Episode 15 The Graham Norton Show

Good evening. My name is Tom Cruise and you are watching The Graham Norton Show.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Oh!

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APPLAUSE DROWNS SPEECH

Too much. Hello, everybody. Hello, and welcome.

We are very excited, yes, Tom Cruise is here!

WILD CHEERING

Back there. Yeah, Tom is taking a break from filming

Mission: Impossible 6 to come along with some of his costars for a chat.

Of course, in the films, Tom's elite band of secret agents,

you know, they take on jobs that seem utterly impossible.

Utterly impossible, like, I don't know,

persuading a Ukip leader to resign.

That kind of thing.

Beating Ant & Dec at the National Television Awards.

That sort of thing.

And mind you, sometimes the impossible can happen.

Can you believe it -

Donald Trump has been the American president for a WHOLE year?

BOOING

It seems longer, doesn't it? Were there more months in this last year?

Were there extra months?

It is also Donald Trump's 13th wedding anniversary.

13 years!

Unlucky for some. LAUGHTER

It certainly is for Melania.

Here are the happy couple.

HE LAUGHS

Oh! That's just lovely.

Now, the traditional gift for a 13th wedding anniversary is lace.

Mm-hm. I think you can tell what Melania is thinking,

"Please, God, a tablecloth, not lingerie."

On the subject of happy couples,

we must say congratulations to Princess Eugenie,

who got engaged this week. It is a good thing.

APPLAUSE It's happy news.

Yay!

Her boyfriend, Jack, proposed to her while they were on holiday.

Doesn't really narrow it down.

Now, it's the... LAUGHTER

"Is this a holiday?" "Yeah, yeah, this is a holiday."

Though, to be fair, it is the third most exciting piece

of Royal news since Harry's engagement

and Prince William shaving his head.

Now, I think it looks great. No, it looks good!

You know, his kids can have fun painting it in time for Easter.

LAUGHTER

I believe, I believe that's called a number one all over.

That's what that's called, which, coincidentally,

was what Donald Trump wanted for a anniversary present.

LAUGHTER AND GROANS It's clever, it's clever.

APPLAUSE Let's get some guests on.

Later, we will have music and chat from chart-topping Paloma Faith!

But first, he is one of our most successful comic exports with

cult hits Spaced, Shaun Of The Dead and Hot Fuzz.

Now he is Hollywood's hottest geek.

Please welcome Simon Pegg, everybody!

APPLAUSE There he is. Hello.

Look at this suit.

Yes, you look lovely.

Yeah!

From the Man Of Steel to The Man From UNCLE,

he is the hottest thing to come out of Jersey.

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it is Henry Cavill.

There he is. Hello. So nice to see you. Have a seat there.

You know him, you know him.

This Swedish actress is fast making a name for herself in films

such as Girl On The Train, Florence Foster Jenkins

and The Greatest Showman.

It is a first-time welcome to Rebecca Ferguson.

Hello! Hi, lovely to see you.

Welcome. Have a seat.

And he's a true Hollywood great and a man on a mission.

Please welcome our favourite top gun, it is Mr Tom Cruise!

MUSIC: Mission: Impossible Theme

So good to see you.

Oh, look at that. Very nice, very nice.

Professional, professional, pretending to not know them, it's all good.

So, this is weird, we've never had this before where people

are actually making the movie that they have come on to talk about.

Yeah, we shot all day too.

-Were you on set today?

-We've been on today.

Yeah, all of us were on set filming.

What were you doing, running or talking?

Well, personally, I injected a man in the neck with a tranquilliser,

put him in prison and got kicked in the head by Henry and that was...

-..my day.

-Yes.

-That sounds like more than a day.

So, Henry, we know what you did, you kicked him in the head.

-I kicked him in the head.

-Very good.

-That wasn't on camera.

-No, no.

-That wasn't for the film.

-That was in the trailers.

-And, Rebecca, were you on today?

-I...

Oh, yes, I actually... I'm going to stand up.

-I had this pose today with a semi-automatic rifle.

