Episode 8 The Graham Norton Show

Hello, I'm Tom Hanks and this is The Graham Norton Show!

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Hello!

Good evening. Oh, I'm going deaf, so loud.

Oh, too much! Calm down.

You're very welcome.

Yes, making a really big splash on our sofa tonight,

but in a good way, Tom Hanks is here, everybody.

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Good, right?

Now, Tom has starred in so many great films, like Castaway,

where he was forced to sit and talk

to an orange volleyball with a face drawn on it.

Although, to be fair, he's not the only person that's had to do that.

LAUGHTER

That must have been...

APPLAUSE

That was, ooh, totes awks!

Now, later in the show gold-medal winning athlete

Mo Farah will be joining us.

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Yes!

A sportsperson, ladies and gentlemen.

Nice earrings.

LAUGHTER

Fully accessorised.

Yes, Mo Farah - double, double Olympic record holder

and international Quorn star.

LAUGHTER

That's what his CV says.

Now, there are a lot of tactics involved in running the 5,000

and 10,000 metres.

You have to do a sprint finish when they ring that gold bell

near the end, yeah? Yeah?

Although, interestingly, if you Google the words "gold",

"bell" and "end", you get this...

LAUGHTER

APPLAUSE Yes, you do.

Now, Mo will be joining us later

and we have music from pop sensation Olly Murs, ladies and gentlemen!

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE Yes.

He'll give us a number from his new album.

But let's get some guests on!

CHEERING

From hit sitcom Third Rock from the Sun to Hollywood blockbusters

like Inception, Looper and The Dark Knight Rises,

this actor is so hot right now it, it's Joseph Gordon-Levitt.

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Oh, oh! Did you do that on purpose?

Best entrance ever.

That's excellent. That is fine.

Yeah!

Yeah, beat that, Tom Hanks!

She was...

She was Made in Dagenham, and she Clashed with the Titans.

Now she's playing the great Joan of Arc on the West End stage.

Please welcome one of our brightest British stars, it's Gemma Arterton!

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Oh.

Hello, darling.

Lovely to see you.

No, no. You're there, you're there. Beer, you. There.

-The drink is your clue.

-I might have drank some of your wine.

Just listen to this list of films, ladies and gentlemen -

Big, Saving Private Ryan, Philadelphia,

Castaway and Forrest Gump, need I say more?

It is the double Oscar-winning king of Hollywood, Mr Tom Hanks!

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All right, I made it, I made it. Good to see you. What a pleasure.

What a pleasure. Mwah.

And this young man...

That was impressive.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE That was impressive.

You can shove up a little bit.

All together, all together.

Bring it around.

-Welcome back, Tom Hanks.

-Always a pleasure to be back.

-American TV shows are copying you, left and right.

-Are they?

Yes, they are. Why, we'll... We have no idea. No concept of why.

-You're welcome.

-Good to be here. Joan of Arc, good Lord.

Gemma Arterton and of course Joseph's here. Your first time?

Yes, sir. Glad to be here.

But, already, I think the best entrance we've ever had.

I'm glad to hear that. Hey.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

That's... I mean, you've peaked.

There isn't an anecdote you can tell that will beat that forward roll.

You have nightmares every time you come on a show like this.

"I just hope I don't trip when I'm coming out."

Then I tripped when I was coming out.

-You didn't do it on purpose?

-No, no. Not at all.

That's when you should have said, "Yeah, yeah."

Oh, yeah, right. So I could set it up later.

-No, I think it was new shoes, that was new shoes.

-These, you mean?

Whoa! Turn down those socks, man.

LAUGHTER

-Wow, look at this.

-Sorry.

You're a rebel, Joseph Gordon-Levitt.

This couch is interesting tonight.

Because everyone is playing real people,

either from history or from the headlines, in films and the play.

But before we get talking about all those things,

we need to settle a little controversy. A little controversy.

There was a picture, you have probably seen this,

it was on the internet and in the papers and things.

And it's this picture here.

-Now...

-Oh, yeah.

LAUGHTER So, people are trying to decide

-if that was Bill Murray or Tom Hanks.

-Right, right.

Well, I've been doing a pale imitation of Bill Murray for most of my career.

So it actually works out.

I know that it's not me because I did not take that picture.

Unless I've had a cranial plate shift that, you know, is medicinal.

That's not me. I believe that's Bill.

-Even looking at you now, it does look a little like you.

-Yeah.

I can make that face.

But don't you have a thing where you have, you think you've got sides.

Oh, I do. We all know what our good side is.

I'll show you, if you can come close

in a hideously embarrassing close-up.

Right, I will show you right now.

-Should I start with the good side or the bad side?

