02/09/2016 The One Show

Hello and welcome to The One Show, with Alex Jones.

Haven't you picked a good night? It's going to be a ladies night.

Our guests tonight are two trailblazing actors

One plays the women we'd all love to be, the other has played quite

You shall become a poor and pathetic spinster. It's such a terrible pity.

Hello? You had me at hello. Yes, we have met twice. The best scene in a

film ever. Back together for the third Bridget

Jones The best scene in a Renee Zellweger

and Sally Phillips! It's hard to believe that it is 12

years. Was it lovely to bring her back to the big screen? It's the

best. It's such a fun character to play plus it is a family reunion

when we all get together. How did this happen? You are very cleverly

jest 's -- dressed so that nobody will know. What happened there? I

went to the Edinburgh Festival. The last time I went, I was 26. I used

to leap around and do handsprings everywhere. I forgot that 19 years

had passed. I fell off the stage and broke my foot. It is like a very

dark and frightening Honey Monster. They are kind of

like S Ugg boots. I'm about disappointed with the premiere

because I was going to look like an actual celebrity. I was thinking,

should I write "Bridget for Mark" on the side. Or is it Bridget for Jack?

Let's not reveal too much. Back to the film. Bridget has had some very

good news indeed. She's having a baby. Tonight, we want to hear your

good news. Start with Alex. You couldn't have timed the release of

this film better. It just so happens that my husband Charlie and I are

having a baby. APPLAUSE I was trying to breathe in,

eventually, I can breathe out. How are you feeling? Really good. No

sickness, no tiredness. It's been lovely so far. We are so thrilled

for you. If you have good news, senders a photograph and we will

share it with the nation. In recent months, we have kept Esther busy

trying to find answers to your dilemmas. This time, the question

comes from somebody that you might know quite well. It says, my friends

keep telling me I'd make a great mum and should have a baby. I'm 40 and I

have no husband or partner. Should I be worried? It comes from Bridget in

London. Let's see what the people in Camden think? Would you be worried

if you haven't had children by the time you're 40. I'm 50 and I don't

have children and I'm not worried at all. Now, we can have babies with no

men in our lives. How would you feel about that? What do you do? Science.

You have to go there. I know somebody who was born from in vitro

fertilisation. So the father was a test tube? How old were you when she

was born? 27. Honestly, I think it is better to be young when they are

born. So you can get it done. I said to her, is it Gloria? No, it's not.

How old is too old to be a mum? It's never too old. I'm a 45 and my child

is two. Congratulations. Is there an age when you are to world? Your body

gets too old. I had my first when I was 37 and my second one I was 39.

My third when I was 41 you've been lucky. Do men have a biological

clock? I can only speak for myself. I suspect they might. Ask Mick

Jagger that question. He can answer it. He goes on and on and on.

There's a lady in her early 40s, everybody says she'd be a wonderful

mother but she hasn't found the right man. What she cheat you? --

what should she do? She's too hard to read the -- meet the right man.

She's trying too hard. Find a man from a different country. West

Africa, that's all I'm saying. If you stop looking for the perfect

person, it will come along and knock her for six. Esther Ranson! All

about babies tonight. Let's talk about the new film. We last saw

Bridget in The Edge Of Reason. Now she's celebrating her 43rd birthday.

We thought it was all good and she was with Mark Darcy. But the fairy

tale has fallen apart. It is a little different than we might have

expected. She is back on the couch for her birthday by herself. Life

has moved on and she is doing all right. She's professionally more

accomplished. She is producing a news show. Not always successfully,

just to add. That's a good point. She has to worry about the wretched

presenter. They are a nightmare. We are a law unto ourselves. There is a

bit of a quandary in the film. Mark and Jack are keen to be involved in

the baby's life. It leads to confusion. I'm Bridget. This is

Jack. And... This is Mark. Oh, lovely. You're our second that

same-sex couple today. No, actually... Absolutely. We need the

gift of a baby to make is complete. You must be the surrogates. Just

making this lovely couple's dream come true. It's all new isn't it? So

many laugh out loud moments. We were upset by the ending. No, I was

pleased. We wanted different endings. Is it sure that they shot

different endings? They actually never wrote the ending down so it is

a mystery because we didn't want to give it away. I think they picked

the best one. Sally, you play Shazza, Bridget's best friend. Is it

a bit weird when you are playing the lady who is in charge. Sharon told

me that it isn't her. She said it was someone called Tracy who wasn't

there. I never thought it was based on Sharon. Everyone else thinks that

I am playing Sharon. I turn up on the set wearing the same clothes as

Sharon Maguire. I was just saying, Sharon Maguire just embodies the

world of Bridget. If you ever get lost, distracted, you just need to

ask her and you get straight back in. She is Bridget, she is Bridget

and Mark and Jude and everyone. Tell as a bit about Shazza's story.

Shazza had to fight for space in this story with all the a lest

acting going down. She is married. I was hoping it would turn out well

for her. She married Julian, which is wonderful. She did really well!