-Yes.

With my belly like this.

-Shooting bad guys.

-Six months pregnant.

I'm glad you said that, because I wasn't going to say anything. I...

LAUGHTER That's what gets men in trouble.

-You are six months pregnant?

-I am. I don't know what happened.

I could guess.

Yes, six months ago. Yes.

What were you doing today?

I was just shooting guns and...

-Having fun.

-Having fun.

-Stuff.

-Stuff.

-Shooting gun then...

-And where are you? Are you nearly finished?

-SIMON:

-I don't know!

-Maybe.

Are we?

-We hope so.

-You been filming since when? Last...last...?

-Last year.

-Last March or April.

-Yeah, yeah, last year.

-Yeah.

So, you must be nearly finished.

It's because I broke my ankle. We had to shut down.

-Well, now.

-We are about six weeks away.

-The ankle. This is...

So, are you fully recovered. Are you well?

-It's still broken, but I'm doing well.

-No, you're kidding.

-Is it still broken?

-Yeah!

I mean, it's not fully healed, but we are shooting.

But that's nuts. Cos we've seen the picture. You're running and doing all the stuff again.

I know, I know. We have a release date, so we've got to keep going.

Yeah, otherwise we'll end up going live on the night.

It's much better, it's much better.

You probably...

I'm sure you all saw the footage... It was in the papers

-and things online of the accident.

-Yes.

And I think we all kind of thought,

"How did you break an ankle doing that?"

Cos it looked like you should've broken your jaw or something...

I know, everyone said that was the stunt...

I mean, I'm going to run across and hit the side of the wall

and then pull myself over.

That wasn't the mistake.

-So, you were always meant to not land on the roof?

-Yes. Always.

-OK. So, what you've done is you've brought us some footage...

-Mm-hm.

I think is so cool to see this from the different angles.

I can't watch this. I haven't watched it yet.

-REBECCA:

-Is it in slow-motion?

Most of it is fine, there's one clip, but I will warn you,

-it is not for the squeamish.

-Gross.

So you see, I'm wearing two wires. They're basically just safety wires

because I go at a full tilt and I'm sprinting as hard as I can

and I hit the side of the wall and that's the stunt.

I hit the side of the wall and then I'm chasing after Henry, actually.

-And...

-All his fault.

All his fault. I blame him.

I hit the side of the wall and then I climb up on the wall

and I'm supposed to run past camera.

OK, we've got... This is the shot from behind you. So this...

You see the speed and the momentum of the run. And it's in London.

-There we go.

-So, it is keeping me up and...

So, here we go. Look at that. Whoa!

EVERYONE GROANS

Now... Good noise, everybody.

But you get my point, that you think, "How did you break a leg?"

-So, let's look at it from the side. REBECCA:

-Oh, no, the slow-motion.

-This is it from the side.

-Oh, no.

No, no. This isn't the bad one. This isn't the bad one, Rebecca.

-So, this is from the side. Here we go.

-We shot it with three cameras.

-Oh, my gosh.

-Here he goes. And boom! AUDIENCE GROANS

Now. Now, we've got a camera which focuses on the foot.

-Now, if you are squeamish...

-Don't watch it.

-Don't watch this.

-Simon still hasn't seen it.

-I...

LAUGHTER

They keep trying to show it to me and I'm like, "No! I can't."

I mean, a bone doesn't pop out or anything,

but is an odd angle for anyone's foot to be at.

Nobody's foot should ever have to do this, ever.

-Yeah, here we go. REBECCA:

-Oh, gosh. I haven't watched it.

He jumps, that speed, that momentum. Here we go.

Now watch that. Watch this.

AUDIENCE GROANS

-REBECCA:

-Do it again.

LAUGHTER

But here, here is why Tom Cruise gets paid the big bucks.

OK? Because this is it from the front angle, OK?

You've just seen what has happened to his foot. Now watch this.

I knew I broke it instantly.

So you are down. Now, anyone else would go, "Well, that's over." No.

Up he gets. Up he gets and he's running.

