On the show tonight we've got some real characters.
The Greatest Showman, Adonis Creed, Jim's dad from American Pie,
Gordon Gecko and Ant Man.
All this and your actual Damejudi Dench!
Say the words, Judi.
Let's start the show!
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Oh!
Hah, hah, hah, hah.
Hello, everybody, good evening, you are also welcome to the show.
Oh, we've got a great show for you tonight.
I tell you, I couldn't be more excited if I was Rishi Sunak
watching the lunchtime news about Nicola Sturgeon.
Yes!
I must ask you, did you all have a lovely Valentines Day?
Audience: Whoo!
Aw, who ate some nice Valentines food?
Perhaps oysters.
Feed your partner half a dozen of those adults some be
Feed your partner half a dozen of those and they'll some be
desperate to go upstairs.
Now, did you see this Valentine story?
A shop in London was selling a bunch of roses for £200.
£200!
You think, "Who wants sex so badly they're going to pay that
much for some flowers?"
Let's get some guests on!
Later, the stars of the new Ant Man film will be dropping by - that's
Paul Rudd and the legendary Michael Douglas!
And we'll have music from pop superstar Pink.
But first, this comedy great has starred in American Pie, Splash,
Best in Show and the global television hit Schitt's Creek.
Welcome for the first time Eugene Levy!
Here he is.
Hello.
They love you, they love you.
Eugene Levy.
Have a seat there.
He's the Black Panther star who's taking over Hollywood,
now back in the ring for Creed 3, please welcome Mr Michael B Jordan!
How are you, sir?
There you go, Eugene, Michael.
He's the Grammy, Emmy, and Tony award-winning star
of The Greatest Showman, Les Miserables and X-Men.
It's the one and only Hugh Jackman!
So nice to see you.
And this star of stage and screen is a BAFTA,
Golden Globe and Oscar winner, and we couldn't love her any
more than we do - please welcome Damejudi Dench!
There's a stair and a stair.
There we go.
Have a seat.
Oh, have a seat, there is a cushion there, you're all good.
Quite a couch I think you'll agree.
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Shove up, Eugene.
Shove up, shove up.
Sit close, sit close.
You're good, you're good.
Damejudi Dench, do you know everyone on the couch?
Well, I do now.
Oh, good.
We've had a bit of a hug back here.
Oh, nice.
It was a warm hug.
You met Hugh Jackman before, I think.
We did.
Oh, we met.
Oh, we did.
We did once.
Once?
You only remember once?
Oh, is that all I remember?
Yeah, there's many more times.
Was it a fortnight?
It was at least a fortnight.
You met in a corridor, didn't you?
We did meet in a corridor.
Total strangers and we had a great kiss.
AUDIENCE: Wh00!
People are very, very envious.
We had another one just now so I've had two kisses.
Wow, and the night is young, the night is young.
Keep drinking.
See you, GUYS-
But, Hugh Jackman, you nearly worked with Dame Judy.
Oh, yes, well, no.
I wish I had worked with Damejudi in anything and everything
but there was a point where my agent rang me and said are
you interested in playing Bond?
Not that it was an offer for bond.
Of course I didn't know that you were playing M at the time,
but it was one of those things where I have since found out
when I was being asked if I was interested about eight
other actors were being asked at the same time.
OK.
Including Daniel Craig, so there you go.
And he killed it.
I was approached to play Bond.
Were you?
Not James Bond.
And it's funny being on, I've got to say, being on a show
with Hugh because I've been compared to Hugh Jackman so many times.
You know, the difference between us really is...
Professionalism.
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I have very little.
By the way, Jordan, I didn't realise your name is kind
of directly connected to your dad.
Yeah, I'm not a junior because our middle names
are different but my clad is MichaelAjordan
and I'm Michael B.
Isn't that cute?
By chance I think.
I don't know if that was intentional.
Oh, it must have been.
I'll ask right after the show.
I never really thought about it like that until just now,
it's actually a little weird.
I just assumed if you had a son it would be Michael C
and on down the line.
