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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.
22:33No.
22:34No.
22:35No.
22:36No.
22:37No.
22:38No, I'm sorry.
22:39No.
22:40No.
22:41No.
22:42No.
22:43No.
22:44No.
22:45No.
22:46No.
22:47It's always, it's always, kind of pivotal to the plot and the characters.
22:50the sex in it and but it's but it's interesting it is it is really out there but it's always it is
22:56always kind of pivotal to the plot and the characters yeah i mean i find sex scenes
23:04are only uncomfortable if they if they if you don't understand why you're shooting the scene
23:09if it feels gratuitous or if you're like why am i walking around naked in this scene it doesn't
23:14really serve the story or the narrative it doesn't push it forward and um yes there are some graphics
23:19scenes in the movie but they're all kind of pivotal moments in the relationship and in colin's
23:25journey um so i was quite excited about shooting them because again it's like they were key components
23:32to the narrative you had a wrestling one and i was like you're gonna murder him it was like i was
23:37like you have you wrestled before but then and then we ended up making sweet love you did make sweet
23:44but like you yeah i was like you're gonna kill him that was the first time we met actually no
23:49yeah we'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 character
24:01um is very inexperienced and has to learn from ray in the in these scenes so it wasn't supposed to be
24:09good and and it's confusing so many harries but harry lighten the writer director also wanted it to feel
24:15clumsy and had a thing which i love that like often sex scenes are it's too kind of polished and the
24:22lighting is always perfect and there's two like hands grabbing sheets that kind of crap like what
24:28was so great about this like he was like he's not seeing bridgerton
24:34it'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 rather
25:00than cut around it so it's like everything is not a perfectly choreographed dance and why do we think
25:06we 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 um
25:18but you run around naked a lot don't you well my family yes but in general i think it's from a movie
25:24called the ironific and gul from the 60s that was kind of made a big impact around the world because
25:30it was like sexually very liberating and um and swedish so that kind of ever after that people were
25:36like oh they're so liberated and free so you are swedish are you um yes can you do the accent for us
25:44i'd like to hear that i think he has been yeah anything for you miriam
25:48oh it's very sing song in swedish it's kind of like that was gibberish but yeah
25:58yeah there is a sort of music in it like you know
26:04and 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 traveling around with you right
26:15they come to the the show some of them are here i i think we can spot there they are hello
26:28oh that's amazing yeah hello guys hi nice to meet you we've got a picture of them all on the red
26:36carpet there they are the london film festival lovely are you is that man is the pup is oh you are you the
26:43pup yeah honestly it's like the show back in the channel four days i'm having flashbacks and they've
26:53been biking around with you have they've been to various that's not the only one yeah a bunch of
26:58these guys came down to can for the world premiere which was pretty incredible wow that was the first
27:04time i watched the movie with an audience to to do that with harry and harry and the guys and the fact
27:12that they came down was just meant the world to me it was an incredible night well it's a really
27:18special film uh it's very hard to describe but i really hope people see it because it's just terrific
27:23thank you you're you're great in it it's a pillion and it's in cinemas now very good
27:27always a treat when miriam marvelies puts pen to paper and this is a goodie it is called the little
27:39book of miriam it's out now and this is your third book i think it is yes but you've sold almost one
27:47and a half million books amazing it is amazing congratulations i feel quite humbled how do you
27:54write it on your computer computer on my computer yeah no i i never thought i was a writer and some
28:01people agree with that but um i've been immensely lucky actually and honestly being on this show helps to sell it
28:12and that's that's why that's why she's here ladies i thought you were going to say he inspired you
28:20it's a flogging opportunity
28:30you are a writer also and your books are lovely oh that's right i really urge people to
28:36to buy graham's books and and read them read them people don't read enough you're scrolling and
28:42scrolling read read a book read this book yeah and you you tour the country with your books and you play these big theaters
28:56and this is night after night you do this and do you enjoy it or is it kind of exhausting i do i
29:01mean i think you would agree with that you're an actress and you're an actress it's wonderful to
29:07be in front of an audience you know i'm an old tired lady well hardly a lady really but i i love