APPLAUSE That's phenomenal.

-I didn't want to do it again.

-No.

-I didn't want to do it again.

I knew instantly it was broken. And I...

I just... Run past camera, we got the shot, it's in the movie.

That profile shot, both those shots are in the movie. And Henry...

Everybody said when you got up and ran out of shot,

-"Oh, that's so him."

-LAUGHTER

To complete the shot, like, with your foot hanging off,

-"That's so him."

-LAUGHTER

I just went, I said, "Sorry, guys, it's broken.

"Take me to the hospital, it's broken. That's a wrap." Everyone...

..everyone. Crew got on the phone

-and made their vacation arrangements.

-I made a baby.

LAUGHTER

We had six months, at least, I thought.

I told you it was going to be six months. I told you that.

And when this film finally ends, Henry Cavill...

-"Finally ends."

-LAUGHTER

We are going to miss each other.

But, Henry, you are probably not going to miss your face furniture.

You're not fond of the face furniture, are you?

Oh, it's not that I'm not fond of it. It's just that, you know...

-Look at that.

-It's just that if I'm walking past schools,

-people give me funny looks.

-LAUGHTER

It's tough to buy vans.

I can't give children sweets.

Cos you normally do that a lot,

If you hang out in the park long enough, why not?

"Hey, guys, I'm Superman, come get some sweets."

"I'm not a stranger, I'm Superman."

I think he rocks it. Very few men can carry that off.

No, it's very good.

Mind you, you know what's annoying about that?

Is that if Henry Cavill wore a stupid hat,

you would think, "Oh, that stupid hat looks really good on him."

And it's not that. He looks really good.

And they you put it on, it's a stupid hat.

But now, Simon, this is your fourth Mission: Impossible.

-It is, yes.

-So, you've been working with Tom for what, over 10 years now?

12 years, we worked it out yesterday, didn't we? Yeah.

-12 years, this year.

-Oh, wow! So, you know each other very well.

-Pretty well, we've been in the trenches a long time.

-Oh, yeah.

-Yeah.

-So, do you forget that it's Tom Cruise?

Yes and no. You kind of like...

On a day-to-day basis, we are working and we are friends

and it's fun and it's a job.

But when I'm out...when we're out doing press or whatever,

I see Tom become Tom, the Tom people know.

Like I've seen Tom become Tom Cruise, which is...

-LAUGHTER

-..which is amazing.

-What does that mean?

-I don't know.

-Is he Tom Cruise now?

Is this Tom Cruise?

He smiles and... Like when we were shooting in Paris

and we'll be doing a scene and then he'll just go, "Hey, how you doing?"

And that's Tom becoming Tom because people...

He is very, very good with his fans.

And I remember that night in Vienna when we were doing like a recce,

and we're looking around and it took about 10 minutes for 100

people to be around us and you were so good with them.

Just waving and smiling. I'd be punching...

LAUGHTER

-Spitting.

-No, you wouldn't, Simon.

You did it for my sister as well, I think. You just did that thing

where you just kind of become Maverick. Just smile.

LAUGHTER

-That's Tom Cruise right there. There he is.

-There is.

-Yes, that's him.

-I told you he was here.

But here's an odd thing. Because, Rebecca, your mother is...

..is she famous in Sweden? She is famous in Sweden.

Well, no, she is not famous, but she has...

She hung a lot with the kind of avant-garde, cool people, like Abba,

-back in the day.

-Yes, those avant-garde Abba people.

LAUGHTER

They finally went mainstream. I mean they just...they really sold out.

But she worked with Abba, didn't she?

So, what she did was...

-Do know this? This is good trivia.

-No, I didn't know.

No, she did! I think she was dating a man called Ron Spalding

and he took all of their cover images of their LPs.

Actually, she is on one of the covers, which...you apparently have.

I do!

So, we all know this album, don't we, ladies and gentlemen?

Abba. There they are in the back of the car, drinking.

-Is that your mom?

-On the other side.

We turn it around, we turn it around.

-Now, which one of these people is your mother?

