Episode 13 The Graham Norton Show

Good evening, everyone. I'm Anthony Joshua,

-and you're watching The Graham Norton Show.

-Hey, hey!

Anthony! I'm Tom Hanks and I'm supposed to be the one to say,

-"You're watching The Graham Norton Show"!

-Well, I got in first.

-So I'm Anthony Joshua...

-You know what?

I knew it was going to come down to this!

Go ahead! Roll credits while I throw this guy a beating!

CHEERING

Oh! Oh!

Why, thank you!

Thank you very much. Thank you. Oh! Oh! Wow!

Wow, wow! Hello and welcome.

Happy New Year, all.

I tell you, we've got some great men and women on the show tonight,

and before anyone asks, yes, they're all being paid the same.

LAUGHTER

WHISPERING: Nothing. Nothing at all.

Are you all well?

I only ask that because I know a lot of people have been sick

over Christmas and New Year, haven't they?

Even Theresa May had something unpleasant

she couldn't seem to get rid of.

Yeah.

Jeremy Hunt, he's like the political equivalent of herpes, isn't he?

Theresa May said her reshuffle would make the Tory Cabinet look

less pale, male and stale.

So whereas before it looked like this...

..now it looks like this! HE GASPS

LAUGHTER

So well done, Theresa.

Meanwhile, in America, a new book about Donald Trump's presidency

has caused quite the storm. It's called Fire And Fury.

It came out last week - I mean, the book, not Trump -

that WOULD be a story!

Not on my watch!

Now, I have to warn you, it's one of those books with a very sad ending.

He's still president.

The book claims Trump steals all his ideas from other people.

Well, he certainly got the idea for the Mexican wall

from when Melania redid their bedroom.

LAUGHTER

Hey, let's get some guests on!

Later, we'll have music from Swedish folk rock duo First Aid Kit.

Yeah! But first, this man broke box office records

with the fight of the decade.

He's an Olympic Gold medallist, an MBE,

and the heavyweight champion of the world -

please welcome Anthony Joshua!

CHEERING

That's Anthony Joshua.

Hello, sir! Very nice to see you. Come in. Have a seat.

Anthony Joshua!

This Emmy-winning British actress

continues to wow audiences worldwide in Game Of Thrones.

Now lending her voice to Aardman's latest animated hit, Early Man,

it's Maisie Williams!

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Oh! Shimmery, sparkly!

Beautiful! Hello, my dear.

Lovely to see you.

There's Anthony. Maisie.

And what better way to start the year

than with a double Oscar-winning Hollywood great?

Please welcome one of our all-time favourite guests -

it's the great Tom Hanks!

CHEERING

Beautiful. Tom, good to see you.

Have a seat, have a seat.

Oh! Welcome, all. Thank you so much for being here.

Lovely to see you all. Now I suppose I should check...

So, Tom, are you a boxing fan? Are you aware of Anthony Joshua's work?

I'm aware of that there's always a bodacious heavyweight champion

of the world and I'm sitting on the couch with him right now.

He'd better not piss me off.

LAUGHTER

And everyone loves Game Of Thrones. Everyone loves Game Of Thrones. Yes!

-Thank you.

-It must be weird, you're in the biggest show in the world.

-Well done, you!

-I know.

-Where do I go now?

-Really.

No - other places, bigger things.

Don't crush the girl's dreams, Graham.

But, here's an honour -

it's very rare we have a guest who is on a stamp.

Oh, look at that!

Have you seen this yet? Look at that! Maisie Williams on a stamp.

-Proper thing - Queen's head and everything.

-Let me see.

-Yeah!

-I've not actually seen this yet.

-It's a stamp.

In America...

In America, you have to be dead to get on a stamp.

Was your character killed?

-No.

-Not yet.

-Not yet.

It's nice. It's a collector's piece.

No, it is a collector's piece, yeah.

Please, let me put on my glasses so I can see because... Oh, my!

How fantastic! How much does this stamp go for?

One pence.

Well, it's a first class stamp, whatever that is.

-Which goes for what?

-I don't know.

You don't know! You and your e-mail!

LAUGHTER

-Just cos you're in a movie called The Post!

-Yeah!

Lot of stamps in that movie, let me tell you.

-And then, Anthony Joshua has his own postbox.

-Yeah, yeah.

-You do.

Got a picture of that.

-This is... Where is this?

-This is in Watford in Hertfordshire.

SCATTERED CHEERS Lovely.

-Yeah.

-And how do we know it's yours?

I don't know if my name's on it, I don't know what...

-But you know it's yours?

-I know, that's the main thing.

-I know it's mine.

-How do you know his isn't the newspaper box?