29:16being in front of an audience it gives me a buzz a thrill i get energy from it i get joy from it i
29:24really do and i think most actors do i don't like cameras i'm not interested in them but to be with a
29:31live audience to get the response from them and to feel that they're listening to me and
29:37sometimes quite liking what i'm doing that is magical and the book is a kind of a to z of your
29:44thoughts and your stories and there's a story and i know people ask you to tell this story a lot when
29:49you're doing your live shows i think it was when you're on with will i am and you told the story
29:54and you know the one i'm talking about where you're going home in edinburgh late at night and you there's
29:59a man up a tree you assist him and but what you reveal in the book is there's more to this story
30:08i know i didn't i didn't tell it um on television because i felt nobody would believe me but after i
30:15had helped and supported the troop there was a soldier up a tree and miriam and and i
30:23he wasn't stuck he was just up a tree he was up a tree i heard the rustles i saw what was going
30:28on asked him to come down i finished him off so to speak very pleasantly and there was no threats
30:38i 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
30:50when we left this story you were wiping your hand on the grass
30:52yes i heard a voice come uh from the seat that was just where i'd been and a very nicely dressed
31:04gentleman came forward and said um i couldn't help noticing what you had done for that young man
31:14and i wondered if if it was at all possible whether you would do the same for me
31:20and um i said uh i thought to myself well i i can't say no can i because i've done it
31:31sorry about it but you you can say no i just felt i couldn't okay
31:35that's the thing yeah i think you're gonna love pillion but this could be a scene from
31:42brilliant so i did what he asked me to do took right there no right there there was nobody else
31:50there you know so off he went and i was wiping my hand in the grass and lo and behold this is the
31:58bit nobody believes but it is true a voice from the same place said hey miriam
32:06and 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
32:23you know i said oh come on yeah it's fair and he said oh come on miriam you know so i did
32:34three for the price of one beautiful story
32:39it's true it is honestly true i'm surprised you're not still there miriam
32:53now miriam i feel i feel you know you you tell these great stories we love having on the show
33:00but i feel that often it takes away from the fact that you are this great actor so i'm delighted to
33:06say that you are in a short film uh that's coming out in the new year i am very good in this film it's
33:14called a friend of dorothy but the real star is that young boy up there alistair nchoku yeah he's
33:24wonderful it's and my agent has taken him on he's so good so good and so lovely and he helped me to be
33:34good too as did the writer and director lee knight it's just a wonderful film so it i believe it's
33:41going to be on one of those streaming channels it is very soon yes i can't tell you which one because
33:47it's a secret but i know it's the first of january on the first of january yes rush to see it because
33:53it's really wonderful it is it's a very very sweet film and you're both so good and it's gorgeous
33:57absolutely gorgeous and we look forward to that and don't forget the little book of miriam that is
34:02out 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're
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 will be coming in and there was sort of three rows on
34:28either 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
34:37western world classic play james singh if people don't know if it's somehow passed them by who are you
34:43in it what's it about so i play a young lady called peguine mike and it's set in the west of ireland in 1907
34:48and there was big riots when this play came out because um they talked about women's shifts so
34:53women's underwear in it and people were like no irish women you know they would never talk about
34:58underwear we couldn't be so crazy and then they tore up the theater to prove how not badly behaved
35:04um so yeah so she runs this pub in the country and everything's sort of going along a bit humdrum
35:08and then a young good-looking man walks in and everyone sort of goes well who are you where did you come
35:13from and they barrage of questions and then he sort of said leave me alone i killed my father
35:18and instead of being horrified they'll go that's amazing that's really cool and exciting and we all
35:24fancy you yeah and you've reunited with dairy girls co-star siobhan sweeney have you ever been on stage
35:32with her before i never have but she is the queen of ireland we sort of play love rivals for christie
35:37played by the lovely anna hardwick in the middle which is great fun because my character we did a show
35:41together called dairy girls and she was i know that oh do you yes i do oh sorry oh my goodness
35:49thanks very much um brilliant all of you oh thank you thank you very much but my character in the show