-Look at the legs.

Wait, if I do this, can you see the similarities?

-Oh, yes.

-Here we go.

LAUGHTER

Rebecca Ferguson's mother's legs on an Abba album, ladies and gentlemen.

APPLAUSE DROWNS SPEECH

Beautiful.

Oh, and she helped to actually...

Not translate, but she went through all the lyrics in Swedish

and helped rewrite them to English, Waterloo.

-Really?

-So, if there's any mistakes, it's her fault.

It is fair to say, it does make no sense, but...

But bless her for trying. So, listen, the new Mission: Impossible,

it won't be coming out until 26 July,

-but before then, the trailer is being released...?

-The Super Bowl.

-February the...? Is that the fourth?

-Yeah.

-Fourth.

-February 4th, trailer.

The Super Bowl, we are going to have a little 30-second spot

and then it's going to send everyone to the internet

and out in theatres in April.

Wow! And you've just announced the actual title.

Mission: Impossible - Fallout.

-Fallout.

-Fallout.

-Fallout. CHEERS AND APPLAUSE

Fallout.

-OK, so we now know the title.

-Yes.

-Do we know anything else about it?

-No.

Yeah, you know that it's a kind of... It's a...

It really is a story of...

It takes into account all the Mission: Impossibles, really.

And it is a fallout of all the things that we did in the...

-..earlier Mission: Impossibles.

-Ethan, in particular, yeah.

Well, it's kind of the good things that we've done

and they are using it now against us.

-OK.

-So. And Henry is an antagonist.

-The primary antagonist in the film.

-Is that posh for a baddie?

Well, I would say primary, you have the root...

You know, you have Lane, who is the baddie, Sean Harris.

-He's coming back from Rogue Nation.

-Oh, OK.

And we have Michelle Monaghan, Angela Bassett, you know,

Vanessa Kirby, Ving Rhames, of course, is back.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And you are back as Faust.

Yeah, forget about those other people. I'm back again as well.

-And Benji Dunn is back.

-Yes, of course.

Do you have a name, Henry?

-Do I have a name?

-Yes.

-Yes.

-August Walker.

-Ooh! You had to be a villain.

-Very fancy.

-Say it again.

I didn't know was August until about halfway through the movie, though.

I was just referred to as Walker and I saw the chair

and I was like, "Hold on a second. My first name's August?"

LAUGHTER

-And Micky was like, "Yes."

-Chris McQuarrie.

He's the writer, director and kind of creative partner of mine

and it's his second Mission he's directing.

Mission: Impossible, obviously, you pays your money,

you want the big, big stunts.

Now, the last time you were on the show, you were hinting at this big

set piece in this movie that you spent years preparing.

-Yes.

-So, I think you can tell us a bit more about it now, right?

-Now I can tell you a bit more.

-OK.

I spent, really, two years, McQ and I were

talking about a sequence and it is an aerial sequence with helicopter.

I wanted... I've studied, you know, many different films.

So, when I went and I got my helicopter license

and we were flying aerobatics...

Can I just stop you for one second there?

I was surprised you didn't have a helicopter license already.

-I know, I'm sorry.

-It seems so NOT you.

When they were telling me, "And he got his helicopter license,"

I was like, "Really? I'm sure I've seen him flying helicopters before."

-Were you flying without a licence previously?

-Yes.

Not to get you in trouble or anything, but...

-Yes.

-Oh, were you?

-Yeah, yeah.

-So, no wonder you got it quickly.

-I know, I know. Very fast.

-OK, so you get the license.

Yeah, and then we just started really working

on the sequence to see what can we do practical.

I mean, I think, in terms of action,

this is probably the largest practical action film ever shot.

Like, when you look at the films, there's no CGI.

So, we are going through Paris on a motorcycle. It is just full-on.

The cars, you know, we're all doing our own stunts.

And the helicopter sequence is just incredibly...

..exhilarating and very dangerous.

So, there is really only one country that would allow us to do it,

where we had to build special camera rigs for the helicopter.