Mm-mm, mm-mm.
I think I'm breaking the cycle now, I've got to give him something
else, I can't do it.
And, Eugene Levy, a lot of people know you and love
you from Shitt's Creek.
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Is it true, because now it's a success so everybody knows
that it is Schitt's Creek, but when it started there was some
resistance to that name.
A little.
Yeah, the broadcaster loved the idea of the show and then
they finally got to, "Now, let's talk about the title."
And we had to tell them quite honestly there
were Schitts all over the world.
You know, we had to tell them look in a phone book
and you are going to find Schitt as a name it's S- H-I-T-T,
H-I-T-T, it's a legitimate name, I believe Irish derivation.
No, don't blame us.
And they tried to change it, they try to say what
about without a paddle?
No, it doesn't have the same ring to it.
It doesn't have the same ring.
So that's what happened.
A perfect name and the rest is history, ladies and gentlemen.
We've got such a busy show tonight, so let's get going.
We're going to start Damejudi's new film Alleluia.
It is in cinemas from the 17th of March.
So this is a lovely play, is based on an Alan Bennett play.
It is.
Who do you play, what can you tell us about the story?
I play somebody called Mary Moss who is a kind of,
I think she was a librarian.
She sits on her bed all clay and does the Times crossword
and fancies her doctor, played by Barry Gill,
not a difficult thing to act.
So that's really all I do.
And Jennifer Saunders we saw there is...
It's a very different role for her.
I mean, there are laughs, but it is not a full out comedy.
It isn't, it's got a surprise or two in it.
Yes.
Which I'm not going to tell you about.
No.
Please don't.
Ancl wonderful it was and Julia McKenzie and a whole crowd
of people, it was heaven to do.
And on one level it's a story but on another level it's also
a big cheer for the NHS.
It certainly is and we need to be reminded, I think, don't we?
I think it comes out at a very good time.
I tell you what, we've got a clip, this is you as Mary getting
to grips with technology.
Has it got a mouse?
You don't need a mouse, Mary.
Everything is operated by the touch-screen.
Swipe on the icon like we did before.
With greater gentleness as though you've seen a speck of dust
and wish to brush it away.
You'll put us all out of a job.
I said that to my computer the clay they digitalised the library.
I was at the forefront of modernisation.
What do you wish me to record?
Well, the film-makers simply want your point of view.
For you to record what you see, to tell them what your life is like.
I could tell you something about that chair, only I won't.
That's such an Alan Bennett line.
That is Barry Gill there and that iPad has become crucial to the plot.
It does, it does.
She gets up, well, she doesn't get up to no good, she gets up
to quite a lot of good but, yes, it's very much to do
with the plot and what unfolds.
And because it's an Alan Bennett it's his words.
Presumably they're quite precious.
And I heard you in an interview talking about how learning lines has
become harder for you now.
It has become impossible, it's become absolutely impossible,
because I can't see now, I can't read or anything,
now normally somebody could just teach you the lines and,
goodness knows, that's happened before, but now I just found
I have a photographic memory so I need to know where the line
is so I've got to find a machine that teaches me the line,
but also says this is at the top of page 17 or whatever
so that I can, you know.
So prior to this learning lines was very easy for you?
Yes, it used to be.
Not so easy now, but I'll find a way.
Can you remember lines from way back?
I can do the whole of Twelfth night for you now.
Don't encourage her.
Like a runaway train, you asked, Hugh.
And in the end of the movie, Alleluia, we hear the hymn Alleluia
and you are in the choir.
Well, choir, I suppose so, yes.
You are in it.
A group of people singing.
Yes.
I don't think I'd go so far as saying choir.
But you're no stranger to musical theatre.
No, I mean, one of your big hits in the West End was when you were
Sally Bowles in Cabaret.
Yeah, that was a while ago.
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I think it was the West End premiere of that.
It was, it was at the Palace Theatre.
We had a most marvellous time.
It looks like you had a fabulous time.
You can see I'm having a good time.
Well, you're having a better time here.
APPLAUSE.
That is some bottom.
