Episode 11 The Graham Norton Show

new Superman. It's a chat emergency. I'd better transform.

I know! Right, looks like I'm just in time. Where is my trusty side

kick? Ah, thank you. Let's start the show.

Good evening. Good evening everybody. Hello, hello. Welcome to

the show. Hello everybody. That's handy. New in town. Save that for

later. Right, what a show we've got tonight. From the new movie Man of

Steel, Superman himself Henry Cavill Steel, Superman himself Henry Cavill

is here! I know. There he is. The Oscar-nominated star of Doubt and

the Fighter, Amy Adams is on the the Fighter, Amy Adams is on the

show! And Oscar winning Hollywood great, Russell Crowe is here

great, Russell Crowe is here tonight! Yes, he is! Plus, we've got

Russell Crowe, star of so many great films. Got to mention Gladiator. I

know the famous quote in that, my name is Maximus Decimus Meridius,

father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife. Please leave a

message after the tone. He started -- starred in Les Miserables. We can

woop that I tell you, a tale of poverty, child neglect and suicide

all set to catchy tunes. That's Russell as afterel. Can you hear the

people sing? Not any more, I've shot them.

Other brilliant characters, fon teen, yes, so desperate for money

she cut her own hair off and sold it. You think, bit far fetched. Who

would be stupid enough to buy someone else's hair? Huh? Is

everyone excited about the new Superman movie? It's so good. What a

franchise. So many films. You have Superman, Supergirl. Of course,

Superdog. Slightly low budget for that one.

Superman, amazing powers, for example, he can stop a bullet with

his hand. Almost as good as stopping LAUGHTER

Was that just this week? It seems so long ago. Britain's Got Talent the

final, Simon Cowell was hit by an egg. Here's the culprit. There she

is. I have to say, I spent a fortune voting foreher. I was -- for Her. I

was surprised she didn't win. The best talent in Britain is... A group

of Hungarians. Part of the prize is to appear at

the Royal Variety Show. I know the Queen's thrilled. Yeah. Simon Cowell

will be going along. Don't forget the eggs, ma'am. Let's get some

guests on. Later music from Katy B. But first, it is the great Russell

Crowe. CHEERING AND APPLAUSE.

Wow. You're here. Hello mate.So nice to meet you. Come in. Sit down.

nice to meet you. Come in. Sit down. It's the lovely Amy Adams!

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE Hello, lovely lady. Hi. Have a seat.

And is it a bird, is it aye plane? No it is the mighty, Henry Cavill!

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE Hello Sir. How are you doing?Come

That's a wow, some weeks it's nothing. Whatever. Lovely to see you

all. Now, drink, drink, Russell, one of my favourite guests ever, what a

lovely thing this was, Russell immediately found out he was on the

show, he tweeted his drink order. LAUGHTER

LAUGHTER. I

I thought

I thought I

I thought I should

I thought I should have tweeted mine. I would have liked a gin and

tonic. Do you want a gin and tonic? Yeah. Gin and tonic for the lady!I

don't mean to sound ungrateful. know I'm paid to chat. But I think

it's fair if I put the cards down and we all just stare at Henry for a

while. Russell, even you must look at Henry and go, you know what, you

comfort I stare at Henry and think, you little bustard, and your tall

frame and body fat ratio. Amy, your daughter is three. Now, yes.You

brought her so the set. Yes, I did. Apparently like every other woman on

the planet had a bit of a thing for Henry. Still, it's kind of

remarkable. She loves Henry. She touched Henry's bum. He turned

around and he reached her little hand back. Yeah. Totally.She was

one-and-a-half at that point. Henry looks at me and said, " Like mother,

like daughter." I always had my hands on hills chest. Even during a

chest I was like... Ha, ha, ha, that's so funny. Shameless.

don't have kids but you have a nephew and he got in trouble.

he's famous in school for telling tall tales. He went with his

Superman outfit and the teacher asked why he was wearing it. " Well,

because my uncle is Superman." At which point she was like... Thomas,

tell the truth. And he said, no, no, my uncle is Superman. She said

you're going to get in trouble then. No, my uncle is Superman. My

sister-in-law goes to collect him. The teacher says, listen, I've had

enough. You have to have a word with your son. He's now lying to all his

school mates saying his uncle is Superman. At which point my

sister-in-law goes, " Ah, unfortunately he is." He put his

hands on his hips and said" Told you."