-Good side.

-Really?

-Yeah.

-OK. This is my good side.

Now, I don't know why.

But I have a jaw and I have a chin and, you know,

I have a back of a...

Actually, could you come around sort of like

three quarter-ish a little bit?

OK, there. OK, there, there. Is that it?

Come in a little tighter, please. A little tighter.

All right, so far we're still doing OK. It's all right.

It's not bad. All right, now. Stay there and just watch this.

LAUGHTER STARTS SLOWLY AND BUILDS

Oh, dear. Look at that!

The neck goes away.

The nose becomes this malformed thing.

I've got half a cheek sticking out right here.

So I kind of go from like Richard Gere...

to Richard Nixon.

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Gemma, can we have your side?

Er...

But when you do a photo shoot, do you favour a side?

I... I think this is my better side.

-But then...

-Then we can never work together.

LAUGHTER

Guess we'd have to do all of our love scenes like...

"I love you, Gemma, I love you. We must leave..."

We can never do this.

That's like Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell.

-And what about yourself, Joseph? Are you aware of a side?

-Should I be?

-No, I don't know.

-Tell me. I'm willing to learn.

Shall we vote?

-Let's vote.

-OK.

-By applause only.

-OK.

-All right.

-This side.

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Liking it, liking it.

Or...

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OK, so this side.

We just thought while you're here, to settle things, to avoid confusion

in the future, we might re-enact that...

Oh, do you have an orange jumper?

-I do, I do. I am fully costumed.

-Oh, great.

I've got some orange things there.

Now, Gemma, would you mind being...

I think she's the mother of the baby.

So there's some sunglasses there.

And would you mind being the baby?

-LAUGHTER

-Absolutely.

Oh, you can do that. Actually, that's better.

Why did we not think of that?

-Oh, OK, so I'm like here?

-You're down in there.

Down you go. There you go. LAUGHTER

-You squeeze in, squeeze in.

-Like that?

Like that, smiling.

LAUGHTER There we go, that is really good!

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE It is good.

I think Joseph did the most perfect imitation right there.

That is an instant study.

You can keep them if you want.

Isn't life weird? I never thought I'd be doing this.

That's some three very good actors there.

Hey, let's get on to your real jobs.

Tom's new movie -

this is the much anticipated Sully.

I remember the last time you mentioned it,

you mentioned what this movie was about

and the whole audience was like, "Ooh, that sounds good."

Cos it opens here next Friday, the 2nd of December.

It's such a great movie because some of the inherent drama we know,

-or we think we know.

-Yeah, yeah. That is...

We all know Act One.

Hero by pluck and grit lands a plane in the Hudson River,

becomes the hero of the Hudson.

And everybody on board survived, every single person.

I mean, it was a miracle.

Little babies, ladies who couldn't walk, everybody survived.

It was a miracle.

And if you go on YouTube and look at forced water landings,

you can see what could have happened instead.

And also didn't realise, I didn't remember, it was really,

-really cold.

-It was January, yes.

-So people were in freezing water.

The extraordinary story is - you see the tug boats,

the police, those folk dropped everything they were doing

and went right there.

I spoke to one guy, I said, "How long were you out on the wing?"

He said, "If you had have asked me,

"I would have told you I was there for an hour."

He went back and looked at the actual footage.

He was on the wing for seven minutes.

From landing in the water to rescue - seven minutes.

-That's incredible.

-An extraordinary thing.

And then everything that happens after the movie

is Act Two and Three of real life.

He withstood - it's condensed for the film -

but he withstood 18 months of depositions and investigation.

He had to answer complicated questions,

and very common questions, over and over, over and over and over again.

"Why did you do that? "Why didn't you try this?

"What did you have to eat the night before?

"Did you have a fight with your wife on the phone?

"Were you stressed in any way?

"Why didn't you turn this switch instead of that switch?"

And he had to answer for himself, to the point that he didn't -

both he and Jeff Skiles, played by Aaron Eckhart,

the fabulous actor Aaron Eckhart -

had no idea for a year and a half whether or not they were

going to keep their jobs, whether or not they would not be able to fly

for a living and whether or not

their reputations would be in tatters.

And the real man, Sully, he was around the filming?

-You've met him?

-Oh...

The real Sully is the most... There he is.

His real first name is Chesley.

Which sounds like a small town off the M1. You know?

Up near Whipsnade Zoo. "Hey, let's go to Chesley today."

So he goes by Sully.

He was very particular about how we portrayed the procedure

and the emotions of what the movie was.

Listen, we've got a clip...

Oh, let's watch the clip.

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This is the moment when you, as Sully,

make the decision about what you're going to do.

