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00:00He's planned us a little getaway out in the new forest, so we'll we'll be in a shepherd's hut with
00:04our cute dog and do some birding
00:12You do your birding I swear to God I hope that's code
00:43I
00:48Have just discovered that a dog called Rupert is scared of his local butchers apparently not uncommon message me
00:55If you would like more details. Anyway, we have a very lovely audience and some brilliant guests are joining us
01:01on the sofa
01:02He's extremely funny. He's here to talk about his latest stand-up tour. It's Russell Howard
01:19And Loki she has a brand-new film fuse it's goo goo and battle rock
01:35And singer who is behind everything from Sleepless in Seattle to Mamma Mia. She has a new album out. It's
01:42Rita Wilson
01:51And he is the award-winning actor best known for X-men filth and atonement
01:57He's just directed his very first film. It's the brilliant James McAvoy
02:09Thank you
02:11Thank you
02:15Thank you
02:31The theatre it was absolutely fantastic
02:33Yeah, so when you come back you like I remember this little shop or I want to have this soup
02:39from here
02:39Oh, no, no, you have to understand like I was on a student's budget and so in in America
02:45We have this thing called the freshman 10 which is when you go off to college you immediately gain 10
02:50pounds and I definitely
02:51Had that because my diet was like McDiddy's McViddy's
02:55Did I say McDiddy's?
02:56I like McDiddy's
02:57Guys, we're going to McDiddy's
02:59McDiddy's
02:59But that was McDiddy's
03:00We all did that in freshman year
03:06I'll have the double ditty
03:08I'll have the double ditty and an STD test
03:11But McDiddy's was also McDonald's because it was like french fries or McViddy's
03:16That was my diet and my body loved it
03:19Yeah, you were like, thank you
03:20I will come to London more often
03:21Give me more, please
03:22Russell, for you, Bristol or London?
03:26Well, I'm from Bristol so I, you know, I prefer Bristol
03:30But it's no, I like, I like London, I'm a fan
03:32I got, I got mugged here once
03:35I'm sorry
03:36But it was the most middle-class mugging
03:38So a friend of mine had, she'd just given birth
03:41So I got her some cupcakes
03:42So I'm carrying these cupcakes up this hill
03:44And this kid's probably about 15
03:46Really pasty looking kid just stands in front of me and goes
03:49Oi
03:51You better give me one of them cupcakes
03:54And I suddenly kind of went
03:56You can't have them, my friend, she's just given birth
03:59And this kid suddenly went, I'm sorry, tell her congratulations
04:04And he was like, this is such a beautiful moment of like
04:09You kind of go from fair to like, yeah
04:12And I like it
04:13So James, I'd argue that Glasgow's the best town
04:16I've had the best night of my life
04:17I mean, you could also get in an argument about that in Glasgow
04:20Yeah
04:22That sounds like I'm slagging off my hometown
04:23It is, it's the best
04:24It is
04:25It's fantastic
04:26A man from Latvia carried me above his head in Glasgow
04:30No, it's just the most fun
04:31Everybody there wants you to have a good time
04:34They're incredibly proud of Glasgow
04:36Yeah, they should be
04:37If Irish people hadn't already invented the crack
04:39We would be inventing the crack
04:40There you go
04:42Gugu, you have been to Scotland
04:44I, yeah, I went to Glasgow actually the first time
04:48When I was 11
04:49I was on, I don't know if anybody remembers the children's game show Funhouse
04:55Oh, yes
04:56Anybody remember that show?
04:58Yeah, yeah, yeah
04:58What was Funhouse?
04:59It was a game show
05:00Like, there was the red team and the yellow team
05:03It was presented by Pat Sharp
05:05Yeah
05:06Twins, kind of cheerleader
05:08Melanie and Martina
05:09Oh my god, yeah
05:10Oh wow
05:10You were fine also
05:11Did you win?
05:13What could you win?
05:14Like the twins?
05:16We won
05:16We won
05:17I remember this really like dates it now
05:19I won like an Amstrad PC
05:22Yes
05:23I won like dry slope skiing lessons
05:28Which I couldn't say
05:29This is so depressing
05:30I can't say
05:33OK, now
05:34Gugu, is it true that you start every day with a power pose?
05:38Oh
05:38I mean, not every day
05:40But I do love a power pose
05:42What does that mean?
