01/03/2017 The One Show

-- SCREAMING. Help low and welcome to the with

Matt Baker And Michelle Ackerley. We are joined by three top Hollywood

stars. Here is how happy they looked when they started promoting their

new film in Vietnam. Exactly one year, one week and one day later,

here's how they look on our sofa! APPLAUSE

Please welcome from the new Kong movie, Skull Island, Samuel L

Jackson, Brie Larson and Tom Hiddleston. It was the premier last

night, how did it go. It was great. Went really well. Really surreal.

Never been to a premier like that. I was blown away by the whole thing.

Have you never been like a premier like that? No, independent films.

Very small. Nobody ever really goes. First big premier, really? Yes, I'm

serious. You are as surprised. Really? Yes. I'm brand new. Yes, you

are. I mean, come on, you are brand new and you have every award that

everybody wishes they could have. OK. Golden Globe, Oscars. Boom,

boom, boom! The only one they wouldn't leave the country was the

Baftas. They didn't think I was going to win, to be fair, because

I'm American. Come on! You were in a groove. There was no way - I was so

in the groove. You have everything. I I'll let it go now. Is it rubbing

off a bit here. I was amazed to hear you have never won an Oscar, Samuel?

Nominated once. I can't believe that. There is something wrong in

that. Really? I can name six movies I should have won for. Too right.

Another 100 I could name. There you are. You are the highest grossing

actor all-time. I passed Harrison again, XXX. After this, it doesn't

matter what Blade Runner does, I will be out there by myself. I've

got him now. Thank you for being complimentary about our pre-titles

and special effects. We are talking about Kong tonight. We will also be

# Talking about the highs, I'm talking about the lows... #

Yes, she is talking about the highs and the lows because our cast is

joined by BRIT Award winner, Emeli Sande. Michelle and I were jumping

out of our seats. You more than me. Some more than most. I tell you

what, this movie, it's out next Thursday. We saw it first thing this

morning. It's set in the 1970sty end of the Vietnam War when a scientific

mission is despatched to Skull Island with the help of the US army.

The aim is to map the area for the first time. Here is the moment they

arrive, not knowing what to expect. Certainly not expecting this.

Oh, my God! Does anybody know what that is?

It's very tense, isn't it. It is a monkey, a very big one. The The

characters in this fill vm their own agenda, don't they, talk us through

your roles and where you all come from? Well, the setup is that there

is John Goodman plays the leader of a government organisation who is

taking an expedition to an undiscovered island in the South

Pacific, 1973, satellites are beginning to photograph the earth

from space. We don't have Google Earth and that kind of thing. Each

of us are hired by the team to do different things. I play a former

British SAS tracker who will lead the expedition through the jungle.

Brie is an antiwar photographer called mason Weaver. I'm a

troublemaker not meant to be there. Sam is a commander in the sky and

I'm the commander on the ground. How much did you relish your roles.

Samuel, you are a bit of a baddie there, aren't you? A bit! No, I

wouldn't call him a baddie. Really? He's upset he lost some men. That

this big giant ape is responsible for it. So he has to exact some

revenge for his people that he's lost and save the ones that he still

has. It takes a little determination and you can't be a nice guy when you

want to do that. That is true. You can tell how determined he is, he

stares out Kong a few times. He really goes for it. I had to give

him the hard eye. Tom, real physicality in it. You play an

action man, did you enjoy doing that? Is I enjoyed doing that. It's

all my boyhood dreams come true. I love shooting action. It's

choreographic and it's all stage and screen combat is about the, sort of,

dancing with the camera. We have sharp objects I had to be pro cries

-- r cries or the crew would have hair head chopped off. There is

Black Bower, he is in the new 24. For those who remember the original

there is a connection between King Kong, those who are romantic and a

rose-tinted view of that original won't be disappointed. There is that

human connection? Yes, if that is what you are looking for in this

film you will be satisfied than that. You wear way more clothes than

Faye? Is Wearing more clothes, stronger. Taller. More of a mouth

popping off than her. Taller. She has the lost indestructible camera

in cinematic history. That is a very good point. The last scene where you

pick it up... It's still there! Nothing damages that camera. That's

it. There are real emotive moments. It's a part with your character,

Brie, and your character, Tom, with King Kong, the three of you

together. It's CGI with Kong how do you get in that moment. You have a

technique to get you in the mood and really kind of draw out the emotion?