The trouble...
We were at the Palace Theatre and my dressing room
at the Palace Theatre was below ground with a bit of window,
you must know it, Graham.
Yes.
With a bit of window at the top so you hear everybody walking by.
Ancl I heard one person walking by very early
on and I heard this woman saying, "Judi Dench in a musical?
No one will go to see that, clear, no one."
As you are making-up.
Can I tell a little story aboutjudy?
Please, do.
Which you can cut out later.
The first time we met was backstage at a Royal command performance,
I think it was Hey Mr Producer, I think it was 1998 or something.
I had just come to London and I was doing Oklahoma
and I was going to sing a song from Oklahoma and you were singing
Send In The Clowns.
There were a number of different performers.
Ancl I will never forget this, I was so nervous, I'm in London,
the Queen, the whole thing, everyone is there,
and as I came down the stairs you were performing before me.
As I came down the stairs you are standing, the stage is right
there, you were right in the wing and you were like this.
You were going, "why did I say yes?
Why did I say yes?"
Ancl you were muttering and I said, "Judy?"
Ancl you are like, "What?"
I said, "You are amazing, I saw you at the dress rehearsal,
you are the best thing here."
Ancl she goes, "Really?"
Ancl I go, "You are an incredible singer," and she goes,
"Shut up I can't sing one of those things."
It's a great story.
As actors we need the encouragement, you know what I'm saying?
And we support each other so when we see somebody locked
in and they are in the zone sometimes the right words can give
them that edge they need.
That's beautiful.
Yeah, you're right.
It's also that thing about finding the fire alarm
backstage just in case.
Knowing where it is.
So Judy's Alleluia, meanwhile, Hugh Jackman brings us
such a powerful drama.
This is called The Son.
It is in cinemas from today.
This is a film written and directed by Florian Zeller who we know
because he wrote The Father.
This isn't a sequel but it is a companion piece,
would you describe it as?
Yes, it's spiritually connected, it's thematically connected.
He wrote three plays, The Father, The Son, The Mother.
So he turned the first one, The Father, into a film.
This is his second one, I'm not sure if he's doing The Mother.
But, for example, Anthony Hopkins is in our movie and of course won
the Oscar for The Father but it's not the same character.
So it's all round families facing a crisis.
In the first one there was a man with dementia in the film really
takes you inside the head of Anthony Hopkins permanent
takes you inside the head of Anthony Hopkins'
character and what it is like to have dementia.
That was an amazing movie, The Father.
Extraordinary, and it was Florian's first director,
his directorial debut, and he was incredible.
Ancl so this follow up film The Son is about a 17-year-old boy
going through acute depression.
Instead of being inside his head, it is centred around
the people caring for the son.
The parents, I play the father who has now remarried,
so there is a stepmother, a baby.
It is complicated and what Florian is able to do is make you feel
what it's like to be in the shoes of those characters.
Yeah, he really does.
You are starring in it but it is an amazing cast...
Vanessa Kirby, our own Vanessa Kirby.
Anthony Hopkins, there is a young actor from Australia actually,
auditioned on the zoom, his name is Zen McGrath.
He's Australian?
He's an Aussie, yeah.
It was an amazing cast, it was an amazing experience
and it's a film that I hope.
Some conversations around mental health.
We've got a clip, this is you and your son played
by the Australian, Zen McGrath and it's the two of
you having a showdown.
Take back what you've just said, Nicholas.
Do you hear me, you take back what you've just said now.
Asshole.
Me, an asshole?
Me?
Haven't I always clone everything for you.
I stayed with your mother for years for your sake,
so why are you saying this?
Why?
Tell me why?
Is it because I fell in love with another woman?
Is that my crime?
How is that any of your business?
I have the right to reinvent my life?
It's my life, do you hear me?
It is my life.
I'm sorry, Nicholas.
I don't know what just happened there.
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Powerful, powerful.
It is really powerful and clearly you are playing a character,
but at the same time you are a dad playing a dad.
Did it inform this dad, or did that dad inform your home life?
