The Graham Norton Show S31E14
Together on Graham’s sofa: great Irish actors Paul Mescal (Normal People) and Andrew Scott (Sherlock, Fleabag), co-starring in the critically acclaimed fantasy romance All of Us Strangers; star of Vera and Peaky Blinders, Kingsley Ben-Adir, taking the lead in new biopic Bob Marley: One Love; and stage and screen star Da'Vine Joy Randolph (Only Murders in the Building), who stars in Alexander Payne’s new comedy The Holdovers. The Last Dinner Party perform their single Nothing Matters.
The Graham Norton Show Season 31 Episode 14 | The Graham Norton Show S31E14.
The Graham Norton Show Season 31 Episode 14 | The Graham Norton Show S31E14.
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00:00one here
00:02Graham it might be called outside but in
00:05here we've got some sizzling guests to
00:06warm us up including everyone's favorite
00:08hot priest Andrew Scott will you do the
00:09honors certainly let's start the
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00:28show y
00:33I know I ran from there to here that's
00:35what I did hello good evening you also
00:38welcome to the show hey everyone having
00:40a good week good week yay glad to hear
00:44it I certainly hope you're having a
00:45better time than American political
00:48commentator Dick Morris right this
00:50actually happened he was giving a live
00:52TV interview uh when the following
00:55happened Dick Morris your thoughts
00:57tonight well I think Trump is going to
00:59score huge Victory I think the media is
01:02going to try to downplay it because as
01:04you correctly said they're basically
01:06supporting
01:10um so many questions so many questions
01:15listen we've got some great acting
01:16talent for you tonight with some really
01:18outstanding films to tell us about so
01:20let's get some guests
01:22on later of Music Indie rockers the last
01:25dinner party that's them but first is
01:30British actor has played everyone from
01:31Barack Obama to a Barbie Kendall now
01:34he's taking on the role of Reggae Legend
01:36Bob Marley it's kingy
01:41benadir there he is hello sir I
01:45love well done nice she's a Tony
01:50nominated and Golden Globe winning star
01:53of stage and Screen currently winning
01:55our hearts in Alexander Payne's new film
01:57The holdovers it's a first time wel
01:59welcome to dine Joy
02:02[Applause]
02:10Randol in Europe have a seat
02:13do this Bast and Olivier winning star
02:16shot to Fame in the hit TV drama normal
02:19people and was Oscar nominated for his
02:22role as a young father in afteron it is
02:24a warm welcome back to Paul Mescal
02:28everybody
02:30hey hello sir nice to see you see bug
02:35down a bit bugs down a
02:37bit starring lecole in the powerful
02:40romantic fantasy all of us strangers
02:42he's one of our finest actors the double
02:45olier award and ba to winning star of
02:47Sherlock pride and flea bag it's Andrew
02:50Scott
02:54everybody again seat go on there you go
03:03W welcome all look at that straight in
03:06straight down in one sorry like we kept
03:09you dry back there this is to get you
03:12out here yeah so now H in terms of who
03:14knows everybody kingy do you know you
03:16know everybody yeah we worked together
03:19five years ago yeah we spent a lot of
03:21time together in dine seem surprised to
03:23hear that well that it was 5 years ago
03:26but the pic yeah we hung out three years
03:29five yeah time is time is off yeah it's
03:32all relative and uh Andrew uh you were
03:34at the Golden Globes I was yes yes you
03:36were um where D did win a Golden Globe
03:41yes you did
03:44yeah and you've also won a critic's
03:46choice award yeah I there you are it's I
03:49love looking at a happy it's just
03:51infectious happy person thank you and we
03:54should say that just yesterday Kingsley
03:56you gave dine some very good news yes
03:59you you are nominated for BA yes yeah
04:03thank you they're supporting actors of
04:05The bafter Very
04:10go all ofer strangers now has six baa
04:13nominations well done wow Andrew and
04:15Paul of course you're currently joined
04:17the hip doing all your promo for all of
04:19us
04:20strangers but but but you seem like
04:22you're having a good time you're
04:24enjoying see we see that's show good
04:26actors and we are having a great old
04:28time but here's the thing Andrew you've
04:31helped Paul you've given him advice on
04:33posing for pictures on red carpets you
04:36have I
04:37know I think it only works for men I
04:40can't remember what the advice is can
04:41you not no can you I I use it every
04:45single time demonstrate that in a moment
04:47yes I I can describe it in the first
04:50time I met Andrew was we did a uh
04:54charity comedy sketch sketch yeah and it
04:57was before normal people came out and I
04:59was petrified of people taking photos on
05:01a red carpet and I was like I don't know
05:02what I'm supposed to do with my hands
05:04where do I put my feet oh yeah yeah yeah
05:06and Andrew was like you walk up to the
05:08mark you walk past the mark you rock
05:10back onto your left foot and you kind of
05:12just lean back oh yeah God I wish I
05:15followed my ownice one hand one hand
05:17yeah will you do this sort of creepy
05:19little hand in the in the yeah creepy
05:21let's see how how Paul is doing as a
05:24pupil here's Andrew giving the classic
05:28uh
05:30so one hand in in mint let's see how
05:33Paul's doing very
05:36good beautiful now now that that's a
05:39more of a casual look now let's go with
05:41black tie let's see how they're doing in
05:42Black Tie here's here's Andrew oh very
05:44good very Andrew's only managed to
05:46squeeze four fingers
05:48in no more let's see I think you'll be
05:51very pleased with Paul in this one full
05:55fish well done and we've got one more
05:59loads of these defitely look at oh look
06:02at that look at that now you may be
06:04annoyed with Paul here cuz he's gone a
06:06bit Rogue what's that about that's a
06:10mistake I I stay from the
06:13game look how big my
06:16handook and H and kingsy this is
06:18exciting H you're here tonight talking
06:20about playing the great Bob Marley check
06:23this so look at the transformation here
06:25wow it's phenomenal is it wow
06:30and what amazes me so you I mean this is
06:32such kind of an odd so you played
06:34Malcolm X Barack Obama are you
06:36astonished to be playing another real
06:38icon it's so Random I was there was no
06:41plan I did not set out to to play like
06:45icons you know but the the process of
06:48auditioning for Bob was mad you know
06:51like it was uh he's a musical icon so
06:53he's different to all of them and I just
06:55yeah did you have to sing on the
06:57audition they tried to make me sing and
06:59I I was doing Marvel at the time and I
07:02was like 95
07:04kilos I can't sing right and I was like
07:08and I'm 6'2 and Bob's 5'7 I was like who
07:11is asking me to audition for
07:13this so yeah I I I sort of I taped and I
07:18was like it's Bob you know I have to
07:20throw my hat in the ring well listen
07:21congratulations we'll talk more about
07:22that film and the holdovers a little
07:24later but we'll start tonight with
07:25Andrew Scott and Paul mescal's
07:27extraordinary new film all of us
07:29strangers it opens in cinemas on the
07:3126th of January and we've got a clip
07:34here this is your characters Adam and
07:35Harry meeting again after a drunken
07:50encounter hello
07:57hi I'm really sorry sorry about the
07:59other eye oh that's all
08:03right don't worry about
08:10it see
08:13you actually do like whiskey you
08:16want have
08:28drink
08:41I really really hope that people uh get
08:43to the cinemas to see this cuz it's such
08:46a gorgeous gorgeous it really is
08:48beautiful and anyone I know who's seen
08:50it has you just find it like instantly
08:53emotional it just Taps into something in
08:55everyone uh what can you tell us about
08:57it who do you both play it's hard to
08:59describe isn't it but it's about a a
09:01sort of lonely
09:05sad lonely sad kind of guy uh who is
09:08trying to write about his parents and he
09:10conjures up his parents who have died in
09:12a car accident 30 years before and he
09:14conjures up his parents um in the way in
09:16the form that he remembers them most
09:18acutely which is when they're the same
09:20age as he is now they died when he's
09:22when he was 11 so he he conjures them up
09:24and uh my parents are actually played by
09:27uh Clare Foy and Jamie Bell who are five
09:30or six years younger than me so it was a
09:31kind of strange thing and at the same
09:34time he meets a
09:37sexy a sexy neighbor Miss Miss c
09:43p a plays that character and um uh so
09:47there the kind of jeel story story lines
09:49yeah yeah and and obviously you play
09:51that character and the whole story is
09:52told through you Paul What attracted you
09:54to the film uh this man like it's very
09:58like I've watched Andrew for years and
10:02um I'm a massive fan of Andrew hag's
10:04work so they could have asked me to do
10:07anything other would have said yes and
10:08it help that the script was fantastic
10:10but to get to be like when you see this
10:12film what this gentleman does is nothing
10:15short of extraordinary so for nothing
10:18else go to the cinema to watch what he
10:20does cuz it's insane it really
10:24is but you're also good you're great
10:27player Jamie a sexy neighbor
10:31that's and this movie it is about
10:33families and I think everyone will get a
10:35lot out of it but I've heard you saying
10:37Andrew that you feel like a gay audience
10:39will get just that bit extra from the
10:41story yeah I think it is I think it's
10:43just that idea a lot of um gay people
10:45just there's a there's kind of coming
10:47out uh stories within it and I think
10:49it's just about um just how to love and
10:52love with courage and what we'd like to
10:54be able to say to our parents and what
10:55we'd imagine um we'd like our parents to
10:57say to us in that in that in that
10:59situation and how how kind of nuanced
11:01that situation is and so uh it's been
11:03embraced by so it's just come out in
11:05America I've just spent the past couple
11:06of weeks in America and U Americans are
11:08brilliant because they're so
11:09enthusiastic and so vocal about um about
11:12telling you how enthusiastic people have
11:14been coming up and crying on the streets
11:15and um that sounds Borderland
11:18annoying absolutely crazy but uh uh no
11:22it's really nice to to get it all out so
11:24I really hope people because it's a very
11:26strange film to talk about because it
11:27sounds nuts but to and it is nuts it is
11:30nuts but then life is nuts and and I
11:32think to see the film is to love the
11:33film I really do so um yeah we're very
11:36proud of it and and and we had to do an
11:38awful lot of um kind of intimate
11:41intimate you did stuff in this but it's
11:45it's really it's very tasteful
11:49yes well it's it's also you know it will
11:51sell tickets and
11:55uh but it's I think it's always it's
11:58interesting because you you're on set
11:59and your Actors and The Crew everyone's
12:01there and you you know the job is done d
12:03d but then people are sitting in rows
12:06watching this like your families are
12:08watching this have your families seen it
12:09yet the Irish Premiere trying to
12:12allocate tickets to aunties and uncles
12:14is that's I'm just thinking the same
12:16thing it's It's Tricky business but they
12:19must have all seen your Bump they've
12:20seen it many many many times many
12:23different
12:24context many different scales of screen
12:27but uh there's there's there's a little
12:29bit more going on with this I would say
12:31um and more that I don't want to be
12:34there with my parents watches no okay so
12:38don't make me don't make me don't make
12:39me gram a reaction
12:43video yeah exactly and Andrew uh Paul
12:47obviously you're both Irish but Paul was
12:49it your decision not to be Irish in this
12:51film it uh it was a conversation that I
12:53had with Andrew
12:55um director Andrew Andrew hag um uh
12:59I decide what accent
13:01Falls Andrew spoke me he was like I
13:03really think that I'd like to be the
13:05only out person the Gladiator I've made
13:08him be German German
13:11yeah that away and did you just Pi
13:13bleeds because it was one you could do
13:15or bit of both okay and I also just like
13:18that sound and um it's a it's kind of
13:22intuitive it's like when you it's like
13:23when you try on clothes that you like
13:26sometimes it's hard to articulate why
13:28fits like this makes yeah sense and yeah
13:32cuz KY you were just in the Marvel
13:33Universe in secret Invasion and you
13:35played the big baddy and he had an
13:37accent that's you that's him yeah they
13:41tried they tried to have me in that
13:42thing the whole show how long did you
13:44they have me they tried to and I said
13:46I'm wearing it once I'm wearing it once
13:48and I want to be in the show do you know
13:50I mean that was like I don't 4 and a
13:53half hours 4 and a half hours every
13:55scene they wanted me in that thing and I
13:56was like what you do for four and a half
13:57hours not very much like try and get a
14:01snooze like listen to a podcast I I wore
14:04that once yeah yeah yeah I mean In
14:05fairness it looks very
14:07good and uh and that uh character speaks
14:10with her uh Welsh yeah yeah
14:15yeah I can see it now you can see
14:18it why Welsh I think I was just
14:23bored four hours yeah I'll show
14:27them and all of us strangers it opens
14:29next Friday H good luck with it it's so
14:32so gorgeous I I hope people flock to see
14:35it meanwhile dine Joy Randolph brings us
14:39the latest from the great Alexander
14:41Payne this is the holdovers it opens in
14:44cinemas from
14:46today this again I mean such a tender
14:49lovely film the films are so good
14:50tonight uh so tell us who you play and
14:53what the situation is so I play Mary
14:55lamb uh and she works at this uh
14:59boarding school of very affluent Rich
15:03Kids uh and basically it's caught
15:06holdovers it's like basically winter
15:08break uh and so one of the students uh
15:12played by Dominic cessa his parents
15:15decide nope we're not going to pick you
15:17up uh and you're going to just stay at
15:21school um and then so because of it uh
15:24my job is the I'm the head chef so I
15:26have to they have to eat so I have to
15:28stay and then Paul Giamatti plays a
15:32professor named Paul hunam who's kind of
15:34like a gor phobic and like just you know
15:37gorob ghob means like scared to leave
15:40out okay um and basically he's like that
15:44Professor you know that just takes the
15:45job too seriously and everyone's annoyed
15:48with him and um he smells like has a
15:52condition where he like smell it just
15:54you feel bad for him he's like Shrek
15:57basically
15:59yeah actually um and so we're all we all
16:02have to be here for the Christmas break
16:07and we form an unconventional little
16:10family yeah and a lot of people might
16:11recognize Paul J because he was in
16:13Alexander Payne's uh sideways that as
16:16well and Alexander Payne apparently he
16:18really went to fight for you he wanted
16:21you in this film that's what I was told
16:23yeah that he had saw uh Dolomite I think
16:27uh was the one Eddie Murphy yeah and he
16:31felt as though I guess from that
16:33performance that I I could fit and make
16:36sense for that part wow so glad he did
16:39cuz you are really I tell you what let's
16:41watch a clip uh this is you as Mary
16:44talking about the the loss in your life
16:46with Mr Hanan laid by Paul GTI I was
16:49engaged to Curtis's father but he died
16:52before I gave birth
16:55Harold he worked in the shipyard and one
16:59day they was carrying this big uh cargo
17:01pallet and the cable snapped hit him
17:04right across the
17:07head they were good men both of them and
17:12neither of them made it to
17:1325 my baby wasn't even
17:1720 I'm so
17:19sorry I took this job when Curtis was
17:23small because I wanted to ensure that he
17:25was going to have a good education you
17:27know he flourished here yes
17:28no he was a great kid I had him one
17:30semester very insightful mhm he hated
17:34you he said you were real
17:38[ __ ] well uh like I
17:40said sharp kid
17:44insightful oh that's not that's not your
17:47accent no no not at
17:51all and you you you were the one who
17:54wanted it to be practical like when you
17:55do the cooking you are doing the cooking
17:58yeah well cuz when I read the script it
18:00was so again which I'm sure you guys
18:02felt for yours so delicate and intimate
18:06that I felt like it was a magnifying
18:08glass on every single gesture even like
18:12everything meant something um and so I
18:14was like no no no if she's cooking she
18:17has to cook all the smoking I now have
18:20to learn how to smoke the dialect it had
18:22to cuz I was I felt like if people
18:24watched it they' be like she's not
18:25cooking yeah yeah yeah but the smoking
18:27must be even harder than the cooking
18:30yeah cuz you don't right well you know
18:32they say what is it um animals and kids
18:36well you know don't have an animal or
18:37kid on stage cuz they'll upstage you
18:39yeah smoking too couldn't agree with no
18:41B smoking on stage or screen is a crime
18:44it's a whole thing and then knowing it's
18:47like a choreography to know when to
18:49light it when to drag it then you got to
18:51blow it in a certain way so the smoke
18:53doesn't come like wasting in your face
18:56and I didn't realize that herbal
18:57cigarettes burn in a way they burn so
18:59much it's awful did you guys know this I
19:02did not know this yeah it's too fast
19:05it's big plumes of and you're just like
19:08what's going on and so what I did was
19:10cuz I knew it was going to be a big
19:11thing so I just said to the prop guy
19:14said listen I'm a slide in some real
19:17ones in this pth don't tell anybody
19:21they'll smell it straight away they did
19:23but but I felt like you know if you went
19:25to Direction was like so I think I
19:27really want to smoke yeah I was like no
19:29we're just going to we're going to make
19:30it happen because it's for real because
19:32we should say people shouldn't smoke
19:34that's true thr it out
19:36there but but Andrew talking about that
19:39thing you know the choreography in 1917
19:42with those big long single takes Mr
19:45Scott you were to light a cigarette we
19:47had in the middle of 1917 we had to do
19:48these 8 minute long um C this one scene
19:52there's a [ __ ]
19:54cigarette so basically it was in one
19:56take so if you messed up in in minute 7
19:59of an 8 minute scene you had to go right
20:01back to the beginning did you sleep the
20:02night before Oh my God I was so nervous
20:04I was so nervous and also it wasn't like
20:06an intimate little scene this one there
20:08were literally explosions going back you
20:11know a mile in the distance and then I
20:13was
20:16like was like make make use it use it at
20:20War then then eventually
20:22just and then they have to the B the
20:25literal explosions are going off 2 miles
20:26and then they have to reset them which
20:28two hours just because I can't Li
20:30cigarette
20:33absolute and presumably Bob Marley
20:35smokes a lot in your movie but not
20:37cigarettes
20:41not got the good
20:44stuff and I said to the props
20:51guy he like to smoke a little bit a
20:54little bit did you have to
20:56learn no no
21:00I mean I'm not the police I don't
21:02know I didn't I did I you know I had I
21:05had to I had to stay
21:07focused a couple times in Jamaica you
21:09know steam chalice going around to
21:13elevate dine I've got to mention one of
21:15my favorite shows uh a lot of people I
21:17know here love only murders in the
21:18building oh yeah H you're so good at it
21:21and and there you are with Steve Martin
21:24and Martin Short and Selena Gomez but uh
21:26this is a crazy story so you play a
21:29detective in but in real life you've had
21:32a a runin with criminality tell us tell
21:35us Theory I love how British people say
21:37it crimin what I'm running criminality
21:41with criminality
21:43criminals so you're so I I if I if I say
21:47you were in a dim suum restaurant you
21:50know where we're going okay take it away
21:52D and joy Randolph um so I was vegan at
21:55that time and I said say this because I
21:58feel like that was the bad karma I was
22:03[Applause]
22:05vegan
22:07veganuary I was vegan and my best friend
22:11was like let's go get di some and I was
22:12like that's all pork and shrimp and
22:14chicken I can't eat this she's like it's
22:16amazing we have to go I was like okay so
22:19we go um we're having an amazing dimsum
22:23brunch and uh my back is it's crazy when
22:28you have near-death experience the
22:30details you remember everything my back
22:33was to the door and I hear like all this
22:37like fuffle and I see like people
22:40rushing in so my brain's like is this a
22:44flash
22:46mob this is like so show business so
22:49show business probably a flash mob well
22:52cuz like why is everyone rushing in but
22:54I was like that's like it's not on Trend
22:57anymore they haven't done in a long time
23:00and I turned back around cuz I was like
23:02is this a flash mop I turned back around
23:04my best friend's gone and I'm like
23:07that's weird and so literally some so
23:11then people start screaming so then my
23:13brain is like something's going on so
23:17I'm seeing people like trying to flee
23:18out of the exit there's a kitchen with
23:21like a barnyard doors Swinging Doors so
23:23that was the closest thing to me and so
23:25I go into um the kitchen
23:28and it so it's diome they also sell
23:30sushi so in my brain I'm like they got
23:34knives good
23:35ones and so and so I come in and there's
23:39like two waitresses on this side and
23:41there's like a guy on that side and like
23:43I go to one side and I collect the
23:46knives I don't know why multiples
23:49multiples and I woled
23:54it and I'm doing like these yoga breaths
23:56of Fire and I'm like this is it I don't
24:00know what I'm preparing for but this is
24:01it and so then I'm hearing like screams
24:04and this lady's like not my baby and I
24:06was like oh my
24:07God and then this guy comes in and I'm
24:11like is he a threat or are we cool and
24:14he Lees over to me and he's like don't
24:16worry I'm in the Marines and I was like
24:18oh we're good but basically what it was
24:20it was it was a smash and grab so there
24:23was I was I didn't know you guys have
24:25westfields we have westfields in
24:26California and I got very excited when I
24:28came out the car today and I said is
24:30that like my Westfield Mall Westfield so
24:33it was at a Westfield and so basically
24:36there was a jewelry store like just
24:37outside of the mall there was a smash
24:39and grab but apparently that Jeweler had
24:42a private detective so they can carry
24:45arms so they had a little surprise for
24:47them and so it like escalated way too
24:50crazy and so they were running through
24:52the mall with the Bounty yeah and guns
24:56and they chose to run through because
24:58like you know the malls where the
24:59restaurants are connected they were
25:01running through the mall to just Escape
25:04but all that happened and you just don't
25:06know you're just hearing crazy things so
25:08I was like this is it we need Divine in
25:10an emergency that's that is impressive
25:14yeah if you see her in westfi tomorrow
25:18run H listen good luck at the BS Divine
25:23and dare I say the Oscar too uh you know
25:26what's going to happen
25:28the holdovers it's playing in cus now
25:30meanwhile Kingsley benadir brings a very
25:33different drama Bob Marley One Love and
25:36in keeping with the title it opens on
25:38Valentine's Day 14th of February yeah
25:41you are the late great Bob Marley so
25:42here's a taste of the man in
25:48[Music]
25:51action we
25:55Di and I hope this Di going
25:59last no bullet could stop us now we need
26:02to beg no we won't bow neither can be B
26:05no
26:06soul we all defend the right that the
26:09children must unite life is worth much
26:12more than
26:13[Music]
26:19gold
26:25the're we're Jing right stra
26:36so good and we saw a bit of James Norton
26:39there and as Lynch and Anthony Welsh and
26:42and in that performance so is that all
26:44Bob Marley's Voice or you in there too
26:46that's Bob yeah the plan was always that
26:49it was going to be Bob's voice for sure
26:52but I amum I guess I just wanted to uh I
26:56wanted to understand how to sing and
26:58play guitar because that's what he does
26:59and and in terms of the story what
27:01period of Bob Marley's life or is it his
27:03whole life it's not it's not no it's
27:05it's a really specific period it's 1976
27:07and there's um there's a civil war going
27:10on in Jamaica and Bob's you know he's
27:12decided to put on a a free concert to
27:14kind of ease the pressure in Jamaica and
27:19uh there's an assassination attempt on
27:21his life and the band and they all
27:23nearly die he goes on with the concert
27:25and then he flees to London and he the
27:27film's really about the creation of
27:28Exodus
27:29and how soon after the shooting that the
27:33creation of that album was I had no idea
27:35it was like they were they were nearly
27:37killed he did the show he flew to London
27:41and they were Touring that album in 10
27:44weeks so yeah so it really for me I
27:47didn't know any of this coming in so as
27:50we were kind of discovering the script
27:52and the story and I'm meeting the family
27:53I I got to meet I had access to everyone
27:56you know I was reading all the books and
27:57I was like I don't need these books I
27:58can just call people who were there like
28:01all of Bob's friends his band members
28:03but did that not put you I mean
28:04obviously playing someone like this
28:05there's a real responsibility but
28:07because his family were there was that
28:09extra pressure or
28:11helpful looking back I'm like it was
28:14fear I just didn't know how scared I was
28:16but you know when you're scared you go
28:18when I'm scared I I just go well I just
28:20worked you know so I was just kind of
28:22working um but it was a weird it was
28:24because they they supported the decision
28:26but I guess the lead up to that first
28:29day of
28:31shooting I I mean half the family behind
28:35the Mona and Ziggy's behind the
28:37dop and Neville Garrick Bob's close
28:41friend who was there at the time is
28:43rolling the spliff and having his
28:45breakfast behind the dop yeah and so it
28:47was pretty like you know so but I think
28:51after lunch it kind of dropped in and
28:53but also but filming in Jamaica there
28:55must have been people in the the exas
28:57and stuff who had been at the concerts
28:59and oh yeah no no they were everywhere I
29:01mean people like Neville Neville Garrick
29:04who was our historical advisor was in
29:07the room with Bob in baty when he was
29:09composing the album writing down the
29:11lyrics to the songs and nille was there
29:12every day on set so if there was ever
29:14any questions it's that's who you asked
29:16you know and like every Sunday never one
29:18I we just would jump on the phone and we
29:20just walk and talk for a couple of hours
29:22and it was all about trying to cuz Bob's
29:24such an icon you know he's a hero to so
29:27people the conversations were really
29:29about trying to find out who he was as a
29:32as a man as a father and like what his
29:34struggles were you know that was the
29:36what I discovered or what I guess became
29:38really interesting was that Bob really
29:41struggled through that time you know he
29:43was going for a lot and um and yeah yeah
29:47but it's the movie is about the creation
29:48of the album and kind of what Bob was
29:50going for and in terms of you know you
29:51learned some singing and you worked on
29:53the guitar the life of an actor I love
29:55it so you started your
29:58preparations uh for Bob Marley while you
30:01were on the set of a very different film
30:03while you were on the set of Barbie
30:06right there you there you are the chy no
30:10did you know what it was I ordered a
30:13guitar and and was just learning on
30:15YouTube and like transcribing Bob
30:17interviews and was in the middle of
30:18doing this so I set up a little Bob
30:19station just behind you know the bit
30:21where um Ryan is by those doors and he's
30:24go Sublime yeah just behind there
30:27[Applause]
30:29also what I love about this things so
30:31you are getting ready to go beat Bob
30:33Marley shoy knows that he's going to be
30:35the time Lord I mean how weird that you
30:37were both going on do these the day
30:39before they announced Doctor Who I could
30:40tell something was going on with him and
30:42I was like what's going on he's like I
30:44got some big big news I was like tell me
30:47tell me tell me what is it he's like I
30:48can't I can't say anything I can't say
30:49anything I begged them for ages and I
30:50went no no no just don't don't worry I I
30:52respect that and then the next day it
30:53came out it was like World amazing and
30:56talking of popular characters I can tell
30:57you The Talented Mr Ripley which coming
31:00back with you Andrew Scott as a series
31:03or a remake of the movie eight parts on
31:04Netflix yeah oh and when oh look at you
31:08and when my that
31:09Happ you recognize that I know that face
31:12his
31:13hand like like modeling face like like
31:17I've got a hand in my
31:20pocket yeah so that's in in spring in in
31:22the next soon oh wow great and Gladiator
31:252 Paul you've been filming that for I
31:26think and a half
31:29years have you nearly finished it I
31:31finished yesterday
31:34no fin
31:36yday really I survived this no seriously
31:39you're done finished yeah yeah done yeah
31:42complete and that's the sequel obviously
31:44to Gladiators and when when will that be
31:46somebody's going to assassinate me right
31:48now if I say anything further no no no
31:49nothing but no you can tell us when you
31:51might see it in oh Thanksgiving is uh
31:55Thanksgiving this year what yeah 20 24
31:57thanks is it connected to the the the
31:59original one can't say can't
32:01say yeah no it is it is it's in the it's
32:04in that world there are
32:06toas it's in Rome and is it right that a
32:10theater job got you that parting Daddy
32:12yeah I was doing um street car Named
32:15Desire at the time or or was that was
32:18the yeah yeah there he is um yeah I was
32:21doing that that play um at the time and
32:25that's when sir Ridley Scott called and
32:27was like do you want to do this and I
32:28was like is the pope Catholic yeah yeah
32:32you were in Street c Nam desire wer I
32:34was
32:36Stella am who was your Stanley um this
32:40was in school okay so oh actually he's
32:44he's a known actor now Trey buers if
32:46you've seen Empire yes he's the older
32:48brother oh okay yeah wow y oh someone
32:52fell oh no
32:54no they fell off their seat huge fan
32:58fir oh my God stop
33:01it no that's a fun that's a fun it's
33:04great place it's meaty it's constant I
33:07like nearly killed an audience member
33:08when we doing no we were doing it in the
33:11round there's this moment like Stanley's
33:13like one of those like he's like a
33:15volcano so I was like had this prop
33:17where like this metal plate and I really
33:21angry or something so I fire it off the
33:22ground and we we did in the Ala and it's
33:25tiny space marching around giving doing
33:29big acting I had this plate and I welli
33:33it off the stage and whatever way it
33:35bounced it like if you're this lady in
33:38the audience it the the the plate went
33:41bang off this pillar I remember stopping
33:44for a second I was like that would the
33:46suing that would happen no it fully
33:49would have cracked her straight in the
33:50face cuz uh kingy you've done a lot of
33:52theater yeah not for a long time but
33:54when I first started out yeah but now
33:56you have had what sounds like every
33:58actor's nightmare were you in the soo
34:01theater yeah was doing a play called
34:03God's Property was aenay Ken one of his
34:05first plays and we're in the middle of
34:07this scene that's like such a like
34:11lowkey moment in the play you know like
34:13we're just it's a really it's a really
34:16like it's a really simple moment nothing
34:19much is going
34:20on and it goes
34:23silent and I'm looking at Ria and Ashley
34:28and I don't
34:29know I don't know what I'm supposed to
34:32say I don't know and then like 30
34:35seconds passed and no one's saying
34:37anything they're only a little bit
34:39younger than me and then I think 2
34:41minutes must have passed and so I got up
34:46it's making me feel panicky now think we
34:48all have
34:50PTSD so I get up I don't even know if
34:52it's me at this point but I don't I
34:54don't know how to help so I go to the
34:57back of the stage and there's a sink
35:00it's always the best place to go I
35:02pretend to start washing up absolutely
35:05and I'm looking up going God please what
35:09you the feeling is you're sinking but
35:12you're calm yeah but you feel like
35:14you're sinking and I think I heard
35:16afterwards it was 3 and a half minutes
35:18past and are you [ __ ] press
35:22nobody I forgot it was pressnet and you
35:24can hear the pens and the papers
35:26rustling so I go right this is silly now
35:29so I run off stage and I open the
35:33script and I'm trying like I'm going to
35:35find where I
35:36am and I'm trying to I'm and I'm just
35:39seeing black and white and then I go and
35:44then I run straight back on I skip 20
35:47Pages oh you know and real is mitovich
35:51afterwards said like you know we should
35:53we should have helped you and I we were
35:57you yeah but I was it was it was weird
35:59because I I genuinely felt so calm but
36:02like yeah it was weird wow cuz Andrew
36:05you just did that thing of playing a
36:06oneperson version of Vana in the West
36:09End yeah uh it's in which amazing I saw
36:13it it was so good and you play eight
36:15people what is it better or worse if you
36:18dry it's good because if you mess up
36:20usually when you mess up on stage with
36:22another actor you Tred to signal to and
36:25a half minutes and nobody say and then
36:27somebody so usually steps in but it's
36:28actually quite good because you me if
36:30you mess up when you're on your own you
36:31just you just nobody I don't mind you're
36:35not annoyed and check off's dead and
36:37check's dead but it reminds me I I when
36:41when we were doing Hamlet I think I've
36:42told you this story I shot Juliet
36:45Stevenson in the face by accident
36:48obviously but we were doing hamut and I
36:50had to I had to threaten her with a gun
36:53so the scene is is is ham is threat
36:55threatening his mother with a gun and
36:57Polonius the kind of villainous
36:59character is behind a curtain and then I
37:00hear hear the um uh him behind the
37:03curtain and then I shoot him but the gun
37:05just went
37:06off and Peter white who was playing
37:09ponus was waiting he thought he loads of
37:10time he was like and he he he sort of
37:13just died and the audience was
37:16like the shock yeah he died of
37:19Bri and it was horrific and I just went
37:22across the St I was like I've L because
37:24I just it just the gun just went I hate
37:25guns anyway but they just went off and I
37:27was like and afterwards at the interval
37:29I went down to Jame Juliet Stevenson who
37:30is and it just shows what a badass she
37:32is and like locked on her door like to
37:35apologize for shooting her in the face
37:37and uh I was like I'm so sorry I don't
37:39know how that happened I don't just it's
37:40the gun must been faulty she was like I
37:43loved
37:44it didn't you add something
37:50add yes the is
37:53scary gorgeous if you miss by the way uh
37:56Andrew in Van you can watch it on NT
37:59live from the end of the month and
38:01worldwide in feary worldwide worldwide
38:03worldwide world the whole world and oh
38:06and just reminder kingsley's movie at
38:08Bob Marley One Love opens in cinemas
38:10from the 14th of February okay it is
38:13time for music uh having formed only
38:15three years ago this indie rock band has
38:18already secured a Brit award and been
38:21named the BBC sound of 2024 here to
38:24perform their hit single nothing matters
38:26in is the last dinner
38:28[Applause]
38:36party I have my sentence now at last I
38:40know just how you
38:42[Music]
38:46felt I take my fingers in expecting more
38:50than just the
38:51[Music]
38:55skin cuz we're a lorded like in Fever
38:59like a motor bike a sailor the night and
39:03Gale dancing in
39:05convertibl and you can hold me like a
39:10Helder and I will have you like nothing
39:14matters and you can hold me likey
39:19Helder and I will have you like nothing
39:24matters we've got a highway tight the
39:27mood is busting with
39:29[Music]
39:33headlights one more and we whale of
39:36tender in your
39:38[Music]
39:43Chevrolet and we're a l LA and fever
39:47like a motorik a sailor dening G daning
39:51in
39:52convertibles and you can hold me Blacky
39:57Hilder and I will have you like nothing
40:02matters and you can hold me likey
40:07H and I will have you like nothing M
40:11does even when the coke comes crashing
40:14through I'm putting all my beds on you I
40:17hope they never understand
40:21us I put my heart inside your palms My
40:24Home In Your Arms now we know nothing
40:28matters nothing
40:31[Music]
40:49matters and you could hold me like a
40:54h and I will have you you like nothing
41:00[Music]
41:03matter I will you like nothing matters
41:09and you can hold me like he
41:12he and I will have you like nothing
41:22[Music]
41:25matters
41:33the last dinner party
41:37everybody beautiful job I think some
41:40people are coming over Abigail's coming
41:42over you you and Emily where's Emily
41:44there she is come on overd have got an
41:48Emily represent beautiful girl thank you
41:52so much come on all that's
41:55kingley
41:57hi Emily love to meet you have a seat
41:59there do congratulations that is off the
42:02debut album a Prelude to ecstasy uh that
42:06is coming out on the 2nd of February
42:08there it is yeah yeah the ALB it was not
42:10out yet so what's amazing is like these
42:12Awards the Brit the the sound of 24 has
42:15all happened before the album like it
42:19must are you like it must be quite crazy
42:21that you're on this kind of trajectory
42:25yeah yeah I didn't realize they had real
42:27drinks on the show I thought oh yeah no
42:29I whiskey I'm like oh [ __ ]
42:31that's yeah yeah down in one
42:36and and now 2024 presum like this is
42:39just the beginning so like this is going
42:41to be a crazy year are you going to
42:42America things yeah we just got back
42:45actually on Monday yeah it's weird over
42:48there so yes it
42:51is yes it is yeah it's a whole other
42:54world um but yeah I think we're going
42:56back would in Cella which would be
42:59cool that's huge yeah and hav't even
43:03come out yet I'm hasn't come out yet
43:05yeah kudos to you that's amazing L we're
43:08so pleased you're here and good luck
43:09with that album and what an amazing 2024
43:12you're going to have it's going to be
43:13thrilling and we can't wait to see it
43:15all happen H ladies and gentlemen the
43:16last dinner party hey and there and the
43:20others over there hi others there they
43:22all are right that is nearly it before
43:25we go just time for into the big red
43:27chair who we got who we got hello hello
43:29hi what's your name Ellen Ellen lovely
43:32and where you from Ellen Sydney Sydney
43:34in Australia and do you live there or
43:36here no live here now okay what do you
43:38do here I'm a nurse and a paramedic wow
43:41okay thank you now when people have nice
43:43jobs you feel a bit bad off you go Ellen
43:45with your story so one night in a& a
43:49gent comes in quite hunched over looking
43:51really really uncomfortable and I go hey
43:53mate what's brought you into A&E tonight
43:55and he go he goes so I was gardening
43:58naked I've fallen over
44:02oh what do you think it was a
44:06wheelbarrow I mean you know lawn mower
44:08who
44:11knows You' heard those stories before
44:13haven't you what did you just do to
44:16her she's a nurse she can heal herself
44:18what happen gone now she's gone she's
44:21gone now so what does that mean you're
44:23like you're over you're not into it it's
44:24a bad story well it's just feel I've
44:26heard the I've you know I was putting in
44:28a light bulb but and then I sat on it
44:30that kind of thing really we've all
44:32heard those
44:33stories haven't
44:37we last din a party
44:41what doesn't know what the red chair is
44:43I have no idea and that lady just fell
44:45back yeah no she did she's okay she's
44:47okay I say I hope she's okay let's let's
44:50try another one okay okay hello hello hi
44:53sorry to keep you waiting what's your
44:54name Jenny Jenny lovely and what do you
44:57do Jenny I'm a photographer oh yes and
44:59what do you take photographs of
45:01portraits all people all people like
45:03show busy things or a little bit
45:05sometimes yeah okay is your story
45:06involving anyone on our couch no okay we
45:09can all relax
45:12everyone all right jny off you go with
45:14your story um so my husband and I had
45:16been invited to a really Posh wedding
45:18and so we'd been on the champagne since
45:21about midday so by the time the Dance
45:23Floor opened we were three sheets to the
45:26wind good on you yeah and um anyway on
45:28the dance floor um I've got had the time
45:31of my life from Dirty Dancing came on
45:34and yeah and I motioned my husband who
45:36was the opposite side of the Dance Floor
45:38that we should do the lift and he was
45:40like yeah okay so I kicked off my shoes
45:43I tucked my dress into my knickers and I
45:45ran full Pelt at my
45:47husband we crashed into each other and
45:50we went down like a ton of bricks and I
45:53then find myself straddling my husband
45:55with bruis knees and my dress right up
45:57around my waist and I look at him and
46:00I'm and I say what was that and he
46:02looked at me and went sorry I've never
46:04seen Dirty
46:06Dancing that's not that walk yeah you
46:09walk you walk go
46:12on okay so you see if you get to the end
46:15of your story you're good that's that's
46:16the and she comes and joins us no oh we
46:19still never see her
46:21again in a way the end of the story is
46:24kind of the same uh
46:26read one more go on yes yeah let's have
46:29another one yeah yeah hello hi there hi
46:32who are you I'm Linda Linda Lovely and
46:34where you from Linda I'm from
46:36northamptonshire northamptonshire dine
46:39northamptonshire and uh what do you do
46:41or in no I'm retired but I used to be a
46:44district nurse so you'll probably tip me
46:46in a minute
46:48no I don't tip every
46:52nurse I have high hopes for you Linda
46:55off you go fingers crossed uh watch's
46:58your story off you go well I I many 20
47:01years ago it probably was I was asked to
47:03go and see this man cuz he'd been
47:05constipated for three days and nothing
47:07have worked Chapo gold
47:10so so anyway in those days we used to do
47:14what's called a manual removal I mean
47:16draw your own conclusions anyway we got
47:19there and the man assumed a position and
47:22I've got a what did they do now I have
47:26no idea I've been retired is there a
47:28Hoover or something know so Manuel he
47:31assumes the position we're there yes so
47:33I'm feeling around and I can feel
47:35something really hard and I'm thinking I
47:38thought it was a stone actually anyway I
47:41got it out and I went and ran it under
47:43the tap and it happened to be his
47:45wedding ring anyway I the his wife was
47:49standing there and she said do you know
47:50I've been looking for that for two
47:53days he'd obviously swow it accidentally
47:56somehow I don't know but it was really
47:59funny because we used to call it digging
48:01for gold and that day I actually got
48:04gold you can walk you can
48:08walk I didn't think he'd eaten
48:11[Applause]
48:13it okay that really is all we got time
48:15for if you'd like to have a go on the
48:17red show yourself and tell your story
48:19you can contact us our website at this
48:21very address please say thank you to all
48:23of my guests the last dinner party
48:27stingy
48:28[Music]
48:29benadir dine Joy
48:32Randol Paul
48:35mol and Andrew
48:38Scott join me next week with rockand
48:42elbow comedian Kevin Bridges Oscar
48:44winning Brit Daniel Kya Hollywood actors
48:47Brian cranon and Bryce Dallas Howard and
48:49the stars of maestro Carrie meligan and
48:51Bradley Cooper I'll see you then good
48:52night everybody
48:54byebye
48:57[Music]
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