,
07:11Wake Up Dead Man,
07:12A Knives Out Mystery.
07:13It opens in cinemas tonight,
07:15and then it'll stream on Netflix
07:16from the 12th of December.
07:19So, this is the latest Benoit Blanc mystery,
07:22Yes.
07:23played by Daniel Craig.
07:24It's an all-new cast,
07:25all-new story.
07:26Who are you?
07:27What's going on?
07:28Ah.
07:29Well, it's gothic.
07:30It's more gothic than the others.
07:32And it takes place largely in and around a church,
07:35and I am Martha Delacroix,
07:38the woman who is, I would call, the church lady.
07:42Yeah.
07:43She takes care of everything.
07:45It's a great part for you.
07:46I mean, it's...
07:47It was fun.
07:48Yeah.
07:49And, like always, the cast is amazing.
07:52Daniel Craig, you...
07:53Josh O'Connor is so good in this film.
07:55So good.
07:56He plays a priest in it.
07:57Yes.
07:58Oh, there he is.
07:59He's fantastic.
08:00I think he's kind of like a young Jimmy Stewart.
08:03Oh, that's a...
08:04Yes.
08:05You know, he kind of...
08:06You can't help but love him.
08:07Yeah.
08:08Listen, we've got a little clip.
08:09This is Josh O'Connor as the priest.
08:11Yes, he's just arrived.
08:12He's just arrived.
08:13He's discovering something of the church's past.
08:16Yes.
08:17And Thomas Hayden Church in that clip as well.
08:24But apparently, and I know people always say this after films, particularly when there's
08:27a big cast, that it was a very happy thing.
08:29It was, yes.
08:30But apparently you weren't hanging out in your own trailers at all.
08:32No, not at all.
08:33In fact, it's kind of what Rian Johnson does.
08:36Wherever we were, we had a moveable greenworm.
08:39And that's where we would gather and laugh and sleep and tell stories and try those.
08:46At one point, somebody brought in those really terrible British, their piggy thumb, the candies.
08:53Peppa pigs?
08:54Yeah, Peppa pigs.
08:55We were all trying to...
08:56Percy pigs.
08:57Percy pigs.
08:58Percy pigs.
08:59Things like that.
09:00Tommy.
09:01Wow.
09:02We had a wonderful...
09:03Yeah, we had a great time.
09:04The bar was quite low.
09:05But those things that were drawn on the whatever it was, they looked like genital organs.
09:13Yes, Miriam.
09:14Am I right?
09:15Am I right?
09:16Yes.
09:17I mean, it was an approximation, but yes.
09:18It's a while since I've seen one.
09:19And now the other thing, it's a lovely cast and that you all hung out, but you also brought
09:31your lovely dog, Pip.
09:32My dog, Pip.
09:33Yes.
09:34Who doesn't appear in the film.
09:35No.
09:36But he's backstage right now.
09:37Oh, is he?
09:38Oh, yes.
09:39You should have brought him on.
09:40This is you and Pip on set.
09:42By the way, I should say, this isn't just a spoiler.
09:46Did the dog do it?
09:49He wants you to think he did.
09:52Those eyes, I get lost in those eyes.
09:55I know.
09:56Yeah.
09:57And now this crucifix, is this the crucifix you brought from another film?
10:01Yes, yes.
10:02I have an incredible costume collection from my first movie and that crucifix was actually
10:08given to me by my father when he visited St. Peter's a long time ago and I wore it in
10:13House of the Spirits.
10:14Yeah.
10:15And I said, wouldn't it be nice to get it and wear it again in this film?
10:19And I did and it meant, it really meant something to me.
10:22And is it true the thing about your contract?
10:24Yes.
10:25That you...
10:26About costume.
10:27Yeah.
10:28Yes.
10:29I can pick whatever I want.
10:30Not if...
10:31Not if it's rented, though I have nicked a couple of things.
10:35I have to say.
10:36And what do you do with them all?
10:38Well, first of all, I...
10:40I spend a lot of time in fitting rooms.
10:42Mm.
10:43And especially in movies where you don't have a lot of time to rehearse, if any at all,
10:48is in that costume room when they're constructing the character, you're literally part of constructing
10:54the character as they're putting the clothes on you.
10:57So I've kept all of them from my first movie, plus I have 101, 102 Dalmatians, I have the
11:02original Sunset Boulevard costumes.
11:04It's an extraordinary collection, which has already been shown in two different museums,
11:09you know.
11:10You could raise money for charity.
11:12I could.
11:13I could.
11:14But she chooses not to.
11:19Glenn hates charity, famous.
11:25Designers love it because otherwise they're rented out and torn apart and...
11:28Yeah.
11:29The only thing I kept from Harry Potter was a pair of socks.
11:33Um, because they were nice kind of thick woolen socks.
11:37Yeah.
11:38Light socks.
11:39And you wear them in life.
11:40I do wear them in life.
11:41Is that all you've kept from all the things you've been in?
11:43Yeah, because I don't hang on to the costumes, you know, like...
11:48Because, Alexander, you like to collect things from films.
11:51You've kept some things, haven't you?
11:53I do have a bloody g-string that I wore in the Northmen framed in my bedroom.
