This programme contains some strong language.
Tonight, film stars galore, plus the boss
of British Vogue is here, so
we've all made a real effort.
We're dressed to impress.
So let's start the show!
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Hello, hello, hello!
Hi, everyone!
Good evening.
You're all so welcome to the show.
Such a packed show tonight, I tell you.
My sofa will be touching more bottoms than a drunk
Tory minister.
Now, financial turmoil continues and now we are
being told to expect power cuts this winter.
Now, we're not sure when and where the blackouts will be, but we
do have a picture of the first person expected to experience a
sudden loss of power.
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Just like that, just like that.
Hey, but there was some happier news this
week.
King Charles has announced plans for his coronation.
Woohoo!
Yes.
Charles wants it to be a cheap, slimmed down
occasion.
He's already saving money on the banquet, as his brother's got
him a great deal at Pizza Express in Woking.
The ceremony will be much less ostentatious, so instead of using
the traditional gold coach, you know, they're going
to travel like this.
Yeah, gets the job done.
And in a bid to be environmentally friendly, Charles is advising guests
travelling a long way to consider the environment and maybe not come.
Thank God for that.
Let's get some guests on!
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Later, we'll have music and chat from
break-out star Self Esteem.
And hot footed from the premiere of their new
movie, the Banshees of Inisherin, Irish legends Colin Farrell
and Brendan Gleeson
will be joining us.
Yeah.
But first, she is a Hollywood actor and
director, star of Pitch Perfect, Spider-Man
and the Hunger Games, welcome
back to Elizabeth Banks!
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Hello.
OK, have a seat.
He is the editor-in-chief of British Vogue and
one of the biggest players in the fashion industry, it's Edward
Enninful!
CHEERING
Hello.
Lovely to see you.
Have a seat.
And she's the Oscar-nominated star of Almost Famous and How to
Lose a Guy in Ten Days, now starring in the new instalment of the Knives
Out series, it's Kate Hudson, everybody!
Hello.
Have a seat.
Welcome one, welcome all.
Lovely to see you.
Do you guys...
You look like you probably know each other.
We do.
There you go.
It's been a decade since I was on the
show.
I think 11 years.
Yeah, because I was pregnant with Bing,
my middle boy.
They showed me a picture of you and your family.
There you are.
So this guy here.
He was in my belly the last time I was
here, which seems crazy.
Wow.
Yeah.
And that's your eldest guy.
He's off to college.
I'm so jealous.
He is having the time of his life.
And there's my little princess.
Yeah, she doesn't get out of that dress.
She is four now.
You would really appreciate her.
I love her fashion sense.
Yeah.
Don't start, Edward.
We are feeling very judged already.
I know.
We were talking backstage.
Because the editor of British Vogue is here, like, did you guys make
more of an effort because Edward was going to be here?
You both look fabulous.
Oh, 1,000%.
No, I made an effort because they were here.
And now, here's the thing.
That time when you were here and you were
pregnant with Bing, Elizabeth, you were having the time
of your life, because isn't that when you were
filming like Hunger Games and Pitch Perfect back-to-back?
Yeah, we just celebrated the ten year anniversary
of the first Pitch Perfect film.
Yeah, I can't believe it.
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Yeah, and the first time I did Effie
was back then too, and my little one, my bigger
one, is the same age as
her middle one.
Yeah.
But the thing I didn't know was Pitch Perfect was
your idea.
You came up with it all.
Well, it was based on a book by Mickey Rapkin, who is still
a great friend of mine.
He wrote a book about college.
I went to Penn.
There was tonnes of college a cappella.
I was sort of in love with a guy who could
sing Rocket Man better than
Elton John.
Tell me about it.
And that's what I thought, God, these
guys are like rock stars, you know.
My husband thought they were very fun and funny.
And then we thought this would make a great movie idea, yeah.
Wow.
We optioned the book and now we're actually
out Bumper in Berlin, which is an Adam Devine show
based on the character of Bumper, who is Rebel Wilson's love interest
in the first two films, and he has his own show
now which is coming out on Peacock in November.
Wow.
Yeah.
That was worth doing.
It was.
We're still growing the Pitch Perfect
universe.
Pitch More Perfect.
And, Edward, obviously the fashion world is famous for its
parties.
Oh, I'll say.
Whatever you do is then followed by a party.
Are you bored of those parties or are they still fun
in a way?
Never!
I love them.
