12/01/2018 The One Show

Hello and welcome to The One Show

with Patrick Kielty.

And Michelle Ackerley.

Tonight's guest stars in a film made

by the best-loved British

animators of all time.

They're the brains behind

Wallace and Gromit, Shaun the Sheep.

And Morph.

Morph is amazing, a good one.

And

now meet Dug. Look at the likeness.

Ladies and gentlemen, it is Eddie

Redmayne!

Redmayne!

We will be talking about

this little fella in a minute, Dug,

but you have just finished filming

the sequel to Fantastic Beasts. Your

first sequel. It came as a shock to

you.

Originally, when we started

working on Fantastic Beasts, we

thought there would be four films

than we did a big event before the

first film and JK Rowling was there

and when she is around we are

desperately wanting to know future

stories, will we be killed off? She

announced there would be five films

and she told us and the studio and

the world at the same time.

Brilliant!

We enjoy the experience.

How does it work when you talk to

her, is their gossip on what is

coming up? Does she keep it close to

her chest?

What tends to happen, she

will visit the set and you are

shooting a scene and you will see

another actor going, nestling next

to her and you can see at a distance

she reveals extraordinary plots to

other actors and you go and

basically tried to bribe the other

actors and accumulate as much

information as you can and piece

together what the future might be.

It is a fact-finding mission. She

probably knows and sends us off on

odd trails.

You wrapped up just

before the Christmas turkey.

Which

almost didn't happen. I went with my

wife and her family to Ireland and

there was a power cut in the middle

of the cooking of the turkey.

The

worst time.

How did it work out? It

worked out with the walking down the

road to the next-door house and

looking through the window and

seeing a couple in darkness and

knocking on the window. They opened

the door and looked at my chest and

I realised I was wearing an

embarrassing Christmas jumper. I

said we have lost the power. They

were like, this happens, it could be

an hour, a day.

A day?

It is

Ireland, nothing is ever that

urgent.

The power came back a couple

of hours later and the turkey was

really moist. I wonder if it is a

new technique, turn off the oven for

a couple of hours.

At least you are

fit and well and after the

indulgences of Christmas we think of

the new regime for the New Year.

Although you were eating a biscuit

before.

Maybe more than one. It is

quitters' day, when people think, I

am done with this healthy eating.

Dry January. Are you doing it?

Dry January. Are you doing it?

I am

such a quitter, I have so little

discipline. I try to take something

up. I once took up writing a diary

and probably by quitters' day... I

did not last until then. You realise

you are writing self-indulgent

tripe.

That is the connection

between not giving up alcohol and

writing tripe in the diary. A bottle

of wine, this is interesting!

Next

morning... What is this?

Dry January always divides

the country with the dry side

feeling very pleased

with themselves, healthier

than usual, wide eyed

and bushy tailed.

And the drinkers having to drink

heavily in order to make the sober

people seem interesting.

Well, last year, Michael Douglas

found out what a month off the booze

does for your mind and body.

The One Show has set me and two

volunteers the challenge of giving

up booze for month. Eric drinks 15

pints a week and Daniel gets through

100 glasses of wine each month.

I

would like to think it will smirk me

-- sperm aeon to make changes for

the best.

It is the missing out on

the social aspect which is the

kicker.

The best luck. To start, we

need to check out the state of our

health and we have come to see a

liver specialist at the Royal Free

Hospital in London.

The liver

metabolises alcohol and filters the

blood. Excessive alcohol consumption

can cause liver fat and scarring. We

are having a liver function test and

he is measuring BP and insulin and

cholesterol. We are all reasonably

healthy but Eric's insulin

resistance is high making him at

risk of developing diabetes, and all

our livers could be healthier.

That

is high, which is indicative of fat

in the liver.

We will be back in a

month to have the same tests. And

now the countdown to the next drink.

I thought the first week would be

the hardest.

I am not wrong. Friends

have been trying to put alcoholic

obstacles in my way.

But I have

persevered. I went to a 50th

birthday party in a pub on Saturday.

It was really boring. As Eric

feared, our social life is suffering

and to find out why I have come to

meet a psychologist.

Alcohol is a

drug and one thing it does is

release endorphins which makes us

feel connected when people are

around.

He studied the drinking

habits and mental well-being of 2000

British adults.

We found people who

did not drink rated themselves as

the lowest on the scale of

well-being. People with a local pub

reported as having the highest

levels of well-being, and people who

drink without a local pub rated

themselves slightly lower.

Perhaps

giving up

giving up booze is not so good after

all.