Mayday, Mayday. This is Cactus 1549.

We've lost thrust on both engines,

we are turning back towards LaGuardia.

-'Which engine did you lose?'

-Both. Both engines.

-Ignition.

-Ignition.

-Thrust levers confirmed idle.

-Idle.

'Cactus, 1549.

'If we can get a view, do you want to try to land runway 13?'

We are unable. We may end up in the Hudson.

'It's going to be left traffic, runway 31.'

-Unable.

-'OK. What do you need to land?'

BEEPING

-No relay after 30 seconds. Master one and two confirmed off.

-Off.

-RECORDING:

-Too low. Terrain. Too low. Terrain.

Too low. Terrain.

This is the captain.

Brace for impact.

Now you know...

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Because this, this...

This is who the man is. This is who the man is.

He said brace for impact for a very specific reason.

"Brace for impact" is essentially saying, "Get ready for a bump.

"Be prepared, we're going to have some..."

He did not say, "This is the captain.

"We're going to land in the Hudson River.

"It's going to be very cold..."

He didn't give them instructions about what was going to happen,

because he wanted to keep the panic down to an absolute minimum.

"Brace for impact, lean forward, do what you're told."

"Get ready for a water landing,"

means who knows what to 150 people in a plane.

"Brace for impact" is still quite bowel loosening, I'd have thought.

LAUGHTER

I mean, it was nice of him but...

LAUGHTER

I'm going to bring this up with him.

-Has this made you a more nervous flyer?

-Not at all, no.

I like adventure in the air, I like it to bump around up there.

You ever do this?

You ever just try not to buckle your seatbelt when they're walking round?

LAUGHTER

Just hold your hands over it and just not really...

just to see if they're going to check you or not?

Oh... That will do it. I like adventure.

Are you a good flyer, Gemma?

I think I'm a pretty good flyer.

I too quite enjoy a bump. Yeah, yeah.

But I've never... I've been lucky not to have been in anything too drastic.

-You?

-I don't want a bump.

-LAUGHTER

-I keep my seatbelt on.

I don't want any bumps.

Presumably, this is one of those films,

they're never going to show this on a plane, are they?

LAUGHTER

No, you know... Would you imagine it -

"Ladies and gentlemen, the in-flight entertainment..."

LAUGHTER

"..is Sully." Whoa.

-I've seen Castaway on a plane.

-Really?!

-Best plane crash in movie history.

-They showed that on a plane, really?

No, I just made it up.

-Oh, right.

-LAUGHTER

Do they do something, they have a little disclaimer

at the beginning and go, yeah, "This contains footage..."

"This will not happen to you."

LAUGHTER

Now, the thing about you, Tom Hanks,

because when we talk to you about films,

we always imagine that any director, you're in the film,

-they'll be quite intimidated by having you.

-Gee, I wish!

-But this time the director's Clint Eastwood.

-Oh, dear.

So how did that dynamic pan out?

Well, you don't want to get one of those Clint Eastwood looks

from him, you know? You know?

I can't do it. But, you know, where he kind of just raises...

-He looks at you.

-WHISTLES SPAGHETTI WESTERN THEME

You go, "Clint, I have this idea.

"Maybe for the scene if I do that and then throw that over to Aaron and then you can cut."

He's like...

LAUGHTER

Yeah. I wanted...

There was a guy playing a saxophone in Times Square.

We were done with the shot.

I said, "Go over there and give that guy 50 bucks,"

just let loose with some of those "ohh-ee-ohh-ee-ohh..."

But he... He treats his actors like horses.

-Um...

-LAUGHTER

Because, because, when he was doing...

There's a great show, Rawhide.

I don't know if you're old enough to remember Rawhide - a Western.

And he had all these old directors there who directed movies

that made a big deal about yelling "action."

"We're rolling, all right, standby. This is a take, everybody ready.

"3-2-1, action."

And every time they would do that, the horses they were on would bolt.

"Action!" And they'd have to go like...

So when you're in a Clint Eastwood movie,

you don't even know the camera's rolling and you just hear

over your shoulder...

-MIMICS EASTWOOD:

-All right, go ahead.

APPLAUSE

You know...

Sometimes you're doing some pretty hard stuff and you just

keep doing it until you hear him say...

-AS EASTWOOD:

-"That's enough of that."

And then you move on and you're on to the next set-up.

It's intimidating as hell.

-Wait, is it that every time, "That's enough of that"?

-Yeah.

-Every time?

-Instead of cut.

-He doesn't say...

No, he'll stay stop if it means you're going to do it again.

-But it's mostly...

-AS EASTWOOD:

-That's enough of that.

You go, "Hey, thanks for the vote of confidence(!)"

-LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE

-Please stop.

Right, now also playing a heroic role is Gemma Arterton.

Because she is Joan of Arc in Saint Joan,

at the Donmar Warehouse from the 9th of December

till the 18th of February.

But you are doing one of those beamed into cinemas

-all over the world on the 16th of February?

-Yes, we are.

Pop that into your diaries now. Plan ahead.

Now, George Bernard Shaw, he wrote the play in the 1920s.

-Now, this version is very different, I'm told.

-Yeah.

I don't want to say too much about it, but...

-OK, we'll move on.

-No, no, no!

But I think post-Brexit and post Trump,

I think it's quite interesting.

Wait, Trump? What?

He won?!

You're on your press tour, you get home - what?!

But, I mean, you can tell us that it's kind of set now.

Yeah, it's sort of like as if a medieval saint walked into Deutsche Bank.

Oh, OK. That sounds good. I'm liking it already.

And in the original play, I think I'm right, that you don't,

obviously cos it's quite difficult to get through the actresses,

but you don't burn at the stake every night?

They stop just before that.

But are you going to try and do a bit of burning at the stake?

We don't know yet.

We're only midway through rehearsals,

so it's still up for grabs.

-I kind of hope not. Because...

-Yeah.

Because usually that's when you go off and you have a glass of wine.

But, yeah, no, I don't know. We'll see.

You have to come and see it and then you can find out.

Or we'll just see the Donmar's now in ashes and we'll go,

"I guess they went with the fire idea."

LAUGHTER

Fire?

But, I have to say, you could be burnt at the stake.

Because you rarely live through anything.

What do you mean?

Well, drowned in oil in Bond, killed by vampires in Byzantium.

Head cut off in The Voices.

Stabbed in the back - Clash of the Titans,

fell into a chasm in Prince of Persia

and possibly worst of all,

chokes to death on a piece of bread in Gemma Bovery.

-Yes.

-Have you ever lived throughout an entire film?

There was a period of time where I died every time.

I think it's this tragic heroine thing, isn't it?

But I have also been resurrected twice.

And this will be the third time,

because I'm resurrected in Saint Joan.

Spoiler alert(!)

LAUGHTER

I just saved 20 quid.

And, obviously she's a French heroine. But it's set in England.

Yeah.

-Cos, do you live in France now?

-No.

I live in London, but I work there a lot so I'm often there.

Because your French is...

You have spoken French in films.

-I mean, you've...

-Yeah.

Which suggests your French is very good, I would say.

C'est pas mal.

J'ai entendu que vous parlez francais aussi?

Moi je parle un peu de francais, oui.

Ah, c'est impressionant!

AUDIENE: Ooh

Merci.

Mais c'est bien quand une femme parle francais, je crois.

-C'est feminin.

-D'accord.

Nigel Farage's just thrown his television at the window.

LAUGHTER

I know who that is!

APPLAUSE

Do you speak other languages?

-Me, no.

-Have you ever tried?

No. I now, you know, swear words in a few languages.

Can insult people in Greek.

Oh, they like it. Insult us.

You travel a lot and I read somewhere where you have

-packing down. That is a fine art in the Hanks' household.

-Oh, yeah.

Well, often for work, you're going to be gone for a long time,

so you've got a number of bags you've got to have at the ready.

So, yeah, my routine is pretty simple.

I strip down completely naked and give myself two hours.

-So I...

-LAUGHTER

-That's my routine for something else.

-LAUGHTER

-Two hours?

-Oh, yeah.

APPLAUSE

Yeah, you got to put, you know, you may be wearing underwear,

you're going to need...

So, you know, you start with a blank canvas and build-up.

The dog, I have a dog that worships me.

The dog is often confused by those two hours.

Are we going for a walk?

LAUGHTER

You have some ideas that I am not familiar with.

Listen, we're going to talk about another movie tonight

and its Joseph Gordon-Levitt's Snowden,

which is another fascinating portrayal

of a real figure from recent years.

-It's out on December 9th. It is.

-It is.

Now, he's not Julian Assange. He's the other one.

That's... Yeah, well that's true.

And I'll admit, I confused the two before really looking into it.

They're easy to confuse. Yeah, Julian Assange runs WikiLeaks.

Edward Snowden is someone else.

He worked at the NSA and the CIA. Sort of like GCHQ here, I suppose.

And he took classified information and he handed it over

to journalists at the Guardian, actually.

And that information revealed that the government was conducting

illegal and, you know arguably unethical mass surveillance,

that goes against the constitution of the United States.

Because he has been kind of really demonised.

-But he was sort of trying to protect people's rights?

-Yeah.

I mean, look, I understand why people call him a criminal.