And so, I got my license

and I just trained up on aerobatics and it is different.

I fly aerobatics in airplanes, but helicopters are very different.

So, we are flying very low, very close to rock faces in a chase.

I'm chasing, you know, Henry in the sequence.

We've got some pictures of it here.

So now, this is... That's you...

Is this the end of the sequence or the beginning?

I think we've got these pictures the wrong way round. I think this is...

No, they are... It's...

I can't tell you that right now. It is part of the sequence.

OK, all right, well, I just think this might be out...

So, there's Henry hanging out of the helicopter.

There's Henry back there, hanging out.

He's not even flying a helicopter. I mean, really.

He had to do it in an armoured helicopter

because we are doing aerobatics. He's...

At least I know my own fate, you know?

He was there at times...

I was literally on his tail, like, a foot off the tail rotor at times.

-He had no idea...

-There were times where I generally thought,

"Oh, OK, this is how it goes."

-You are dedicated.

-At least I get killed by Tom Cruise.

It'll make the papers.

Henry is lucky cos he can actually fly, anyway. So if...

-He can just zoom off that way.

-Yes, of course.

LAUGHTER

APPLAUSE DROWNS SPEECH

So, here you are flying. Now, I'm guessing...

That must be after this next bit because this next picture,

you are on the outside, so someone must be flying the helicopter.

It can't be...

Please tell me you didn't get out of the helicopter

while it was going.

So, that's you, And I mean, that is you, hanging off the helicopter.

But this next picture is -

one, it is just a beautiful picture, but is crazy.

-So, that's you.

-Yes.

-I mean, that's...

AUDIENCE GASPS

I know, right? I can tell by this, you are quite high.

We were on the ground that day.

We're in the ball, hanging underneath.

The rest of the cast.

And because, you know, Tom does all this stuff,

does that mean that you guys have to say yes to everything?

-Fucking hell, yeah.

-LAUGHTER

They want to. They can't wait.

-You can't get these guys out of the stunt room.

-Do you know what?

-You can't.

-Henry is, like, in the helicopter, he was loving it.

You were freezing in that helicopter.

Oh, the helicopter was cold.

It's a New Zealand winter and the doors are open.

You posted a picture on your Instagram of you doing a stunt

which looks very painful.

I think it is you being lowered down a cliff by your nipples.

LAUGHTER

-That was his holiday.

-I don't know how they wrote that into the script.

It's not in the script.

I love the stiff neck and the thumb.

STRAINS: "Yeah, I'm fine!"

It's one of those moments where you are being lowered off this

a 1,800-foot cliff and you're thinking...

You know those moments.

-Yeah, one of those moments.

-One of those moments, as you do.

And you're thinking, "I know I'm perfectly safe

"because the stunt crew is absolutely fantastic.

-"Eastward team is..."

-Trust the harness.

-No, they're really good.

And you trust the harness and they've all triple-checked everything.

But it is still 1,800-foot and you are walking off backwards.

And they are not doing it.

It is so high and the boats at the bottom, in the fjord,

are about this big, that it looks like a painting.

And so you lose all sense of, like, fear

and adrenaline for the height and start thinking,

"If I were to fall, could I kind of like squirrel suit with my jacket..."

LAUGHTER

"..and make it all the way to the water and maybe just skim?"

LAUGHTER You've been in Superman too much.

It has got to you.

Rebecca Ferguson, obviously, you know, with child now

so, that makes stunts harder,

but even when you did the last movie, you seemed quite unsuited.

-I mean, you did suffer from vertigo going into these.

-Oh, yeah.

So, it seems a bizarre thing to say yes to being in one of these films.

Well, I didn't really know what I was saying yes to.

-OK.

-Because I don't really know how these films were made.

So, you know, when I was on the camel in the desert...

We explained it to you.

Very quickly and then the first day of shooting, Tom, what did we do?

-We jumped off of a building.

-Yeah.

-LAUGHTER

First day of shooting.

I think we've got a picture of you.

-That's me swearing and shouting the naughtiest words ever.