APPLAUSE Seriously, Henry, this is an amazing

moment in your life. Tonight this very night, Superman, Man of Steel

unleashed across the country. I have to say you are amazing in

this film. Every scene you're with amazing actors like Amy and Russell.

You own it. You're so good. Thank the training that went into this, I

don't know how fit you were before, presumably did you all have to do

training for this? I did not. of us were on the same kind of

hellish contract. We have actually had to sign a deal with Warner

Brothers that we would only eat the food that they supplied for

three-and-a-half months. So that was a bit odd. Due really do that?Yeah.

Did you? Yeah, it was so hard. wish someone supplied my meals for

four-and-a-half months. I had a newborn, that would have been great.

This is you with your shirt off. Now, how long, I don't know how you

looked beforehand, but how long did it take to be that? To get to that

stage? It took five months of preproduction training and that was

about four months into shooting, so nine months. Wow. If you were just

nine months. Wow. If you were just to slip off your clothes now... Amy

going, yeah, yeah. It's TV. It will be great, it will go viral. What

would you look like? Do you still would you look like? Do you still

look like that? No.Boo! That's Superman shape. It's great for the

role of Superman, but not for much else really. Was it after that scene

you were given a food amnesty, you had a food pass. It was after a

scene which follows just after that in the movie and yeah, after that I

had a full apple pie, a tub of ice-cream and a large pizza,

followed by the best food coma of my life. The weird thing is Amy, you

didn't work out, but you could sympathise with these guys, but aim

yip's mum is a very -- Amy's mum is a keen body builder. Yeah she was.

She had seven kids and then decided she wanted to get into body

building. I did not know that. either. She entered competitions?

Yeah she was semipro. She started when she was 35 body building after

seven kids. She looked good. She was ripped. Is she like the colour of a

nut and really... Yeah, physically like nut colour. What was that?

that tan. You know it was a little while ago. All I heard was" Was she

like the colour of your nuts? you went, " Yes, she was." Yeah, the

colour of your nuts. Famously very tan. She was really intimidating to

my boyfriends. I tended to date skinny guys, I don't know why. But

she moved a TV in front of one of them once and he was terrified.

like up? We were watching a movie and the TV wasn't getting reception

so she picked it up and moved it to another part of the... Wow.She's

tough. She's a tough woman. That's impressive. Here's the thing, this

is so encouraging. You see Henry in that picture with the shirt off, but

what was your nickname at school? nickname at school was fat Cavill.

That was a very apt nickname considering my name was indeed

Cavill and I was indeed fat. lardy were you? I mean, my dad said

from the age of about 13 I stayed the same weight until I was 25, you

just got taller. So enormously fat at 13? I don't know about enormously

fat. You were morbidly obese. You could have died.

LAUGHTER Now, the odd thing about this movie

is that Russell, you met fat Cavill? Yes. He definitely wasn't fat Cavill

when I met him at 16. We were shooting here in London a movie

called Proof of Life in 2000. There was the opening sequence of the film

was shot at Stowe college. We went out there and there was a kid

playing my son. In a break of the shooting, which there was a Rugby

Union game going on. One kid on the field was very fluid and in control.

It caught my eye and I was watching that. Kid came over to have a chat.

But all his questions were about acting. There was just a smile in

his eyes. But there something dead serious behind that smile. Instead

of not answering the questions or whatever, because you get asked

these questions 100,000 times. I told him the truth. In the brief

moment I had with him. I put it in front of him that it's a challenge

that's up to him. Nobody's going to give it to you. A couple of days

later I was putting a package together for the kid who played my

son, because I figured the greatest thing if you're at boarding school

must be unexpected mail. I thought I'll put one together for the other

blokes. I remembered his name because he was clear when he said

it. He didn't say" I am fat Cavill." I should have done. That wouldn't

have had the same sound. Dear fat Cavill. Fat Cavill is Superman!

the one one I wrote for Merlin, I put" You come from a long line of

generals." He went and joined the army. Three tours of Afghanistan

later and he does close personal security in London now. On Henry's I

put, the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. If you

want it, you go and get it, you know. 12 years later and it's

probably three months into working together, you know, I finally said

to him, do I know you from somewhere? He got a smile in his

eyes and he went, " Do you remember going to Stowe school? Yeah. Do you

remember a kid that talked to you about acting? I went, yeah. He said,

that's me. Really? What did I say? He said, well, you said they pay you

pretty well but they treat you like sheet. Yes, that's exactly what I

said. In terms of things ments to be. Amy

Adams not taking no, how many times have you auditioned for Lois Lane?

Third time. Not this movie.Three different movies. You were

determined. I grew up watching superhero movies. Buff I'm a mere

mortal so the only chance was to play one. So Lois Lane it was.

Henry, is the James Bond thing true? Yes it got down to me and Daniel

Craig apparently, this is what I'm told. This may be my agent being

very nice to me. You would have been incredibly young. Yes, they wanted

to go either more traditional age like Daniel or a very young age.

Casino royal was the first book so they considered very young. But I

was too young. They asked me to audition for James Bond once.

they? When was that? It was like back in 2000. We had just done

gladiator. They said would ridly and I like to take on the franchise?

Wow. I said yes, as long as there's one line I have to say in the movie.

And that's when it all started to fall apart. I thought it would be

funny if you opened the movie with a Scottish accent right. So everybody

goes oh, you tosser, like a Sean conery impersonation, then in the

next scene he's talk in an Italian accident, then there's a shot in

Australia and he's on a beach and a woman comes up and said, " What's

your name? And he said" Bondi. ." It's a good gag. They wouldn't buy

APPLAUSE Talking of these movies like this,

you've been in interviews, you have said publicly that you would never

do a superhero movie. I've said that so many times. Now you're in one.

They didn't ask me to be the dude. It wasn't like be the such and such

man. It was like be such and such man's dad. That's different. The

question in front of this character in terms of what he has to sacrifice

as a father was interesting. Now, I have a six-year-old and a

nine-year-old, so I have to be honest and that came into play when

I was making the decision. So they could see the movie. So they could

see a movie I was in. In Gladiator people get their heads chopped off

in Les Miserables there's the prostitution things. They couldn't

see a film of mine. They seen it? I'm hardly in the movie, so they're

like, what's the big deal? Which one were you? This version of Superman

is very modern, because you talk of being a dad. Superman has two dads.

You are bio . We have a clip here. This is the pivotal scene where you

are making that sacrifice with the It's a seemingly intelligent

population. He'll be an outcast, a freak. They'll kill him. No. He'll

be a God to them. What if the ship doesn't make it? He'll die out

there. Alone.I can't do it. I thought I could, but... Laura,

Krypton is doomed. It's his only chance now. It's our people's only

hope. APPLAUSE

You are a dad of two, but you had to deal, like a lot of baby experience

in this film. Yes. I managed to have two kids of my own and I'm a dab

hand with a nappy. But I've never been hit by friendly fire. On that

film set... How many babies did you have? Four, to make up the Superman

character. It was a hot set. As you know because you've seen it,

suddenly there's a lot of light in there. So it was a very hot set.

I've got the baby stretched out like that, he's naked, right. So when the

first one started to poise, it's very kiss, it's very unsafe this

thing here. Now he's slippery. So I'm like come here little guy. Oh,

my God. One costume ruined. And the next one, he didn't do anything, but

there was a lot of air involved. Every time you were about to say you

know something about a sacrifice of my sun... -- son. And the third

baby, he was just a full evacuation. Full and absolute evacuation down my

arm, just like, the thing is I love babies. So that was fun. But then

the fourth baby came out and that baby had three legs. I said to them,

baby had three legs. I said to them, " This one's Superman."