I met my husband at a party.
Did you?
Yeah.
What sort of party?
My party at home.
OK.
It was midnight, I'm looking around the room, I'm a bit
bored and I see this young man sitting there, late 20s.
And I heard God say, go up and use that line,
that incredible line I handed over to gay people.
So I walked over, got down and went, "Excuse me, are you
gay?"
He was and we're still together.
Very good.
I love that line!
You make it sound so easy, Edward.
I know!
I was younger then.
All right, let's get started.
Our first film tonight comes from Kate Hudson and it's Glass
Onion.
A Knives Out mystery.
This will be in cinemas nationwide from
the 23rd of November for one week only.
It's streaming on Netflix from the 23rd of December.
And now so Knives Out was the first one in
2019.
This time, what's going on?
Who are you, Kate Hudson?
What can you tell us?
OK, I play a fashionista.
Well, love that.
Is that why I'm here?
Her name is Birdie Jay.
She's very extra.
And very tone deaf.
And that is about all I can say.
Which is kinda fun for this movie because we can't say much
because it's a mystery.
But Daniel Craig is back as Benoit Blanc.
Oh, is he ever?
Oh, yes.
Look at that dashing man.
Yeah.
I love the accent.
So much fun.
It's so fun.
It's so fun to listen to.
It's so fun to watch him work, you know.
He's just so wonderful.
And everyone in this cast.
It's not just the two of you.
It's a big story cast.
Here you all are.
Yeah, don't mess up your line in this cast.
You don't want to be that one.
Also, didn't you shoot in like the south of
France or something?
We were in Greece.
It was tough.
Yeah, real hard life.
We were near Spetses.
Google it.
I'll be googling it too.
It was so beautiful.
Not like going to work.
We got a clip and it's a bit of a period piece
because, of course,
you're all wearing Covid masks in this.
So this is everyone gathering on the island for the big party.
Hello!
Oh, my God!
We can hug, can't we?
Hi.
Did you just arrive at the hotel last night?
I didn't see you.
No, Birdie, we clearly just arrived.
But you...
Hello, stranger danger.
Stranger danger?
No, no.
That's fine, Nikos.
I don't even know what that means.
Benoit Blanc?
Are you Benoit Blanc, the detective?
Did you solve the murder of...
What's her name?
The ballet dancer with the thing and the thing.
That's you?
It is.
In the flesh.
I'm obviously very familiar with you all as well.
Governor.
Doctor Tucson.
Miss Birdie Jay.
What an extraordinary gathering.
CHEERING
Very good.
I feel like...
Talk through your character's science
-based mask.
That's not going to help.
This wraps up Birdie Jay in one accessory.
I mean, she was so much fun to play.
So you're filming a murder mystery in Greece.
But then you must have been having a good
time, because apparently when you stopped filming,
you would then go home and...
Keep playing murder mysteries.
Well, see, first of all, I feel like Covid, and the fact
that we had to shoot it and be very careful sort of first
is all, whether we liked it or not, which thank God we loved it, to play
together, and what do you play when you're doing a part
of the Knives Out franchise?
You know, you're going to play a murder mystery.
And so we played...
Do you know this game Mafia?
Mafia, anybody?
Oh, my God.
I know it.
We play werewolves.
Werewolves and Villagers.
The town priest.
That one.
Oh, it's the best.
Basically, we'd be sitting here like we are, and one of us would be
Mafia, but convincing each other that someone
here is not Mafia, you
are a towns person.
It's so fun.
It doesn't sound fun.
It's so fun.
It's hilarious.
I've played it.
Kate hosts these games at her house.
I've been lucky enough to be invited to
play Mafia at Kate's house and it is so fun and actually
the last time we played was a while ago now.
It was awhile ago.
But Ryder played, I remember.
Oh, my God.
He was good!
He was really good and I wanted to straight up murder that kid.
It was really hard to do because nobody
wants to kill the kid, but I did.
I think I did.
You killed Ryder.
It was rough.
So does more than one person get killed?
The whole point of the game is to kill everybody!
The whole village.
Oh, that's sounding more fun.
And then you go to the bar.
So the thing is, you get killed and then you go to the bar and then
you watch.
It's really interesting.
You watch everybody.
You watch who is lying and it definitely breaks up
marriages.
My husband and I really don't like playing together.
It's like, wow, you are...
You're terrible.
You're a liar.
