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00:30Hello!
00:32Thank you so much!
00:34Oh, you're very kind!
00:36Thank you, thank you, thank you! Hello!
00:38Hello, hello! Good evening, everybody!
00:40You are so welcome to the show!
00:42And can I just say,
00:44Happy Black Friday, everybody!
00:46I know!
00:48Have you all done your shopping?
00:50Mmm! Now, you know what I've ordered?
00:52Yeah, five amazing guests
00:54and they've all arrived!
00:56In a singing chorus later, look who's back!
00:58It's only Jessie J!
01:00CHEERING
01:02She'll be performing her new single,
01:04H-A-P-P-Y!
01:06But first, we've a very happy sofa
01:08for you tonight. We've loved her
01:10as Claire in Derry Girls, as Lady
01:12Whistledown in Bridgerton, and as Diplomat
01:14Barbie. Now she's back on stage
01:16in the classic Playboy of the Western
01:18World. It's Nicola
01:20Coughlin, everybody!
01:22CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
01:24Yay!
01:26Hello!
01:28So good to see you!
01:30Good to see you!
01:32This wonderful woman
01:34is a BAFTA-winning star of
01:36stage, cinema and television
01:38and a Vogue cover girl to boot.
01:40Now she brings us the A to Z
01:42off her stories and opinions in
01:44the Little Book of Miriam.
01:46It's always a pleasure to welcome
01:48Miriam Margulies!
01:50CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
01:52CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
01:54This smouldering Swede first made his mark
02:12in vampire series True Blood
02:14before starring in Viking epic
02:16The Northmen and hit shows like
02:18Big Little Lies and Succession.
02:20His new film is called Pillion.
02:22It's a first-time welcome to
02:24Mr. Alexander Skarsgård!
02:26CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
02:28CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
02:30On your head!
02:31There you go!
02:32I hope you've never needed to do it!
02:34Happy to see you!
02:35I'm happy to meet you!
02:36There you go!
02:38CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
02:40And this Hollywood great
02:42is an eight-time Oscar nominee
02:44who starred in films like Fatal Attraction,
02:46Dangerous Liaisons and 101 Dalmatians.
02:48Now she stars in the latest
02:50Knives Out Mystery, Wake Up Dead Man.
02:52It is the great
02:54Glenn Close!
02:56CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
02:58CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
03:00Hello!
03:01So great to see you!
03:02Welcome back!
03:03Thank you!
03:04There you go!
03:05Meet everyone on the couch!
03:06Oh!
03:07Lovely, lovely, lovely, lovely, lovely!
03:09Nice to see you all!
03:11Leave the guests alone, Miriam!
03:13Sorry!
03:14Are you paying homage to Where's Wally?
03:17Why the scarf?
03:19It's Arsenal!
03:21Oh!
03:22CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
03:24You've heard of Arsenal!
03:25Oh, I have!
03:26Certainly the first part!
03:27LAUGHTER
03:32Was there a big game tonight?
03:33Yesterday there was a big game, yeah.
03:35I'm technically an Arsenal supporter too.
03:37I had a driver called Mickey who drove me on three different jobs.
03:40He said, do you have a team?
03:41I said, no.
03:42He said, you're an Arsenal supporter.
03:43So, me too.
03:44So you are as well?
03:45I don't know anything but, yes.
03:46Well, the thing is, I want to join the working classes.
03:50LAUGHTER
03:51And I'm so middle class, you know?
03:54I can't help it.
03:55But Arsenal is working class.
03:57OK.
03:58And I thought if I support Arsenal, you know, people will accept me.
04:02LAUGHTER
04:03There's nothing like a scarf over sequins to suggest working class.
04:08LAUGHTER
04:09It's lovely to see you, Miriam.
04:12Glenn Close, I was saying to you, I feel like you're a frequent guest.
04:15You haven't been here for, what, 18 years?
04:1718 years, yes.
04:18What did you do to her the first night?
04:20I did nothing, I haven't, I don't think.
04:22But now, is it true you nearly worked with Miriam?
04:25Yes.
04:26Don't you remember?
04:27Yes, I do.
04:28Well, it was...
04:29I think it was Albert Nobbs.
04:30Albert Nobbs.
04:31Yes, Albert Nobbs, that's right.
04:32Yes, the movie Albert Nobbs.
04:33It was shot in Dublin and I was dying for you to play the hotel proprietor.
04:36And why didn't I?
04:37What happened?
04:38I don't know.
04:39You would have been marvellous.
04:40I would have loved to have done that.
04:41Yes, yes.
04:42It's a beautiful piece of work.
04:44And I really admire you.
04:46You know, I don't admire all those people in Hollywood.
04:49But you, I do.
04:51I don't live in Hollywood and I never have.
04:53LAUGHTER
04:54You work there.
04:55You know, we all work there sometimes.
04:57Yeah.
04:58But you're a class act, darling.
05:00Oh, my goodness.
05:01Glenn class, I would say.
05:02Yeah.
05:03Oh, well, well, yes.
05:04Right?
05:05Glenn class.
05:06Glenn class.