I didn't go home and do that, just so you know.
LAUGHTER.
It changed me as a parent.
I think the one thing there is a beautiful line in this
play by one of the doctors when the boy ends up
going to a psychiatric hospital and we had this agonising decision
as to whether to leave him in order to take him out.
The boy is desperate to come out.
Ancl the doctor is saying, love isn't enough, it's not always enough.
Ancl it's one of the most difficult things I think for a parent to hear.
Because you love that kid more than anyone,
you were there for that kid, you know that kid more than anyone
but sometimes with really difficult mental health issues,
you need help.
You don't know what to do, you need professionals.
That's one of the things I've taken away from this as a parent,
it's OK not to know, it's OK to say, I don't know.
It is OK to be open with your kids, to be vulnerable.
I used to think that they probably wanted surety for me,
strength, they don't want to see me vulnerable.
I now share with them things I wouldn't have clone before
and hopefully I'm not a boring clad doing it, but I think
they appreciate it.
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And then in the middle of all of this you lost your own dad?
Yes, my father passed away during filming.
It was a very emotional time and I'm so grateful,
to first of all my family, they were in a Covid bubble.
Thank goodness I had my family with me.
The director, Florian, but every single member
of that crew and cast.
Because when you go through something like that
and you are doing a film that intense, you just can't...
Do it alone.
You can't.
You need to lean on people and I had people there.
Ancl I did, so I am very grateful for it.
You should be so proud of this film because you are so good in it,
it's such a powerful film.
APPLAUSE.
It's called The Son it's out today, Hugh Jackman, everybody.
CH EERING AND APPLAUSE.
I'm sorry, I didn't mean to upset you.
You didn't, it's just there and it's life.
It's life, it is.
Michael Pjordan brings us a very different movie.
Adonis Creed returns in Creed Ill.
This is out in cinemas on March the 3rd and he is just
a taste of what to expect.
Damien's fighting the world and he's trying to hurt people.
I vouched for you.
You think you're mad?
Try spending half your life in a cell watching somebody
else live your life.
I'm coming for everything.
You threatening me?
Something is going on with you.
Damien was like family.
Now we're past talking.
Then may be you just have to fight him.
I need you to let go of your fear.
Let go of the guilt.
Let go of whatever was and fork into parties.
Let go of whatever was and walk into what is.
CH EERING AND APPLAUSE.
That is Creed Ill.
Don't make him mad, Eugene.
One difference between us.
When we last saw Adonis Creed on top of the world, why is he back,
what drags him back into the ring?
H is past.
You know, how can we somehow make Adonis Creed the underdog again?
He has everything he wanted, he checked off all the boxes,
he has the family, he has the cars, he has the fame, he has the title.
The one thing I wanted to explore with this movie is childhood trauma
and how during those transformative years, how does that
shape us as men today?
Ancl just listening to you speak about parenting and how to do
the right thing and as a man, what does toxic masculinity
look like today?
It doesn't make you any less of a man to speak
about your feelings or something that happened to you in the past.
We wanted to kind of frame that around Adonis in the form
of his childhood best friend that went through some childhood trauma,
went through some experiences.
One went left and the other went right and a lot of space in between,
I'm trying to not spoil everything.
Ancl they end up having to meet 20 years later and he has to face that
best friend he hasn't seen in over 20 years.
And you're not just starring in it, you are directing this one?
I am.
Hats off to you...
CH EERING AND APPLAUSE.
Appreciate that, man.
Directing any movie is difficult, but directing boxing sequences, that
that must be a specific challenge?
It was but funnily enough, directing the boxing
was the easiest thing.
Really?
Because it was something I knew very well, there a formula to it.
Yes, I wanted to take some creative swings because it's the ninth
movie over the sagas.
You think about how many fights that was shot and how many
boxing scenes and punches.
I had to lean on my love ofjapanese animation and the themes of that,
that make this one creatively and visually look different.
It's funny because when you are directing yourself
you can somehow come in your performance, direct.
