This programme contains some strong language.
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Oh!
Hello!
Hi, hi, hi, hello!
Hello, lovely to see you.
Hello, good evening, everybody, thank you very much.
You're very welcome to the show!
It's Friday night and, like orange stains on the White House
bed sheets, I'm back!
We've a great line-up for you tonight.
Right over there, say hello to our music act -
it's Celeste, everybody!
She'll be singing for us later.
But first, on our packed sofa tonight...
They're playing mother and son in Unstoppable,
the remarkable true story of the one-legged wrestling
champion Anthony Robles - it's the star of Moonlight
and When They See Us, Jharrel Jerome, and J-Lo herself,
film and music superstar Jennifer Lopez!
Here they come!
Hello!
Hello, lovely to meet you.
Jennifer Lopez!
All the better for seeing you!
Jennifer Lopez, everyone!
I know!
She's portraying the famed war photographer Lee Miller
in her powerful new biopic, Lee - it's the Emmy,
Bafta and Oscar-winning Kate Winslet, everybody!
Hey!
Lovely to see you.
Welcome back, nice to see you, have a seat.
And we have two ass-kickers from the Christmas comedy
action film Red One.
It's Charlie's Angels and Kill Bill star Lucy Liu,
and the mighty Rock himself, Dwayne Johnson!
Here they come!
Lovely to see you.
Hey!
Hello, everybody, welcome to the show.
Very, very pleased with this couch today!
So fun!
Very nice.
We are quite the bunch, yes.
Also, I feel, are you OK because you are flying
the flag solo for your film.
The others, you know, they are in pairs.
I am very good by myself, actually!
Good, I'm fine, I feel like I'm kind of in the middle of a double date
here or something but that's a nice feeling!
I don't mind.
We can turn it into that!
I'll be over here!
Jennifer and Dwanye, there is talk that you guys work out together.
Crush it!
We used to work out at the same gym.
Yes, and one time we trained at the same time.
We did, we did.
There is evidence, photo evidence.
Photo evidence it happened.
To see Jennifer work out is incredible.
Really?!
She's an animal!
Thank you.
In the gym!
Thank you, I mean...
Nobody compares.
Well, thank you.
My work-out was like this and kind of just staring out
the side of my eyes!
And its first welcome to Lucy Liu, so thrilled you are here.
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Thank you, I'm so thrilled to be here.
And look at this wonderful group of people I get
to hang out with tonight.
And I think, myself, like a lot of people here,
we first fell in love with you in Ally McBeal.
That was kind of your first then, wasn't it?
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Yes, and it was my first break-out role.
It must have been a lovely kind of fame because presumably everyone
was too scared to talk to you, approach you!
You know, after playing the role, I didn't realise when you go
to the grocery store, people are so intimidated
by that character.
That they were terrified of her.
So it made it a bit difficult to kind of connect with people!
Back away!
And talking of first jobs, Jharrel Jerome, it is amazing,
Moonlight was your first job.
Yeah.
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What were you, 17, 18?
I was, I actually auditioned for it on the day of my 18th
birthday, which was crazy.
And not just a job but also you get to go to the Oscars and of course
that was the famous Oscar year where Moonlight and La La Land
were involved in this thing.
We've got a picture of you.
Is this...
Is that after you have discovered Moonlight has won?
That's not me, actually!
I don't know who that is!
It was an out of body experience!
That's you, that's you!
That's me, that was in the moment when the producer of La La Land
came on and was, like, no, no, this is wrong, this
is wrong, it is Moonlight who won.
I thought he was doing like a Kanye thing, you know,
with the whole like, Moonlight should
have won but didn't!
And that's when I realised it's not a Kanye thing,
in that moment and just like my body left my body!
You looked shocked.
Not quite as shocked as Dwanye!
Look at Dwanye!
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I love Meryl too!
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The things you could cut to, the things you could
cut to from that shot!
It was so surreal in that moment because it's all happening,
as we all know, it's all happening in real life so I thought,
do I need to go and hit the stage and stop some of this
bullshit that's happening?
Dwanye saves the day!
All right, let's get started.
Christmas coming a little early this year as Dwayne Johnson
and Lucy Liu bring us Red One.
It is out in cinemas now.
Here is a taste of what to expect.
Cool place.
Welcome to the North Pole.
Come again?
Last night, Red One, also known as Saint Nicholas
of Myra, was abducted.
Are you saying Santa Claus has been kidnapped?
You are the best tracker in the world.
