1 00:00:07,525 --> 00:00:10,285 This programme contains some strong language 2 00:00:10,285 --> 00:00:13,205 Hi, everyone, I'm Jamie Lee Curtis and my new movie, Halloween Ends, 3 00:00:13,205 --> 00:00:16,085 is super scary and where all a bit jumpy tonight, you know... 4 00:00:16,085 --> 00:00:17,085 Oh! 5 00:00:17,085 --> 00:00:18,125 It's only me! 6 00:00:18,125 --> 00:00:20,485 Calm down! 7 00:00:20,485 --> 00:00:21,965 Oh, can we get started? 8 00:00:21,965 --> 00:00:23,565 BOTH: ARGH! 9 00:00:23,565 --> 00:00:24,805 Don't do that. 10 00:00:24,805 --> 00:00:30,085 Let's start the show! 11 00:00:44,645 --> 00:00:46,525 Hello! 12 00:00:46,525 --> 00:00:50,765 Oh! 13 00:00:50,765 --> 00:00:54,245 Oh, hello, good evening, everybody. 14 00:00:54,245 --> 00:00:57,285 You're all so welcome to the show. 15 00:00:57,285 --> 00:01:00,205 I am back, you're back, it's so special! 16 00:01:00,205 --> 00:01:02,365 The thing is, I haven't been reading the papers. 17 00:01:02,365 --> 00:01:04,285 Did anything exciting happen while I was away? 18 00:01:04,285 --> 00:01:06,045 Anything at all? 19 00:01:06,045 --> 00:01:09,245 I mean, I know we do have a new Prime Minister, Liz Truss. 20 00:01:09,245 --> 00:01:11,565 There she is, Liz. 21 00:01:11,565 --> 00:01:13,245 That's of course her in casual attire. 22 00:01:13,245 --> 00:01:15,565 Here she is in her work clothes. 23 00:01:15,565 --> 00:01:19,325 LAUGHTER. 24 00:01:19,325 --> 00:01:22,485 Working overtime! 25 00:01:22,485 --> 00:01:24,525 Critics have accused Liz Truss of gambling 26 00:01:24,525 --> 00:01:27,165 with the country's finances. 27 00:01:27,165 --> 00:01:30,085 Mind you, if she likes a bet, she should stick a tenner 28 00:01:30,085 --> 00:01:32,845 on Keir Starmer becoming Prime Minister. 29 00:01:32,845 --> 00:01:35,565 There's Keir at the party conference this week, 30 00:01:35,565 --> 00:01:38,205 unveiling his plan to get into Downing Street. 31 00:01:38,205 --> 00:01:41,085 Yeah, and it went down very well, especially with his wife, Victoria. 32 00:01:41,085 --> 00:01:43,925 Hmm, hello! 33 00:01:43,925 --> 00:01:45,845 Wonder what he's saying to her? 34 00:01:45,845 --> 00:01:51,085 "I'm going to do to you what Liz Truss did to the economy!" 35 00:01:52,765 --> 00:01:56,325 Let's get some guests on! 36 00:01:56,325 --> 00:01:59,085 Later we'll have music and chat from pop superstar Robbie Williams. 37 00:01:59,085 --> 00:02:02,765 CHEERING. 38 00:02:02,765 --> 00:02:05,765 And we'll be meeting one of this country's true comedy greats, 39 00:02:05,765 --> 00:02:08,165 Monty Python star Eric Idle will be joining us. 40 00:02:08,165 --> 00:02:10,845 CHEERING. 41 00:02:10,845 --> 00:02:13,485 But first, he's one of our finest stage and screen actors, 42 00:02:13,485 --> 00:02:16,325 star of Good Omens, Broadchurch and a little show called Doctor Who, 43 00:02:16,325 --> 00:02:18,125 it's David Tennant! 44 00:02:18,125 --> 00:02:20,165 CHEERING. 45 00:02:20,165 --> 00:02:22,605 Whoo! 46 00:02:22,605 --> 00:02:24,045 Hello. 47 00:02:24,045 --> 00:02:26,045 Oh, my God. 48 00:02:26,045 --> 00:02:28,325 You touched me. 49 00:02:28,325 --> 00:02:30,565 There he goes. 50 00:02:30,565 --> 00:02:34,805 She was BAFTA nominated for her performance in the powerful 51 00:02:34,805 --> 00:02:37,405 Aids drama It's A Sin. 52 00:02:37,405 --> 00:02:42,565 Now starring in the BBC thriller Inside Man, it's Lydia West. 53 00:02:43,125 --> 00:02:44,965 Go, go. 54 00:02:44,965 --> 00:02:48,205 No, go! 55 00:02:48,205 --> 00:02:51,925 And she's a Hollywood icon, the star of films like Trading Places, 56 00:02:51,925 --> 00:02:55,845 A Fish Called Wanda, True Lies and Knives Out. 57 00:02:55,845 --> 00:02:58,325 Now returning for the last time to her most famous 58 00:02:58,325 --> 00:03:01,005 role in Halloween Ends, it is Jamie Lee Curtis. 59 00:03:01,005 --> 00:03:10,165 Oh! 60 00:03:10,165 --> 00:03:14,005 Have a seat, do. 61 00:03:14,005 --> 00:03:16,805 Wowzer. 62 00:03:16,805 --> 00:03:18,245 Oh, welcome, all. 63 00:03:18,245 --> 00:03:20,805 Welcome back. 64 00:03:20,805 --> 00:03:22,925 You've never been on the sofa, Jamie, have you? 65 00:03:22,925 --> 00:03:24,325 Oh, no, you have! 66 00:03:24,325 --> 00:03:26,605 You've only been on the sofa. 67 00:03:26,605 --> 00:03:29,845 Dude, so many times! 68 00:03:29,845 --> 00:03:32,925 I can't even stop counting how many times I've been on this sofa. 69 00:03:32,925 --> 00:03:35,365 The trousers are quite noisy! 70 00:03:35,365 --> 00:03:40,605 On the sofa. 71 00:03:41,725 --> 00:03:43,765 Can we just discuss the couch. 72 00:03:43,765 --> 00:03:45,685 This is clearly designed by a man. 73 00:03:45,685 --> 00:03:50,805 Because it's designed to make you... 74 00:03:50,885 --> 00:03:56,085 To do the interview basically... 75 00:03:56,325 --> 00:04:00,125 Because if it had been designed by a woman, 76 00:04:00,125 --> 00:04:01,765 we would be able to sit up... 77 00:04:01,765 --> 00:04:03,365 Yeah, nice. 78 00:04:03,365 --> 00:04:05,045 And you can't, can you? 79 00:04:05,045 --> 00:04:06,165 You can't, no. 80 00:04:06,165 --> 00:04:08,125 It was designed by a man. 81 00:04:08,125 --> 00:04:10,605 Sorry, you had a question? 82 00:04:10,605 --> 00:04:13,925 Yes, well, I thought people might be pleased to see the sofa back again. 83 00:04:13,925 --> 00:04:15,325 Apparently not! 84 00:04:15,325 --> 00:04:17,365 We can brace ourselves with the table. 85 00:04:17,365 --> 00:04:18,845 Oh, I like that. 86 00:04:18,845 --> 00:04:20,445 Oh, OK. 87 00:04:20,445 --> 00:04:22,445 It's a first time welcome to Lydia. 88 00:04:22,445 --> 00:04:27,645 APPLAUSE. 89 00:04:27,685 --> 00:04:31,605 We've got to go on the extraordinary success of It's A Sin. 90 00:04:31,605 --> 00:04:34,845 APPLAUSE. 91 00:04:34,845 --> 00:04:40,125 The stats, was it nearly 20 million streams? 92 00:04:40,565 --> 00:04:42,565 Oh, I don't even know what that means. 93 00:04:42,565 --> 00:04:44,485 That's a lot. 94 00:04:44,485 --> 00:04:46,325 It's a lot. 95 00:04:46,325 --> 00:04:51,125 It's crazy. 96 00:04:51,125 --> 00:04:53,525 We hoped people would watch it but kind of didn't 97 00:04:53,525 --> 00:04:54,565 believe that they would. 98 00:04:54,565 --> 00:04:55,645 A mass audience. 99 00:04:55,645 --> 00:04:57,805 And then they did. 100 00:04:57,805 --> 00:05:03,045 And then it's, how do we deal with this? 101 00:05:04,525 --> 00:05:07,365 Obviously lots of fan reaction and people in the street but then 102 00:05:07,365 --> 00:05:09,085 you've got some very special fan reaction? 103 00:05:09,085 --> 00:05:10,165 Yes, I did. 104 00:05:10,165 --> 00:05:13,045 So, my friend asked me if he could give Elton my number. 105 00:05:13,045 --> 00:05:14,045 Russell. 106 00:05:14,045 --> 00:05:15,085 Elton. 107 00:05:15,085 --> 00:05:16,285 I was like Elton who? 108 00:05:16,285 --> 00:05:17,525 He was like Elton John. 109 00:05:17,525 --> 00:05:18,805 I was like, agh, OK! 110 00:05:18,805 --> 00:05:20,965 And then within two minutes of sending that text, 111 00:05:20,965 --> 00:05:21,965 Elton was calling me. 112 00:05:21,965 --> 00:05:24,205 It was like a 01 number. 113 00:05:24,205 --> 00:05:27,045 I won't give his number. 114 00:05:27,045 --> 00:05:29,725 I think you should give it to all of us, please. 115 00:05:29,725 --> 00:05:30,885 Let's call him. 116 00:05:30,885 --> 00:05:33,525 I have a couple of things I'd love to tell him. 117 00:05:33,525 --> 00:05:35,205 Let's call him now. 118 00:05:35,205 --> 00:05:38,285 He called all of us, he called the whole cast, he called Russell. 119 00:05:38,285 --> 00:05:39,445 It was so sweet. 120 00:05:39,445 --> 00:05:42,485 I guess, once he called one of you, he had to call everyone. 121 00:05:42,485 --> 00:05:46,125 I was like, oh my God, Elton John just called me, on the group chat. 122 00:05:46,125 --> 00:05:47,765 Isn't that a lovely thing to do? 123 00:05:47,765 --> 00:05:50,405 And then everyone else was, oh, we got the call too. 124 00:05:50,405 --> 00:05:51,405 Makes me very happy. 125 00:05:51,405 --> 00:05:53,645 He flew some of them to LA for a... 126 00:05:53,645 --> 00:05:56,725 For the Oscars party, didn't he? 127 00:05:56,725 --> 00:06:00,245 He did, yes, he flew some of them for the Oscars party and he invited 128 00:06:00,245 --> 00:06:01,685 us all round for a curry. 129 00:06:01,685 --> 00:06:03,405 I don't know if that's confidential information! 130 00:06:03,405 --> 00:06:06,045 It doesn't sound confidential. 131 00:06:06,045 --> 00:06:09,925 I didn't go because I was away. 132 00:06:09,925 --> 00:06:13,365 It was all the boys, but they had a curry, and maybe an orgy! 133 00:06:13,365 --> 00:06:15,285 LAUGHTER. 134 00:06:15,285 --> 00:06:19,685 That isn't where I thought that story was going! 135 00:06:19,685 --> 00:06:23,125 My question is, having a curry, is that a euphemism? 136 00:06:23,125 --> 00:06:26,325 If it is, I need to know what the euphemism is, 137 00:06:26,325 --> 00:06:28,645 because I'm American and we just don't know what having 138 00:06:28,645 --> 00:06:31,845 a curry means. 