05:07Thank you, that's nice.
05:08I mean that.
05:09I mean that.
05:10It's a first-time welcome to Alexander Skarsgård.
05:12So, hello.
05:13Hello.
05:14Hello.
05:15And now, here's an odd thing.
05:16I think you know Miriam.
05:19No, you don't.
05:20What's that about?
05:21I clearly made a strong impression on Miriam when we met.
05:26What?
05:27Well, I...
05:28We have actually met, yes.
05:31I believe you own or used to own a condo in Santa Monica.
05:37Is that correct?
05:38I did, yes.
05:39Yes.
05:40Were you looking to rent out a room in that at one point?
05:42This would have been like...
05:43When I was coming back to England, yeah.
05:46OK.
05:47What were you doing there?
05:48Well, I was...
05:49You were...
05:50Because you were going back to shoot...
05:52Was it Harry Potter maybe?
05:53Yeah, I think so.
05:54Yeah.
05:55And I...
05:56It was an ad.
05:57I was looking for a room to rent.
05:59I was...
06:00And why didn't you take it?
06:01Well...
06:04Tell her.
06:05Tell her.
06:06Uh-oh.
06:07Was it not clean or something?
06:08No, it was an incredibly...
06:09It was a gorgeous apartment and I remember that you were very charming
06:15and I...
06:16And expensive?
06:17No, I don't think it was that.
06:18I think it was...
06:19I think, in hindsight, I probably misread the cues, but I felt a strong sexual connection.
06:25And I think that...
06:27Still now.
06:28What the hell?
06:29It was probably...
06:32I probably misread the cues, but I felt this could potentially get messy if I rent a room
06:37in this apartment if I'm...
06:38If I'm your tenant.
06:39Darling!
06:40I'm 84 and gay.
06:43And I've been with my partner for 58 years.
06:47Again, I...
06:48I probably misread the situation.
06:51Wow.
06:52But, uh...
06:53You're talking through your bottom.
06:56But, you know, it is...
06:57I was actually there and I do remember that we had a lovely afternoon, which you obviously
07:01don't remember, but it was, um...
07:03It was...
07:05That bit's true, Miriam.
07:07That bit's true afternoon, then.
07:08A lovely afternoon.
07:09Yes.
07:10Nicola, have you nearly worked with Miriam or nearly lived with her?
07:13Yes.
07:14Miriam, I'm your daughter.
07:17Not yet.
07:18And I am your father.
07:22Oh, my God.
07:23Happy family.
07:24Oh, that is lovely.
07:25Yeah, yeah, yeah.
07:26I feel like it's a Christmas special.
07:27Yeah.
07:28Long lost families.
07:29It's beautiful.
07:30Lots to talk about tonight.
07:31We've got two great films, a classic play and a new book from Miriam, so let's get started.
07:43Glenn Close brings us our new star-studded whodunit, Wake Up Dead Man, a Knives Out Mystery.
07:48It opens in cinemas tonight, and then it'll stream on Netflix from the 12th of December.
07:55So, this is the latest Benoit Blanc mystery, played by Daniel Craig.
07:59It's an all-new cast, all-new story.
08:01Who are you?
08:02What's going on?
08:03Ah.
08:04Well, it's gothic.
08:05It's more gothic than the others.
08:07And it takes place largely in and around a church, and I am Martha Delacroix, the woman
08:15who is, I would call, the church lady.
08:18Yeah.
08:19She takes care of everything.
08:20It's a great part for you.
08:22I mean, it's...
08:23It was fun.
08:24Yeah.
08:25And, like always, the cast is amazing.
08:27Daniel Craig, you...
08:29Josh O'Connor is so good in this film.
08:30Josh, so good.
08:32He plays a priest in it.
08:33Yes.
08:34Oh, there he is.
08:35He's fantastic.
08:36I think he's kind of like a young Jimmy Stewart.
08:39Oh, that's a...
08:40Yes.
08:41You can't help but love him.
08:42Yeah.
08:43Listen, we've got a little clip.
08:45This is Josh O'Connor as the priest.
08:47Yes, who's just arrived.
08:48He's just arrived.
08:49He's discovering something of the church's past.
08:52Yes.
08:53So this is the crypt.
08:54Yep.
08:55It's a damn shame.
08:56Gotta put up a security camera.
08:58Is there an entrance?
08:59There is.
09:01This right here.
09:02It's Lazarus' door.
09:04It takes construction equipment to open from the outside.
09:07But cantilevered is such that one push sent a tumbling to the ground from the inside.
09:14Who's in there, then?
09:15Prentiss.
09:16Wix's grandfather, the founder of this church, was like a father to me.
09:23Makes me sick.
09:25These kids painting rocket ships all over his sacred resting place.
09:30And Tom was head of church in that clip as well.
09:40But apparently, and I know people always say this after films, particularly when there's
09:43a big cast, that it was a very happy thing.
09:45It was, yes.
09:46But apparently you weren't hanging out in your own trailers at all.
09:48No, not at all.
09:49In fact, it's kind of what Rian Johnson does.
09:52Wherever we were, we had a moveable greenworm.
