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Hello, and welcome. We are live, if you want to get in touch, pleased

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week or e-mail us, the details are on the screen now. Coming up

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tonight. Martin Freeman in the Hobbit, an unexpected journey.

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you promise that I will come back? No! Unleashing the dirt on working

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with British actors. Be run around and argue a lot. And Mary Elizabeth

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is sobering up. I stopped drinking. Are you pregnant? And we review a

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documentary in Memphis, and the top five fan fatales. First tonight,

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the Hobbit. The first part of the trilogy directed by Peter Jackson.

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Who cannot just run off into the blue -- I cannot.

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He is a home-loving and safe and quiet Hobbit and he goes on an

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adventure where he helps towards to reclaim the land which has been

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taken over by a dragon. Allow me to The novel was written for children

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originally in the 1930s by talking and I wanted to maintain that

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whimsical and comedic tone of the film and have one foot in the Lord

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Of the Rings also. Why did we have a game? They will eat it! If I gins

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losers, -- if he loses... Ferry north. Who he has found a window on

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the floor and he keeps it -- he has found a wing. By the end, he

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realises it means a great deal and he has changed the course of a

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character's life. He is a genuinely brilliant character and I know why

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people love him. As soon as they hear that noise, people love it.

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And been on the receiving end of what Andy does as that character is

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remarkable. We knew Martin was perfect before we met him looking

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at other things he has been in films and on the television. There

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is an aspect of that character who is a rather repressed little

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English man who does not want to go on dangerous adventures, that is

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the character talking wrote and there is something about Martin we

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thought would be perfect. And it is his ability to do drama with

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comedic timing which is rare and not many actors can do that. I need

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air. Flash of white, some paint and then you are just ash. -- like,

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some pain. No! And action. As a film maker, I want to play my part

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in pushing the experience of cinema forward. Three or four years ago, I

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shot a five-minute King Kong movie and I thought that immerse of

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quality would be amazing been a feature film. -- in a feature film.

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You are part of the action in the screen, it is like you have taken

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it away and are looking through a hole in the cinema into the real

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world. It is as if Pete grabs you and pulls you towards the film to

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look at this. So it is very dynamic. Who did you tell about the quest?

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Nobody? Who did you tell? Nobody, I swear! A guy who knows exactly what

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he wants and tells you. It is up to you to slot in and if you cannot do

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it, you do it again and again until you do it. Can I try something else,

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Peter? You make your contribution, that is also welcome. And he is

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good at reminding you weigh you are, that is what I used to informing

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the. -- way you. Mack is he scared, how much does he like this? How

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much of his courage has he found? And usually late in the day, he

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says, good, got it! He says that and you can relax. You will have a

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few tales to tell when you come back. Can you promise that I will

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come back? At what do you think? A the Hobbit

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is two hours and 49 minutes and at the end of the unexpected journey,

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if you have got to the end of Chapter 6 in told him's novel. An

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adaptation usually strips things down but here it is frantically

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stretched out and you are waiting for Bilbo bargains to lose the

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house keys and he will spend half an hour trying to find it. The

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Hobbit is many things but it is a long and slow! Yes, I will read out

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a couple of messages. It is an endurance test, unbearably long and

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an emotionless finesse! Bullet but true. A let-down and much of the

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magic has been sucked out, I read it and went in with low

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expectations and was pleasantly surprised. Martins for it -- Martin

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Freeman is the star for meat and he is excellent and underplays it.

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Mack -- or for me. It is long and the first hour you understand that

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the Hobbit is like blue cheese and wash-up. There are still wash-up

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after an hour. Peter Jackson's has this innovative 48 per frames -- 48

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frames per second going on. Does this draw you into the movie or

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pull you out? Too often, I was pulled out with a talk to my face!

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It is bright and cheap-looking. -- with a torch in my face. The look

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of it does dominate and that is a problem. There is a difference with

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a film that shows you things and a movie which you think you need an

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eye test in. I agree about Martin Freeman. When Peter Jackson

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remembers you can have fun with just some actors talking to each

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other, this works. And Martin Freeman is understated, how he does

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not get overwhelmed by this, I do not know, but it is an achievement.

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And what about Andy circus? -- Serkis. It will make people pine

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for Ward offerings. If you do not do this for a job, would you pay to

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go to see this? I have no choice, my son would insist on this. He is

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seven years old but as a cynical adult, the drama has been sucked

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out of it because she knows it is a trilogy and no matter how good the

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film has come and there were moments that it works, but you know

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the real action will not start for another two years, six hours. Or

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six hours would feel like two years! And next, the story of a

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hard-drinking couple whose relationship is put to the test

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when Kate decides to get sober. am Kate, I am an alcoholic. I am

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sorry, a did not mean to laugh. Those words are weird. I do not

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know if I am an alcoholic, I just think, a drink a lot. Everybody I

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know drinks a lot. I never really thought it was a problem. But

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lately, it kind of scenes light it is. -- it kind of seems like it is.