139 00:06:31,845 --> 00:06:33,885 But I kind of like the end. 140 00:06:33,885 --> 00:06:35,525 Maybe I shouldn't have been so blunt. 141 00:06:35,525 --> 00:06:38,965 They had a curry. 142 00:06:38,965 --> 00:06:41,645 David Tennant, you brought us photographic evidence of a very 143 00:06:41,645 --> 00:06:43,565 special thing that's happening in your life. 144 00:06:43,565 --> 00:06:46,485 Is it this week or was it last week? 145 00:06:46,485 --> 00:06:48,685 We are a couple of weeks into it now. 146 00:06:48,685 --> 00:06:50,605 OK, what are we looking at here? 147 00:06:50,605 --> 00:06:52,485 Uh-oh. 148 00:06:52,485 --> 00:06:53,685 Ooh. 149 00:06:53,685 --> 00:06:57,845 David. 150 00:06:57,845 --> 00:07:01,205 The one on the left is the one you go, ooh, a lovely puppy, 151 00:07:01,205 --> 00:07:03,845 and then Myrtle on the right, look how pleased she is 152 00:07:03,845 --> 00:07:05,045 to have a new puppy. 153 00:07:05,045 --> 00:07:07,165 Myrtle looks like she's just killed that. 154 00:07:07,165 --> 00:07:08,405 She's apologising. 155 00:07:08,405 --> 00:07:10,765 We have ruined her life. 156 00:07:10,765 --> 00:07:13,005 Two weeks in, not loving it. 157 00:07:13,005 --> 00:07:17,365 She is furious! 158 00:07:17,365 --> 00:07:19,565 And of course Bernard doesn't read the room. 159 00:07:19,565 --> 00:07:23,045 This is Bernard. 160 00:07:23,045 --> 00:07:25,685 This is Bernard, that little kind of fluffy hand towel, yes. 161 00:07:25,685 --> 00:07:29,085 He doesn't read the room so he just keeps bouncing up and she gets 162 00:07:29,085 --> 00:07:30,765 angrier and angrier, and batters him away. 163 00:07:30,765 --> 00:07:32,205 Are they in your back yard? 164 00:07:32,205 --> 00:07:34,245 Yeah. 165 00:07:34,245 --> 00:07:36,845 I thought it was a park with the bench. 166 00:07:36,845 --> 00:07:40,125 You know what, I saw this and I thought Jamie Lee Curtis, 167 00:07:40,125 --> 00:07:43,645 she lives in America, she's used to gardens like this. 168 00:07:43,645 --> 00:07:46,805 I thought the audience would be, oh, my God, where does he live? 169 00:07:46,805 --> 00:07:47,845 It's like Buckingham Palace. 170 00:07:47,845 --> 00:07:49,765 It's a false perspective. 171 00:07:49,765 --> 00:07:52,285 Using the estate agent lens. 172 00:07:52,285 --> 00:07:53,925 Exactly, yeah. 173 00:07:53,925 --> 00:07:58,365 It's very nice, though, isn't it? 174 00:07:58,365 --> 00:08:01,045 Let's get on and talk about our big film tonight. 175 00:08:01,045 --> 00:08:02,525 This is Jamie Lee Curtis in... 176 00:08:02,525 --> 00:08:03,565 What film? 177 00:08:03,565 --> 00:08:04,645 In Halloween Ends. 178 00:08:04,645 --> 00:08:05,685 You're showing the movie? 179 00:08:05,685 --> 00:08:08,125 Yes, we are, we got permission to. 180 00:08:08,125 --> 00:08:10,085 Oh, shut up. You did not. 181 00:08:10,085 --> 00:08:12,405 Well, I didn't know, you said our big film. 182 00:08:12,405 --> 00:08:17,685 There is a screen going down in front of you. 183 00:08:22,125 --> 00:08:24,165 We're handing out popcorn. 184 00:08:24,165 --> 00:08:25,205 Honestly, sorry. 185 00:08:25,205 --> 00:08:26,405 British television is very different. 186 00:08:26,405 --> 00:08:27,845 I am from America. 187 00:08:27,845 --> 00:08:29,925 Let me reassure you, it opens on the 14th 188 00:08:29,925 --> 00:08:31,885 of October in cinemas. 189 00:08:31,885 --> 00:08:34,525 Laurie Strode is taking on Michael Myers for the final time. 190 00:08:34,525 --> 00:08:37,165 Let's take a look. 191 00:08:53,645 --> 00:08:57,685 LAURIE BREATHES SHAKILY. 192 00:09:15,805 --> 00:09:20,885 Argh! 193 00:09:21,885 --> 00:09:24,165 Oh! 194 00:09:24,165 --> 00:09:29,245 Oh, shut up! 195 00:09:29,325 --> 00:09:31,605 You were able to watch that scene. 196 00:09:31,605 --> 00:09:33,165 I thought you looked away. 197 00:09:33,165 --> 00:09:35,165 Oh, no, no, no. 198 00:09:35,165 --> 00:09:39,965 I know what you're talking about. 199 00:09:39,965 --> 00:09:42,805 By the way, I hope you heard, I was cracking wise over 200 00:09:42,805 --> 00:09:46,005 here watching it because I don't even like watching it on a clip. 201 00:09:46,005 --> 00:09:48,125 I'm very uncomfortable with it, I don't like horror 202 00:09:48,125 --> 00:09:49,165 movies, they scare me. 203 00:09:49,165 --> 00:09:50,885 I don't know why you guys do. 204 00:09:50,885 --> 00:09:52,325 I really appreciate that you do! 205 00:09:52,325 --> 00:09:53,765 But I don't like them. 206 00:09:53,765 --> 00:09:55,405 But I had to see the movie. 207 00:09:55,405 --> 00:09:59,685 I'm about to go round the world and promote it, I've 208 00:09:59,685 --> 00:10:02,205 got to see the movie, so they screened it for me, 209 00:10:02,205 --> 00:10:04,325 by myself in the theatre. 210 00:10:04,325 --> 00:10:08,365 But I watched it in an empty theatre but I had the volume 211 00:10:08,365 --> 00:10:10,285 control, so I was groovy. 212 00:10:10,285 --> 00:10:11,925 All the talking, great. 213 00:10:11,925 --> 00:10:14,965 The minute the music comes up, I'm turning it down 214 00:10:14,965 --> 00:10:17,965 to zero, and I turn away. 215 00:10:17,965 --> 00:10:23,245 But, swear to God, they insisted on having a guard in the room 216 00:10:24,445 --> 00:10:29,605 so that I wouldn't pirate my own movie. 217 00:10:33,205 --> 00:10:35,965 And I'm telling you, I looked, I was like, wait, what? 218 00:10:35,965 --> 00:10:39,445 The guy is sitting in the back. 219 00:10:39,445 --> 00:10:42,525 So, my entire movie, I turned my volume down, 220 00:10:42,525 --> 00:10:45,605 turned my head like this but I got to listen to him and 221 00:10:45,605 --> 00:10:46,605 he'd be like this. 222 00:10:46,605 --> 00:10:47,765 "Oh! 223 00:10:47,765 --> 00:10:48,805 "Oh. 224 00:10:48,805 --> 00:10:50,405 "..Oh no! 225 00:10:50,405 --> 00:10:51,685 "Oh NO! 226 00:10:51,685 --> 00:10:55,325 "N-oh!" 227 00:10:55,325 --> 00:10:58,805 You know what I mean? 228 00:10:58,805 --> 00:10:59,965 It was like, really, I'm going to pilot my own movie? 229 00:11:03,685 --> 00:11:06,285 It was like, really, I'm going to pirate my own movie? 230 00:11:06,285 --> 00:11:07,325 Sell it to China. 231 00:11:07,325 --> 00:11:09,085 I'm not great, I did look away. 232 00:11:09,085 --> 00:11:11,165 I looked away. 233 00:11:11,165 --> 00:11:12,565 Lydia and David, can you watch? 234 00:11:12,565 --> 00:11:13,805 You can, can't you, Lydia? 235 00:11:13,805 --> 00:11:14,805 I can. 236 00:11:14,805 --> 00:11:18,165 I prefer horror to murder or true crime, which is what I'm promoting! 237 00:11:18,165 --> 00:11:23,405 Because you were in the Dracula TV series. 238 00:11:23,525 --> 00:11:24,765 That was horror, wasn't it? 239 00:11:24,765 --> 00:11:26,765 Yeah. 240 00:11:26,765 --> 00:11:28,605 Were you a vampire? 241 00:11:28,605 --> 00:11:30,725 Yeah. 242 00:11:30,725 --> 00:11:32,565 I say, was it horror? 243 00:11:32,565 --> 00:11:35,125 Check this out. 244 00:11:35,125 --> 00:11:36,845 Is that you? 245 00:11:36,845 --> 00:11:39,405 Look at the nipple. 246 00:11:39,405 --> 00:11:42,125 Exactly! 247 00:11:42,125 --> 00:11:47,285 Weird that the nipple is fire retardant. 248 00:11:48,405 --> 00:11:50,365 I mean, that must have taken for ever. 249 00:11:50,365 --> 00:11:53,005 Oh, my goodness. 250 00:11:53,005 --> 00:11:56,645 It was four hours in the morning and to take it off was two hours. 251 00:11:56,645 --> 00:11:57,645 How thick is it? 252 00:11:57,645 --> 00:12:00,405 Were you in a suit? 253 00:12:00,405 --> 00:12:03,045 No, the head is prosthetic and then they add the hair 254 00:12:03,045 --> 00:12:04,765 and the ears and then the hands. 255 00:12:04,765 --> 00:12:07,605 It was like a leotard suit thing and then a leggings thing 256 00:12:07,605 --> 00:12:09,045 and then they make the feet. 257 00:12:09,045 --> 00:12:10,125 Wow. 258 00:12:10,125 --> 00:12:11,085 Yeah. 259 00:12:11,085 --> 00:12:13,045 And you were filming this in the summer. 260 00:12:13,045 --> 00:12:16,165 Yeah, I was filming in the summer and the old Hartswood Studios had 261 00:12:16,165 --> 00:12:18,085 no air conditioning, so we were all boiling. 262 00:12:18,085 --> 00:12:20,645 It was the heatwave in July. 263 00:12:20,645 --> 00:12:24,045 You do look like you've just stayed on the beach a little too long! 264 00:12:24,045 --> 00:12:26,085 I'm also eating a caramel bar. 265 00:12:26,085 --> 00:12:31,165 Oh, yes. 266 00:12:31,205 --> 00:12:34,325 Because I know that horror isn't real, I can kind of stomach it. 267 00:12:34,325 --> 00:12:36,045 In my head, it's not too scary. 268 00:12:36,045 --> 00:12:37,285 David, what do you like? 269 00:12:37,285 --> 00:12:38,685 I don't mind a horror film. 270 00:12:38,685 --> 00:12:40,285 It can be frustrating sometimes. 271 00:12:40,285 --> 00:12:44,165 Not your ones, your ones are perfect. 