You have the late-night thing where you're like,
"I can't believe you killed me.
Like, you were Mafia."
Mine would be dead.
First round.
Edward, do you actually play this game?
I played it on a boat and one of the players was Oprah.
Yes.
Wow.
I love it.
Way to shit on them.
You win!
You win.
Oprah...
You don't expect Oprah to lie.
She won.
We would all go round the table and just like literally
try to skip to the next person.
But she was good.
Even if you know she's Mafia, you're like...
It's not possible.
We'll get her next round.
She lived to the end.
I'm sure she did.
I bet she did.
And beyond.
That's so great.
That is the best name drop we've ever had on the show.
On a boat with Oprah.
It is like a really good Cluedo.
How did they die?
On a boat, with Oprah.
Maybe that's the end of a Knives Out.
We'll never know.
So that's Glass Onion, a Knives Out mystery,
and that is out later in
the year, but it's also closing the London Film
Festival this Sunday.
Very good.
Now, Edward Enninful brings us his memoir.
It's called A Visible Man, and it's out
now.
Yes, it is.
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I read it a while ago and it is an
incredible story, Edward.
I mean, you really couldn't make it up.
So you get to London from Ghana aged 13.
13, yes.
And, you know, I think that's a story that's shared by a
lot of people, but within five years, you're the fashion director
of ID Magazine.
Yeah.
And where on earth does that kind of chutzpah, the
confidence, where did that come from in that young Ghanaian boy?
I wouldn't even say it was confidence.
It was survival.
You know, we had to flee from Ghana because my dad was
in the military and there was a coup so we had to flee overnight.
We came to England.
We didn't know where we were.
I'd never seen white people before, maybe I'd seen a couple.
So that was a shock in itself.
And, you know, immigrant families, you're
taught to just work, work hard, work ten times as hard.
And, you know, I got that sort of discipline from my
parents, really.
Maybe I was a bit stupid as well.
The fashion thing started, you were spotted as a
model.
Is that right?
Yes, yes.
I was on the train, yeah.
I was on the train and this lovely gentleman
stopped me and before I had the big Afro and the glasses and I took it
off and he said, "Do you want to be a model?"
And I didn't know what fashion was.
I didn't know what a fashion magazine was.
And I went home to mum.
I said, "Mum, they asked me to be a model," and she was like,
"That industry.
Full of funny people."
She was right!
We've got a picture of you and your modelling
career.
Oh, no!
This is you in the pages of ID Magazine.
This is quite a look.
Now, there's a lot of models here but you have to travel it down.
So we're going...
There are a lot of looks here.
But...
Edward Enninful, everybody.
Wow.
There you are.
I was so thin!
Rocking it.
Look at you.
Chaps.
It was a different time.
Yeah.
But your mother came on shoots.
Would your mother have been at that shoot?
No, not this particular one, she would have
fainted.
It was so nice because you hear stories of models being bullied
and my mum was in the corner giving you dirty looks and nobody can give
a dirty look like an African mother.
So everybody was scared.
I was left alone.
Because it's weird that thing of parents...
Elizabeth, your parents worked in the business, so were they
terrified when you headed off to New York to...?
They had no idea what was happening.
I graduated university and they thought, you're
employable.
Go on and live your life, and then that's what I have
been doing.
The very first time I modelled, I got to set...
I had never...
I didn't know what a set was.
I didn't know what was happening.
And I went behind, like, a little door and I put
the clothes on and I
walked out and you walk into a room and there's like eight people just
staring at you with a very dark look on their face.
Like, it's not good, you know?
And then someone came over, got down on their knees in
front of me, unzipped my pants, stuck their hand in my bottom...
Wasn't me!
Started pulling my shirt down and I started thinking, oh, OK,
that's great.
I guess this is...
My body is not my own.
I am here for the clothes and then the person
stood up and went, good.
And I thought...
And then everyone turned around and walked away.
So I thought, oh, OK.
It is good.
That worked.
Whatever just happened, I'm OK.
I'm still going to stay and I'm going to be here today and work.
And that was my introduction to the entire industry.
I'd never done anything.
Because, Kate, yours was so different because, you know,
Goldie and Kurt - were they super protective of you?
No.
I mean...
I, like, came out like a cancan girl.
I came out doing high kicks and my mum
was like, oh.
I think it was more about them wanting me to stay in
school and not like feel like I needed to be like performing and
doing things all the time.
