16/03/2018 The One Show

Hello and welcome to The One Show

with Angellica Bell.

It's Friday and it's been

the mother of all weeks.

To Loch Ness and any monsters who

live in her, let's go.

Is

You have snow, you are

disappearing in the holes.

My God. Are you kidding?

Four down, one to go.

Yes!

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Yes,

the Mother of All Challenges,

a gruelling week of swimming,

climbing, cycling, caving

and running is coming to an end.

Alex, Debbie, Leigh and Jodi took

on the rough terrain

of the Welsh coastline -

running a marathon

distance in relay.

We'll be hearing from Alex live

in Swansea and seeing the moment

they finally cross the finish line -

we'll also remind you how

you can support them

by donating to Sport Relief.

It's not too late.

But here in the studio we're joined

by an actor who has become hotter

than an exploding Death Star,

after leaving the Dark Side

to become a Star Wars hero.

We're just as delighted to have him

back - it's John Boyega!

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Thanks for having me.

Lovely to have

you.

An exciting time for you,

It's

been all right.

Yes.

It has been

good.

A new film Pacific Rim

Uprising comes out, you have been

yizy with that, you had a special

screening your family went to see.

The family was there, friends, we

had a nice special screening to show

London what the finished product is.

What is that like? I can only

imagine for a young actor, like

yourself, to be able to take your

parents, to red carpet events, and

screenings of your film, you know

which you are producing this time.

It must be so satisfy, how does it

feel?

It is greatment, that is

lovely. I love seeing their face,

but it is nice to take them along,

it is a job that requires do you

travel a lot. So when you have the

chance to bring your family, bring

them. Them even seeing you on a

day-to-day basis is limited so it

was special.? Are you a daddy's boy

or mummy's boy? Mummy's boy but my

dad is my boy, you know what I mean?

We will be talking about the film

later, so thank you for being with

us.

Alex and the mums have taken on so

much and we are struggling to keep

up. Eyesterday we saw them caving in

the Brecon Beacons, not Snowdonia as

we might have said. Sorry Wales.

Today they are running 28.4 miles in

relay from Rhossili to Swansea, and

it will take team work to get there.

Here is how they got on.

Our team of mums have had a week of

hard challenges. Experiencing highs.

And lows.

And on this last day, we are

planning to run 26.2 miles in relay,

up to Castle Square in Swansea.

I

think we have good scenery do keep

us going.

We have our children

waiting for us at the other end.

Oh, I am going to be thinking ant my

baby. I want him to say mumma. I

hope he comes out with it at the

finish line.

I am going to go for

it.

But this is not just a simple run

through a city. We will be pushing

our way up the coastline of South

Wales, across country on uneven and

muddy track, it is going to be a

real strain for all of us.

It is incredibly undulating. It is

difficult under foot. So there is

lots of challenge still to come for

our mums.

Soon after our team set

off on this megarun the baton is

passed on to Amal who takes on the

first solo leg.

It is beautiful.

But

it soon becomes apparent running

across country is not going to be

easy.

Yes, I have a pain down here

because the terrain is wobbly. It

did not want to fail. At one point,

I was actually thinking about a lady

that I met in Kenya and what she has

been through, and I just kept going.

Keep going, get to the end. Any way

you can.

Look at that amazing

scenery. That is fantastic.

This has God gothd to be the best

way to end this challenge. -- has

got. Leigh has felt the anguish of a

miscarriage and later the joy of

having twiners she has shown herself

to a mum on a mission.

I think I

came in strong or thinking I was a

strong person. And I also didn't

realise how much I need a team round

me.

Being part of a team really gives

you the motivation mentally and

physically to achieve more than you

probably even imagine.

Mum is going to do good. As long as

she doesn't run too fast I think she

can do this. Mum, you can do this.

File as if I can go for the whole

thing.

Her positivity, Debbie, is

unlike anybody's I have experienced.

Let's enjoy the hell.

I'm really

proud of you and I know that you

have done all of the challenges this

week, you have done really good.

She is one of the best people I have

met. So determined, and this team

wouldn't be the success it is if it

wasn't for her.

I love her.

The lowest point that was definitely

the cycling. I can't... I have

discovered I am tougher than I

thought I was.

This bird is unstoppable!

