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00:13I
00:18Have just discovered that a dog called Rupert is scared of his local butchers apparently not uncommon message me
00:25If you would like more details anyway, we have a very lovely audience and some brilliant guests are joining us
00:31on the sofa
00:32He's extremely funny. He's here to talk about his latest stand-up tour. It's Russell Howard
00:48Show and low-key she has a brand-new film fuse it's goo goo and battle rock
01:05I
01:06And singer who is behind everything from Sleepless in Seattle to Mamma Mia. She has a new album out. It's
01:12Rita Wilson
01:13Oh
01:23Best known for X-men filth and atonement. He's just directed his very first film. It's the brilliant James McAvoy
01:39Thank you
01:41Thank you
01:45Thank you
02:01Theodore it was absolutely fantastic
02:03Yeah, so when you come back you like I remember this little shop or I want to have this soup
02:09from here
02:09Oh, no, no, you have to understand like I was on a student's budget
02:12And so in in America we have this thing called the freshman 10 which is when you go off to
02:18college you immediately gain 10 pounds
02:20And I definitely had that because my diet was like McDiddy's McDiddy's
02:25Did I say McDiddy's?
02:26I like McDiddy's
02:27Guys, we're going to McDiddy's
02:29McDiddy's
02:30But that was McDiddy's
02:50Yes, exactly give me more please
02:52Russell
02:53Uh for you Bristol or London?
02:56Well, I'm from Bristol so I you know I prefer Bristol but it's no I like I like London. I'm
03:02a fan
03:02I I got I got mugged here once and it was the most but it was the most middle-class
03:08mugging
03:08So a friend of mine had she'd just given birth so I got some cupcakes
03:12So I'm carrying these cupcakes up this hill and this kid's probably about 15 really pasty looking kid just stands
03:18in front of me goes oi
03:21You better give me one of them cupcakes
03:25I suddenly kind of went you can't have them that's my friend. She's just given birth this kid suddenly went
03:31I'm sorry tell her congratulations
03:35Such a beautiful moment of like
03:39You kind of go from fear to like yeah
03:42And I like it
03:43So then I'd argue that Glasgow's the best town I've had the best night of my life
03:47I mean you could also get in an argument about that in Glasgow
03:50Yeah
03:52That sounds like I'm slagging off my hometown it is it's the best it is it's fantastic a man from
03:56Latvia carried me above his head in Glasgow
04:00No, it's just the most fun everybody there wants you to have a good time they're incredibly proud of Glasgow
04:06Yeah, if Irish people hadn't already invented the crack we would be inventing the crack
04:10There you go
04:12Gugu you have been to Scotland
04:14I yeah, I went to Glasgow actually the first time
04:18When I was 11 I was on I don't know if anybody remembers the children's game show funhouse
04:25Oh, yes anybody remember that?
04:28Yeah, yeah
04:28Yeah, yeah
04:29What was funhouse?
04:30It was a game show like it there was the red team and the yellow team it was presented by
04:34Pat Sharp
04:35Yeah
04:36Twins kind of cheerleaders Melanie and Martina
04:39Oh my god, yeah
04:42Did you win what what could you win like the twins?
04:46We won
04:46We won I remember this really like dates it now I'm like an amstrad PC
04:52Yes
04:53I won like dry slope skiing lessons which I can say
04:59What is this so depressing?
05:03Okay now Gugu is it true that you start every day with with a power pose?
05:08Oh
05:09I mean not every day, but I do love a power pose
05:12What does that mean? Tell me anything
05:13I oh my gosh I watched this TED talk a few years ago about the idea of you know how
05:18to change your mood by changing your posture
05:21Or changing your body and you know that if you can kind of you slump your shoulders and you know
05:25you love something
05:26Well, you can also just feel a bit more down or a bit more kind of depressed
05:36But if you want like a quick way to kind of just trick your you know your body into feeling
05:41and your mind into feeling more uplifted
05:43You can do a power pose I prefer the sort of it's a bit hard to do in this dress
05:47But like the arms out kind of like you know show me to the universe can everyone do it everyone
05:52can do it
05:53Everyone can do it if you're able join us
05:54Yeah, technically you should stand up, okay
05:56And just kind of like
05:57Great
05:58Arms up in a V
05:59Yes
06:00Chest to the stick eye
06:01And just like just breathe for a second
06:04Feel like I'm in a cult
06:05Yeah
06:06Feel like it
06:06Feel like a little bit more confident a little bit more like joyful
06:10I do
06:13It worked
06:14It worked
06:14It worked
06:15It worked
06:16That was an Oprah
06:16I love that
06:17Very good
06:19Please
06:21Yeah
06:21So thank you very much for the power pose
06:24James McAvoy just directed your first film
06:26Did yes
06:30Why this film?