05:43Tell me anything
05:43I, oh my gosh
05:44I watched this TED talk a few years ago
05:47About the idea of
05:48You know, how to change your mood
05:50By changing your posture
05:51Or changing your body
05:52And you know, that if you can kind of
05:53If you slump your shoulders
05:54And you know
05:55I love slumping
05:56Well you can also just feel a bit more down
05:58Or a bit more kind of depressed
06:01I'm going to do it
06:02But if you like really want
06:04It's so cool those slumping
06:05It's cool, it's cool
06:06But if you want like a quick way to kind of
06:08Just trick your
06:10You know, your body into feeling
06:11And your mind into feeling more uplifted
06:13You can do a power pose
06:14I prefer the sort of
06:15It's a bit hard to do in this dress
06:17But like the arms out
06:18Kind of like
06:19Yes
06:19Show me to the universe
06:21Can everyone do it?
06:22Everyone can do it
06:22If you're able
06:23Join us
06:24Technically you should stand up
06:25Okay
06:26And just kind of like
06:27Raise
06:28Arms up in a V
06:29Yes
06:30Chest to the sky
06:31And just like
06:32Just breathe for a second
06:34Feel like I'm in a cult
06:35Feel like I'm in a cult
06:36So you feel like
06:37A little bit more confident
06:38A little bit more
06:39Like joyful
06:40I do
06:41Yeah
06:42Yeah
06:43Okay, it worked
06:43It worked
06:44It worked
06:45That was an Oprah
06:46I love that
06:47It worked
06:49Yeah
06:52So thank you very much
06:53For the power pose
06:54James McAvoy
06:55You've just directed your first film
06:56Did, yes
06:57Thank you very much
07:00Why this film?
07:02Why this
07:02Oh man, there's many, many reasons
07:04Why this film
07:04I knew I wanted to make films about
07:06People from
07:07Lower income backgrounds
07:09Council estates
07:10Yep
07:10Or schemes as we call them
07:11In Scotland
07:12Which is why we call it
07:13California Scheming
07:15And
07:15And
07:16There was just nothing coming in
07:18That was getting me excited
07:18That was going to be funny
07:19And entertaining
07:20As well as about
07:21The realities of coming from
07:23That kind of community
07:23And then
07:24California Scheming
07:25Came along
07:26And it just did everything
07:27That I needed to do
07:29It had so much heart
07:30It had so much comedy
07:31It had so much pathos
07:33But then it was also
07:34Kind of about
07:35One of the reasons
07:36That I think
07:36We maybe don't have
07:38More Scottish films
07:39More regularly
07:39And that to me
07:41Was just like
07:41A perfect package
07:43Unbelievably
07:43It is a true story
07:45Tell everybody
07:46What it's about
07:47Two young guys
07:48From Dundee
07:49Extremely talented rappers
07:50Ninja rappers
07:52And
07:52They answered a big casting call
07:54For a big record label
07:55Down in London
07:56Back in the early
07:57Noughties
07:58Like 2002
07:582003
07:59And
08:00They got about
08:01Halfway through one of their
08:03And they got stopped
08:04And laughed at
08:05And
08:06They were
08:07They were labelled as
08:08The rapping proclaimers
08:09And
08:10So they took
08:11Yeah right
08:12So they were devastated
08:13But they took the note
08:14And they went
08:14We got it
08:15Sacrifice our integrity
08:16Sacrifice our authenticity
08:18Sacrifice everything
08:19That is important
08:20To the culture of hip hop
08:21Which is
08:22The streets that made you
08:23And they came back
08:24As Americans
08:25And they basically
08:26Became
08:27It's unbelievable
08:28Oh my god
08:29They came back as method actors
08:30And they re-recorded all their tracks
08:33They didn't change the tracks
08:34It was the same music
08:35Wow
08:35Just with an American accent
08:37And they got a record deal for tens of thousands of pounds
08:39Oh my god
08:40They cut six albums
08:41They supported Eminem
08:42D12
08:43They played all over the country
08:44They were on MTV umpteen times
08:46With the plan
08:47That when they were making it big enough
08:49They would go on
08:50In their minds
08:51Jonathan Ross
08:52And they would come out
08:53And expose the industry
08:54For being
08:55I don't know
08:56Obsessed with the norm
08:57Yeah
08:58Right
08:58And then of course
08:59That didn't quite happen
09:00And they got into the fame
09:01And it was two and a half years
09:03Of being in character
09:04Constantly
09:05And if
09:05I don't know if you know
09:06Any method actors
09:07But it's not the best thing
09:08For your mental health
09:09No
09:09I reckon they were ever tickled
09:14Because your real voice
09:15Would surely come out
09:16I'll fucking leave it alone
09:17You bastard
09:18That's good
09:18I mean
09:20Shall we have a look at the trailer
09:22We would like to sign you
09:25Get the bubbles
09:27They actually think you're American
09:28Yeah
09:29But now your accents are pure shite
09:31I know
09:31We'll release a single
09:33And then we'll come out
09:33Fully Scottish
09:34And expose those wanker
09:35Chillin' on Philly
09:36Smokin' in Philly's
09:37Harder than Chillies
09:38You know the dealie
09:39Leave your mother
09:39My wife's like
09:40Millie Vanilla
09:42Everyone loves you
09:44HFD's lead from class
09:46I think I'm going to screw them
09:47See that