272 00:12:44,165 --> 00:12:47,245 It can be a bit, like, you know, don't go into the scary 273 00:12:47,245 --> 00:12:48,285 mansion on your own. 274 00:12:48,285 --> 00:12:50,685 The tropes. 275 00:12:50,685 --> 00:12:55,645 I remember the Blair Witch Project. 276 00:12:55,725 --> 00:12:59,365 I quite liked it but it was a bit, they traipse around going, 277 00:12:59,365 --> 00:13:02,045 "ooh, God, we've gone round in a circle again!" 278 00:13:02,045 --> 00:13:05,685 And you go, just get in the river, get in the river, follow the river. 279 00:13:05,685 --> 00:13:06,725 It is glaringly obvious. 280 00:13:06,725 --> 00:13:07,765 Logic. 281 00:13:07,765 --> 00:13:09,365 Yeah. 282 00:13:09,365 --> 00:13:12,645 Here's the truth. 283 00:13:12,645 --> 00:13:16,285 Most people in this audience aren't 44 years old. 284 00:13:16,285 --> 00:13:19,165 I've been playing Laurie Strode since I was 19, for 44 years. 285 00:13:19,165 --> 00:13:22,165 Two thirds of my life I've been playing this character. 286 00:13:22,165 --> 00:13:25,125 APPLAUSE. 287 00:13:25,125 --> 00:13:27,165 So, it's weird to say goodbye. 288 00:13:27,165 --> 00:13:30,685 It is, it's weird. 289 00:13:30,685 --> 00:13:34,245 I feel like I've sat here and you've told me it was over before, though. 290 00:13:34,245 --> 00:13:35,325 Is it really over? 291 00:13:35,325 --> 00:13:37,805 I think it's pretty over. 292 00:13:37,805 --> 00:13:40,845 This is the final inevitable conclusion, the final inevitable 293 00:13:40,845 --> 00:13:45,125 meeting between good and evil. 294 00:13:45,125 --> 00:13:50,405 There's a collision and something happens and as somebody already 295 00:13:50,725 --> 00:13:54,885 named a movie which I think we should steal, 296 00:13:54,885 --> 00:13:56,325 "there will be blood." 297 00:13:56,325 --> 00:13:58,445 You know, there will be blood. 298 00:13:58,445 --> 00:14:00,125 There is, there is. 299 00:14:00,125 --> 00:14:03,205 So, that's the end of Halloween but I must mention, I don't know 300 00:14:03,205 --> 00:14:04,405 if you've seen this film. 301 00:14:04,405 --> 00:14:05,645 If you haven't, you should. 302 00:14:05,645 --> 00:14:06,845 Everything Everywhere All at Once. 303 00:14:06,845 --> 00:14:07,885 So good! 304 00:14:07,885 --> 00:14:09,605 Have you guys seen it? 305 00:14:09,605 --> 00:14:12,325 APPLAUSE. 306 00:14:12,325 --> 00:14:14,485 It's so incredibly good. 307 00:14:14,485 --> 00:14:16,805 And it is so unexpectedly good. 308 00:14:16,805 --> 00:14:19,245 But it's also so unexpected. 309 00:14:19,245 --> 00:14:21,885 Everything is unexpected, yes. 310 00:14:21,885 --> 00:14:24,725 If anyone asks you about it, how do you describe this film? 311 00:14:24,725 --> 00:14:28,485 I don't! 312 00:14:28,485 --> 00:14:33,685 It's a multi-verse movie about an Asian family, 313 00:14:33,885 --> 00:14:39,165 led by Michelle Yeoh, who goes to the IRS, who's 314 00:14:39,965 --> 00:14:43,005 in internal revenue tax trouble. 315 00:14:43,005 --> 00:14:45,405 I am the tax auditor, Deirdre Beaubeirdre... 316 00:14:45,405 --> 00:14:49,605 Her nemesis, you know, the villain of the peace. 317 00:14:49,605 --> 00:14:53,645 And it's just a weird multi-verse movie but at the centre 318 00:14:53,645 --> 00:14:57,845 of it is love, kindness, family, unity, in the middle 319 00:14:57,845 --> 00:15:01,605 of the craziest movie you've ever seen in your lives. 320 00:15:01,605 --> 00:15:05,565 If you haven't seen it, this is Jamie as Deirdre. 321 00:15:05,565 --> 00:15:08,165 There she is. 322 00:15:08,165 --> 00:15:09,605 In her cubicle. 323 00:15:09,605 --> 00:15:10,765 Her name is Deirdre Beaubeirdre. 324 00:15:10,765 --> 00:15:14,325 And it was such a delight for me. 325 00:15:14,325 --> 00:15:17,285 I love the detail, the cat is perfect. 326 00:15:17,285 --> 00:15:20,365 Also, I don't know if you can see the auditor of the month 327 00:15:20,365 --> 00:15:25,685 trophy is that she's won. 328 00:15:26,645 --> 00:15:28,325 APPLAUSE. 329 00:15:28,325 --> 00:15:30,525 Also, she's wearing a wrist brace and a watch, 330 00:15:30,525 --> 00:15:35,645 which I thought was very clever. 331 00:15:35,725 --> 00:15:39,285 And she goes from being a villain and a sort of nemesis to an actual 332 00:15:39,285 --> 00:15:42,325 world where Michelle Yeoh and I lived together 333 00:15:42,325 --> 00:15:46,005 in a hotdog universe where we both have hotdog hands, 334 00:15:46,005 --> 00:15:49,445 and we do a mating dance and then we break up 335 00:15:49,445 --> 00:15:52,645 and it's at the same time, you're looking at me, like them OK, 336 00:15:52,645 --> 00:15:53,685 this woman is twisted... 337 00:15:53,685 --> 00:15:58,165 I'm telling you, one of the most moving parts of the movie is this 338 00:15:58,165 --> 00:16:03,405 love story between me and Michelle Yeoh. 339 00:16:05,285 --> 00:16:07,725 To whet your appetite, it is available to stream now. 340 00:16:07,725 --> 00:16:10,765 They are talking Oscars with this film, there is Oscar buzz about it. 341 00:16:10,765 --> 00:16:13,685 There is and let me just say this, it's that weird race, 342 00:16:13,685 --> 00:16:15,525 they call it the Oscar race. 343 00:16:15,525 --> 00:16:18,405 It's just a bizarre world and yet you can imagine, for me, 344 00:16:18,405 --> 00:16:21,965 a 64-year-old woman who has been in horror movies, TBM that movie 345 00:16:28,205 --> 00:16:31,285 a 64-year-old woman who has been in horror movies, to be in that 346 00:16:31,285 --> 00:16:33,925 movie and have that being the movie that people are talking 347 00:16:33,925 --> 00:16:36,325 about at that level, it is so beautiful and moving 348 00:16:36,325 --> 00:16:37,365 that that's the movie, 349 00:16:37,365 --> 00:16:39,165 Deirdre Beaubeirdre, best supporting fucking actress? 350 00:16:39,165 --> 00:16:41,405 Are you kidding me? 351 00:16:41,405 --> 00:16:44,485 If you don't take the shot, you're not in the game. 352 00:16:44,485 --> 00:16:46,685 For me, it's just, let's go, I'm all in. 353 00:16:46,685 --> 00:16:50,005 I'm like, let's go. 354 00:16:50,005 --> 00:16:52,445 APPLAUSE. 355 00:16:52,445 --> 00:16:55,165 Good luck with that and once again, Halloween Ends opening... 356 00:16:55,165 --> 00:16:56,605 Do you want me to leave? 357 00:16:56,605 --> 00:16:58,125 On the 14th of October. 358 00:16:58,125 --> 00:16:59,525 Jamie Lee Curtis, everybody. 359 00:16:59,525 --> 00:17:01,125 Leaving? 360 00:17:01,125 --> 00:17:03,405 Stay! 361 00:17:03,405 --> 00:17:04,925 You stay, you're so comfortable. 362 00:17:04,925 --> 00:17:06,405 No, I'm not. 363 00:17:06,405 --> 00:17:07,605 This couch, I'm telling you. 364 00:17:07,605 --> 00:17:09,405 I swear to you people. 365 00:17:09,405 --> 00:17:11,085 I'm going to take off my shoes. 366 00:17:11,085 --> 00:17:12,125 Yeah, take them off. 367 00:17:12,125 --> 00:17:13,165 You know why? 368 00:17:13,165 --> 00:17:14,245 Because now watch. 369 00:17:14,245 --> 00:17:15,325 So much better. 370 00:17:15,325 --> 00:17:17,485 Now you go. 371 00:17:17,485 --> 00:17:20,765 I want to get you a pillow. 372 00:17:20,765 --> 00:17:26,045 Now, Lydia West, your latest work is the new BBC drama thriller, 373 00:17:26,725 --> 00:17:31,205 called Inside Man, continuing Mondays at 9pm on BBC One. 374 00:17:31,205 --> 00:17:35,845 You can catch the first two episodes on iPlayer. 375 00:17:35,845 --> 00:17:40,925 This comes from the fertile mind of Stephen Moffat, a great cast. 376 00:17:40,965 --> 00:17:42,565 There's Dolly Wells, Stanley Tucci and yourself. 377 00:17:42,565 --> 00:17:44,365 And actually David Tennant is in it. 378 00:17:44,365 --> 00:17:45,485 Hi, hi! 379 00:17:45,485 --> 00:17:47,245 Yes! 380 00:17:47,245 --> 00:17:49,085 So, Lydia, you play an investigative journalist. 381 00:17:49,085 --> 00:17:51,045 How do you fit into this twisty-turny story? 382 00:17:51,045 --> 00:17:54,485 So, I'm kind of... 383 00:17:54,485 --> 00:17:57,565 Come on, Lydia. 384 00:17:57,565 --> 00:18:02,485 OK, well at the moment I'm being used by Grieff, 385 00:18:02,485 --> 00:18:05,925 who is played by Stanley, and he did study criminology 386 00:18:05,925 --> 00:18:08,965 and now he is on death row for killing his wife. 387 00:18:08,965 --> 00:18:13,565 Firstly I wanted to write a piece on him and then 388 00:18:13,565 --> 00:18:16,205 I came to him with a case, because he solves murder 389 00:18:16,205 --> 00:18:17,285 cases from prison. 390 00:18:17,285 --> 00:18:22,165 And my friend, Janice, played by Dolly Wells, has gone missing 391 00:18:24,245 --> 00:18:25,245 and David Tenant's character... 392 00:18:25,245 --> 00:18:27,085 Hi. 393 00:18:27,085 --> 00:18:28,165 What's your name again? 394 00:18:28,165 --> 00:18:29,205 LAUGHTER. 395 00:18:29,205 --> 00:18:31,325 Are you priest? 396 00:18:31,325 --> 00:18:33,965 I'm David, nice to meet you. Hi, nice to meet you. 397 00:18:33,965 --> 00:18:35,005 Harry? Harry! 398 00:18:35,005 --> 00:18:36,565 Well remembered. 399 00:18:36,565 --> 00:18:38,245 And Harry maybe responsible for Janice's disappearance. 