I'm claiming that as well. I'm claiming anything!

You got a gold and a red medal at the Olympics.

We're very proud of you!

Anthony Joshua, he's only two belts away from total world domination.

-Wow!

-But here's the thing -

you are actively looking for a cool boxing name.

I haven't got one.

No, so it's Anthony AJ Joshua right now?

-You can say that, yeah, Anthony AJ.

-That's your name.

That's my name, yes. It works.

-You're right.

-It works!

But have you tried any cool names?

Honestly, um...Big Josh.

They call my dad Big Josh, I'm Big Josh, I don't know!

-How about Mailbox Joshua?

-Mail...

I deliver!

-Oh!

-I think we... I think that's it!

-That's it!

-Right here, my friend.

-Tom Hanks did it.

-Yeah.

-That's good.

-It's very good.

And before we move on, I have a thank you to say,

because Tom Hanks very kindly... I was at work and I got this.

you sent me a copy of your book, and I was, you know, thrilled,

cos it's a lovely cover...

-Hold that bad boy up!

-Yeah.

So I got the book, and then I opened it up, I opened it up and look!

-It was signed.

-I like that.

"To Graham Norton, enjoy the read, Tom Hanks."

Now, I have to say, I'll be honest,

when I saw it was to Graham Norton, I thought,

"He's no recollection of who I am,"

he's just been sat in a room and told to write my name,

but I didn't mind, I was still thrilled,

but now I feel you didn't think I was going to read it, did you?

I thought that you would put it on a pile of other things

that came to you unbidden and it would lay there for years.

And can you tell the people what you did to ensure

that you knew whether or not I read it?

Well, the canary in a coal mine

is a little thing you put in a contract that says,

if that is in your dressing room,

that means they've read your contract.

Like, "I insist on brown M&Ms only,"

so if you've come in and only brown M&Ms are there -

"Ah, these people have read the contract."

They saw the canary in a coal mine.

So I put a little message in there for you to see if, in fact,

you would read the book.

Yes, cos when I got to page 57, I got this message.

-What is it?

-"Graham, screw you!"

LAUGHTER

I'm so glad I read it!

Why I didn't put it on page 357, I'll never know.

-I gave you some slack there.

-Do you do that for all of them?

It's a very funny thing to do.

To the people I think deserve a little nudge, yes, yes, I do.

Listen, Tom Hanks, you're here to tell us about your new movie,

the Steven Spielberg movie,

-The Post.

-Yes.

It opens next Friday, the 19th, and this is...

It's one of those... The pedigree is crazy.

-It's Hanks, it's Streep, it's Spielberg.

-Yeah.

That's a lot of marquee, if you know what I mean.

Big trailers. Er, yeah. Yeah.

We all read this independently of each other

and said, "Well, I'd like to be involved with this."

And, lo and behold, Magic Meryl did, too,

and then I got the call from Steven

and he said he was going to suit me up and put me in again, so...

And have you ever come close to working with Meryl Streep before?

Not a whit. Actually, I was officially... Thank you.

Oh, I have to say the title of the movie first.

-I was officially a producer of Mamma Mia!

-Oh, yes!

-How about that? Thank you.

-APPLAUSE

-No, no, no. No.

-Mama Mia! 2 on the way.

-Yes, it's coming.

And I tried... I actually tried out for the role...

I wanted to hire myself,

but my singing voice would have scared the children, so...

But, no, this was the first time that I got to call her,

-appear in a cohort.

-Wow!

It's hard to get used to working with Meryl,

because she has these trumpet players

that come on to the set just before she does.

HE TOOTS A FANFARE

"Ladies and gentlemen, Meryl Streep. Please do not look her in the eye."

She comes in and.... I'm ragging on her.

She's great fun and a magnificent person to work with.

But the story about The Washington Post,

tell the people about who you play.

I play Ben Bradlee and she plays Katharine Graham

of The Washington Post of All The President's Men fame -

-Nixon and Watergate.

-Hm-mm.

This actually happened prior to that,

when it was the old New York Post, it was...

The Pentagon Papers, the top-secret report on America's

involvement in the Vietnam War,

is printed by the New York Times for three days,

and, as competitors, we want to be able to report

the same story as well but we don't have the Pentagon Papers.

While we get our sources,

the Justice Department in the Richard Nixon White House

shuts down the New York Times from printing any more about this story,

so for us to get them and to write them up and to print them ourselves

risked Katharine Graham losing the newspaper,

myself being thrown in jail,

as literally for seditious acts against the state.

And it is really chilling, cos you used the real Nixon tapes.

Oh, our movie stars as Richard Nixon...Richard Nixon,

and he is fantastic!

He's great.