35:55was very scared of her character because she was a nun very scary nun but in this we're rivals so we
36:00get to go toe to toe which is great fun and here's the thing it's a return to live theater for you yes
36:05yeah and so you'll be in front of a live audience and people are talking about how great that is yeah
36:09but it's also quite it can be quite intimidating because audiences have changed i feel well it's
36:14absolutely terrifying i mean i've done theater before a lot of direct address theater where you're
36:18just speaking it out to the audience and you have interesting things when that happens because
36:21people assume that you can't see them and you really can sometimes and i did a show once where
36:26i looked up in the audience and a man just took out a lunch box and just started eating like a
36:30microwave shepherd's pie and i was like right this does make what i'm doing quite difficult but um so please if you
36:36come to the national just like don't eat the shepherd's pie before or after that would help
36:40like a lot and the phones thing is phone's thing oh yeah it illuminates your face yeah i stopped the
36:46show once yeah did you yes i was doing sunset boulevard on broadway yeah and you know you prepare prepare
36:52and you can make a great entrance and it was a flash flash flash flash flash flash and as you're doing
36:57this song you're thinking what am i gonna do about this what am i gonna do about this and i walked to the
37:01the end of the stage and i said we can either have a photo shoot or we can do the show you decide yeah
37:14alexander skarsgard have you done any theater yeah in sweden years ago it's probably almost
37:21well 15 20 years ago now wow you know temptation to get back on the boards it's a lot of work my friend
37:27it's a lot of work so no i'm incredibly lazy and you come from this big acting dynasty the the scars
37:35guards uh to your dad stellan but then how many of your siblings are yeah oh he is a good actor
37:43oh he really is my favorite scars guard yeah i didn't mean that in a nasty way no no i absolutely
37:51mean it but i heard you were very jealous of your father being in mama mia oh god i mean who wouldn't
37:58be i mean look at that it was yeah he was just obviously a big of a fan but was that in the film
38:06of mama mia yes oh yes it's a great movie have you not seen it i did see it yeah you're not disappointed
38:15i thought it was dreadful 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 they all
38:41did there were all the people in it and that's why that's also kind of why i appreciated the movie
38:47so much because you can tell it was kind of infectious like how much fun they were all having
38:51and yeah like my father is not a great singer but he was just belting it out and laughing and it just
38:57looked like it was a joyous experience i'm glad he had a good time
39:04i hesitate to mention nicholas new film but no you haven't seen this uh mama mia three no
39:15no nicola you've got it this is such a posh it's a kid's film but it's a posh one uh the magic
39:20faraway tree yes it's you who else is an amazing cast ridiculous cast claire foy andrew garfield rebecca
39:27ferguson uh jennifer saunders michael palin um it's honestly it was amazing i mean i read the script
39:34and had no idea who was involved with it but i thought it was simon farnaby who wrote paddington
39:382 which is one of the best movies ever in the world yeah and i was like desperate to be involved and
39:45yeah it was just a joy and it's a lot of people's favorite you know childhood book i'd never read it
39:51but i love meeting grown-ups they're like oh my god i got to play a fairy and i got lovely lovely ears
39:57well they've got a picture of you have we there you are good ears yeah great ears it was so much fun
40:04and there's three gorgeous kids who lead it and we got to lots of magical lands and it was just a joy
40:09i loved it so much and when's that out it's out in march oh okay yes okay but the trailer's out very
40:14soon they won't tell me when but soon yeah well uh just a quick reminder you can see nicola
40:19cochland in the playboy of the western world at the national from next thursday good luck to you
40:28right it is time for music this brit award-winning artist sold over 20 million records worldwide
40:35and now after a seven-year break she is back with a new album here performing the single h-a-p-p-y
40:43it's jesse jay
40:52oh
40:58ain't no place to hide all i got is time
41:04swingin out a secret
41:06tell me
41:21oh
41:35Till I cry, days I know why
41:39Cause I'm H-A-P-P-Y, H-A-P-P-Y
41:43Rainbows on the ceiling, serotonin heathen
41:48Winding to my soul, oh
41:50Kaleidoscopic feeling, wide awake and drinking
41:56But you already know
41:58Oh, I can take it, tired of making
42:04My smile, oh
42:08Make believe it, ain't the meaning of life
42:14Love till I cry, days I know why
42:19Cause I'm H-A-P-P-Y, H-A-P-P-Y
42:23Love till I cry, days I know why
42:27H-A-P-P-Y, H-A-P-P-Y, let's go
42:31Come on, dance with me
42:36Come on, plan
42:37I'm gonna learn till I cry, days I know why
42:51I'm H-A-P-P-Y, H-A-P-P-Y
42:55I'm gonna dance, I'm gonna laugh
42:59H-A-P-P-Y, H-A-P-P-Y
43:05Woo!