11:58Framed?
11:59Framed.
12:00By the costume department as a wrap gift.
12:02You didn't take it into the framers.
12:06Yeah, I got a couple of, um...
12:08I got my fangs from True Blood.
12:11Um, and, uh...
12:14Two heads.
12:15One from Infinity Pool and one from, uh, Murderbot.
12:18Do you hide it, please?
12:19No, I...
12:20What?
12:21Yeah, well, no, I do.
12:22Like, I put them, like, I tuck them in.
12:24If I have guests staying over, I usually tuck one of them in under the sheets in the guest bed.
12:28Oh!
12:29And then I'll appear in the middle of the night with the fangs.
12:34Fun!
12:35You're glad he didn't rent the room now.
12:38Yeah!
12:40And Nicola, your Barbie dress, did you get to keep that?
12:43Yes!
12:44I didn't, but they made me...
12:45I had a two-second role in Barbie, but Jacqueline Duran, the costume designer, was like,
12:49what do you want to wear?
12:50And she made me a wrap-up, a dress of Barbie I had as a little girl.
12:54Oh!
12:55I know, it was amazing.
12:56She was called Sparkalize Barbie.
12:58Um, they didn't let me keep it, but I've stolen knickers on every set I've ever been on.
13:01LAUGHTER
13:02Because I got a text...
13:03That's very useful.
13:04Very useful.
13:05But you go home in them, and then you get a text to me like,
13:07Hi Nicola, well done today.
13:09Could you please bring back the underwear?
13:11Because you've taken all of the characters under, and I'm like, yeah, fair.
13:14There's none left.
13:16Actually, we've got a very cute picture of you.
13:18Is your Barbie in this picture?
13:19No, but that's the...
13:21Oh!
13:22I think I was about six, and that's with my Barbie convertible.
13:24Look how bloody delighted I am with myself.
13:27I knew you were rich, Nicola Coughlin.
13:30Look at you and your Barbie convertible.
13:32But you have red hair there.
13:34It looks a bit red in that.
13:35It does, a little bit.
13:36Yeah, yeah.
13:37My dad set up the camera in front of the Christmas tree, and I was posing, thinking,
13:40I'm pretty cool.
13:41Yeah.
13:42Well, you are.
13:43Thanks very much.
13:44I mean, look at the size of that thing.
13:45Yeah, it was huge.
13:46It was amazing.
13:47You could have driven it to school.
13:48I've got a nightie in that material, actually.
13:51That's interesting.
13:52Yeah.
13:53But I mean, I just happen to know you.
13:55No, no, I know.
13:56Please, I share with the group.
13:58Yeah.
13:59Now, Glenn Close, you have been in something else very fun.
14:04All's fair.
14:06Because Kim Kardashian and Sarah Paulson were here telling us all about it.
14:09Yes.
14:10That was before it came out.
14:13Well, no.
14:14Listen, we can laugh about it because it's an enormous success and there's a season two coming, isn't there?
14:23There is.
14:24Yes.
14:25Oh, thank you.
14:26Were you slightly taken aback by the reviews?
14:30I didn't read any of them.
14:31Okay.
14:32No.
14:33One doesn't read reviews.
14:34Especially if you know they're terrible.
14:35I won't say anything then.
14:36No.
14:37You must have known something because you did post this cartoon.
14:41Yes.
14:42Which is Critic Bunny Stew.
14:44Yes.
14:45Did you draw this?
14:46I did.
14:47It's very good.
14:49Yeah.
14:50Yeah.
14:51I thought it was appropriate.
14:53Pretty good likenesses.
14:55You can tell who they all are.
14:56You can tell whoever it is.
14:57Yeah.
14:58And talking of Critic Bunny Stew, you had a movie night, you and the rest of the cast.
15:01Yes.
15:02Yes.
15:03Because it came out that Kim had not seen Fatal Attraction.
15:07So a lot of you probably haven't either if you're, you know.
15:10If you haven't, you should.
15:11Yeah.
15:12It's a pretty good movie.
15:13It's a scary movie.
15:14So everyone said, what, what, what?
15:16And so Kim said, let's all go over to my mother's house in our Skims pajamas and watch Fatal Attraction.
15:24Oh, there you are.
15:25There we are.
15:26Wow.
15:27And we did.
15:29Was it awkward for you, everyone just watching your movie?
15:33Well, I hadn't seen it in a very long time.
15:36I mean, memories flew back into my mind, especially I didn't know that I showed my breasts so much.
15:43I mean, they weren't anything spectacular to see, but they were visible.
15:49Good.
15:50Good.
15:51Yeah, yeah.
15:52It's still streaming, Miriam.
15:55You can get it.
15:56I've seen it.
15:58But you didn't have an intimacy counsellor then?
16:03No.
16:04Or what do they call them?
16:06Coordinator.
16:07Yeah.
16:08Intimacy coordinator.
16:10I can't imagine such a thing.
16:12But they also, don't you have those, you meet somebody and it's called, if you get along or you want to...
16:18Oh, a chemistry test.
16:19A chemistry read?
16:20Yes.
16:21A chemistry read.
16:22Oh, that's absurd.