09:49Let's go
09:50Let's go
09:50You sick of positions you're in
09:51Sick of being kicked in the ribs in the chin
09:54Sick of snicking and drinking
09:55Pridicaments
09:56Time to rip the script and go
09:57Time to rip the script and go
10:09Time to rip the script and go
10:16Time to rip the script and go
10:16Is an accent
10:17Well I think sometimes the
10:19You're a person when you walk in a room
10:21Right and you are
10:22You have infinite possibilities
10:23You're capable of anything
10:25In the eyes of the people that you're with
10:27And then whatever it is that makes you different
10:29Sometimes just turns you into that thing only
10:31And that becomes bigger than your potential
10:34Bigger than you as an individual
10:35And I think for Scottish people
10:37This isn't every room you walk into as a Scottish person
10:39it's not every reaction i get but i definitely walked into a room and suddenly i go from being
10:45somebody who might get the job and suddenly i'm just a wee accent and it becomes a bit reductive
10:51and they kind of just make you tiny and make you just that one thing and that's sort of game
10:55over
10:55at that point and look i get it like you know there are people who suffer forms of discrimination
11:00way way way way way way worse than that but it's a it's the voice of an entire nation that
11:06takes in
11:06many people of different colors creeds genders sexualities all sorts of things and that voice
11:12i think sometimes gets reduced rather than being heard for six million people i'd love to see more
11:17scottish films have you personally ever been told to sort of turn it down oh i've been literally told
11:32to turn it down and uh i was playing a particularly famous scottish role um as a scottish person and
11:39was
11:40you know was asked to do it as a scottish person which was great and brilliant and i'm in rehearsals
11:45and the director said to me i won't do his accent because it's reductive um even though if you paid
11:51me i would um how much do you know yeah exactly i ain't cheap cloria um and he goes uh
11:59it goes just
11:59so you know james every now and again when we're on the day i might just ask you to and
12:04i was like
12:04what do you mean he meant scottish scottish scottish and he did that voice as well and i was just
12:10like
12:11what a wallop wow yeah what a wallop that's a very good word how did you find directing for the
12:19first time and acting because i imagine that is uh that's struggling i wouldn't wish directing and
12:24acting on my worst enemy when i see people at bradley cooper or whatever played big huge lead in roles
12:29in the director i'm like you must have a self-harming thing you know um yeah it was it was
12:35a nightmare it
12:35was like you'd literally be going like oh i need some more love or i need more comedy or i
12:39mean i just need
12:40more connection or whatever and somebody's whispering and you're gonna we can't get the portaloos for
12:44tomorrow so we have to change the location because if anybody needs a shit we won't be able to make
12:51it
12:52happen and you're like okay okay if you could just have more love in your eyes right now and actually
12:59where's the nina shitter um yeah it was it was mental and then you're having to go and act and
13:04then you're
13:04on your weight your mark somebody's giving you more chat about the portaloos and it was it was a lot
13:09i had no idea the director has to deal with the toilet facilities there was a lot of talk about
13:14there was a lot of talk about toileting um i like the fact that you because you didn't have the
13:21biggest
13:21budget you were careful and you had to fill a stadium right or you had to fill a huge venue
13:27of 2 000
13:282 000 people at the battle lands yeah it was amazing and we were like you know i did a
13:32tournament which
13:33had i don't know tens of millions in the budget and we could only manage like what is that a
13:37thousand
13:37extras on that and we needed 2 000 which would have cost us i was informed one day maybe offhand
13:42it was 350 grand which we couldn't do so we ended up putting on a gig ourselves roddy and tommy
13:49roddy hurt and tommy riley who are amazing musicians and composers up in glasgow put together a sort of
13:54local super band we advertised it and we got 2 000 glaswegians to come and um dress in the naughties
14:01outfits put their phones away and jam out to this amazing naughty's gig that we put on with this
14:06glasgow super band and then if you would stay for a couple of tracks from our boys and we thought
14:12you know we'll get a couple of takes and five cameras and we'll get as much as we can and
14:17the
14:17glasgow crowd stayed for two hours and our boys just ended up putting on a real gig and it was
14:22it was
14:22electric it was amazing and they do this thing glasgow i don't know if they did it back then but
14:27they do this
14:27thing glasgow at gigs where we go if we appreciate what you do we shout can i swear yeah you
14:33can bleep
14:33it out we shout on mass 2 000 people hear me hear me here we go hear me here we
14:39go and they just chant