That's because he committed a crime, you know.

When he took that classified information, he broke the law,

so it's understandable why people would be upset with him.

This thing is is that the NSA - and, by the way, GCHQ -

they are also committing crimes

and they are violating freedoms that are enshrined in our Bill of Rights.

You know, we have the freedom to have the right to privacy

and the government's not allowed to invade our privacy without a warrant.

But what these agencies are doing is just collecting everybody's

information, through our phones and computers, without warrants.

-You know?

-Because the webcam thing is terrifying.

They can turn on your webcam, they can turn on the microphone

on your phone, they can turn on the camera in your phone. Yeah.

-GEMMA GASPS Gemma?

-Hmm.

-Jeez.

LAUGHTER

That was a funny noise you just made.

LAUGHTER

Where's your phone?

Where is my phone?

Listen, we've got a clip.

This is when, you - as Snowden -

realises the full spying capabilities of the NSA.

Exhibit A. Oakland resident Justin Pinski posted on a message board.

"Romania has a storied history of executing their leaders.

"Couldn't they do us a solid and take out Bush?"

Oh, this looks juicy. This is from a G-chat.

"With the biggest python you've ever seen."

How is all this possible?

Keyword selectors - "attack", "take out bush".

So think of it as a Google search,

except instead of searching only what people make public, we're also looking at everything they don't.

-So, e-mails, chats, SMS, whatever.

-Yeah, but which people?

The whole kingdom, Snow White.

APPLAUSE

Scary.

Edward Snowden, he's in Moscow.

He's in exile in Moscow.

-But you got to spend time with him?

-I did, yeah.

Before we shot, I went over to Moscow and I sat with him

in an office for about four hours.

I mean, you know,

there's other places in the world where you can't, you can't

stand up and say, "Hey, I think the government's doing something wrong."

We're really lucky to get to live in countries where we can have these

kind of conversations, especially here on TV, I'm really grateful.

So I'm happy that he did what he did,

just so that we can all be having this conversation right now.

And, of course, I mean... APPLAUSE

Yes.

Obviously, other people are affected.

And I... I read, I think it was an interview that you gave,

where you talked about meeting his parents.

Yeah. Yeah, yeah. His parents came to the premiere.

And this is the thing about when you play a real-life person.

I don't suppose you can meet Joan of Arc's parents.

But, you know, you get certain feedback when you're an actor,

and that's meaningful.

It's meaningful when an audience likes the movie or, you know,

it gets good reviews or maybe it gets good box office or whatever.

And that's all great.

But when the parents of this guy,

who stood up for what he believed in

and is now living in exile, he can't come home.

His mom took me aside and was like, "You reminded me of my son."

And his dad took me aside and he make sure to look me in the eye

and he said, "I want to thank you for what you did because I know

"this was risky for you and you're going to," you know,

"some people aren't going to like you for it.

"But I really appreciate you doing this for my son."

And, I mean, I've never received feedback like that

for an acting job that I did.

It really means something?

It meant so much to me.

I mean, it really made my year to have those moments with his parents.

And isn't there some hope that Obama might,

one of the last things he does, might be to pardon him?

I mean, yeah.

There's a lot of important and influential human rights groups

like Amnesty International and the ACLU

that have appealed to President Obama to pardon Edward Snowden,

because, you know, ultimately what he did was

a great service to the country and to the world.

-You know, whether Obama will do that or not remains to be seen.

-Yeah.

Obviously one of the last things Obama will have done in office

is to give Mr Tom Hanks the highest civilian honour in America,

-the Medal of Freedom.

-Oh, yeah.

Really? That's so cool, man.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Congratulations.

Did you meet him?

-The man himself?

-Obama, yeah?

-Oh, yeah, I've met him a couple of times.

-You have?

-He's the coolest dude in the room.

-I don't doubt it.

-I would really like to meet him.

-He is so much the man, it's crazy.

And it's one of those things,

cos you have had so many awards, what does that mean?

It's mind-numbing, you know.

It's the Medal of Freedom, which means somehow...

It's funny talking about Edward Snowden,

there is this...

We have something which is the freedom that you're talking about.

I guess it's a look at the work

that I've done that has both celebrated it and promoted it

and tried to protect it as well.

Look, I'm with Admiral Grace Potter,

the scientist who literally measured out the nanosecond.

Her, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, me. It's a pretty good spread.

It's quite good company, yeah.

Rubbing elbows at the buffet.

Yeah, back in a nanosecond.

LAUGHTER

The film-maker Michael Moore,

who actually did call out this whole election.

I mean, he kind of saw how it was panning out.

He has now said and... He said that he wants you.