-In my ear.

-In your ear.

-She's like, "I'm so sorry. Swear, swear, swear.

"Did I say that? I'm so sorry. I'm just so... I'm just so... Oh..."

The worst words ever.

And then we jump off and he just looks at me

in the Tom Cruise kind of way and he goes, "Welcome to Mission."

LAUGHTER

I don't remember saying that.

I do not remember saying that.

-No way!

-You did.

That is way too cheesy. I would never say that.

-LAUGHTER

-You said it's all of us!

-I remember my special day, too.

-LAUGHTER

Now, normally, ladies and gentlemen, on a show like this,

we would show a clip of Mission: Impossible,

-but you haven't finished the film yet.

-Sorry.

So, we thought we'd make a snatch of one of our own.

Now, one of the most iconic stunts that you do, Tom,

is the running away from something exploding.

-You are very good at it.

-Thank you very much.

We've got some stills. There's running away from a van.

Ooh, that's in the Channel Tunnel there.

-And this is the exploding fish tank.

-Oh, yes.

-There you go.

GRAHAM GASPS Do you know, I've just noticed, that is a very good move.

-I like that.

-Yes, touchdown.

-That's excellent.

-Score.

That is very good.

Presumably timing is key.

Because these are real explosions.

They are real explosions. Key.

That one was particularly very crazy.

Was this the one where no-one properly told you the timing?

Yeah, the guy was over there and he said,

"OK, we're going to go on three."

And he started going, "Three, two, one."

And I said, "Whoa, whoa, whoa. Stop. Stop."

And I'm waiting, we have an explosion that is

going to go over my head.

And I said, "You just said on three."

He said, "Well I meant three." "Well, what does that mean?"

-LAUGHTER

-So I said, "Everyone, just, please..."

It was like two in the morning and they are setting it up

and there is broken... There is glass, just tonnes of water and...

He said, "Well, I'm going to, 'Three, two, one'"

And I said, "Do I go then or do I go on one? Like, when do I go?"

LAUGHTER

"Do I go on one? Are you going to push the button?

"Is it going to explode on one?" It was, you know...

He kind of looked at me like..." I don't know."

-LAUGHTER

-"I'm not sure."

-Around then.

-Around then.

-Just go. Just run.

-"When you hear the explosion, just go."

"Yeah, you really ought to run cos it's very dangerous."

"Yes, it's very dangerous, I would run real fast if I were you."

"If I was you, I wouldn't hang around."

Well, listen, what we've done is we've got a green screen here.

So we are going to raise up a green screen at great speed.

LAUGHTER

APPLAUSE

OK, while we are waiting for that...

..while we're waiting for that, we're going to get some members of

the audience to do this. But in terms of this, Tom,

what we're going to do, they're going to start back there.

They're going to run, OK?

They're going to run to here

and then that's the top of the explosion and they're going to want

to get height and presumably facial expression.

So, in terms of jumping, what's the best way to get height?

-Are they going to land in the mats?

-Yeah, that's the idea.

Well, first of all, watch your ankle on the mat cos...

-LAUGHTER He knows this, he knows this.

-Yes.

OK, let's get some people to do this.

We will get to you. Hang on. Who...? Now...

Who wants to do it?

You want to do it? OK, you can come do it. Come do it.

-What is your name?

-Jamie.

Jamie, lovely. Cheers for Jamie.

-Oop.

-He's not doing well.

-Watch your ankle. Watch your ankle, man.

-Come this way. Come this way.

-Up you go.

-You shouldn't let him do it. He fell off the step!

LAUGHTER

Up you go. So, Tom, tips for Jamie.

What sort of facial expression should he go for?

-Fear?

-Just whatever feels natural. Just...

-The most important thing is don't get blown up.

-Don't get blown up.

-So I'm trying not to get blown up?

-Yeah, that's it. Try not to get blown up.

-I'm escaping.

-You are escaping.

-Yes, escaping.

-But you are brave.

-Yeah.

-You're brave.

-He's brave.

You know, you can't look terrified.