Well, it was mostly, I have to say, the thing I love about this film is

that we shot it in real places. In Hawaii, Australia and Vietnam.

Vietnam, particularly the most breath taking country. This

particular scene with Brie and myself takes place on a mountain

top, on a hill top. We get very close to Kong and because the

movement of the camera needed to be very controlled we built the set. It

was a big green screen, on a sound stage. It was quite... The

atmosphere was quite dry andster rile and the whole scene is about

interacting with this extraordinary creature. We shot it over two-days.

We began it at the end of the first day. We both felt it was difficult

to work out exactly where he was, how close he was, just to feel the

weight of this enormous animal. The camera team didn't know when to move

in and get close to Brie. So I thought about it over night.

I thought - what if we played a piece of music that somehow could

evoke that sense of there being another presence in the room. It

became this, kind of, little ballet between us and this imaginary thing

and the camera guys it worked out, I think, I hope. Well, it did. It was

very convincing. Sam, is it right, is it right that you have something

written in your contract when you do a movie that you have to have time

out to play golf? I have a little golf clause in my contract. We

picked it up on the One Show. We have a golf course at the end of the

studio. We like to look after our guests. Oh. We are going to a film.

I'm going to embarrass myself missing a putt. I can stroll over.

Whenever you feel like it. Put a couple in. Do it. It These are

Here is All-star Apes. The first is Tarzan. He ran off seat and a dog

was sent to retrieve him. It if you think American politics has gone

bananas recently you should have gone to the cinema in the 1950s. A

chimp acted alongside future president Ronald Reagan in this

movie. In it, Reagan atvrments to teach humour more ales to the ape.

Perhaps we will see a chimp running for President. In the past, as

portrayed in the fit am, 2001, skilled mimele actors and dancers

were used to portray the moment apes use weapons for the first time. Who

needs a weapon when you have a friendly orang-utan. The orang-utan

grabbed Clint while he was driving a truck. Try putting cold water in.

Thank you, Matt. Is on that point, as far as the technology and how it

advance in movies, how impressed were you when you saw the finished

thing. It's not just Kong there are giant animals. How surprised were

you, Tom? Amazing. We spent five months imagining these

monsters. We picked the tallest tree on the horizon and pretend it was

something. Scary. That was the question every day - where is it?

What is it? How big is it? How fast is it? You are asking about the

thing, when it ate a camera we said, where is it and how fast it is? The

camera was supposed to be going off, we are supposed to be shooting it

and following it. Everyone is pointing guns at each other. We'll

kill each other. Where is it? Eight people were giving us answers. We

decided to not aim at anybody, aim another way. A lot of looking

around. Pick a tree, pick a tree. For me, I swear to God, by the time

the movie came out, when I saw it for the first time, it was never

that big! Really? Never that big. I'm tell you. Nobody ever said, he's

that big. If you thought he was going to be that big you would be

more surprised. They would say he's leaping from that mountain over

there. He can do that, where is he hiding on this island? There's no

way he would be on this island and we can't find him. Where does he

sleep at night, that we can't find him? It's a big old island. You are

part of another big movie franchise we are talking about the Marvel

films. Brie this is you at Comic Con. This is Samuel talking about

Nick Fury. Looking cool. Tom, this is how you turned up. That is super

keen. I like to dress up for Comic Con. I've come a long way! Go for

it. You said that role was life-changing for you? It was. No

question. It's an amazing park. He's the God of Mischief it's my

professional obligation to turn up and have the best time I can have.