You are going to help us find him.
I work alone.
You used to.
I'm not going to like you.
I can tell right away, out of everyone here,
I like you the least.
Garcia?
What the...
Shall we do the thing?
I'm afraid we're going to have to.
You're mine until we find him.
God!
I suggest you get going.
Claws!
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Very good.
Love that bear, love that bear.
We get the idea, Santa has been kidnapped but who do you guys play?
I play Zoe Harlow who is the head of MORA, who is basically in charge
of all the mythological creatures.
Of course.
Yes.
And this guy here is the head of the ELF.
ELF, which stands for extremely large and formidable.
That's you!
That is you!
So essentially, yes, I am the equivalent
to Secret Service to Santa, the head of Secret Service to Santa
and Santa gets kidnapped and we have to find Santa and...
Save Christmas.
Of course you do!
I love it!
Your Santa, Oscar winner JK Simmons plays Santa,
but it's a very different sort of Santa.
He is the most jacked and ripped...
I think we've got a picture of him right now.
And hench...
There is buff Santa.
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I don't know if you guys know this about JK but, I mean,
he is in incredible shape.
Obviously he is an incredible actor, he can act ten feet tall
but just physically, he really brought something
interesting, amazing to the role.
We wanted to kind of take Christmas lore and flip it on its head.
And present a Santa that you've never seen before.
So, I'm sure you were working out with JK.
Were you working out with the two of them?
Oh, no!
No? No!
If anything, they were dead lifting me!
I was not doing the training part with these guys, they were,
like, fiercely into it.
She doesn't have to, she's a born badass!
As you see in this movie.
Originally they said there was no fight scene for me.
They were, like, maybe there is going to be one kick,
one punch, no training involved.
And then they showed me the previs and it was huge fight scene!
I was, like, OK, I've got to get into this right now.
So I just, automatically, the muscle memory kicked in and luckily,
from the other training I've done before, with Kill Bill,
with Charlie's Angels, it just kind of happened.
And is this your first ever Christmas movie, Dwanye?
It is, yeah.
It is my first one and I feel like, you know, just as actors it's
a bucket list thing to check off.
I know you did The Holiday of course.
Have you guys done Christmas movies yet?
I have not.
That's next!
But I want to and I've always wanted to make a Christmas album.
Yes!
I started to a couple of times and then you have to have
it in by June and I am always behind schedule!
I was late here today, you know!
Maybe do both?
Maybe, maybe one day.
Musical film!
That would be a dream.
I'll produce it!
Sorry, go ahead.
The Holiday gets seen every year.
Yes, The Holiday does get seen every year.
And, look, isn't it sweet?
Really amazing.
It's actually quite old, made in 2006, that film was made.
Wow.
But there is a very lovely thing that does happen with this film
is that every Christmas, mothers and daughters will come up
to me in the street or Waitrose or, and they will say...
You knew it was going to be Waitrose!
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Could have been Tesco, could have been Sainsbury's!
Waitrose!
And they come up to me and I always know they are going to do it
and I can see them coming because they will sort of take each
other's hands like this and they will come up and they say,
"Oh, Kate, do you mind? Can we just say..."
And I know they are going to say they love The Holiday.
"We love The Holiday."
And it becomes a sort of little ritualistic thing for mothers
and daughters at Christmas and they order a takeaway
and they have their chocolates and their bottle of wine,
and it's lovely, I love that.
It's wonderful.
And Lucy, you had a sweet reason for wanting to be in this movie.
Yes.
My son has never seen me do what I do in my career so this
is the first time he has seen me in live action.
So it's the first time he is going to really, like,
feel he can tell his friends what I really do.
So, he was on the set of Shazam, wasn't he?
He was on the set of Shazam, he came to visit but he still didn't know
what was going on and I was actually working with Helen...
Helen Mirren.
Helen came and wanted to see and meet Rockwell.
She came into the trailer, she spent time with him for like,
ten or 15 minutes, just talking to him.
As soon as she left, he said, "Mommy, I'm going to marry her!"
And I said, "My gosh, what if she's already married?"
He said, "Well, then, I'll just be her butler!"
That's the order, husband, butler!
I was, like, where is he getting this from?!
It's good to have options!
Now, you might think this is a stupid observation,
but honestly, this crossed might mind when I was
watching the film, OK.
When you watch the film, there are lots of tall characters.
There is the polar bear that we saw.
There are the snow monsters, and then there is Santa's brother.