06:32Why this?
06:32Oh man there's many many reasons why this film
06:34I knew I wanted to make films about people from lower income backgrounds
06:39Council estates or schemes as we call them in Scotland
06:42Which is why I call it California Scheming
06:44And there was just nothing coming in that was getting me excited that was going to be funny and entertaining
06:50As well as about the realities of coming from that kind of community
06:53And then California Scheming came along and it just did everything that I needed to do
06:59It's so much heart
07:00It had so much comedy
07:02It had so much pathos
07:03But then it was also kind of about one of the reasons that I think we maybe don't have more
07:08Scottish films more regularly
07:09And that to me was just like a perfect package
07:13Unbelievably it is a true story
07:15Tell everybody what it's about
07:17Two young guys from Dundee
07:18There were the extremely talented rappers, ninja rappers
07:22And they answered a big casting call for a big record
07:25Labelled down in London back in the early noughties like 2002, 2003
07:29And they got about halfway through one of their excellent tracks
07:33And they got stopped and laughed at
07:35And they were labelled as the rapping proclaimers
07:39And so they took...
07:42Yeah right
07:42So they were devastated
07:43But they took the note and they went
07:44We've got it
07:45Sacrificing integrity
07:46Sacrificing authenticity
07:48Sacrifice everything that is important to the culture of hip-hop
07:51Which is the streets that made you
07:53And they came back as Americans
07:55And they basically became...
07:57It's unbelievable
07:58Oh my God
07:59They came back as method actors
08:01And they re-recorded all their tracks
08:03They didn't change the tracks
08:04It was the same music
08:05Wow
08:06Just with an American accent
08:07And they got a record deal for tens of thousands of pounds
08:09Oh my God
08:10They cut six albums
08:11They supported Eminem
08:12D12
08:13They played all over the country
08:14Wow
08:14They were on MTV umpteen times
08:16With the plan that when they were making it big enough
08:19They would go on in their minds Jonathan Ross
08:22And they would come out and expose the industry for being...
08:25I don't know...
08:27Obsessed with the norm
08:27Yeah
08:28Right
08:28And then of course that didn't quite happen
08:30And they got into the fame
08:31And it was two and a half years of being in character constantly
08:35And I don't know if you know any method actors
08:37But it's not the best thing for your mental health
08:39No
08:40No
08:40Do you reckon they were ever tickled?
08:44Because your real voice would surely come out
08:46Yeah
08:46I can leave it alone you bastard
08:48I mean...
08:50Shall we have a look at the trailer?
08:53We would like to sign you
08:55Get the bubbles
08:57They actually think you're American
08:58Yeah
08:59But how your accents are pure shite
09:01I know
09:01We'll release a single and then we'll come out fully Scottish
09:04And expose those wankers
09:05Killin' a billy
09:07Smokin' a billy
09:07Hotter than chillies
09:08You know the dealy
09:09Leave your mom in my water
09:10It's like Millie Vanilla
09:12Everyone loves you
09:16I think I might have screwed everything up
09:19Let's go
09:20He's sick of positions you're in
09:21Sick of being kicked in the ribs in the chair
09:23Sick of sticking and drinking where they can miss
09:26Time to rip the script and go
09:27Time to rip the script and go
09:28Time to rip the script and go
09:28Thank you
09:33Thank you guys
09:35It's a really...
09:36It's a really personal film to me
09:38So I'm really glad that you have us on to talk about it
09:41Thank you Claudia
09:41Well I like the fact, not at all, that I read that you said
09:44Sometimes the biggest thing in the room is an accent
09:47Well I think sometimes the...
09:49You're a person when you walk into a room, right?
09:51And you are...
09:52You have infinite possibilities
09:53You're capable of anything
09:55In the eyes of the people that you're with
09:57And then whatever it is that makes you different
09:59Sometimes just turns you into that thing only
10:01And that becomes bigger than your potential
10:04Bigger than you as an individual
10:05And I think for Scottish people
10:07This isn't every room you walk into as a Scottish person
10:10It's not every reaction I get
10:11But I definitely walked into a room
10:13And suddenly I go from being somebody who might get the job
10:17And suddenly I'm just a wee accent
10:19And it becomes a bit reductive
10:21And they kind of just make you tiny
10:22And make you just that one thing
10:24And that's sort of game over at that point
10:26And look, I get it
10:27Like, you know
10:28There are people who suffer forms of discrimination
10:30Way, way, way, way, way worse than that
10:33But it's the voice of an entire nation
10:35That takes in many people of different colours, creeds, genders, sexualities
10:40All sorts of things
10:41And that voice, I think, sometimes gets reduced
10:44Rather than being heard
10:45For six million people
10:47I'd love to see more Scottish films
10:48That's great
10:50I agree
10:51Thank you
10:54Have you personally
10:57Have you personally ever been told to sort of turn it down?