APPLAUSE Now children everywhere rejoice

because with new Superman film comes new merchandise. This hasn't been

seen in this country, this is an exclusive here, this is you. That's

beautiful, nicely detailed. Whose beard is that, though? That's not

how my beard looks. It's like Captain Birds Eye. I thought it was

Kenny Roger's beard. There's a whiff of Kenny about it. It looks a little

bit like you. It's beautiful in the detail. That's a bit like found

material. Luckily for me you can't get those undies off. No, you really

can't. I've tried. I've been here all afternoon. It's lovely. It's

very nice. Henry has an action figure as well. Yes, he does. It's

APPLAUSE I brought you a present. This is my

rugby league team in Australia. They've been around since 1908.

Where's the old fashioned red light? It's hidden but number three.

red light on the blink on that one, get it fixed. This is the new

generation with the gold lame rabbit. I know. Thank you very much.

I'll pop it on like that. Is that what you do? And that.

APPLAUSE Right, now, Russell, talking about

Oscars and nominated many times but you won for Gladiator. It sounds

like you contributed a lot to Gladiator The Script as stuff that a

lot of it was you, is that true? started shooting that film with

about 21 pages that we had agreed on. After ten days we had nothing

left to shoot. So, and I would never, ever recommend you make a

movie that way. It's just the way Ridley likes to make a movie. He

likes to feel it as he's doing it. He'll get to a point with a

character and go, oil e-- I'll need a moment with this character to give

me that. He hunts down what that's going to to be. You chuck in your

old school motto and things? that's where strength and honour

came from. The motto was truth and virtue. I said to him I want the

character to say something like that when he greets soldiers from his

regiment. He should stay that or when he's leaving them, that's his

thing. I said, I want them to say, " (He speaks Latin) and Ridley goes...

What does that mean? I said it means strength and honour. He went, " Say

that." Is that Sydney Boys High? Yes. Now you weren't quite as good

as fat Cavill at school. You, no, you were good. And you grew. It's

happy now. You smoked as a schoolboy. I did. My dad ran pubs.

So I was in aan environment of smoke-filled rooms from a very young

age. This terrible habit has stuck with me. I was committed to it even

as a young guy in high school. I couldn't afford packets of

cigarettes at the time. So I used to take two cigarettes to school, three

matches and a piece of flint off the matchbox. So I'd put the cigarettes

in my sock and I'd have the flint and the matches in the pocket of my

trousers. At that stage we had to wear suits at school. Their linings

are always made of nylon. I was sitting in music class...

LAUGHTER. I was in music class and we were

doing something with the rhythms. I ended up banging my leg and I

went... Oh! I melted the inside of my nylon lining all around my bits

and pieces. That is a very uncomfortable thing. Do you still

have pieces down there? They didn't burn off all together. Just the

first foot. APPLAUSE

No, I meant pieces of nylon. Never mind. We can move off that. I wasn't

wearing nylons, that came later in rocky horror show. You like the

Twitter and on Twitter there was a thing about your costume in Les

Miserables. There is this picture. Do you know the thing I'm talking

about? A guy sent it to me, I thought it was so funny I retweeted

it. Was it a German fan?I think so. He saw a similarity between this

and... I retweeted that and then Britney Spears tweets me and says, "

Yeah, let's get together and do a song." It was a joke, love. Did she

think you'd dressed up as a tribute act? You're touring Australia.

think so. A toxic song mash up. I didn't know what it meant. Bless

her. I'd love to see you do that choreography from Baby one More

Time. Let's talk after. I think I have my costume somewhere.

Adams, four times nominated for Oscars, all very good with Junebug,

Doubt, the Fighter, the Master, but nothing for Enchanted. That was such

an amazing performance. APPLAUSE

Thank you. And a bit like Henry, so Henry is now Superman but to a lot

of children, you are the Princess. Absolutely. I think there are a lot

of people, I mean, it's fantastic and I loved it and it's never been a

burden and it's been great. It is weird because in life I tend to walk

around without a stitch of make up and looking a bit homeless. So it's

sometimes disappointing because kids won't necessarily recognise me but

their parents will and they tell these poor children that I'm

giselle. They're very disenchanted. I have to get down in a very Giselle

voice and say" I'm in disguise." They buy it. Therapy later.Exactly.