What I noticed was, because in most films, I imagine,
you do a lot of looking down because you are bigger
than most people.
Yes.
In this you do a lot of acting looking up.
Yes!
Did you notice that while you were doing it, thinking,
this is odd that I'm having to look up so much?
I noticed, this is what Kevin Hart's life is like!
I had to!
As straight as I could!
There he is!
Aww!
There he is!
Aww, Kevin, go fuck off!
Kevin, I love Kevin!
As a matter of fact, we just texted Kevin today, so Lucy...
He tried to FaceTime Kevin.
We were doing a junket press interview and I came to find out
she's such a big fan of Kevin.
Huge fan.
I mean, I love comedy, I love people who are funny,
I think they are innately funny and I just used to have
such a crush on him.
And Jack Black.
These are people that are, like, you know...
Because funny is what gets my heart.
And then he tried to FaceTime him!
Tried to FaceTime Kevin.
And embarrass me but luckily the time difference was...
In your favour!
Yes, exactly, thank you!
Now, talking of looking down, someone who has a lot of experience
in this is Jharrel Jerome.
Because I don't know if you saw this series,
it was called I'm A Virgo.
You can still stream it and it is so good.
You play a 13 foot young man.
Taller than you, Dwanye!
But they didn't use CGI.
No, not at all.
We did forced perspective shooting, so kind of like how they did Lord
of the Rings and how they did Elf.
We have got a picture of you.
So that isn't CGI?
It's crazy.
So, there is a huge set of legs farther from the camera and I'm
sitting on the countertop closer to the camera, almost
as if like if you actually grabbed your phone and you put your finger
here and here, your fingers are two different sizes,
bigger here and smaller there.
So that's exactly what they did.
Just to set up this shot, it took an hour and a half.
And I had to kind of just sit like this for an hour and a half.
There was no body doubles or anything because
they needed my height.
So are you by yourself in that kitchen?
I am by myself, yes.
I'm talking to a little doll.
They made six inch dolls of all the actors.
So I am playing to a doll the entire time.
And then on the flip, I will leave and she will come
to the set and play to a 13 foot doll of me.
Wow.
Going back and forth.
The thing that is amazing about filming like that is that it's
much more cost-effective for smaller budget pieces.
We did a lot of this on Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind,
the exact same thing, the forced perspective sets.
It's absolutely brilliant and it really works.
It's time-consuming, that's the thing.
But it saves a lot of money.
It must also be quite lonely if you're doing all your acting
by yourself with just a little doll?
They built two different sets.
They built the mini house set and then a big house set,
and I played in the mini house set alone with all these dolls
for, like, six months!
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It got very weird!
Talking about family movies, and one of everybody's favourite is Moana.
And the sequel is coming out, Moana 2?
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There you are.
The 29th of this month.
Yes.
But here is the odd thing.
You are finishing the sequel, animated but at the same time,
you are filming Moana in live action?
Same time, we finished the sequel to Moana 2 at the same time
we are filming Moana live action, the original Moana live action
which will come out in 2026.
So it's kind of like there's a chessboard here and you are trying
to play all these pieces.
And our director of live action is a guy called Thomas Kail
who directed Hamilton.
So he comes from that kind of pedigree of music
and performance, and so there's song, there's performance,
there's dance.
And hair?
And there's a lot of hair!
Beautiful hair, by the way, yeah.
Not that I can grow it.
How long was the rehearsal for the dancing and the singing?
A couple of months.
Wow, that's so cool.
Because, I think, Kate, there's some fans of Moana in your house?
Yes, my son.
Oh, we were just talking about that.
Yes, we were.
So you are...
You're in my home a lot, actually.
It's been my dream, Kate, but, yes.
Oh, darling!
I want to be in a musical with him and have lots of hair!
Actually, it's just the sweaty part I'm quite excited
about with all that rehearsal.
That'll be quite exciting.
Me too, Kate.
Me too.
I always lower the tone when I come on the show, Graham!
Why do I do that to myself?
Work out with him.
Just work out with him.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
And you.
We'll work out together, yeah, and then I'll
have an amazing bum, like your one.
Lowering the tone again!
But my son so, yes, he's a huge Moana Maui fan, and I have to say,
one of the things for me as a parent of a daughter that I appreciated
so much about this piece is that I feel like it's the first time
we've seen a young girl with a normal, strong,
soft body and I just thought the representation for
young girls was bang on.
It made me so happy, so I just wanted to tell you that
because I think it's important.