They wanted me to have more time, like, as
a kid, but I was like from ten years old I just wanted to be on the
stage.
Yeah.
And then it was like once I was 18, they were just like
"Bye!
Have fun."
You say that, but it sounds like your mum is
still quite involved.
I read a story somewhere about you were giving birth
and your mother was very...
She is involved.
When she's there, she's involved.
And then she goes.
She was, like, in my vagina.
It was like, a mother couldn't get more inside of a
birthing vagina than my mother.
And she had these, like, reading glasses
on that had lights on them.
Wow!
No!
It was out of a comedy.
Goldie?
I mean she...
What a privilege, though.
No!
Shouting at the baby, "Follow the light, follow the light!"
For both of them, both of the kids.
But the thing is that having mummy there, as
funny as it is, was really, really special, yeah.
So she is involved.
And in the book, Edward, obviously there's you've
got some health issues
and there's some heartbreak along the way.
In terms of your career, it is this phenomenal trajectory till
we get to today, where you're the King of the world,
editor of British Vogue.
And I just wondered, when you got that job,
that backlash that there was, were you forewarned about that or
did it come as a shock?
I mean, when I got the job, I didn't even realise
that there would be this whole conversation in England about who
was getting the job, who wasn't, and the newspapers
were really having a go.
I was the outsider.
Even though I'd been in the industry since I was
18.
But the brilliant thing was I just knew that I looked around at
the women, my friends and I just wanted to create a magazine that
every woman could relate to.
Every woman is beautiful.
Regardless of colour, regardless of shape, age,
socioeconomic background.
I just wanted to create a magazine that
celebrated women.
And I always say if a child can see themselves they
can be it.
To look in the magazine and see it represented.
So for me, that is all I really wanted
to do.
Nothing sort of got in my way.
But I took a beating for it before I started.
I took a beating.
It has been a great success.
A Visible Man is the title of the book and it's
out now.
OK.
Yeah.
Thank you.
Elizabeth Banks brings us her latest film.
It's called Call Jane.
And it's in cinemas from the 4th of November.
And watching it, it seemed like this must be a reaction to what has
happened with the Supreme Court and overturning
the abortion rights, but
this was written and made before all of that.
It was, yes.
I mean, I think our biggest fear was that the
decision in America, which overturned Roe
versus Wade, would happen, but of course we never...
We made the film before and now we feel
a much deeper responsibility to put out the story of the Janes.
The movie is about a collective of women in
Chicago in the years leading up to Roe versus Wade in America before
abortion was legal there.
This group of women performed between ten and
11,000 abortions in less than four years and they did it themselves.
They taught themselves the procedure after doing away with skeezy male
doctors that were taking advantage of them.
And that is all true.
That's all true.
That's true.
There are documentaries about them.
You can read about them.
But this is a fictionalised account of one woman,
the woman I play, Joy.
Yeah, because your character has a kind
of, it's a kind of health choice.
I have a health issue that requires abortion health care in the film.
But she then goes on to realise that that kind of health care is life
changing for anybody who chooses it.
Wow.
And you're so...
I mean, you're good in everything, but I'd
never seen you do this performance.
You're so good in it.
Well, thank you.
You're really great in it.
We've got a clip and this is your character beginning, starting
to volunteer with the Janes.
Yes, yes.
They take me in and then I become one of them.
It's also featuring Sigourney Weaver and Eleanor Cuskin.
You don't have to tell my mum, right?
That's between you and your mum.
It was my first time.
I should hope so.
I didn't even know I could get pregnant like that.
I mean, we were standing up.
I just don't really know how everything works
down there.
Joy, you must have explained this to your daughter.
You want to take a stab?
Oh, well...
Izzy, you have a vagina...
OK, just hold this.
OK.
Here is your vulva.
This is the labia.
Inside here is the vagina.
This is the vaginal canal.
It looks like a rabbit.
Above that is your cervix and your uterus.
These are the...
ovaries.
That's where eggs are.
Please tell me you at least know where the clitoris is.
APPLAUSE.
Very good.
Watching that, I'm very aware that you are a mother.
Have you had to have those conversations yet?
I have and in fact one of the things I learned early
on from my own mother was that those kind of conversations should happen
as early and often as possible.
You want to be all kids's trusted adult.
I've learned that the easy way, I should say, because I had a really
great trusted adult.
Great sex education, if you want to lower the abortion
rate, that's the number one way to do it.