He plays a folk singer called Fergus who was successful but now isn't so

they are struggling for money. So they tour... None of this is in the

film! LAUGHTER It's so important to me. It's a bit

of a shock but nobody else cared about our back story. They were

going to tour the Shetland Islands. They have too badly behaved children

who wear Ojo clothes. It was a kid 's story. Never mind. It will be on

the DVD extras. Renee, you mentioned that Bridget was a television

producer. You did some in-depth research for the role. No messing

about. You were in proper gallery situations. We went down to good

morning, Britain and shadowed the people in the control room. It was

as if you were here. Shambolic! You thought, hang on a minute! Does it

change the way you feel when you see a live TV studio? Edge unbelievable.

I will never be verbose again on live TV. Notice, I am keeping it

short. I know what it means when you lose the time. That is exactly what

is happening now. Move on! It out on Friday 16 September. We loved it.

Roller-coaster 's are in the news with passengers from Alton Towers

stranded mid-ride. They have two stops somewhere and we've been

looking at the simple science for how they put the brakes on. For more

than 100 years we've been flocking to theme parks to loop, catapult

ourselves into every direction. Have you ever considered on a ride like

this that goes up to 50 mph, how they are going to make it stop?

That's what's on my mind. Right now! The problem is, you don't have much

time to go from 50 mph 20 mph. You need to ensure that the carriages

stop nice smoothly. The way this roller-coaster stops might not be

quite the way you expect. To show me how it does work, is part technical

director Alex Payne. These are the brakes, are they? They are not like

the normal brakes on a car or bicycle. There is no contact or

friction. I will give you a clue on how they work. A magnet. It's not as

simple as a magnet on its own pulling the train to a stop. On the

underside of every carriage is a number -- and aluminium fin. It is

not magnetic. So how does it slowdown? Here is Doctor Hugh Hunt

from Cambridge University to explain. Under a roller-coaster you

have a magnet and aluminium metal. I have a tube here. You've got a

plastic tube. Neither the aluminium or the plastic are magnetic. We are

going to have a race dropping these magnets through the tubes. We will

see who's gets to the bottom first. Go! Yours has dropped through in no

time. Mine is still going. That's amazing! To show that there is no

trick lets swap tubes. When you move a magnet near aluminium it generates

a resisted force and that is how roller-coaster brakes work. What's

causing the resistance is as the magnet passes the metal it generates

an electric warrant. That in turn creates its own magnetic field

temporarily turning the chewed into an electromagnet. The two magnetic

fields work against each other slowing down the falling magnet.

That is what is happening in our roller-coaster brake.

I've got my own little version, a piece of aluminium swinging on a

pendant and imagine that this is a roller-coaster car, if I take my

magnet and stick it in the middle, it brings it to a gentle stop. With

notepads to wear out or no reliance on electricity, magnetic braking

systems are super reliable, as well as super long-lasting and all

because of a magnet. If only I could think of some way to make it less

terrifying! Lovely, thank you Marty. There is nothing better than a theme

park twinned with a safari park but if you're Sally, that can cause a

nightmare, potentially... Of course you were attracted to this bit of

information. At theme park without a safari park is what I need because

my husband is allergic to Lions! We went to a theme park twinned with a

safari park and as we went twice and both times, as we drove through the

lion enclosure, he started to sneeze and come up in lumps and have

difficulty breathing. Does it extend to pumas and leopards? I expect so.

He does not need to find out. That is brilliant. We like information

like that. Coming back to the film, your British accent is amazing and

if you close your eyes, or you would not know that you are American. I am

surprised that you are American! It always throws me. She speaks in

English. All the time that we have spent together, I have been English.

You keep it up even when the cameras are rolling? I am lazy, I do not

want to start over. I would say that makes you very conscientious. You

used to wander around holding two giant Toblerone six she was so

English. You could not tell! She did not even have a passport as far as I

was concerned. When you are doing VEEP, you play the Finnish Prime

Minister, do you do the same? I have stayed American the whole time and

driven everyone wild with annoyance, like the American in all the breaks

and then there have been mistakes, when I have heard it back, the one

word where I sounded English on was when they were filming. Is Finnish

difficult? It is. I got heckled on Twitter this morning by someone from

Finland. They said, your Finnish accent is the most ridiculous thing

I have ever heard. I said, I know it is Swedish, but do not tell anyone!

It is more Swedish, but they said the Swedish we speak in Finland is

different from that in Sweden. My whole accident needs a whole rethink

apparently. I need to listen to lots of Formula 1 drivers! Let us put it

to the test. Here is the next film, we would like you to do a English

accent. Bridget and Minna. Are you going first? All week long, we have

been following Andy Torbet's pioneering churning along the UK's

very first long-distance coast to coast a new trail. Last night it was

100 buyers in, but this is the final leg, will he make it all the way to

Goole? I am just over two thirds into my journey, I have been

paddling for five days on a 162 macro route to the east coast of

England. I have paddled along the Yorkshire Dales and have just gone

through Skipton. I have passed some amazing feats of engineering,

pioneering in no time, but I'm approaching something now that was

so magnificent when it was built that it grew crowds of almost 30,000

people, to celebrate its opening in 1774. The Bingley five rise locks is

a spectacular piece of hydraulic engineering that lifts the boat up

nearly 60 feet using a unique staircase that opens directly from

one block to another and is the steepest flight of locks in the UK.