09:55And that's where we would gather and laugh and sleep and tell stories and try those.
10:02At one point, somebody brought in those really terrible British, their piggy thumb, the candies.
10:09Peppa pigs?
10:10Yeah, Peppa pigs.
10:11We were all trying Peppa pigs.
10:12Percy pigs.
10:13Percy pigs.
10:14Percy pigs.
10:15Things like that.
10:16Yeah, yeah.
10:17Wow.
10:18We had a wonderful, yeah, we had a great time.
10:20The bar was quite low.
10:21But those things that were drawn on the whatever it was, they looked like genital organs.
10:30Yes, Miriam.
10:31Am I right?
10:32Am I right?
10:33Yes.
10:34Oh, of course.
10:35I mean, there's an approximation, but yes.
10:37Well, it's a while since I've seen one.
10:40And now, the other thing, it's a lovely cast, and you all hung out, but you also brought
10:47your lovely dog, Pip.
10:48My dog, Pip, yes.
10:49Who doesn't appear in the film.
10:51No.
10:52But he's backstage right now.
10:53Oh, is he?
10:54Oh, yes.
10:55You should have brought him on.
10:56This is you and Pip on set.
10:58By the way, I should say, this isn't a spoiler.
11:01Did the dog do it?
11:04He wants you to think he did.
11:07Those eyes, I get lost in those eyes.
11:10I know.
11:11Yeah.
11:12And now, this crucifix, is this the crucifix you brought from another film?
11:16Yes.
11:17Yes.
11:18I have an incredible costume collection from my first movie, and that crucifix was actually
11:23given to me by my father when he visited St. Peter's a long time ago, and I wore it in
11:28House of the Spirits.
11:29Yeah.
11:30And I said, wouldn't it be nice to get it and wear it again in this film?
11:34And I did, and it really meant something to me.
11:37And is it true the thing about your contract?
11:40Yes.
11:41About costume.
11:42Yeah.
11:43Yes.
11:44So everything?
11:45I can pick whatever I want.
11:46Not if it's rented, though I have nicked a couple of things, I have to say.
11:52And what do you do with them all?
11:54Well, first of all, I spend a lot of time in fitting rooms.
11:59And especially in movies where you don't have a lot of time to rehearse, if any at all,
12:04is in that costume room when they're constructing the character.
12:08You're literally part of constructing the character as they're putting the clothes on you.
12:13So I have kept all of them from my first movie, plus I have 101, 102 Dalmatians,
12:18so I have the original Sunset Boulevard costumes.
12:20It's an extraordinary collection, which has already been shown in two different museums,
12:25you know.
12:26You could raise money for charity.
12:28I could.
12:29I could.
12:30But she chooses not to.
12:35Glenn hates charity, famous.
12:40Designers love it, because otherwise they're rented out and torn apart.
12:43Yeah.
12:44The only thing I kept from Harry Potter was a pair of socks.
12:49Because they were nice kind of thick woolen socks.
12:53Yeah.
12:54Light socks.
12:55And you wear them in life.
12:56I do wear them in life.
12:57Is that all you've kept from all the things you've been in?
12:59Yeah, because I don't hang on to the costumes, you know.
13:04Because, Alexander, you like to collect things from films.
13:07You've kept some things, haven't you?
13:09I do have a bloody g-string that I wore in the Northmen framed in my bedroom.
13:14Framed?
13:15Framed.
13:16By the costume department as a wrap gift.
13:18You didn't take it into the framers.
13:21Yeah, I got a couple of...
13:24I got my fangs from True Blood.
13:27And two heads.
13:30One from Infinity Pool and one from Murderbot.
13:34Do you hide it, please, just to scare people?
13:36No, I...
13:37What?
13:38Yeah, well, no, I do.
13:39Like, I put them, like, I tuck them in.
13:40If I have guests staying over, I usually tuck one of them in under the sheets in the guest bed.
13:44Oh!
13:47And then I'll appear in the middle of the night with the fangs.
13:51Fun!
13:53You're glad he didn't rent the room now.
13:54Yeah!
13:55And, Nicola, your Barbie dress, did you get to keep that?
13:59Yes!
14:00I didn't, but they made me...
14:01I had a two-second role in Barbie, but Jacqueline Duran, the costume designer, was like, what do you want to wear?
14:06And she made me a record of a dress of Barbie I had as a little girl.
14:09Oh!
14:10She was...
14:11I know, it was amazing.
14:12She was called Sparkalise Barbie.
14:13They didn't let me keep it, but I stole knickers on every set I've ever been on.
14:18Because I got a text...
14:19That's very useful.
14:20Very useful, but you go home in them, and then you get a text to be like,
14:23Hi, Nicola, well done today, could you please bring back the underwear?
14:27Because you've taken all of the characters under her, and I'm like, yeah, fair.
14:30Yeah, there's none left.
14:31Actually, we've got a very cute picture of you.
14:33Is your Barbie in this picture?
14:35No, but that's the...
14:37Oh!
14:38I think I was about six, and that's with my Barbie convertible.
14:40Look how bloody delighted I am with myself.