-You are frightened, but you are still brave.

-Yes.

-Frightened but brave. I'm not going to go too high.

-Why?

No, I'll do it for you.

I like that, "I'm not going to go to high."

LAUGHTER

-Do what you feel comfortable.

-So, what's the countdown?

-Is it three, two, one?

-Three, two, one, go.

-OK, so you're going on one. HENRY:

-On three.

-On two.

-Three.

No, one.

-You do it, Simon.

-Three, two, one, go.

OK, here we go. Here we go. Here we go, Jamie.

ALL: So, it's three, two, one, go!

-Ahh!

-APPLAUSE

That was good, Jamie. Excellent.

-Well done, Jamie.

-That was very good.

OK, well done, Jamie.

-Should we see it?

-Yes.

OK, have a seat, have a seat. Let's see it.

Oh, there's Jamie. MUSIC: Mission: Impossible Theme.

He's running, he's running.

Oh! He looked like he was loving it.

Loving life.

Do we have a woman who'd like to do it? Oh, you would like to do it?

OK, here you go. You go. Are you all right in that dress?

-Yeah, it's fine.

-OK, fine.

-What's your name?

-Maddie.

-Maddie, all right, Maddie, up here.

There you go. OK, here comes Maddie. So, you saw Jamie.

You saw Jamie, so it is very important that you just piss all over that.

LAUGHTER

-OK, so, women just do it the same, right, Rebecca?

-Yes, we do.

Absolutely. And think, think up. OK? I want you to think up.

-Elevation, we are looking for elevation.

-And relax you face.

Jamie was like a stone. LAUGHTER

-SIMON:

-One thing, Jamie did when Jamie did it, which you saw in the playback,

was it looked like Jamie did a really big fart.

LAUGHTER

That exploded. Don't do that.

-OK, here goes Maddie, here goes Maddie. REBECCA:

-You can do it.

-And just remember - have fun.

-ALL: Three, two, one, go!

-Ahh!

-APPLAUSE

Oh, that is going to be good.

That's going to be good, Maddie.

Well done. There you go, love. Have a seat. We'll have a look.

-You guys want to shake...?

-OK. No, they don't.

-They are not nice like you.

-Yeah.

-OK, here's Maddie.

MUSIC: Mission: Impossible Theme

Supercool Maddie.

Should we do one more? One more. One more, let's get someone...

You'd like to do it. Oh, you would be so good at it.

Come on. Have a go. Have a go.

-What's your name?

-Evelyn.

-Sorry?

-Evelyn.

-Evelyn.

OK, Evelyn, up you go, Evelyn. Here we go.

We're rooting for you, Evelyn.

So, you are OK? You are fit? You are fit? OK. Right now you are fit.

At the moment, you are OK.

OK, you've seen the others, you've seen the others.

I think the important thing is, particularly, because you look

so beautiful, big face at the end. OK?

So we're looking for height here, Evelyn, height. And then forward.

-REBECCA:

-I'd take my shoes off.

-I know.

-OK?

-Take your shoes off.

-You are good? You are good?

-I'm good.

-OK, lovely.

This is Evelyn, going for it.

LOUD CHEERS AND APPLAUSE Wait, wait, wait.

So, here we go. Three, two, one, go.

Ahh!

Well done, Evelyn!

-You did so good.

-That was amazing.

-You all right?

-I'm fine.

-There we go.

OK, let's have a look.

Good job. Let's watch Evelyn.

MUSIC: Mission: Impossible Theme Here she goes, here she goes!

I fear she may not be Mission: Impossible 7.

It was a lovely day out at the dynamite factory.

Oh, dear. Now, Henry, this is your first film with Tom Cruise,

but it wasn't meant to be.

You were supposed to be in another film with Tom Cruise.

Well, we had the opportunity, yes.

The Man From UNCLE, originally Tom was playing Napoleon Solo.

And I auditioned for Armie Hammer's role, Illya Kuryakin.

And I went to Tom's house in LA and...