But the thing about working with Steven is...

Much of this deals with old-fashioned telephones.

No-one can capture the suspicion or the suspense of either a phone call

being made or a phone call being waited upon,

so there's an awful lot of these

fabulously dynamic scenes in the movie.

Hello?

These are kind of like old-fashioned pay phones, you know, coin boxes.

LAUGHTER

Cher-king! Cher-king! Cher-king! Cher-king!

DIALLING NUMBERS NOISE

Goes on for ever, and you are on the edge of your seat -

"Make the call! Please make the phone call!"

That's what Steven Spielberg can do like nobody else.

Listen, we've got a clip.

-This is your character, Ben Bradlee, presenting your dilemma...

-Oh!

..to the publisher, Katharine Graham.

So can I ask you a hypothetical question?

Oh, dear, I don't like hypothetical questions.

Well, I don't think you're going to like the real one, either.

Do you have the Papers?

Not yet.

Oh, gosh. Oh, gosh.

Because you know the-the position that would put me in. You know...

We have language in the prospectus...

Yeah, I know, I know that the bankers can change their mind

and I know what is at stake.

You know, the only couple I knew that both Kennedy

and LBJ both wanted to socialise with was you and your husband,

and you own the damn paper.

That's the way things worked.

Politicians and the press, they trusted each other, so they could go

to the same dinner party and drink cocktails and tell jokes

while there was a war raging in Vietnam...

Ben, I don't know what we're talking about. I'm not protecting Lyndon...

No, you got his former Secretary Of Defense, Robert McNamara,

the man who commissioned the study...

I'm not protecting him, I'm not protecting any of them,

I'm protecting the paper.

You know what was real funny about that?

If I may say...

Um...

In the United States, I grew up saying "Viet-narm"

cos on the West Coast, we said, "Viet-narm, Viet-narm, Viet-narm,"

and Ben Bradlee called it "Viet-nam" and it was often...

I said, "Listen, while there was a war going on in Viet...NAM..."

I had to retrain myself, my vocalisation.

And this is... We were counting up.

I think it's about the seventh or eighth real person you've played.

-Oh, yeah, I have.

-If the people are still alive,

do you like to meet them, do you seek them out?

Yes, and in fact, I say to them,

I've said this to Richard Phillips and I said it to Charlie Wilson,

Jim Lovell, I said, "Now, look, I'm playing you.

"So, for good or for bad, I'm you,

"and you're going to get that for a long time - I'm you, I'm you.

"Deal with it.

"Now, as you, I'm going to say things you never said,

"I'm going to go places you never were,

"I'm going to do things you never did.

"That being the case, I'd like to be as authentic as possible."

LAUGHTER

And the rest is trading cards.

And when you meet them, are you just looking for their blessing,

or do you kind of absorb something, do you get something out of it?

I do want to know what they have to say about it,

cos they've always read the screenplay and I want to say,

"If you think anything is actually horse cock in this,

"let me know, because..."

What did I just say?!

LAUGHTER

We all heard you.

"If there's some nonsense in this, please..."

I didn't know that was an expression!

Once again, we've got "he delivers"

and you have what I just said as well.

It's all been mine, right here on your top-notch show.

You want to know if they have any problems

because there's things that just would never happen,

you want to be right and authentic, but really what I'm looking for

is a tic, a gesture, a posture, a way to stand, a turn of phrase

that I could turn into my own and reflect them somehow.

Cos it's inevitable, ladies and gentlemen,

we will be queuing up to see the Anthony Joshua Story.

So when the biopic is made, who would you like to play you?

-Tom Hanks.

-Yeah!

LAUGHTER

-Let me tell you, let me tell you...

-Get some tanning on!

I will say things you never said.

I will do things you never did.

-I will go places you've never been.

-You will go places I never went!

That said, I'm going to be you.

What's interesting is, the news of today, all the fake news

and everything, and then what you just starred in.

What's the feedback of the times, cos you brought a film...

Actually, they... A lot of people are saying that,

"Well, you obviously made this about current events,

"you obviously changed things around and steered it towards 2017."

The truth is, we didn't change a thing!

All we did was reflect the historic record

and it just so happens to be ripped right out of today's headlines.

Not just about politics and the President and the free press

but also gender issues and equality in the workplace, what have you.

But then what's so odd is that it's so...

As you say, it reflects what's going on, and yet ironically,

is it true the White House have asked

for a private screening of this?

Well, I think that's... They do that.

I think anybody who is president can call up and say,

"Send me the movie." Whether they watch it or not I don't know.

-Leave a note in there, in the DVD.

-Yeah!

-LAUGHTER

-What did I say?

-"Screw you!"

-Shoot a new scene!