16:23Isn't that absurd?
16:24Amazing.
16:25No, I don't understand.
16:27I don't think I'd have a career if I had to have a chemistry read.
16:34But when you screen test, isn't that like a chemistry read?
16:37Like, do they make you screen test or Michael Douglas?
16:39Oh, God.
16:40Well, I screen test for Fatal Attraction.
16:41It was a nightmare.
16:42I've never known what to do with my hair.
16:44My hair was long.
16:45And I didn't know what to do with my hair.
16:46It was like...
16:47And I took a Valium because I was so nervous.
16:49So, I was walking across, you know, to the parking lot in LA, kind of like this.
16:54And you walked into a room and there's a camera.
16:57And there's Michael Douglas.
16:59And I wanted to just crawl into a hole.
17:03Did you guys know each other at all?
17:06Or was that the first time you met?
17:07No, no.
17:08And we do these scenes and Ed, you and I would say,
17:10Hotter!
17:11Hotter!
17:12Hotter!
17:13What do you do when somebody says,
17:14Hotter!
17:15Hotter!
17:16I'd say, fuck off!
17:17You can see Glenn and a great company of stars in Wake Up Dead Man and Knives Out Mystery
17:26in cinemas now and coming soon to Netflix.
17:30But now, Alexander SkarsgƄrd brings us what we've all been waiting for,
17:34a gay biker rom-com.
17:36It's your home.
17:38Finally.
17:39Finally.
17:40It's called Billion.
17:43And it's in UK and Irish cinemas from today.
17:46And before we talk about it, let's watch a clip.
17:49This is your character, Ray, meeting the parents for the first time.
17:57Douglas Hart and Leslie Sharp there as the parents and Harry Melling as Colin.
18:03So, Colin and Ray, tell us about...
18:07Cos it is kind of...
18:08It's all sorts of things, but there is a romance at the heart of it.
18:11Yeah, it's a sort of a love story.
18:14It's a sub-dom love story.
18:16Ray, my character, spots Colin in a crowded bar and decides that this could be a potential
18:23great sub for him.
18:24So, he...
18:25They go out on a date.
18:27And then, that's the beginning of something quite intense.
18:32Yes.
18:33And it is very intense and it's quite out there, but there's a kind of a sweetness to it as
18:38well.
18:39Well, in a way, it's a coming-of-age story for Harry's character, Colin, because it is his
18:46first relationship and he's figuring out what Ray wants out of this relationship.
18:50And then, as we get into the movie, 30, 40 minutes into the movie, he starts to realise
18:55that, well, is this exactly what I want out of a relationship?
18:57And then, he's kind of...
18:59Has to come to terms with that and deal with that.
19:02So...
19:03Um...
19:04So, yeah, it's a...
19:06It's a classic...
19:08Dom-com.
19:09But you're not gay, are you?
19:11You're not gay, are you?
19:12You're not gay.
19:14Are you?
19:15No, not really.
19:16No.
19:22You do...
19:23You do remember that day, 20 years ago.
19:25Not at all.
19:28It's just fascinating, because, you know, I've been enthusiastically gay for a very long
19:35time.
19:36And I'm always surprised by fellas who...
19:41Who come across it later.
19:44But you...
19:46You...
19:47You're having to act it.
19:49And how did you research it, if you didn't know much about it?
19:53Because you do...
19:54We all do research.
19:56I mean, these are all the questions I was going to ask.
19:58I'm so sorry.
20:02You know, a lot has been made about the sex in it and...
20:11But it's...
20:12But it's interesting.
20:13It is really out there.
20:14But it's always...
20:15It is always kind of pivotal to the plot and the characters.
20:19Yeah, I mean...
20:21I find sex scenes are only uncomfortable if they're...
20:26If they...
20:27If you don't understand why you're shooting the scene.
20:29If it feels gratuitous or if you're...
20:31Like, why am I walking around naked in this scene?
20:33It doesn't really serve the story or the narrative.
20:35It doesn't push it forward.
20:36And, um...
20:37Yes, there are some graphic scenes in the movie, but...
20:40They're all kind of pivotal moments in the relationship and in Colin's journey.
20:45Um...
20:46So I was quite excited about shooting them.
20:48Because, again, it's like they were key components to the narrative.
20:51You had a wrestling one, and I was like, you're gonna murder him.
20:54It was like...
20:55I was like, have you wrestled before?
20:57But then...
20:58And then we ended up making Sweet Love.
20:59You did make Sweet Love.
21:00I mean, it wasn't Sweet Love.
21:01Oh, yeah.
21:02Yeah.
21:03Sweet Love.
21:04But, like, you...
21:05Yeah, I was like, you're gonna kill him.
21:06That was the first time we met, actually.
21:07No.
21:08Yeah.
21:09We met two days before we started shooting, and we rehearsed that wrestling scene, Harry and I.
21:13Wow.
21:14And really got to know each other well.
21:16I would say so.
21:17Yeah.
21:18Because, again, Harry's character is very inexperienced and has to learn from Ray in these scenes.
21:26So it wasn't supposed to be good.
21:28And it's confusing so many Harry's.
