The Graham Norton Show - Season 33 Episode 09- Glenn Close, Alexander Skarsgård, Miriam Margolyes, Nicola Coughlan, Jessie J
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00:00MUSIC
00:14Oh!
00:15Oh-ho-ho!
00:17Thank you so much!
00:19Oh, you're very kind!
00:21Thank you, thank you, thank you!
00:22Hello!
00:23Hello, hello!
00:24Good evening, everybody!
00:25You are so welcome to the show!
00:28And can I just say, Happy Black Friday, everybody!
00:32I know!
00:34Have you all done your shopping?
00:36Now, you know what I've ordered?
00:38Five amazing guests, and they've all arrived!
00:40And singing for us later, look who's back!
00:43It's only Jessie J!
00:47She'll be performing her new single, H-A-P-P-Y.
00:51But first, we've a very happy sofa for you tonight.
00:54We've loved her as Claire in Derry Girls,
00:56as Lady Whistledown in Bridgerton,
00:58and as Diplomat Barbie.
00:59Now she's back on stage
01:01in the classic Playboy of the Western world.
01:03It's Nicola Coughlin, everybody!
01:06CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
01:08Yay!
01:10Hello!
01:11So good to see you!
01:13I'm a senior!
01:15Nicola Coughlin!
01:17This wonderful woman is a BAFTA-winning star
01:20of stage, cinema, and television,
01:22and a Vogue cover girl to boot.
01:25Now she brings us the A to Z of her stories
01:28and opinions in the Little Book of Miriam.
01:30It's always a pleasure to welcome
01:32Miriam Margulies!
01:34CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
01:35CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
01:36CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
01:37CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
01:38This smoldering Swede first made his mark
01:45in vampire series True Blood
01:47before starring in Viking epic The Northman
02:02and hit shows like Big Little Lies and Succession.
02:05His new film is called Pillion.
02:07It's a first-time welcome to Mr Alexander Skarsgård!
02:12CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
02:14And this Hollywood great is an eight-time Oscar nominee
02:29who starred in films like Fatal Attraction,
02:31Dangerous Liaisons, and 101 Dalmatians.
02:34Now she stars in the latest Knives Out mystery,
02:36Wake Up Dead Man.
02:38It is the great Glenn Close!
02:40CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
02:43Hello!
02:45Hello!
02:46So good to see you!
02:47Welcome back!
02:48Thank you!
02:49There you go.
02:50Meet everybody on the couch!
02:51Oh, lovely, lovely, lovely, lovely, lovely.
02:54Nice to see you all.
02:56Leave the guests alone, Miriam.
02:58Sorry.
03:00Miriam, are you paying homage to Where's Wally?
03:03Why the scarf?
03:04It's Arsenal!
03:06Oh!
03:07CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
03:09You've heard of Arsenal.
03:10Oh, I have.
03:11Certainly the first part.
03:12LAUGHTER
03:17Was there a big game tonight?
03:18Yesterday there was a big game, yeah.
03:20I'm technically an Arsenal supporter too.
03:22I had a driver called Mickey who drove me on three different jobs
03:25and he said, do you have a team?
03:26I said, no.
03:27He said, you're an Arsenal supporter.
03:28So, me too.
03:29So you are as well?
03:30I don't know anything, but in, yes.
03:31Well, the thing is, I want to join the working classes.
03:35LAUGHTER
03:36And, I'm so middle class, you know?
03:39I can't help it, but Arsenal is working class.
03:43OK.
03:44And I thought, if I support Arsenal, you know, people will accept me.
03:48LAUGHTER
03:49There's nothing like a scarf over sequins to suggest working class.
03:54LAUGHTER
03:56It's lovely to see you, Miriam.
03:58Glenn Close, I was saying, I feel like you're a frequent guest.
04:00You haven't been here for, what, 18 years?
04:0218 years, yes.
04:03What did you do to her the first time?
04:05I don't think that happened, I don't think.
04:07But now, is it true you nearly worked with Miriam?
04:10Yes.
04:11Don't you remember?
04:12Yes, I do.
04:13Well, it was...
04:14I think it was Albert Nobbs.
04:15Albert Nobbs, that's right.
04:17Yes, the movie Albert Nobbs, it was shot in Dublin,
04:19and I was dying for you to play the hotel proprietor.
04:21And why didn't I?
04:22What happened?
04:23I don't know.
04:24You would have been marvellous.
04:25I would have loved to have done that.
04:26Yes, yes.
04:27It's a beautiful piece of work.
04:29And I really admire you.
04:31You know, I don't admire all those people in Hollywood.
04:34But you, I do.
04:36I don't live in Hollywood and I never have.
04:38You work there.
04:40You know, we all work there at some times.
04:42Yeah.
04:43But you're a class act, darling.
04:45Oh, my goodness.
04:46Glenn Class, I would say.
04:47Yes.
04:48Oh, yes.
04:49Glenn Class.
04:50Glenn Class.
04:51I mean that.
04:53I mean that.
04:54I mean that.
04:55It's a first-time welcome to Alexander Skarsgård.
04:57So, hello.
04:58Hello.
04:59Hello.
05:00And now, here's an odd thing.
05:01I think you know Miriam.
05:05No, you don't.
05:07What's that about?
05:08I clearly made a strong impression on Miriam when we met.
05:11What?
05:12Well, I...
05:14We have actually met, yes.
05:17I believe you own or used to own a condo in Santa Monica.
05:22Is that correct?
05:23I did, yes.
05:24Yes.
05:25Yes.
05:26Were you looking to rent out a room in that at one point?
05:28This would have been like...
05:29When I was coming back to England, yeah.
05:31OK.
05:32What were you doing there?
05:33Well, I was...
05:35You were...
05:36Because you were going back to shoot...
05:37Was it Harry Potter maybe?
05:38Yeah, I think so.
05:39Yeah.
05:40And I...
05:41It was an ad.
05:42I was looking for a room to rent.
05:44I was...
05:45And why didn't you take it?
05:46Well...
05:49Tell her.
05:50Tell her.
05:51Uh-oh.
05:52Was it clean or something?
05:53No, I...
05:54It was an incredibly...
05:55It was a gorgeous apartment.
05:56And I remember that you were very charming.
06:00And I...
06:01And expensive.
06:02No, I don't think it was that.
06:03I think it was...
06:04I think, in hindsight, I probably misread the cues,
06:07but I felt a strong sexual connection.
06:11And I think that...
06:13No, no.
06:15No.
06:16It was...
06:17Probably a...
06:18Probably misread the cues, but...
06:20I felt this could potentially get messy if I rent a room in this apartment, if I'm...
06:23If I'm your tenant.
06:24Darling.
06:25I'm 84 and gay.
06:29And I've been with my partner for 58 years.
06:32Again, I...
06:33I probably misread the situation.
06:36Wow.
06:37But, uh...
06:38You're talking through your bottom.
06:40You know, it is...