Going to Comic Con it was mad because nobody knew I was coming and

it was just... There were 7,000 people out there and I'd never

played Loki life, it's in front of the faithful, I had intended to give

a, sort of, protospeech about how I wanted them to chant my name. I

walked out and they just started chanting it. Amazing. I had to keep

it together. Channelled you. Comic Con is the most surreal experience

can have in your life. I mean, I've been going for a long time, since

episode 1, I remember looking ought out my hotel window one night, full

on light saber battle in the park. That was my first year going. I was

backstage and in the Marvel holding room and sitting to talking to

people and she was like - honey why are you here? I was like, I'm in it

now. No-one had any idea, including the rest of the cast of the HMRC

marvel films. They thought I was in the wrong room. Have they given you

any advice? No. You have to work it out for yourself. You have a handle

on it. Depending on your costume, make sure you get air conditioning.

Very wise. They didn't tell you that. Make sure there is a thing you

can plug into that pumps cool air into your costume. I'm concerned

about going to the bathroom. Be concerned about that. Do be

concerned. That is where we're going to leave it.

Here's Anita with a classic underdog tale and if it was ever turned

into a film, it would be a dead-cert at the Oscars.

Ration al tensions were running high in Britain when one woman took on

the establishment and nearly brought it its needs. Jayaben Desai led the

fight for workers right and uniting the white dominated male world of

the trade movement. Jayaben Desai was born in India and

then moved to the UK. She found a job in a factory in Brent in London,

in this very spot. Her son also worked at the factory in the

sweltering summer of 1976. It was a hot summer. Outside the temperatures

were searing and the working conditions were not comfortable. Pay

was low with long hours and compulsory overtime. This all came

to a head in August when Jayaben Desai, her son and three others

walked out to join an unfairly sacked employee. Four foot ten

Jayaben Desai squared up to her 6-foot manager and these were her

words. What you are running is the factory -- not a factory but a zoo.

The Lions roared. Three days after walking, her fellow workers began to

join her on the picket line. We are talking about the 1970s. Migrant

women in a racist Britain doing what she did. Where did that come from?

It was not very hard for her to see the unfairness of others. They

picked on someone who was not just going to go away. She was advised to

find a union to back the strike. Apex stepped in. With their backing

came strike pay and the ability to continue the fight. Other unions

then answered the call to support the action. Postal workers refused

to deliver mail. Steelworkers, miners, dockers, printers,

journalists, even members of parliament came out in huge numbers

all to support Jayaben Desai and her fellow strikers. The dispute

escalated. Mass pickets were organised and the universally white

male workers Britain flooded the streets to show solidarity. 321,

20,000 union and nonunion members took to the streets around the

factory. Jayaben Desai kept the strike momentum going for two years

before support started to drift away. There's an exhibition about

it. This shows how people of different races and backgrounds can

be united. It was really the first time that a predominantly white and

male trade union movement had expressed support for a dispute led

by Asian workers. How they are fighting for the rights, that is

what I saw with my own eyes. I did not believe it and I saw that. It

was really tremendous. She passed away in 2010. The courage and

resilience she showed sent a clear message that workers were to be

valued. Remarkably, this tiny Asian woman in her sari true strength of

character, determination and will power brought together all these

different groups, united in fighting injustice. To me she is an absolute

hero and a true British beam our pioneer.

Samuel, you are a well known civil rights campaigner.

This kind of story must resonate with you. Yes. We were taken by the

fact that she was out there for two years and gave up all to the cause.

Bike a lot of things, she was ground down by the system, unfortunately.