You know, I thought he was deranged

or was not deranged right up until he said that.

-He wants you to run as president.

-Yeah OK. All right, fine.

He says you're the only hope... APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

Oh, please. Oh, dear Lord.

Dear Lord.

-It's just four years of your life. Do it, Tom!

-Yeah, yeah.

If you cared, you'd do it.

I'm not qualified

to be the president of the Three Stooges fan club.

-Well...

-I might take that job.

Right, it is time to meet my next guest.

Now, at the Rio Olympics, he won double gold for the second time.

He's quite simply the greatest long-distance runner of all time.

Ready, steady, Mo, it's Mr Mo Farah!

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Hello, sir. Lovely to see you again. Have a seat.

-Hi.

-What a pleasure. Hi, how you doing?

-Joseph.

-Pleased to meet you.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE CONTINUES

I like... I like that you've still got running shoes on.

-They're comfortable.

-At any moment, he could go for a race.

Very good. Well welcome, Mo.

-Are you a bit starstruck?

-I am, I am big-time.

I'm like, "Ooh."

LAUGHTER

Cos what is it, Captain Phillips that...?

My favourite movie of Tom is Captain Phillips.

And I've seen The Green Mile. There's so many of them,

but my favourite one, because, as you know,

I was born in Somalia and the guy who was acting,

he was born in Somalia, Mogadishu, was Barkhad, the guy.

-And I know him.

-You know Barkhad?

-Yeah.

-Oh.

-So it was just...

-LAUGHTER

That's like "Oh, you're from England. Do you know my cousin?"

If you were to meet backstage, you'd say, "Hi, I'm from Somalia."

I'd say, "Hey, do you know Barkhad Abdi?"

That's what happens. In Somalia, everybody knows each other and it's just...

-It's a small world.

-But you and he must be like kings.

Yeah, they've done very well. They've done very well.

Now, double-double, that's something else. A round of applause for that.

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

But, I don't know, cos in America maybe you didn't follow the story,

but you really put the nation through it.

Because when you tripped, right at the start of the 10,000,

there you are.

Like, when you got up again, did you think, "Is it worth bothering now?"

No, because there was a point where I had to make a split decision.

When you go down and you get nervous and it's just... You panic.

Every human does. You panic and you're like, "Oh, my God, I've just fallen down.

"It's over, the race is over." But I just had to get over it and think,

"God, I worked four years for this. I can't let that happen."

I was just like, "Just be patient, be patient."

And, secondly, I promised my daughter Rihanna

I was going to get her a gold medal.

So her for her birthday, I told her I was going

to get her a gold medal cos I was training so hard.

Wow!

APPLAUSE

That's... That's some motivation.

I've got four kids. The twins, I got two medals from London.

And then my son got a medal now.

And Rihanna was just the one only missing.

As an 11-year-old, you know, they ask questions, "Dad, Dad?"

Because she kept asking me - "You got the twins a medal, where's my medal, where's my medal?"

I was like... That was years ago, a couple of years ago.

I'm like, "OK, I'll work towards it." And I couldn't let her down.

That's what's kept me going.

So, do you need to have another child to get another gold medal?

Is that how that works?

Is that part of your training?

I think four is a good number.

Now, you've brought out a DVD.

This is a sort of film, it's all about the lead-up to Rio and your experiences in Rio, is that right?

Yeah. It's about, basically about my life and what it takes to be

a champion and, you know, I've got four kids.

It's not easy having four kids. I'm away six months of the year.

It's basically going inside of my life, what I do day in, day out.

And I just want to get, you know, show people.

So if you are an aspiring athlete or if you...

Will it help people with motivation and stuff?

I hope it does because that's the whole point of doing this DVD.

People out there just see you and TV, like, and think,

"Oh, my God, I can never get up there."

But you can. I started at the age of 12

and it's just been hard work and year after year.

And now, finally, you know what, I have achieved.

I did dream of myself becoming a four-time Olympic champion.

Once, I remember watching the Sydney Olympics and thinking,

"I want to become Olympic champion."

And then, leading up to Beijing, I didn't even make the final.

And I had to wait for another four years. And then London, I do double.

And then another four years in Rio. You know, it is incredible.

It really is. What's interesting is seeing you again.

-When were you on the show before?

-Just after London.

-Was just after London?

-Maybe.

-You're like a different person.

You're so kind of, you know, self-assured.

Because the last time, you were quite nervous.

And now you're just like, "Yeah. Tom Hanks, whatever."

LAUGHTER

I've been watching too many movies.

You know, man, he's been to Rio.

Once you get back from Rio, it's all...

No Easy Mile is the name of the DVD,

it's out on Monday the 5th of December

and here's a little taste.