In week three we start to feel

the health benefits. I have been

sleeping better. I think cutting

from 15 pints a week to zero is a

big change. Eventually the body is

getting used to it.

I made my own

nonalcoholic cocktail, words I

thought I would not say and it has

been nice to know I will wake up

without a foggy head in the morning.

I am losing a bit of it feels like

body fat. 30 long days later and we

are back for the same tests. We have

lost four kilos between us. My sleep

has improved. Eric's insulin

resistance has improved by 17% and a

key measure of Daniel's liver

function has improved.

If you had a

drug that could do that and your

sleep and concentration improved,

wow, you would invest in that drug.

Giving up booze has improved our

health.

But would we do it again? It

has helped me to realise the

benefits of stopping alcohol in

regards to my sleep pattern and

feeling upbeat and motivated.

Maybe

every month I will introduce one we

of not drinking.

Congratulations.

That is amazing!

He was enjoying that.

That is what I say every pint!

Now

it is time to delve deeper with the

help of our resident drinker Paddy.

Are you ready? Very much so, it will

be deep joy. We will focus on

various parts of my anatomy. And

reveal the impact of alcohol.

reveal the impact of alcohol. The

impact alcohol can have on

well-being and lifestyle. And for

this examination we have four of the

country's finest "ists" in the

studio. We have Doctor Gerry

Coghlan. Doctor Mesha Tanna.

Psychiatrist Dr Anya Topiwala. And

gastroenterologist Dr Yiannis

Kallis. Which proves I have not had

a drink yet!

Eddie, chipped in if

you have any questions. We can speak

to our specimen. What kind of

drinker are you?

I would say

occasional. And social. Just. Yes.

Occasionally... Everyday?

It may be

every day, it may not be everyday,

can we move on?

Dr Gerry, what can

you tell us? Stopping alcohol has a

clear benefit for the heart to

reduce blood pressure, reducing by

8-10 units.

I think my heart is

enlarged!

You can reduce blood

pressure easily. Reducing alcohol

intake equivalent to taking the drug

but without the side effects and it

reduces the likelihood of heart

attacks. And rhythm problems of the

heart.

Is Dry January worth it? You

know the answer, we agreed!

Not on

its own. If it is the start of a

lifestyle change it is worthwhile.

As a method of raising awareness it

is worthwhile but in Ireland, we

have been giving up alcohol for Lent

for many years.

And getting

completely off our heads on

Patrick's today, as well!

Dr Mesha,

what can you tell us about the eyes?

If you are less dehydrated your eyes

will be less dry, brighter, whiter,

you would look better.

What is going

on?

We have only just met! You would

have clearer vision. Also less

delayed communication between the

eye and brain and less weakening of

the eye muscles, responsible for

blurred and double vision.

You would

say Dry January is worth it?

Yes,

anything that improves your physical

well-being I would say is a positive

thing.

We are talking

hypothetically. Looking at me now, I

look great.

look great.

Eddie, we have heard you

kind of your career getting tipsy

before an audition.

This is the

worst thing to say.

Look the experts

in the eye and tell the truth.

One

of my first jobs was in the play

with Mark Rylance, a production of

Shakespeare's at the Globe and they

were auditioning for young men and I

had been to auditions. I was in a

pub with a friend. Getting very

drunk. Suddenly I got a call saying,

are you around to do a last

audition? I said, yes, I am totally

fine! I went and auditioned with

Mark Rylance and it was Shakespeare

and he took the play out of my hand

and I had to improvise in iambic

pentameter. If I was not several

pints down it might have been even

more catastrophic. I got the part.

He got the part! That is 2-2 for

non-dry January.

What about the

brain? In the short-term view might

be more cheerful and less problems

with your mood. Which might be

noticed by others. In the long-term,

you may reduce your risk of memory

problems. I have studied it recently

with colleagues at Oxford and UCL

and we found moderate drinkers,

those drinking a large glass of wine

equivalent a night, and it does not

sound like you would be in that

category, experienced more memory

decline over 30 years and a shrink

-- shrinking of the hippocampus

which is important for memory

function.

This is cheerful for the

middle of January!

You would say Dry

January is worth it.

Worth it but

you need to keep it up for the

longer term.

People do it and then

use it as an excuse to get stuck in

on the 1st of February.

What are you

trying to project?

I am probably one

of those people. When my

18-month-old goes to bed it feels

like a mini victory for a small

glass of something.

Digestion.

Alcohol irritates the lining of the

stomach and affect some of the

digest of functions.

digest of functions.

We have a sound

effect for a Guinness drinker!