That is going to mess with their That is going to mess with their

heads. But she said! It's better than me getting down going, " It's

not real, honey." That would be horrible. The other thing we must

talk about is the Fighter. It's such a great film. You're so good in it.

APPLAUSE You imagine it would be fighting

with Christian Bale and Mark Wahlberg. But the women in the movie

are just stunning. They're like for real. Yeah they were like for real.

Due meet the real sisters? No, but that's the thing. It's like Amy, you

already said that. I did meet them and they were like for real. Like

that. No, they were awesome. They were

really like that. It was really interesting to meet this whole

family and to meet Charlene. She was like, I don't know why you had me

getting in a fight, I never got in a fight. Except once in a bar, when I

cracked that bottle over a girl's head. That would be a fight.No, I

swore a lot in that movie, which was like, I swear in real life, but I'm

polite so I don't tend to swear in public if I can help it. It was

really funny because David was like more swear words out the window and

I could not figure it out. I was like, I ran out of swear words and

he was throwing ideas out to me like" Trike cock-sucker. Trying

F-ing costcutter. I refused the C word. On television here, it's still

quite bad. I have two dogs that need to eat, OK. That one's not coming

out of my mouth. Yeah, I ran out of swear words, it was funny. What was

the other odd thing, where really specific kissing. Yes.What was that

about? David O'-Russell has a thing with tongue. He likes to see it,

like a 1980s music video or something. That's what he wants.

Yeah. I tried that with Henry, it didn't work. They were like, ooo,

what's that. Too much.I'm coming across like such a creeper. Poor

Henry. Awful.I talk to other people, oh, hen rip's beautiful.

Then you say it in front of it and you feel really creepy. He's so good

looking. APPLAUSE

Yeah, exactly. In the Tudors you had a lot of sex

scenes. Yes.And no-one's complaining! It's terrible those

girls' heads are cut out of the photograph. Come -- Come on England,

catch up with the rest of the world. It's page three material. Is it true

you didn't like it? Well, I mean, when you think of, you know, having

sex with someone, you're normally sex with someone, you're normally

alone. I normally am! LAUGHTER

least 12 very heavily set men watching you. It's not comfortable.

You know, things aren't happening as naturally as they should, so things

are, you know, there's a lot of this. That's not comfortable either.

What is that? Stop it both of you. Well, supposed to be the Man of

Steel. Yes, we are. They tend to be very uncomfortable. It's one of

those things. It's not nearly as sexy as one may imagine. Kissed

many, many famous actresses over the years, but in interviews you always

cite one screen kiss as your favourite, is that true? Do I?Yes.

No? The movie called the Sum of Us. That had to be a set up. No, you

That had to be a set up. No, you have said! Currently the mantle is

held by Kate Blanchett until further experiences. However, yes, this

movive here, the Sum of Us, I play a gay rugby-playing plumber in this

clip. That is John Paulson, after I finished that film I was about to

work with Sharon Stone. In that movive I had kissing scenes with

her. In this film I'm playing the gay man and I have a kissing scene

with John. John came up to me and he's, well he's not gay and he came

up to me and said, look, I've never kissed a bloke you know. Can we

practise? LAUGHTER

I said, a couple of weeks from now, I'll be in America and working with

Sharon Stone. How do you think it will go down, if I say kissing scene

coming up, shall we practise? How about you close your eyes, you close

your eyes and I bet we remember how to do it. That's what happened.

Beautiful! What a sofa, please thank my guests tonight.

APPLAUSE Before we hear this week's stories

in the red chair, it's time for music. Performing the upcoming

single What Love is Made Of. Please single What Love is Made Of. Please

# Something about your smile # That keeps me close

# Keeps me warm # Something about your eyes that

bright blue shine # I see your soul

# Give it to me # The recipe

# So I can see # And I can stay like this for days

# Looking at your beautiful face # Let me know what love is made of

# Something about your style # The clothes you wear

# You get it right # Something about your mind

# The way you think # How you're so wise

# Let me see # Give it to me

# The recipe # So I can see

# And I could stay like this for days

# Looking at your beautiful face # Can -- let me know

# What love is made of # Say I'm the special one

# The one you think of most # What you got that could give

# Come and give me my dose # Let me see

# Give it to me # The recipe

# So I can see # And I could stay like this for

days # Looking at your beautiful face

# Say you'll never go # Say you'll never go

# Let me know what love is made of # What love is made of

# What love is made of # APPLAUSE

Thank you! Beautiful, Katy B everyone. Come on over.