So if I need you to look up stage and I know the shot is,
all I have to do is move up stage, I don't have to yell, cut,
I don't have to break the momentum, I can keep the flow.
That stage presence that you have when you are doing theatre.
I found if I did longer takes and I stayed in longer I can adjust
I can keep detention without having to cut, back to the monitors
and look for certain things.
So it was like a Chico of sorts.
That is so much to have going on in your head?
We are a little nuts, a little bit.
But it was the challenge, honestly acting for such a long time
I wanted to see how I could evolve.
I've seen it clone before, obviously been on set for a really
long time and I just wanted to challenge myself
to see how I could grow.
And a part of being in a movie like this you need to be in great shape.
Clearly, you are in great shape.
Is it this month's Rolling Stone, this is you in this
month's Rolling Stone.
CH EERING AND APPLAUSE.
Yes, that was after we finished shooting.
So this is like the before picture.
No, that's their what's left picture.
Judith has just asked if we could swap seats.
Keep on drinking, keep on drinking.
APPLAUSE.
Often people have to get in shape for movies but in this
you have an opponent played by the mighty Jonathan Major
Jonathan Majors, how great is he?
When you got into the ring with him, presumably there was a bit of, oh,
he's gotten eight pack!
Yeah, it was crazy because when we first started training for this,
about a year and a half ago, going on two years and he was
in great shape then.
I was like, we could shoot the movie right now.
He's so competitive and such a workhorse, he would be
in the gym before me and he would leave after me.
He's one of the guys that he really lived in the gym
and it shows on screen.
It really does.
And talking of getting in shape, Hugh Jackman,
you are back being Wolverine?
Yes.
APPLAUSE.
That is the blueprint for actors.
When we saw this, every actor that wanted to mimic what he did
and listening to his diet and his work-out regiment
that is the blueprint.
This is CGI.
LAUGHTER.
Don't have any sugar right before you shoot.
I wasn't directing at the same time.
Obviously there's a lot of work in the gym but the diet
is even worse in a way?
That's the thing I didn't realise, body-builders will always
say their body is 70% their diet and only 30% their training.
I assumed it was all about pumping iron, but it is a science,
the whole eating thing is a science.
I complained it all clay long.
I am in this thing right now where I am eating
5000 calories a clay, just loading, eating, eating.
I'm complaining and my wife is like, shut up.
Sitting beside these two guys, I feel like they are
a tuxedo and I'm a pair of brown shoes.
LAUGHTER.
APPLAUSE.
When I told my daughter I was on the show with you she said,
will you get him to say my two left feet line, just when you said shoes
and I thought of it, it's one of the greatest lines
in a movie from, do you remember it?
The best in show.
Best in show.
I can't dance, I've got two left feet.
APPLAUSE.
Talking of iconic characters, Eugene Levy, you have created some
extraordinary comedy characters over the years.
A lot of people know you as Jim's dad in American Pie.
Yes.
APPLAUSE.
But you didn't want to do that, you said no to that?
I said no initially, yes because I got the script
and reading the script you get to, you know, page number four
and somebody is masterbating into a glass of beer and then
somebody else unknowingly picks up the beer and then kind of drinks it.
And then two pages later there is somebody kind of, you know,
performing oral sex...
Can I just say, I can only apologise, I had no idea
where this was going to go.
I am building up to a point here.
LAUGHTER.
I didn't want to do it, I didn't even like the part,
the way it was written, Jim's dad because it was kind
of written as a nudge, nudge, wink, wink kind of thing with the dad
trying to be friends, kind of a hip friend with his son.
And I said I don't want to play that.
I think a dad should be the kind of dad that nobody wants
to hang around with.
Right?
When they are a kid, just a square dad trying
to do the right thing.
So they allowed me to improvise.
Do all the scenes, take them out and improvise before
we started shooting, before I committed to do it
and then I liked the way the improvisations were going,
it was turning out the way I wanted it to.
So I said, OK.
But that was a tough one.
It must be nearly 50 years now of creating amazing comedy
characters and finally you are playing yourself,
you are being yourself.