06:41I was actually there, and I do remember that we had a lovely afternoon,
06:45which you obviously don't remember, but it was...
06:48It was...
06:50That bit's true, Miriam.
06:52He did try the afternoon there.
06:53A lovely afternoon.
06:54Yes.
06:55Nicola, have you nearly worked with Miriam or nearly lived with her?
06:58I'm your daughter.
06:59And I am your father.
07:00Oh, my God.
07:01Happy family.
07:02Oh, that is lovely.
07:03Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
07:04I feel like it's a Christmas special.
07:05Yeah.
07:06Long-loss families.
07:07Beautiful.
07:08Ellis, we've got lots to talk about tonight.
07:09We've got two great films, a classic play, and a new book from Miriam.
07:11So, let's get started.
07:12Glenn Close brings us a new star-studded whodunit, Wake Up Dead Man, a Knives Out Mystery.
07:21It opens in cinemas tonight, and then it'll stream on Netflix from the 12th of December.
07:27And then it'll stream on Netflix from the 12th of December.
07:32And then it'll stream on Netflix from the 12th of December.
07:37So, this is the latest Benoit Blanc mystery, played by Daniel Craig.
07:42It's an all-new cast, all-new story.
07:44Who are you?
07:45What's going on?
07:46Ah.
07:47Well, it's gothic.
07:48It's more gothic than the others.
07:50And it takes place largely in and around a church.
07:52And I am Martha Delacroix, the woman who is, I would call, the church lady.
07:57Yeah.
07:58She takes care of everything.
07:59It's great.
08:00And I am Martha Delacroix, the woman who is, I would call, the church lady.
08:04Yeah.
08:05She takes care of everything.
08:06It's a great part for you.
08:08I mean, it's...
08:09It was fun.
08:10Yeah.
08:11And like always, the cast is amazing.
08:13Daniel Craig, you...
08:15Josh O'Connor is so good in this film.
08:17So good.
08:18He plays a priest.
08:19Yes.
08:20Oh, there he is.
08:21He's fantastic.
08:22I think he's kind of like a young Jimmy Stewart.
08:25Oh, that's a...
08:26Yes.
08:27You know, he kind of, you can't help but love him.
08:28Yeah.
08:29Listen, we've got a little clip.
08:31This is Josh O'Connor as the priest.
08:33He's just arrived.
08:34He's just arrived.
08:35He's discovering something of the church's past.
08:38Yes.
08:39So this is the crypt.
08:40Yep.
08:41It's a damn shame.
08:42Got to put up a security camera.
08:44Is there an entrance?
08:45There is.
08:46This right here.
08:47It's a Lazarus door.
08:48It takes construction equipment to open from the outside.
08:53But cantilevered is such that one push sent a tumbling to the ground from the inside.
08:59Who's in there then?
09:01Prentiss.
09:02Wix's grandfather, the founder of this church, was like a father to me.
09:09It makes me sick.
09:12These kids painting rocket ships all over his sacred resting place.
09:18Very good.
09:20And Tom was heading to church in that clip as well.
09:26But apparently, and I know people always say this after films, particularly when there's
09:29a big cast, that it was a very happy thing.
09:31It was, yes.
09:32But apparently you weren't hanging out in your own trailers at all.
09:34No, not at all.
09:35In fact, it's kind of what Rian Johnson does.
09:38Wherever we were, we had a moveable green worm.
09:41And that's where we would gather and laugh and sleep and tell stories and try those.
09:48At one point, somebody brought in those really terrible British, their piggy thumb, the candies.
09:55Peppa pigs?
09:56Yeah, Peppa pigs!
09:57We were all trying Peppa pigs.
09:58Percy pigs.
09:59Percy pigs.
10:00Percy pigs.
10:01Yeah.
10:02Yeah.
10:03Yeah.
10:04Yeah.
10:05We had a great time.
10:06The bar was quite low.
10:07But those things that were drawn on the whatever it was, they looked like genital organs.
10:16Yes, Miriam.
10:17Am I right?
10:18Am I right?
10:19Yes.
10:20Oh, I'm sorry.
10:21I mean, it was an approximation, but yes.
10:23Well, it's a while since I've seen one.
10:28And now the other thing, it's a lovely cast and that you all hung out, but you also brought
10:33your lovely dog, Pip.
10:34My dog, Pip.
10:35Yes.
10:36Who doesn't appear in the film.
10:37No.
10:38But he's backstage right now.
10:39Oh, is he?
10:40Oh, yes.
10:41You should have brought him on.
10:42You should have brought him on.
10:43This is you and Pip on set.
10:44Oh.
10:45By the way, I should say this isn't a spoiler.
10:48Did the dog do it?
10:51He wants you to think he did.
10:54Hey.
10:55Those eyes.
10:56I get lost in those eyes.
10:57I know.
10:58Yeah.
10:59And now this crucifix, is this the crucifix you brought from another film?
11:03Yes.
11:04Yes.
11:05I have an incredible costume collection from my first movie.
11:08And that crucifix was actually given to me by my father when he visited St. Peter's a long time ago.
11:14And I wore it in House of the Spirits.
11:16Yeah.
11:17And I said, wouldn't it be nice to get it and wear it again in this film?
11:21And I did.
11:22And it meant, it really meant something to me.
11:24And is it true the thing about your contract?
11:26Yes.
11:27That you...
11:28About costume.
11:29Yeah.
11:30Yes.
11:31So, everything?
11:32I can pick whatever I want.
11:33Not if, not if it's rented, though I have nicked a couple of things.
11:37I have to say.
11:38And what do you do with them all?
11:40Well, first of all, I, I spend a lot of time in fitting rooms.
11:45And especially in movies where you don't have a lot of time to rehearse, if any at all.
11:50It's in that costume room when they're constructing the character.
11:54You're literally part of constructing the character as they're putting the clothes on you.
11:59So, I've kept all of them from my first movie.
12:01Plus, I have 101, 102 Dalmatians.
12:04I have the original Sunset Boulevard costumes.
12:06It's an extraordinary collection, which has already been shown in two different museums, you know.
12:12You could raise money for charity.
12:14I could.
12:15I could.
12:16But she chooses not to.
12:17Go for yourself!
12:18I mean...
12:19Glenn hates charity.
12:20Famously.
12:21Oh, boy.
12:22Designers love it because otherwise they're rented out and torn apart and...
12:27Yeah.
12:28Yeah.
12:29The only thing I kept from Harry Potter was a pair of socks.
12:33Because they were nice kind of thick woolen socks.
12:34Yeah.
12:35And you wear them in life.
12:36I do wear them in life.
12:37Is that all you've kept from all the things you've been in?
12:38Yeah, because I don't hang on to the costumes, you know.
12:39Because, Alexander, you like to collect things from films.
12:40You've kept some things, haven't you?
12:41I do have a bloody G string that I wore in the Northmen framed in my bedroom.
12:43Framed?
12:44Framed.
12:45Framed?