You've got to actually talk about sex.
You've got to give correct information.
You can't let women and girls go around going, I don't even know
what happened down there!
You know, that's not the way to do it.
We want to empower women to understand what's
going on with their bodies and how to get pregnant, and not and how
to protect themselves.
And also that sex is fun.
99% of the sex I've had is not to make babies.
I don't know about you guys!
Typically the ratio.
So, are you the cool Mum, you're not embarrassed?
No, I'm not.
Yes, I'm cool, and no, I'm not embarrassed.
I bet my kids think that's embarrassing but I'm very
open about it, yeah, with my kids.
My kids knew very early on, you know, mummy and daddy, eggs,
sperm, and around eight years old, in the car, of course,
because these conversations typically happen in the car...
By the way, they suggest that they happen in the car.
You don't want to look directly in your child's
eye when you are like, "the penis goes in the vagina."
You want to be looking forward out the windshield
or sitting at the end of the bed, right?
This is good advice.
I'm giving you good advice.
I don't know why, I have a vision that the Hudson
household is a very...
Very open.
Yeah, growing up, they were almost like too open.
It's like, we don't need to know any of this.
I tell you, no adult says, oh, I wish they hadn't told me.
Every adult says, I am glad I was told.
That's right.
Nobody is like, I wish they hadn't said anything.
Just doesn't happen.
They called it snuggling, that was my parents's word,
which now all of us kids have adopted that word.
It is the not on the door, you know, when it's locked,
you know, it's snuggling.
And they know, they know exactly what's happening.
But very open, very open.
I think it's important.
Edward's nodding.
I mean, my family was the opposite.
I didn't know anything about sex, we never talked about it.
Until I met Simon at 16.
I never met a gay person, I didn't know what being gay was.
The exact opposite.
Touche to you. And you, you quick learner!
Very good.
Call Jane We'll be on general release from the 4th of November.
OK, time to meet our next guest.
It is 14 years since the cult hit In Bruges.
Now its stars are reunited in Martin McDonagh's latest dark
comedy The Banshees Of Inisherin.
Please welcome Brendan Gleeson and Colin Farrell.
CHEERING.
There they are.
There you go.
Sit yourselves down.
Lovely, lovely.
Now, Brendan, have you met any of these fine people before?
No, I don't believe I have.
There they are.
Colin, do you know these people?
No, we've never met.
I've met him a couple of times.
We've met.
You a few times.
Sordid history.
We met when we were babies.
I was 19.
Yes, I was...
I won't say!
That was close!
We were young.
Before you'd even gone to LA.
That's right, we were doing a film with Stuart Townsend.
That's right.
And my hairdresser, Orla, was like...
Orla Carroll?
Orla Carroll!
Invited you to the...
I'll see her tomorrow.
I'll tell her you said hello.
You know you're in with a chance when you're Irish when the person
to say tell her I said hello, I'll tell her you said hello!
This will be on television!
She'll be so happy.
And she's like...
"I'm going to invite this guy Colin down, he's great."
Orla?
She's the best.
Yeah.
She did a film that we refuse to promote, we will not
talk about it at all!
We were kids.
So you do know each other.
Yeah.
In answer to that question...
In a roundabout way.
You've come hot foot from the Premier.
How was the premiere?
Dull!
Didn't work, laughed when they weren't supposed
to laugh, they didn't cry...
We did it and we left.
It was grand, wasn't it?
Yeah.
I've seen it, it is a great film.
The Banshees of Inisherin is out in cinemas next Friday,
the 21st of October.
I described it as a dark comedy but that doesn't
really cover it.
How do you describe it to people?
Well, it's a breaking up story and they happen
to be two men which, I suppose, we've been
told is unusual.
It's a platonic relationship, two men.
There aren't many conventions and there certainly wouldn't have
been then to describe the fact that this relationship
is coming to an end.
The two guys have been bosom bodies and my character decides it's
the wrong thing for him and just cuts it off at the knees,
much to Padraig's astonishment, grief and super disappointment.
And also, you rely on each other because you're
on this very small island.
Yeah.
I am destroyed by a...
I'm happy for about 30 seconds of the film.
The first 30 seconds, until I call up to him
to have our daily point at two in the afternoon and he won't answer
me and he basically tells me, I don't like you, we're not
friends any more.
And then it's the complications and implications of that
decision on your part that going to the community.