Thank you so much for saying that.
It's very important that these things...
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Thank you.
But these things matter, you know.
I think they really, really do matter because,
from such a young age now, and mums remember this as well,
you have to say to your daughters, "I'm proud of myself,
"I feel good about how I look, you look amazing."
Because guess what?
With social media, they may never hear it from anyone else.
You have to tell them.
And that's why that film is so special to me,
because there's that beautiful girl, she's strong, she's resilient,
she's powerful, she's going out into the world by herself and she's
got this gorgeous, soft, normal shape.
I just loved it.
Anyway, moving on!
Thank you so much for saying that.
But it's important.
I appreciate that.
We had a moment backstage where we were talking
about Moana and so, for us, as just the film-makers of Moana,
it was really important for us too, and plus, as a proud girl dad,
I have in 20s, eight and six, so I have a wide array of ages,
and it was important to us too as well to make a film
where the female character, the young woman, is empowered,
so thank you for saying that.
It's just wonderful.
We look forward to more Moana, and just a reminder that Christmas
fun is available in Red One, out in cinemas now.
OK.
Thank you.
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Our next film is an extraordinary biopic starring Kate Winslet as Lee.
It's playing in cinemas and currently available on Sky and Now.
So this is the life story of Lee Miller.
So who is Lee Miller, why are we interested in her life?
So Lee Miller was a war correspondent, she was a female war
correspondent during the Second World War,
and she went to the front line at a time when women were really not
being given permission to go, very few women eventually
were given permission to go, but she was somebody whose life had
been somewhat defined by the men who had been a part of her youth.
She was described as the former muse - a reductive word,
muse, drives me crazy - muse of Man Ray, ex-lover
of Man Ray, former Vogue cover girl, and I just thought, hang
on a minute, this is a woman who went and documented
the atrocities of the Nazi regime, and she did it for the female
readers of British Vogue, and she had a courage
and determination that I felt that that story had to be lifted out
of the shadows and it just had to be told.
She was powerful, incredible, redefining femininity to me
in all the things we were just talking about 80 years ago,
and she did it because she had a very powerful streak of injustice
and she absolutely new that so much was being kept from view certainly
kept from the readers of Vogue and from the world.
And the extraordinary photographs she took,
so a lot of them didn't see the light of the day
till much more recently?
That's true.
So a lot of them were shown in Vogue at the time.
She did photograph the liberation of Dachau Concentration Camp,
and those images were printed in almost postage stamp size in kind
of a third of the page of an issue of British Vogue,
and she felt she was devastated because she really believed
that the world absolutely needed to know but, at that point,
the war was over and the Ministry of Information very much wanted
to lift people's spirits and have a change of tone,
but she couldn't bear this, and her editor, Audrey Withers,
played by Andrea Riseborough in our film, she's so brilliant.
She is extraordinary.
She fought for the images and they were printed on a much
larger scale eventually in American Vogue.
You are just extraordinary in the movie.
I mean, honestly.
In everything that you do, but it just was mind blowing
and to find out about her and just at this time in our lives,
it's just so important.
Thank you so much.
I'm so happy to be sitting next to you.
It's hard to get films made about women.
It is.
Thank you.
It is.
But there's a very famous picture that you create
to a spooky degree in the film.
It's this photograph.
That is Lee, and tell us where she is.
So that is Lee Miller, taking a bath in Hitler's bath tub.
Wow!
And such was her courage, that morning, she had been in Dachau
and she was photographing the horrific things that
had happened there, and she went to Munich,
she knew Hitler's address, a little bit like Downing Street,
many people knew where it was, bribed her way in with her partner
in crime, David Scherman, a photographer from Life magazine,
played by Andy Samberg, and they discovered that there
was hot running water, other people were already in there,
having a shave, going to the loo, whatever, and they hadn't washed
for six weeks, they hadn't changed their clothes for six weeks,
and Lee being Lee discovered hot water, and she just thought, "Well,
"I'm going to take a bath in that bath tub," and got her friend,
David Scherman, to photograph her because she knew it was a scoop and,
yes, we do recreate it in the film.
And this is you doing the same pose, and it's down to the last detail.
Oh, actually, you haven't got in there our CGI of the dirt
of Dachau on the bath mat, on Hitler's girly lemon yellow bath
mat, as she actually herself described it in the piece
she wrote about this.
And who took this picture?
So this photograph was actually taken by Annie Leibovitz.
So Anna Wintour...
We all know who Anna Wintour is.
She was hugely supportive of the film, and she said, "Oh,
"if you are recreating the bath tub scene, I have to send Annie."
And I said, "OK, if you have to!
"If you have to."
And it was an extraordinary night, actually.
We filmed the bath tub scene which in and of itself was just
extraordinary and mind blowing.
I couldn't really believe we were there because I was developing
the film for seven years and raising the financing, made it
at the end of 2022, and it's now nine years later,
and so some of these moments for me, I just was, like,
"I'm really doing it, it's really happening!"
Yeah.
And there were times when I thought, wow, I'm going to go on Graham's
show and I'm going to talk about Lee, and here I am!
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You've brought a clip, Kate.
This is kind of a scene you were describing earlier, I think?
Yeah, so I think we are about to see the clip where she goes into Vogue.
After the war, she was very sadly, like so many, she had terrible PTSD,
and this is really true, this really happened,
someone told me it was a secretary, a 15-year-old secretary working
at Vogue at the time, that Lee had come in one
day drunk and really, really distressed and she was
hunting through filing cabinets and boxes to look for her Dachau
negatives and she took scissors and she hacked into them,
wanting to destroy them because the world had not seen them.
Here we go.
Oh, goodness!
Stop, stop!
Please, you mustn't!
These are mine!
I took them!
I decide what happens to them!
Please!
Stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop!
They are a historical record!
Well, who cares?
Nobody saw them, you didn't print them!
I fought for them, Lee, I fought for them!
These must be preserved!
What, to stay in a filing cabinet?
The Minister thought they may disturb people.
This happened!
This really happened!
Lee, Lee, Lee, Lee!
This happened!
These images will disturb people more than they've
already been disturbed!
People need to move on!
Move on, move on?
There's a little girl in a death camp, raped and beaten!
How does she move on?
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Whoa!
So good.
But as you say, you know, it's extraordinary, you know,
you were hands-on, making this film, you were across everything,
even down to you were there at Abbey Road when they were
recording the soundtrack.
Oh, it was just amazing because I had produced the film and,
although I've executive produced before, producing is completely
different and it's totally different to the job of an actor and,
yes, from beginning to end and I was there at the scoring
Abbey Road, Alexandre Desplat did our score, I don't have a heck
we got him to say yes, but he was amazing, and,
when we were there, I was looking through the glass into the stage
where all the musicians are, huge 120 piece orchestra,
and I'm looking at this violinist and I thought,
"I know that face!"
And then the day goes on and a few of the musicians start going...
And they are sort of pointing at him, I'm thinking,
"Am I related to this person?
"Who is this person?"
And at the end of the day, I thought, OK, I've got to go.
So I went in and he went, "Kate, it's me!"
And you know when the Titanic is going down and the violinist
stands up and he goes, "Come on, lads," and
he starts playing?
It was that guy!
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I know, it was amazing!
Is it one of those guys?
Yes, here he is, here he is on the right side here.
It was him!
It was just wonderful and there he was.
We had so many moments like that in the film where people I've either
worked with before or really known for a long time, kind of grown up
in the industry with, they just showed up for me
and it was incredible.
Well, congratulations on getting it made.
It is an extraordinary, beautiful story.
I really hope people find it.
You can still see Lee and some cinemas and it's also
available on Sky and Now.
Very good!
Thank you.
Thank you so much.
Thank you.
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You wait ages for one extraordinary true story and then
along comes another one!
Jennifer Lopez and Jharrel Jerome, you're playing real-life
people in Unstoppable.
It's in cinemas from the 6th of December and then it'll be
on Prime video from the 16th of January next year.
I'm just sort of blown away by this.
I did not know anything about this man, so I guess tell us who you play
and about this extraordinary story.
Well, I'll let Jharrel start because he plays...
Well, OK.
Tell them who you play.
Pressure!
No, I play Anthony Robles, who is...
It's so hard to speak on it because of how close we've gone,
but he is an incredible human being who was born with one leg
and ended up becoming an NCAA wrestling champion and undefeated
throughout his college run as a wrestler, and so he has defied
odds that are unimaginable.
But the film I love so much because it has emphasis
on his relationship with his mother and who...
Right here.
Right there.
His mum, Judy?
Yeah.
His mum, Judy, yes.
Yeah, his mum, Judy, and just how she was there for him and how,
even though he overcame everything on the mat by himself
and in the gym by himself, he couldn't have done it
without her, so Jen plays Judy.