-Shoot a whole new scene!

You and Meryl, just going...

I've got to make a phone call.

I've got to get this in the works. It's going to take a while.

Now, Maisie's latest film will appeal to children

and grown-ups everywhere. Early Man.

It's the latest work from Nick Park and Aardman Studios.

It opens on the 26th of January, and it's a really sweet, funny story.

So tell us about it and who you are.

So it's a pre-historic comedy

about a tribe who is run,

head up by a character called Dug,

who is played by Eddie Redmayne,

around the time that the Stone Age is being taken over

by the Bronze Age, and I play a character called Goona,

who basically helps the tribe win back their home.

Cos it's all based around football?

Yeah, so they have a football match between the Bronze Age

and the Stone Age and my character is from the Bronze Age

and she's not allowed to play on the sacred turf because she's a woman,

so she helps the tribe win this football match

on the condition that she gets to play, too.

Jeez, sounds like The Post.

Very similar concept. Very similar.

-It's as tense. It's as tense.

-No pay phones.

And what happened? You did loads of your voice at one stage, you...

So I started in 2016 and then finished the end of last year,

and I just had maybe seven or eight sessions

over a course of, like, months between,

and I'd completely forgotten after my first session

that I, er...

I was part of the film

and I got braces put on so I could sort out my wonky teeth,

and I went back and I was...recording my dialogue

and I had this little speech impediment that I hadn't noticed,

and when I went back the time after, they were like,

"We're going to have re-record absolutely everything

"that you've just done because you sound strange."

Cos you've talked to us before, Tom, about that repetition.

It's the hardest... Honestly, it's gruelling work,

cos you can't move off the microphone,

you have to stay right there... Let's play a game.

What was one of the most nondescript lines your character had?

-Nondescript? Um...

-Well, just like, you know.

-Um...

"Come on, boys, let me play," or something.

Yeah, great, we'll go with that.

Now I want you, for all of the audience,

to wring as many different meanings out of,

"Come on, boys, let me play," as possible

-and I will tell you when we're finished.

-OK.

-Is that what they'll do?

-That's what recording it is.

A lot of the time, they're not sure

whether it's going to be right or not until they get to the animating

and figuring out how they're going to animate a body around this voice,

so there's not a lot of pay-off until you watch the film complete.

-You find out they used the third version that you did.

-Exactly.

-Not 417.

-Yeah.

-You go in...

-DESPERATELY:

-"Come on, boys, let me play!"

-DISTRAUGHT:

-"Come on, boys, let me play!"

-CRYING:

-"Come on, boys! Let me play!"

-BAWLING:

-"Come on, boys! Let me play!"

And they're like, "Hm."

They press... Are they in the booth where they press the talkback?

Nick likes to be in the booth.

"Can you...can you do it

"as though you're having a nervous breakdown?"

"I am having a nervous breakdown!"

"I guess I just did."

"Yeah, that was great.

"We're going to send a fellow in with some needle-nose pliers

"to remove your braces, cos we're just...just not getting it."

-It's very, very hard work.

-It's tedious but it was great fun.

I'd love to do more.

She's selling the movie.

They save, for the end, your grunts and things,

like, in your action sequences.

But that's my favourite, I enjoy doing that.

They do that at the very end of the day.

-Is that like in music, like, ad-libs?

-Yeah, yeah!

Well, no, it's a long list and it says, "Grunt effect,"

and you sit there going, "Oof! Urgh! Argh!"

HE GRUNTS

And you just do as many as you can.

It was a football match as well, so there's a lot of, "Urgh!"

-Yeah, exactly.

-Very good!

-I believed it.

-I believed it.

-I'll tell you what,

we can have a listen and a watch now.

This is your character, Goona,

helping Dug, played by Eddie Redmayne,

-to steal some footballs.

-Yes.

-Who is that?

-THEY GASP

Scarper!

Stop! Thieves!

-This way!

-WHISTLE

Ooh-ooh-ooh! Oh!

They went that way!

-KNIGHTS: Huh?

-No! That way!

-Oh!

BUGLE BLARES

Give me those, quick.

Ow!

-You're really good!

-Thanks.

I do a lot of practice.

Wah!

Oh, marvellous work!

And what makes it all so special

is that, you know, they're real, it's 3D.

Now, I don't know if you know this,

Aardman have very kindly lent us Goona.

-SHE GASPS

-There she is.

-This is real Goona.

-That's actually what they pose?

-Yeah, this is Goona.

There she is. Look at her. I like the jaunty hand on the hip.

"I'm good at football but I'm a woman."

LAUGHTER

HE GIGGLES

Isn't that...?

-Oh, and it is made of...

-Plasticine. Indeed.

I think we actually have something for you also.

A GIFT FOR ME?!

-From the Aardman people.

-Really?

-Just wait there. Just two seconds.

-OK.

-Did you bring Graham anything?

-We brought this together.

-LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE

-This is...

Oh, my God!

How cool is that?! Thank you so much. Wow!

That's amazing!

-Oh, my God!

-That is so good.

So now you can be part of the gang.

I look younger here though. Don't I look younger?

I look about 47.

It's mostly the size of the feet...

That's genius! Do I get to keep this?

-Absolutely.

-OK, show's over. Bye!

That's fantastic. Thank you so, so much.

APPLAUSE That's brilliant!

Now, this is a huge year for Anthony Joshua

because by the end of 2018, the plan is

you will be the first man to unify all four belts

and become the undisputed champion of the world.

-Potentially.

-That's the plan.

-That's the plan.

-OK.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

But you've got two belts already.

-You've got three?

-Three.

-Hang on.

-There's five.

-Oh, there's five.

OK, so you've got three, so you need these extra two

-and they're going to happen this year.

-We're working on it.

Hopefully, you are going to announce a fight soon, I think.

-So who's the first one with?

-It was either out of the two belt holders.

-So let's say there's A, B, C, D, E.

-OK.

-So on and so forth.

So I've got three of them, there's two more left.

One's in America, one's in New Zealand,

so I was looking at both options.

America would have been phenomenal

cos, you know, when I'm walking down the street,

the lads are like, "Listen, mate, I need a reason to get to Vegas,

"when are you going out there to fight?"

So America would have been amazing, but we've had some difficulties,

so we're looking to bring the other guy, Joseph Parker,

who's a tidy champion. There he is there.

He has one of the other belts.

-Can I just say...

-Yeah, of course.

..that looks like it's going to be quite an easy fight.

I definitely hope so.

But you know what it is?

He looks like king of pies!

What's his nickname? Shall we give him a nickname?

Pie. The Pie.

-No, I can't underestimate anyone.

-No, seriously,

he must be a world-class athlete but he doesn't look like one, does he?

You can't underestimate. You know the thing is with boxing, I think,

you know, the things that you lack you can make up for

in power in the heavyweight division, and there's not...

Like, there's not one heavyweight

that hasn't gone without getting dropped in their whole career

and that's what I realise, is that a lot of fighters

have lost their titles through underestimating other athletes.

Like, for instance, Lennox Lewis. He was filming,

I think, Ocean's Eleven and he lost his title cos he wasn't focused,

and no heavyweight champion is one heavyweight champion of the world.

They're all two-time heavyweight champion, three-time,

because of the last thing they lose is the power in their punch.

So I can't... Even though he looks like the pie eater...

..he's probably packing a wallop as well, so I'm going to be focused,

-I'm in training camp now.

-You know his secret weapon?

Armpit hair. Look at that.

Look at that! Looks like

he's got cats under his arms!

I'm going to put that in the contract. Shave those armpits, man.

Or you can buy my Lynx can at Asda, Tesco...

LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE

I'm joking!

OK. So, they peel him off the floor, they roll him up like a carpet

and send him back to New Zealand. Who's the American guy then?

-Who's the next one you have to beat?

-He is Deontay Wilder.

He's got a big mouth. Here he is. As you can see, look at that.

Can I just say?

This is going to be harder.

LAUGHTER

Yeah, I think you're doing them in the right order.

But it's interesting.

So this is the plan next and this is when the guys where I grew up

can get to Vegas and have a good time

and watch a bit of boxing as well,

and this will be the fight that makes history.

But it's interesting because let's say I've done the hard work,

so I've managed to keep the four belts,

and I've got to put everything on the line to bring them back home,

-so it's a real tough one.

-Yeah, because, what's the story?

So you go into the match with four belts.

Does he then have five if he beats you?

-Then he, he creates history.

-Oh, my God!

-This is the situation we're in.

AUDIENCE GASPS

Oh. Good noise, everyone. Very good. That was good.

-But that is... That's...

-It will be in cinemas soon.

-That is a huge...

-Tom.

-Yeah. Yeah.

Stay away from making movies prior to the fight!

LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE

-But that's it, that's it.

-That is...

I imagine you'll be quite nervous that evening, yeah.

That's a lot. A lot! But you're also...

You're doing the fighting, you're preparing for all of that,

but you're also doing some promoting now as well, which is unusual, isn't

-it, for people when they're still boxing to do promotion?

-It's true.

I've always have the mind-set... I don't know.

I've always understood that athletes kind of come to the end

of their careers and they say, "OK, I'm starting a management company,

"I want to guide younger athletes,"

because I think it's the natural transition from athlete

to what I'm going to do in retirement, but I always thought

it's always good to be two steps ahead of the game

and kind of use the momentum when I'm competing

to kind of guide and help athletes. So, like,

I grew up in Watford, moved to London,

so I'm a proud sponsor of my gym where I grew up,

so all the kids there, I support them,

and now I've got two of my good friends

who are with the management company,

and Lawrence Okolie, Joshua Buatsi, who are fighting Feb 3rd,

and it's kind of guiding them, giving them the best advice.

And not only advice, they can bounce ideas off me as well.

It's just like an organic relationship

and I know that sometimes people want to see

if the grass is greener and, as I said, come to me for advice,

it's no problem, I know how the game goes

and if you ever want advice on where to go next,

-we can always guide you onto that as well.

-Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Boxing now is, like, rock and roll, I mean, everybody flocks to it,

but you've also mixed with royalty, Prince Harry himself.

He asked you to take part in his Radio 4 programme?

There's a picture.

He asked me to take part in his Radio 4 programme.

-It was an honour, you know?

-Yeah.

Was that before or after you hit him?

Looks like he's recovering from a blow there.

That's me smiling at the six security guards watching me as well!

HE GROWLS

-No, but a real humble guy, really cool guy.

-You going to the wedding?

I would love to, you know, and big respect to Harry, you know.

-He took one of the sisters.

-LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE

He took one of the sisters! So big respect to him.

And I would love to, you know. I'd love to.

Be handing out some Jamaican rum.

-Behind the bar.

-You go to the afters, the afters, the disco, yeah.

See if she's got any sisters, aunties, cousins.

I'm single!

Cos fighting...

You've been in so many movies, you must have done umpteen fights.

Oh, dear. I-I... No. Not one.

-You've done some.

-He ran. He ran.

-I ran.

-LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE

Yeah, but I run fast.

-Very fast.

-I run fast.

No, when it comes down to fight scenes, I get cast as the pie eater.

I did have one. I got beat up by Paul Bettany in The Da Vinci Code

and it was a moment where... We had rehearsed it a little bit

and in movie fights, everybody treats it like it's a real fight.

-Serious?

-Everybody, "OK, are you ready?" "I'm ready."

And you know, you miss each other like that. It's like that.

But Paul came rushing in and I met him

and what had to happen, he was supposed to knock me down

against a desk and then I landed on the ground.

-And the way it sounded was...

-HE GRUNTS

-HE BLOWS A RASPBERRY WHISPERS:

-Because I farted.

When I hit the floor...I farted,

so that's why somebody else gets to play. I...

I don't think that's happened to me.

Does that ever happen in the middle of the ring?

But remember, you do things that don't actually happen...

Yeah, Joseph Parker does. HE GROANS

-Maisie, you had started in the show so young, at 12.

-Yeah.

So did you have to do...?

-They obviously had to train you to do all your fight scenes.

-Yeah.

My character was also learning, so as my character learned, I learned.

She wasn't, like, amazing from the first episode,

like, she wasn't supposed to know what she was doing,

so it was nice that as the seasons went on, I learnt more and more.

Yeah, cos now you're proper kick-ass.

When we're fake punching at each other, yeah, but not in real life.

Although I'd never underestimate, like, your opponent, you know.

LAUGHTER

-Do you learn the head whip as well?

-Yeah.

Throw a punch right there and I'll show you. Boom!

Ooh, it's good. HE BLOWS A RASPBERRY

Oh! LAUGHTER

You sell it after the fact.

And you get fans wanting a really specific thing from you.

Yeah, it's a little odd. So my character on the show,

-she has a list of people that she wants to kill.

-You're crazy?

Well, no, they're all justified for sure.

And she has a list and she recites the names

and she's been through a lot of trauma, a bit of a back story,

and it's what keeps her going and it's what keeps her fighting,

even though she's lost both of her parents.

So a lot of people come up to me in the street

-and they want me to recite the names but then add their name.

-Oh!

-I would actually like that as well.

-LAUGHTER

-Do you know the names?

-I do, yeah.

-There's a lot of them. Yeah.

-Yeah. You speak quite quickly.

Which camera? Which camera should she...? Yeah, there we go.

Have we got some tension music or anything?

DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS Here we go, here we go. OK.

Off you go. Off you go.

Joffrey. Cersei.

Ilyn Payne. The Mountain.

Beric Dondarrian. Thoros of Myr.

The Red Woman.

Tom Hanks.

TOM SPLUTTERS LAUGHTER

Anthony Joshua.

-Graham Norton.

-Yay!

You was waiting for that. You was waiting!

Please kill me!