14:41it at the singers and they did it for our boys and so even though i don't think it was
14:45the right time
14:46period for that we stuck it in the film but yeah you can't not put that in the movie it's
14:52amazing
14:52yeah i don't think you know that this was a movie about rappers but um maybe my agents didn't get
15:00to
15:00you i do spit some flow james you have you got some fat bars i have some fat bar i
15:09mean you're asking
15:09is to ask you to spit some right now yes are you good so i'm gonna spit some flow right
15:14now shall i
15:15i might need audience participation what you need us to do and i just want to put into brackets
15:26we haven't been drinking i know i need a beat
15:32you drew a picture of my morning but you couldn't make my day i'm walking in your mind but you
15:36never
15:36look my way i'm looking down you darling in every single way your funny flow is gone and your
15:41pink eyes on the way this ain't got shit to do with shampoo so watch your head and shoulder you're
15:45the
15:45older bold enough to fold your yo i told you i'm late afraid of what i made and played it
15:48for some
15:49funky trips to say you're flipping big put that music in the funky breaks trigger from the bill town
15:53ill town sometimes how it feels now the deals that were real so we're still around don't lamp with your
15:57freestyle phantom ain't trying to be handsome drink of what you're thinking because i'm vamping
16:02i live and die for hip-hop this is hip-hop for today i give props to hip-hop so
16:06hip-hop hooray
16:20i mean in the sequel there's gonna be a sequel now in the sequel yes i think you can bring
16:26the mother in
16:26i did not know that was coming i am delighted yes um james tell me when the movie's out movie
16:35is
16:36coming out on april the 10th nationwide and all across ireland as well so yeah please get yourselves
16:43along we're really proud of it we definitely will thank you thank you um rita we're gonna talk about
16:54your album but first just because uh we need to produce mama mia i don't know about you tell me
17:02is number three coming how a share of people sewn dungarees okay okay well um all right let me just
17:11say this that tell us the truth there no there will always be discussions about a third mama mia
17:17because who wouldn't want a third mama mia that is the truth right
17:24pure joy it's it's a movie that has given people pure joy and happiness i i i mean it's it's
17:32just
17:32wonderful so yes there are always discussions but there's nothing definitively to announce okay thank
17:40you so much here's the thing the greek government loved you for doing it so much they put your face
17:47on a stamp that is true i think we have wow look at that i mean really it's still also
17:59like it because
17:59it's quite bridal it's really isn't it it's very bridal it's divine but you know what's interesting is
18:06i can't get out of my head though this image of people licking the back of my head
18:14it's just so strange do you need it to actually happen so that you can exercise
18:18yeah could you yeah maybe let's go thank you wow that feels good
18:25elmett elmett do you think do you think the queen and philip ever did that
18:33yeah so rita you're about to release your sixth studio album i have it here sound of a woman
18:44you said it's your most revealing album yet i believe what do you mean it is it's about
18:51different phases of a woman's life you know it's as we come into the world as young girls were labeled
18:58where you know oh what a sweet young girl what a sassy teen oh now you're a good worker a
19:04good student
19:04or you're a girlfriend or a wife or a mother or something and all of those things are parts of
19:11who we are but they're not exactly everything that we are look it's like you're shedding all those images
19:17don't you feel like at a certain point in your life like i'm at the age right now where i
19:21just don't
19:21care what anybody thinks yeah i don't care what anybody says i've earned that right we yeah everybody
19:26should earn it at any point in your life really it shouldn't just be well you know i've gotten to
19:34this age and i don't believe that there is a clock on creativity like at what point does somebody say
19:41oh i'm so sorry yeah you were supposed to do that at 29 and three quarters years old and that
19:46time has
19:47passed who's to say it we're only limited really by our own perceptions or beliefs about what we tell
19:53ourselves yeah absolutely the album is called the sound of a woman right what is the sound of a woman
20:06that's my question is it i'm gonna ask you that question is it what is it hip-hop it's definitely
20:12hip-hop the sound of a woman i think is just exactly i say that quite a lot my husband
20:18has an idea
20:22that's another one yeah go make the bed do his homework no more words one of my one of my
20:33favorite
20:33noises a woman's ever made i was in wow wait a minute wow wow i saw a lady uh see
20:41johnny depp
20:43in the streets it's probably about 20 years ago in the noise i'll never do it justice but she saw
20:47it
20:48uh it was it was it was so just and i think you could sort of see it happening as