43:07Yeah!
43:09H-A-P-P-Y
43:11Why?
43:13Wow!
43:14Thank you
43:15Woo!
43:20Jessie J, everybody!
43:22And her band!
43:24That was gorgeous, come on over and do!
43:26Yeah, thank you
43:28So good to see you!
43:30How are you?
43:32Welcome back to the show!
43:33Thank you, have a great day!
43:34Thank you!
43:35Hi!
43:36That is Nicola Miriamslander!
43:38Nice to meet you!
43:39Hello!
43:40Hello!
43:41Hello!
43:42Hello!
43:43Hello!
43:44Lovely to see you!
43:45I'm sure you did it, OK
43:47What a lovely
43:48Thank you so much for that performance
43:50It was fantastic
43:51Oh, you're welcome
43:52Just loved it
43:53H-A-P-P-Y
43:54That is off the latest album
43:56Don't Tease Me With A Good Time
43:58Which is out today
43:59It is
44:00It's in the world
44:01Yeah, yeah, yeah
44:02Congratulations
44:03Yeah!
44:04Thank you!
44:05Yeah!
44:06Hello!
44:07I
44:08I
44:09Because...
44:10Because time does all these strange things
44:12Yeah
44:13I have no idea
44:14It's been seven years
44:15It's been too long
44:16It's very rude
44:17Yeah, I'm so sorry to anyone
44:18Knife's price tag
44:19And then I just disappeared
44:20No
44:21It's just life just happens, doesn't it?
44:23And I suppose the big question is
44:24You know, how are you feeling?
44:26Because I know you have been through
44:27Yeah, this is good
44:28A ringer with health things and all sorts
44:29Yeah, this is good
44:30This has been wild, yeah
44:31So I'm good
44:32I've just...
44:33I've just recovered from breast cancer
44:35Um...
44:36Wow!
44:37Thank you!
44:38Thank you!
44:39Wow!
44:40Did you...
44:41I never know how to react to it
44:42Yeah, I do everything with jokes
44:44So sorry if I say things that feel a bit awkward
44:46But yeah
44:47I'm just...
44:48Yeah
44:49No, it's good
44:50It's good
44:51I've got one really hard boob
44:52And...
44:53An album out
44:54You know?
44:55Who could ask for anything more?
44:56Exactly
44:57I'm just...
44:58I'm just happy to be here
44:59Yeah, yeah, yeah
45:00I'm really happy to have you
45:01Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
45:02And what has it been like kind of getting up in front of audiences again and doing performances again?
45:05Honestly
45:06Everywhere I've been, it's like...
45:09It's like I've been de-iced and I've come out of the Natural History Museum
45:12And there's people like...
45:14You haven't been around for years
45:16And I'm like...
45:17And I'm like...
45:18I'm back
45:19I don't feel any different to be honest
45:21And since we last saw you, you've done this thing which I feel like not enough people know about
45:27Oh no, what have I done?
45:28So...
45:29No, you went to China
45:30You went to China
45:31I did?
45:32Yeah, they know about it
45:33They know about it
45:34He was there
45:35You went to China and you did this show called Singer
45:37Yes
45:38And so it's a talent show
45:39Yes
45:40But it's...
45:41It's a talent show on a scale you've never heard of
45:44So how many people...
45:46It's actually in a...
45:48So I went...
45:49My manager...
45:50I was writing my last album a hundred years ago
45:52And they were like...
45:54This TV show wanna like have you on
45:56And I was like...
45:57Just say yes
45:58And they're like...
45:59Do you wanna know the details?
46:00And I was like...
46:01No...
46:02Just...
46:03So I fly over to China thinking I'm a guest on a TV show
46:06No, no
46:07I'm a contestant
46:08No
46:09And I'm competing against other Chinese artists that are massive and fully established
46:15Like do stadiums
46:16And it's 500 million viewers a week
46:18No
46:19Yeah
46:20The final...
46:21I did 13 weeks
46:2213 episodes
46:23It was the most amazing experience of my life
46:24It was a reality TV show
46:26I had to sing in Mandarin
46:27Please don't look that up
46:29And the final was 1.2 billion people
46:32What?
46:33Isn't that incredible?
46:34Isn't that incredible?
46:35Isn't that insane?
46:36So I mean me and China I like...
46:38Yeah
46:39I go back all the time
46:40You were a contestant?
46:41Yes
46:42Did you win?
46:43I did
46:44Wow
46:47I was so scared
46:49I sang...
46:50I sang I Will Always Love You by Whitney Houston
46:52And people have asked me to sing that song a lot
46:54Like growing up and I was like no I only wanna do it
46:56And I feel like it's the right moment
46:58And I just felt...
46:59I don't know why I chose to do it in front of 1.2 billion people live
47:02But in a dress where I look literally like a sparkly penguin
47:05I could not walk and I was just like...
47:07Walk into the mic
47:09But it was life changing
47:10It was the most amazing experience
47:11Yeah
47:12Wow congratulations
47:13Thank you
47:14I see you on tour here
47:15Yes
47:16Is it next April it starts?
47:17Next April I'm going on tour in...
47:18Yeah in all the time
47:19I'm just singing anywhere
47:20If you...
47:21I'll be singing in a lot of places
47:23Yeah
47:24I'll come over to your house
47:25I'll sing
47:26Yeah yeah yeah
47:27No literally
47:28Listen it's so great to see you
47:29Thank you
47:30Thank you for that amazing performance
47:31And good luck with the tour
47:32Thank you so much
47:33And the album
47:34Jessie J everybody
47:35Thank you my love
47:36Thank you my love
47:37Thank you
47:38That is nearly it
47:40But before we go
47:41Just time for a quick visit to the big red chair
47:43Who have we got?
47:44Hello
47:45Hi
47:46Hi I've high hopes for you
47:47There's a spark in your eye
47:48What's your name?
47:49Alison
47:50Alison lovely
47:51And where are you from Alison?
47:52Devon
47:53Devon lovely
47:54And what do you do in Devon Alison?
47:55I'm a partnership development manager
47:57For a financial services network business
47:59I almost said that
48:02OK off you go
48:03Off you go with this story Alison
48:04Back in the 70s growing up as a child with a strict mother
48:08We were always taught not to leave any food on our plate
48:11And it was Christmas Day, Christmas dinner
48:13And as usual you would have sprouts on your Christmas dinner
48:17Which I hate
48:18So everyone had left the dining room table
48:21And I was left with my plate which had just had the sprouts left on there
48:25We had a Jack Russell terrier called Timmy at the time
48:29And I thought well it would be quite nice
48:30No one's going to see
48:31I can put the plate on the floor and the dog will eat the sprouts
48:34And I'll get away with it
48:35I put the plate on the floor
48:37The dog licked the gravy off the sprouts
48:39But left the sprouts
48:41But unfortunately I couldn't admit to the fact that
48:43I just got to try to get the dog to eat the sprouts
48:46So I still had to eat the sprouts
48:50You can walk Alison, I like that story
48:54Very good
48:55OK that really is all the time for you
48:57If you'd like to have a go at the event, tell yourself
48:59And tell your story
49:00You can contact us via our website at this very address
49:02Please say a huge thank you to all of my guests tonight
49:04Jessie J
49:06CHEERING
49:07Nicholas Auckland
49:10Miriam Margulies
49:12CHEERING
49:13Alexander Skarsgård
49:15CHEERING
49:16And Glenn Close
49:18CHEERING
49:19Join me next week with music guest Pat Burns
49:23US talk show host Seth Meyers
49:26Celebrity Traitor King Alan Carr
49:28Oscar winner Kate Winslet
49:30And the former Prime Minister of New Zealand
49:32Jacinda Ardern
49:33I'll see you then
49:34Good night everybody
49:35Goodbye
49:36CHEERING
49:37CHEERING
49:38Thank you
49:39Thank you
50:08Thank you
50:10Thank you
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