Jodie has suffered with postnatal

depression and hopes to help other

mums by sharing her experience.

I

have spent years thinking that

strong meant you never broke down,

you were nerve weak, and this has

completely shown me that actually

what makes you strong, is when you

break, you get back up. And you

allow other people to lift you up.

Me and the boys will be there for

you at the end, cheering you on.

I'm

so proud of you mummy, I've really

hope you enjoy it and love you lots.

I am slipping and sliding, I can

barely breathe because I am holding

my breath to keep my balance. It is

the final push, the final push and I

want to do 100%.

Being the team Captain has been a

real privilege, Leigh approaches

every challenge with gusto, she is

kind of the female bear grill, Jodie

out of everybody, she wears her

heart on her sleeve. She has learned

to this week. For Amal this is a

celebration of working towards being

fit enough to complete these

challenge, and you can just see that

radiating from her.

Debs, so kind, and all she has done

is look after the rest of us. And I

just hope that the four women know

how incredible I think they are,

they are really focussed and that is

why they have achieved what they set

out to achieve.

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Now, did they make it over the

finish line? That is the question,

after 28.44 long miles this was the

scene in Castle Square in Swansea

earlier. And look at them go. Over

the mini round about. That is their

relatives, past the castle.

And as you said, 28.4 miles was the

total but they each did seven miles

each. That is a gruelling week, that

would have been so difficult. They

did the first five miles together.

The last five miles together and

there they are. Over the finishing

line together. Alex in charge there.

Debbie, Leigh, almam, Jodie, finally

seeing their relative, swimming,

biking, caving, running the lot.

-- Amal.

You can see the relief there from

the faces. They have been challenged

in different ways as well. None

would describe themselves as sports

people. That is safe to say.

Happy to have mum home.

We will hand

back to you and speak to you later

when we have caught our breath and

when I have had a hug with my Little

Ted, where is he?

Well done. An amazing effort. We

will link up with Alex and the team

live in Swansea soon.

John you were

watching that with admiration in

your eyes.

Yes, I like the fact they

are not sports people, just people

who are ordinary, that is really

cool. I like that.

You like to push

yourself as well, you had to do that

for the film?

Not at first, I hard

to -- had to start learning how to

push myself, you have to lose

weight, gain weigh, keep it steady i

that is where I learned.

Is that a

mark of professionalism. People look

how hard they are working before

they get to the stage, to the set?

Yes, that shows a discipline but on

top of that is endurance, in scenes

you are having to take more than 26

takes so you have to know how to do

that stuff, get you through and the

training is similar as well.

Let us

talk about Pacific Rim Uprising. It

is a follow up to Pacific Rim. We

have seen it. It is giant robots

smashing each other to bits taking

on huge, like sea monsters as well.

That sound ambitious.

It is. A lot

of cities being destroyed.

A lot of stuff, but it is a great Mo

I have to watch.

It is

action-packed. -- movie.

You play

Jake, don't you, Jake Pentecost, the

son of Stacker. Who was played by

Idris Elba. Which is epic in itself.

That is epic. I don't even get

scenes with him but to play a

character that is related to him.

Your on screen dad is Idris Elba.

I

am going to use that to get into the

parties from now on.

He did contact

you.

Yes, he did. I have been seeing

him throughout the year, I see him

at good moments, at the Baftas I

said hello to him. I was freaking

out. It is nice for him to send a

nice message to me and my producing

partner to congratulate us on the

project.

Tell us about your

character, how does he fit in, if he

is the son of Stacker where do you

come in?

It is ten years after the

first movie. It picks up with Jake,

who is a rogue, and he is a parts

Searle and he needs to find the

best...

They are the giant robots.

Yes they control them. He needs to

go back to the institution in which

they exist, and basically lead a new

generation of kids to become pilots

and it is a story of self discovery,

coming of age but l you know, a

couple of cities are going to get

it.

That is satisfying.

I can see you

love that role. You loved it.

I

loved it. It was great. We were

flying helicopters over Sydney and

Japan to get plates and we choosing

which builds were going to go.

Is

that the right of being a producer.

What does it mean to produce a film

as well as to act in it

Each

producer has their part to play,

some handling scheduling, the

finances but for me it was creative,

so I was involved with the casting,

with the rewrites for the script,

our CGI and into marketing, you

follow this project from the first

day to the last, and it is not the

last day yet.