He's unquestionably one of the very best.

For the last six years I've been away from my family six months of the year.

Being good's not enough to win a gold medal.

You've got to be excellent.

You only get one chance, one moment. And this is my moment.

-APPLAUSE

-Wow.

Now, running, as we know, a very sexy sport.

Proof of that is Mr Tom Hanks.

I believe your wife, one of her favourite scenes is you running.

Oh...Oh, dear. The running away scene.

Yes. Every interview will be about Forrest Gump at some point.

You'll have the same thing.

You'll be answering questions about St Joan for the rest of your life.

I was... I had done, not the workouts,

but I had worked out quite a bit and it was all about running.

And I must say that my "butt-ocks",

as Forrest would say, were as firm as tinned hams.

They were just... They were just the...

I've seen the movie and I've seen it and every now and again

if it comes by on the cable,

my wife will just go, "Just leave it here, honey.

"I want to see that one scene where you're running away from the camera.

"I want to have a look at that fine Hanks' ass!"

LAUGHTER

APPLAUSE

But it's not there any more.

But in the day, man, it was...

I must say, I even think it's a beautiful thing to behold.

And actually there's another link between Mo and Tom.

Because the last time you were on, remember those memes

people would do, the Mo Farah running away from things.

-So, Mo Farah running away from a bear.

-Oh!

Mo Farah in a bull run.

Mo Farah in the Sound of Music.

LAUGHTER

And there is one of Mo Farah running away from Forrest Gump.

One of the reasons I remember Tom

and obviously it's amazing what he does,

is when you go out for a run, "Run, Forrest, run!"

-But it's a nice thing, it's a compliment.

-It's lovely.

You've got to think, you've gone to all that trouble of becoming

a famous runner, and they're still calling you another name.

How hard is Mo?

LAUGHTER

Run, Farah, run. Maybe that could work. See, there you go.

-Run, Farah run. Take it, folks. It is my gift unto you.

-They are.

Actually, could you do a lovely thing, Tom,

could you do a lovely thing?

Just cos Mo's here - he's the greatest runner in the world.

Could you do the line from Forrest Gump where

he suddenly discovers how much he likes running?

I would be happy to do it,

but you must show the lady with the cue card,

cos otherwise people will think that I've actually memorised this.

Show the lady with the cue card, cut over to her. Just show... See?

There she is. She's there.

I will in fact do it. OK, it is...

-This is for you, Mo.

-This is for you, Mo.

"Now you wouldn't believe me if I told you, but I could run

"like the wind blows.

"From that day on, if I was going somewhere, I was RUNNING."

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

It's going to haunt you for the rest of your days.

Don't embrace it too much.

It makes us happy.

All right, it's time for our musical performance.

This man has gone from X Factor hopeful

to one of Britain's biggest music stars.

Performing his single Years and Years, it's Olly Murs!

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

# When I'm alone, in the dark

# I paint a picture inside my mind

# Of all the things that I wanted

# But I never thought I would find

# And it blows my mind

# Because there you are by my side

# Maybe you know, maybe you don't

# But it's a question I have to ask

# I know we're young, and we've got life

# But life always goes so fast

# But while you're mine

# Yeah, it feels like time's on our side

# Years and years, forever young

# Years and years, yet to come

# I take every second of every minute

# Long as you're in it, you know I'm winning

# Years and years, we won't forget

# The time and place that we met

# And I remember it all so clear

# You signed your name on my heart Saying you were here

# No, we're not at the end

# But we came close maybe once or twice

# We got burned but we learned not to listen to bad advice

# Now I know you're mine

# Cos it feels like time's on our side

# Years and years, forever young

# Years and years, yet to come

# I take every second of every minute

# Long as you're in it, you know I'm winning

# Years and years, we won't forget

# The time and place that we met

# And I remember it all so clear

# You signed your name on my heart

# Saying you were here

# It doesn't matter where we go

# It's all I want, it's all I know

# This feeling's never ever getting old

# It's all I know, oh-oh oh-oh

# Know, oh-oh oh-oh

# Years and years, forever young

# Years and years, yet to come

# I take every second of every minute

# Long as you're in it, you know I'm winning

# Years and years, we won't forget

# The time and place that we met

# And I remember it all so clear

# You signed your name on my heart

# Saying you were here

# Years and years

# Years and years

# Years and years

# You signed your name on my heart

# Saying you were here. #

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

Thank you very much.

Olly Murs!

Great song, come on over.

Wow, that's a classic. Well done.

Have a seat here. Here's Joseph.

Gemma. Tom and Mo.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE CONTINUES Marvellous!

Sit down, sit down, sit down.