And, Jennifer, were you familiar with the story before
you encountered the film?
You know, I wasn't.
I read the script and I thought to myself,
this is Anthony's story, you know?
It's about him and, again, how he overcame the odds
to become this champion, and I felt like, oh,
Judy's part is a smaller part and they asked me to do it
and I was, like, you know what?
I do like it, it's a Latino story, it's about a positive family,
I think we need to again, make these type of movies,
we need to document our stories, and it's like an everyday family.
And then I met Judy, I asked to meet Judy, and we got
on Zoom and we were talking, she's a mum, I'm a mum,
we kind of like clicked on that right away, and I realised,
the more I got to know her and then Anthony, I was, like, you know what?
I need to sit with Anthony too.
And I sat with Anthony and the two of them and I realised
that they were the story, that that was really the story
and how they kind of grew up together and raised each other,
in a way, and inspired each other, but also about being a woman
and being a mother and how you disappear into that role,
but there's still so much going on behind the scenes.
It's a really beautiful family story and it's very inspirational and I'm
really honoured to play Judy and to be part of Anthony's story.
And, Jharrel, I think a lot of people will hear, oh,
a one-legged wrestler, how on earth does that work?
It's sort of a special type of wrestling, it's flat on the mat?
Yeah, yeah.
I'm not sure if anybody's familiar with collegiate wrestling at all,
but Anthony Robles has a specific style of wrestling.
Because he's missing a leg, he has to wrestle on the ground
and use pretty much his hands as legs, a way to glide
and move on the mat.
As leverage?
Yeah, as leverage, exactly.
I mean, I got real lucky to actually train with him
and his actual coach from ASU, Brian Stith, seven months,
five days a week, two hours a day, got on the map with him and I just
learned the rules of wrestling, the history of wrestling,
the camaraderie of it all, the community of it all.
Yeah.
Jennifer, you were talking about that relationship
between mother and son, so that's our clip, this
is the two of you as Anthony and Judy in Unstoppable.
Who you are already is enough.
You make people believe in something.
When they see you, they don't see someone who is missing a leg,
they see someone who is unstoppable!
And that makes them believe in themselves.
You can show them that anything is possible.
I know because you showed me.
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And I think I'm right in saying that
in our audience tonight we have
actual Anthony and Judy.
Anthony and Judy are here, I think.
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There they are!
You are very welcome to the show.
Judy beside Anthony, hello, hi, nice to meet you both.
Anthony, you are in the movie.
I am Jharrel's stunt double in the movie, yes, sir!
So all the kind of wide shots of the wrestling...
They are all Anthony, yeah.
I was on set for 13 hours, he was on set for 13 hours too.
Wow.
Just as much a part of it.
Yes.
And it's one thing to discover that your life is going to be a movie.
Judy, when did you discover that Jennifer Lopez
was going to play you?
LAUGHTER
I was shocked, my son called me when I was at work.
So I didn't believe it, it's still unbelievable!
And did you, because you were on set as well?
I was, yes.
So were you giving, I mean, notes is maybe a big word!
But were you chatting to Jennifer through the Filming process?
She was asking me a lot of questions, which was really
and Gracious of her, but, no, I keep telling her
that she did me better than I do me!
Wow.
And wasn't there one bit that you saw a photograph?
Yes, so, in my trailer I had, like, three boards full of family pictures
of them and I always felt like, I had listened to this podcast that
had Judy's voice and I just listened to Judy's voice and then
I would look right before I went out, kind of just
to absorb her essence and to see her eyes and stuff.
And there was one picture in particular that I actually put
on my make-up mirror.
Looking at it every day.
It was of her and Anthony at the championship,
right after he won, and she was kind of like this and he is looking
at her and they are kind of, you know, beaming.
And we were filming all of my reaction shots
for almost all the matches and these close shots.
In one day.
And we were getting towards the end and it wasn't in the script and this
is the great thing about Judy is she shared so much with me,
really intimate, personal details that nobody knew.
So I was doing this last part and I was, like it
the last day of shooting, like, what happened when you guys
were in this picture?
I've been looking at this picture all this time.
And she said, and I said, "What did you say to him?"
She goes, "I said, you did it!"
I said, "What did he say?"
"He said, we did it."
And I just was, like...
Billy!
Hold on!
We have to shoot this thing!
Where I come running out of the stand!
Did I just give away the end of the movie?!
Yes!
It's called Unstoppable, we knew it was going to have a happy ending!