400 00:18:38,245 --> 00:18:41,485 All right. 401 00:18:41,485 --> 00:18:45,965 That conceit of having a man on death row who is a criminal 402 00:18:45,965 --> 00:18:49,805 mastermind solving crimes, it's a great idea. 403 00:18:49,805 --> 00:18:55,005 Yeah, such a great idea and it's weird because it 404 00:18:56,325 --> 00:18:58,805 tells the perspective, the victims's perspective on how 405 00:18:58,805 --> 00:19:02,005 they can entice someone to murder and that's what Janice 406 00:19:02,005 --> 00:19:04,125 does with Harry. 407 00:19:04,125 --> 00:19:07,285 It's like a thriller but twisted on its head and the whole idea 408 00:19:07,285 --> 00:19:09,925 is that everyone is a murderer, you just need to meet 409 00:19:09,925 --> 00:19:10,925 the right person. 410 00:19:10,925 --> 00:19:13,565 I think that such a great line, I love that line. 411 00:19:13,565 --> 00:19:15,445 Everyone is a murderer, you just haven't met 412 00:19:15,445 --> 00:19:16,525 the right person yet. 413 00:19:16,525 --> 00:19:17,605 It's good, isn't it? 414 00:19:17,605 --> 00:19:18,645 Fabulous. 415 00:19:18,645 --> 00:19:20,485 We've got an exclusive clip from episode three, 416 00:19:20,485 --> 00:19:22,125 coming this Monday. 417 00:19:22,125 --> 00:19:24,765 This is you discussing the case with Stanley Tucci's character. 418 00:19:24,765 --> 00:19:28,645 She clearly has minimal social contact. 419 00:19:28,645 --> 00:19:32,485 She is currently resisting the approaches of a personable young 420 00:19:32,485 --> 00:19:36,325 woman who is taking flattering interest in her. 421 00:19:36,325 --> 00:19:37,885 Basically Janice doesn't make friends. 422 00:19:37,885 --> 00:19:40,565 She has a problem? 423 00:19:40,565 --> 00:19:42,645 Well, no. 424 00:19:42,645 --> 00:19:45,565 How can there be anyone who hates her enough to harm her 425 00:19:45,565 --> 00:19:47,485 if she doesn't have friends? 426 00:19:47,485 --> 00:19:49,925 You have a very strange view of friendship. 427 00:19:49,925 --> 00:19:52,365 So does Janice. 428 00:19:52,365 --> 00:19:56,245 It could have been someone random, she could have had an accident. 429 00:19:56,245 --> 00:19:59,165 Yeah but most of the time what happens to people is other 430 00:19:59,165 --> 00:20:04,365 people, and almost always people they know. 431 00:20:05,405 --> 00:20:08,405 APPLAUSE. 432 00:20:08,405 --> 00:20:10,245 Great cast. 433 00:20:10,245 --> 00:20:12,085 Stanley Tucci. 434 00:20:12,085 --> 00:20:14,605 David, you're in this. 435 00:20:14,605 --> 00:20:19,405 Have I seen you playing a vicar before? 436 00:20:19,405 --> 00:20:23,365 I think I played a vicar in an Anthony Trollope sort 437 00:20:23,365 --> 00:20:26,085 of old-fashioned vicar. 438 00:20:26,085 --> 00:20:27,725 You looked so right in it. 439 00:20:27,725 --> 00:20:28,965 It is good. 440 00:20:28,965 --> 00:20:31,525 It's a good fit. 441 00:20:31,525 --> 00:20:33,845 My dad was a minister in the Church of Scotland. 442 00:20:33,845 --> 00:20:35,205 He wasn't just a minister. 443 00:20:35,205 --> 00:20:37,365 He wasn't "just" a minister. 444 00:20:37,365 --> 00:20:40,125 He *was* the Church of Scotland. 445 00:20:40,125 --> 00:20:42,325 He was the moderator of the Church of Scotland 446 00:20:42,325 --> 00:20:44,205 for a time as well, yeah. 447 00:20:44,205 --> 00:20:47,205 He was pretty high up. 448 00:20:47,205 --> 00:20:50,245 Is it true that you and your father into adulthood never swore 449 00:20:50,245 --> 00:20:51,485 in front of each other. 450 00:20:51,485 --> 00:20:53,125 No! 451 00:20:53,125 --> 00:20:54,565 Not never. 452 00:20:54,565 --> 00:20:57,725 I never swore in front of him and I never, never heard him... 453 00:20:57,725 --> 00:21:00,405 He was a man of the cloth, he was a clergyman, 454 00:21:00,405 --> 00:21:01,445 for goodness' sake. 455 00:21:01,445 --> 00:21:03,685 Except... 456 00:21:03,685 --> 00:21:07,525 I never heard him swear. 457 00:21:07,525 --> 00:21:11,085 I suppose he heard me swearing in things, 458 00:21:11,085 --> 00:21:13,845 but that was always the script, so that was fine. 459 00:21:13,845 --> 00:21:18,245 I would never swear in front of my dad, never. 460 00:21:18,245 --> 00:21:23,405 I don't think a swear would ever pass his lips. 461 00:21:28,085 --> 00:21:30,525 He came down to stay with me in London once 462 00:21:30,525 --> 00:21:31,525 to see Billy Connolly. 463 00:21:31,525 --> 00:21:33,005 We grew up living Billy Connolly. 464 00:21:33,005 --> 00:21:35,365 We'd have the cassettes of Billy Connolly in the car 465 00:21:35,365 --> 00:21:38,525 and my dad was a big fan, so he came down to London 466 00:21:38,525 --> 00:21:39,605 to see Billy Connolly. 467 00:21:39,605 --> 00:21:42,485 And then he came back and started doing bits of the act. 468 00:21:42,485 --> 00:21:44,085 This was all very... 469 00:21:44,085 --> 00:21:48,645 But then, I guess because it was the script, suddenly he's 470 00:21:48,645 --> 00:21:53,205 standing in my living room at midnight going BLEEP. 471 00:21:53,205 --> 00:21:58,445 LAUGHTER. 472 00:22:03,085 --> 00:22:04,845 Wow. 473 00:22:04,845 --> 00:22:07,045 This is the moderator of the Church of Scotland! 474 00:22:07,045 --> 00:22:10,725 He could be excommunicated. 475 00:22:10,725 --> 00:22:15,565 Because it was Billy, it's allowed. 476 00:22:15,565 --> 00:22:16,805 Billy is a special case. 477 00:22:16,805 --> 00:22:18,045 Of course. 478 00:22:18,045 --> 00:22:19,485 Oh, my God. 479 00:22:19,485 --> 00:22:20,845 First of all, on American... 480 00:22:20,845 --> 00:22:25,125 I love that you've got one shoe on. 481 00:22:25,125 --> 00:22:27,565 Well, it is purchase. 482 00:22:27,565 --> 00:22:30,725 I'm on a couch, you know how you have to get purchase sometimes? 483 00:22:30,725 --> 00:22:32,885 Anyway, on American television you can't say that word. 484 00:22:32,885 --> 00:22:34,845 On British television you can't say that word! 485 00:22:34,845 --> 00:22:35,885 Ooh. 486 00:22:35,885 --> 00:22:36,925 But he just did. 487 00:22:36,925 --> 00:22:38,885 But we are not live. 488 00:22:38,885 --> 00:22:42,605 I really hope I haven't given you ideas, now. 489 00:22:42,605 --> 00:22:47,885 Oh, no, I've already blown it earlier. 490 00:22:48,965 --> 00:22:51,325 Talking of swearing, you were in that film My Girl 491 00:22:51,325 --> 00:22:53,965 with a very young Macauley Culkin. 492 00:22:53,965 --> 00:22:56,005 And Anna Chlumsky. 493 00:22:56,005 --> 00:22:57,405 Look how sweet. 494 00:22:57,405 --> 00:23:00,325 Could you swear? 495 00:23:00,325 --> 00:23:01,645 No, you couldn't swear. 496 00:23:01,645 --> 00:23:03,965 No, no, no, you're not allowed to swear in front 497 00:23:03,965 --> 00:23:05,445 of children on the movie set. 498 00:23:05,445 --> 00:23:07,565 So, I had swear jars. 499 00:23:07,565 --> 00:23:10,845 You know, swear jars, if you say the S word 500 00:23:10,845 --> 00:23:13,965 you had to put in a dollar, if you said the F word, 501 00:23:13,965 --> 00:23:15,405 you had to put in $2. 502 00:23:15,405 --> 00:23:18,045 The whole crew participated, because we had kids on the set, 503 00:23:18,045 --> 00:23:19,245 here you are, young kids... 504 00:23:19,245 --> 00:23:22,405 Sure. 505 00:23:22,405 --> 00:23:25,445 Of course, once in a blue moon we'd all be like, bank, 506 00:23:25,445 --> 00:23:29,125 put money in the swear jar and it all went fine and we got very 507 00:23:29,125 --> 00:23:31,525 tired of it but they were cute and nice kids. 508 00:23:31,525 --> 00:23:36,645 The last shot of the movie was the scene where they run down 509 00:23:37,805 --> 00:23:39,685 the dock and then jump into the lake. 510 00:23:39,685 --> 00:23:42,125 We had safety people in the lake and stunt people 511 00:23:42,125 --> 00:23:44,565 and the whole thing and cranes. 512 00:23:44,565 --> 00:23:46,965 I'm telling you, they jump off the dock into water 513 00:23:46,965 --> 00:23:48,005 that's two feet deep. 514 00:23:48,005 --> 00:23:53,285 It's a big thing, towels. 515 00:23:53,885 --> 00:23:58,365 They ran and then they jump into the thing, they're fine. 516 00:23:58,365 --> 00:24:01,205 Everyone's like, oh, yeah and everything and now they're 517 00:24:01,205 --> 00:24:03,645 going to be finished with the movie. 518 00:24:03,645 --> 00:24:06,285 There they are, wrapped in their towels, standing 519 00:24:06,285 --> 00:24:11,565 at the edge of the dark and they go, "ladies and gentlemen, 520 00:24:13,805 --> 00:24:16,245 "that is a wrap for Macaulay Culkin and Anna Chlumsky" 521 00:24:16,245 --> 00:24:17,245 and everybody goes 522 00:24:17,245 --> 00:24:21,125 like this and I took the two cans and I walked up to each of them 523 00:24:21,125 --> 00:24:23,765 and each of the cans had like 500 bucks in it. 524 00:24:23,765 --> 00:24:26,805 I walked up to each of the kids and I went, "fuck you!" 525 00:24:26,805 --> 00:24:29,445 LAUGHTER. 