21:31But Harry Leighton, the writer, director, also wanted it to feel clumsy and had a thing which I love.
21:37That, like, often sex scenes are...
21:40It's too kind of polished and the lighting is always perfect.
21:43And it's too, like, hands grabbing sheets.
21:45That kind of crap.
21:47Like, what was so great about this, like, he was like...
21:49He's not seeing Bridgerton.
21:50Yeah.
21:52It's like the romanticized version of sex.
22:02And what was great about these scenes and what made me excited about it was, yes, they are hot and intense.
22:11But there's also room for awkwardness.
22:13And when people change positions, it can look clumsy and weird.
22:18And it's kind of fun to leave that in rather than cut around it.
22:21So it's, like, everything is not a perfectly choreographed dance.
22:24And why do we think we...
22:26I think we all have an impression that Swedish people are unshockable.
22:29That they're very kind of bohemian.
22:31Or have we just made that up?
22:32I think that is not quite true.
22:35I think it was, um...
22:37But you run around naked a lot, don't you?
22:39Well, my family, yes.
22:41But in general...
22:43I think it's from a movie called Joannith and Gull from the 60s
22:46that was kind of made a big impact around the world
22:49because it was, like, sexually very liberating and, um, and Swedish.
22:53So that kind of...
22:54After that, people were like, oh, they're so liberated and free.
22:57So you are Swedish, are you?
22:59Um, yes.
23:00Can you do the accent for us?
23:03I'd love to hear that.
23:05I think he has been.
23:06Anything for you, Miriam.
23:08Aw.
23:09It's very sing-song.
23:10It's very sing-song in Swedish.
23:11It is.
23:12It's kind of like...
23:13It is.
23:14That was gibberish, but...
23:15Yeah.
23:16Yeah, there is a sort of music in it.
23:20Like, you know, it's...
23:21A sort of music in it?
23:23Yeah, music in it.
23:24And here's the thing.
23:25You're doing a press tour, but you're not doing it by yourself
23:27because the real gay bikers club that feature in the film,
23:32they've been travelling around with you, right?
23:35Yeah.
23:36They come to the show.
23:37Some of them are here.
23:38A bikers club?
23:39I think we can spot...
23:40There they are.
23:41Hello.
23:42Oh, my God.
23:43Hey!
23:44Oh, that's amazing.
23:48Yeah.
23:49Hello, guys.
23:50Hi.
23:51Nice to meet you all.
23:52Paul and Kevin.
23:53Hey.
23:54Love you.
23:55We've got a picture of them all on the red carpet.
23:57There they are.
23:58The London Film Festival.
23:59Lovely.
24:00Is that Matt?
24:01Is the pup?
24:02Are you the pup?
24:03Yeah.
24:04Honestly, it's like the show back in the Channel 4 days.
24:07We're off.
24:08We're off.
24:09I'm having flashbacks.
24:11And they've been biking around with you.
24:13They've been to various...
24:15That's not the only one.
24:16Yeah.
24:17A bunch of these guys came down to Cannes for the world premiere,
24:21which was pretty incredible.
24:23Wow.
24:24That was the first time I watched the movie with an audience
24:26and to do that with Harry and Harry and the guys
24:31and the fact that they came down just meant the world to me.
24:34It was an incredible night.
24:36Well, it's a really special film.
24:38It's very hard to describe, but I really hope you will see it
24:41because it's just terrific.
24:42Oh, thank you.
24:43You're great in it.
24:44It's Pillion and it's in cinemas now.
24:46Very good.
24:47Oh, it was a treat when Miriam Marvillies puts pen to paper.
24:55And this is a goodie.
24:56It is called The Little Book of Miriam.
25:00It's out now.
25:02And this is your third book, I think.
25:04It is, yes.
25:05But you've sold almost one and a half million books, Miriam.
25:09Amazing.
25:10It is amazing.
25:11Congratulations.
25:12I feel quite humble.
25:13How do you write it?
25:14On your computer?
25:15On your computer.
25:16On your computer.
25:17Yeah.
25:18No, I never thought I was a writer.
25:21And some people agree with that.
25:23But I've been immensely lucky, actually.
25:27And honestly, being on this show helps to sell it.
25:32And that's...
25:33That's why he has...
25:34That's why she's here, ladies and gentlemen.
25:37I thought you were going to say he inspired you.
25:41No.
25:42I would like to sell.
25:43It's a flogging opportunity.
25:45It is.
25:46It is.
25:47It is.
25:48You are a writer also.
25:51And your books are lovely.
25:53Oh, that's very funny.
25:54I really urge people to buy Graham's books and read them.
25:58Read them.
25:59People don't read enough.
26:01You're scrolling and scrolling.
26:03Read.
26:04Read a fucking book.
26:05Read this book.
26:06Yeah.
26:07And you tour the country with your books and you play these big theatres and this is night
26:16after night you do this.
26:18Do you enjoy it or is it kind of exhausting?
26:20I do.
26:21I mean, I think you would agree with that.
26:23You're an actress and you're an actress.
26:25It's wonderful to be in front of an audience.
26:28You know, I'm an old, tired lady.
26:31Well, I'm hardly a lady really, but I love being in front of an audience.
26:38It gives me a buzz, a thrill.
26:40I get energy from it.
26:42I get joy from it.
26:43I really do.
26:44And I think most actors do.
26:46I don't like cameras.
26:47I'm not interested in them.
26:49But to be with a live audience, to get the response from them and to feel that they're
26:55listening to me and sometimes quite liking what I'm doing, that is magical.
27:01The book is kind of an A to Z of your thoughts and your stories.
27:06And there's a story, and I know people ask you to tell this story a lot when you're doing
27:09your live shows.
27:10I think it was when you were on with Will.i.am and you told the story.
27:14And you know the one I'm talking about where you're going home in Edinburgh late at night.
27:18In Edinburgh.
27:19And there's a man up a tree.
27:21You assist him.
27:23But what you reveal in the book is there's more to this story.
27:27I know.
27:28I didn't tell it on television because I felt nobody would believe me.
27:34But after I had helped and supported the troupe.
27:38There was a soldier up a tree.
27:40Oh, wanking.
27:41And Miriam helped.
27:42And I...
27:43He wasn't stuck.
27:44He was just up a tree.
27:45No.
27:46He was up a tree.
27:47I heard the rustles.
27:48I saw what was going on.
27:49I asked him to come down.
27:50I finished him off, so to speak.
27:53Very pleasantly.
27:54And there was no threats.
27:57I was wiping my hand in the grass.
28:00And a voice from the bushes.
28:06By the way, this is the new part of the story.
28:09When we left this story you were wiping your hand on the grass.
28:12Yes.
28:13Now.
28:14I heard a voice come from the seat that was just where I'd been.
28:21And a very nicely dressed gentleman came forward and said,
28:27I couldn't help noticing what you had done for that young man.
28:34And I wondered if it was at all possible whether you would do the same for me.
28:42And, um, I said, uh, I thought to myself, well, I can't say no, can I?
28:49Because I've done it.
28:50One, sorry about it, but you can say no.
28:53I just felt I couldn't.
28:55That's the thing.
28:56I think you're going to love Pillian, by the way.
29:00This could be a scene from Pillian.
29:03So, I did what he asked me to do.
29:07Right there?
29:08Right there.
29:09There was nobody else there, you know.
29:11So, off he went, and I was wiping my hand in the grass.
29:16And lo and behold, this is the bit nobody believes, but it is true.
29:21A voice from the same place said,
29:25Hey, Miriam.
29:27And it was someone I knew.
29:30He was a young student that I had known in Oxford.
29:34I went to Cambridge, but I met him in Oxford because I lived there.
29:38And he said, listen, we're old friends, you know.
29:43I said, oh, come on.
29:45LAUGHTER
29:47Yeah, it's fair.
29:49And he said, oh, come on, Miriam, you know.
29:51So, I did.
29:52LAUGHTER
29:54Three for the price of one.
29:56LAUGHTER
29:57Beautiful story.
29:58It's true.
29:59It is honestly true.
30:00I'm surprised you're not still there, Miriam.
30:06Thank you, Bryce.
30:07Yes, of course.
30:08Now, Miriam, I feel, I feel, you know, you tell these great stories,
30:18we love having you on the show, but I feel that often it takes away
30:22from the fact that you are this great actor.
30:24So, I'm delighted to say that you are in a short film
30:29that's coming out in the new year.
30:31I am very good in this film.
30:33LAUGHTER
30:35A friend of Dorothy.
30:37But the real star is that young boy up there, Alastair Ntooku.
30:43Yeah.
30:44He's wonderful.
30:45It's...
30:46And my agent has taken him on.
30:48He's so good.
30:49So good.
30:50And so lovely.
30:51And he helped me to be good too,
30:55as did the writer and director, Lee Knight.
30:58It's just a wonderful film.
30:59So it...
31:00I believe it's going to be on one of those streaming channels.
31:03It is.
31:04Very soon.
31:05Yes.
31:06I can't tell you which one, because it's a secret.
31:07But I know it's the 1st of January.
31:09On the 1st of January.
31:10Yes.
31:11Rush to see it, because it's really wonderful.
31:13It is.
31:14It's a very, very sweet film.
31:15And you're both so good in it.
31:17It's gorgeous.
31:18Absolutely gorgeous.
31:19We look forward to that.
31:20And don't forget, The Little Book of Miriam, that is out now.
31:22OK.
31:23APPLAUSE
31:24Good news, everyone.
31:28Ms Nicola Coughlin is returning to the London stage
31:31in the Playboy of the Western world.
31:33At the National Theatre from the 4th of December.
31:364th of December?
31:37Oh, that's next week.
31:38I know.
31:39How are you all set?
31:40You ready?
31:41Well, we did our first sort of run today in the room.
31:44It was our last day in the rehearsal room.
31:45And they said, you know, two or three people will be coming in.
31:48And there were sort of three rows on either side of the room.
31:50And I went, oh, no.
31:51And it was terrifying.
31:52But like you said, very exciting to have an audience there to perform to.
31:56And, yeah, it's very, very exciting.
31:58And obviously the Playboy of the Western world, classic play.
32:00Yes.
32:01If people don't know, if it's somehow passed them by,
32:03who are you in it?