All I can say, at least you got 30 seconds!
His misery predates...
When we meet him, he's already miserable.
I'm smiling as I walk through the cemetery!
It is very funny and then it takes quite a dark turn.
Here's a taste.
How do.
How do, Padraig.
Sit somewhere else.
Huh?
But I'm having my pint there, Colin.
He has his pint, Colin, from when he came in
and ordered his pint before.
OK, I'll sit somewhere else.
Are you rowing?
I didn't think we were rowing.
Well, you are rowing.
Well, you are rowing, he's sitting outside
on his own like a what you call it?
It does look like we are rowing.
I suppose I best go and talk to him.
See what all this is about.
That would be the best thing.
APPLAUSE.
Very good.
He's calling me a meanie.
Meanie, meanie!
This film, it's obviously the two of you being reunited
but it is also Martin McDonagh, who wrote and directed In Bruges.
Did you make this in a similar way where you had a big,
long period of rehearsal?
Yeah.
That was great.
It was magic, you never get that.
Did you rehearse your piece?
No.
You never get that, we had three weeks.
It was like doing a piece of theatre, you know.
Is it true that you guys, because you're not speaking
for much of the film, you were discussing
whether or not you should speak?
I was a bit concerned when we started to work,
I ran the thinking fuck...
Sorry!
If...
Brendan goes deep into the work and if he wants to,
you know, demark a line.
I thought, I'll honour it, of course, if that's
what he needs, genuinely.
It was funny, we just went in and said, do we need to keep
a bit of a distance between us?
We were both looking at each other wondering,
did the other person need it?
"Is he asking for me or for him?"
A second and a half later we simultaneously went...
"Nah!"
Give us a hug!
Give us a snuggle.
Not that kind of snuggle!
LAUGHTER.
No, no, no.
Where did you shoot?
It was so beautiful.
So stunning.
The Iron Islands off Galway and Achill Island
which is a little bit up.
It was a combination of the two and we stayed
there on the island, 750 people, three weeks.
Meeting each other on the road on a day off.
"Hi, Brendan!"
We merged into it.
There were tourists there.
There was.
On any given day during the summer there could be 2000
tourists coming in on boats and planes, renting bicycles.
He had an interesting kind of a...
Shut up!
Shut up.
They have horse-drawn carts that carry tourists around and Colin,
as he likes to do, went out for a jog.
I'll let you tell it!
I was just going for a jog, it was a warm summers day
and I had my shirt on and my little running shorts, a slit up here.
Moving along.
One day there was a horse and cart and there were six people
on the back and all of a sudden I noticed they were only keeping ten
feet ahead of me with their cell phones up on the video,
so I stopped and pretended to have a stretch and touch my toes
and they'd stop and I'd go, for fuck's sake...
So I start running again and then they take off again
and for about an hour we kept about ten feet apart and then
I thought, fuck this, I see a hill
coming, there's no way
the horse can get up that hill as fast as I can run.
We were neck and neck for about half a mile!
LAUGHTER.
Just before we got to the centre of town the horse took it.
I should have sold my movie this hard.
You've been living in Ireland.
I did, I lived in Ireland for seven months last year.
Whereabouts?
I lived in Dalkey.
Oh, lovely.
Which they say is the Amalfi coast of Ireland and I can tell
you from being on the Amalfi Coast, that is not correct!
It's the Amalfi coast of Ireland!
That's correct, yeah.
Should have gone over to Howth.
I did go to Howth a lot.
That's where he is.
Oh, yeah.
Lots of Irish connections because Edward, you're
a big fan of Ireland.
Oh, my God, we used to love Ireland.
I had a group of friends in the 90s and we would literally go partying
in Ireland every two weeks.
Where, to Dublin?
Front lounge, back lounge, the George.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
O'Connell Street, Lily's bordello.
I'm the King of Ireland!
LAUGHTER.
I had a friend called Miss Panti.
Miss Panti, yeah.
I used to work for Panti Bliss at Elephant and Castle.
I was a waiter there, the bus boy.
He hasn't changed a bit, I would say.
It takes me back, all the accents.
I only remember the kitchen.
The kitchen, that's right, yeah.
Round the corner from the kitchen, the Clarence Hotel.
Yes.
The Morrison.
The Globe.
It was a mistake to have this many Irish people on the show!
Give us a sniff for old times sake.
Here's the thing.
Brendan, Brendan, Brendan, because everyone is saying how
wonderful Ireland is, because of your successful film
career, you must have considered moving to America at some point?
Funnily enough, not really.
LAUGHTER.
No, because I had four kids, four lads already before...
I went kind of late into full-time acting.
I'd been doing it but not with any view to making a living from it.
So, I went from 34.
So, by the time it came...
I can tell you, actually, one of the first things I did,
I did a thing called Lake Placid which we shot in Vancouver.
They came over, the four lads and they would have been
between maybe eight, nine, to maybe 14.
Yeah.
So, they came in late.
I said, we've got to get them something to eat,
we went for a walk.
Vancouver is fabulous.
We saw a nice little place, still open.
In we go and we noticed, I was thinking about it
when your shorts came up...
The restaurant was Hooters.
LAUGHTER.
My shorts brought you to it!
Little orange shorts and the girls are all dressed up as, you know,
American cheerleaders, girl next door type thing.
But anyway, we went in and they saw the kids and they were more
frightened than we were.
They said, "oh, kids!"
But they were lovely.
About three months later, a delegation of the lads
arrived and said, "listen, we've had a chat, dad.
"If you're thinking of moving to America or over that side,
"it's perfectly fine with us!"
LAUGHTER.
The city called Hooters!
Yeah.
Free chicken wings.
Just a reminder, The Banshees of Inisherin is out from next Friday.
Brendan Gleeson and Colin Farrell, everybody.
Right, time for music.
This Rotherham-born star took the world by storm with her album
Prioritise Pleasure - here performing her current single,
Wizardry it is - Self Esteem!
CHEERING.
# We're still texting then?
# But I'm certainly not your friend
# I don't know where this began
# But I know where it ends
# What could you possibly be gaining
# By asking how my day has been
# And forwarding things that you've seen?
# I know you want me back, I know, I know
# But you, you can't say that, cos you yellow
# My hunger times my impatience
# Makes me feel reckless
# So I let ya, let you be selfish
# And careless with my head
# No one believed in you
# Can't be sure why I did do
# The ex got back in touch
# To be sure you couldn't see this through
# So she's jealous of me
# You should have wrote better songs, honey
# Make yourself the sun
# And not just be a waiting daisy
# And I can see it now, I see, I see
# What is was all about, and it ain't me
# My hunger times my impatience
# Makes me feel reckless
# So I let ya, let you be selfish
# And careless with my head
# Part of being funny is having some sincerity
# And using both of them wisely
# I hope one day you'll finally see
# So I'll leave you on read
# I don't care how you feel about it
# I wish you all the best
# It was almost fun while it lasted
# I say almost, I mean it
# My hunger times my impatience
# Makes me feel reckless
# So I let ya, let you be selfish
# And careless with my head
# My hunger times my impatience
# Makes me feel reckless
# So I let ya, let you be selfish
# And careless with my head
# I cannot stress this enough
# You'll never know how to love
# To learn it like this was rough
# It's not something I'm proud of
# To even get near to me
# Was some wizardry
# I ignored the warnings
# But from that, I'm learning
# My hunger times my impatience
# Makes me feel reckless
# So I let ya, let you be selfish
# And careless with my head
# My hunger times my impatience
# Makes me feel reckless
# So I let ya, let you be selfish
# And careless with my head
# I cannot stress this enough
# You'll never know how to love
# To learn it like this was rough
# It's not something I'm proud of
# To even get near to me
# Was some wizardry
# I ignored the warnings
# But from that, I'm learning.#
APPLAUSE.
Oh, Self Esteem, everybody.
How great was that?
Come on over.
There's some steps for you, come on.
Come here.
That was phenomenal.
There's a little stool there for you.
There they all are.
Edward, Kate, Colin, Brendan.
Just throw it away, throw it away.
So, do I call you Self Esteem?
No.
My name's Rebecca.
Rebecca, OK!
Rebecca, everybody.
Hi, Rebecca.
I should have called it my name but at the time it felt a bit too
harsh to start my solo project.
The Rebecca Lucy Taylor record is in a few years.
I'm going to stand still in a dress.
That is a track off the album Prioritise Pleasure.
There it is.
Nice.
APPLAUSE.
A huge success, nominated for the Mercury Prize.
Yeah.
There's been lots of talk about fashion because Edward
is here and you like your fashion.
You have rocked some great looks.
This is you at Glastonbury.
Now, did you design this?
Oh, yes.
Yeah.
So, a shopping mall in called Meadowhall.
I don't know if you heard of it, Kate Hudson!
It's like an Americanised mall.
Rarely out of it.
You'll find a lot of pieces there.
It opened in 1990, it represented the celebrity America
and all these things, just a big deal to me.
So, I reference Madonna a lot.
I wanted to do a cone bra, but Meadowhall domes!
It got out of hand and then I was doing it and now look!
This next one.
Did you go to Boots and say, I need 500 advantage cards?
This is actually a beautiful story.
"I was a drug addict..."
You know there's that famous address where it's American gold cards
and its access and wealth, that's what it represents.
But a Boots Advantage Card...
If you keep one of them for a bit, and keep getting the points on.
Cos I just go, I've forgotten it, I've had hundreds
and never kept them going.
Mental clarity, which is wealth, is a full Boots advantage card
and that's what I was thinking with that.
Great, very good.
APPLAUSE.
There's a nice end to the story.
Boots got in touch and sent me £100 worth of points
and it's now my phone.
I've been buying meal deals.
Yes, I have got an advantage card.
APPLAUSE.
Really sorted my life out.
We should say that you are going on tour
and you have added some dates.
There they are.
Oh, look, Brendan.
Dublin isn't sold out.
We are moving to America!
I never know what's funny!
His boys want to see girls that look like that.
Oh, perfect, yeah.
But no, no photoshop!
LAUGHTER.
Good on you.
Some haven't sold out.
Hull, very slow.
But I just added another London, another Sheffield,
another Manchester.
I don't know, it's all mental for me.
We're so happy for you.
I love that track.
Thank you for that performance.
Good luck with the Mercury Prize on Tuesday and good
luck with the tour.
Self Esteem, everyone.
APPLAUSE.
Right, that is nearly it.
Before we go, just time to visit the big red chair.
Who is there?
Fiona.
Oh, I like that.
That was seamless.
Fiona.
It's like you're Siri or something.
Alexa...
Fiona, play BBC Radio 2.
OK, Fiona, where are you from?
I'm from Cornwall originally but I love in Surrey.
In Surrey, OK, and what do you do in Surrey?
I'm a wine ambassador for a New Zealand winery.
OK, good job.
Off you go with your story.
I was on face time with my mum and I was chatting and then
all of a sudden my husband comes out the shower naked...
Oh, no!
I want to know what happened.
Then what happened?
Something horrible!
Her mother got turned on or something.
Who's up next?
Oh, hello!
Hello.
What's your name? Misty.
Misty, lovely.
Where are you from? I live in east London.
Is that where you're from, though? No, I'm originally from America.
Which bit?
Grew up in Nebraska and then left in Seattle for the last 20 years.
Wow are you just visiting or do you live here?
We live here now.
What do you do teach?
I teach ukulele at primary schools.
Oh, I wondered who did that.
You're doing a great job!
Thank you.
Parents all over east London going, it's her!
That's the reason!
Off you go with your story.
So when I lived in Seattle I worked for a large software Corporation
and my team was about 350, 400 people and we had a big event
that was going on and we were giving out T-shirts at the event.
They love nothing more than T-shirts.
And so we had somebody come into my office and say, "hey,
"I'm not going to be there, but can you save me a small
because most of them are extra large."
So after the big meeting I fired off an e-mail to this team
of 350 people and said, "you know, great meeting, and John,
"I left an extra-large shirt on your chair.
"I'm sorry, it's I had."
I closed my laptop and went home and on the drive home
I could hear my phone blowing up next to me, ding, ding,
ding, going off for ever.
I've got to pull over, somebody has died or something.
I pulled over and then I realised that I'd left
the R off of my mail, so I said, "John, I've left
"an extra-large shit on your chair."
I'm sorry, it's all we have.
LAUGHTER.
There she goes.
OK, that really is all we've got time for.
If you'd like to have a go on the red chair yourself
and tell your story, you can contact us on the website.
On this very address.
A huge thank you to all my guests tonight.
Self Esteem.
Elizabeth Banks.
Edward Enninful.
Kate Hudson.
Colin Farrell.
And Brendan Gleeson.
Join me next week with Strictly judge Motsi Mabuse, great British
actor Stephen Graham, Oscar-winning star Geena Davis
and rapper extraordinaire Stormzy.
Good night, everybody, bye, bye.
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