526 00:24:29,445 --> 00:24:31,885 Yeah... 527 00:24:31,885 --> 00:24:34,925 Not proud of it, but there you go. 528 00:24:34,925 --> 00:24:36,765 Don't invite me over. 529 00:24:36,765 --> 00:24:41,885 Right, we move on to David Tennant who is returning to the West End 530 00:24:41,965 --> 00:24:43,765 stage, in the play Good. 531 00:24:43,765 --> 00:24:46,725 The reviews are in! 532 00:24:46,725 --> 00:24:50,045 I hope so. 533 00:24:50,045 --> 00:24:53,845 I hope the reviews are writing themselves. 534 00:24:53,845 --> 00:24:56,965 It's on at the Harold Pinter Theatre from the 5th of October. 535 00:24:56,965 --> 00:24:59,285 So, tell us about the play. 536 00:24:59,285 --> 00:25:01,205 It was written in the 80s? 537 00:25:01,205 --> 00:25:03,965 It's set in Germany in the 30s. 538 00:25:03,965 --> 00:25:07,445 It's interesting we're talking about my dad because it's about... 539 00:25:07,445 --> 00:25:12,285 Obviously we know what happened in Germany in the 30s, 540 00:25:12,285 --> 00:25:17,445 we know the terrible things that went on and we know that there 541 00:25:18,805 --> 00:25:21,445 were a lot of extraordinarily evil people involved in that part 542 00:25:21,445 --> 00:25:26,325 of course there was also a whole society that went on this very 543 00:25:26,485 --> 00:25:28,845 odd journey and that's what the play is about. 544 00:25:28,845 --> 00:25:31,765 The journey that a good, noble, ordinary man takes as the society 545 00:25:31,765 --> 00:25:34,125 shifts around him and those incremental steps that we all 546 00:25:34,125 --> 00:25:36,565 hope we wouldn't make. 547 00:25:36,565 --> 00:25:41,045 But as history happens around you, you can turn around and go, "oh, 548 00:25:41,045 --> 00:25:42,765 "hang on, where do we live now? 549 00:25:42,765 --> 00:25:45,805 "What's happened?" 550 00:25:45,805 --> 00:25:49,205 It's a really interesting play because it makes you think, would I? 551 00:25:49,205 --> 00:25:54,365 Would I know to go, enough, no further? 552 00:25:58,285 --> 00:26:00,885 If the confirmation bias around you was going, this is fine. 553 00:26:00,885 --> 00:26:03,845 The person you are playing, is it an historical figure or fictional? 554 00:26:03,845 --> 00:26:04,885 He's not. 555 00:26:04,885 --> 00:26:06,965 There are historical figures in it that he comes 556 00:26:06,965 --> 00:26:08,165 into brief contact with. 557 00:26:08,165 --> 00:26:09,005 But it's that... 558 00:26:09,005 --> 00:26:11,925 Talking about my dad, I've been thinking about him a lot lately, 559 00:26:11,925 --> 00:26:14,285 because when I think of, who is the goodest man 560 00:26:14,285 --> 00:26:15,365 I can think of? 561 00:26:15,365 --> 00:26:17,725 It's him. 562 00:26:17,725 --> 00:26:21,565 And you sort of try and think, well, how would any of us be, 563 00:26:21,565 --> 00:26:25,005 as the world shifts around us, could we cope? 564 00:26:25,005 --> 00:26:27,005 Could we stand up? 565 00:26:27,005 --> 00:26:31,925 It's happening all around us, you know, we are in denial 566 00:26:31,925 --> 00:26:33,565 about things in the world, you know. 567 00:26:33,565 --> 00:26:36,925 There is a big climate emergency going on and we all kind of know 568 00:26:36,925 --> 00:26:39,045 about, but we all still sort of plod along. 569 00:26:39,045 --> 00:26:42,885 At what point do we all go, hang on, maybe this has gone too far? 570 00:26:42,885 --> 00:26:45,725 And obviously, what happened in Germany in the '30s was a very 571 00:26:45,725 --> 00:26:49,005 extreme example of that. 572 00:26:49,005 --> 00:26:50,525 So it's really... 573 00:26:50,525 --> 00:26:53,685 It's a brilliant, really interesting, quite challenging 574 00:26:53,685 --> 00:26:57,005 but also fantastic bit of writing. 575 00:26:57,005 --> 00:27:00,925 And it's funny, Jamie, because Halloween Ends asks some 576 00:27:00,925 --> 00:27:03,725 of the interesting questions about where evil comes from and how 577 00:27:03,725 --> 00:27:06,725 does it hook onto people? 578 00:27:06,725 --> 00:27:11,925 Yeah, ultimately, it is a question that we pose, which is really, 579 00:27:12,725 --> 00:27:16,605 is Michael Myers the monster, or are we the monster? 580 00:27:16,605 --> 00:27:21,485 Because what we do to victims, what we do to people, is as bad. 581 00:27:21,485 --> 00:27:24,925 Just go on internet today. 582 00:27:24,925 --> 00:27:28,005 I mean, try Twitter. 583 00:27:28,005 --> 00:27:29,925 You know, we think that it is somehow 584 00:27:29,925 --> 00:27:31,005 benign, and it's not. 585 00:27:31,005 --> 00:27:34,165 And really, David, to your point, it was so moving because you were 586 00:27:34,165 --> 00:27:37,325 moved by talking about your dad, and I got moved just sitting 587 00:27:37,325 --> 00:27:42,525 here thinking about it, because we are seeing it everywhere. 588 00:27:43,645 --> 00:27:46,685 It happened in Italy this week, you know, as you said, 589 00:27:46,685 --> 00:27:49,325 we think it's not happening and we are all just kind 590 00:27:49,325 --> 00:27:52,645 of moving along here, but the climate crisis and what's 591 00:27:52,645 --> 00:27:56,405 happening in Italy, it's happening again in our time! 592 00:27:56,405 --> 00:27:59,165 And we have to pay attention to it. 593 00:27:59,165 --> 00:28:01,085 And the play makes me want to stay... 594 00:28:01,085 --> 00:28:04,365 I'm going to go on a world tour and finish my promotion, 595 00:28:04,365 --> 00:28:06,965 but it makes me want to come and see the play. 596 00:28:06,965 --> 00:28:08,125 Come back before you go! 597 00:28:08,125 --> 00:28:10,045 But it's really important, what you're talking about. 598 00:28:10,045 --> 00:28:12,085 It's very, very, very important. 599 00:28:12,085 --> 00:28:14,725 It's very important that you are doing that play right now, 600 00:28:14,725 --> 00:28:16,565 because it's happening around us all the time. 601 00:28:16,565 --> 00:28:18,485 And how long is it on for? 602 00:28:18,485 --> 00:28:20,205 It's on until Christmas Eve. 603 00:28:20,205 --> 00:28:21,245 Ooh, OK! 604 00:28:21,245 --> 00:28:22,845 You could come back, yeah. 605 00:28:22,845 --> 00:28:25,285 And also we should say, because I think, you know, 606 00:28:25,285 --> 00:28:27,165 often people think, oh, theatre, that's very expensive. 607 00:28:27,165 --> 00:28:29,725 You are making a real effort to make this affordable? 608 00:28:29,725 --> 00:28:32,205 There is a whole range of tickets available, 609 00:28:32,205 --> 00:28:35,005 but there are tickets from £20 for everyone, and were also 610 00:28:35,005 --> 00:28:39,285 releasing a bunch of tickets for key workers, because this show was meant 611 00:28:39,285 --> 00:28:42,325 to go on twice in the pandemic, and it didn't happen, 612 00:28:42,325 --> 00:28:45,765 obviously, you know, theatres had to close, 613 00:28:45,765 --> 00:28:48,965 and that was the right thing to do at the time, 614 00:28:48,965 --> 00:28:51,885 but for all the people that helped us through that, for all 615 00:28:51,885 --> 00:28:53,085 the people that kept going... 616 00:28:53,085 --> 00:28:54,125 Ah, lovely. 617 00:28:54,125 --> 00:28:56,965 So there are a bunch of £10 seats, good seats as well, 618 00:28:56,965 --> 00:28:57,965 available for key workers. 619 00:28:57,965 --> 00:29:00,645 So if you qualify, please, we'd love for you to come. 620 00:29:00,645 --> 00:29:04,445 APPLAUSE. 621 00:29:04,445 --> 00:29:09,645 OK, it's time to meet my next guest. 622 00:29:09,925 --> 00:29:13,525 As a member of the Monty Python team and a creator of the hit musical 623 00:29:13,525 --> 00:29:16,485 Spamalot, this man is one of our great comedy legends. 624 00:29:16,485 --> 00:29:17,885 Yes, he is! 625 00:29:17,885 --> 00:29:19,685 Recently he went public about a devastating health 626 00:29:19,685 --> 00:29:22,085 scare, which he is here to talk about tonight. 627 00:29:22,085 --> 00:29:25,805 It is quite the story. 628 00:29:25,805 --> 00:29:28,845 Please welcome Eric Idle! 629 00:29:29,565 --> 00:29:32,445 Come in! 630 00:29:32,605 --> 00:29:35,045 Thank you so much for coming. 631 00:29:35,045 --> 00:29:39,205 Eric, Jamie, you know each other. 632 00:29:39,205 --> 00:29:41,245 Eric, David. 633 00:29:41,245 --> 00:29:44,165 Have a seat. 634 00:29:44,165 --> 00:29:45,325 Watch the couch, it's tough. 635 00:29:45,325 --> 00:29:47,605 It's fine for men. 636 00:29:47,605 --> 00:29:51,605 I mean, you know everyone, Eric. 637 00:29:51,605 --> 00:29:52,925 I don't know everybody. 638 00:29:52,925 --> 00:29:55,285 We were on a talk show, David and I, vaguely, 639 00:29:55,285 --> 00:29:56,485 I forget who it was. 640 00:29:56,485 --> 00:29:57,525 No idea. 641 00:29:57,525 --> 00:29:58,725 We've crossed paths, haven't we? 642 00:29:58,725 --> 00:29:59,765 Jamie, I know. 643 00:29:59,765 --> 00:30:00,765 Of course. 644 00:30:00,765 --> 00:30:01,885 Yes. 645 00:30:01,885 --> 00:30:03,605 Listen, you are here to tell us... 646 00:30:03,605 --> 00:30:06,445 As I say, it is an extraordinary story, and it's a very 647 00:30:06,445 --> 00:30:07,445 frightening story. 