You have a feeling and you have to go, you have to see it.
And we added it into the film and it was a great thing to do.
And actually, to give away a little movie secret,
I actually did the scene with Anthony that day.
Because he was down there being the stunt double,
the body double while Jharrel was not there.
Sleeping, at home!
So they were doing all my shots, and to give him a rest,
and he didn't know this was even in the movie, it
wasn't in the script.
And they were, like, and he was, what am I doing?
You are going to act with me!
You're going to say, we did it, like you said your mum.
He was, like, yeah, I remember, I remember.
It was amazing, actually, to do it with him.
And for you, obviously, these guys are playing the two of you.
But the rest of your family are in the movie as well.
Did they all kind of enjoy the experience of sitting down
and watch it all play out?
Absolutely, so much fun just watching my siblings,
on the wrestling mat, my sister was in the crowd,
just to see, the whole process has been family involvement
from the very beginning.
So this is our family legacy, it is an honour.
Wow.
Listen, enjoy your time in London, it's been such
a pleasure to meet you.
Anthony Robles and his mum Judy!
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Gorgeous.
And it's interesting of course, because we have another wrestler,
clearly, on the couch.
Does anybody know anything about wrestling?
Here is the weird thing.
You have something else in common with Judy
because you are the parent of a wrestler.
Oh, yeah!
So your eldest daughter, she is wrestling now?
She is, she wrestles as well, she followed in my footsteps.
The apple didn't fall far from the tree.
There she is.
Simone, yeah.
WWE has extension company called NXT, so she wrestles with NXT.
And I'm really super proud of her.
I have her and I have an eight-year-old and
a six-year-old, Jasmine and Tia.
And here's the thing, you mentioned your youngest
daughters, they are not so into wrestling but make up,
very keen on make up!
Of course, yeah.
And you get involved?
I have to, that's my job!
You have posted several pictures of them giving you makeovers!
I think we have got some.
Yes, that is glitter, glitter morning.
This next picture is giving me Chappell Roan vibes.
LAUGHTER
Yes, I will don the wig!
Any time, I'm ready!
I love that your arm is bigger than your daughter!
LAUGHTER
I look confused right now!
What's next?
What else have we got?
That's clever!
OK, you are laughing too hard!
What a brilliant idea!
It's the back of my head!
It's like when somebody opens the door...
It is the character from Goonies, you know, hey, you guys!
Chunk, it's Chunk!
Good daddy, good daddy!
I'm a good daddy!
Just a reminder for everybody, you can see Jharrel and Jennifer
in Unstoppable from next month.
Highly recommend it.
But now it is time for music.
This Brit Award winner was Oscar-nominated for her song
Hear My Voice in the film The Trial Of The Chicago Seven.
Here performing her new single, This Is Who I Am, it is Celeste!
to bloom and see the day?
to wish their lives away?
that this is who I am?
knows how to flow?
you were always told?
the sun may fall?
ever see me true ?
that this is who I am?
seems I've exhausted?
Wowser!
Celeste, everybody!
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE.
And her pianist and her strings.
Come on over, Celeste.
Beautiful job, gorgeous.
Hello!
Hi.
So nice to see you.
Celeste, this is Jharrel, Jennifer, Kate, Lucy and Dwanye.
Lovely to meet you, lovely to meet you, hello.
Lovely, lovely, lovely.
Lovely to meet you, amazing.
Have a seat, there you go.
Thank you very much for that, that staging was just
fantastic as well.
Marvellous.
That song we just heard, that is the first single
off the second album?
Yes, that will be my second album, yes.
The second album doesn't exist yet, though?
Well, it does, but in secret, I suppose!
When can people hear it?
Well, I think and I hope springtime next year, somewhere
around then.
OK, fingers crossed for that.
People, you might Know that song because in fact it is a theme
song.
Yes, that's right, it is the theme song from The Day Of The
Jackal which is...
They are all, oh, yes!
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I said I knew that song!
Eddie Redmayne's Day Of The Jackal With Legendre Lynch.
With Lashana Lynch. And I Was Lucky, I Saw Your Screen Deb Use Entrance
Macro. I'm Appearing In The New Steve Mcqueen Film Named Blitz,
Based In World War Ii.