14:43I never knew you were rich, Nicola Coughlin.
14:45Oh, yeah, pretty fancy.
14:46Look at you and your Barbie convertible.
14:48But you have red hair there.
14:49It looks a bit red in that, it does, a little bit.
14:51Yeah, yeah.
14:52Yeah, it was, my dad set up the camera in front of the Christmas tree,
14:54and I was posing, thinking, look, I'm pretty cool.
14:56Yeah.
14:57But you are.
14:58Thanks very much.
14:59I mean, look at the size of that thing.
15:00Yeah, it was huge.
15:01It was amazing.
15:02You could have driven it to school.
15:03I've got a 90 in that material, actually.
15:06That's interesting.
15:07Yeah, yeah.
15:08Isn't it?
15:09But, I mean, I just happened to know you.
15:11Oh, no, I know.
15:12I'm clear.
15:13I share with the group.
15:14Yeah.
15:15Now, Glenn Close, you have been in something else very fun.
15:19All's fair.
15:21Yeah.
15:22Because Kim Kardashian and Sarah Paulson were here telling us all about it.
15:25Yes.
15:26That was before it came out.
15:28And, er...
15:30LAUGHTER
15:31Well, no.
15:32Listen, we can laugh about it because it's an enormous success,
15:36and there's a season two coming, isn't there?
15:39There is.
15:40Yes.
15:41Oh, thank God.
15:42Were you slightly taken aback by the reviews?
15:46I didn't read any of them.
15:48OK.
15:49No.
15:50One doesn't read reviews, especially if you know they're terrible.
15:51I won't say anything then.
15:52LAUGHTER
15:53You must have known something, because you did post this cartoon.
15:57Yes.
15:58Which is Critic Bunny Stew.
16:00LAUGHTER
16:01Yes.
16:02Did you draw this?
16:03I did.
16:04It's very good.
16:06Yeah.
16:07I thought it was appropriate.
16:08LAUGHTER
16:09And pretty good likenesses.
16:10You can tell who they all are.
16:11No, you can tell whoever it is.
16:12Yeah.
16:13And talking of Critic Bunny Stew, you had a movie night, you and the rest of the cast.
16:17Yes.
16:18Yes, because it came out that Kim had not seen Fatal Attraction.
16:23So a lot of you probably haven't either, if you're...
16:25If you haven't, you should.
16:26Yeah.
16:27It's a pretty good movie.
16:28It's a scary movie.
16:29Um, so everyone said, what, what, what?
16:32So, so, Kim said, let's all go over to my mother's house in our Skims pajamas and watch Fatal Attraction.
16:39Oh, there you are.
16:40There we are.
16:41Wow.
16:42LAUGHTER
16:43And we did.
16:45Was it awkward for you, everyone just watching your movie?
16:49Well, I hadn't seen it in a very long time.
16:52I mean, memories flew back into my mind, especially, I didn't know that I showed my breasts so much.
16:59LAUGHTER
17:00I mean, they weren't anything spectacular to see, but they were, they were visible.
17:05Good.
17:06Good.
17:07Yeah, yeah.
17:08LAUGHTER
17:09It's still streaming, Miriam, you can get it.
17:11Yeah.
17:12I've seen it.
17:13LAUGHTER
17:14But you didn't have an intimacy...
17:17Oh, no.
17:18..councillor then, or...
17:19No.
17:20What do they call them?
17:21Coordinator.
17:22Yeah.
17:23Intimacy coordinator.
17:25I can't imagine such a thing.
17:27I can't either.
17:28They also...
17:29Don't you have those...
17:30You meet somebody and it's called, if you get along or you want to...
17:34Oh, a chemistry...
17:35A chemistry read?
17:36Yes.
17:37A chemistry read.
17:38Oh, that's absurd.
17:39Isn't that absurd?
17:40Amazing.
17:41No, I don't understand.
17:43I don't think I'd have a career if I had to have a chemistry read.
17:46LAUGHTER
17:47But when you screen test, isn't that like a chemistry read?
17:53Like, do they make you screen test with Michael Douglas?
17:54Oh, my God.
17:55Well, I screen test for Fatal Attraction.
17:57It was a nightmare.
17:58I've never known what to do with my hair.
18:00My hair was long and I didn't know what to do with my hair.
18:02It was like...
18:03And I took a Valium because I was so nervous.
18:05LAUGHTER
18:06I was walking across, you know, to the parking lot in L.A.,
18:09kind of like this.
18:10And you walked into a room and there's a camera
18:13and there's Michael Douglas.
18:15And I wanted to just...
18:17crawl into a hole.
18:19LAUGHTER
18:20Did you guys know each other at all?
18:22Or was that the first time you met?
18:23No, no, and we'd do these scenes
18:24and Angie and I would say,
18:25Hotter! Hotter! Hotter!
18:27What do you do when somebody says,
18:29Hotter! Hotter!
18:31I'd say, fuck off!
18:32LAUGHTER
18:38You can see Glenn and a great company of stars
18:40in Wake Up Dead Man and Knives Out Mystery.