32:04What's it about?
32:05So I play a young lady called Peggyn Mike.
32:07And it's set in the west of Ireland in 1907.
32:09And there was big riots when this play came out.
32:12Because they talked about women's shifts, so women's underwear in it.
32:16And people were like, no, Irish women, you know,
32:18they would never talk about underwear.
32:19We couldn't be so crazy.
32:20And then they tore up the theatre to prove how not badly behaved they were.
32:24So, yeah.
32:25So she runs this pub in the country and everything's sort of going along,
32:28a bit humdrum.
32:29And then a young, good-looking man walks in.
32:31And everyone sort of goes, well, who are you?
32:33Where did you come from?
32:34And they barrage of questions.
32:36And then he sort of says, leave me alone.
32:38I killed my father.
32:39And instead of being horrified, they'll go, that's amazing.
32:42That's really cool and exciting.
32:44And we all fancy you.
32:46Yeah.
32:47And you've reunited with Derry Girls co-star Siobhan, former Sweeney.
32:51Yes.
32:52Have you ever been on stage with her before?
32:53I never have.
32:54But she is the Queen of Ireland.
32:55We sort of play love rivals for Christie, played by the lovely Anna Hardwick in the middle,
33:00which is great fun.
33:01Because my character, we did a show together called Derry Girls.
33:03And she was the...
33:04I know that.
33:05Oh, do you?
33:06Yes, I fucking do.
33:07Oh, sorry.
33:08It's brilliant.
33:09Oh, my goodness.
33:10Thanks very much.
33:11You're brilliant.
33:12All of you.
33:13Oh, thank you.
33:14Thank you very much.
33:15But my character in the show was very scared of her character.
33:18Because she was a nun.
33:19Very scary nun.
33:20But in this, we're rivals.
33:21So we get to go toe-to-toe, which is great fun.
33:22And here's the thing.
33:23It's a return to live theatre for you.
33:25Yes.
33:26And so you'll be in front of a live audience and people are talking about how great that is.
33:29Yeah.
33:30But it's also quite...
33:31It can be quite intimidating because audiences have changed, I feel.
33:34Well, it's absolutely terrifying.
33:35I mean, I've done theatre before.
33:37A lot of direct-to-dress theatre where you're just speaking it out to the audience.
33:40And you have interesting things when that happens.
33:42Because people assume that you can't see them.
33:44And you really can sometimes.
33:46And I did a show once where I looked up in the audience and a man just took out a lunchbox
33:49and just started eating, like, a microwave shepherd's pie.
33:52And I was like, right, this does make what I'm doing quite difficult.
33:56So please, if you come to the National, just, like, don't eat the shepherd's pie before or after.
34:00That would help, like, a lot.
34:02And the phones thing is...
34:03The phones thing.
34:04Oh, yeah.
34:05It illuminates your face.
34:06I stopped the show once.
34:07Yeah.
34:08Did you?
34:09Yes.
34:10I was doing Sunset Boulevard on Broadway.
34:11Yeah.
34:12And, you know, you prepare, prepare, and you make a great entrance.
34:14And it was a flash, flash, flash, flash, flash, flash.
34:17And as you're doing this song, you're thinking, what am I going to do about this?
34:20What am I going to do about this?
34:21Yeah.
34:22And I walked to the end of the stage and I said, we can either have a photo shoot or we can do the show.
34:26You decide.
34:27Yeah.
34:28Ooh.
34:29LAUGHTER
34:35Alexander SkarsgƄrd, have you done any theatre?
34:38Yeah, in Sweden years ago.
34:40It's probably almost, well, 15, 20 years ago now.
34:43Wow.
34:44Since last I was on stage.
34:45No temptation to get back on the boards.
34:46It's a lot of work, my friend.
34:48It's a lot of work.
34:49So, no.
34:50I'm incredibly lazy.
34:51LAUGHTER
34:52And you come from this big acting dynasty, the SkarsgƄrds, to your dad, Stellan.
34:57But then how many of your siblings are...
34:58But that's your father.
34:59Yeah.
35:00Ooh, he is a good actor.
35:02LAUGHTER
35:03Oh, he really is.
35:05Why are you laughing?
35:06My favourite SkarsgƄrd, yeah.
35:08LAUGHTER
35:09I didn't mean that in a nasty way.
35:10No, no.
35:11I absolutely mean it.
35:12He's a wonderful actor.
35:13But I heard you were very jealous of your father being in Mamma Mia.
35:17Oh, God.
35:18I mean, who wouldn't be?
35:19LAUGHTER
35:20I mean, look at that.
35:21LAUGHTER
35:22It was, yeah, he was just obviously a big ABBA fan.
35:25But was that in the film of Mamma Mia?
35:27Yes.
35:28Oh.
35:29What?
35:30LAUGHTER
35:31It's a great movie.
35:32Have you not seen it?
35:33I did see it, yeah.
35:35He's not disappointed.
35:36I thought it was dreadful.
35:37LAUGHTER
35:38The movie itself were my father's performance.
35:40No, no, I don't remember your father's performance.
35:43LAUGHTER
35:45LAUGHTER
35:46But it really wasn't to my taste.