Congratulations, darling. Thank you. It's all marvellous. There she goes.

Now, that is a new single Brand new, my first single off my new album.

It's out on July 8. Yes.You won't be able to explain this to me, but

you can preorder it now. Yeah, yes. You can preorder it. So, yeah pay

for it now and on July 7th, you don't have to think about clicking

the button and it just goes straight to iTunes. It's not like preordering

a book, they're not going to run out. You've never tried to download

something and gone, no, it's all gone.

Sorry it's empty. People do it. I've preordered a few albums. Do you get

the money earlier that way? Is it good for next month's rent. Yeah!

Gets you ahead. Now the other thing, I've decided I might ask every music

act I have, would you ever consider doing Eurovision. Do you want to

know something, my dad did the Eurovision Song Contest. Really?Yes

but for Germany though. Really random, he's not even German. You

can find it on YouTube. Boo!I know. He had a whole other life that I

don't really know about. I should ask him one day. You really should.

Christmas maybe. Yeah. That whole life you had in Germany, tell me

about it. What was the song called? Was it in German. The thing is every

time I ask him about it, he's really shady about it. He says it's really

bad. I'll find out about it and tweet about it. He dance a whole

dance routine and he's wearing flares. It's amazing. He has a

ginger moustache. It's great. ginger moustache. It's great.

like a winner! APPLAUSE

They didn't win. We go. We have time for a story or two in the red chair.

You are keen on the red chair Russell? It's one of my favourite

parts of the show. If you come down here and Henry, give Katy B a go.

Right. Give her a turn. Does this move.

He's on it. Righty ho, then. Sandwiches changed.

I'm a -- in a ginger sandwich now. You look like you mean business. I

imagine we're going to run out of people. All right who's up? What

poor person is up first. Hello? I'm not doing this, it's Russell

Crowe. You need to impress with your story. What's your name? Laura.You

look so nervous. Don't be. Russell is looking benign. Don't be nervous.

is looking benign. Don't be nervous. unreasonable. It's going to be a

series of joinering wrecks. -- jibbering wrecks. Who's next?

You look calm, Sir. Very.What's your name? Raj.Where do you live?

St Albans. . Fancy? It's got an old part and a rough part.

Do you live in the old part or the rough part? On the border. Oh, no!

That was a good answer. He was playing the game. He was being soft.

Next person comes on, what are we looking for? Somebody who really

looks like they want to tell a story. OK. Guys out there, you're to

look like you want to tell a story. Next up. This is excellent.Hello.

Hi. Does he looks like he wants to tell a story? Oh, he does. What's

your name? Scott.Start your story. This is for Russell. Last year I

went it a music festival. He's a New Zealander? Yeah, yeah.

What's wrong with you. That would have been a lovely story. We'll try

another one. Let's get another one. Did you come up with this concept?

It's fantastic. Selling them at Christmas. Hello, Sir. What's your

name? -- Ivan.He's keen. I won't delay you because we're not sure how

long you'll last. Off you go. fried fish always. Father and I used

to repair cars. One day we took the petrol out of the front of the car.

We needed to put it back the next day. Unfortunately, mum decided to

fry the fish the next morning. She starts to fry the fish. Not quite

enough oil in the pan. She reaches for the first can of oil that she

thought she could find. Petrol. She actually burned the whole house

down. Wow scla. -- wow! That's a pretty

good story. It's dark, though. Can he walk? You can walk. Walk! Walk!

he walk? You can walk. Walk! Walk! Walk!

APPLAUSE Well done everyone. If you want to

join us on the show and have a go in the red chair, you can. Contact us

via our website. Thank you to all my guests tonight, Katy B, Amy Adams,

guests tonight, Katy B, Amy Adams, Henry Cavill, Russell Crowe! Join me