12:46Framed.
12:47Framed.
12:48Framed.
12:49Framed.
12:50Framed.
12:51By the costume department as a wrap gift.
12:52Oh, I see.
12:53You didn't take it into the framers.
12:54Yeah, I got a couple of...
12:56I got my fangs from True Blood.
13:00Um, and, uh...
13:01Two heads.
13:02One from infinity pool and one from Murtabot.
13:05Do you hide it, please, to scare people?
13:06No, I...
13:07Yeah, well, no, I do.
13:10Like, I put them, like...
13:11I tuck them in, like, like if I could have had a couple of...
13:14And I could have a half and a half...
13:17And I could have got that.
13:18And then you'd have a half and a half and a half.
13:21You could have got a half and a half and a half.
13:24Like, I put him, like, I tuck him in.
13:25If I have guests staying over, I usually tuck one of them in under the sheets in the guest bed.
13:33And then I'll appear in the middle of the night with the fangs.
13:37Fun.
13:38You're glad he didn't rent the room now.
13:42And Nicola, your Barbie dress, did you get to keep that?
13:45I didn't, but they made me, I had a two-second role in Barbie,
13:49but Jacqueline Duran, the costume designer, was like, what do you want to wear?
13:52And she made me a record of a dress of Barbie I had as a little girl.
13:56She was, I know, it was amazing.
13:57She was called Sparkle Eyes Barbie.
14:00They didn't let me keep it, but I've stolen knickers on every set I've ever been on.
14:04Because I got a text.
14:06That's very useful.
14:06Very useful, but you go home in them, and then you get a text to be like,
14:09hi, Nicola, well done today.
14:11Could you please bring back the underwear?
14:13Because you've taken all of the characters under her, and I'm like, yeah, fair.
14:16Yeah, there's none left.
14:17Actually, we've got a very cute picture of you.
14:19Is your Barbie in this picture?
14:21No, but that's me at, I think I was about six, and that's with my Barbie convertible.
14:26Look how bloody delighted I am with myself.
14:29I never heard of a little rich, Nicola Coughlin.
14:31Oh, yeah, pretty fancy.
14:32Look at you in your Barbie convertible.
14:34But you have red hair there.
14:35It looks a bit red in that, it does, a little bit.
14:37Yeah, yeah.
14:38It was, my dad set up the camera in front of the Christmas tree,
14:40and I was posing, thinking, I'm pretty cool.
14:43Yeah.
14:43Well, you are.
14:44Thanks very much.
14:45I mean, look at the size of that thing.
14:46Yeah, it was huge.
14:47It was amazing.
14:47You could have driven it to school.
14:48I've got a nightie in that material, actually.
14:53That's interesting.
14:53Yeah.
14:54But I mean, I just happen to know.
14:56Oh, I know.
14:57I share with the group.
15:00Now, Glenn Close, you have been in something else very fun.
15:04All's fair, because Kim Kardashian and Sarah Paulson were here telling us all about it.
15:11Yes.
15:11That was before it came out.
15:14And, uh...
15:15LAUGHTER
15:16Well, no.
15:18Listen, we can laugh about it, because it's an enormous success,
15:22and there's a season two coming, isn't there?
15:24There is.
15:25Yes.
15:26Were you slightly taken aback by the reviews?
15:33I didn't read any of them.
15:34OK.
15:35No.
15:36One doesn't read reviews, especially if you know they're terrible.
15:38I won't say anything, then.
15:40You must have known something, because you did post this cartoon.
15:43Yes.
15:44Which is Critic Bunny Stew.
15:45LAUGHTER
15:46Yes.
15:48Did you draw this?
15:49I did.
15:50It's very good.
15:51Yeah.
15:52I thought it was appropriate.
15:53And pretty good likenesses, you can tell who they all are.
15:57No, you can tell whoever it is.
15:58And talking of Critic Bunny Stew, you had a movie night, you and the rest of the cast.
16:03Yes, yes, because it came out that Kim had not seen Fatal Attraction.
16:09So a lot of you probably haven't either, if you're, you know...
16:11If you haven't, you should.
16:13Yeah.
16:13It's a pretty good movie.
16:14It's a scary movie.
16:15Um, so everyone said, what, what, what?
16:17And, uh, so, so Kim said, I, let's all go over to my mother's house in our Skims pajamas
16:23and watch Fatal Attraction.
16:25Oh, there you are.
16:26There we are.
16:27Wow.
16:27LAUGHTER
16:28And we did.
16:31Was it awkward for you, everyone just watching your movie?
16:34Well, I hadn't seen it in a very long time.
16:37I mean, memories flew back into my mind, especially, I didn't know that I showed my breasts so much.
16:45LAUGHTER
16:45I mean, they weren't anything spectacular to see, but they were, they were visible.
16:51Good, good.
16:52Yeah, I am.
16:53LAUGHTER
16:54It's still streaming, Miriam, you can get it.
16:57Yeah.
16:58I've seen it.
16:59LAUGHTER
16:59But you didn't have an intimacy...
17:04Oh, no.
17:04...councillor then, or...
17:06No.
17:06Or, what do they call them?
17:07Co-ordinator.
17:08Co-ordinator.
17:09Yeah.
17:09Intimacy coordinator.
17:11I can't imagine such a thing.
17:13I can't either.
17:13But they also, don't you have those, those, you meet somebody and it's called, um, if you get along or you want to...
17:19Oh, a chem, a chemistry test?
17:21A chemistry read?
17:22Yes.
17:23A chemistry read.
17:24Oh, that's absurd.
17:25Isn't that absurd?
17:26Amazing.
17:27You know, I, I, I don't understand...
17:29I would, I don't think I'd have a career if I had to have a chemistry read.
17:32LAUGHTER
17:34But when you screen test, isn't that, like, a chemistry read?
17:39Like, do they make you screen test with Michael Douglas?
17:41Oh, my God.
17:42When I screen test for Fatal Attraction, it was a nightmare.
17:44I, I've never known what to do with my hair.
17:45My hair was long and I didn't know what to do with my hair.
17:48It was like...
17:49And I took a Valium because I was so nervous.
17:51LAUGHTER
17:52So, I was walking across, you know, to the parking lot in LA, kind of like this, and you walked into a room and there's a camera and there's Michael Douglas.
18:00And I wanted to just... crawl into a hole.
18:05LAUGHTER
18:06Did you guys know each other at all? Or was that the first time you met?
18:08No, no, and we do these scenes and Edgy and I say, hotter, hotter, hotter.
18:13LAUGHTER
18:14What do you do when somebody says, hotter, hotter?
18:16I'd say, fuck off!
18:18LAUGHTER
18:19APPLAUSE
18:21You can see Glenn and a great company of stars in Wake Up, Dead Man and Knives Out Mystery in cinemas now.
18:29And coming soon to Netflix.
18:31But now, Alexander Skarsgård brings us what we've all been waiting for, a gay biker rom-com.
18:37It's...