35:49I think what I was jealous of was the experience.
35:58Because I remember, like, he was having the most fun he's ever had.
36:01Oh.
36:02I think they all did.
36:03There were all the people in it.
36:04And that's why...
36:05That's also kind of why I appreciated the movie so much,
36:08because you can tell it was kind of infectious,
36:10like how much fun they were all having.
36:12Yeah.
36:13And, like, my father is not a great singer,
36:15but he was just melting it out and laughing,
36:17and it just looked like it was a joyous experience.
36:20LAUGHTER
36:23I'm glad he had a good time.
36:25LAUGHTER
36:27Have some notes.
36:28I know.
36:29I hesitate to mention Nicola's new film.
36:32But no, you haven't seen this.
36:33Mamma Mia 3.
36:34No.
36:35No, Nicola, you've got to...
36:37This is such a posh...
36:38It's a kid's film, but it's a posh one.
36:40The Magic Faraway Tree.
36:42Yes.
36:43It's you...
36:44Who else?
36:45It's an amazing cast.
36:46Ridiculous cast.
36:47Claire Foy, Andrew Garfield,
36:48Rebecca Ferguson,
36:49Jennifer Saunders,
36:50Michael Palin.
36:51Wow.
36:52It's honestly...
36:53Oh, wonderful.
36:54It was amazing.
36:55I read the script and had no idea who was involved with it,
36:57but I thought it was Simon Farnaby who wrote Paddington 2,
37:00which is one of the best movies ever in the world.
37:03Yeah.
37:04And I was, like, desperate to be involved,
37:05and, yeah, it was just a joy.
37:08And it's a lot of people's favourite, you know, childhood book.
37:11I'd never read it, but I love meeting grown-ups.
37:13They're like, oh, my God.
37:14And I got to play a fairy.
37:16And I got lovely, lovely ears.
37:18Well, they've got a picture of you, have we?
37:19Oh, yeah.
37:20There you are!
37:21LAUGHTER
37:22Good ears.
37:23Yeah, great ears.
37:24It was so much fun.
37:25And there's three gorgeous kids who lead it,
37:27and we got to lots of magical lands,
37:29and it was just a joy.
37:30I loved it so much.
37:31And when's that out?
37:32It's out in March.
37:33Oh, OK.
37:34Yes.
37:35But the trailer's out very soon.
37:36They won't tell me when, but soon.
37:37Yeah.
37:38Well, just a quick reminder,
37:39you can see Nicola Coughlin in the Playboy of the Western world
37:42at the National from next Thursday.
37:45Good luck to you.
37:46Yeah.
37:47Thank you very much.
37:48Right.
37:49It is time for music.
37:52This Brit award-winning artist sold over 20 million records worldwide,
37:56and now, after a seven-year break,
37:59she is back with a new album.
38:01Here performing the single H-A-P-P-Y,
38:04it's Jessie James!
38:05And her band!
38:06That was gorgeous.
38:07Come on over, do!
38:09So good to see you!
38:10How are you?
38:11Welcome back to the show.
38:15So good to see you.
38:16So good to see you.
38:18So good to see you.
38:19Hi.
38:20That is Nicola.
38:21Nice to meet you.
38:22Hello.
38:23Hello.
38:24Hello.
38:25Hello.
38:26Lovely to see you.
38:28Oh, I'm sure you did it.
38:30OK.
38:31Very lovely.
38:32Thank you so much for that performance.
38:33It was fantastic.
38:34Oh, you're welcome.
38:35Just loved it.
38:36H-A-P-P-Y.
38:37That is off the latest album,
38:39Don't Tease Me With A Good Time,
38:41which is out today.
38:42It is.
38:43It's in the world.
38:44Yeah, yeah, yeah.
38:45It's out.
38:46Congratulations.
38:52Because time does all these strange things,
38:55I had no idea.
38:56It's been seven years.
38:57It's been too long.
38:58It's very rude.
38:59Yeah.
39:00I'm so sorry to anyone's price tag,
39:02and then I just disappeared.
39:03No.
39:04It's just life just happens, doesn't it?
39:06And I suppose the big question is,
39:07you know, how are you feeling?
39:09Because I know you have been through a ringer
39:11with health things and all sorts.
39:12Yeah, this year's been.
39:13This year's been wild, yeah.
39:15So I'm good.
39:16I've just recovered from breast cancer.
39:18Wow!
39:19It was fabulous!
39:21Wow!
39:22Did you?
39:23I never know how to react to it.
39:25Yeah, I do everything with jokes,
39:27so sorry if I say things that feel a bit awkward,
39:29but yeah.
39:30I'm just...
39:31Yeah.
39:32No, it's good.
39:33I've got one really hard boob and an album out.
39:36You know?
39:37Who could ask for anything more?
39:39Exactly.
39:40I'm just happy to be here, honestly.
39:42Yeah, yeah, yeah.
39:43I'm really happy to have you.
39:44And what has it been like kind of getting up in front
39:46of audiences again and doing performances again?
39:48Honestly, everywhere I've been, it's like...
39:52It's like I've been de-iced and I've come out
39:54of the Natural History Museum.