If

you reduce drinking you may find

immediately you have less

indigestion, less acid reflux,

heartburn, alcohol has a lot of

calories, so you might find if you

cut down a little bit on how much

you are drinking, you lose some of

the weight you have been trying to

lose and in the medium to long-term

if you drink a lot of alcohol, then

this will reduce the incidence of

liver disease.

Dry January sounds

totally worth it.

Thank you so much.

I think it does. Well done.

In a

couple of weeks, Oscar-winning Eddie

is back in our cinemas with animated

film Early Man.

He voices Dug, who

finds himself in a new age and

taking it on.

We challenge the

champions. What did you say?

He's

said... I heard what he said.

If we

win, we keep our value. You leave my

tribe in peace.

You think you can

beat us at football.

APPLAUSE

Very good.

Very good.

Dug and hobnob join us in

the studio now. You obviously voiced

doubt, this character here. And Nick

Park, the creator, voices your

companion, hobnob.

He does.

And that

is his first-time?

Yes. What you

find, it is such an interesting

process voicing a character, because

you are by yourself in a sound

booth, and it takes place over two

years, but Nick is always there

directing you. You thousands takes,

over and over, and you can tell how

well it is going by how much Nick is

laughing, but occasionally, it is

not going well. And Nick's face

transforms into Wallace and Gromit,

Morph, when you watch him. Getting

him to play a character was a

no-brainer.

It is an amazing cast -

you, Tom Hiddlestone, Maisie

Williams. Tell us, what is the plot,

without giving too much away?

It is

that a meteorite hits Earth, and the

various embers are hot, and the

cavemen are playing with this ball

shaped ember, and it gets too hot to

kick around, and that, it

transpires, is how football actually

started! My character is part of

eight tribe of cavemen, but living

up the road is the Bronze Age,

headed by the evil Lord Nooth.

This

is Tom.

They come and conquer our

land to mine it for bronze. They are

brilliant footballers. We challenge

them. If I can persuade my merry

band of cavemen to beat them at

football, then we have a chance. And

Maisie Williams is a serious

footballer and helps us.

Your

character, Dug, you are a good guy.

And Tom Hiddlestone, Lord Nooth, is

the bad guy. Are you generally a

goody two shoes?

I think my

character in this is an endless

optimist. I think I am probably just

like a really keen person. It is a

depressing way to be described. Tom

plays Lord Nooth, with a hilarious

French accent, and it's kind of

brilliant.

Hang on, when you do a

normal movie, if you were acting

with Tom, you would know, the minute

you walk on set, who is doing a good

performance or a bad one. With this,

you don't really know who is playing

a blind until the holding is put

together?

It's so hard, you

literally make it in a vacuum. I did

get to go to Aardman Animations, the

studios in Bristol, and it is the

most incredible place. Me and Maisie

Williams got to do some acting

together. The cast has got Timothy

Spall, Johnny Vegas, such a great...

Is there ever a moment that you come

together?

Tomorrow, at the premiere.

It is my first time meeting most of

these guys.

That's crazy!

There was

a slightly brutal moment, because

you do it in six hour segments every

couple of months, you do a new

bit of animate it, but it means that

right up until the film coming out,

you are still voicing things, and

just before Christmas, I did my last

bit. I had a really horrific cold,

so Dug was talking down in his

boots. Nick Park, one of the

loveliest human beings, was trying

to find the positive in that, but it

was a bit catastrophic.

So, this is

comedy.

Yeah, not my

comedy.

Yeah, not my milieu.

I

watched it this morning with my

two-year-old, and nothing holds his

attention for long, but he watch

this all the way through.

It's not

true!

It is true.

It is the greatest

compliment. One of the great

achievements about this film is that

I'm deeply unfunny person, but it

transpires all you have to do is

work with a load of the most

talented animators in the country,

who make my voicing seem funny.

Will

you continue in a light-hearted

comedy vein? Will you do something

more gritty?

As I was reading the

script, for the first time, I was

laughing out loud. My wife heard and

said, do that script. Rather than

something intense and depressing.

something intense and depressing. We

have just finished filming fantastic

beast, which is coming out. It does

get darker.

Good to know. Eddie, we

have to ask - your favourite song

from the 90s?

He wasn't even born!

My favourite song from the 90s...

How about that... I've got such

heady estate in music. How about

that title might going to be the

song?

Yeah!

I've never been. -- I've

got hideous taste in music.

We will

take you back to a time when Eddie

was probably only nine and didn't

appreciate the genius of this.

They

don't write them like this any more.

How is it that a song that was

turned down by all the major record

labels ended up topping the charts?

