20/06/2017 The One Show

Hello, and welcome to the one Show with Matt Baker.

He's the double Oscar winning actor who's appeared

in classics like seven, The Usual Suspects

He's also the star of hit political thriller -

House of Cards - who, only last week, hosted

And it's fair to say, he made a real song and dance of it.

# My career is shattered on the ground

# Broadway # This is the 71st annual Tony

From Broadway to the BBC - It's Kevin Spacey!

APPLAUSE .

Come and have a seat. My word. I was back there, in the very tiny Green

Room you have, and I didn't know why you were giggling through your

entire opening, are you all right? Yes, it was fine. He is very

unprofessional. I knew the old Blue Peter days. I was warping up I was

back there, in the very tiny Green Room you have, and I didn't know why

you were giggling through your entire opening, are you all right?

Yes, it was fine. He is very unprofessional. I knew the old Blue

Peter days. I was warping up by going "Classics like seven". I

thought it Was Like Anchorman any way we were blown away Kevin by

that. I had such a great time. Unbelievable. It wasn't really

expected. Is that what drew you to do it. You have to understand the

context, I was about the 15th person they asked to host the Tonies, so,

they asked all these other people and there have been articles written

they couldn't find a host, finally they asked me and I said yes, so

that opening number was a journey I took the audience through of them

not wanting me, me not being the right host, they didn't want me, and

becoming the host and that is where their dance... You owned it. Rob

Ashford choreographed that. As you know from my 12 years at the Old Vic

I am a theatre rat. So the opportunity to be be able to

celebrate Broadway, the season Broadway had, of which Groundhog Day

was one of the shows that got lots of nomination, it was a great

thrill.? We will talk about your honorary knighthood later on as well

as House of Cards. Cards.. You can call me Sir space alot.

What a way to start the day. There was air con. Brilliant. It has taken

many years to find two people who are willing to go on camera to share

two sides of the story. This is what happened when Tim and Cameron's

paths crossed in 2011. My name is Tim. I am married with

children. My name is Khamran, I am lucky to be able to get married.

Hoping to open our own daycare centre. In August 2011, I had been

out after work with some friends, I was making my way home on the train,

when I dozed off, I woke up, and assumed I had missed my stop. So I

got up and got off the train at the next station. This one night, I was

sat in the car, I was having an argument over text messages with my

ex-girlfriend. Made my way out, on to the platform, waiting for another

train to take me home. I couldn't handle the pressure of argument. I

seen a man walking around on his own. Hovering near the train

platform and I just wanted to lash out and hurt somebody. It was very

quiet. There was nobody round. I reached over into the back seat, I

grabbed my baseball bat. I asked my friend. I followed man. The next

thing I woke up on the floor, being shouted at and demands being made of

me. Then I took his stuff. Like nothing had happened. I looked down

at my clothes and my trousers and shoes and shirt were covered in

blood. It dawned on me that this whirlwind occurred. I used to hang

round with a dodgy crowd. Beat people up for no reason. The night

after we attacked the man at the station, we were out looking for

trouble again, got a bit cocky, and a police car noticed my car and it

fitted the description so they followed up. The police found the

man's wallet and his keys in my drawer. I got sentenced to a four

year custodial sentence, I served 20 months inside, it is probably the

best thing that could have happened to me at that time. I heard about

this course called restorative justice that gives you a chance to

meet your victim. I wanted to do it because I wanted to say sorry to

Tim. When I first met Khamran, we talked about writing a letter from

Khamran to Tim. When I plucked up the courage to open it and read it,

it was very clear in the first two or three sentences that this was

something that Khamran had written by himself, and expressed his

remorse. Are the bottom of my heart I am so sorry for the things I put

you through. I don't know how else to say it. I am seriously sorry.

That made it very simple for me to agree to meet Khamran.

For me it was about the opportunity to meet the person that had

assaulted me, and maybe understand some reasoning, and what the motives

were. I didn't know how he was going to react. I didn't know if he was

angry, if he was going to attack me. They were both given time to talk

about what happened, the impact it had. I just opened up to him and

told him my life story and what led to that point. I knew immediately it

wasn't a personal attack. I happened to be in the wrong place at the

wrong time. He wished me the best of luck for the future, he told me he

wanted me to make something out of my life. Tim said to Khamran, I'm

not a religious man f, if I were I would give you my blessing. It Ian

toss that doing this you get to see the best of human beings.

First time I have been back stood on the station, since that night. Still

remember how I was, not just the night I attacked you, but the way I

was at a person. Talking to you, in this environment is strange, but it

is useful. It is a way of, you know helping to kind of round that

circle. I am getting on with my family, I am drug free, so I wanted

to say thanks, I appreciate. I am glad to have been a small part in

that. Strangely a very small part in that process. The consequences of

our choices sometimes are last longer than we know at the time, but

that, I don't think that should mean that you are bound by those choices

for the rest of your life. Thank you to Tim and Khamran for sharing what

must have been straition strange motion, to be standing there where

that happened. For give it is a powerful thing. I

forgive you from making the transition from that to what we are

talking about. It is your work. As we said we saw it. You saw Baby

Driver. Enjoyed it. There was air con in the cinema so it was really

good. Some people have described it as Gone in 60 Seconds meets La La

Land Gone in 60 Seconds meets La La Land. I think that is a good

description. Are you sure they weren't drinking to? Let us give you

a chance to sum it up. It's a heist film. Edgar Wright who you know from

his incredible body of work, the Shaun of the Dead film, what he does

remarkably is uses music, he chooses the soundtrack, every track he wants

to have in all the scenes before he shoots the film. So when I got the

script, there was a CD, and I could put on this is the music we will

play in this scene. And I did it, it a wild way to read a screenplay.

Then you take it a step further on set, he plays the music, prior to

you shooting a scene, in some scene, those are in the film, you have to

do your physical action to the Ritz -- rhythm of the sock playing. There

is someone in particular I put down wads of money but I had to do it on

the beat. So were they playing the music? In

my ear. I bet that helped. Let us see some of it. Let's talk it. The

target is an armoured truck. 10am sharp. Questions.

Playing along as you were going, it is infectious. Baby is a wonderful

actor, he has an ear situation, so he needs to play music to drown that

out or has a constant buzzing so music drives the film. Actually, if

it wasn't for your character, the film wouldn't be taking place at

all, would it. I don't know how much you want to give away, what do you

want to say about the character? I am the Michael Caine of this film.

This is part Michael Caine would have played. What is funny I don't

play him as Michael Caine and I could. Very good. That is a good way

to describe it. But there, the I amazing driving scene, they take

your breath away, unluckily your character doesn't get in a car, can

we say that? I don't get in a car, I do however roll over a car. True.

You do. At a very fast velocity, to a cool soundtrack. It is true that

Edgar, put the actors in the cars and made them drive at high speed,

to get proper real reaction. No actors were harmed in the filming of

this movie. But they did, it wasn't green screened, you can tell. No we

had very skilled stunt men and women who do the real stuff. It literally

took my breath away. We have a moment of one of the car chases we

are talking about. Here we are. You have been my driver for every

job, you are the best in the business.

I will need you behind the wheel again. One more job and I'm done.

One more job and we're straight. The core graph few, the way that it just

blends with the music, I love that, there is an opening sequence where

one of the lead characters is walking along. It is is a bit dance.

As far as your natural rhythms are concerned, what songs do you like to

listen to Hotel California. I have this memory of driving to Arizona

when I was 18, in a car with a speaker in my lap, listening to

Supertramp # Even in the quiet moments

# I wish I knew # What I had to do. #

I was driving the car, I thought I was the coolest guy ever. Are you a

good driver? I am an extremely good driver. Today I hit many mirrors

driving down a very narrow street. Anybody who has mirrors... We want

to watch the tennis today and they are very narrow streets. There will

be some insurance claims coming through. I think not. Baby Driver, a

fantastic fame is out on the 28th June. Shortly we will talk about how

House of Cards, but first we will talk about politics closer to home.

But first, we're looking at politics closer to home.

After the recent general election one question on everyone's lips is

So we've enlisted two comedians for a unique take on the party

who've suddenly found themselves in the spotlight.

The following film has been given an official rating of "satire".

Hello I am Tim McGarry. I am Colin Murphy. We make a show that pokes

fun at anything. I will instil in you a love of the Irish language.

That is brilliant. Any way hello and welcome to Northern Ireland. We used

to be in the news a bit with the bombs and the IRA and the peace

process but then you forgot about it. Well, we are back. And it is

thanks to the Democratic Unionist Party. A lot of people if Britain

had never heard of them and they Googled it and thought you must be

joking. A lot of the reaction was way over the top and showed a total

ignorance of Northern Ireland. You would think we were a different

country. So who is Theresa May getting into

bed with? It is not the DUP leader, they don't approve of that sort of

thing. Here is the bluffer's guide. Ian Paisley formed the party, you'll

remember him, firebrand preacher that love shouting. We say never!

Never! Never! Today, it is led by Arlene Foster. She is at the centre

of a scandal involving a botched renewable heat incentive scheme that

could cost up to ?490 million. It is all a bit complicated. If you want

to know more, just Google RHI and chickens. The DUP is true to its

Protestant roots, a somewhat pro-Unionist party and Eurosceptic.

DUP voters are very partial to a flag and a march. They are socially

very conservative. DUP MP Sammy Wilson does not believe in climate

change, so he was made Northern Ireland Minister for the

environment, obviously. If you do bump into any DUP MPs, there are

some dos and don'ts. Never show them photographs of the gay wedding you

were at last weekend. Probably best not to say that the BBC licence fee

is worth every penny. Feel free to say Donald Trump is some crack.

Despite the peace process, it is still a divided place. If we want to

know how many Protestants and Catholics there are, we don't have a

census, we have an election. The DUP mailing represents Protestants, and

Sinn Fein mainly represents Catholics. Because of recent

developments, Sinn Fein are not happy. That makes the DUP very

happy! People here agree that the Theresa

May and DUP deal could lead to some financial benefits for Northern

Ireland. Now, we don't know exactly what has been agreed. What we can

say is that just because the DUP have Theresa May over a barrel, we

hope they don't use it to extort every single last penny they can.

It's Arlene Foster. Hello? Colin, do you fancy a hospital or a motorway?

One of each! One of each. That's cleared that up! We are going

to continue with politics and talk about the massively successful House

of Cards. The hit political drama, where you play the President, Frank

Underwood, a very scheming President. The thing is, how hard is

it? How much do you feel for the writers? You have just finished the

fifth series. Trying to come up with something as compelling as what is

actually happening? Well, we have never felt an obligation to compete

with the real world. We believe we are an alternative universe, we are

the alternative reality President. As opposed to the reality television

President! I think that makes sense. We feel that as long as we are true

to the story we want to tell, the runway we want to tell it on, the

most exciting part about doing the show is how much fun we have. What

generally seems to happen, and it has happened through every season,

including this one, we start writing one year before we start shooting.

We will come up with storylines and plot devices, new characters and all

sorts of things we want to explore. Then we will write them, then we

will shoot them. Some time between when we shoot them and when the

series drops, one, two, three, five or six things we ventured into,

described unplayed, happen in the real world. We always think people

will think we stole it from the headlines, but it is the other way

round. It's quite scary, thinking about what you have written, if you

are putting number six down to paper at the moment? Is not unusual for an

actor to become a President. But House of Cards, you have a huge

insight into the White House. Does it appeal to you more or less in

real life to have a career in politics? My particular problem with

ever considering a career in politics is that I really, really

enjoy having a goal and achieving it. I think it's so very difficult

to accomplish anything. You know, those presidents that have been able

to do so, I tip my hat to them. But it is an extremely divisive

situation. I'm afraid I would end up murdering people. Like Frank

Underwood does, just to get stuff done. He is quite effective, he does

get stuff done. How real does it feel on set? You were saying to me

before we came back that you've been to the real White House. The

similarities there? We work with a large amount of consultants, people

that work in the White House, people that do an enormous amount of work

in government. Even if we are pushing the boundaries artistically,

we want to make sure it feels genuine, it feels like this could

genuinely happen. We do a lot of checking and make sure we are not on

some totally polar universe. I made this joke, he didn't really say

this, but I like saying it as if he did, President Clinton once said, I

love that House of Cards. It's so good! 99% of what they do on that

show is real. The 1% they got wrong, you could never get an education

bill passed that fast. Thank you very much.

You know that Frank Underwood is a very ambitious bloke. We heard that

you are equally as ambitious. The story of how you got your first big

break, the audition for your first big break? You are talking about the

dreaded stealing of an invitation? Yes, it actually happened. I wanted

desperately to play Jack Lemmon's Sun in a production going to

Broadway. I went to a series of lectures that the director was

giving. It was Jonathan Miller, all of the great British directors. An

elderly woman was sitting next to me asleep. She was rather fashionable,

very well put together, and sticking out of her bike I noticed there was

an invitation to a cocktail reception that was going to happen

after the lecture. I thought, well, she is tired. How old were you? I

was 25. I thought, she probably knows everybody anyway. Very

elegantly dressed. I swiped the invite. I made a beeline to the

party and I ended up meeting Doctor Miller. He ended up giving me an

audition two days later and I ended up winning the role. I now like you

even more. I constantly thank that woman, who I never met. But I bless

her. I am not encouraging thievery, but occasionally... You got to do

what you've got to do. The next film isn't

a Hollywood blockbuster, It's a love story with a difference

starring George McGavin. It's about a beetle that goes

on the ride of his life and, before you ask, he did

do his own stunts. Britain's Wildflower meadows are

bursting into life and they are the perfect place to come face-to-face

with an alien like insect that is on a mission impossible. I'm on the

trail of the oil beetle, and I really want to witness its

extraordinary survival strategy, which all comes down to it being

able to hitch a piggyback ride on a bee. To see this remarkable

behaviour, I've come to Devon to meet naturalist Jon Walters. Using

the latest macro lenses, we are going to reveal the life cycle of

this bizarre beetle. There she is! The object of all our attention.

That is obviously a female, she is really quite big. What makes them so

fascinating? When I first saw one, it looked like some kind of alien

creature. I thought, it's got to do something weird. It can't be a

normal beetle, with normal behaviour. It is one of the

strangest British beetles. If I hold her gently, she will secrete from

home is a tiny blob of oil. That is what she gets her name from. It is

toxic, it tastes vile and are protected from being eaten by birds

or any other insects. She has to find a mate, that's the next thing

for her. The female beetle releases pheromone scents into the spring

air. It's not long before she attracts a mate. He is smaller than

her, so he uses special hooked on -- looks to hold her in a lovers

embrace. But she is not done with him yet. She drags her mate around

for over an hour, which ensures that tens of thousands of eggs she will

lay through the meadow are fertilised by him. She needs to lay

so many because the chances of any of them surviving what is coming

next are slim. When they emerge, they instinctively crawl at the

nearby stems and had to the flowers. For those that get to the top, it is

not the flower they are after. It is what is what it attracts. A solitary

mining bee. They are visiting flowers on their incessant search

for pollen. The beetles lie in wait, hoping for the ride of their lives.

This is the critical point. The survival of the species depends on

the young oil beetles being able to piggyback on one of them. They have

only got seconds. If they get it wrong, it's game over. They crawl

onto the bee's back. Many get knocked off, but a few will keep a

hold as it flies back to the nest. The bees unwittingly carried a few

that survive underground. These holes of the entrance to the nest.

This is where the young oil bluffer mission ends. In that there are the

bee eggs and stockpiles of pollen. It is these that the beetles after.

The successful ones will feast on them and turn into adults. Of the

50,000 eggs that are laid, only a handful will make it this far. Next

spring, a new generation of adult beetles will emerge. One of

Britain's most remarkable life cycles will begin all over again.

I love the lengths that he goes to to take us into other worlds. Wasn't

that wonderful? Well, it's what he does. You can do the same thing into

that lens in a moment, watch. Since we last saw you been awarded with an

honorary knighthood for your services to culture and British

theatre. There you are, with Prince Charles, looking very dapper. That

was remarkable. Normally, the way it happens, it is announced. There was

one day when the Queen herself gives these awards out. Unfortunately, I

was shooting in America and I couldn't do it. Normally what

happens after that is that they may lead to you. Prince Charles, I

happened to have been an ambassador for his foundation, The Prince's

Trust, for many years. He said, no, no, I want to give it to him.

Mother... So proud... Anyway, we went to Clarence House and have this

wonderful morning last year, where he awarded me that. It means so much

to me. My parents were Anglophiles and I spent a good part of my

childhood learning about England, learning about this country,

learning about the theatre, going to do theatre. For me to have

transplanted myself here, my mother knew that I was doing before I

passed away, she knew I was taking on the old Vic. She always said

things like that. I said, they can't, I'm an American, I don't

think it's going to happen. She always knew. You put so much of your

self into your work in the West End. Do you have plans to return? I'd

love to. As long as I'm doing House of Cards, it's difficult in terms of

the amount of time, the commitment. I did a play at the Old Vic, a

one-man show, and I just did it at Arthur Ashe Stadium, where they

normally play the US open. I played to 5000 people a night. It was a

remarkable experience to re-purpose a space that had never been used as

a theatre space. That was pretty remarkable. I do that as much as I

can. Thank you so much for your company. Baby Driver is out on the

28th of June. We'll be joined by Cold Feet star

John Thompson and we have