39:56And there's people like,
39:57you haven't been around for years.
39:59And I'm like, I'm back.
40:01I don't feel any different, to be honest.
40:04And since we last saw you, you've done this thing,
40:07which I feel like not enough people know about.
40:09Oh, no.
40:10So, no, you went to China.
40:12I did.
40:13You went to China.
40:14Yeah, they know about it.
40:15They know about it.
40:16He was there.
40:17You went to China and you did this show called Singer.
40:20Yes.
40:21And so it's a talent show.
40:22Yes.
40:23But it's a talent show on a scale you've never heard of.
40:27So how many people...
40:29It's actually in a sense.
40:31So I went, my manager, I was writing my last album
40:34100 years ago and they were like,
40:37this TV show want to have you on?
40:39And I was like, just say yes.
40:40And they're like, do you know the details?
40:42And I was like, no.
40:44Just, I need a shake up.
40:45Just say yes.
40:46So I fly over to China thinking I'm a guest on a TV show.
40:49No, no.
40:50I'm a contestant.
40:51No.
40:52And I'm competing against other Chinese artists
40:55that are massive and fully established, like do stadiums
40:58and it's 500 million viewers a week.
41:01No.
41:02Yeah.
41:03The final, I did 13 weeks, 13 episodes.
41:05It was the most amazing experience of my life.
41:07It was a reality TV show.
41:09I had to sing in Mandarin.
41:10Please don't look that up.
41:12And the final was 1.2 billion people.
41:16What?
41:17Isn't that incredible?
41:18Isn't that insane?
41:19So I mean, me and China, like, I go back all the time.
41:22You were a contestant?
41:23Yes.
41:24Did you win?
41:25I did.
41:26Wow.
41:27Wow.
41:28Brilliant people.
41:29I was so scared.
41:31I sang, I sang I Will Always Love You by Whitney Houston.
41:34And people have asked me to sing that song a lot, like, growing up.
41:37And I was like, no, I only want to do it and I feel like it's the right moment.
41:41And I just felt, I don't know why I chose to do it in front of 1.2 billion people live.
41:45But in a dress where I looked literally like a sparkly penguin.
41:48I could not walk and I was just like, walk into the mic.
41:51But it was life changing.
41:52It was the most amazing experience, yeah.
41:54Wow.
41:55Congratulations.
41:57And people can see you on tour here.
41:58Yes.
41:59Is it next April it starts?
42:00Next April.
42:01I'm going on tour in, yeah, all the time.
42:02I'm just singing anywhere.
42:03I'll be singing in a lot of places.
42:06Yeah.
42:07I'll come over to your house.
42:08I'll sing.
42:09Yeah, yeah, yeah.
42:10No, literally.
42:11Listen, it's so great to see you.
42:13Thank you for that amazing performance and good luck with the tour and the album.
42:15Thank you so much.
42:16Jessie J, everybody.
42:18Thank you, my love.
42:20That is nearly it, but before we go, just time for a quick visit to the big red chair.
42:26Who have we got?
42:27Hello.
42:28Hi.
42:29Hi, I've high hopes for you.
42:30There's a spark in your eye.
42:31What's your name?
42:32Alison.
42:33Alison, lovely.
42:34And where are you from, Alison?
42:35Devon.
42:36Devon, lovely.
42:37And what do you do in Devon, Alison?
42:38I'm a partnership development manager for a financial services network business.
42:42I almost said that.
42:45OK, off you go.
42:46Off you go with this story, Alison.
42:47Back in the 70s, growing up as a child with a strict mother, we were always taught not
42:52to leave any food on our plate.
42:54And it was Christmas Day, Christmas dinner, and as usual, you would have sprouts on your
42:59Christmas dinner, which I hate.
43:01So everyone had left the dining room table and I was left with my plate, which had just
43:06had the sprouts left on there.
43:09We had a Jack Russell terrier called Timmy at the time, and I thought, well, it would
43:13be quite nice.
43:14No one's going to see.
43:15I can put the plate on the floor and the dog will eat the sprouts and I'll get away
43:18with it.
43:19I put the plate on the floor.
43:20The dog licked the gravy off the sprouts, but left the sprouts.
43:24But unfortunately, I couldn't admit to the fact that I tried to get the dog to eat
43:29the sprouts, so I still had to eat the sprouts.
43:30You can walk, Alison.
43:31I like that story.
43:32APPLAUSE
43:33Very good.
43:34OK, that really is all we've got time for.
43:35If you'd like to have a go ahead and tell yourself and tell your story, you can contact
43:36us via our website at this very address.
43:37Please say huge thank you to all of my guests tonight.
43:38Jesse J.
43:39CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
43:48Michaela Coughlin!
43:49Miriam Margulies!
43:51Alexander Skarsgard!
43:52And Glenn Close!
43:55Alexander SkarsgƄrd, and Glenn Close.
44:03Join me next week with music guest Kat Burns,
44:07U.S. talk show host Seth Meyers,
44:09celebrity traitor King Alan Carr,
44:11Oscar winner Kate Winslet,
44:13and the former Prime Minister of New Zealand,
44:15Jacinda Ardern.
44:16I'll see you then, goodnight everybody live.
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