That is me as a singer. Very difficult! It's amazing, the way
they have recreated the cafe de Paris. It was incredible, walking
onset, I've never been on a film set like that before. Is just a
television set, I get it! LAUGHTER I've been told! I've done this
but... A proper set! Watching it I thought it was the real cafe de
Paris. It wasn't actually shop there but they recreated it very
accurately. It's amazing, I don't know how you all feel put the meat
was such a moment of escapism from real life and it feels so real but
all of your thoughts, from who you are, they leave you and you enter
this new world and new body, new grain. You are a singer going into
the acting world and actors also into the into the pop music world,
Lucy Liu, you have to make a big pop shout outs. That's right! I was
listening and fascinated! Yes, from Destiny's Child, Outcast. The
Independent Woman Was Honestly The Charlie's Angels Theme But With He
Ya, Do You Get A Call Saying Your Name Is Going To Be In A Song? No,
You Are Suddenly Driving In The Car and you listen to the radio and it's
on. You to think my last name rhymes with everything, whatever you but
apparently I am ice-cold! And Jennifer, earlier this year we had
your ninth studio album. APPLAUSE And I know various reasons the tour
did not happen but is it in the future? I decided to take the summer
off and be home with the kids. It was the best thing I think I've ever
done. It's not like me to do that, and always when it comes up, I'd
like to apologise to the fans because I know a lot were coming
out. I saw fans who told me it's actually very touching, they came
out of the hotel yesterday, I had tickets to come see you! I was like,
I'm so sorry. He was like, don't say sorry, we love you. I'll start
crying! Was that you?! APPLAUSE
APPLAUSE.
I'm holding it together!
And the great news is, there is a Christmas album to come.
You heard it here tonight.
She promised, she promised.
But, yeah, so...
What a lovely moment!
That was adorable.
By the way, if you're watching this, thinking, we staged that.
We really didn't.
Security are going to be fired.
He is, like, I'm here!
I was, like, what?
Celeste, always a pleasure to have you to have you on the show.
Thank you.
Thank you so much for the performance.
Good luck with the album.
Celeste, everybody!
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That is nearly it.
Before we go, there's just time for a visit to the big red chair.
Who do we have?
Hello!
Hi!
What's your name?
Matthew.
OK.
And where do you live, Matthew?
Canvey Island.
Oh, Canvey Island?
Lovely part of the world.
Thank you!
And what you do there?
I'm actually an actor at Shrek's Adventure.
At what?
Shrek's Adventure on the South Bank.
I didn't know that was on.
Shrek's Adventure, everyone!
He's in it.
Off you go with your story.
So this was a few years ago when I was at...
Sorry.
..when I was at university.
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That was mean!
You decided right after Shrek's Adventure!
He was choking.
Hands up who thought that was mean?
Yes, you see!
It is a mean concept.
Shall we have one more?
OK, one more, one more, here we go.
Hello!
Hi, what's your name?
My name's Kerry.
Kerry, lovely!
And where are you from, Kerry?
I'm from Egham, which is near Windsor if you're posh
or Staines if you're not.
OK.
Which do you live near?
Definitely more near to Staines, I think.
OK, near Staines.
Off you go with your story, Kerry.
Several years ago, I was at a party with my brother-in-law
and my sister-in-law, and my sister-in-law's
sister-in-law was also there.
OK, anyone else confused?
But I knew that this lady was expecting a baby,
so I'd made a mental note to go off and congratulate her
about her pregnancy.
So I arrived at the party, she was there and made a beeline
for her, and I don't know what possessed me but I put my hand
on her little round tummy and I shook it and I just said,
"Oh, when is it due?"
She looked at me very stony faced and said,
"The baby's three months old and you're shaking
"The baby's three months old and you're shaking my cesarean scar."
My husband, who was with me, turned on his heel and disowned me
immediately and I was left very, very blank faced so, yeah.
I'm in two minds.
Couch?
I think that was a brave story to tell, actually.
Brave, brave.
The sister-in-law sister-in-law thing lost me.
APPLAUSE.
J Lo has spoken!
OK, that really is all we've got time for.
If you'd like to have a go in the red chair yourself
and tell your story, you can contact us via our website
at this very address.
Please say a huge thank you to all my guests tonight.
Celeste, everybody!
Jharrel Jerome!
Jennifer Lopez!
Kate Winslet!
Lucy Liu!
And Mr Dwayne Johnson!
Next week is Children in Need, so we won't be here,
but do join me the Friday after that with music from Benson Boone,
comic Chris McCausland, actor James Norton, Wicked star
Cynthia Erivo, and Oscar winner Nicole Kidman.
I'll see you then.
Goodnight, everybody!
Bye-bye!
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