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I want to have a beer without it turning into 20 or wetting the bed.

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It seems like every time I drink, something awful happens! It used to

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be funny and things like there are not funny any more, things have

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gone up from embarrassing to scary. So yes, I am kind of scared.

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I love her in that scene. As a film about alcohol, it is in good

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company. The character of Kate is different because she is coping.

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She may be throwing up occasionally in front of children and smoking

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crack with strangers in a car but she is generally enjoying her

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drinking and that is interesting and quite chilling because anybody

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who has been about a drink -- he has been around drinking will see a

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lot of truth and could observations. As a portrait of alcoholism, it is

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great, but the film is more interested in the condition than

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the character and because of that it sometimes feels that at any

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moment, somebody will hit pause and the lights will come on and the

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teacher will step forward and talk to the class about their feelings

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on what they have seen and asked if they have questions. I admire a lot

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but it has a slight smell of citizenship GCSE about it.

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thought she was brilliant and I liked the whole think. I wanted

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more about their relationship and what happens when somebody carries

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on doing something and the other person stops doing it. She is

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extraordinary, she falls off the wagon in one scene and that is

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excellent. I just wanted a bit more character, where the Hobbit spent

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an hour saying, this is the spoon again like, be loved this kind. And

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wanted a bit more of that. It is very fast. But it never becomes

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quirky, it is on the brink of being cute and adorable. It does not go

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down the road. The lead character is fantastic. Paul is in a tricky

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situation because he has been brought in and he is playing

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essentially the same character as in his last film and that does not

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work for him. It did not work 10 years ago in the sopranos and the

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lead character was cast in similar characters. Now time for the top

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They huge hello and welcome to you. This might be my favourite top five.

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It has been tough. The top femmes fatales five. The cinema has many.

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There were two great eras and one was in the 1930s and 1940s. Barbara

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Stanwick, Rita Hayworth. My favourite is Lana Turner in the

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Postman Always Rings twice. This is a terrific performance. You can see

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her trying to persuade John Garfield to murder her husband.

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There is one thing we could do. Pray for something to happen?

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Something like that. You suggested it yourself once. I am so pleased

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to see John Garfield. What you must remember is this is the movie that

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changed her career. Before this she was known as the sweater Girl. This

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changed people's perceptions of her. In real life, she was incredible.

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She married eight times. What is so interesting is that all the way

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through the movie, you think if she could? Is she bad? As you see, she

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is reasonable, she is evil, she is every colour of the rainbow and

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terrific. I am reminding myself of your next choice. All the time, we

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know this one is bad. Juliette Binoche in Damage. She plays a

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mysterious woman who decimate so a family. She has an affair with her

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boyfriend's father. This is the moment she meets the father.

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give her her due, it is Jeremy Irons!

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You are Martin's father? I felt I ought to introduce myself. How do

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you do? How long have you known him? Not very long. I see. We have

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been closed just for a few months. Yes, I... I have heard about you.

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It is preposterous. An incredible performance. This is what she has

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been doing for her entire career, this weird, mysterious mask, a

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vortex of a girl, sucking the energy out of the screen towards

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her. She does the same thing in Three colours Blue. This type of

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woman is very interesting because they let everyone else do their

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dirty work. There is something Anglo-French going on.

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In Twitter, are they happy? They are happy. There is voting for

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Kathleen Turner. She is fantastic. There are many films. The remake of

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the Postman Always Rings twice. I would vote for higher in the man

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With Two brains in 1983. It is a different take. I remember Kathleen

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Turner in this film, I was 11 years old and never the same again.

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A lot of people would say about the next one this is for the boys. I do

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not know a man who does not come out in beads of sweat at the

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mention of this woman. It is the casting conundrum of all time. Not

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just the face that launched a 1,000 ships, but the sexiest being in the

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history of the universe. And here she is.

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Gently, darling. It is extremely sensitive. Like me. Why it is that?

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That is the planet aquaria. Take a left turn. The next new rising.

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Every Moon is a kingdom. My father keeps fighting -- keeps them

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fighting each other constantly. It is a brilliant strategy. Hilarious.

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Ornetta Muti. Now we can talk about a real woman in -- mentioning a

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category of actress who has exerted control over their director in real

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life. The most luminous example is Marlene Dietrich, who was working

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in nightclubs in Berlin in an late 1920s and early Thirties. Josef von

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Sternberg found her and put her on the screen. He made have an

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enormous staff. Anybody who says she did not need him, they have to

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look at these films. They made seven movies, they were lovers.

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This is her in ash tree. And a I expected you to pop-ups Sunday.

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Let me come backstage. -- Sunday. I remember you came backstage once

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before. That is such a rude line. After seven movies, she moved on

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and he was never the same personally or professionally again.

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Who is number one? My number one, from the 1980s and

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1990s. You mentioned Kathleen Turner. Pastiches of people like

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Lana Turner, but one woman stance head and shoulders above them.

