:00:26. > :00:27.What have you got in store for me tonight, Al?
:00:28. > :00:39.All I can tell you - we've got a really big guest.
:00:40. > :00:42.Hello and welcome to The One Show, with Alex Jones.
:00:43. > :00:49.And - back for the second time this week - it's Nina Wadia!
:00:50. > :00:59.APPLAUSE Thank you. I wasn't expecting that.
:01:00. > :01:01.Tonight's guest is a genuine giant of stage and screen.
:01:02. > :01:22.Please welcome the Big Friendly Giant himself - Mark Rylance!
:01:23. > :01:36.Nice to see you, take a seat. That's the best opening we've ever had to
:01:37. > :01:38.the show. You have destroyed the set!
:01:39. > :01:45.We'll be hearing all about your role
:01:46. > :01:47.in the BFG later - but Mark, Nina - this isn't
:01:48. > :02:01.We were doing the Scottish play... I do not say it, and I was playing the
:02:02. > :02:08.first witch. How did I poison you, do you remember? You poured milk
:02:09. > :02:15.into my mouth. From your mouth. It was quite a challenge. Poor Mark had
:02:16. > :02:19.to suffer it for six months! Other things are more difficult to suffer
:02:20. > :02:25.in that play. Did you promise to brush your teeth every night? I did!
:02:26. > :02:28.Turning yourself into a giant isn't nearly as hard as you might think.
:02:29. > :02:38.This is at the giant's Causeway. That's his girlfriend, wife, sister,
:02:39. > :02:40.who knows, over his shoulder. Whether you took them on holiday,
:02:41. > :02:44.or you're taking them especially for us tonight -
:02:45. > :02:46.send them to the usual address. When you see Mark in the BFG you'll
:02:47. > :02:49.see he looks exactly like the illustrations
:02:50. > :02:52.in Roald Dahl's original book. We sent our own BFG to meet
:02:53. > :02:57.the "phizz-whizzing" DRAMATIC MUSIC
:02:58. > :03:27.SCREAMING I don't know why everybody is
:03:28. > :03:39.screaming. I is the big friendly Gyles. SCREAMING
:03:40. > :03:49.My adventure started yesterday. I was wondering around this town being
:03:50. > :03:54.screamed at by people. Through somebody's window I started reading
:03:55. > :03:58.this twiddly book. A man called Roald Dahl wrote it about a little
:03:59. > :04:03.orphan called Sophie and the giant man she meets. They go on a
:04:04. > :04:10.wonderful adventure to capture all the bad giants to stop them eating
:04:11. > :04:19.human beings. He's amazing, I thought to myself. I want is to be
:04:20. > :04:24.like him. So I went off to meet with the man who drew him, Quentin Blake.
:04:25. > :04:29.I was commissioned to do 12 drawings for the book. I did them, and the
:04:30. > :04:34.whole book was set and at the printers when they rang up and said,
:04:35. > :04:41.he's not happy. The reason he wasn't happy was, there weren't enough
:04:42. > :04:45.pictures! So Quentin drew a lot more and started changing how the BFG
:04:46. > :04:53.looked. In the early pictures he's wearing boots and an apron. But they
:04:54. > :04:59.said the apron got in the way, he didn't like it. So we invented a new
:05:00. > :05:04.costume, a waistcoat, quite a big belt. It was only when we got to the
:05:05. > :05:10.feet that we didn't know what to do. I went off home and a couple of days
:05:11. > :05:15.later there was this BFG type parcel arrived, and it was one of Roald
:05:16. > :05:19.Dahl's on Norwegian sandals. I realise they were closer together,
:05:20. > :05:24.the author and character, then I realised. I met Roald Dahl a few
:05:25. > :05:28.times and found him a bit frightening. What about you question
:05:29. > :05:33.your low he was a formidable character. He knew how to be
:05:34. > :05:38.bad-tempered. But he was also a benevolent person. But I don't think
:05:39. > :05:42.he would want you to know that. When you are drawing, what's the most
:05:43. > :05:48.important part? I don't draw from life, I just try to be the person. I
:05:49. > :06:00.might be making the expression as well. It's a sort of organised form
:06:01. > :06:13.of being spontaneous and how to speak like the BFG... Gobblefunk. I
:06:14. > :06:15.had to go back to school to do it. Gyles, pick up your pencil. I can't
:06:16. > :06:30.read or write, you write it down. You need to be really careful about
:06:31. > :06:40.the nasty people like giants who eat people. You want to worry about
:06:41. > :06:48.horrorgust. Those are horrible tasting things, like snozzcumbers.
:06:49. > :06:56.You are speaking like him already. Something you don't want to do is
:06:57. > :07:08.with popping. That's what happens when drink too much frobbscottle.
:07:09. > :07:15.Wind comes out of your bottom. Have you drunk too much frobbscottle,
:07:16. > :07:23.Gyles? I had! So now where ever I go human beans know that just like the
:07:24. > :07:30.original, the best, the BFG, I am the big friendly Gyles!
:07:31. > :07:35.STUDIO: He makes a really good BFG. He does, very good.
:07:36. > :07:37.You can see Quentin Blake's unseen BFG illustrations
:07:38. > :07:41.at the House of Illustration, in King's Cross in London.
:07:42. > :07:50.Mark, we went to see your film and I took my kids with me. And for the
:07:51. > :07:56.whole film, the whole way through, they had this expression on their
:07:57. > :08:00.face... When you left the cinema and you could see the kids leaving, and
:08:01. > :08:06.they were engrossed. It was incredible. They asked me and they
:08:07. > :08:14.said, the giant is a real actor. But how can he be that big? I don't
:08:15. > :08:19.understand. I work in telly, and I was still thinking, how did you film
:08:20. > :08:24.it? It worked very well for Gyles in that film. They could have made it
:08:25. > :08:30.cheaper! What is the process? Is it very complicated? It's a Biddle,
:08:31. > :08:33.located but I will try to explain. You basically make a
:08:34. > :08:39.three-dimensional space inside a computer. -- it is a little
:08:40. > :08:43.complicated. You then make the same three-dimensional space inside a
:08:44. > :08:48.studio. Whatever happens in one happens in the other. So if I wear
:08:49. > :08:52.this funny Velcro suit, walking around and waving my arms in the
:08:53. > :08:57.film set, the computer records it from also hides. Next-day Steven
:08:58. > :09:01.Spielberg will take the Game Boy type console and put the camera
:09:02. > :09:06.where ever he wants and films from where ever. It's like being in a
:09:07. > :09:11.play rather than being in a film. It's quite strange because you don't
:09:12. > :09:14.see it until it's on the screen. I never do. But this is the most
:09:15. > :09:19.expensive make-up job I've ever done. That's a relief to me. I don't
:09:20. > :09:25.particularly like seeing myself in films. We all grew up with the BFG,
:09:26. > :09:31.a hugely popular book. How faithful is the film to the original story? I
:09:32. > :09:36.think it's as faithful as a film can be. They are different things. There
:09:37. > :09:41.is a whole bit in the book where he enjoyed the stuff about people going
:09:42. > :09:46.to Panama because they like to eat children who taste a hat 's. They
:09:47. > :09:50.get an Eskimo on a hot day and things like that. That's a literary
:09:51. > :09:54.enjoyable thing but doesn't have enough action or movement for a
:09:55. > :10:01.film. So some things are removed but nothing has really added. Steven has
:10:02. > :10:08.focused on the relationship between the giant and the little girl. She
:10:09. > :10:12.seems like a special actress. Ruby, yeah, she's fantastic, from
:10:13. > :10:17.Manchester. There is a lovely warmth between you that springs off the
:10:18. > :10:23.screen. We were good friends. Of all the directors in the world, Steven
:10:24. > :10:27.Spielberg is the one who can direct children. It was fun to be watching
:10:28. > :10:32.them all the time developing their relationship, and how he directed
:10:33. > :10:36.her. I think it's only fair that we let everybody at home have a little
:10:37. > :10:42.look at the film. This is the moment the BFG explains to Sophie why he
:10:43. > :10:49.had to take her with him. I had to take you. The first thing you would
:10:50. > :10:52.be doing is scuttling around, yodelling the news you are seeing a
:10:53. > :11:02.giant. And there and there would be a great rumple dumpus, and all the
:11:03. > :11:12.human beans would be looking around, and locking me up in a cage to be
:11:13. > :11:21.looked at with all the Zeppo dumplings and then there would be a
:11:22. > :11:24.giant hunt for all the boys. It's really strange, but people say they
:11:25. > :11:29.can't quite understand the language of the BFG. I had no problem at all.
:11:30. > :11:34.I get every single word of it! You must have found it difficult to
:11:35. > :11:42.learn words like that. It's easier than Shakespeare! When you were
:11:43. > :11:46.younger, I have read interviews before, and you mentioned you had a
:11:47. > :11:51.problem with language and speech at a young age. Did you find there was
:11:52. > :11:56.some kind of similarity between this giant character? I still have a
:11:57. > :12:01.problem with language, really. I think when I was five or six, the
:12:02. > :12:07.way I got out of it was pretending to be other people. Lots of
:12:08. > :12:15.characters I saw on television, shows like Star Trek and the wild
:12:16. > :12:24.wild West. This is dating me! But they gave you characters you could
:12:25. > :12:28.play like Spock or Captain Kirk. Me and my friends would act for hours,
:12:29. > :12:32.making up Star Trek episodes. That helped meters big. But people
:12:33. > :12:43.couldn't understand what I was saying. I don't think I knew how to
:12:44. > :12:49.use my consonants. This is the second Spielberg film. It was funny.
:12:50. > :12:53.I remember meeting a kid later when I was maybe 12, and he had been in
:12:54. > :12:56.nursery school with me, and he said to me, I remember you come you
:12:57. > :13:02.didn't say anything for the whole year! I was so tired of people
:13:03. > :13:08.saying, pardon, pardon, and getting angry with me. But I had a long
:13:09. > :13:14.period of quiet. I have made up for it since! It's nice that the
:13:15. > :13:19.character chimed with you. Don't you find that, you know the right word
:13:20. > :13:30.but don't get it quite right? Every day, every single show. We made up a
:13:31. > :13:35.word in Goodness Gracious Me called chuddies, and it ended up in the
:13:36. > :13:37.dictionary, it means knickers. It sounds like knickers though, maybe
:13:38. > :13:48.than knickers. Chudley 's. This is the second Spielberg film
:13:49. > :13:53.you have done after Bridge of Spies. You turned him down for a while.
:13:54. > :14:01.Especially in the 80s. He was wearing chuddies in those days. He
:14:02. > :14:05.wears Y fronts now. Why did you turn him down originally? I don't know.
:14:06. > :14:11.It was a hard decision but I was offered a job in a theatre by Mike
:14:12. > :14:18.Arfield. I knew it would be enjoyable to work with him. I took
:14:19. > :14:27.that job instead. After consulting the dice. The Chinese do it with
:14:28. > :14:34.sticks, but you can also do it with coins. You make six readings which
:14:35. > :14:38.make a hexagram of a broken line or solid line, 64 variations, and they
:14:39. > :14:43.give you a reading of what might come in the future. This one for the
:14:44. > :14:48.theatre said it was to do with me moving into a community. I met my
:14:49. > :14:54.wife Clare on the first day of rehearsals. It was meant to be. It
:14:55. > :14:58.was, but I thought it was goodbye to Steven and films. But look at you
:14:59. > :15:07.now! And apparently you are doing another two. I am, I know. Be sure
:15:08. > :15:14.to mention my name, please. He's gone from somebody you don't want to
:15:15. > :15:18.work with to your BFF. Of all the films I've ever worked on, he has
:15:19. > :15:24.the most wonderful community onset. He doesn't have the word director on
:15:25. > :15:32.his chair, he has father or daddy, his kids gave him that. He has that
:15:33. > :15:35.character, very much. I tried to take a picture of Steven Spielberg
:15:36. > :15:39.wants and fell over a hedge on to his table. But that's a different
:15:40. > :15:42.story. The BFG is in cinemas right now.
:15:43. > :15:45.As we've got a giant guest, we needed a giant game
:15:46. > :15:53.later, it is Giants versus Sophies and the winning team wins the right
:15:54. > :15:58.Mark, are you up for joining Team Giant?
:15:59. > :16:03.Before that, time to see the world through someone else's window
:16:04. > :16:07.in the first of a new series of films A Room With A View.
:16:08. > :16:11.To kick it off, a man who sees more than a shed when he looks out
:16:12. > :16:25.My name is William and this is my view. How you interpret the view is
:16:26. > :16:37.more important than the view itself. I see a flagpole and a big garage.
:16:38. > :16:42.It encloses you. What I seek out there is a forest and I can see
:16:43. > :16:52.wildlife in the countryside, even though I am not. I am an engineer.
:16:53. > :17:00.After you have done a long day your mind is working and you lock the
:17:01. > :17:08.door. You want to clear the nonsense going on in your head. You want to
:17:09. > :17:12.feel human. The flags are Buddhist flags, not because I am a Buddhist,
:17:13. > :17:21.but I believe in many of their fundamentals. You have to experience
:17:22. > :17:28.life. I hand-painted my car bright orange and to me colour is more
:17:29. > :17:36.vibrant than anything else. I have had the flags for seven years. They
:17:37. > :17:42.were less visible before. My brother-in-law died and he was a
:17:43. > :17:47.Buddhist monk and I felt that was a message, so I then put them up
:17:48. > :17:52.relatively high. In that nervous wait, you worry about what people
:17:53. > :18:03.will think about what you believe. The flags are flying to show how
:18:04. > :18:09.much I care about the whole world. I am not just in this house, I am
:18:10. > :18:16.wherever I want to be. It is known in the area as the flag has. It
:18:17. > :18:21.makes people smile. When you are happy with your home, you are
:18:22. > :18:28.relaxed. Allow yourself to be different. That is what my view
:18:29. > :18:32.tells everybody else and teaches everybody else. There is no shame in
:18:33. > :18:36.being open and honest about what you are.
:18:37. > :18:41.Somewhere you always find yourself excited to get back to?
:18:42. > :18:44.If you've got your own Room With A View, we want to
:18:45. > :18:48.Get in touch via the usual e-mail address.
:18:49. > :18:56.In the studio we have got some of the dream jars. How did your dream
:18:57. > :19:03.end up in a jar and what is it all about? It is an actual dream I had.
:19:04. > :19:08.I am sitting outside a glasshouse and inside the glass house there is
:19:09. > :19:14.a merry-go-round with a carousel. Where can people see these? I think
:19:15. > :19:19.that is a Westminster Square. They are dotted around the country? I
:19:20. > :19:25.think so. Stephen has done one and Ruby has done one. They will get
:19:26. > :19:29.auctioned off. Sophie Dahl did a beautiful one with a cottage by the
:19:30. > :19:39.seaside and a mermaid. And they get auctioned off? How much for yours? I
:19:40. > :19:47.have no idea. Can I ask, Roald Dahl -based the big friendly giant on his
:19:48. > :19:50.builder. Wally. I met his daughter. You tend to base some of your
:19:51. > :19:58.characters on real-life people as well. When you work in Wolf Hall,
:19:59. > :20:05.who is it that you -based Oliver Cromwell on? Usually characters are
:20:06. > :20:09.based on a number of different people, particularly like Oliver
:20:10. > :20:14.Cromwell who changes a lot. There is a poet in Brixton, Jim, who came
:20:15. > :20:17.down to London when he was 14, arriving at King's Cross and not
:20:18. > :20:22.wanting to go into an orphanage he lived on the streets for two years
:20:23. > :20:28.in Soho I think. He is a wonderful guy, a black poet. He reminded me of
:20:29. > :20:33.Cromwell who ran away when he was 14 and lived in Europe and number of
:20:34. > :20:45.years as a renegade child. So there was something that the two shared.
:20:46. > :20:51.Will poll is a brilliant series. We are going to have a look at giant
:20:52. > :21:02.pictures people at home have taken. -- Wolf Hall.
:21:03. > :21:14.This is one of my favourites, from 01 and June in the world. This is
:21:15. > :21:17.from Pete in Edinburgh. This has been sent in by Chris, his son
:21:18. > :21:24.Robert with his daughter I laugh. When I was in the midst
:21:25. > :21:26.of my Hell On High Seas challenge there is one moment
:21:27. > :21:29.I will never forget. When Olympic gold medallist
:21:30. > :21:31.Sir Ben Ainslie sailed past This weekend Ben's team will be
:21:32. > :21:37.competing in the Portsmouth leg of the America's Cup,
:21:38. > :21:50.so Marty has been to see just The America's Cup is sailing's
:21:51. > :21:58.ultimate challenge for man and machine. Known as fighter jets on
:21:59. > :22:02.water, yachts in this elite competition fly above the sea,
:22:03. > :22:08.travelling more than twice as fast down the wing. 20 years ago, boats
:22:09. > :22:11.travel at around eight knots, ten miles an hour. These days they need
:22:12. > :22:19.to be going something more like 50 miles an hour. Sir Ben Ainslie is a
:22:20. > :22:22.four-time Olympic medal winner who is taking on the challenge of
:22:23. > :22:28.bringing the cup to the UK for the first time ever. I was fortunate
:22:29. > :22:34.enough to be with the American team which won the last cup in 2013. It
:22:35. > :22:39.was fantastic to be a part of, but lifting the America's Cup, thinking
:22:40. > :22:46.why is this not a British team? It is a design race and a sailing race.
:22:47. > :22:52.We aim for our race boats to be the fastest ever. To give themselves the
:22:53. > :22:56.best chance, the team is fine tuning the engineering. How do you go about
:22:57. > :23:01.designing the well's fastest yacht? One of the keys is to do with how
:23:02. > :23:06.they are powered along. Many people think that yachts or sailboats are
:23:07. > :23:10.moved forward when the wind catches in their sales and pushes them
:23:11. > :23:15.forwards. But that is the slowest way you can sail. To go faster you
:23:16. > :23:20.need to use the same principles that keep aeroplanes in the air.
:23:21. > :23:26.Aeroplane wings are kept up thanks to what happens when air flows over
:23:27. > :23:34.their surface. I will show you. If I take a piece of paper like this and
:23:35. > :23:40.I blow across the curved surface. It is sucked upwards. The air I blow
:23:41. > :23:46.creates an area of low pressure above the paper than below it and as
:23:47. > :23:51.the two sides try to equalise, the paper is sucked upwards. It is
:23:52. > :23:57.called lift. How do you apply that to the water? You turn your wings
:23:58. > :24:01.sideways to create a sale, only this time the pressure difference sucks
:24:02. > :24:10.the yacht forward. Simon Schofield is the team's design manager. I take
:24:11. > :24:15.it this is the sale? It is similar to an aeroplane wing in that you can
:24:16. > :24:20.control the flat at the back which controls the amount of lift that you
:24:21. > :24:24.have. They can set the wing up to be optimal shape for any condition, up
:24:25. > :24:32.wind or downwind, and it gives the sailors a lot more control. But lift
:24:33. > :24:36.has one more trick to play when it comes to super-speed yachts. It is
:24:37. > :24:44.not only used above the water, but below it as well. The real secret to
:24:45. > :24:52.making the boat fly IDs, the dagger boards. This is another wing?
:24:53. > :24:57.Exactly. It is underwater. It produces enough lift to lift the
:24:58. > :25:02.boat out of water, enough to lift four Times, the equivalent of a
:25:03. > :25:07.London taxi. By lifting the yacht out of the water, the contact with
:25:08. > :25:11.the water is reduced, meaning less resistance. Making the use of lift
:25:12. > :25:16.both above and below the water means the team can add fractions of knots
:25:17. > :25:26.to their speed and give them the vital edge to win next year's cup. I
:25:27. > :25:30.am off on a test run. It's amazing! As we sail several feet above the
:25:31. > :25:37.water at a top speed of nearly 50 miles an hour, it feels more like
:25:38. > :25:41.being on a motorbike. We have lifted right out of the water. It is flying
:25:42. > :25:47.along, quite literally. In the hands of the crack sailors is yacht can
:25:48. > :25:51.maximise the power of the win. Today the wind measured only 17 miles an
:25:52. > :25:57.hour, our top speed was more than double that at 48 miles an hour.
:25:58. > :26:01.With a bit of scientific know-how, engineering brilliance and awesome
:26:02. > :26:10.crewing this British team could yet bring the cup home.
:26:11. > :26:16.It is incredible and the British team are currently numbered two, so
:26:17. > :26:22.good luck to them. I giant show needs a giant finale and this is
:26:23. > :26:30.ours. It is food diets. This is the well's biggest dartboard. What is
:26:31. > :26:34.the idea? We have got the well's first football theme park which is
:26:35. > :26:40.based at Bluewater shopping centre and goes on until the 21st of
:26:41. > :26:45.August. Anyone can take place. Is there reprise? For the highest score
:26:46. > :26:53.it is ?1000 at the end of the weeks. We will have a go. We were appalling
:26:54. > :27:02.earlier. We were worse than appalling. You were better, but we
:27:03. > :27:08.had the wrong football on. It was a bit unfair to be playing with these.
:27:09. > :27:16.Team giant are about to go head to head with Team Sophie. The prize is
:27:17. > :27:21.to sit on this magnificent chair. But if you win, we cannot give you a
:27:22. > :27:30.leg up, you will have to help yourself.
:27:31. > :27:40.We have called the Tall Persons Club to come along to help us play. It is
:27:41. > :27:46.our 25th anniversary and if anyone wants any information, they can go
:27:47. > :27:57.to our website. Is there a maximum height messy-mac no, not at all. How
:27:58. > :28:04.tall are you? I am six foot eight,. I am seven foot. There are three
:28:05. > :28:15.goes each. In a line and when you are ready, off you go.
:28:16. > :28:35.Giants, off you go. Stuart, here we go. And one more. That is what
:28:36. > :28:48.happens when you are a giant playing football. What is the score? The
:28:49. > :28:51.winners are the Sophie team with 33. Good fun? Brilliant.
:28:52. > :28:54.That's all for tonight, thanks, Nina.
:28:55. > :29:00.You can see him in The BFG in cinemas right now and
:29:01. > :29:03.there's a documentary, The Marvellous World Of Roald Dahl,
:29:04. > :29:05.tomorrow night at eight o'clock on BBC Two.
:29:06. > :29:07.Matt and Angela Scanlon will be here on Monday with Sir