I love Attack the

Block and seeing you there, as,

playing a kid, it feels like you are

growing up yourself, you are having

your own rite of passage.

Yes,

growing up.

Let us see a moment when

John's character find himself in big

trouble.

Power down and exit your

pod.

No. No, don't give up. You give up

way too easy.

That is what they

think.

Stop! You are in violation of code

ten, section 14, operation of an

unregistered robot...

Hang on!

Hang

tighter!

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That was awesome!

She is a brilliant

actress. What is it with you and

plastic armour? In this film and

also in Star Wars, the storm

trooper, that does not stop

blasters!

It does not! I don't know,

I love good space suits and they

keep on coming my way. In Attack the

Block I did not get one of them.

I

am a super fan of Star Wars, Episode

IX is coming up, between us, what

can we expect?

I don't know

anything! For real, I don't know

anything, I start filming in July.

You're in it and what stage of

production is this at?

They are

preparing and planning, they have a

script but I have not read the

script.

He is trying! Do you have to

go to the room where the script is?

Yes, you read the script and go back

home. I cannot lie! Sometimes you

bring it home!

Just come round to my

house with it! Speaking of coming

back home, you have come such a long

way in such a short space of time

but home is very important you?

Very

important, it is my beating heart.

It is who I am. You have become

patron of your local theatre in

Peckham!

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Wow! What are you doing here?

We can

look at some pictures.

Oh no!

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We have another one.

What is

happening here?

happening here? This was about the

theory that comes out of the washing

machine! House Firy... Check out my

moves! My God!

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Yes! Thank you so much to Teresa and

Theatre Peckham!

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That is crazy! This week we have

been finding out about the Sport

Relief projects that you have helped

to fund, last night we saw Debbie

and Amal in Nairobi with the charity

that supports children.

Staying in

the capital, we have been visiting

mothers and their children who are

forced to work in terrible

conditions.

In north-east Nairobi

there is a quarry. Over 100 people

work here. They have two chip rocks

with a hammer every day.

with a hammer every day. -- have to.

The striking thing about this quarry

is how many children there are. The

job is exhausting and the monotony

is incredible. Many are single

mothers who have escaped difficult

and dramatic home lives and these

mothers don't have a choice. The

work here is gruelling and

dangerous, there are bits of rock

everywhere, it is very dusty and

noisy. I cannot imagine any mother

would want to bring their culture,

let alone work here. Rose has four

children, Vivian, Karen, Lucy and

Edward. They work in the quarry six

days a week as Rose cannot afford to

send them to school. Hello. Lovely

to meet you.

to meet you. TRANSLATION:

I come in

the morning at 6am and I start

cracking the stones until afternoon.

I do this to get money to buy food

for my family.

Selling bags of

gravel burns Rose 70p every day to

feed and told her family. What is

the hardest thing about working

here? TRANSLATION:

I children

started working at the quarry since

last May, this place is dangerous

and my son had an accident. He was

hit on the leg and it got swollen.

Why do you have to bring the

children to work here? TRANSLATION:

My husband died. I cannot watch my

children go hungry. That is why I

come here with them.

We are so

sorry.

Thank you.

May God bless you. Rosebuds their

children work alongside her, with no

protection from the heat and the

dangers of the quarry. There is no

normal childhood for these children.

Vivian is eldest.

Vivian is eldest. TRANSLATION:

Me

and my brother come to the quarry

every day and it is hard work.

Doesn't hurt your hands? Yes.

I get

hurt when I pick the stones.

Injuries are commonplace and very

soon, Rose gets a chip in her eye.

Amal, a doctor, is here to help. We

have not been able to get this out

with the water, we are fishing this

out.

I don't have to put my baby

anywhere near that danger, I worry

if he tries to cross the road on his

own, this is another world compared

to that.

What I want for those as I

want crickets to have the education

any child deserves so they can make

a future and help their own mother.

Being trapped in poverty can feel

hopeless for families such as

Rose's. This is why the childhood

project funded by Sport Relief helps

vulnerable families who work at the

quarry. The children are so

traumatised and the project offers

support, counselling and eventually

gets them back into education and

the mothers are offered the chance

to start their own business. The

project is so important because it

helps secure a safe and better

future. It enables children to

become ready to attend a government

school like this one.