648 00:30:07,445 --> 00:30:10,325 So before we get into it, I think we should just reassure 649 00:30:10,325 --> 00:30:11,405 people, you are well. 650 00:30:11,405 --> 00:30:12,845 Yes, I am very well, yes. 651 00:30:12,845 --> 00:30:16,285 OK. 652 00:30:16,285 --> 00:30:20,245 The show is dedicated to Eric Idle. 653 00:30:21,285 --> 00:30:24,605 So, OK, in order to tell the story, do you go back to 2019, 654 00:30:24,605 --> 00:30:26,525 or do you go back to later? 655 00:30:26,525 --> 00:30:28,885 I go earlier. 656 00:30:28,885 --> 00:30:32,645 It starts at about 2009, and I'm writing a play, 657 00:30:32,645 --> 00:30:34,685 it's after Spamalot, and I'm writing a play, 658 00:30:34,685 --> 00:30:37,125 I think it's a really great idea for a play. 659 00:30:37,125 --> 00:30:39,085 It's going to go really well on Broadway. 660 00:30:39,085 --> 00:30:41,165 It's called Death: The Musical. 661 00:30:41,765 --> 00:30:44,245 Try and sell that one! 662 00:30:44,245 --> 00:30:47,885 Me, I like it because I'm writing a play about a guy who is writing 663 00:30:47,885 --> 00:30:52,445 a play called Death: The Musical, and he finds out he's dying. 664 00:30:52,445 --> 00:30:57,445 I like irony, so I'm writing away, and I need some, you know, 665 00:30:57,525 --> 00:31:00,885 I need some medical background, so I go and see my doctor, 666 00:31:00,885 --> 00:31:03,525 and he says, come to the Dodgers game, so we're sitting 667 00:31:03,525 --> 00:31:06,365 at the Dodgers game, and I say, what is the fastest way 668 00:31:06,365 --> 00:31:07,845 to get rid of a character? 669 00:31:07,845 --> 00:31:11,845 And he said, it's very simple, pancreatic cancer. 670 00:31:11,845 --> 00:31:14,285 You've got about three weeks if you're lucky and it's 671 00:31:14,285 --> 00:31:15,285 inevitable, you know. 672 00:31:15,285 --> 00:31:17,925 So I said, great, that's perfect and started writing away. 673 00:31:17,925 --> 00:31:20,565 And then ten years later, he's still my doctor and I'm 674 00:31:20,565 --> 00:31:25,845 going for a routine checkup, and I'm having a blood test and MRI, 675 00:31:26,485 --> 00:31:31,485 he said put a little bit of iodine in there, and so... 676 00:31:31,485 --> 00:31:33,165 He said, come here, sit down. 677 00:31:33,165 --> 00:31:35,805 He shows me on the screen and I said, what's that? 678 00:31:35,805 --> 00:31:37,645 He said... 679 00:31:37,645 --> 00:31:39,285 "It's pancreatic cancer." 680 00:31:39,285 --> 00:31:40,885 And I laugh, because it's hilarious. 681 00:31:40,885 --> 00:31:43,525 The writer of the play about a writer writing a play 682 00:31:43,525 --> 00:31:48,085 about Death: The Musical now has bloody pancreatic cancer! 683 00:31:48,085 --> 00:31:51,445 You know, so you've got to break it to the wife and the kids, 684 00:31:51,445 --> 00:31:54,085 and so we agreed we'd call it Kenny, because it's such 685 00:31:54,085 --> 00:31:55,325 a scary term, you know. 686 00:31:55,325 --> 00:31:56,845 I'm suffering from Kenny. 687 00:31:56,845 --> 00:32:00,565 We are going to go to the Kenny centre. 688 00:32:00,565 --> 00:32:01,805 Have a Kenny operation. 689 00:32:01,805 --> 00:32:04,645 And so, he said, the good news is, it's really early stage. 690 00:32:04,645 --> 00:32:07,525 We've never seen it this early, so you've got a very good 691 00:32:07,525 --> 00:32:11,565 chance of surviving. 692 00:32:11,565 --> 00:32:14,005 So within about ten days, I'm whipped into Cedars, 693 00:32:14,005 --> 00:32:16,725 a cancer specialist, who actually after five hours, 694 00:32:16,725 --> 00:32:19,485 operates and takes it all out. 695 00:32:19,485 --> 00:32:24,765 So I was extremely fortunate, I was very, very lucky, 696 00:32:33,405 --> 00:32:36,045 and we didn't tell anybody , you know, I was very 697 00:32:36,045 --> 00:32:38,965 and we didn't tell anybody , you know, I was very fortunate. 698 00:32:38,965 --> 00:32:41,325 And then, you revealed this diagnosis very Eric Idle way. 699 00:32:41,325 --> 00:32:44,005 How and when did you reveal that you had pancreatic cancer? 700 00:32:44,005 --> 00:32:46,605 Well, I revealed it after I was on The Masked Singer. 701 00:32:46,605 --> 00:32:48,085 In America, this isn't a spoiler! 702 00:32:48,085 --> 00:32:50,725 I was on The Masked Singer, and it was the premiere 703 00:32:50,725 --> 00:32:52,605 episode of the season, and I thought, well, 704 00:32:52,605 --> 00:32:54,285 afterwards, they ask you to be interviewed, 705 00:32:54,285 --> 00:32:58,885 and you go on shows and you plug your book or your film 706 00:32:58,885 --> 00:33:01,525 or your film or whatever, and I thought, you know what, 707 00:33:01,525 --> 00:33:04,685 I think what I ought to do is to come out to cancer, 708 00:33:04,685 --> 00:33:06,805 and tell people that I actually survived pancreatic cancer, 709 00:33:06,805 --> 00:33:08,805 because this is very good news for everybody. 710 00:33:08,805 --> 00:33:13,285 So what I thought I'd do is start a fund called The Bright Side Fund, 711 00:33:13,285 --> 00:33:17,365 looking on the bright side, you know, and then people can 712 00:33:17,365 --> 00:33:21,645 contribute and we can put it to research, encourage early 713 00:33:21,645 --> 00:33:24,485 testing, so that's what I'm doing. 714 00:33:24,485 --> 00:33:26,285 We started it and people are contributing 715 00:33:26,285 --> 00:33:28,485 and it's going very well. 716 00:33:28,485 --> 00:33:31,165 And when you went into hospital, didn't you use the man 717 00:33:31,165 --> 00:33:33,565 who starts the song, Always Look On The Bright Side 718 00:33:33,565 --> 00:33:35,445 Of Life, was it his name you used? 719 00:33:35,445 --> 00:33:38,165 Oh, yes, because in Cedars, they said, well, you'd better 720 00:33:38,165 --> 00:33:40,325 go under a pseudonym, you know, because you don't 721 00:33:40,325 --> 00:33:42,005 want to be bothered by the tabloids. 722 00:33:42,005 --> 00:33:45,405 Actually, I thought, well, that's not really one of my worries! 723 00:33:45,405 --> 00:33:47,245 But still... 724 00:33:47,245 --> 00:33:49,645 He said, so what are you going to call yourself? 725 00:33:49,645 --> 00:33:51,085 I thought, oh, I don't know... 726 00:33:51,085 --> 00:33:53,725 I couldn't think of a name, so I said Mr Cheeky. 727 00:33:53,725 --> 00:33:56,205 Because he is the character in The Life Of Brian. 728 00:33:56,205 --> 00:33:58,005 So I'm sitting there ready for my operation 729 00:33:58,005 --> 00:34:02,045 and they go, "Mr Cheeky?" 730 00:34:02,045 --> 00:34:05,325 Oh, that's me! 731 00:34:05,325 --> 00:34:07,725 So that's the name I'm known as at Cedars. 732 00:34:07,725 --> 00:34:08,965 Quite nice. 733 00:34:08,965 --> 00:34:12,205 I'm lucky I didn't call myself Biggus Dickus, actually. 734 00:34:16,685 --> 00:34:19,725 So, you were on The Masked Singer, you are dressed as a hedgehog, 735 00:34:19,725 --> 00:34:21,765 we got a picture of the hedgehog. 736 00:34:21,765 --> 00:34:24,005 That's me, yes. 737 00:34:24,005 --> 00:34:26,925 It doesn't seem like in a minute he's going to tell us 738 00:34:26,925 --> 00:34:28,885 he survived cancer. 739 00:34:28,885 --> 00:34:32,925 "I survived being run over by a car," maybe. 740 00:34:32,925 --> 00:34:34,565 But you sang a Beatles song? 741 00:34:34,565 --> 00:34:39,605 I did, I sang Love Me Do, I like that song, and it's not easy 742 00:34:39,645 --> 00:34:42,085 to get a Beatles song, and somebody said, well, 743 00:34:42,085 --> 00:34:43,885 why don't you ask Paul? 744 00:34:43,885 --> 00:34:47,245 Because he wrote it when it was 16 and it's not a Beatles copyright, 745 00:34:47,245 --> 00:34:48,685 it's Paul's copyright. 746 00:34:48,685 --> 00:34:52,125 So I wrote him a letter, and I said, can I use your song? 747 00:34:52,125 --> 00:34:54,445 And he said, all right, yes, of course you can, 748 00:34:54,445 --> 00:34:58,925 you can use my song, but please tell me when the show 749 00:34:58,925 --> 00:35:01,765 airs so I can be sure to miss it. 750 00:35:03,165 --> 00:35:06,245 I wrote to him and told him when it was on, you know, 751 00:35:06,245 --> 00:35:09,365 and I said, well, it may not be the best rendition you've ever 752 00:35:09,365 --> 00:35:11,725 heard of Love Me Do, but it's the best ever 753 00:35:11,725 --> 00:35:13,845 done by a hedgehog. 754 00:35:13,845 --> 00:35:16,285 And listen, you clearly are feeling very well. 755 00:35:16,285 --> 00:35:20,205 Tell me, because you were told this thing, 756 00:35:20,205 --> 00:35:22,805 that you kind of thought, right, that's it, curtains, 757 00:35:22,805 --> 00:35:26,645 but now it's not curtains, what is your life like? 758 00:35:26,645 --> 00:35:28,885 Are you living differently? 759 00:35:28,885 --> 00:35:32,565 Um, I think I am in a way that I'm more grateful, you know. 760 00:35:32,565 --> 00:35:36,725 You think, well, I've got a bit more life than I expected, so I can... 761 00:35:36,725 --> 00:35:40,565 What was nice about coming out to cancer was I could do a bit of good. 762 00:35:40,565 --> 00:35:43,005 So I made an alliance with Stand Up To Cancer, 763 00:35:43,005 --> 00:35:46,365 which is a charity and they've been helping me, and the Bright Side Fund 764 00:35:46,365 --> 00:35:51,565 has helped me, and so, yeah, I mean, I'm grateful to alive. 765 00:35:53,165 --> 00:35:55,005 Well, listen, I hope it helps other people, 766 00:35:55,005 --> 00:35:56,925 and we are so grateful you are alive. 767 00:35:56,925 --> 00:35:59,525 Thank you so much for being here and sharing the story. 768 00:35:59,525 --> 00:36:01,805 Eric Idle, everybody! 769 00:36:01,805 --> 00:36:04,605 It's an amazing story, I'm so happy for you. 770 00:36:06,165 --> 00:36:10,005 OK, it is time for the music. 771 00:36:10,005 --> 00:36:13,325 This British pop superstar has 18 Brit awards to his name and is now 772 00:36:13,325 --> 00:36:15,085 celebrating 25 years as a solo artist. 773 00:36:15,085 --> 00:36:19,365 Here performing Lost is Robbie Williams! 774 00:36:25,085 --> 00:36:29,725 # I wake up, terrifying myself again 775 00:36:29,725 --> 00:36:34,805 # Caked in make-up and a little lost 776 00:36:34,885 --> 00:36:40,085 # These reactions are relentless 777 00:36:40,485 --> 00:36:45,325 # Abandoning the permafrost 778 00:36:45,325 --> 00:36:48,125 # Who am I fooling? 779 00:36:48,125 --> 00:36:52,845 # Well, I got a list 780 00:36:55,525 --> 00:37:00,725 # I disappoint them only to exist 781 00:37:03,805 --> 00:37:08,525 # I lost my place in life 782 00:37:08,525 --> 00:37:12,125 # I lost my point of view 783 00:37:13,605 --> 00:37:18,685 # I lost what it is to love 784 00:37:18,725 --> 00:37:22,565 # When I lost my faith in you 785 00:37:26,805 --> 00:37:31,965 # A walk-up of my masterpiece 786 00:37:32,045 --> 00:37:36,765 # To the nothingness greeting me 787 00:37:36,765 --> 00:37:42,005 # Everything smells like sympathy 788 00:37:46,805 --> 00:37:49,805 # Who am I fooling? 789 00:37:49,805 --> 00:37:55,125 # Well, I got a list 790 00:37:57,045 --> 00:38:02,205 # Much too exhausted only to resist 791 00:38:05,605 --> 00:38:10,125 # I lost my place in life 792 00:38:10,125 --> 00:38:13,725 # I lost my point of view 793 00:38:15,485 --> 00:38:20,205 # I lost what it is to love 794 00:38:20,205 --> 00:38:24,285 # When I lost my faith in you 795 00:38:31,365 --> 00:38:32,805 # I lost all hope 796 00:38:34,845 --> 00:38:36,445 # All my friends say 797 00:38:36,445 --> 00:38:40,365 # "Don't give up yet" 798 00:38:40,365 --> 00:38:44,165 # "Might still get there" 799 00:38:46,525 --> 00:38:48,565 # But I don't think so 800 00:38:48,565 --> 00:38:53,805 # Ooh, impress me 801 00:38:55,525 --> 00:38:57,445 # I try 802 00:38:57,445 --> 00:39:01,685 # I lost my place in life 803 00:39:01,685 --> 00:39:05,205 # I lost my point of view 804 00:39:07,085 --> 00:39:12,245 # I lost what it is to love 805 00:39:12,285 --> 00:39:15,885 # When I lost my faith in you 806 00:39:17,925 --> 00:39:21,565 # I lost all hope 807 00:39:22,685 --> 00:39:26,445 # I lost my point of view 808 00:39:28,085 --> 00:39:32,885 # I lost what it is to love 809 00:39:32,885 --> 00:39:37,285 # When I lost my faith in you 810 00:39:38,565 --> 00:39:42,245 # I lost all hope 811 00:39:43,325 --> 00:39:46,885 # When I lost my point of view 812 00:39:48,405 --> 00:39:53,685 # I lost what it is to love 813 00:39:53,845 --> 00:39:58,925 # When I lost my faith in you. # 814 00:39:58,965 --> 00:40:02,805 CHEERING AND APPLAUSE. 815 00:40:02,805 --> 00:40:05,045 Wowser! 816 00:40:05,565 --> 00:40:09,245 Robbie Williams, everybody! 817 00:40:09,685 --> 00:40:12,765 Great job, come on over, do. 818 00:40:12,765 --> 00:40:14,245 Now, which way is he going? 819 00:40:14,245 --> 00:40:16,645 That way, that way, that way, that way? 820 00:40:16,645 --> 00:40:18,685 Oh, this way! 821 00:40:18,685 --> 00:40:21,285 It is this way! 822 00:40:21,285 --> 00:40:22,605 I am so sorry. 823 00:40:22,605 --> 00:40:24,165 Hello, sir. 824 00:40:24,165 --> 00:40:25,565 Nice to see you. 825 00:40:25,565 --> 00:40:26,805 Have a seat. 826 00:40:26,805 --> 00:40:29,045 David, Lydia, Jamie, Eric. 827 00:40:29,045 --> 00:40:33,285 THEY ALL GREET EACH OTHER. 828 00:40:33,285 --> 00:40:34,685 What a pleasure. 829 00:40:34,685 --> 00:40:35,725 Lovely to see you. 830 00:40:35,725 --> 00:40:37,125 Thank you so much for that! 831 00:40:37,125 --> 00:40:38,165 Pleasure. 832 00:40:38,165 --> 00:40:40,805 Yeah! 833 00:40:40,805 --> 00:40:41,845 CHEERING AND APPLAUSE. 834 00:40:41,845 --> 00:40:42,845 Loving it. 835 00:40:42,845 --> 00:40:43,845 Are you well? 836 00:40:43,845 --> 00:40:46,485 Yeah, I just got back from Australia, and I haven't been 837 00:40:46,485 --> 00:40:48,125 to sleep since five o'clock yesterday. 838 00:40:48,125 --> 00:40:49,005 Wow! 839 00:40:49,005 --> 00:40:51,565 Yeah, so this is really interesting. 840 00:40:51,565 --> 00:40:54,365 Well, we won't keep you! 841 00:40:54,365 --> 00:40:58,365 We should say that is the new track, but it's from the album, 842 00:40:58,365 --> 00:41:01,805 Robbie Williams XXV, which is a greatest hits? 843 00:41:01,805 --> 00:41:04,165 Greatest hits, yeah. 844 00:41:04,165 --> 00:41:05,365 Greatest hit! 845 00:41:05,365 --> 00:41:06,605 Oh, no! 846 00:41:06,605 --> 00:41:09,245 Angels, 25 times. 847 00:41:09,245 --> 00:41:10,685 Yeah. 848 00:41:10,685 --> 00:41:12,325 And you've re-recorded them? 849 00:41:12,325 --> 00:41:15,325 I've re-recorded them with an orchestra, yeah. 850 00:41:15,325 --> 00:41:17,525 Gorgeous, gorgeous. 851 00:41:17,525 --> 00:41:18,645 And why just... 852 00:41:18,645 --> 00:41:21,805 I guess there wasn't room for any more new tracks of the album, 853 00:41:21,805 --> 00:41:23,245 because you've got so many hits? 854 00:41:23,245 --> 00:41:26,085 That's right, loads of them. 855 00:41:26,085 --> 00:41:27,925 An abundance of hits. 856 00:41:27,925 --> 00:41:29,805 And also, here's the thing. 857 00:41:29,805 --> 00:41:31,565 By the way, can we just say... 858 00:41:31,565 --> 00:41:33,005 Is that you in the nuddy?! 859 00:41:33,005 --> 00:41:34,005 That's me, yeah. 860 00:41:34,005 --> 00:41:35,045 Look at that! 861 00:41:35,045 --> 00:41:36,125 I know! 862 00:41:36,125 --> 00:41:37,565 How much Photoshopping did you do? 863 00:41:37,565 --> 00:41:38,885 Not much. 864 00:41:38,885 --> 00:41:41,965 I yo-yo with my weight and I just wanted there to be evidence 865 00:41:41,965 --> 00:41:47,205 in the future at some point, I did look like that. 866 00:41:48,045 --> 00:41:50,885 But you must get match fit, if you know a nude photo 867 00:41:50,885 --> 00:41:53,125 shoot is coming up. 868 00:41:53,125 --> 00:41:57,205 Well, I was kind of match fit at that point. 869 00:41:57,205 --> 00:41:58,805 So you said quick, take a picture? 870 00:41:58,805 --> 00:41:59,885 Yeah. 871 00:41:59,885 --> 00:42:05,085 It's weird, though, because it wasn't my idea. 872 00:42:05,285 --> 00:42:08,605 I'd like to say that was my idea, but then, I go, oh, yes, 873 00:42:08,605 --> 00:42:10,965 that would be cool, doing Rodin, The Thinker, and then 874 00:42:10,965 --> 00:42:13,725 what you actually don't take into consideration 875 00:42:13,725 --> 00:42:16,365 is you're going to be in a room naked with 30 876 00:42:16,365 --> 00:42:18,285 strangers in front of you, all just, like... 877 00:42:18,285 --> 00:42:20,965 I do it all the time! 878 00:42:20,965 --> 00:42:22,725 All the time. 879 00:42:22,725 --> 00:42:25,445 Talking of looking back, I just want to mention this, 880 00:42:25,445 --> 00:42:28,125 because Eric mentioned it just as you were starting to sing, 881 00:42:28,125 --> 00:42:30,285 this studio is special to you? 882 00:42:30,285 --> 00:42:33,925 Yes, in this very studio, we filmed Monty Python, 883 00:42:33,925 --> 00:42:36,365 we shot Monty Python. 884 00:42:43,325 --> 00:42:46,525 Because of what's happened to you, do you see those circles 885 00:42:46,525 --> 00:42:48,645 and patterns in your life a lot now? 886 00:42:48,645 --> 00:42:51,565 You look back a lot, you know, if you can remember anything, 887 00:42:51,565 --> 00:42:53,845 you tend to look back, yeah. 888 00:42:53,845 --> 00:42:56,925 But we had a lot of fun here, I mean, we made some 889 00:42:56,925 --> 00:42:59,125 funny things happen, and we had a live audience, 890 00:42:59,125 --> 00:43:01,765 and we had about an hour to record the entire show, 891 00:43:01,765 --> 00:43:03,965 so we'd run in and out and be changing. 892 00:43:03,965 --> 00:43:05,405 I have some very good memories. 893 00:43:05,405 --> 00:43:10,405 In an hour you made classics, and it took us so long to make this. 894 00:43:11,205 --> 00:43:13,445 Wow! 895 00:43:13,445 --> 00:43:15,005 Here's the thing. 896 00:43:15,005 --> 00:43:18,205 In Britain, OK, previously, the record for the highest amount 897 00:43:18,205 --> 00:43:23,005 of number one albums by a solo artist was held by Elvis Presley. 898 00:43:23,005 --> 00:43:25,925 So you can imagine how many years he's held that record for. 899 00:43:25,925 --> 00:43:30,605 But no more, it is now Robbie Williams! 900 00:43:30,605 --> 00:43:33,285 Thank you! 901 00:43:33,285 --> 00:43:38,165 That's one of those things, you can't shrug that off, 902 00:43:38,165 --> 00:43:40,765 that is an amazing statistic. 903 00:43:40,765 --> 00:43:43,445 Yeah, but he won't stay dead. 904 00:43:44,085 --> 00:43:47,285 He just keeps coming back for more... 905 00:43:47,285 --> 00:43:49,325 Yeah, no, it's absolutely incredible. 906 00:43:49,325 --> 00:43:52,965 It all feels like a glitch in the Matrix, it really does, you know. 907 00:43:52,965 --> 00:43:53,965 It's like... 908 00:43:53,965 --> 00:43:57,325 Yeah, it's one of those things where you go, well, 909 00:43:57,325 --> 00:44:00,485 I'm really pleased that it's happened to me, but I'm 910 00:44:00,485 --> 00:44:05,725 flabbergasted that it has, and these nice things keep happening 911 00:44:06,045 --> 00:44:09,605 to me, and it's too much to take into consideration and go, 912 00:44:09,605 --> 00:44:12,245 "Yeah, it's me, I did that!" 913 00:44:13,125 --> 00:44:15,285 I beat the Elvis! 914 00:44:15,285 --> 00:44:18,965 That's what I was thinking in Stoke when I was 15. 915 00:44:18,965 --> 00:44:21,805 One day, I'll beat the Elvis! 916 00:44:21,805 --> 00:44:23,445 No, that's not what I was thinking... 917 00:44:23,445 --> 00:44:26,045 But you did beat the Elvis, and I love, you know, 918 00:44:26,045 --> 00:44:29,925 that here you are, this huge star, but then you do spend time in LA, 919 00:44:29,925 --> 00:44:34,205 and am I right in thinking you are less well-known in LA? 920 00:44:34,205 --> 00:44:36,845 I'm not known at all in LA. 921 00:44:36,845 --> 00:44:38,045 Yeah. 922 00:44:38,045 --> 00:44:40,965 I went to Craig's the other night, you know Craig's? 923 00:44:40,965 --> 00:44:42,525 Did they take your picture? 924 00:44:42,525 --> 00:44:46,165 Well, no, that was the thing, I get out of the car and there are, 925 00:44:46,165 --> 00:44:49,645 like, ten paparazzi, and I'm like, "Ugh!" 926 00:44:49,645 --> 00:44:54,085 And I open the door and they all go, "Er..." 927 00:44:55,525 --> 00:44:58,165 All of them, all of them, it's like, it's really sad, 928 00:44:58,165 --> 00:45:00,805 because I'm in the car annoyed that there is bloody paparazzi 929 00:45:00,805 --> 00:45:04,565 there, and now I am annoyed that they're not taking my picture. 930 00:45:05,085 --> 00:45:07,925 But then, right towards the end of me going in the door, 931 00:45:07,925 --> 00:45:10,765 one of them goes, "Ronnie?" 932 00:45:11,965 --> 00:45:15,805 And they all start going, "Ronnie, Ronnie, Ronnie!" 933 00:45:15,805 --> 00:45:19,685 Yeah, Ronnie. 934 00:45:19,685 --> 00:45:22,725 Now, lots to look forward to, because Robbie is on tour. 935 00:45:22,725 --> 00:45:25,645 It all kicks off on the 9th of October at London's O2. 936 00:45:25,645 --> 00:45:29,445 You're touring around Britain, and then you head to the rest 937 00:45:29,445 --> 00:45:31,085 of the world, I guess. 938 00:45:31,085 --> 00:45:32,285 Yes, I do. 939 00:45:32,285 --> 00:45:35,965 Playing North America, where I'm Ronnie. 940 00:45:35,965 --> 00:45:37,365 Will you be in LA? 941 00:45:37,365 --> 00:45:39,205 I can, I'll do a gig for you. 942 00:45:39,205 --> 00:45:40,405 OK, excellent! 943 00:45:40,405 --> 00:45:44,485 Done. 944 00:45:44,485 --> 00:45:45,685 Hollywood Bowl, just for you. 945 00:45:45,685 --> 00:45:48,125 She'll make you some curry. 946 00:45:49,165 --> 00:45:50,605 Good luck with the tour... 947 00:45:50,605 --> 00:45:52,285 Well pulled back, darling. 948 00:45:52,285 --> 00:45:53,845 And good luck with the album. 949 00:45:53,845 --> 00:45:54,965 And get some sleep! 950 00:45:54,965 --> 00:45:55,965 Get some sleep. 951 00:45:55,965 --> 00:45:59,485 Robbie Williams, everybody! 952 00:46:03,645 --> 00:46:05,605 Right, that's nearly it. 953 00:46:05,605 --> 00:46:08,685 Before we go, just time for the first visit of the new series 954 00:46:08,685 --> 00:46:10,325 to the big red chair. 955 00:46:10,325 --> 00:46:12,285 OK, who's there? 956 00:46:12,285 --> 00:46:13,325 Hello! 957 00:46:13,325 --> 00:46:14,325 Hello. 958 00:46:14,325 --> 00:46:15,445 Hi, what's your name? 959 00:46:15,445 --> 00:46:16,405 My name's Padraig. 960 00:46:16,405 --> 00:46:17,485 Padraig? 961 00:46:17,485 --> 00:46:19,205 I think I know where you're from! 962 00:46:19,205 --> 00:46:20,205 I'm from Ireland! 963 00:46:20,205 --> 00:46:21,845 What part of Ireland are you from? 964 00:46:21,845 --> 00:46:22,885 Kilkenny. 965 00:46:22,885 --> 00:46:23,965 Kilkenny! 966 00:46:23,965 --> 00:46:25,405 I used to live in Kilkenny. 967 00:46:25,405 --> 00:46:26,525 Nice one. 968 00:46:26,525 --> 00:46:27,525 Not really... 969 00:46:27,525 --> 00:46:29,365 Cut that out, I'm going to Ireland tomorrow. 970 00:46:29,365 --> 00:46:31,405 How long have you been here, Padraig? 971 00:46:31,405 --> 00:46:34,005 Oh, I'm here, like, 12 hours. 972 00:46:34,005 --> 00:46:35,485 Oh, I see. 973 00:46:35,485 --> 00:46:37,245 OK. 974 00:46:37,245 --> 00:46:39,725 Fresh off the plane, or the boat. 975 00:46:39,725 --> 00:46:41,365 Have you moved here 12 hours ago? 976 00:46:41,365 --> 00:46:43,085 No, I just came for the show. 977 00:46:43,085 --> 00:46:45,005 Oh, OK, are you here for the weekend? 978 00:46:45,005 --> 00:46:46,605 No, I'm going back tomorrow. 979 00:46:46,605 --> 00:46:48,125 Aww! 980 00:46:48,125 --> 00:46:50,605 You know it's on telly, right? 981 00:46:53,325 --> 00:46:55,765 All right, Padraig on you go with your story. 982 00:46:55,765 --> 00:46:59,245 OK, so, about four years ago, we went on a hiking trip in school, 983 00:46:59,245 --> 00:47:00,845 I was 16 at the time. 984 00:47:00,845 --> 00:47:04,725 And we had to hike about 25 K, and we were all sharing rooms, 985 00:47:04,725 --> 00:47:07,365 and we went back to the hostel after hiking about 15... 986 00:47:07,365 --> 00:47:10,405 Just to stop you for a minute, Padraig, Jamie Lee Curtis is looking 987 00:47:10,405 --> 00:47:14,285 at you like you're ringing a bell. 988 00:47:14,285 --> 00:47:16,085 It's all good. 989 00:47:16,085 --> 00:47:17,325 Oh, it's all good. 990 00:47:17,325 --> 00:47:18,725 Keep going! 991 00:47:18,725 --> 00:47:21,245 OK, so you're on your 25 K hike. 992 00:47:21,245 --> 00:47:24,805 And we were told at 6pm after dinner that we were to meet at reception. 993 00:47:24,805 --> 00:47:27,685 And the teachers and everyone would go on a hike. 994 00:47:27,685 --> 00:47:30,885 And anyway, I was sharing a room with Kevin, and Kevin was having 995 00:47:30,885 --> 00:47:33,245 these pains in his chest, and he kept, like, holding 996 00:47:33,245 --> 00:47:35,805 his chest and breathing in and out really heavily. 997 00:47:35,805 --> 00:47:39,205 And we all thought Kevin was faking it to get out of the hike. 998 00:47:39,205 --> 00:47:42,085 And, like, I was kind of like, yeah, it's a good point, 999 00:47:42,085 --> 00:47:43,525 I'd play that card, but whatever. 1000 00:47:43,525 --> 00:47:46,765 And anyway, we just left Kevin and I went down to reception, 1001 00:47:46,765 --> 00:47:50,645 and about 15 minutes later, an ambulance pulls up outside. 1002 00:47:50,645 --> 00:47:54,045 And a paramedic comes in and gets Kevin and loads him 1003 00:47:54,045 --> 00:47:56,085 into the back of the ambulance. 1004 00:47:56,085 --> 00:47:58,445 It turns out Kevin was having a minor heart attack, 1005 00:47:58,445 --> 00:48:01,845 and the eight of us in the room did not give a shit about him. 1006 00:48:03,325 --> 00:48:06,445 One minute before I flip you, is he OK? 1007 00:48:06,445 --> 00:48:07,485 Yeah, he's fine, just... 1008 00:48:07,485 --> 00:48:08,725 Oh, good, good. 1009 00:48:08,725 --> 00:48:11,965 OK! 1010 00:48:11,965 --> 00:48:15,845 That really is all we've got time for. 1011 00:48:15,845 --> 00:48:18,805 If you want to have a go in that red chair yourself 1012 00:48:18,805 --> 00:48:21,125 and tell your story, you can, just contact us via 1013 00:48:21,125 --> 00:48:22,925 the website at this very address. 1014 00:48:22,925 --> 00:48:25,045 Please say a huge thank you to guests tonight. 1015 00:48:25,045 --> 00:48:28,005 Robbie Williams! 1016 00:48:28,005 --> 00:48:30,405 David Tennant! 1017 00:48:30,405 --> 00:48:32,685 Lydia West! 1018 00:48:32,685 --> 00:48:35,485 Jamie Lee Curtis! 1019 00:48:35,485 --> 00:48:39,485 And Eric Idle! 1020 00:48:39,485 --> 00:48:42,525 Join me next week with Eurovision star Sam Ryder, 1021 00:48:42,525 --> 00:48:45,045 rapper and TV personality Big Zuu, 1022 00:48:45,045 --> 00:48:46,885 Hollywood actor Lashana Lynch, 1023 00:48:46,885 --> 00:48:48,725 Oscar-nominated Lesley Manville, 1024 00:48:48,725 --> 00:48:51,925 and Downton and Paddington star Hugh Bonneville. 1025 00:48:51,925 --> 00:48:52,965 I'll see you then. 1026 00:48:52,965 --> 00:48:55,445 Goodnight, everybody, bye-bye!