Very quickly, Anthony, this match isn't set yet,

-but are you in training now?

-Yeah.

-So are you still doing this thing?

You posted this video

and it's a training technique I've never seen before.

Is this a genuine training technique?

LAUGHTER

Do you know what it is, right?

This is...

-A cat toy?

-This is a cat toy, yeah!

All products sold in Asda, Tesco... I'm joking! I'm joking!

It's just made from a normal cap, elastic string and a tennis ball.

-Boxing's like that, I swear to you, it's so grassroots.

-Market this.

This is... It's the exciting game that everybody loves to play!

It's punch ball. Yes, punch ball. Hours of fun...

Quite easy to make. Quite easy to make.

But do you know what it is? That is the reality we live in,

because that was about the 1,000th video that I had done

that looked good. I'm not good at this. I'm not good at it!

Can we go back to it? Just see how marvellous you are.

You are really good in the video.

-Can we see the video again? Here we go.

-You nail this bad boy.

Look at that.

The ball takes some beating!

There's a lot of editing in this!

Does this mean you will be able to defeat any tennis ball?

It is much harder than it looks cos I tried it this afternoon. Try it.

I'm good at that, thank you very much. This is the host...

LAUGHTER

That's why they pay me.

Cos I can do this shit.

I tried this this afternoon, cos that does not look hard, does it?

-That does not look hard.

-No.

-Let's see.

Do you throw it up and hit it, or what you do?

However you feel comfortable, there's no right or wrong technique,

but just keep it away from your face.

-Keep it going.

-Oh! That's quite good!

That's quite good! Oh, oh, oh! Oh!

APPLAUSE

Missed me by that much.

If you got it on the right camera, I took it right in the face.

-Right, quickly, it's music time.

-Does that not look like fun?

-It is fun, yeah!

-We have one for everybody in the audience.

Ooh, you're chasing Oprah, aren't you?

You get a punch ball, you get a punch ball, you get a punch ball.

APPLAUSE OK, it is music time.

This Swedish folk band are one of my favourite artists at the moment.

They were nominated for Best International Group at the Brits

and last year, they stormed the stage at Glastonbury.

Here performing It's A Shame, it is First Aid Kit!

CHEERING

# Lately

# I've been thinking about the past

# How there is no holding back

# No point in wasting sorrow

# On things that won't be here tomorrow

# But you and I

# Well, we don't need to speak

# It's a secret that we keep

# Out of view and out of sight

# Just say when and we'll say good night

# Tell me it's OK

# To live life this way

# Sometimes I want you to stay

# I know it's a shame

# Shame

# Shame

# Now I

# Spend so much of my time

# Going out of my mind

# Trying so hard to be of use

# But what you cannot gain, you lose

# In LA

# The sun's almost too bright

# I cannot get it right

# The emptiness I feel

# And now none of it seems real

# Tell me it's all right

# If I just spend the night

# Sometimes I just can't bear to walk away

# I know it's a shame

# Shame

# Shame

# Tell me it's OK

# If I ask you to stay

# Sometimes the night cuts through me like a knife

# I know it's a shame

# I know it's a shame

# I know it's a shame

# Shame

# Shame

# Shame. #

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Oh, First Aid Kit! Great job, ladies! Come on over, do.

Very good.

-Hello. Are you Klara or Johanna?

-Johanna.

-Johanna. Johanna.

Klara. Hi, come in, sit down.

-Thank you.

-This is Johanna and Klara. Anthony, Maisie, Tom.

-Gang's all here.

-What a pleasure.

-Tom.

-Hi, I'm Klara.

-Nice to meet you.

-Lovely to meet you.

Very, very good. Thank you so much. That sounded fantastic.

-Drink your champagne, do. You've earnt it.

-Why not?

-Yes.

-Cheers.

It's A Shame is off the new album, Ruins,

and that's out next Friday, isn't it, the 19th?

-Mm-hm.

-Yes. So what's the story?

-Have you moved to LA, no?

-No.

-No.

-No.

-But you made this record in LA?

-No.

-No.

-Oh.

-Have you ever been to LA?

-Yes!

We're back on track, we're back on track.

-We wrote the record in LA.

-I knew there was some connection, didn't I?

I'm not just making it up.

But now, is it true you're not a fan of LA?

No...we love LA. We just, um...

LAUGHTER They hate it.

Well, the thing was, we had this trip planned, we were going to go,

right, and it was very exciting and then,

my relationship ended just before going there.

-Oh.

-So I was not in a great state when we came there.

-I feel bad now that I brought it up.

-Oh, no, it's OK.

You're all good again, yeah. You got a record out of it, who cares?

-That's WAY more important than a relationship.