Who really

loves school? Put up your hands!

Everyone? Stand-up! Have you ever

worked in the quarry or had to sit

with your mother? In the quarry?

What do you want to be when you grow

up?

When I grow up I want to be a

scientist. Man's.

I want to be a

teacher.

A soldier. An artist.

SINGING.

Do you want to go to school?

Yes.

What do you want to be when you grow

up? A pilot. Wow!

up? A pilot. Wow!

It is

heartbreaking that mothers have to

come to work with their children

here to earn barely enough to work

-- to eat. Just £10 can pay for an

education and one month of meals for

a mother like Vivian.

That is pulled

together and give people a different

choice. Donate whatever you can.

Thank you.

John, you looked pretty

affected by that? I come from

Nigeria and for me, being exposed to

poverty like this is different to

poverty in the UK. It is

heart-wrenching that they have to go

through that.

Yeah.

An update to that story.

We're delighted to say that Rose

and her children have enrolled

into the project you just saw.

The girls will start

at the school on Monday.

Then work will begin with Rose

to help her set up her own business.

Now, we saw them cross the finish

line a few minutes ago and it's time

to go live to Alex and the Mother

of all Challenges team in Swansea.

Congratulations! How is everyone

feeling?

feeling?

Thank you so much, Matt and

Angelica, we are exhausted but we

are so exhilarated! Right? We have

had a chance to catch up with our

families and have a shower. You will

be pleased to know. Colin, we have

run the marathon today. You have

been in charge of twins, to be fair.

How has that been while Leigh has

been away with us?

It has been tough

but I managed OK.

I am glad to have

the back. Give us a round of

applause for all of the dance! It is

not easy.

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I have been hearing so much about

you. I feel like I practically know

you. And you have matched -- Mr

mother quite a lot? I have and I am

glad to have her back. I am sure,

she is fantastic. We, this challenge

was about doing something for

yourself and you have got the twins

and Ross, who is 20. How do you hope

other women have been inspired by

what they have seen all of you

fantastic powerhouses this week?

I

cannot believe we have smashed the

marathon, the Mother of all

Challenges, and if somebody average

can smash the marathon, imagine what

other mothers can do and I hope this

inspires people to think, I can do

that and I will try that because you

can be amazed about what you can

achieve.

Just try something. Nothing

average about you! Overhear... Then,

I feel like I know you. Honestly!

Jodi has changed dramatically this

week. She has got softer and softer

as the days have gone on in such a

good way. We knew that physically

she was amazing. What changes have

you seen in this lovely lady as the

week has been going on?

The Jodi

that I know is that soft person. She

has that soft element but she is

also very strong and determined, she

has to be like narrow craft or

whoever on that challenge. Very

strong and powerful. -- Lara Croft.

The emotions are clear.

Very

quickly, Debbie.

quickly, Debbie.

Super mother? Why

have we done this? To raise as much

as we possibly can for all of these

fantastic Sport Relief causes and

projects and to raise awareness for

maternal mental health. It is

massive.

It is so important. There

are barriers have been quite high

but I could see some tears at the

end! I did not expect that. You have

gone above and beyond in terms of

personal goals this week?

I have

pushed my mind A body to places I

did not think it could go and I

broke several times. But I got onto

my back over and over again despite

significant fear. And I have got you

and these other brilliant women to

thank for that.

Amal said the other

day, our palms would not have

crossed in real life, doing the

caving, so let us get the total! The

total so far, not including what is

coming up out of the films...

£384,700. Thank you so much for

everybody who has donated! Your

money makes such a difference, thank

you so much. Back to the studio.

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Give it up for them! You have got a

big weekend! It is your birthday!

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Any plans? Nothing! I will sleep! I

travel all the time so it is a day

for sleeping and rest. Will you have

a slice of cake?

Yes, one RJ.

Exciting to meet Angelica?

Yes, I

have loved you since I was a kid! I

just want you to give me a Blue

Peter badge!

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That is your lot for tonight, thank

you to John Boyega.

Pacific Rim: Uprising is in cinemas

on the 23rd of March.

Matt and Alex will be back on Monday

with Gary, Mark and Howard -

also known as Take That.

Have a great weekend!

Shall we