It does not have the most happy ending that work conditions changed

and she was improved by it. But the Iron will of the people is something

that really resonates right now. All over the world. People are fighting

for rights, job rights, equal rights for women are fighting against

religious prosecution. All kinds of stuff. But, the fact that she wanted

to stand up and the fact that she stood up and encouraged so many

people is what is inspiring. It is not always about the result but it

is about giving people hope and letting people know that when you

use your voice, there is something that can be done. People can be made

aware. We could sit here and talk all night long but we are a live

show. Very soon Emeli Sande will be

showing us why she's the deserved winner of her fourth Brit award

when she performs for us live. But first we have a very

dramatic film that needs Would you three do

the honours, please? This is a film about a giant,

hundreds of feet high. The salt marshes of the North Kent

coast are home to some spectacular nature. But there is one man-made

feature that dominates the skyline here. Grain power station. Its

chimney is one of the tallest freestanding structures in the UK.

But it is almost all that remains of what was once Europe's largest oil

fired power station. New environmental laws means it is too

dirty, so it has reached the end of its life. It is time for it to go.

That means explosions. This is the tallest structure ever to be

demolished in the UK. It is huge. The base alone is 30 metres across.

That enormous size gives the demolition experts some serious

problems. A working electricity substation is just 200 metres away

and being 244 metres high, it is essential that the tower does not

fall in the direction of the substation. Fortunately, you can

control the direction of toppling tower. Back in the TV demolition man

Fred Dibnah was a master. His time honoured method did not rely on

explosives. It was a simpler science. Just replace some of the

bricks on one side of the base of the tar with wooden supports, build

a fire at the base. As the wooden supports burn away, it topples over

in a controlled direction. Easy! While the demolition engineers here

use more modern technology. They rely on the same principle to get

the direction right. This monstrous tower is made of 40,000 tonnes of

concrete, the shakier problem remains. Neal Wright is the man in

charge. If the chimney were to come down in one big piece, the whole

chimney would impact of the ground at a high lost city. The vibrations

would damage the substation. The power supplied to the whole

south-east of England could be at risk. The team has had to come up

with an alternative solution. They are putting in some explosives about

halfway up here. They will set them off first which will bring down the

top of the tower is pretty much vertically and then they will set of

some explosives towards the bottom almost immediately afterwards and

that will bring this part of the tower in a more traditional way.

This is what is called a progressive collapse and that should keep

vibrations to a minimum. 4000 holes have been drilled into the chimney.

A tonne of explosives have been crammed in. There is just one chance

to get this right. Three, two, one...

Wow! That was quite astonishing. You could feel the shock waves that hit

you in your gut and through your feet as well. The first explosion

causes 100 metres of chimney to drop, almost perfectly vertically.

The second explosion make sure the bottom half goes away from the

substation. And with the chimney coming down in two sections, it

doesn't hit the ground all at once so vibrations are reduced. But, was

it sufficient to protect the substation? Everything has come back

as positive. We have no issues. Everything is good. Well done. I can

smile now. Thank you very much

to Tom Hiddleston, Brie Larson and Samuel L Jackson

for joining us tonight. Kong: Skull Island opens

next Thursday 9th March. But right now, singing us

out with Highs and Lows from the album Long Live the Angels,

this is Emeli Sande. # Just pack our bags

and run as fast as we can # We hold the future

in the palm of our hands # I know you hear me

but do you understand? # I'm talking 'bout the highs

I'm talking 'bout the lows # I'm giving you forever,

baby, it's yours # I'm talking 'bout the highs

I'm talking 'bout the lows # When we're gray

and we're old # And we run out of

all the silver and gold # Will you still wanna

be my someone to hold? # See, I'd tell you

but you already know # I'm talking 'bout the highs

I'm talking 'bout the lows # I'm sticking by your side

No way I'm letting go # I'm talking 'bout

forever, baby # I'm certain that there's

no other # It's banging

in my heart like thunder # I know

I was made to love you # No way I'm letting go

I'll be there for the highs # I'm giving you forever,

baby, it's yours # I'm talking 'bout the highs I'm

talking 'bout the lows.# We're going to bond by finding out

whether Paula was really From one mother to another,

leave it alone.