18:42Alexander Skarsgård brings us what we've all been waiting for,
18:46a gay biker rom-com.
18:48It's...
18:49LAUGHTER
18:50Finally!
18:51Finally!
18:52It's called Pillian.
18:55And it's in UK and Irish cinemas from today.
18:58And before we talk about it, let's watch a clip.
19:01This is your character, Ray,
19:03meeting the parents for the first time.
19:10Gosh, you're tall.
19:12Sorry, Peggy?
19:13Peggy?
19:14PJ?
19:15Nice to meet you.
19:16Right.
19:17How do you do?
19:18Time for a quick drink?
19:20No, thank you.
19:21Not when I'm writing.
19:22No, of course not.
19:23What was I thinking?
19:24Good lad, yeah.
19:26Well, something soft.
19:28We'd better get going.
19:29You don't sound local, Ray.
19:32Where's home?
19:34Chislehurst.
19:35Chislehurst?
19:36Very nice.
19:37I've never thought of Colin as a Chislehurst sort of person.
19:41No, he'll survive.
19:45All right.
19:46Come on then, Colin.
19:47All right.
19:48You just...
19:49All right.
19:50Oh, Ray, Ray, sorry to fuss, but you do have a spare helmet, yes?
19:54Yes.
19:55Only he actually has to wear it.
19:56Dad.
19:57Because he's not getting on without one.
19:59He is not getting on without one.
20:01Great.
20:05Nice bike.
20:06Plain black.
20:07None of this neon crap.
20:08Not you see everywhere nowadays, don't you?
20:10Colin.
20:11Yep.
20:12Um...
20:16Are you sure you know what you're doing?
20:18Yeah, don't worry, Dad.
20:19I'm...
20:20I'm not worried.
20:21I rode a bike when I met Colin's mum.
20:24And we sold it when the twins came along.
20:27Bought a very expensive pram.
20:29Well, I suppose you two need to worry about that.
20:32LAUGHTER
20:38Douglas Hart and Leslie Sharp there as the parents and Harry Melling as Colin.
20:44So, Colin and Ray, tell us about...
20:47Because it is kind of...
20:48It's all sorts of things, but there is a romance at the heart of it.
20:51Yeah, it's a...
20:52It's a...
20:53Sort of a love story.
20:54It's a sub-dom love story.
20:56Ray, my character, uh...
20:58Spots Colin in a crowded bar.
21:01And, uh...
21:02Decides that this could be a potential great sub for him.
21:05So he, uh...
21:06They go out on a date.
21:07And, uh...
21:08And then, um...
21:11That's the beginning of something quite intense.
21:13Yes, and it is very intense and it's quite out there.
21:17But there's a kind of a sweetness to it as well.
21:19Well, in a way it's a...
21:21Coming of age story for Harry's character, uh...
21:24Colin.
21:25Colin.
21:26Because it is his...
21:27His first relationship.
21:28And he's figuring out what Ray wants out of this relationship.
21:31And then...
21:32As we get into the movie, 30, 40 minutes into the movie,
21:35he starts to realize that,
21:36well, is this exactly what I want out of a relationship?
21:38And then he's kind of...
21:40Um, has to come to terms with...
21:41With that.
21:42And deal with that.
21:43So...
21:44Um...
21:45So, yeah, it's a...
21:46It's a classic...
21:48Dom-com.
21:50But you're not gay, are you?
21:51You're not gay.
21:52Are you?
21:53No, not really.
21:54No.
21:55You do remember that day 20 years ago.
21:57Not at all.
21:58It's just fascinating.
21:59Because, you know, I've been enthusiastically gay for a very long time.
22:03And I'm always surprised by fellas who...
22:05Who come across it later.
22:06But you...
22:07You're having to act it.
22:08And how did you research it if you didn't know much about it?
22:10No.
22:11No.
22:12No.
22:13No.
22:14No.
22:15No.
22:16No.
22:17No.
22:18No.
22:19No.
22:20No.
22:21No.
22:22No.
22:23No.
22:24No.
22:25No.
22:26No.
22:27No.
22:28No.
22:29No.
22:30No.
22:31No.
22:32No.
22:33You do, and we all do research.
22:37I mean, these were all the questions I was going to ask.
22:43I'm so sorry.
22:46A lot has been made about the sex in it and...
22:50But it's interesting.
22:52It is really out there.
22:53But it's always kind of pivotal to the plot and the characters.