11:00Oh, I've been literally told to turn it down
11:03And I was playing a particularly famous Scottish role
11:08As a Scottish person
11:09And was, you know, was asked to do it as a Scottish person
11:12Which was great, brilliant
11:13And I'm in rehearsals
11:15And the director said to me
11:16I won't do his accent because it's reductive
11:19Even though if you paid me I would
11:22How much do you know?
11:25I ain't cheap, Gloria
11:28And he goes, just so you know, James
11:30Every now and again, when we're on the day
11:32I might just ask you to
11:33And I was like, what do you mean?
11:35He meant Scotty
11:37Scotty
11:38Scotty
11:38Scotty
11:38And he did that voice as well
11:40And I was just like, what a walloper
11:42Wow
11:44What a walloper
11:44That's a very good word
11:46How did you find directing for the first time
11:50And acting?
11:51Because I imagine that is
11:52That's juggling
11:53I wouldn't wish directing and acting on my worst enemy
11:56When I see people at Bradley Cooper or whatever
11:58Play big huge lead in roles in the director
11:59I'm like, you must have a self-harming thing, you know?
12:03Yeah, it was a nightmare
12:05It was like, you'd literally be going
12:07Like, oh, I need more love
12:08Or I need more comedy
12:09Or I just need more connection
12:11Or whatever
12:11And somebody's whispering
12:12And you're going
12:12We can't get the port-a-loos for tomorrow
12:14So we have to change
12:15We have to change the location
12:17Because if anybody needs a shit
12:19We won't be able to make it happen
12:22And you're like, okay
12:23Okay, if you could just have more love in your eyes
12:27Right now
12:28And actually, where's the nearest shitter?
12:31Yeah, it was mental
12:32And then you're having to go and act
12:34And then you're on your way to your mark
12:35Somebody's giving you more chat about the port-a-loos
12:37And it was a lot
12:39I had no idea
12:40The director has to deal with the toilet facilities
12:42There was a lot of talk about
12:44Well, they have to deal with everything
12:45There was a lot of talk about toileting
12:48I like the fact that you
12:50Because you didn't have the biggest budget
12:52You were careful
12:53And you had to fill a stadium, right?
12:56Or you had to fill a huge venue of 2,000 people
12:582,000 people at the Battlelands, yeah
12:59It was amazing
13:00And we were, like, you know
13:02I did a tournament
13:03Which had, I don't know
13:04Tens of millions in the budget
13:05And we could only manage, like, what is it?
13:071,000 extras on that
13:08And we needed 2,000
13:10Which would have cost us
13:11I was informed one day
13:12Maybe offhand
13:12That it was 350 grand
13:14Which we couldn't do
13:15So we ended up putting on a gig ourselves
13:18Roddy and Tommy
13:19Roddy Hurt and Tommy Riley
13:21Who are amazing musicians and composers up in Glasgow
13:23Put together a sort of local super band
13:25We advertised it
13:27And we got 2,000 Glaswegians to come
13:29Wow
13:30And dress in the noughties outfits
13:32Put their phones away
13:33And jam out to this amazing
13:35Noughties gig that we put on with this Glasgow super band
13:37And then, if you would
13:38Stay for a couple of tracks from our boys
13:42And we thought, you know
13:43We'll get a couple of takes
13:44And five cameras
13:45And we'll get as much as we can
13:46And the Glasgow crowd stayed for two hours
13:48Oh, wow
13:49And our boys just ended up putting on a real gig
13:51And it was electric
13:52That's so great
13:53It was amazing
13:53And they do this thing, Glasgow
13:54I don't know if they did it back then
13:57But they do this thing, Glasgow
13:58At gigs, where we go
14:00If we appreciate what you do
14:01We shout
14:02Can I swear
14:03Yeah
14:03You can bleep it out
14:04We shout en masse 2,000 people
14:06Hear me, hear me, hear me fucking go
14:08Hear me, hear me, hear me fucking go
14:10And they just chant it at the singers
14:12And they did it for our boys
14:13And so, even though I don't think it was the right time period for that
14:17We stuck it in the film
14:18Yeah
14:18It's just
14:20You can't not put that in the movie
14:22It's amazing
14:23I don't think you know that this was a movie about rappers
14:27But, um, maybe my agents didn't get to you
14:31I do spit some flow, James
14:34Have you got some fat bars?
14:37I have some fat bars
14:39I mean, you're asking us to ask you to spit some right now
14:41Yes
14:42Are you good?
14:43I'm going to spit some flow right now
14:44Shall I spit some flow?
14:50I might need audience participation
14:52So
14:53What do you need us to do?
14:54And I just want to put into brackets
14:56We haven't been drinking
14:57I know
14:58I need a beat
15:02You drew a picture of my morning
15:03But you couldn't make my day
15:04I'm rocking in your nine
15:06But you never looked my way
15:07I'm looking down your darling
15:08And every single eight
15:09Your funny flow is gone
15:10And your green card's on the way
15:11This ain't got shit to do with shampoo
15:13So watch your head and shoulder
15:14You're the older
15:15Bold enough to fold you
15:16Yo, I told you
15:17I'm right afraid of what I made
15:18And played it for some funky trips
15:19To save your flicks and dick
15:20Put that music in the funky bits
15:22Drink up from the bill town
15:23Ill town
15:24So that's how it feels now
15:25The deals that were real
15:26So we're still around
15:27Don't lamp with your freestyle phantom
15:28Ain't trying to be handsome
15:30Think of what you're thinking
15:31Cause I'm vamping
15:32I live and die for hip hop
15:33This is hip hop for today
15:34I give props to hip hop
15:36So hip hop
15:36Hooray!
15:41Hooray!
15:42Hooray!
15:45Hooray!
15:45Oh my
15:50I mean in the sequel
15:52In the sequel
15:52There's gonna be a sequel now
15:53In the sequel
15:54Thank you
15:57Did not know that was coming. I am delighted. Yes
16:02James tell me when the movie's out movie is coming out on
16:08April the 10th
16:10Nationwide and all across Ireland as well. So yeah, please get yourselves along. We're really proud of it. We definitely
16:22Well
16:23Rita we're gonna talk about your album, but first just because we to produce Mama Mia. I don't know about
16:30you
16:31Tell me is number three coming how a share of people sown dungarees
16:38Well
16:39All right, let me just say this that
16:42Don't tell us the truth there. No, there will always be discussions about a third Mama Mia because who wouldn't
16:49want a third Mama Mia?
16:50That is the truth, right
16:56It's a movie that has given people pure joy and happiness. I I mean, it's it's just wonderful
17:03So yes, there are always discussions, but there's nothing definitively to announce. Okay. Thank you so much
17:12Um, here's the thing the Greek government loved you for doing it so much. They put your face on a
17:17stamp. That is true
17:18I think we have
17:29It's quite bridal. It's really isn't it? It's very bridal. It's divine
17:34But you know, what's interesting is I can't get out of my head though this image of people licking the
17:42back of my head
17:44It's just so strange you need it to actually happen so that you can access
17:48Yeah
17:49Yeah, let's go
17:50How do you think do you think the Queen and Phillip ever did that?
18:03Yeah
18:03So Rita you're about to release your sixth studio album. I have it here sound of a woman
18:14you said it's your most revealing album yet i believe what it is it's about different phases
18:22of a woman's life you know it's as we come into the world as young girls were labeled where you
18:29know oh what a sweet young girl what a sassy teen oh now you're a good worker a good student
18:34or
18:35you're a girlfriend or a wife or a mother or something and all of those things are parts of
18:41who we are but they're not exactly everything that we are look it's like you're shedding all those
18:46images don't you feel like at a certain point in your life like i'm at the age right now where
18:50i
18:51just don't care what anybody thinks yeah i don't care what anybody said i've earned that right we
18:55yeah everybody should earn it at any point in your life really it shouldn't just be well you know
19:03i've gotten to this age and i don't believe that there is a clock on creativity like at what
19:10point does somebody say oh i'm so sorry yeah you were supposed to do that at 29 and three quarters
19:15years old and that time has passed who's to say it we're only limited really by our own
19:21perceptions or beliefs about what we tell ourselves yeah absolutely
19:30the album is called the sound of a woman right what is the sound of a woman that's my question
19:37is it i'm gonna ask you that question is it what is it hip-hop it's definitely hip-hop the
19:43sound of a
19:44woman i think is just i say that quite a lot my husband has an idea
19:51exactly that's another one hey claude i've got a bub yeah go make the bed do his homework no more
20:01words one of my one of my favorite noises a woman's ever made i was in wow wait a minute
20:06wow
20:09I saw a lady see Johnny Depp in the streets, this is probably about 20 years ago, and the noise,
20:16I'll never do it justice, but she saw it, and it was, it was, it was so just, and you
20:23could sort of see it happening as he's walking down various, he was just sort of gliding down the street,
20:28just causing various noises.
20:30I could do something, but it's filthy.
20:32Do it, just do it right now before.
20:34No, no, no.
20:35Yes!
20:35Yes!
20:37Yes!
20:40Yes!
20:40Yes!
20:41Yes!
20:42Yes!
20:43Yes!
20:44Yes!
20:44Yes!
20:45Yes!
20:45Yes!
20:48Yes!
20:51I was just making conversation.
20:53I can't do that.
20:54No, you're doing it.
20:55I'll tell you what I can do, I can do an extraordinary, but it's audio only, horse impression.
21:02Do you want to go round the back so that we can only hear you?
21:07Yes!
21:08I have used it in foreplay.
21:13Are you ready?
21:16Just imagine.
21:17Wedding night 28 years guys
21:20Ready are you coming to bed? Hmm. Yes, I get pretend hooves on I don't
21:42Is the sound of a woman
21:47Just to be clear
21:50Peter, let us have a look at your video. Oh good. This is jury of one out today
22:13After everything
22:17There's a jury of just one
22:21And it's me
22:25Sorry
22:28There it is. Thank you. Thank you.
22:31And it's out today
22:32That song is called jury of one because it's about feeling guilty
22:36You're always guilty like if you're working you feel guilty that you're not at home and with the kids or
22:41with your family
22:42And then if you're with your kids in the family at home, you're thinking creatively like oh gosh
22:48I feel bad that I'm not working there and I think that guilt has a twin sister called apology
22:53And apology is like women we say I'm sorry all the time for all sorts of things like
22:58Somebody could kick me in the knee and be like I'm so sorry. My knee was in the way. Yeah,
23:02okay
23:03I'm a fan of both guilt and apologizing
23:06Exactly
23:06I am I quite fine. I'd never mean it
23:09No
23:11You know, I mean that's when they're getting it wrong
23:13I'm so sorry
23:17Just filling in some space
23:20I'm joking unless I did you wrong which I'm very sorry
23:27One of the songs is called marriage you have been married for 38 years
23:31We have a couple here who are getting married. Hello. Hello. There they are
23:39I believe are you getting married in like a week? Yes. Yes. How are you gonna celebrate?
23:46We're getting married in Nottingham. Yeah lovely
23:48Paul in Nottingham and our reception is a waterpark. That's a great location. Yeah. Yeah waterparks guys
23:54Have you put down the deposit
24:06But have you ever been to Aqualand in Benadour?
24:11Like you don't even have to go on the rides to have fun one of the best things is when
24:16you watch a big northern man
24:19Go down a flume
24:26Sometimes the trunks arrive before the man
24:31They look like haunted babies they
24:34They just hear them. It's too fast Linda. It's too fast like everything
24:39If your marriage is has as many highs as that waterpark has given me
24:44Oh, yeah, and I'm sure you can have a blessed blessed life. Yeah
24:47Are you wearing a bikini and a veil like what's your other?
24:50No, it's TBC whether I'll actually go down there
24:53Oh, really? Okay. Oh, you gotta go down
24:56Yeah
24:57Yeah, I think
24:57Well, you know, I meant
25:00I wasn't
25:03I meant
25:06I didn't know that
25:07I didn't know that
25:08I didn't know that
25:08I didn't know that
25:13Congratulations again. The answer longevity, what's the answer?
25:16The answer is don't get divorced
25:20Very long marriage. Yeah stay married. Yeah
25:24Thank you very much. Also, don't watch box sets apart
25:28Oh, yeah, I think that's very
25:30No binge cheating. Yeah, yeah, that's a better way of putting it. No binge cheating. Yeah, Rita
25:35When is this out? Please tell us the album is out May 1st the two singles Michelangelo and
25:41um sound of a woman are out and jury of one today. Oh lovely. Thank you
25:47And
25:48And Claudia
25:49I I should mention this because I forget that i'm going to be touring in the uk and um europe
25:55in november. This is perfect. Yes, it's really good
25:59It's really good
26:00Thank you
26:02Um
26:04Rita yes, a slight bone to pick with you. All right, you enjoy camping. Yeah, I love camping. So do
26:10you mean camping?
26:11As in we're coming pitch up the tent and bring me a pet giraffe or are you?
26:17I don't know. I've never done. No
26:19Or you're like driving and you're making a stove. Yes, we have one of those vans that is
26:26You know kitted out with a bed and a kitchen and everything and there's nothing better than cooking in the
26:31outdoors
26:32It is so fantastic like I don't know there's something about being under the stars and there's a lovely little
26:40Lovely toilet in there. So it's very civilized. It's very civilized. Is it one of those where you have that
26:44blue liquid?
26:45You have to
26:47They're very high-tech now. Oh, are they very very high-tech? So you know what I mean is that
26:52weird?
26:52Yeah, exactly
26:54Grassbury's great and then you're like
26:55Working away you're shame
26:59No, it's beautiful and it's really really great
27:03Yeah, but it is that sometimes she's like
27:06Your friend's coming in in a minute. She's making the horse noises
27:11I can't kill the move
27:16I
27:16Haven't camped for a while, but I remember I was about 23. I was down in New Zealand
27:21It was amazing and I barely saw another living soul that was just backpacking backpacking
27:25Wow
27:26And I'm in the middle of the Coromando
27:29Subtropical rainforest and it's nighttime and there's possums right and the possums rustle around and do that kind of stuff
27:35I just got so scared this one night that I got my my gas lamp on and I turned my
27:40gas lamp on
27:41To cast shadows on my tent and I got my little like swiss army knife and I got every little
27:46attacks
28:02You know I didn't really grow up camping only child problems
28:07But anyway, I'm a bit of a beginner
28:09I did camp for the first time a couple of years ago on a trip climbing up Mount Kilimanjaro
28:17That was kind of zero to 90. I know
28:21And I was yeah, I kind of you know, obviously it's like six seven days and altitude and all of
28:27that and you know being a beginner
28:29I was like, what about you know being comfortable and you know
28:32I was really I'd maybe glamped, you know or something so so I brought like I bought one little luxury,
28:38which was like my little goose
28:39pillow
28:41But um everybody everybody laughed at me
28:44Uh, you don't camp. I can see that face just because we used to go camping loads because we didn't
28:49have any money when we were younger
28:50So the first time you get into a hotel, it's just incredible. Yeah, like if you've been wiping your ass
28:57with a leaf
28:57And then suddenly there's toilet roll and like little pots of jam that you can steal
29:04I'm good exactly don't get this in the woods
29:08Go go we have something in common. You have a trampoline. I bought a trampoline. Oh, yeah
29:13Yeah, who told you to get a trampoline? You know my friend sarah at the beginning of lockdown
29:18um
29:19Took me to this trampoline class in la and I was like, this is amazing like it. It's so kind
29:26of
29:27Ridiculous, but actually really difficult but kind of fun and really fun
29:30And I think you know and so as soon as I covered hit
29:33I ordered a trampoline because I felt like you know
29:36You do like three or four bounces on a trampoline and you feel like six years old
29:39I bought a little trampoline
29:42Handle because I'm so yeah for yeah
29:45Start with the handle
29:47You hold the handle. I haven't taken out of it. You also look like you're riding your own horse
29:54Birthday's a Christmas paper
29:57Too much. I have a harness. No biggie
30:01It's the most fun. It's the most fun. Yeah, do you know we have the olympic gold
30:06Medallist the best at trampolining in the world brianie you're here
30:20Trampolining and it is it's been proven to be like the best the best exercise
30:25Yeah, so trampoline is so much fun like you've already said can make you feel like a superhuman
30:29Yeah, so if you're jumping on the floor really limited you can only jump so high
30:33But as soon as you get on that trampoline and you're working really hard training hard
30:36You can go up to 10 meters in the air
30:39You're flying in the air for like two seconds long and you're super thrilling you get to flip around and
30:45somersault
30:45And it feels like you're riding a roller coaster
30:47I half remember because I remember nothing in my life
30:50I half remember somebody telling me that bouncing has a particular sort of physiological benefit
30:55Is that right or did I make that up one time?
30:57No, definitely so I think it was nasa that said if you do 30 minutes on a trampoline
31:02Sorry 10 minutes on a trampoline is like 30 minutes running. Yeah, but also very good for court. It just
31:07makes us all happy
31:08Let's all get trampoline. Yeah
31:12Yeah, it's really fun. Yeah
31:15Now goo goo, we're going to talk about the film called um fused tell us what it's about
31:20It's a heist action thriller set in london and um yeah, I play a police officer in it
31:27There's a discovery of a unexploded world war ii bomb in london
31:32And it's kind of a race against time to evacuate the city, but also there's kind of a twist
31:38In it as well and in that there's a well, I don't want to give it away
31:43But it's but it's a very kind of gripping heist thriller and it's with aaron taylor johnson
31:48Theo james myself sam worthington and saffron hockin. What a good cast let us have a clip please
31:55We detected a heat signature inside the cordon we need to investigate we think people could still be there
32:02Right the police have detected an unidentified heat source
32:10See superintendent what's going on sorry major but we've had to send a car in we'll relay police radio now
32:15to keep you in the loop
32:16I'm in the middle of a very dangerous procedure i haven't even finished the mitigation wall which means if the
32:21bomb detonates
32:22I don't even have to tell you how bad that's gonna be i understand major but we can't risk injury
32:28to the public we'll be as quick as we can
32:32Oh
32:35And you shadowed police officers didn't you yeah and learned a lot about the work they do yeah
32:42I mean my character is chief superintendent and she is
32:45Uh her role is what's running gold in the command control center
32:48So i got to visit some command control centers in london and in essex and talk to some high-ranking
32:54female
32:55Police officers of which there are still very few so um it was really interesting sort of being in those
33:01control centers
33:02Seeing those cameras of london you know at the switch of a button you can see pretty much any street
33:08or view in london
33:10Which is kind of comforting and kind of chilling
33:13But um but no it was really really interesting to kind of learn about that work as i say because
33:17to be able to have that you know
33:19Um perspective from from real police officers was really really helpful
33:22So when can we watch fuse oh it's out today perfect
33:31James i love the fact we were chatting earlier and you said
33:34Your favorite thing is when you're acting is watching the person who is acting right in front of like sometimes
33:38you're
33:39And i love when actually when you're so in awe yeah
33:42Sometimes like sometimes really good acting just makes it all seem seamless and all that kind of stuff
33:47Sometimes you're working with somebody who's just does something so good you're like yeah
33:51Oh my god and then you drop your line and you mess up the whole scene and you mess them
33:55up
33:55But i quite often find myself with really good actors just like mouthing along with you
34:01And they'll be like what are you doing i'm like i'm sorry well i'm just in the same with you
34:05you're like you're mouthing my lines
34:08I'm just like preparing my line um but yeah i've messed a couple of actors up by doing that
34:14Yeah but how amazing to be because you're nodding you must oh no yeah i remember um i did a
34:19movie called
34:19it's complicated with meryl streep and you're looking at this person you're like it's meryl streep
34:28i can't believe it's sophie from sophie's choice and then you just have to kind of become a professional and
34:33do your thing but it it that first few moments is definitely distracting i was like that with your
34:40husband oh really not that we acted together but like i i would go in yeah no he wouldn't let
34:45me
34:47We should say who your husband is just tell the group
34:52You're married too just so you know
34:54yes yes tell me i'm sorry to have to tell you this but um you have all this and being
35:00married to tom hanks
35:01yes i am and i yep he does deserve that
35:07i don't know why i do this thing sometimes when i get around famous people when they kind of go
35:11like
35:11hey what's up what are you going to get for lunch and they've just been totally normal and i'm like
35:15i feel so uncomfortable and i go into this weird sort of over like almost put on working class
35:23all right man i know i'm going to get some chips or something i'm going to get like i drive
35:29a punto
35:31how would you drive a ferrari you know brilliant i'm going to get some bread with butter
35:36i'm going to get some caviar and i don't know why that happens yeah of course i don't like it
35:41it's
35:41a bit like we know when you really fancy somebody yeah but early on you know with the first person
35:47i
35:47found somebody so badly when i was 17 he was speak to me and i would just be sick
35:53in south park was that everything right again the sound of a woman the sound of a woman
35:59i went to see rufus wainwright the star who i'm a big fan of and he invited me to go
36:06out for dinner
36:06with him so we went for dinner it was really exciting you know when you meet your hero and then
36:10you're
36:10up in tea yeah i had some spare jam
36:15apricot yeah but he had some toilet paper yeah yeah but we were sort of hanging out and then he
36:20said oh do you want to go and hang out with my friend carrie so yeah sure so then we
36:25come and meet
36:25carrie and it was carrie fisher oh so i'm suddenly in this insane i'm around carrie fisher's house and
36:31her dog was eating ice cream and she was about with this i was not with food but yeah he
36:41wasn't doing
36:42that i naturally did the vibe so anyway so we were sort of just drinking and carrie wasn't but me
36:47and
36:48rufus were blah blah blah and then they they found out that i was a stand-up comedian and they
36:52were both
36:53like do some car yeah and i was one eye you can't is that really it doesn't work like i
36:59just and i'm
37:00trying to explain that she's like just go into the bathroom come out do five minutes i'm like how
37:05how are we here yeah yeah yeah wow but so i i kind of desperately thought right this idea i
37:12had of like
37:13human beings blame animals for our weird behavior um like i've never seen a rat snitch i've never seen
37:19a badger badger i've never seen an elephant in a room go i know um catfish is my favorite you
37:26know
37:26catfish someone goes online it tends to be someone else they don't do that they're not in the sea go
37:31show us your tits i'm a dolphin that's yeah yeah yeah funny right utter silence and carrie fisher aka
37:41princess lego's people paying money for this i was kind of like well you know occasionally and like
37:49that i was just i love you become the evans oh yeah that was mortifying but it was for whatever
37:56reason stand-up is as soon as you're told to do it it's it's gone you've started taking your family
38:01on tour with you haven't you because you're doing this massive tour yes you're going with your wife and
38:06your 19 month old yes i've been doing stand-up for 28 years but sort of traveling with those two
38:12just
38:13makes it really fun again because then you get to kind of like we're going to manchester this weekend
38:18and there's a transport museum there's a there's a lego land and he's really into diggers like he
38:25loves oh they love so we're we so but basically but i've got these i've got like six gigs and
38:31yet
38:32the highlight is the transport museum because i know it's going to blow his mind i don't know it's
38:37that but it's that funny thing of like nothing prepares you for how excited your kids get yeah
38:42about baffling stuff yeah so we've got we've got like a little stick if i push the stick around
38:48like my son's like daddy hoover daddy hoover and that makes me happy because he's happy so
38:55i know i'm now like this just i'm so eager but it's got to that stage where i'm like daddy
39:00hoover daddy
39:02he's like oh that was so yesterday
39:05because you're about you you know you're about to go on stage yes thousands of people laugh yeah anyone
39:10who knows a 19 month old try and make them smile sometimes it happens but you i mean you have
39:16to
39:16work hard yeah to make them laugh right when they're six months you do a fake sneeze they giggle you're
39:21like
39:21come on and they get to about two and you're like do you find this funny
39:28yeah that's not actually what a sheep sounds like
39:32a horse on the other hand
39:34a horse i hold my beard
39:39the tour is called don't tell the algorithm yes i love that title will you change your material
39:43oh yeah as you go particularly if you're traveling in europe and you i remember being in norway they've got
39:48a
39:48a phrase called vent the pulse which is it translates as a waiting sausage so if you keep a norwegian
39:55waiting
39:56they will eat a hot dog and i just think it's such a funny excuse for gluttony just like you
40:03know
40:03well if you force me to linger i ate a pork finger
40:07and it's this that in that moment
40:14but it's it's that thing that that that that wouldn't be funny if you were doing it in in
40:19halifax but that night if you if you're why don't know no no no but it's funny but if you're
40:24able to
40:24kind of really be in a place and the audience can tell you're like oh my god this is happening
40:29now
40:29this he's not fake it it really does something it's kind of and if you can blend it with material
40:34and actually be there and improvise it's you can you get into that kind of flow state and it's the
40:40best i love it so much really i think i'm a lifer i haven't found anything through which i can
40:45do life
40:46more than stand-up is it true that billy connelly made you want to be a stand-up yeah i
40:51think so i just
40:52remember watching my dad howl and and he was like i think billy connelly was like for a certain
40:56generation like this fire in the corner of the country where we'd kind of warm ourselves around and you'd
41:02see your dad laughing your mum was laughing your uncle whatever and i was so intrigued by this kind
41:07of like this guy i was imagine trying to be that and then i got to interview him which was
41:13like talking
41:13to god and then kind of making him laugh wild and he's such a sweet just you know beautiful man
41:22uh yeah
41:23i could talk about him for hours i'd love him but i imagine everyone in scotland feels the same but
41:26absolutely yeah when you've got a nickname call him the big one the big man yeah big
41:33yeah the big one that's that's a good email address yeah it is it promises a lot
41:43everything's about expectations um especially if he's at hotmail
41:56russell how can people see the top they can see it uh it's all over the country uh all over
42:01england and
42:01ireland and scotland uh until november thank you very much thank you thank you
42:08all right we've nearly come to the end of the show have we covered everything is there anybody here
42:17we are not qualified who would like some guidance on anything i really like hands going on yes wait i
42:25need to get you a microphone i was a bit keen sorry um i was just wondering what advice you
42:31have if
42:31you're having a conversation with someone and then they start going on their phone while you're talking
42:35to them what do you do oh i think most people stay married to them
42:39for quite a long time but that sounds like i'm slagging my wife off i'm not it's me or
42:52you just called them
42:53oh
42:56and then suddenly you're there that's gonna work um thank you so much that's it for this week i would
43:06like to thank my guests russell howard rita wilson
43:10and james mcavoy join me next week where my guests will be michelle desoit
43:19and we've got olivia cook arna faris and ray fine thank you for watching
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