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Linda Fiorentino. Look at this. Would you leave? Please? I have not

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finish charming you. The you have not started. Give me a chance.

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yourself a nice little cowgirl and make cow babies and leave me alone.

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I am hunt like a horse -- hung. Normally this sort of woman, they

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always end up paying in some way, dying, having to fall in love. Here,

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she is pure evil. You hate her by the end of the film. Every gesture,

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every line, it is a lie, she is extraordinary. You rarely see that.

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The performance deserved an Oscar. This was originally made for

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television, this film. If you look up her name, it comes up saying

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that she was difficult to work with. She was a great actress. Next week,

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we are going to be reviewing Life Of Pi. There is some strong

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language. How important is the idea of the culture clash in your films?

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Very much, it reflects my life. I grew up in Taiwan, and my parents

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were from China. When I was 23 I went to the States. All my life,

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feeding many things at the same time. I wanted to embrace the world

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and be identified as a mixture of many things. How do you enjoy

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London? And not at all. We sense and sensibility, set in the 19th

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century, -- with. How did you adapt to working with these actors?

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Prince Charles asked me at the premiere how I kept English actors

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in order! It was a struggle. They run around and they argue a lot. I

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think I came in with three Chinese films under my belt and I was a

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respected film-maker, but a novice to English culture. You reside in

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Devonshire? I linguistically, it is hard to come back in conversation

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let alone argument with that sort of actress. It was daunting. He has

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broken a vow. He made us believe he loved you. He did, he loved me.

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want to talk about catching Tiger hidden dragon, a ground-breaking

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movie. When you made the film, were you aware it would be a trial

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process? -- trailblazer? Not at all. After making an English movie I was

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a big shot! I wanted to do something that I had dreamt of sins

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child put. Martial-arts -- childhood. I wanted to bring

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quality to a B-movie. Hulk. Did it feel like the end of your career?

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was fearless because of the encouragement of crouching tiger. I

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got ambitious. I tried to have the same thing with American pop

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culture, instead of Chinese pop culture. I think I gave it too much

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thought. I treated it like a psychodrama. I thought about

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retirement. I did not want to retire on a movie about anger, so I

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went to make another small movie. I wanted to do, no ambition, just to

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secure the story and performances. The camera stays close to the

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actors. Me and my brother, we got work on a ranch. Until I was 19. He

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got married. No more room for me. That is how I ended up here. What?

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Those are more words then you have spoken in the past two weeks.

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hell, that is the most I have spoken in a year. I did not know I

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would bring the audience back. I thought it was a small art-house

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movie, with a limited audience. I got nervous when the movie broke

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out into the shopping centre. I thought I might be lynched.

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American gay cowboys! How day you?! What are your memories of working

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with Heath Ledger? He was a serious actor, sometimes nervous. I think

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he was intense. He would clench his fists. When I remember him, I want

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to remember him creating that character. It has a mortal quality.

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I think that is precious. Why do you not let me be? Because of you,

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I am like this. I am nothing, I am nowhere.

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We also want to mention a documentary about the infamous case

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of three teenagers who were wrongly imprisoned for the murder of 38-

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year-old boys and their 18 year fight to free them. As I say that I

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thought I was getting worthy, but this is magnificent.

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In it is an incredible piece of film-making. Western Memphis. There

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is a clip from a training film. It is the most ridiculous thing you

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have seen in your life and you do not laugh because you remember

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there were enough people taking it seriously to make sure, as we said,

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318 year old boys were sent away for the best part of 20 years for

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tragic murders they did not commit. Peter Jackson has produced this

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film and taken the investigation, he has taken charge of that. The

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film is interesting in the way it tells the story of the case with

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new investigative material. Because of Western Memphis, they got out of

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prison in the end. It is beautifully directed. The

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director made another extraordinary work. The way she pieces it

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together. You are watching a thriller. It would be interesting

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anyway, but the characters, Damien Eccles, who you will become

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obsessed by, take your breath away. You will be livid. You will also be

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amazed. This film will send a chill down

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the spine of anybody who was a teenager, listening to noisy music

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and wearing strange clothes. In certain communities in the Deep

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South, what becomes of view because of that. If people are interested

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in the case, there is another documentary, Paradise Lost.

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Western end this is properly brilliant and is out on 21st

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December. Next week we are back at 20 2:45pm. We will review Life Of

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Pi, Midnight's Children, and Tom Cruise as Jack Reacher. Playing us

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out tonight, Hitchcock, starring Anthony Hopkins and Helen Mirren.

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Thanks for watching. Good night. All of us harbour dark recesses of

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violence and horror. I am a man hiding in the corner with a camera,

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watching. How are you going to shoot the shower scene? Is there

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any improper suggestion of nudity? She will not been used. She will be

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wearing a shower cap. Show me footage now. I am under pressure

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and the least you can do is to give me support. I've and your wife. I

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have put up with those people who look through me as if I am

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invisible because all they can see is the great and glorious Alfred

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