Thanks for bringing the whole service to town,

-that was a lot of people.

-It's a lot of people out there.

-Thank you for having me.

-And that was an exclusive, wasn't it?

Yes, exclusive, Years and Years, from the new album, 24 Hours.

Kerching! LAUGHTER

-And album - number one?

-Yes.

-Number one last week.

-CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

-Absolutely amazing. So, thank you.

-But you are, you are such...

You are like a proper hard grafter, worker.

I think I follow you on Twitter cos I see everything you do

and you've been plugging away.

You're doing everything - breakfast shows, kid shows, everything.

-You're just working, working, working.

-I'm everywhere.

No, I love my job. I think, all of us, we just love what we do.

So I love music, love doing it.

So, yeah, just get out there as much as I can.

So, Olly Murs, he's young.

You'd think of all the people here who'd understand

how social media works, would be him.

I'm older than time.

Every time you're on this show

I have to explain AGAIN how Twitter works.

-Thank you.

-You put it on Twitter, people can see it, Olly.

I know. But, you know, you're giving fans what they want on Twitter, aren't you...?

The fans didn't deserve this, I feel, Olly.

-ALL:

-Oh!

Were you packing for a trip?

LAUGHTER

APPLAUSE

Oh, God, you're embarrassing me.

What was going on in your head?

I get that you got a bit drunk and...

By the way, can I just say, for your skin tone,

those shorts are an awful choice.

LAUGHTER

It looks like loose skin has fallen down your legs.

But, anyway, I get it, you're having a laugh. You took the picture.

But did you need to tweet it, Olly?

-I'm sorry.

-No, you look lovely.

And Gemma's getting quite the eyeful there.

It's on my profiles.

GRAHAM LAUGHS

Lovely(!)

When are you going to be touring this album?

I'll be touring next year. So in March next year,

we're going to be touring up and down the country,

starting in Glasgow, doing the O2 everywhere.

It's going to be brilliant.

Always lovely to see you. Come back again.

-Olly Murs, everybody.

-Thank you.

-CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Nearly it, but before we go,

we've got time for a visit to the big red chair.

Who have we got? Hello, sir.

-Hello, sir.

-Hi, what's your name?

LAUGHTER

-My name's Adam Shaw, Graham.

-Adam? Adam, OK.

-Yes.

What do you do, Adam?

-I'm an actor.

-And where are you from?

-I'm from Pudsey.

Pudsey?

LAUGHTER

APPLAUSE

Wait, that guy looks... That guy actually looks familiar to me.

You know him?

He... Have we ever worked together?

Let's get him back.

-Is he allowed to be back in the chair?

-Yeah, he can come back. Adam?

Oh, there he is. Adam.

OK. Joseph took against you.

But Tom thought you looked familiar.

I am hopefully, yeah. I owe Tom quite a lot

because my very first acting job was Saving Private Ryan

and, on paper, it looked great.

You know, I'm working with Tom, one of the best screen actors going.

Working with Spielberg, one of the best directors,

well, still the best director in the world.

So, on paper, it looked great.

But then on my first day, I realised that I couldn't swim.

And they threw me over, obviously, you know the movie,

they threw me over the landing craft.

Oh, that's right! We were in the Higgins boats together.

And I lied about being able to swim. I lied about being American.

-LAUGHTER

-I'm actually from Pudsey,

which is in Leeds, you know.

And then they put me in a fireproof suit and I'm going,

"Where's the fire?"

So then I was about to get burnt to death, I don't know.

Tom, do you remember the... The AD showed me the action.

-He put me in the water with you?

-Yes, yes.

And I turned to you and I said, "I've no idea what I'm doing."

-You were just out of drama school.

-That was it.

And that was the moment I told you

and we both questioned why I was there.

-Yeah.

-LAUGHTER

Is the end of this story that Tom Hanks saved your life?

He did really save my life. He literally saved my life.

-Did he, really?

-It was pretty deep water, as I recall. You know?

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Can he walk or flip? Walk, flip?

-Well...

-Oh, he's walking. He walked.

As I recall, when it was all done, I said,

"Just out of drama school huh? Welcome to the big-time!"

APPLAUSE

Well done, everyone.

If you'd like to join us on the show and have a go on the red chair

you can drop us a line on the website at this very address.

That is it for tonight.

Please say thank you to my guests, Mr Olly Murs.

Mo Farah!

Jason Gordon-Levitt!

Gemma Arterton.

And Mr Tom Hanks.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Join me next week with singer Emeli Sande,

top chef Jamie Oliver.

Hollywood heart-throb Chris Pratt and Oscar winner Jennifer Lawrence.

I'll see you, then. Until then, bye-bye!

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE