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00:11Hello and welcome to your Thursday One Show live on BBC One and iPlayer with Alex Jones.
00:16And great to have Roman back as well after your break.
00:19Lots lined up tonight from a heartwarming surprise to a look inside a new exhibition
00:24celebrating the late Queen's fashion.
00:26Plus we'll be joined by two brilliant guests including one who's a staple of Saturday night entertainment.
00:32Yeah fresh from the Gladiators final Bradley Walsh is back lighting up our screens
00:37as Blankety Blank returns for a new series and this weekend Alex joining the panel
00:43and even when she's not in this studio she's always thinking about the One Show.
00:51There's no need is there? There's no need.
00:53But it is such a fun show and there was a reason for singing that I promise.
00:57And joining Bradley is actor Gugu Mbata Roar who you'll know from the Emmy winning series
01:02The Morning Show and the Doctor Who spin-off The War Between the Land and the Sea.
01:06And now she's bringing us a new action-packed heist thriller called Fuse
01:10alongside Theo James and Aaron Taylor-Johnson.
01:13We'll be hearing all about it including the surprising way Taylor Swift interrupted filming.
01:18Also coming up in tonight's One Big Thank You we're off to Belfast to celebrate the amazing Nadine
01:23who organises inclusive fun days for families
01:26and later we'll see the touching moment Sarah Green brings the children together
01:31to help with an emotional surprise.
01:33It is a really lovely moment that one.
01:36But first tonight we're starting with that new one-of-a-kind exhibition
01:40that's set to be the largest display ever of the late Queen's wardrobe.
01:44Yes and ahead of its opening tomorrow at Buckingham Palace
01:48fashion enthusiast Jackie Joseph got up close to some of the stunning pieces
01:52that are set to be on show.
01:56To me Queen Elizabeth II embodied class and enduring elegance
02:01with her distinctive British style.
02:04I've loved clothes and fashion ever since I was a little girl.
02:09It must run in the family because both my mum and my auntie were seamstresses.
02:13Aunty Lottie came to Britain from Guyana during the 1960s
02:17and made coats for a big fashion company.
02:20She's always admired the way Queen Elizabeth dressed.
02:24Now a new exhibition featuring outfits worn by Her Majesty is being put together
02:29and we've been given special access to the conservation studios at Windsor Castle
02:35where curator Caroline De Guito is selecting pieces to show.
02:40Caroline, this is wonderful, isn't it?
02:43That's nice, extravagant.
02:44How do you decide which items will be in the exhibition?
02:49I wanted to make sure that all decades of the life are included
02:52but also to tell the real story, that it's really her,
02:56it's her personality that's shown by the clothes.
02:59Nearly all of the Queen's clothes were created by British designers,
03:03everything from her casual day wear to her more formal looks.
03:08And here, Her Majesty the Queen, elegance itself.
03:1265 years later, this is the Norman Hartnell dress
03:16she wore to her sister, Princess Margaret's wedding in 1960.
03:21Do you remember the dress?
03:23Yes, I did because it was in the paper back home, yes.
03:25Everything we'd like to write in those days wasn't hollow, you know what I mean?
03:28Yes, the workmanship is wonderful, isn't it?
03:32So the lace is actually on top of silk tulle here
03:35and then it's just as important at the back as it is at the front.
03:39What does it say about the Queen and her style?
03:42She's not the bride, obviously, so she doesn't want to outstage the bride
03:45and that sense of what's appropriate is something that I think the Queen
03:49thought very carefully about in all her fashion choices.
03:52So this is the hat, isn't it lovely?
03:54That's stunning.
03:55And the rose is obviously a reference to Princess Margaret Rose, to her name.
03:59It's wonderful.
04:01The Queen cleverly reflected her sense of duty through the clothes she wore.
04:05This dress was worn in the Netherlands in 1958
04:08and it's in yellow and blue and those are the colours of the Order of the Netherlands Lion
04:13and conveying so many important messages
04:16without the Queen really needing to even speak.
04:19There are over 4,000 items in the Queen's Fashion Archive.
04:24It's one of the biggest in the world.
04:27Look at this, auntie.
04:29I mean, this is striking, isn't it?
04:31Very, very.
04:32I like the style.
04:33I like the details of the style, you know.
04:36I mean, that is bold.
04:39The classic tailored coat, dress and hat in monoblock colours
04:43was a signature look that's influenced how other royals dress today.
04:49Colour's very important to the Queen.
04:51She could be surrounded by hundreds of thousands of people
04:53and she understood that they would need to see her.
04:58Her clothes were also versatile.
05:00She could dispense with a coat and use the dress, which she did,
05:04for separate engagements at Buckingham Palace or Windsor Castle.
05:08So she'd get more wear from the outfits.
05:11Exactly.
05:11And I think it probably comes from the wartime, you know, it was make, do and mend.
05:16Caring for all these garments is the job of Cecilia Oliver.
05:21How do you go about looking after such a vast collection?
05:28Well, a lot of it is appropriate storage conditions
05:31which slow down any sort of degradation.
05:34They're not too dry, not too warm.
05:36And Cecilia has something special to show us.
05:39A poodle skirt gifted to the Queen in 1951 during a tour of Canada.
05:45It's made from felt and embroidered with Romeo and Juliet.
05:49So that was sewn in by hand, didn't it?
05:51Do you think maybe the roses were done by hand?
05:53I think so, yes.
05:54Kind of avant-garde.
05:55It is, it absolutely is.
05:57But it just shows that she was a young woman who loved to dance.
06:02With the pieces chosen, the team adds final touches to the display
06:06at the King's Gallery in Buckingham Palace.
06:11Seeing Queen Elizabeth's life through her outfits has been truly fascinating.
06:16Each piece a reminder of someone who was so many things to so many people.
06:23Ah, the Romeo and Juliet skirt.
06:27I can't wait to go there.
06:28And incredible to hear all the stories behind the outfits.
06:30Thank you so much to Jackie and Auntie Lottie.
06:33Yeah, and you can book tickets to see some of those amazing outfits
06:36when the exhibition opens tomorrow at the King's Gallery in Buckingham Palace,
06:40which runs until October.
06:41Time now to welcome our guest is Gladiator's host, Bradley Walsh,
06:45and the brilliant Gugu and Batta Roll.
06:51Gugu, we were just watching that film there about that exhibition.
06:54I know you're a big fan of the late Queen's fashion.
06:56Oh, I just love her outfits.
06:58I mean, the handbags, the hats, and those bright colours that she always wore.
07:03Just so iconic.
07:04And Bradley, you were just telling us you've got real insight to the Queen's wardrobe
07:08because you knew her dresser.
07:10Yeah, Angela Kelly, yeah.
07:11So when I'd worked a couple of times at the Palace on different stuff
07:14when we televised for the BBC, and I got to know Angela Kelly,
07:17and it was really quite cool.
07:18Cool.
07:19You know what I mean?
07:19We were talking about what she was going to put the hat together
07:21when the thing...
07:22I quite like all that stuff.
07:24It's really quite an insight.
07:25So interesting, isn't it?
07:25It really is.
07:25It really is, yeah.
07:26Well, when Bradley isn't hanging out at Buckingham Palace,
07:29he's fronting some of TV's bigger shows,
07:31and after last month's epic Gladiator's final, we loved that,
07:35he's back to keep us entertained on a Saturday night
07:38with a new series of Blankety Blank.
07:40Now, such an iconic show, and before we talk about it,
07:43let's take a look at what this series has in store.
07:46Thank you, Blank, thank you to God.
07:48Thank you!
07:49Thank you, we're all.
07:50Thank you, we're all.
07:51Josh famously has scruffy hair.
07:54What?
07:54Ian, when you're dressed up in your uniform as a community police officer,
07:57what sort of voice would you put on?
07:59Oi, move.
08:00A bit more.
08:01Junior, do you want to go?
08:02I'm going to take down your particulars.
08:05My mate met his wife at work.
08:07He's a deep-sea diver, and she's a...
08:10Mermaid.
08:12Mermaid, yes!
08:13Deep-sea diver?
08:20Fantastic.
08:21I mean, look, this week's panel, we've got to bring it up
08:23because you've got Richard Iowardy, you've got Giles Brandreth,
08:25and the lovely Alex Jones.
08:27That's fun.
08:28I couldn't believe it.
08:29But this show, though, it's always just...
08:30It's about the contestants.
08:32Yeah, it is.
08:32It's the most fun you can have in a TV studio
08:35because you get a lot of the guests on,
08:36the comedic guests and stuff like that,
08:38so you haven't got to do any of the heavy lifting.
08:40They genuinely make me laugh.
08:41I don't know what's written on the cards.
08:42I deliberately don't do that, so I can have a reaction.
08:44And I don't know what the prizes are,
08:46so you get the reaction there.
08:47So I literally...
08:48Don't Google it, seriously.
08:49So when the prize...
08:50This week, you'll win.
08:51And I'm reading it, I'm thinking,
08:52I can't believe we're giving that away.
08:54Is that a joke?
08:55It's absolutely true.
08:56I think we gave...
08:57This is true.
08:57We gave away, like...
08:58And I'm reading, and with the star prize,
09:00there's a self-combusting toilet...
09:04..and a year's supply of toilet rolls.
09:05You can't believe...
09:07There it is.
09:09It's there.
09:09It's like the maddest thing.
09:11It seems to be part of the show, so, you know, it's all good.
09:13Yeah, it works, doesn't it?
09:14Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely.
09:15It really does, and you've got some great celebs,
09:17including, we saw the gladiator Nitro,
09:19who you know very well, footballer Jill Scott,
09:22and Traitor star Joe Marler.
09:24And I understand, Joe left quite the lasting impression on you.
09:26No, he really did.
09:27Very, very funny.
09:28I didn't really think he was going to be as funny as he was.
09:31I thought he was a big lad.
09:33I thought I'd have a bit of joshing with him,
09:34but he's seriously funny.
09:35And then, of course, he does Traitors,
09:37and you see it straight away.
09:38You go, hang on a minute, he's got it, this guy.
09:40He's really funny.
09:41And I really liked his company,
09:43and he was sort of giving me a bit of stick as well.
09:45So it was good fun.
09:46There's a lot of bants, you know.
09:47Oh, he was on here, and he was brilliant, wasn't he, Joe?
09:49He's got that dry humour.
09:50He really does, yeah.
09:51He really does.
09:51Brilliant, and you're following in the footsteps, of course,
09:54of Terry Wogan and Les Dawson and Lily Savage,
09:58but to be fair, you've been doing it a while now,
10:00and you say this is your favourite show to do.
10:02Yes, I think I might now be...
10:04Someone said to me yesterday,
10:05I think I'm the longest-serving host thus far,
10:08and I don't know how that's happened,
10:09because it seems that everyone went on forever.
10:11But I was lucky, because I started out
10:13as Les Dawson's warm-up man on blankety-blank.
10:15So I ended up presenting it, yeah.
10:17So that's quite cool, and he was a lovely man, Les.
10:20He was lovely, yeah, delightful man.
10:21Full-circle moment, that's very good.
10:22Yeah, and I appeared as a guest when Lily did it.
10:26So, you know, yeah, so it's quite cool.
10:27I like it.
10:28And look, you've got a new series of Breaking Dad
10:30coming very soon.
10:31Yep.
10:31You and your son, Barney, this time you're in Australia,
10:34and he's actually really put you...
10:36Well, put your fear of heights to the test.
10:38Well, I just think that they play on that.
10:40See, my hat, I get all spit...
10:41I was going to say, you went all funny there.
10:43I know, and I get really sort of agitated.
10:45Yeah.
10:45The heights thing.
10:47You're not going to believe it.
10:47So my dad was a roofer, and I used to help my dad,
10:50as a youngster's roofer, up and down ladders,
10:51without any ropes and stuff, like a, you know,
10:53like a, just up and down.
10:55And now, once I've, as soon as I've hit,
10:57I've just had my 42nd birthday.
11:00And as soon as I've got a bit older,
11:02the height thing has gone, I've gone,
11:04I just can't handle it.
11:04Can't do it.
11:05I don't know why.
11:05Do you get vertigo?
11:06I really, I really do.
11:08I just think, oh, I can't go near that.
11:10And that's great for Barney, though.
11:11I know, but he, yeah, and he does it deliberately,
11:14and he chats with the guys,
11:15and let's put him through this and stuff like that.
11:17Does it make good telly for them, maybe?
11:19Yes, it does.
11:20Yes, it does.
11:21Yes, it does, Brandi.
11:23I'm very excited.
11:24You're back on tour.
11:25Yes.
11:26With Shane and the gang.
11:27Shane Ritchie, Brian Connolly, Joe Pasquale, me,
11:29the Pratt Pack are back.
11:30Tickets go on sale tomorrow.
11:32Seriously, the Pratt Pack, that's awesome.
11:34With tickets go on sale tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock.
11:37We're going to September, 21 gigs.
11:40We were going to not do another tour.
11:42We had such a response.
11:43Well, let's go out again.
11:44So we do it with a 15-piece big band, like the Ratt Pack.
11:47Oh, we had such a hoot.
11:48We're going on tour.
11:49Bring it on.
11:50I was going to say, realistically, though,
11:52when you go home and you say to the family and they're going,
11:54you know, what have you got coming up?
11:55And you say, oh, I've got a long time.
11:57You know, we're going out on tour.
11:59It's really tough work.
12:00This is just a load of fun for you.
12:02Right, I'll tell you what, when we're on stage,
12:04they are relentless with me.
12:06They take the mickey out of me because I'm the oldest.
12:09They tear me to pieces in front of 2,000, 3,000 people
12:12and I have to take it.
12:13And it's like the Ratt Pack.
12:14We'll have a drinks cabinet on stage.
12:16We'll be drinking on stage and we'll all be dicky-bo'd up.
12:18It'll be like the Vegas days.
12:20It's fantastic.
12:21It's the most fun I've ever had other than Blankety Blank.
12:23Yeah.
12:25Don't let the chases you say that.
12:27Make sure you're keeping with the BBC.
12:30Now, Angela's been in touch,
12:31even in Angela.
12:32She says,
12:33I've booked to see Bradley with the Pratt Pack later this year
12:35and I'm beyond excited.
12:37And Lindy says,
12:39please thank Bradley for brightening up my life every day.
12:42Oh, he's always had a great talent for entertaining.
12:45Well, it's not that.
12:45I'm a window cleaner.
12:51Very good.
12:52Well, Blankety Blank returns to BBC One
12:55and I play out on Saturday evening at 6.25.
12:58And for those in Wales, it'll be on BBC Two.
13:01Still to come tonight,
13:02Gugu would be telling us
13:03why she's out to save a city
13:05in her new action film, Fuse.
13:07Yeah, but now we're celebrating a real-life hero
13:10in tonight's one big thank you.
13:12So, very shortly,
13:13we'll see the moment my finish line co-host,
13:15Sarah Green,
13:15surprises Nadine from Belfast.
13:17But first, here's why Nadine is so deserving.
13:25Nadine deserves this one big thank you
13:28because she saw this need in the community
13:32and she was prepared to give of her heart and soul
13:36to make it happen.
13:37Bringing up three children,
13:39one with Down syndrome,
13:40Nadine struggled to find activities
13:42all her children would enjoy together.
13:44So, in 2013,
13:46she started setting up inclusive fun days
13:49for her children and other families.
13:51When Nadine first set up fun days,
13:53she wanted to have somewhere
13:55where she could go with her whole family
13:57so that they were all there together
13:59and had a safe space to be.
14:02She comes up with the ideas,
14:04she has the energy
14:05and has this whole ethos of inclusivity.
14:09She balances full-time work
14:11with organising monthly activity days
14:13attended by up to 100 people.
14:15There's building blocks,
14:17there's a mini obstacle course
14:18and there's a craft activity as well.
14:20There's always activities for siblings as well.
14:23There's football skills coaching,
14:25there's pizza making,
14:26there's mocktail making,
14:27there's all sorts of imaginative ideas every month.
14:30Nadine's fun days have now been attended
14:32by a total of over 600 families
14:35in and around the Belfast area.
14:37It's actually a bit of a lifeline
14:39for lots of us that were just sort of floundering.
14:41We're all so grateful as families in this area
14:43for what she does.
14:44She's an amazing person.
14:48Ah, well, Nadine has built such an amazing community,
14:51so we made sure they were a key part of the surprise
14:54as Sarah Green put on a fun day to remember.
15:01We've got a ready-made event for this one big thank you.
15:04One of the monthly inclusive fun days
15:06Nadine puts on for families.
15:08And to help us with our surprise today,
15:10we're going to be getting on board
15:12everyone who's involved.
15:13Now, we don't have to sneak around too much today
15:16because Nadine already knows I'm here.
15:18But she thinks I'm here
15:20making a programme about community events in Belfast.
15:23What she doesn't know is that I'm enlisting the help
15:27of everybody in the hall today
15:29to give her the biggest surprise of her life.
15:32With the fun day in full swing,
15:34we tell Nadine we want to do a quick bit of filming with her
15:37outside before Sarah interviews her.
15:39This month we have around 80 people attending at fun days
15:44and three activities.
15:46With her safely occupied elsewhere,
15:49Sarah chats to some of the people
15:50who wanted us to celebrate Nadine.
15:53So, how do you think she's going to react?
15:56I think she's going to be really shocked.
15:57She lines up her friends, family...
15:59A driving force.
16:00A driving force.
16:01A driving force, I was going to say the engine.
16:03I hope that everything comes together as you want it.
16:07With Nadine still preoccupied...
16:09Along with refreshments and snacks for everyone to enjoy.
16:12Sarah gets the plan underway.
16:14OK, I'm going to take a deep breath now
16:17and let you in on a bit of a secret.
16:21There are a few people here,
16:23some lovely people who've nominated Nadine
16:26for a one big thank you.
16:30I want you to shout one big thank you
16:34when we get to that point, all right?
16:35Can we just practice that?
16:38One, two, three.
16:40One big thank you!
16:43Now, I'm also wondering if some people would volunteer
16:47to help me with a very special task here.
16:50Yeah?
16:51With time ticking on,
16:53Sarah's working quickly to get everything sorted.
16:56Perfect.
16:57Then she's ready for her chat with Nadine.
17:01Hi, Nadine.
17:03But this is just a chat now.
17:05And pretend that none of these people are here.
17:07OK.
17:08It's just you and me chatting.
17:10Tell me how long you've had this fun day event going on.
17:15OK, so fun days has been going for almost 12 years.
17:19How many people do you think have been through the doors here
17:22in the last 12 years?
17:23I would say it goes into hundreds.
17:25We have around 80 people today
17:27and I would say on average it's between about 80 and 100 every month.
17:31How much do you think it means to everybody here
17:34to have this to come to?
17:37Well, I hope it means a lot because it means a lot for us.
17:40I can tell you how much it means to everybody here
17:43because I know that we were very naughty
17:46and told you that we're making a programme
17:48about community activities in Belfast.
17:51We're actually here just to film you.
17:55because those lovely, lovely people
17:58that you mentioned earlier got together
18:01and wrote to the BBC.
18:04Oh, my goodness.
18:06I'm here on behalf of The One Show.
18:08Oh, no.
18:10LAUGHTER
18:11APPLAUSE
18:15And we're here to give you
18:19A...
18:211...
18:21A...
18:22A...
18:22Thank you!
18:23CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
18:29CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
18:30Thank you!
18:31Oh, no!
18:34Oh, no!
18:37Oh, no!
18:38What a surprise!
18:40What a surprise!
18:40You're all thoughts.
18:42And that's not all.
18:44Come and sit down over here.
18:45I've got something to show you, OK?
18:47Right, are you ready for this, Nadine?
18:49No?
18:50Yes.
18:51OK.
18:56Hello, Nadine.
18:57Oh, what an incredible surprise from Sarah Green
19:00and all your Fun Days Club members.
19:02You really mean an incredible amount to those around you.
19:05Not only do you inspire them,
19:07but you go out of your way to do it
19:09in a fun and engaging way.
19:11And this thank you is a testament
19:13to just how many people's lives you've touched.
19:17Nadine, Fun Days means so much to so many people.
19:21We couldn't do it without you
19:22and all your coordination and organising
19:24and all the hard work you do.
19:26Thank you, Nadine, for bringing the animals to Fun Day.
19:30I had so much fun now.
19:31Thank you, Nadine, for Fun Days.
19:34I love to see my friends and play.
19:37My mum's been working really hard for years
19:39and I think she deserves a massive thank you
19:41for all the hard work and effort she's put into Fun Days.
19:44Hi, Nadine.
19:45Hello.
19:46Oh, goodness.
19:47This is just a little message to say thank you
19:49for everything that you do.
19:53Well, it's lovely.
19:54Thank you all so much.
20:07Thank you so much to Sarah and well-deserved Nadine as well.
20:11Brilliant.
20:12Really nice.
20:12And if you know someone amazing who deserves a one big thank you,
20:16please do get in touch at onebigthankyou at bbc.co.uk.
20:20Tell us all about them.
20:21Right then.
20:22Time now to talk high-stakes drama with Gugu
20:24as she stars in a new thriller called Fuse
20:27alongside Theo James and Aaron Taylor-Johnson.
20:30It follows a team racing against the clock
20:32to help defuse a World War II bomb
20:34but that soon becomes the least of their problems.
20:37Let's take a look at what we can expect.
20:40British Army, bomb disposal.
20:41We'll need an 800-metre radius perimeter.
20:44I'll see you on the dance floor.
20:45This area is being evacuated.
20:49We're on.
20:51Hold and secure.
20:53Nothing's moving.
20:57We're in.
20:57There's been a massive bank job on Edgeware Road.
21:00Go, go, go, go, go, go, go.
21:02The King, stop!
21:03Hard cover, no!
21:07Right, big action.
21:09Right, lots of action.
21:10It all starts with the discovery of this bomb
21:14but there's something even more, I guess,
21:17sinister happening at the same time, right?
21:19Yes, it's a real edge-of-your-seat,
21:21high-stakes action thriller.
21:23You think initially it's this, you know,
21:25World War II bomb discovered in London,
21:28Race Against Time, but then, you know,
21:30there's kind of a twist and there's a little bit
21:32of a mash-up with the kind of heist genre and, you know,
21:36the incredible cast, as you've seen, you know,
21:38Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Theo James, Saffron Hocking.
21:40Yeah.
21:41And my character is the police officer who is sort of
21:45charged with overseeing the evacuation of London
21:48and, you know, coordinating the operation.
21:50Chief Superintendent.
21:52Yes.
21:52Yeah, Chief Superintendent.
21:53That's right.
21:54Chief Superintendent.
21:55That's it.
21:55Perfect.
21:56Proper job, that is.
21:57Yeah.
21:59But you went undercover, didn't you,
22:01and kind of had a look at how these control rooms
22:04actually work.
22:05Yeah, I mean, it was amazing.
22:06We had incredible police consultants on the show
22:09and I got to visit some of these control rooms in London
22:11and getting to see, you know, she runs gold on the operation,
22:15which is basically, you know, the term when you are
22:18in charge of, you know, this high-stakes decision-making
22:21and really to meet those officers, to know how they're
22:24kind of having to stay really calm under pressure,
22:27to see all the screens of London, you know, and, you know,
22:30in one button you can see any street in London.
22:33It was very, very impressive.
22:35I have huge respect for that job.
22:37It's really tough.
22:37Brilliant.
22:38That is amazing.
22:39Bradley, you know all about it.
22:40I mean, you did Law and Order UK.
22:43I did.
22:43I played the detective sergeant for 53 episodes.
22:46That's what I was going to say.
22:47But the audition didn't necessarily go to plan,
22:50as I understand it.
22:50Well, I'd been somewhere else, somewhere quite serious,
22:52and I was wearing a brown suit, black tie,
22:54which you wouldn't wear, different coloured shoes,
22:56come colour blind, and white shirt,
22:58and it had been raining and I'd swept over
23:00and I'd looked to a terrible state,
23:02I did a terrible read, and they told me afterwards,
23:05so when I did, about two months into the show,
23:08they said, as soon as you left the room,
23:11I'm so sorry I'm late, I do apologise.
23:13I told the cabbie to go down Rosebury Avenue.
23:15If you go down Rosebury Avenue,
23:16right by the Fulmer Street,
23:18if you then turned off by the pub,
23:19that would be the quickest way.
23:20I've got to get there quick, quick.
23:21As soon as you knew your way around London,
23:23as soon as you walked out with it,
23:24there's Ronnie Brooks, that's exactly the bloke we want.
23:26And there was much better actors than me going for it.
23:28Seriously.
23:29That was it.
23:29All of that worked well.
23:31Yeah, I was lucky.
23:32It was pure jam.
23:32Right place, right time.
23:34Very good, very good.
23:35Google, look, this was, as you say,
23:37it was filmed all over London,
23:38so many different locations,
23:40including Wembley.
23:41Yes.
23:42And a very famous person,
23:44who goes by the name of Taylor Swift,
23:45was basically almost in this.
23:48I know, it was a little bit off-putting.
23:50Essentially, the set that we had
23:52where the bomb site was,
23:54was right next to Wembley Stadium.
23:56That's cool.
23:56So we're doing these really high stakes,
23:59really intense scenes about, you know,
24:01will the bomb go off, will it won't,
24:02and then, you know,
24:03you're hearing across the breeze,
24:05like Taylor Swift songs,
24:06you know, at the end of the day,
24:07on set.
24:08So it was a bit of a challenge.
24:09You know, I think the sound guys
24:10had a bit of difficulty
24:11kind of trying to cut her out.
24:13Yeah.
24:13Yeah.
24:14The PRS.
24:15Yeah, could have been like,
24:17red wire, blue wire.
24:17Never, never, never, never.
24:19You know, you know, you're like,
24:20Oh!
24:22That was crazy.
24:23Yeah.
24:24But Google, you filmed the very first scenes
24:26for the show.
24:28So really, as an actor,
24:29you had to set the tone, really,
24:31for the rest of it, didn't you?
24:33Yeah.
24:33That's quite a responsibility.
24:34It is.
24:35You know, we have an incredible director,
24:36David McKenzie,
24:37and he's really interested in authenticity,
24:39and he would do these really long takes.
24:42You know, you never knew where the camera was,
24:44you know, and we, the camera was always moving,
24:46and we had a lot of improvisation.
24:48So, you know, it was quite a lot of pressure
24:51to set those, those, the tone for the, for the show.
24:54And also, because my character is in the control room,
24:57you know, she is kind of at a distance from the action,
24:59so you kind of have to keep the pace up.
25:01But she does get to break out of the control room,
25:04eventually.
25:04Were you shackled, were you shackled to the actual script,
25:07or with the, with the movement of the cameras and stuff?
25:08Because you also do a little bit of ad-lib in here.
25:10Yeah, no, he really encouraged improvisation,
25:13and I think that that was, you know,
25:14to make it feel realistic, and you know,
25:16having the complete police consultant on set
25:18really helped that as well.
25:19Yeah, brilliant.
25:19Love that actors chat there.
25:21Did you see?
25:21Shackled to the script.
25:22Well, sometimes.
25:23Like that one.
25:24Very thespian there.
25:25You can go off piece.
25:26Yeah.
25:27It's Andy for me.
25:28Someone who can't be bothered to learn their lines.
25:29It's really.
25:32Make up if you're going along.
25:36And we mentioned Taylor Swift a bit earlier.
25:39Now, is it right that you became friends with Prince,
25:43the actual Prince?
25:44Oh, yes.
25:45And how did that come about?
25:47Yes, when I was living in LA,
25:49I was nominated for an award there,
25:51and he was accepting the Lifetime Achievement Award.
25:54And at the end of the ceremony, I got invited to,
25:57he was throwing an after-party at this place in Bel-Air
26:00that he'd rented, and I brought my friend along with me
26:03because I was like, is this for real?
26:04You know, are we really going to Prince's house?
26:06And we had an incredible party.
26:08You know, he, like, everybody was, like, dancing
26:09on the swimming pool with, like, a dance floor.
26:14And he was an incredible supporter of Belle,
26:16the film that I did.
26:17And he actually, so much so that he played the after-party
26:22here in London for the London premiere of Belle,
26:25which was incredible.
26:25Wow, that's really cool, yeah.
26:26I mean, you've had some strange experiences in your career,
26:29that's far, because when you moved to London for the first time,
26:31you moved for drama school, correct?
26:32Yes, yes.
26:33You found some unusual housemates.
26:37Yeah, I mean, well, when I first found out that I got into RADA,
26:41I was actually on tour in Japan with the National Youth Music Theatre.
26:45Right.
26:45And so I only had a couple of weeks to find a place to live in London.
26:49And I didn't know anybody, you know, at drama school,
26:53you know, there's no halls of residence or anything,
26:55you just kind of have to figure it out, find digs.
26:57And the bursa at RADA said, well, you know,
26:59you went to a Catholic primary school, didn't you?
27:01Like, we know, like, this hostel that's run by nuns in Marylebone,
27:06it's a really short walk to the drama school,
27:08you can stay there.
27:10And there's another girl that also needs a place to live.
27:12So I stayed in this hostel run by nuns for the first time.
27:16But it was a bit tricky because they had a curfew.
27:19No parking for you.
27:20I was going to say, yeah.
27:21So I spent most weekends crashing on friends' sofas,
27:24and then one time my friend Amy had to help me break in
27:27because, you know, I got a bit late.
27:30Wow.
27:30It's after 11.
27:31It's another film in itself.
27:32Exactly.
27:33It's another film.
27:34It really is.
27:35One for the memoirs.
27:36Gugu's film Foos is in cinemas now.
27:39Yeah, that's it for tonight.
27:40Big thanks to Bradley and Gugu.
27:41I'll be back tomorrow with JB,
27:43and we'll be joined by Nick Muhammad,
27:44as he prepares to host the Olivia Awards this weekend.
27:47Plus actor Jane Krowkowski will be here,
27:49and we'll have live music from Jack Salaretti.
27:51See you then.
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