18:38APPLAUSE
18:39Finally.
18:40Finally.
18:41Finally.
18:42It's called Killian.
18:44And it's in UK and Irish cinemas from today.
18:47And before we talk about it, let's watch a clip.
18:50This is your character, Ray, meeting the parents for the first time.
18:55Gosh, you're tall.
19:00Uh, sorry, Peggy, uh, Peggy, PJ, um, nice to meet you.
19:05Great.
19:06How do you do?
19:07Um, time for a quick drink?
19:09Uh, no, thank you. Not when I'm writing.
19:11No, of course not. What was I thinking? Good lad, yeah.
19:15Well, with something soft.
19:17We'd better get going.
19:18You, uh, you don't sound local, Ray. Where's home?
19:23Chislehurst.
19:24Chislehurst.
19:25Very nice.
19:27I've never thought of Colin as a Chislehurst sort of person.
19:30No, he'll survive.
19:34Alright.
19:35Come on then, Colin.
19:36Alright.
19:37You just...
19:38Oh, uh, Ray, Ray, sorry to fuss, but you do have a spare helmet, yes?
19:43Yes.
19:44Only he actually has to wear it.
19:46Dad.
19:47Because, uh, he's not getting on without one.
19:49He is not getting on without one.
19:51Great.
19:54Nice bike.
19:55Plain black.
19:56None of this neon crap.
19:58Don't you see everywhere now, though, don't you?
20:01Colin.
20:02Yep.
20:06Are you sure you know what you're doing?
20:07Yeah, don't worry, Dad.
20:09I'm...
20:10I'm not worried.
20:11I rode a bike when I met Colin's mum.
20:14And I sold it when the twins came along.
20:17Bought a very expensive pram.
20:19What do I suppose you two need to worry about that?
20:22LAUGHTER
20:23APPLAUSE
20:28Douglas Hodge and Leslie Sharp there as the parents,
20:30and Harry Melling as Colin.
20:33So, Colin and Ray, uh, tell us about...
20:36Because it is kind of...
20:37It's all sorts of things, but there is a romance at the heart of it.
20:40Yeah, it's a...
20:41It's a sort of a love story.
20:43It's a sub-dom love story.
20:45Ray, my character, uh, spots Colin in a crowded bar
20:49and, uh, decides that this could be a potential great sub for him.
20:53So he, uh, they go out on a date and, uh, and then, um...
20:58That's the beginning of something quite intense.
21:02Yes.
21:03And it's...
21:04It is very intense and it's quite out there,
21:06but there's a kind of a sweetness to it as well.
21:08Well, in a way, it's a...
21:10Coming of...
21:11Coming of age story for...
21:12For Harry's character, uh, Colin,
21:14because it is his...
21:16His first relationship and he's figuring out
21:18what Ray wants out of this relationship.
21:20And then...
21:21As we get into the movie, 30, 40 minutes into the movie,
21:24he starts to realize that, well, is this exactly what I want out of a relationship?
21:28And then he's kind of, um, has to come to terms with...
21:31With that and deal with that.
21:32So, um...
21:34So, yeah, it's, uh...
21:36It's a classic...
21:38Dom-com.
21:40But you're not gay, are you?
21:42You're not gay.
21:44Are you?
21:46No, not really.
21:47No.
21:49You do, you do remember that day 20 years ago?
21:55Not at all.
21:58It's just fascinating, because, you know, I've been enthusiastically gay
22:04for a very long time.
22:06And I'm always surprised by fellas who...
22:11who come across it later.
22:14But you...
22:16You...
22:17You...
22:18You're having to act it.
22:20And how did you research it, if you didn't know much about it?
22:23LAUGHTER
22:24Because you do...
22:25We all do research.
22:26Yeah.
22:27I mean, these are all the questions I was going to ask,
22:29Alexander.
22:30LAUGHTER
22:31I'm so sorry.
22:33LAUGHTER
22:34APPLAUSE
22:36You know, a lot has been made about, uh, the sex in it,
22:40and...
22:41But it's...
22:42But it's interesting, it is...
22:43It is really out there, but it's always...
22:45It is always kind of pivotal to the plot and the characters.
22:49Yeah, I mean...
22:51I find...
22:53Sex scenes are only uncomfortable if they're...
22:56If they...
22:57If you don't understand why you're shooting the scene.
22:59Yeah.
23:00If it feels gratuitous, or if you're...
23:01Like, why am I walking around naked in this scene?
23:03It doesn't really serve the story or the narrative.
23:05It doesn't push it forward.
23:07And, um...
23:08Yes, there are some graphic scenes in the movie,
23:10but they're all kind of pivotal moments
23:12in the relationship and in Colin's journey.
23:15Um...
23:16So I was quite excited about shooting them,
23:19because, again, it's like they were key components
23:21to the narrative.
23:22You had a wrestling one, and I was like,
23:23you're gonna murder him.
23:25LAUGHTER
23:26I was like, have you wrestled before?
23:28Well, then...
23:29And then we ended up making Sweet Love.
23:30You did make Sweet Love.
23:31I mean, it wasn't Sweet Love.
23:32Oh, yeah.
23:33Yeah.
23:34But, like, you...
23:35Yeah, I was like, you're gonna kill him.
23:36That was the first time we met, actually.
23:37No.
23:38Yeah.
23:39We met two days before we started shooting,
23:41and we rehearsed that wrestling scene, Harry and I.
23:43Wow.
23:44And really got to know each other well.
23:46I would say so, yeah.
23:48Because, again, Harry's character, um,
23:51is very inexperienced and has to learn from Ray
23:55in these scenes.
23:56So it wasn't supposed to be good,
23:58and it's confusing so many Harry's,
24:01but Harry Leighton, the writer, director,
24:03also wanted it to feel clumsy
24:05and had a thing which I love,
24:07that, like, often sex scenes are...
24:10It's too kind of polished
24:11and the lighting is always perfect,
24:13and it's too, like, hands grabbing sheets,
24:15that kind of crap.
24:17Like, what was so great about this,
24:18like, he was like...
24:19He's not seeing Bridgerton.
24:20LAUGHTER
24:24Go on, keep going, keep going.
24:25Yeah.
24:26Nicholas Sheet grabbing.
24:27Nicholas Sheet grabbing is second to none.
24:29Yeah.
24:30It's like the romanticized version of sex,
24:32and what was great about these scenes
24:35and what made me excited about it was,
24:37yes, they are hot and intense,
24:41but there's also room for awkwardness,
24:43and when people change positions,
24:46it can look clumsy and weird,
24:48and it's kind of fun to leave that in
24:50rather than cut around it,
24:51so, like, everything is not
24:52a perfectly choreographed dance.
24:54And why do we think we...
24:56I think we all have an impression
24:57that Swedish people are unshockable,
24:59that they're very kind of bohemian,
25:01or have we just made that up?
25:02I think that is not quite true.
25:05I think it was, um...
25:07But you run around naked a lot, don't you?
25:09Well, my family, yes, but in general...
25:12LAUGHTER
25:13I think it's from a movie called
25:14Joannifik and Gull from the 60s
25:16that was kind of made a big impact
25:18around the world
25:19because it was, like,
25:20sexually very liberating and, um,
25:22and Swedish.
25:23So that kind of...
25:25After that, people were like,
25:26oh, they're so liberated and free.
25:27So you are Swedish, are you?
25:29Um, yes.
25:30Can you do the accent for us?
25:33LAUGHTER
25:34Because I like to hear that.
25:35I think he has been.
25:36Yeah, yeah.
25:37Anything for you, Miriam.
25:38LAUGHTER
25:39It's very sing-songy.
25:40Swedish is kind of like...
25:41It is.
25:42That was gibberish, but...
25:44Yeah.
25:45LAUGHTER
25:46It sounds like this when we talk.
25:47It's a little up and down.
25:48Yeah, there is a sort of music in it.
25:51Like, you know...
25:52There is a sort of music in it.
25:53Yeah, music in it.
25:54And here's the thing.
25:55You're doing a press tour,
25:56but you're not doing it by yourself
25:57because the real gay bikers club
26:00that feature in the film,
26:02they've been travelling around with you, right?
26:05They come to the show.
26:06Some of them are here.
26:07Gay bikers club?
26:08Yeah.
26:09I think we can spot...
26:10There they are.
26:11Hello.
26:12Oh, my God!
26:17Oh, that's amazing.
26:18Yeah.
26:19Hello, guys.
26:20Hi.
26:21Nice to meet you all.
26:22Paul and Kevin.
26:23Hey.
26:24Love you.
26:25We've got a picture of them all
26:26on the red carpet.
26:27There they are.
26:28The London Film Festival.
26:29Lovely.
26:30Is that Matt?
26:31Is the pup...
26:32Oh, are you the pup?
26:33Yeah.
26:34Honestly, it's like the show
26:36back in the Channel 4 days.
26:37I'm having flashbacks.
26:41And they've been biking around with you.
26:43Have they been to various...
26:45That's not the only one they've been to.
26:46Yeah, a bunch of these guys
26:48came down to Cannes for the world premiere,
26:51which was pretty incredible.
26:53Wow.
26:54That was the first time I watched the movie
26:55with an audience.
26:56To do that with Harry and Harry and the guys,
27:01and the fact that they came down
27:03just meant the world to me.
27:05It was an incredible night.
27:06Well, it's a really special film.
27:08It's very hard to describe,
27:09but I really hope people see it
27:11because it's just terrific.
27:12Oh, thank you.
27:13You're great in it.
27:14It's a pillion,
27:15and it's in cinemas now.
27:16Very good.
27:17Woo!
27:18Always a treat when Miriam Marbley
27:24puts pen to paper.
27:25And this is a goodie.
27:26It is called The Little Book of Miriam.
27:30It's out now.
27:32And this is your third book, I think.
27:34It is, yes.
27:35But you've sold almost one and a half million books, Miriam.
27:39Amazing.
27:40It is amazing.
27:41Congratulations.
27:42I feel quite humbled.
27:43How do you write it?
27:44On your computer?
27:45Computer.
27:46On my computer.
27:47Yeah, no, I never thought I was a writer,
27:51and some people agree with that.
27:53But I've been immensely lucky, actually.
27:57And honestly, being on this show helps to sell it.
28:02LAUGHTER
28:03And that's...
28:04That's why...
28:05That's why she's here, ladies and gentlemen.
28:07LAUGHTER
28:08I thought you were going to say he inspired you
28:10when he told the story.
28:12No.
28:13I would like to say...
28:14It's a flogging opportunity.
28:16LAUGHTER
28:17It is.
28:18It is.
28:19You are a writer also,
28:21and your books are lovely.
28:23Oh, that's very right.
28:24I really urge people to buy Graham's books and read them.
28:29Read them.
28:30People don't read enough.
28:31You're scrolling and scrolling.
28:33I agree.
28:34Read.
28:35Read a fucking book.
28:36LAUGHTER
28:37Read this book.
28:38Yeah.
28:41And you tour the country with your books,
28:44and you play these big theatres,
28:46and this is night after night you do this.
28:48Do you enjoy it, or is it kind of exhausting?
28:50Oh, I do.
28:51I mean, I think you would agree with that.
28:53You're an actress, and you're an actress.
28:55It's wonderful to be in front of an audience.
28:58You know, I'm an old, tired lady.
29:01Well, I'm hardly a lady, really, but...
29:04LAUGHTER
29:05I love being in front of an audience.
29:08It gives me a buzz, a thrill.
29:10I get energy from it.
29:12I get joy from it.
29:13I really do.
29:14And I think most actors do.
29:16I don't like cameras.
29:18I'm not interested in them.
29:19But to be with a live audience,
29:22to get the response from them,
29:24and to feel that they're listening to me
29:26and sometimes quite liking what I'm doing,
29:29that is magical.
29:31The book is kind of an A to Z of your thoughts...
29:34Yes, it's alphabetical.
29:35..and your stories.
29:36Yeah.
29:37The story, and I know people ask you to tell this story a lot
29:39when you're doing your live shows.
29:41I think it was when...
29:42You were on with Will.i.am,
29:43and you told the story.
29:44And you know the one I'm talking about
29:45where you're going home in Edinburgh late at night.
29:48In Edinburgh.
29:49And you...
29:50There's a man up a tree.
29:51You assist him, and...
29:53But what you reveal in the book is
29:55there's more to this story.
29:57I know.
29:58I didn't...
29:59I didn't tell it on television
30:01because I felt nobody would believe me.
30:03But after I had helped
30:05and supported the troupe...
30:08There was a soldier up a tree.
30:09Oh, wanking.
30:10And Miriam helped.
30:11And I...
30:12Did he want to stop?
30:13No.
30:14He was just up a tree.
30:15He was up a tree.
30:16I heard the rustles.
30:17I saw what was going on,
30:18asked him to come down.
30:20I finished him off.
30:22Seriously.
30:23Very pleasantly.
30:25And there was no threats.
30:27I was wiping my hand in the...
30:30in the grass.
30:33And...
30:34A voice from the bushes.
30:36This is...
30:37By the way, this is the new part of the story.
30:39So...
30:40When we left this story,
30:41you were wiping your hand on the grass.
30:43Yes.
30:44Now.
30:45I heard a voice come from the seat
30:48that was just where I'd been.
30:51And...
30:52A very nicely dressed gentleman
30:55came forward and said,
30:57Um...
30:58I couldn't help noticing
31:00what you had done
31:02for that young man.
31:04And I wondered if...
31:05if it was at all possible
31:07and whether you would
31:09do the same for me.
31:11And, um...
31:13I said, uh...
31:15I thought to myself,
31:16well...
31:17I can't say no, can I?
31:19Because I've done it once.
31:20Sorry about it,
31:21but you can say no.
31:22LAUGHTER
31:23I just felt I couldn't.
31:25OK.
31:26That's the thing.
31:27I think you're going to love Pillian,
31:28by the way.
31:29LAUGHTER
31:30This could be a scene from Pillian.
31:32LAUGHTER
31:33So...
31:34I did what he asked me to do.
31:37Right there?
31:38Right there.
31:39There was nobody else there, you know.
31:41Oh.
31:42So off he went,
31:43and I was wiping my hand in the glass.
31:45LAUGHTER
31:46And lo and behold,
31:47and this is the bit nobody believes,
31:49but it is true,
31:51a voice from the same place...
31:53LAUGHTER
31:54..said,
31:55Hey, Miriam!
31:56And it was someone I knew.
31:59LAUGHTER
32:00He was a young student that I had known
32:03in Oxford.
32:04I went to Cambridge,
32:05but he...
32:06I met him in Oxford,
32:07because I lived there.
32:08And he said,
32:10Listen,
32:11we're old friends,
32:12you know.
32:13I said,
32:14Oh, come on.
32:15LAUGHTER
32:16Yeah, it's fair.
32:19And he said,
32:20Oh, come on, Miriam,
32:21you know.
32:22So I did.
32:23LAUGHTER
32:24Three for the price of one.
32:26LAUGHTER
32:27Beautiful story.
32:28It's true.
32:29It is honestly true.
32:31It is honestly true.
32:32It's amazing.
32:33I'm surprised you're not still there, Miriam.
32:36LAUGHTER
32:37Thank you, French.
32:38Yes, of course.
32:39LAUGHTER
32:40So...
32:41LAUGHTER
32:42Now, Miriam...
32:44LAUGHTER
32:45I feel...
32:46I feel...
32:47Thank you for your service.
32:48You tell these great stories
32:49we love having you on the show,
32:50but I feel that often it takes away
32:53from the fact that you are this great actor.
32:55So I'm delighted to say that you are in a short film
33:00that's coming out in the new year.
33:02I am very good in this film.
33:04LAUGHTER
33:05It's called A Friend of Dorothy.
33:07But the real star is that young boy up there,
33:11Alastair Nchoku.
33:13Yeah.
33:14He's wonderful.
33:15It's...
33:16And my agent has taken him on.
33:18He's so good.
33:19So good.
33:20And so lovely.
33:21And he helped me to be good too,
33:25as did the writer and director, Lee Knight.
33:28And it's just a wonderful film.
33:30So it...
33:31I believe it's going to be on one of those streaming channels.
33:33It is.
33:34Very soon.
33:35Yes.
33:36I can't tell you which one,
33:37because it's a secret.
33:38But I know it's the 1st of January.
33:40On the 1st of January.
33:41Yes.
33:42Rush to see it,
33:43because it's really wonderful.
33:44It is.
33:45It's a very, very sweet film,
33:46and you're both so good in it.
33:48It's gorgeous.
33:49Absolutely gorgeous.
33:50The Little Book of Miriam.
33:51That is out now.
33:52Bye!
33:57Good news, everyone.
33:58Ms. Nicola Coughlin is returning to the London stage
34:01in the Playboy of the Western World
34:03at the National Theatre from the 4th of December.
34:064th of December.
34:07Oh, that's next week.
34:08I know.
34:09How are you all set?
34:10You ready?
34:11Well, we did our first sort of run today in the room.
34:14It was our last day in the rehearsal room.
34:16And they said, you know,
34:17two or three people will be coming in.
34:18And there was sort of three rows on either side of the room.
34:20And I went, oh, no.
34:21And it was terrifying.
34:22But, like you said,
34:23very exciting to have an audience there to perform to.
34:26And, yeah, it's very, very exciting.
34:28And, obviously, the Playboy of the Western World,
34:29classic play, James Sing.
34:30Yes.
34:31If people don't know,
34:32if it's somehow passed them by,
34:33who are you in it?
34:34What's it about?
34:35So, I play a young lady called Peggyn Mike.
34:37And it's set in the west of Ireland in 1907.
34:39And there was big riots when this play came out,
34:42because they talked about women's shifts,
34:44so women's underwear in it.
34:46And people were like, no, Irish women,
34:48you know, they would never talk about underwear.
34:49We couldn't be so crazy.
34:50And then they tore up the theatre
34:52to prove how not badly behaved they were.
34:55So, yeah.
34:56So, she runs this pub in the country,
34:57and everything's sort of going along a bit humdrum.
34:59And then a young, good-looking man walks in.
35:01And everyone sort of goes, well, who are you?
35:03Where did you come from?
35:04And they barrage of questions.
35:06And then he sort of said, leave me alone,
35:08I killed my father.
35:09And instead of being horrified,
35:10they'll go, that's amazing.
35:12That's really cool and exciting,
35:14and we all fancy you.
35:16Yeah.
35:17And you've reunited with Derry Girls co-star Siobhan.
35:20Yes.
35:21Have you ever been on stage with her before?
35:23I never have, but she is the Queen of Ireland.
35:25We sort of play love rivals for Christie,
35:27played by the lovely Anna Hardwick in the middle,
35:29which is great fun, because my character,
35:31we did a show together called Derry Girls,
35:33and she was the...
35:34I know that.
35:35Oh, do you?
35:36Yes, I fucking do.
35:37Oh, sorry.
35:38It's brilliant.
35:39Oh, my goodness.
35:40Thank you very much.
35:41You're brilliant.
35:42All of you.
35:43Oh, thank you.
35:44Thank you very much.
35:45But my character in the show was very scared of her character,
35:47because she was a nun, very scary nun,
35:49but in this, we're rivals,
35:50so we get to go toe-to-toe, which is great fun.
35:52And here's the thing.
35:53It's a return to live theatre for you.
35:55Yes, yeah.
35:56And so you'll be in front of a live audience,
35:57and people are talking about how great that is.
35:59Yeah.
36:00But it's also quite...
36:01It can be quite intimidating,
36:02because audiences have changed, I feel.
36:04Well, it's absolutely terrifying.
36:05I mean, I've done theatre before,
36:07a lot of direct-to-dress theatre,
36:08where you're just speaking it out to the audience.
36:10And you have interesting things when that happens,
36:12because people assume that you can't see them,
36:14and you really can sometimes.
36:16And I did a show once where I looked up in the audience,
36:18and a man just took out a lunchbox
36:19and just started eating, like, a microwave shepherd's pie.
36:22And I was like,
36:23right, this doesn't make what I'm doing quite difficult,
36:26but...
36:27So please, if you come to the National,
36:28just, like, don't eat the shepherd's pie before or after.
36:30That would help, like, a lot.
36:32And the phones thing is...
36:33The phones thing.
36:34Oh, yeah.
36:35It illuminates your face.
36:36I stopped the show once.
36:37Yeah.
36:38Did you?
36:39Yes, I was doing Sunset Boulevard on Broadway.
36:41Yeah.
36:42And, you know, you prepare, prepare,
36:43and you make a great entrance,
36:44and it was a flash, flash, flash, flash, flash, flash.
36:47And as you're doing this song, you're thinking,
36:49what am I going to do about this?
36:50What am I going to do about this?
36:51And I walked to the end of the stage, and I said,
36:53we can either have a photo shoot or we can do the show.
36:56You decide.
36:57Yeah.
36:58Ooh.
37:06Alexander Skarsgård, have you done any theatre?
37:08Yeah, in Sweden years ago.
37:10It was probably almost, well, 15, 20 years ago now.
37:13Wow.
37:14And no temptation to get back on the boards.
37:16It's a lot of work, my friend.
37:18It's a lot of work.
37:19So, no.
37:20I'm incredibly lazy.
37:23And you come from this big acting dynasty,
37:25the Skarsgårds, to your dad, Stellan,
37:28but then how many of your siblings are...
37:29But what's your father?
37:30Yeah.
37:31Ooh, he is a good actor.
37:33Oh, he really is.
37:36Why are you laughing?
37:37My favourite Skarsgård, yeah.
37:39I didn't mean that in a nasty way.
37:41No, no.
37:42I absolutely mean it.
37:43He was a wonderful actor.
37:44But I heard you were very jealous of your father being in Mamma Mia.
37:47Oh, God.
37:48I mean, who wouldn't be?
37:50I mean, look at that.
37:53It was, yeah, he was just obviously a big ABBA fan.
37:55But was that in the film of Mamma Mia?
37:57Yeah.
37:58Yes.
37:59Oh.
38:00What?
38:01It's a great movie.
38:02Have you not seen it?
38:03I did see it, yeah.
38:05You're not disappointed.
38:06I thought it was dreadful.
38:07The movie itself where my father's performing.
38:10No, no.
38:11I don't remember your father's performance.
38:13No, no.
38:14I don't remember your father's performance.
38:17But it really wasn't to my taste.
38:20I think what I was jealous of was the experience.
38:28Because I remember, like, he was having the most fun he's ever had.
38:31Oh.
38:32I think they all did.
38:33There were all the people in it.
38:34And that's why, that's also kind of why I appreciated the movie so much.
38:38Because you can tell it was kind of infectious, like, how much fun they were all having.
38:42And, like, my father is not a great singer, but he was just belting it out and laughing.
38:47And it just looked like it was a joyous experience.
38:51I'm glad he had a good time.
38:56Have you had some notes?
38:58I know.
38:59I hesitate to mention Nicola's new film.
39:02But, no, you haven't seen this.
39:04Mamma Mia 3.
39:05No.
39:06No, Nicola, you've got it.
39:07This is such a posh, it's a kid's film, but it's a posh one.
39:10The Magic Faraway Tree.
39:12Yes.
39:13It's you, who else?
39:14It's an amazing cast.
39:15Ridiculous cast.
39:16Claire Foy, Andrew Garfield, Rebecca Ferguson, Jennifer Saunders, Michael Palin.
39:21Wow.
39:22It's honestly...
39:23Oh, wonderful.
39:24It was amazing.
39:25I mean, I read the script and had no idea who was involved with it, but I thought it
39:28was Simon Farnaby who wrote Paddington 2, which is one of the best movies ever in the world.
39:33Yeah.
39:34And I was, like, desperate to be involved.
39:35And, yeah, it was just a joy.
39:38And it's a lot of people's favourite, you know, childhood book.
39:41I'd never read it, but I love meeting grown-ups.
39:43They're like, oh, my God.
39:44And I got to play a fairy.
39:46And I got lovely, lovely ears.
39:48Well, they've got a picture of you, have we?
39:49Oh, yeah.
39:50There you are!
39:51Good ears.
39:53Yeah, great ears.
39:54It was so much fun.
39:55And there's three gorgeous kids who lead us.
39:57And we got to lots of magical lands.
39:59And it was just a joy.
40:00I loved it so much.
40:01And when's that out?
40:02It's out in March.
40:03Oh, OK.
40:04Yes.
40:05But the trailer's out very soon.
40:06They won't tell me when.
40:07But soon.
40:08Well, just a quick reminder.
40:09You can see Nicola Coughlin in the Playboy of the Western World at the National from next Thursday.
40:15Good luck to you.
40:16Yay!
40:17What a great thing.
40:19Right.
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40:32Here performing the single H-A-P-P-Y, it's Jessie J!
40:36Let's go.
40:37Can we move to laughter?
40:38Oops.
40:39Woo!
40:40Woo!
40:41Woo!
40:42Ooh, me, myself and I.
40:45Ain't no place to hide.
40:46All I got is time.
40:50Ooh, swinging out of secret.
40:51All I got is time
40:53Oh, I swing you're not a secret
40:57Tell me that you keep it
40:59I don't wanna lie
41:01Oh, I can take it
41:05Try to fake it
41:07Give my smile
41:09Oh, I can't believe it
41:13Ain't the meaning of life
41:17I'm gonna laugh till I cry
41:20Dance, I know why
41:22Cause I'm H-A-P-P-Y
41:24H-A-P-P-Y
41:26I laugh till I cry
41:28Dance, I know why
41:30Cause I'm H-A-P-P-Y
41:32H-A-P-P-Y
41:34Rainbow's on the ceiling
41:37Serotonin' heathen
41:39A note to my soul
41:41Collidoscopic feeling
41:45Wide awake and drinking
41:47But you already know
41:49Oh, I can take it
41:53Try to fake it
41:56Give my smile
41:57Oh, I can't believe it
42:01Ain't the meaning of life
42:05I laugh till I cry
42:08Come on!
42:08Dance, I know why
42:10Cause I'm H-A-P-P-Y
42:12H-A-P-P-Y
42:13I laugh till I cry
42:16Dance, I know why
42:18H-A-P-P-Y
42:20Come on, boys
42:20H-A-P-P-Y
42:22Let's go!
42:25Come on, dance with me
42:27Come on, man
42:28I'm gonna laugh till I cry
42:40Dance, I know why
42:42I'm H-A-P-P-P-Y
42:43I'm H-A-P-P-Y
42:44H-A-P-P-Y
42:46I'm gonna dance
42:49I'm gonna laugh
42:51H-A-P-P-Y
42:51H-A-P-P-Y
42:53H-A-P-P-Y
42:54H-A-P-P-Y
42:58H-A-P-P-Y
42:58H-A-P-P-Y
42:59H-A-P-P-Y
43:02H-A-P-Y
43:03H-A-P-Y
43:03H-A-P-Y
43:04Wow!
43:05Thank you
43:06Woo!
43:11Jessie J, everybody!
43:14And her band!
43:16That was gorgeous!
43:17Come on over, do!
43:19Thank you
43:20So good to see you!
43:22How are you?
43:23Welcome back to the show.
43:25Good night to you. Thank you.
43:27So, welcome to that.
43:29That is Nicola Serious.
43:31Hello.
43:33Hello. Hello.
43:35Lovely to see you.
43:37I'm sure you did it. OK.
43:39Very lovely.
43:41Thank you so much for that performance. It was fantastic.
43:43Just loved it. So fun.
43:45Hey, JPBY, that is off the latest album,
43:47Don't Tease Me With A Good Time,
43:49which is out today.
43:51It is. It's in the world. Yeah, yeah.
43:53Congratulations.
44:01Because time does all these strange things.
44:03I have no idea.
44:05It's been seven years. It's been too long.
44:07It's very rude. Yeah, I'm so sorry to
44:09eat on the price tag
44:11and then I just disappeared. No.
44:13Life just happens, doesn't it?
44:15The big question is, you know, how are you
44:17feeling? Because I know you have been through
44:19a ringer with health things and all sorts.
44:21Um, this year's been wild, yeah.
44:23So I'm good. I've just, I've just recovered
44:25from breast cancer.
44:27Wow!
44:29Wow!
44:31I never know how to react to it.
44:33Yeah, I do everything
44:35with jokes, so sorry if I say things that feel
44:37a bit awkward, but yeah.
44:39It's just, yeah.
44:41No, it's good. It's good. I've got one really hard
44:43boob and an album out.
44:45You know?
44:47Who could ask for anything more?
44:49Exactly. I'm just happy to be here.
44:51Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
44:53And what has it been like, kind of getting up in front
44:55of audiences again and doing performances again?
44:57Honestly, everywhere I've been, it's like, it's like
45:01I've been de-iced and I've come out of the
45:03Natural History Museum.
45:05And there's people like, you haven't been around for years.
45:07And I'm like, I'm back.
45:09And I'm like, I'm back.
45:11I don't feel any different, to be honest.
45:13And since we last saw you, you've done this thing,
45:16which I feel like not enough people know about.
45:18Oh, no.
45:19So, no, you went to China.
45:21You went to China and, yeah, they know about it.
45:24They know about it.
45:25He was there.
45:26You went to China and you did this show called Singer.
45:29Yes.
45:30And so it's a talent show.
45:31Yes.
45:32But it's a talent show on a scale you've never heard.
45:36So how many people, like, how many people?
45:39Essentially, so I went, my manager, I was writing
45:42my last album 100 years ago.
45:44And they were like, this TV show wanna, like, have you on.
45:47And I was like, just say yes.
45:49And they're like, do you know the details?
45:51And I was like, no, just, I need a shake up.
45:54Just say yes.
45:55So I fly over to China thinking I'm a guest on a TV show.
45:58No, no.
45:59I'm a contestant.
46:00No.
46:01And I'm competing against other Chinese artists
46:04that are massive and fully established, like, do stadiums,
46:07and it's 500 million viewers a week.
46:10No.
46:11Yes.
46:12The final, I did 13 weeks, 13 episodes.
46:14It was the most amazing experience of my life.
46:16It was a reality TV show.
46:17I had to sing in Mandarin.
46:18Please don't look that up.
46:20And the final was 1.2 billion people.
46:24What?
46:25Isn't that incredible?
46:26Isn't that insane?
46:27So, I mean, me and China, like, I go back all the time.
46:30You were a contestant?
46:31Yes.
46:32Did you win?
46:33I did.
46:34Wow.
46:35I was so scared.
46:36I sang, I sang I Will Always Love You by Whitney Houston.
46:39And people have asked me to sing that song a lot, like, growing up.
46:40And I was like, no, I only want to do it.
46:41And I feel like it's the right moment.
46:42And I just felt, I don't know why I chose to do it in front of 1.2 billion people live.
46:54But in a dress where I looked literally like a sparkly penguin, I could not walk.
46:57And I was just like, walk into the mic.
46:59But it was life changing.
47:01It was the most amazing experience, yeah.
47:03Wow.
47:04Congratulations.
47:05And people can see you on tour here from, is it next April?
47:08Next April, I'm going on tour, yeah, all the time.
47:11I'm just singing anywhere.
47:12If you, I'll be singing at a lot of places.
47:14Yeah.
47:15I'll come over to your house, I'll sing.
47:17Yeah, yeah, yeah.
47:18No, literally.
47:19Listen, it's so great to see you.
47:21Thank you for that amazing performance and good luck with the tour.
47:23Thank you so much.
47:24And the album.
47:25Jessie J, everybody.
47:27Thank you, my love.
47:29That is nearly it, but before we go, just time for a quick visit to the big red chair.
47:35Who have we got?
47:36Hello.
47:37Hi.
47:38Hi, I've high hopes for you.
47:39There's a spark in your eye.
47:40What's your name?
47:41Alison.
47:42Alison, lovely.
47:43And where are you from, Alison?
47:44Devon.
47:45Devon, lovely.
47:46And what do you do in Devon, Alison?
47:47I'm a partnership development manager for a financial services network business.
47:51I almost said that.
47:53OK, off you go.
47:55Off you go with this story, Alison.
47:56Back in the 70s, growing up as a child with a strict mother, we were always taught not
48:01to leave any food on our plate.
48:03And it was Christmas Day, Christmas dinner, and as usual, you would have sprouts on your
48:08Christmas dinner, which I hate.
48:10So everyone had left the dining room table, and I was left with my plate, which had just
48:15had the sprouts left on there.
48:17We had a Jack Russell terrier called Timmy at the time, and I thought, well, it would be
48:21quite nice.
48:22No one's going to see.
48:23I can put the plate on the floor, and the dog will eat the sprouts, and I'll get away
48:26with it.
48:27I put the plate on the floor, the dog licked the gravy off the sprouts, but left the sprouts.
48:32Unfortunately, I couldn't admit to the fact that I just got to try to get the dog to eat
48:37the sprouts, so I still had to eat the sprouts, but this time was fine.
48:42You could walk, Alison.
48:43I like that story.
48:46Very good.
48:47OK, that really is all about time for you to like that for going to rent a
48:50bit and tell your story.
48:51You've got that as via website at this very address.
48:54Please say a huge thank you to all of my guests tonight, Jessie J, Nicholas Auckland, Miriam
49:03Marguerite, Alexander Skarsgård, and Glenn Close.
49:12Join me next week with music guest Pat Burns, US talk show host Seth Meyers, celebrity
49:18traitor King Alan Carr, Oscar winner Kate Winslet, and the former Prime Minister of New Zealand,
49:23Jacinda Ardern.
49:25I'll see you then.
49:26Good night, everybody.
49:27Goodbye.
49:32Life after Motherland.
49:34She's making a big splash in Amanda Land.
49:37Comedy on iPlayer.
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49:44So, thank you.
49:53We're going to review the future as Gemini Grey upstairs.
49:55Thank you to go to Lindsay for joining us on this week.
49:56.
49:57We'll see you then.
49:58.
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