# I'm too sexy for my shirt #.

The song was I'm Too Sexy, and the

band was Right Said Fred. They were

told it would never work. Brothers

Fred and Richard fair brass were

experienced musicians, but their big

break just hadn't happened.

We had

our own band and we went in and out

of studios.

At the time of writing

the song, they were living in Putney

in London, managing a gym to fund

their music.

Fred lived around the

corner, I lived over the road, in

this part of town is where we

started.

Is this where you rehearse?

Loads of bands came from round here,

and we wanted to write with their

party. I ask these guys if they knew

anyone, and as completely washed up

as we are...

Rob joined to start

Right Said Fred, and they started

working on a new song.

We had this

bass line going round, and it was

really hot, so he took his shirt off

and started singing, I'm too sexy

for my shirt. We were falling around

laughing.

It was not Bob Dylan!

We

needed another bit, and I had been

going out with a model, and she said

to me, I'm a model, do you know what

I mean? She actually said that. So I

read it down. And it was all about

the head and is and the rise of the

supermodel in the 80s. This is about

people who love themselves.

Because

we did that whole shirt taking of

thing in the video, people thought

that we were actually serious about

being sexy, that we believed that we

were too sexy.

# I'm a model, you know what I

mean... #.

You can tell this is going to be a

hit, even from that. But with no

money to complete the record or make

a video, they had to beg, steal and

borrow.

We went to the bank and lied

that we were going to buy some

furniture. Where going to buy a

sofa, and we need £5,000, please.

The car was Bob Reid -- was borrowed

by the director.

Having self

financed the record and video, Right

Said Fred tried to get it released

through a record company, but no one

was interested.

They hated the

lyrics.

It was all round the wrong

way, not having a singalong chorus.

That some DJs on the radio liked it

and started playing it.

It let out

of the speakers, funny as anything,

camp, kitsch, and very clever. They

were so out there on their own, but

that was what made it unique. It was

so infectious and put a big, dopey

smile on your face. Like a lot of

the best pop music does.

Completely

justifying their faith in the song,

the band topped the charts around

the world. Here, Richard and Fred

performed the song back in Putney,

where they wrote it, for us.

# I'm too sexy for my shirt

# Too sexy for my shirt

# So sexy it hurts #.

So how much did you make back for

your investment of £1500?

We bought

the Midland bank!

It is like a

little industry on its own.

Another

song has taken on a whole new light.

Right Said Fred were recently

credited as co-writers on Taylor

Swift's first UK number one. It

interpolated their original song.

Interpolation is not a sample. You

take the essence of a song and use

it in your own. Hers is, look what

you made me do, the same rhythm as,

I'm too sexy. We have played them on

top of each other, and it is

fantastic.

It gives the song a

degree of credibility which I think

the business certainly hasn't

afforded it over the years.

It is

our second American number one, the

UK number one, so we are happy.

It

is a good song. An absolute classic.

Eddie, before we go, you are a huge

movie star and an Oscar winner,

there are lots of rumours about you

and stories written, so we would

like to make some of them clear, in

a little light that we're calling

Right Said Ed! How dare you!

The

story goes that you like that you

could ride a horse in order to bag a

role alongside Helen Mirren - is

that right?

Absolutely true. I was

asked if I had been on a horse, and

I said yes, but I didn't admit that

I had been led around the paddock

when I was four with someone holding

the reins. It was catastrophic.

This

can't be true - you once attended

the annual British Soap Awards?

Yes,

I was a waiter at those awards, and

there was a bit where they get

everyone drunk before they, not in

January, in order to have a lively

audience, so there were all these

drunk actors, and I was in charge of

holding the tray where they put

their empty glasses, and the cost of

Hollyoaks started piling extra ones

on top, and they all fell, and I've

hated Hollyoaks ever since.

Ferried

up! According to a British

newspaper, on the morning you had

you had won an Oscar nomination, you

managed to injure yourself whilst

running naked.

Also true. I hit my

shins. It was dark and I let out of

bed. It shouldn't be advised.

You

once confused Professor Stephen

Hawking's job with that of Russell

Grant. Surely, that can't be right?

This might be right. I muddled up

astronomer and astrologer. Don't put

me on the spot as that which one is

which. I couldn't tell you.

Finally,

you won the rolling your first big

film alongside Angelina Jolie

because of your ears.

That's not

true. I think it was partially

because of the size of my lips.

On

that bombshell... That is it for

this week. Let's hear it for Eddie

Redmayne.

Redmayne.

On Monday, Matt and Angela

will be joined by Silent