22:57pivotal to the plot and the characters yeah i mean i find sex scenes are only uncomfortable
23:06if they if they if you don't understand why you're shooting the scene if it feels gratuitous or if
23:11you're like why am i walking around naked in this scene it doesn't really serve the story or the
23:16narrative it doesn't push it forward and um yes there are some graphic scenes in the movie but
23:21they're all kind of pivotal moments in the relationship and in colin's journey um so i
23:27was quite excited about shooting them because again it's like they were key components to the
23:32narrative you had a wrestling one and i was like you're gonna murder him it was i was like you have
23:37you wrestled before but then and then we ended up making sweet love you did make sweet love
23:41but like you yeah i was like you're gonna kill him that was the first time we met actually no yeah
23:49we're hurt we met two days before we started shooting and we rehearsed that wrestling scene
23:53harry and i wow and really got to know each other well i would say so yeah because again harry's
24:00character um is very inexperienced and has to learn from ray in the in these scenes so it wasn't
24:08supposed to be good and and it's confusing so many harry's but harry lighten the writer director also
24:14wanted it to feel clumsy and had a thing which i love that like often sex scenes are
24:20it's too kind of polished and the lighting is always perfect and it's too like
24:24hands grabbing sheets that kind of crap like what was so great about this like he was like he's not
24:30seen bridgerton
24:30nicolas sheet grabbing is second to none
24:39it's like the romanticized version of of sex and what was great about these scenes and what made me
24:46excited about it was yes they are hot and and intense but there's also room for awkwardness and
24:54when people change positions it can look clumsy and weird and it's kind of fun to leave that in
25:00rather than cut around it so it's like everything is not perfectly choreographed dance and why do we
25:06think we i think we all have an impression that the swedish people are unshockable that they're very
25:10kind of bohemian or have we just made that up i think that is not quite true i think it was
25:16um but you run around naked a lot don't you well my family yes but in general i think it's from a
25:24movie called the ornithic and gul from the 60s that was kind of made a big impact around the world
25:29because it was like sexually very liberating and um and swedish so that kind of ever after that
25:36people were like oh they're so liberated and free so you are swedish are you um yes can you do the
25:42accent for us because i like to hear that i think he has been yeah anything for you miriam
25:48oh it's a very sing song in swedish it is like that was gibberish but yeah
25:54yeah there is a sort of music in it like you know
26:02and here's the thing you're doing a press tour but you're not doing it by yourself because the
26:08the real gay bikers club that feature in the film uh they've been uh traveling around with you right
26:15they come to the show some of them are here i think we can spot there they are hello
26:20oh that's amazing yeah hello guys hi nice
26:31we've got a picture of them all on the the red carpet there they are at the london film festival
26:38lovely are you is that matt is the pup is oh you are you the pup yeah
26:43honestly it's like the show back in the channel four days we're on
26:47i'm having flashbacks and they've been biking around with you have they've been to various
26:55that's not the only one yeah a bunch of these guys came down to can for the world premiere
27:01which was pretty incredible wow that was the first time i watched the movie with an audience
27:06so to to do that with harry and harry and the guys and the fact that they came down was just meant
27:14the world to me it was an incredible night well it's a really special film uh it's very hard to
27:20describe but i really hope people see it because it's just terrific oh thank you you're great in it
27:24it's a pillion and it's in cinemas now very good
27:28always a treat when miriam margulies puts pen to paper and this is a goodie it is called
27:38the little book of miriam it's out now and this is your third book i think it is yes but you've
27:46sold almost one and a half million books amazing it is amazing i mean congratulations i feel quite
27:52humbled how do you write it on your computer computer on my computer yeah no i i never thought
28:00i was a writer and some people agree with that but um i've been immensely lucky actually
28:07and honestly being on this show helps to sell it
28:12that's why she's here ladies i thought you were going to say he inspired you when it's all
28:21story no i would like to say it's a flogging opportunity
28:26yes it is
28:29you are a writer also and your books are lovely oh that's right i really urge people to to buy graham's
28:38books and and read them read them people don't read enough you're scrolling and scrolling read read a
28:45fucking book
28:48read this book yeah and and you you tour the country with your books and you play these big theatres and this is night after night you do this and do you enjoy it or is it kind of exhausting i do i mean i think you would agree with that you're you're an actress and you're an actress it's wonderful to be in front of an audience
29:08you know i'm an old tired lady well hardly a lady really but i i love being in front of an audience
29:18it gives me a buzz a thrill i get energy from it i get joy from it i really do and i think most actors do
29:26i don't like cameras i'm not interested in them but to be with a live audience to get the response from them
29:34and to feel that they're listening to me and sometimes quite liking what i'm doing that is
29:40magical and the book is a kind of a to z of your thoughts and your stories and there's a story and i know people ask you to tell this story a lot when you're doing your live shows
29:51i think it was when you're on with will i am and you told the story and you know the one i'm talking about where you're going home
29:57in edinburgh late at night and you there's a man up a tree you assist him and but what you reveal in the book is
30:05there's more to this story i know i didn't i didn't tell it um on television because i felt nobody would
30:13believe me but after i had helped and supported the troop it was a soldier up a tree
30:20he was up a tree i heard the rustles i saw what was going on asked him to come down i finished him off
30:34very pleasantly and there was no threats i was wiping my hand in the in the grass
30:43and a voice from the bushes this is this is the new part of the story
30:49when we left this story you were wiping your hand on the grass yes now i heard a voice come
30:57from the seat that was just where i'd been and a very nicely dressed gentleman came forward and said
31:06um i couldn't help noticing what you had done for that young man and i wondered if if it was at all
31:16possible um whether you would do the same for me and um i said uh i thought to myself well i i can't say no
31:31sorry about it but you you can say no
31:34i just felt i couldn't okay that's the thing yeah i think you're gonna love pillion
31:38but this could be a scene from william so i did what he asked me to do took right there no right
31:49there there was nobody else there you know so off he went and i was wiping my hand in the grass
31:55and lo and behold this is the bit nobody believes but it is true a voice from the same place said hey miriam
32:08and it was someone i knew he was a young student that i had known in oxford no i went to cambridge but
32:16he i met him in oxford because i lived there and he said listen we're old friends you know
32:24i said oh come on
32:28that's fair and he said oh come on miriam you know so i did
32:32i feel i feel i feel you know you you you tell these great stories we love having on the show but i
33:00feel that often it takes away from the fact that you are this great actor so i'm delighted to say
33:07that you are in a short film uh that's coming out in the new year i am very good in this film it's called
33:15a friend of dorothy but the real star is that young boy up there alastair nchoku yeah he's wonderful
33:25it's and my agent has taken him on he's so good so good and so lovely and he helped me to be good too
33:35as did the writer and director lee knight it's just a wonderful film so it i believe it's going to be on
33:42one of those streaming channels it is very soon yes i can't tell you which one because it's a secret
33:48but i know it's the first of january on the first of january yes rush to see it because it's really
33:53wonderful it is it's a very very sweet film and you're both so good in it it's gorgeous absolutely
33:58gorgeous uh we look forward to that and don't forget the little book of miriam that is out now okay
34:07ms nicola coughlin is returning to the london stage in the playboy of the western world at the national
34:13theatre from the 4th of december 4th of december oh that's next week i know how are you all set you
34:20ready well we did our first sort of run this today in in the room was our last day in the rehearsal room
34:25and they said you know two or three people people will be coming in and there was sort of three rows
34:28on either side of the room and i went oh no and it was terrifying but like you said very exciting to
34:32have an audience there to perform to and yeah it's very very exciting and obviously the playboy of the
34:38western world classic play james singh if people don't know if it's somehow passing by
34:42who are you in it what's it about so i play a young lady called peguine mike and it's set in
34:47the west of ireland in 1907 and there was big riots when this play came out because um they
34:52talked about women's shifts so women's underwear in it and people were like no irish women you know
34:57they would never talk about underwear we couldn't be so crazy and then they tore up the theater
35:01to prove how not badly behaved um so yeah so she runs this pub in the country and everything's sort
35:07of going along a bit humdrum and then a young good-looking man walks in and everyone sort of goes well
35:12who are you where did you come from and they barrage of questions and then he sort of said leave me
35:17alone i killed my father and instead of being horrified they'll go that's amazing that's really
35:23cool and exciting and we all fancy you yeah and you've reunited with dairy girls co-star siobhan
35:30sweeney have you ever been on stage with her before i never have but she is the queen of ireland
35:35we sort of play love rivals for christie played by the lovely anna hardwick in the middle which is great fun
35:40because my character we did a show together called dairy girls and she was i know that oh do you yes
35:45i fucking do oh sorry oh my goodness thanks very much um brilliant all of you oh thank you thank you
35:53very much but my character in the show was very scared of her character because she was a nun very
35:58scary nun but in this we're rivals so we get to go toe to toe which is great fun and here's the thing
36:02it's a return to live theater for you yes yeah and so you'll be in front of a live audience and people
36:07are talking about how great that is yeah but it's also quite it can be quite intimidating because
36:12audiences have changed i feel well it's absolutely terrifying i mean i've done theater before a lot
36:17of direct address theater where you're just speaking it out to the audience and you have interesting
36:20things when that happens because people assume that you can't see them and you really can sometimes
36:25and i did a show once where i looked up in the audience and a man just took out a lunch box
36:29and just started eating like a microwave shepherd's pie and i was like right this does make what i'm doing
36:34quite difficult but um so please if you come to the national just like don't eat the shepherd's pie
36:38before or after that would help like a lot and the phones thing is the phones thing oh yeah it
36:44illuminates your face yeah i stopped the show once yeah did you yes i was doing sunset boulevard on
36:49broadway yeah and you know you prepare prepare and you can make a great entrance and it was a flash flash
36:54flash flash flash flash and as you're doing this song you're thinking what am i gonna do about this what am i
36:59doing about this and i walked to the end of the stage and i said we can either have a photo shoot
37:04or we can do the show you decide yeah
37:14alexander skarsgård have you done any theater yeah in sweden years ago it's probably almost well 15 20