-Yeah.

Are you greeted at the airport with that question?

You know, "Did you just broke up with somebody?

"Welcome to Los Angeles."

I would mention your tour, but there's no need,

-it's sold out already.

-Wow.

-Yeah. That's amazing.

Congratulations. Are you going to add extra dates or anything?

-Well, we'll be back in the summer.

-Yeah.

-Festivals.

Oh, OK. You do the festivals and all those sorts of things.

-Yes.

-Excellent. I love the music.

-Thank you.

-Good luck with the tour.

Thank you so much for doing that. First Aid Kit, everybody.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

OK. That's nearly it,

but we do have time for a visit to the big red chair.

Yes, who's there? Hello!

-Hello.

-Hi, what's your name?

-I'm Katie.

-Katie. Lovely.

-Where are you from, Katie?

-I'm from Guildford.

-Guildford.

She's from Guildford, it's a lovely part of the world. Commuter belt.

-It's no LA.

-No, it's not, no. She's happy.

Um, so what do you do in Guildford?

-Well, I actually work in London.

-Oh, right. You commute.

See, I told you it was a commuter belt. What do you do in London?

I work in foetal medicine at St George's Hospital.

Wow. Proper, serious job. Wow! Off you go with your story.

OK, it was back in 2000, 2001,

I was lucky enough to be on a sailing holiday in the Greek islands

and we dropped in on a harbour called Fiscardo on Kefalonia

and it's around about the time

when Captain Corelli's Mandolin was being filmed

and rumour was that Tom Hanks was playing the lead.

As I know now, it's not true, but we had decided to eat at a taverna

and because we'd had quite a few drinks on board,

the crew, well, not the crew, but friends and family that I was with,

they ended up going off down to the taverna where we'd booked

and I cleared up the boat and I came on afterwards.

I was walking towards the other tavernas on the quayside

and somebody caught my eye, like, really caught my eye,

and I thought, "Oh, I know that person..."

LAUGHTER

It wasn't you, was it?

Well, I actually have been to Fiscardo in Kefalonia and I was

there around the time they were making Captain Corelli's Mandolin.

-No, you weren't! No, you weren't!

-It's very possible.

-I want to hear the rest of the story!

-No, you're making that up.

I want to know what happens next.

-Kefalonia is right across from Ithaca.

-You are making that up.

I have been to... I have been sitting in a taverna

in Kefalonia, in Fiscardo many, many times.

-Shall we see if it was you?

-Well...

Is she still alive?

I don't know! Can we mend her? Can be rebuild her?

OK, let's get her back. OK. So, cut to the chase.

-Was it Tom Hanks?

-Yes!

-Oh, my God!

That was a short story, she built it long.

-That's amazing!

-Yeah, yeah.

-Wow!

-Oh, but it's fabulous.

-That's incredible.

-Greece is fantastic.

Poor story but Greece, lovely. OK, shall we try one more? One more.

One more. This is the charm. This is the charm. Hello.

-Hello.

-Hi. What's your name?

-Lisa.

Lisa. Lovely, Lisa. And what do you do?

-I work in marketing, financial services.

-Ooh! OK, I am no wiser.

Off you go with your story.

OK, it's about 20 years ago, I'd been on the pill for a little while,

decided it was time for a change, wanted to try out the cap...

LAUGHTER

-I love this story!

-You are not... You are not...

I love this story!

OK, so you're off the pill, you're trying the cap, why not?

Ring the changes.

OK, so, family planning clinic, met this very lovely nurse

who demonstrated to me pictorially how to use the cap,

-how to insert it, make sure it was comfortable, etc.

-Yeah, of course.

And then handed it to me and said, "OK, now you need to try."

Told me to take off my bottom half

and I got into the squat position, which the pictures had suggested.

She then said she needed to pop out and she'd be back

in five minutes when I could ask any questions.

So I got down to the job,

I was struggling somewhat with this cap,

to get it in, to get it in the right position, at which point

I heard a very sharp, sudden cough and looked up to see the whole

waiting room staring in at me where she had not close the door properly.

AUDIENCE GROANS

You can walk!

-Thank you.

-Very good story!

Beautiful! Beautiful! Mwah! Mwah!

Well done, everybody.

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

you can contact us via our website at this address.

That is it for tonight.

Please say a huge thank you to all of my guests -

First Aid Kit. CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Anthony Joshua! CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Maisie Williams! CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

And Mr Tom Hanks! CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Join me next week with singer-songwriter Sigrid,

50 Shades' Jamie Dornan, Oscar-nominated Liam Neeson

and the great Dame Helen Mirren. I'll see you then.

Good night, everybody, bye-bye!

CHEERING