20:54he's walking
20:54down various people yeah he was just sort of gliding down the street just causing various noises um
21:00i could do something but it's filthy do it just do it right now before no no no no
21:21i was just making conversation i can't no no no you're doing i'll tell you what i can do i
21:27can do
21:27an extraordinary but it's audio only horse impression do you want to go around the back
21:34so that we can only hear you and i have used it in foreplay
21:42are you ready it's audio just imagine wedding night 28 years guys ready okay are you coming to bed
21:53yes yes i get pretend hooves on i don't great are you ready
22:08we all would we always yeah that is the sound of a woman
22:17just to be clear oh what a man peter let us have a look at your video oh good oh
22:26yeah this
22:26is jury of one out today i don't know what i don't know but i know that i'm confused
22:36pleading for forgiveness but there really is no use
22:45i don't know what i don't know but i don't know what i don't know but i don't know what
22:47i don't know
22:47there's a jury of just one but it's me
22:55sorry
22:58that it is
23:00and it's out today that song is called jury of one because it's about feeling guilty you're always
23:07guilty like if you're working you feel guilty that you're not at home and with the kids or with
23:11your family and then if you're with your kids and the family at home you're thinking creatively
23:17like oh gosh i feel bad that i'm not working there and i think that guilt has a twin sister
23:22called
23:22apology yeah and apology is like women we say i'm sorry all the time for all sorts of things like
23:28somebody could kick me in the knee and be like i'm so sorry my knee was in the way yeah
23:32okay i'm a fan
23:33of both guilt and apologizing exactly i am i quite fine i'd never mean it no
23:40you know what i mean that's when they're getting it wrong i'm so sorry
23:47just filling in some space um i'm joking unless i did you wrong which i'm very sorry
23:54no i am i am um one of the songs is called marriage you have been married for 38 years
24:01we have a couple here who are getting married hello hello there they are
24:06i believe are you getting married in like a week yes yes how are you going to celebrate
24:16we're getting married in nottingham yeah lovely and our reception is at a water park that's a great
24:22location yeah yeah water park so guys you are being too polite i'm sorry i can't do this listen
24:29have you have you put down the deposit
24:36but have you ever been to aqualand in benador
24:41like you don't even have to go on the rides to have fun one of the best things
24:45is when you watch a big northern man go down a flume
24:52it's just because the sometimes the trunks arrive before the man
25:00but they they they look like haunted babies they you just hear them it's too fast linda it's too
25:06far like everything it's but if if your marriage is has as many highs as that water park has given
25:14me
25:14oh yeah and i'm sure you can have a blessed blessed life yeah are you wearing a bikini and a
25:19veil like
25:19what's your honor look it's tbc whether i'll actually go down there oh really okay oh you gotta go down
25:26yeah hold it
25:27well you know you know you know i meant i wasn't i meant
25:33i meant
25:35i didn't know that
25:37i didn't know that
25:52yeah stay married yeah thank you very much and also don't watch box sets apart
25:58oh yeah i think that's very no binge cheating yeah yeah that's a better way of putting it no
26:03binging yes rita when is this out please tell us the album is out may 1st the two singles michael
26:10angelo
26:11and um sound of a woman are out and jury of one today oh lovely thank you
26:17and and claudia i i should mention this because i forget that i'm going to be touring in the uk
26:24and um europe in november this is perfect yes it's really good it's really good thank you
26:33um rita yes a slight bone to pick with you all right you enjoy camping yeah i love camping
26:40so do you mean camping as in we're coming pitch up the tent and bring me a pet giraffe or
26:46are you
26:47i don't know i've never camped no or or you're like driving and you're making a stove yes we have
26:54one of those vans that is you know kitted out with a bed and a kitchen and everything and there's
27:00nothing better than cooking in the outdoors it is so fantastic like i don't know there's something
27:05about being under the stars and there's a lovely little lovely toilet in there so it's very
27:12civilized it's very civilized is it one of those where you have that that blue liquid you have to
27:17no they're very high tech now oh are they very very high tech it's always you know what i mean
27:22it's that weird exactly he's great and then you're like terrible
27:25like working away you shine no it's beautiful and it's really really great yeah but it is that
27:35sometimes she's like her friend's coming in and she's making the horse noises
27:41i can't kill the moon
27:46i haven't camped for a while but um i remember i was about 23 i was down in new zealand
27:51it was amazing
27:51and i barely saw another living soul that was just backpacking backpacking and i'm in the middle of
27:57the coromando subtropical rainforest and it's night time and there's possums right and the possums
28:03rustle around and do all that kind of stuff i just got so scared this one night that i got
28:08my
28:08my gas lamp on and i turned my gas lamp on to cast shadows on my tent and i got
28:13my little like swiss army
28:15knife and i got every little attachment and i was like okay you are there you see me i've got
28:21i'm
28:21i'm carrying tweezers yeah there's a torch and a pen
28:31gugu do you camp you know i didn't really grow up camping only child problems um but um but no
28:38i
28:38i'm a bit of a beginner i did camp for the first time a couple of years ago um on
28:43a trip
28:44climbing up mount kilimanjaro that was kind of in zero to 90. i know i know and i was um
28:52yeah i kind
28:53of you know obviously it's like six seven days and altitude and all of that and you know being a
28:58beginner i was like what about you know being comfortable and you know i was really i'd maybe
29:03glamped you know or something so so i brought like i bought one little luxury which was like my little
29:09goose pillow oh yeah i took that up but um everybody everybody laughed at me uh you don't
29:15camp i can see that face just because we used to go camping loads because we didn't have any money
29:20when we were younger so the first time you get into a hotel it's just incredible yeah like if you've
29:25been wiping your ass with a leaf and then suddenly this toilet roll and like little pots of jam that
29:32you can steal yeah i'm good exactly don't get this in the woods gugu we have something in common you
29:41have a trampoline i bought a trampoline oh yeah yeah who told you to get a trampoline you know my
29:46friend
29:46sarah at the beginning of lockdown um took me to this trampoline class in la and i was like this
29:53is
29:54amazing like it it's so kind of ridiculous but actually really difficult but kind of fun and really
30:00fun and i think you know and so as soon as like covid hit i ordered a trampoline because i
30:05felt like you
30:05know you do like three or four bounces on a trampoline and you feel like six years old i bought
30:10a little
30:10trampoline but with a handle because i'm 54. yes yes start with the handle yeah you hold on i haven't
30:19taken out of it you look like you're riding your own horse yeah yeah birthday's a christmas paper
30:27too much i have a harness no biggie um it's the most fun it's the most fun yeah do you
30:33know we have
30:34the olympic gold medalist the best trampolining in the world bryony you're here what
30:49you do love trampolining and it is it's been proven to be like the best the best exercise yeah so
30:55trampoline is so much fun like you've already said um can make you feel like a superhuman yeah so if
31:00you're jumping on the floor really limited you can only jump so high but as soon as you get on
31:04that
31:04trampoline and you're working really hard training hard you can go up to 10 meters in the air you're flying
31:09in the air for like two seconds long and you're super thrilling you get to flip around and somersault
31:15and it feels like you're riding a roller coaster i half remember because i remember nothing in my life
31:20i half remember somebody telling me that bouncing has a particular sort of physiological benefit is that
31:25right or did i make that up one time no definitely so i think it was nasa that said if
31:30you do 30 minutes
31:31on a trampoline sorry 10 minutes on a trampoline is like 30 minutes running yeah but also very good for
31:36it just makes us all happy let's all get trampoline yeah yeah yeah it's really fun yeah now goo goo
31:45we're
31:46going to talk about the film called um fuse tell us what it's about um it's a heist action thriller
31:53set
31:54in london and um yeah i play a police officer in it there's a discovery of a unexploded world war
32:00ii bomb
32:01in london and it's kind of a race against time to evacuate the city but also there's kind of a
32:07twist
32:08in it as well and in that there's a well i don't want to give it away but it's but
32:13it's a very kind
32:14of gripping heist thriller and it's with aaron taylor johnson theo james myself sam worthington and
32:21saffron hockin what a great cast let us have a clip please good we detected a heat signature inside
32:27the cordon we need to investigate we think people could still be there right the police have detected
32:33an unidentified heat source
32:40gee superintendent what's going on sorry major but we've had to send a car in we'll relay police
32:45radio now to keep you in the loop i'm in the middle of a very dangerous procedure i haven't even
32:49finished
32:49the mitigation wall which means if the bomb detonates i don't even have to tell you how bad that's
32:54gonna be i understand major but we can't risk injury to the public we'll be as quick as we can
33:06and you've shadowed police officers didn't you yeah and learned a lot about the work they do yeah i
33:12mean my character is chief superintendent and she is uh her role is what's running gold in the command
33:17control center so i got to visit some command control centers in london and in essex and talk to some
33:24high-ranking female police officers of which there are still very few so um it was really interesting sort
33:30of being in those control centers seeing those cameras of london you know at the switch of a button
33:36you can see pretty much any street or view in london um which is kind of comforting and kind of
33:41chilling
33:42but um but no it was really really interesting to kind of learn about that work as i say because
33:47to be able to have that you know um perspective from from real police officers was really really helpful
33:52so when can we watch fuse oh it's out today perfect james i love the fact we were chatting earlier
34:03and
34:03you said your favorite thing is when you're acting is watching the person who is acting right in front
34:08of like sometimes you're and i love when actually when you're so in awe oh man sometimes like sometimes
34:13really good acting just makes it all seem seamless and all that kind of stuff sometimes you're working
34:18with somebody who's just does something so good you're like yeah oh my god and then you drop your
34:23line and you mess up the whole scene and you mess them up but i quite often find myself with
34:27really
34:27good actors just like mouthing along with you and they'll be like what are you doing i'm like i'm sorry
34:34well i'm just in the same with you you're mouthing my lines i'm just like preparing my line um but
34:41yeah
34:41i've messed a couple of actors up by doing that oh yeah but how amazing to be because you're nodding
34:46you must oh no
34:47yeah i remember um i did a movie called it's complicated with meryl streep and you're looking
34:53at this person you're like it's meryl streep i can't believe i can't believe it's sophie from sophie's choice
35:01and then you just have to kind of become a professional and do your thing but it that first few
35:06moments is definitely distracting i was like that with your husband oh really not that we acted together
35:12but like i i would go in he's yeah no he wouldn't let me um i just say who your
35:19husband is just tell
35:20the group you're married to just so you know yes i'm sorry to have to tell you this but um
35:29you have
35:30all this and be married to tom hanks yes i am and i yep he does deserve that i don't
35:37know why i do this
35:38thing sometimes when i get around famous people when they kind of go like hey what's up what you're
35:42gonna get for lunch and they're just been totally normal and i'm like i feel so uncomfortable and i
35:48go into this weird sort of over like almost put on working class thing i'm like all right man i
35:54know
35:54i'm gonna get some chips or something i'm gonna get like i drive a punto would you drive a ferrari
36:02you know brilliant i'm gonna get some bread with butter i'm gonna get some caviar and i don't know why
36:09that happens yeah of course i don't like it it's a bit like you know it's weird when you really
36:13fancy
36:13somebody yeah but early on you know with the first person i found somebody so badly when i was 17
36:19he was speak to me and i would just be sick i went to see rufus wainwright who i'm a
36:33big fan of
36:34and he invited me to go out for dinner with him so we went for dinner it was really exciting
36:38you know
36:38when you saw you meet your hero and then you're up in tea yeah i had some spare jam
36:49and then he said oh do you want to go and hang out with my friend carrie so yeah sure
36:54so then we
36:55come and meet carrie and it was carrie fisher oh so i'm suddenly in this insane i'm around carrie
37:00fisher's house and her dog was eating ice cream and she was about with this one was not with
37:10but yeah he wasn't doing that i naturally did the vibe so anyway so we were sort of just drinking
37:16and
37:16carrie wasn't but me and rufus were blah blah blah and then they they found out that i was a
37:21stand-up
37:22comedian and they were both like do some car yeah and i was one eye you can't is that really
37:27it doesn't
37:28work like i just and i'm trying to explain that she's like just go into the bathroom come out
37:32do five minutes i'm like how how are we here like come out in laundry yeah yeah yeah wow but
37:39so i i kind of desperately thought right this idea i had of like human beings blame animals for our
37:45weird behavior um like i've never seen a rat snitch i've never seen a badger badger i've never seen
37:51an elephant in a room go i know um catfish is my favorite you know catfish someone goes online it
37:58tends to be someone else they don't do that they're not in the sea go show us your tits i'm
38:02a dolphin
38:02right yeah yeah yeah funny that's good right utter silent and carrie fisher aka princess leia goes
38:12people paying money for this i was kind of like well you know occasionally and like that i was just
38:20i love that you become the evans oh yeah that was mortifying but it was for whatever reason stand-up
38:26is as soon as you're told to do it it's yeah it's gone you have started taking your family on
38:32tour with
38:32you haven't you because you're doing this massive tour yes you're going with your wife and your 19
38:37month though yes i've been in stand-up for 28 years but sort of traveling with those two just makes
38:43it really fun again because then you get to kind of like we're going to manchester this weekend and
38:48there's a transport museum there's a there's a there's a lego land and he's really into diggers
38:54like he loves oh they love so so we're we so but basically but i've got these i've got like
39:00six gigs
39:01and yet the highlight is the transport museum because i know it's going to blow his mind
39:07i don't know it's that but it's that funny thing of like nothing prepares you for how excited your kids
39:11get yeah about baffling stuff yeah so we've got we've got like a little stick if i push the stick
39:17around
39:18like my son's like daddy hoover daddy hoover and that makes me happy because he's happy so i know
39:26i'm now like this just i'm so eager but it's got to that stage where i'm like daddy hoover daddy
39:32he's like oh that was so yesterday
39:34i was about to say because you're about you you know you're about to go on stage yes thousands of
39:39people laugh yeah anyone who knows a 19-month-old try and make them smile sometimes it happens but you
39:45i mean you have to work hard yeah to make them laugh right when they're six months you do a
39:50fake
39:50sneeze they giggle you're like come on and they get to about two and you're like do you find this
39:54funny
39:58yeah that's not actually what a sheep sounds like
40:02a horse on the other hand a horse i hold my beard
40:09the tourist call don't tell the algorithm yes i love that title will you change your material oh yeah as
40:14you
40:14go particularly if you're traveling in europe and you've i remember being in norway they've got a
40:18phrase called ventapulse which is it translates as a waiting sausage so if you keep a norwegian waiting
40:26they will eat a hot dog and i just think it's such a funny excuse for gluttony just like you
40:33know
40:33well if you force me to linger i ate a pork finger
40:35and it's this that in that moment
40:44but it's it's that thing that that that wouldn't be funny if you were doing it in in halifax but
40:49that
40:49night if you if you're i don't know no no no but it's funny but if you're able to kind
40:54of really be
40:55in a place and the audience can tell you're like oh my god this is happening now this he's not
41:00fake it
41:01it really does something it's kind of and if you can blend it with material and actually be there
41:06and improvise it's you can you get into that kind of flow state and it's the best i love it
41:11so much
41:11really i think i'm a lifer i haven't found anything through which i can do life more than stand up
41:17is it true that billy connelly made you want to be a stand-up yeah i think so i just
41:22remember watching
41:22my dad howl and and he was like i think billy connelly was like for a certain generation like this
41:27fire
41:28in the corner of the country where we'd kind of warm ourselves around and you'd see your dad laugh
41:33and your mum was laughing your uncle whatever and i was so intrigued by this kind of like
41:38this guy i was like imagine trying to be that and then i got to interview him which was like
41:43talking to god and then kind of making him laugh wild and he's such a sweet just you know
41:51beautiful man uh yeah i could talk about him for hours i love him but i imagine everyone in scotland
41:56feels the same but absolutely when you've got a nickname call him the big one the big man yeah
42:02begin yeah the begin that's that's a good email address yes it is it promises a lot
42:13everything's about expectations um especially if he's at hotmail
42:26russell how can people see the top they can see it uh it's all over the country uh all over
42:31england
42:31and ireland and scotland uh until november thank you very much thank you
42:37all right we've nearly come to the end of the show have we covered everything is there anybody here
42:47we are not qualified who would like some guidance on anything i really like hands going up yes wait
42:54i need to get you a microphone i was a bit keen sorry um i was just wondering what advice
43:00you have if
43:01you're having a conversation with someone and then they start going on their phone while you're talking
43:05to them what do you do oh i think most people stay married to them for quite a long time
43:17that sounds like i'm slagging my wife off i'm not i'm not it's me or you just call them
43:32um thank you so much that's it for this week i would like to thank my guests russell howard
43:39rita wilson gugu and battle roar and james mcavoy join me next week where my guests will be michelle
43:48the swap olivia cook arna faris and ray fines thank you for watching good night
43:56if you're brave enough to tackle the boardroom head to iplayer and face lord sugar himself in the
44:01apprentice that doesn't scare you how about facing the school mums better bring your a-game to stand
44:06a chance in a manderland
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