37:22years ago now wow you know temptation to get back on the boards it's a lot of work my friend it's a lot of
37:28work so no and you come from this big acting dynasty the the scars guards uh to your dad stelen but then
37:37how many of your siblings are yeah oh he is a good actor oh he really is my favorite scars guard yeah
37:48i didn't mean that in a nasty way no no i absolutely mean it but i i heard you were very jealous of your
37:54father being in mama mia oh god i mean who wouldn't be i mean look at that it was yeah he was just
38:03obviously a big of a fan but was that in the film of mama mia yes oh yes it's a great movie have you not
38:11seen it i did see it yeah you're not disappointed i thought it was dreadful
38:18the movie it's not for my father's performance no no i i don't remember your father's
38:25but it really wasn't to my taste i think what i uh was jealous of was
38:36was the experience because i remember like he was having the most fun he's ever had i think
38:41they all did all the people in it and that's why that's also kind of why i appreciated the movie so
38:47much because you can tell it was kind of infectious like how much fun they were all having and yeah
38:52like my father is not a great singer but he was just belting it out and laughing and it just looked
38:58like it was a joyous experience i hesitate to mention nicholas new film but no you haven't seen
39:12this uh mama mia three no no nicola you've got it this is such a posh it's a kid's film but it's a posh
39:19one uh the magic faraway tree yes it's you who else it's an amazing cast ridiculous cast claire foy
39:25andrew garfield rebecca ferguson uh jennifer saunders michael palin um it's honestly it was
39:33amazing i mean i read the script and had no idea who was involved with it but i thought it was simon
39:37farnaby who wrote paddington 2 which is one of the best movies ever in the world yeah and i was like
39:43desperate to be involved and yeah it was just a joy and it's a lot of people's favorite you know
39:49childhood book i'd never read it but i love meeting grown-ups they're like oh my god i got to play a
39:54fairy and i got lovely lovely ears well they've got a picture of you have we there you are
40:01good ears yeah great ears it was so much fun and there's three gorgeous kids who lead it and we got
40:07to lots of magical lands and it was just a joy i loved it so much and when's that out it's out in
40:11march okay yes okay but the trailer's out very soon they won't tell me when but soon yeah well uh just a
40:18quick reminder you can see nicola cochland in the playboy of the western world at the national from
40:23next thursday good luck to you right it is time for music this brit award-winning artist sold over 20
40:34million records worldwide and now after a seven-year break she is back with a new album here performing the
40:41the single h-a-p-p-y it's jessie jay
40:55oh me myself and i ain't no place to hide all i got is time
41:02oh i'm swinging at a sea fish tell me that you keep it i don't wanna lie
41:12oh i can take it tired of faking my smile
41:19oh they believe it ain't the meaning of life
41:26i'm gonna laugh till i cry dance i know why cause i'm h-a-p-p-y yes h-a-p-p-y
41:35i laugh till i cry dance i know why cause i'm h-a-p-p-y
41:41h-a-p-p-y rainbows on the ceiling serotonin heathen
41:48window to my soul
41:50oh
41:52kaleidoscopic feeling
41:54wide awake and drinking
41:56but you already know
41:58oh
42:00i can take it
42:02tired of faking
42:04my smile
42:06oh
42:08make believe it
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46:02Just I need a shake-up just say yes, so I fly over to China thinking I'm a guest on a TV show. No, no. I'm a contestant
46:08No
46:10competing
46:12Against other Chinese artists that are massive and fully established like do stadiums and it's 500 million viewers a week
46:19No, yeah final so we did I did 13 weeks 13 episodes. It was the most amazing experience of my life
46:25It was a reality TV show I had to sing in Mandarin. Please don't look that up
46:29and
46:31The final was 1.2 billion people what it's not incredible insane
46:36So I mean me and China like I get back all the time you were a contestant. Yes. Did you win? I did
46:49I sang I will always love you by Whitney Houston and I people have asked me to sing that song a lot like growing up
46:55And I was like no, I only want to do and I feel like it's the right moment and I just thought I don't know
47:00Why I chose to do in front of 1.2 billion people live in a dress while it literally like a sparkly penguin. I could not walk and I
47:07Is the mic?
47:09But it was life-changing it was the most amazing experience. Yeah, wow
47:13Congratulations and people can see you on tour here. Yes from is it next April April? I'm going on tour in yeah in all time
47:20I'm just singing anywhere if you know I'll be singing it a lot of places
47:25I'll come over to your house
47:29It's so great to see you thank you for that amazing for it to conduct with the tour and the album Jesse J everybody
47:34Thank you
47:44Hello hi hi I've high hopes for you. There's a spark in your eye. What's your name? Alison Alison lovely and where you from Alison?
47:53Devon lovely and what are you doing Devon Allison?
47:55I'm a partnership development manager for a financial services network business. I almost said that
48:03Okay, I'll figure over this story Alison back in the 70s growing up as a child with a strict mother
48:08And we were always taught not to leave any food on our plate and it was Christmas Day Christmas dinner and
48:14As usual you would have sprouts on your Christmas dinner, which I hate and
48:18And so we wanted left the the dining room table and I was left with my plate
48:23Which you just had the sprouts left on there and we had a Jack Russell and Terrier
48:28called Timmy and I thought well be quite nice
48:31No one's gonna see I can put the plate on the floor and the dog will eat the sprouts and I'll get away with it
48:35I put the plate on the floor the dog licked the gravy off the sprouts but left the sprouts
48:42Unfortunately, I couldn't admit to the fact that I just got to try to get the dog to eat the sprouts
48:47So I still had to eat the sprouts
48:59Yourself and tell your story you've got that is by our website at this very address, please say huge. Thank you to all of my guests tonight
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