Because it is such a dangerous system to navigate, there is always

at least one full-time lock keeper here. The great thing about health,

they work in both directions. On busy days, there is more than one

lock keeper on duty and today, John and Nick are on shift. What is your

job entail? People would not know who was going next if this was not

here. It seems that there are quite a few things that could go wrong if

it is not done properly. What sort of danger is involved? It can be

very hazardous. There are lots of things to look out for. Firstly

there is the force of the water which is huge, probably the fiercest

lock that I have seen around the network. Because it is so old, there

are overhangs, boats are ascending and descending. I am now heading

into Leeds where I get to the end of the leads to Liverpool Canal. A

river and canal system here named after the two rivers. With every

stroke I get a little bit closer to the finish line. I'm getting quite

tired now. I should not complain, but the last four or five days have

been really hot and humid and that takes it out of you even more when

you are in the sun 12 hours a day. As with the rest of the canal

system, this route has been a Tour of Britain's industrious past and I

am about to pass a huge Lauren Mark which is a sign of changing times.

After nearly 90 years of producing coal powered electricity,

Ferrybridge power station shut down earlier this year -- landmark. In

its heyday, it produced enough power for nearly 2 million people. It

first started producing electricity in the 1920s and the site was chosen

as it had excellent river transport links. Narrow boats already brought

in coal from local collieries. With huge losses predicted and growing

pressure to move towards more renewable energy sources,

Ferrybridge came to a quiet end. And after a week of paddling, I have

nearly reached the end as well. Goole is ideally situated to make

best use of the British transport infrastructure. Big ships still pass

through here and after the tranquillity of the canal, the

hustle and bustle, the big and busy port is a bit of a shock. It is

quite a welcome one. With a welcome reception... To your arms they? Yes

they do. It is not that bad, it is a bit like walking, you are not

breathing hard, you just move along at a nice pace, not as much effort

to think. And after 162 miles of hard paddling, I have finished. With

the North Sea in front of me and the Irish Sea 162 macro is behind me,

this represents the end of a remarkable journey. We have passed

through some interesting history and every person I have met has been as

interesting as I could hope for. Once this route officially becomes

England's first long-distance canoe Trail, it will breathe new life into

what has to be one of Britain's man made -- greatest man-made wonders.

The trilogy concludes. Sally, your biography is full of random facts.

Canals, why do you love them? This is the hardest chat show I have been

an! I do like canals. I love them in London, because they are the hidden

side of London. Primrose hill, beautiful houses and then in the

back, it is like they are undressed, all the gardens subside... Not good

for insurance! I am intrigued by the fact that there is a problem with

water squatters, people squatting on the canals and I want to know about

them. There is a union for the women's canal boats. You should make

a whole series. There is a speed limit of four miles per hour that

the water police have to stick to as well. I amuse myself by imagining a

police chase! You're going for a jog and overtaking them! We should do a

film with you in it. I want to spend a week and do a canal boat holidays.

Speak to Andy. In Bridget Jones' Baby, Richard is in a quandary

because she does not know who the father of the child is, luckily I do

not have that problem! Allegedly they say that every newborn looks

like it father, which is true of my children. We have got a game and we

felt we would take some of your co-stars and you have to guess who

they are by the pictures of their father. It is quite hard but let us

play Who's The Daddy! This first one is for you Renee, this is the father

of another one of your Bridget Jones co-stars, so whose father is that do

you reckon? I am cheating now. I think I know this man, I am pretty

sure he is a golfer and I am pretty sure that his son went to a

prestigious university. That is Hugh's dad. It is Hugh Grant's dad!

Hugh once tried to give you an award but failed miserably, so why would

that be? I was in the blue! The programme was a little bit out of

order at the Golden Globes and I felt so awkward -- toilet. I had

never been to the Golden Globes, I want to take a break and go for a

walk to the bathroom. I will take a walk and it was live and when you go

back to the show and come back from the commercials, you can hear all

the noise in the bathroom and I heard someone yelling, Renee! I did

not realise that they were looking for me. I was actually digging in

the bin for the lipstick I had just thrown away because I could not shut

my little tidy person again. I looked in the mirror and thought I

really need that lipstick and I was digging in the bin and someone come

in to find me. Who is the daddy? There is a big similarity between

this man and his son, even I got this first the canal question...

Steve Coogan, it is obviously Steve Coogan.

APPLAUSE. You're in a car with Steve? He once gave me a lift to

work in his Porsche and I discovered at that moment that I do not like

very expensive cars, got very carsick and was sick on the

pavement. We have some of your good news to read out, just before we go.

And to let here is celebrating after being told she is cancer free --

Angela. Sharon sent this photograph in to celebrate her daughter's

Emma's engagement. Here is daddy Luke celebrating the birth of his

second daughter. You have been amazing. Bridget Jones' Baby is in

cinemas on Friday the 16th of September. Matt will be back on

Monday when Meatloaf will be helping us click of a celebration of ten

years of The One Show. I know your thoughts

are with Connie and Grace,