Eugene Levy in the TV series The Reluctant Traveller,
this is streaming on Apple TV+ on the 24th of February
which is next Friday, so where did the reluctant traveller
go, where did they take you?
Where did they take me?
They took me all over the world.
This was a show...
I got a call saying Apple TV plus wants you to host a travel
show about exotic hotels around the world.
In the first second I'm going, wow!
I get this call?
And they didn't know anything.
What they didn't know was I'm not fond of travelling.
I really don't love it, you know.
I don't hate it, I just don't love it.
It's like a pain, it's getting through security at an airport
and taking off your things and your shoes, your belt
and getting berated by security people, you know, who are never
in a good mood.
No wonder, how many times a day can you say, take your shoes off.
Take your shoes off.
So by the time you get through that experience I'm ready to go home.
Yeah, we went all over the world and...
Amazing places?
Yeah, the point of the show for me is trying things.
It's just getting to the point where you try things,
go to the places you wouldn't necessarily have gone to.
I wouldn't have booked Lapland to go on vacation near the arctic Circle.
I don't have a very adventurous spirit, I'm not a curious person,
which is one of the reasons I said no from the beginning.
You've got the wrong person, I'm not an explorer.
We've got a clip of you.
This is you in Finland and you are trying out something,
you are trying out some ice fishing.
Oh, God.
Nice to meet you.
Hi, nice to meet you.
This must be Little Lulu.
So he's very anxious to start some fishing.
Well, I've never fished.
Never'?
Never fished, no.
We are going to test a really old-fashioned rod to fish
and hope to get some perch.
We have to make a hole.
Do you want to try?
How's that?
Sounds good.
Are you having a good time?
You are doing well.
I wasn't expecting to manually drill through the ice.
So it takes a lot if you are not used to it.
Do you need some help?
No, I got it.
For anybody with lesser capabilities it might have been a chore,
but, it was kind of one, two, three for me.
Wow.
See, I'm tougher than I look.
Well done.
Eugene's show The Reluctant Traveller is on TV+.
But now I hear it's time to meet our next guest,
hotfoot from the UK premiere of the latest Ant Man
please welcome Paul Rudd and Michael Douglas.
CHEERING.
So nice to see you again.
Nice to see you.
So, welcome, gentlemen.
How was the premiere?
It's kind of happening right now, isn't it?
It has just started and everything.
It's crazy, they have a big press line and there are people
dressed up in costumes, it's like a Come con, really.
But it's very exciting.
Are the people dressed up as your character, Michael?
Unfortunately, yes.
The film, Ant Man And The Wasp, a quantum mania, it
in cinemas from today.
Let's take a look.
Let me make this easy for you.
You will bring me glad news or everything you call life will end.
This is all my fault.
You may not want her to watch this.
We may have a deal.
You thought you could win.
I don't have to win.
We both deserve to lose.
CHEERING.
It is epic.
So, Paul Rudd, Ant Man, he's in a good place.
Yes, he's in a good place.
After the events of Endgame and all of the other Marvel stories
we have seen before, so he's been in jail a few times,
he's been in the quantum room a few times, he's saved the universe.
Great shape.
He's written a book.
He's written a book and he goes, "Finally, I can just rest."
Ancl he's kind of taking a little bit of a victory lap and he gets some
time now to spend with his daughter which is what he wants.
Ancl things are good, for five minutes.
And your character Hank is sort of semi-retired?
Henry to you.
Henry, sorry.
Hank is semi-retired in the second one which is Ant Man And The Wasp.
My wife, Michelle Pfeiffer, named Janet, has been lost
to the quantum realm for 30 years.
30 years.
A long time.
You're selling this film one ticket at a time.
Ancl we have a new member of our family, our grand-daughter Cassie,
Catherine, who makes a little faux pas,
a little faux pas, brings the whole family back to the quantum realm.
Yes, which is what we try to get out of.
You following this?
There will be a quiz afterwards, Judi.
LAUGHTER.
What is the quantum realm?
I just got out about a week ago.
The quantum realm is a really small place.
It's really tiny.
If you look at your pinky and you take the tip
of a needle and just touch it, that's the size
of the quantum realm.
Michael B is following.
The movie takes place in Michael's fingernail.
Let's get into this, let's get into this because there
is a new baddie in this movie played by Jonathan Majors, who also
is opposite you in Creed 3.
He is having an amazing time right now.
He couldn't be more different in these films, it's extraordinary.
He was getting ready to go and film Creed
while we were I'm sorry.
He was in it.
He was in it, I felt bad for you, but I know you can handle yourself.
I can't handle myself.
It was terrifying.
Are they all long fight scenes?
Really long fight scenes, he is a good actor, he's in it.
The choreography, we mapped everything out but...
Occasionally you might miss a step and so it was pretty intense.
Did you actually get hurt hurt?
You cracked a rib, didn't you crack a rib?
I did, I cracked a rib.
Not on Jonathan, on a part of the set.
LAUGHTER.
I went to the side, oh.
Someone else had action scenes with someone in this movie
because Hugh Jackman, you have worked with
The Wasp, Evangeline Lilly?
Yes, Evangeline Lilly in Real Steel.
We had a kiss in the movie and it was the first time
at the premiere as the scene was playing, I realised my son
was there, who was ten and I was like, "Oh,
he's never seen me kiss anyone other than his mum."
And I looked as we go in for the kiss, I looked
at him and he was like...
LAUGHTER.
And I looked at him and he looked at me and he goes,
"You are in so much trouble."
LAUGHTER.
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There is another nice connection on the couch because Michael,
you worked with Eugene a long time ago?
In the 70s.
1979.
Yeah, in Montreal, Canada.
Montreal, Canada and New York.
Yeah, I blame New York.
Was that your first movie?
That was my first film.
You were in Second City, weren't you, before that?
Before that, I was in Second City, in 1979,
I wasn't doing much, to be honest.
It was also very early in my career.
I had finished, I did The Streets Of San Francisco,
a series, a few years before that.
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We did this movie, I got the part.
I don't know why I got it because when I was auditioning
for it and I was getting laughs in the audition.
I thought, there you go.
I thought it was a drama.
I thought it was a drama and then they came and they said no, no,
no it was very good.
Sol did get the part, but it was kind of nerve-racking.
Look at us, what a line-up you've got here by the way.
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You don't find this in the states.
Judi, you haven't worked with Michael but you had a lovely
hon our from his father, Kirk Douglas?
I did indeed.
I got invited to meet him.
The Santa Barbara International film Festival?
It was, it was.
He wasn't well at the time, but I did go and was invited
to go and meet him.
I will never forget it, ever.
I think we've got a picture of the two of you together.
Oh.
I like that picture.
We'll get you one.
2017.
We also shared a birthday.
Are you September the 25th too?
December the 9th.
LAUGHTER.
One of you is right.
That was dad's birthday.
We shared it.
Must be me.
Earlier we were talking about getting in shape in film
so when you are Ant Man is their pressure to really
bulk up the Ant Man?
I try and get in shape and there is a whole kind
of regimen I go through.
I have in each one.
I was doing it for this one too and working out
simultaneously with Jonathan.
WOW!
Yeah, which seemed kind of just pointless.
Also, Wolverine, Creed, they take their shirts off.
Ant Man never takes his shirt off?
I stupidly realised that about half way through filming.
I thought, why am I putting myself through this?
The suit can do most of the work.
I like to think it gave me enough, my conditioning was good
and I was able to film throughout the clay.
We know he has great abs.
Yeah.
Do we know?
Michael talks about little else.
We are out of time and it's such a pleasure to have you on the show.
Thank you so much and good luck with the film.
Paul Rudd and Michael Douglas!
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Right, this is special, time for music.
With 60 million album sales worldwide, this pop superstar
is the UK's most played female artist of the century.
Here, with a really amazing performance of the title track
from her ninth studio album, Trust fall it is, Pink!
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# Trust fall, baby
# Picture a place where it all doesn't hurt
# Where everything's safe and it doesn't get worse, oh my
# We see through bloodshot eyes
# Picture a place, somewhere else far away
# Where you know what they mean and they mean what they say to us
# and would that be enough?
# Are we running out of time?
# Are we hiding from the light?
# Are we just too scared to fight for what we want tonight?
# Close your eyes and leave it all behind
# Go where love is on our side
# It's a trust fall, baby
# You and I and everyone alive
# We can run into the fire It's a trust fall, baby
# Yeah, it's a trust fall, baby
#jump with me, come with me, burn like the sun
# We'll talk, then we'll cry, then we'll laugh
# till we're done, oh my
# It's like we're out our minds
# We've been running for our lives
# We've been hiding from the light
# We've been far too scared to fight for what we want tonight
# Close your eyes and leave it all behind
# Go where love is on our side
# It's a trust fall, baby
# Yeah it's a trust fall, baby
# What if we just fall?
# I'm not going without you
# And you're not going alone
# I fell so far till I found you
# But you know what you know when you know
# So I'm not going without you
# And you're not going alone
# 'Cause you know when you know
# Close your eyes and leave it all behind
# Go where love is on our side
# It's a trust fall, baby
# What if we just fall?
# What if we just...#
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How incredible was that?
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That is one for the ages.
Thank you so much.
Pink, this is everybody.
I have so much room.
He put his hand down.
At that old trick.
I think that was amazing.
Thank you.
Johann?
Yes, he's incredible.
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How did you find him?
On the gram.
On the gram?
Yes, I think I've seen a video of you...
I've been watching him perform the years and I finally,
thank you for letting me do that.
It's the least work I've ever clone in a performance, so thank you.
Just incredible, incredible.
That is the title track of the album which is out today, congratulations.
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And when I heard we were sourcing a trampoline for Pink,
I assumed you would be trampolining.
I know, I feel like I've kind of let you down.
But that wouldn't have happened.
Crash cart and medics.
You have become famous now for doing these aerial stunts?
I am Pinkerbell.
LAUGHTER.
You've watched the aerial stunts that Pink does?
Yeah, it's incredible.
It's a lot of fun, it's very scary, it's fun.
I was afraid of heights so I decided I had to do it.
That begs the question, why?
Lots of people go on tour and they stay on the stage
and they sing the songs.
My mum asks me why I won't do that.
Why would you when you can do that?
I love the ones where you are, these ones, I love these ones.
It's really fun.
I can't describe it.
Are you singing live when you are up in those?
Always, I will never, I have never lip-synched in my life.
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But that must be so hard?
I don't know if it's hard, because I'm a screamer,
I don't sing ballads.
Is it a different feeling from the fans, you get the energy
as opposed to being on stage?
You get to see everybody, I can see that one kid that had
to drive his sister.
LAUGHTER.
20,000 people and I'm like oh, yeah, you're the one.
Don't smile.
She is going to win you over.
That kid can go and see you on tour because you are bringing
Summer Carnival to the UK.
Tickets are available now.
It kicks off in Bolton on the 7th ofjune and this
is all big arenas, right?
Stadiums.
And a few dates in Hyde Park, that would be amazing?
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Hyde Park is magic, I did it once before and it's magic.
I heard last year's was the hottest clay on record, so I'm
trying to avoid that.
The chances of that happening again are quite slim.
Pink, I can't thank you enough for that performance.
Thank you for having me back.
It was just epic, really, really special.
APPLAUSE.
Good luck with the album and the tour, Pink everybody.
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That is it for tonight, no time for red chairs I'm afraid,
so please say a huge thank you to my other guests
tonight, Eugene Levy.
Michael P Jordan.
Hugh Jackman.
Damejudi Dench.
Michael Douglas.
And Paul Rudd.
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Join me next week with singer, Freya Ridings.
The Mandolorian's Pedro Pascal, Oscar-winner Ariana DeBose,
and acting greats Sir Patrick Stewart and Dame Helen Mirren.
I'll see you then, good night everybody.
Bye-bye.