Which is very surreal, by the way,

when you're trying to make things work in your career

and you get into a taxi in LA

and you feel like saying, "Take me to Tom Cruise's house."

LAUGHTER

You give an address and you turn up and there's this big

gate everywhere and it's obviously a nice area.

-I imagine it's nice.

-He's done fairly well for himself.

The garden is nice, he keeps it nice, yeah.

-That lawn is cut!

-Yeah.

The hanging baskets, gorgeous.

Yeah, I got to meet Tom then

and we read through some lines with Guy Ritchie in his house

and it was still just very surreal for me thinking,

"I'm sitting here with Guy Ritchie and Tom Cruise

"in Tom Cruise's house. Like, when will I stop sweating?"

LAUGHTER "I'm leaving stains."

-LAUGHTER

-Left a really good impression.

But then you got the Tom Cruise role

and so now you're Man From UNCLE, Mission: Impossible,

two big, big franchises

and you've talked to us before about how close the James Bond thing came.

-Yeah.

-That you were down to the final two.

But I like the thing you did then

when you got your first kind of big pay cheque with your dad.

Oh, yeah. When I got my first big pay cheque.

It had been a few years, I'd been working as an actor

-for a few years...

-How much was it?

-Ha...

-Don't ask him that.

-I'm just joking.

-That's so Swedish.

200 or 300...

..pounds.

So I went back to Jersey with my dad

and I thought I want to treat myself. I haven't actually got myself anything

and we were discussing what to do with it.

And he said, "How about a car?" I was still driving my Peugeot 206.

It was the first car I ever had.

-And I was like, you know, it's time to upgrade.

-Yeah.

-This thing struggles uphill at this stage.

-Yeah.

And went to the local fancy garage and there was

a number of nice cars there and the R8, the Audi R8,

was one that really stood out to me and I thought, "This is a great car."

I was looking at it. And my dad was kind of sort of pausing around this other car and I...

In the really nice section.

And I was like, "What are you doing over there?" And he said, "I'm just looking at this car."

And I was like, "Oh, yeah, wow, this is really nice. Yeah, one day, huh?"

And he went, "Hm."

-LAUGHTER

-And I said, "What do you mean?"

"Hm."

He went, "Well, I mean, I'm sure we can make this work."

And I was like, "It's an Aston Martin DBS, like, you can't just make this work.

"You can't toy with my emotions like that.

"It either can or can't." And he's like, "Yeah, well, you know. Yeah.

"I think it could be a thing, but, you know, think about it.

"Think about what car you want, the two different cars."

And I was like, "I'm not thinking about anything.

"The Aston Martin DBS." And so, that was my second car.

Wow! That's quite a trajectory.

Now I'm thinking, though, does it stay on Jersey,

so your dad gets to drive it all the time?

-I've now forbade him from driving it.

-OK.

A couple of near scrapes.

But, yeah, it does actually stay on Jersey, yes.

But I do like this idea of that, you know, because everyone

struggles and then suddenly, "Ooh, I've got a bit of money.

"What am I going to do with my first big pay cheque?"

Rebecca, do you remember what you did with yours?

I bought a...

God, I wish it were something more cool.

I bought a pair of Dior sunglasses

and then they got stolen the day after, but they left the case.

LAUGHTER

I like, "I bought Aston Martin. I bought some sunglasses."

-But they were really nice.

-MORE LAUGHTER

Tom Cruise, do you remember what you did with your first

kind of cheque where you noticed you had some money in the bank?

Yeah. Yeah.

LAUGHTER

Well, you answered that question.

-Can you say? Is it a terrible thing?

-No, no.

I actually paid for my sister's college education and...

-Oh, that's so him!

-APPLAUSE

I did.

And then the next one, I bought my other sister a car.

-Yeah.

-Your sister a car, not yourself?

-No. My sister.

"My Aston Martin." LAUGHTER

-His dad's Aston Martin.

-Yeah.

Yeah, you should change that to "I bought my dad an Aston Martin."

Because that's actually what happened.

I do feel like I've been set up a little bit.

LAUGHTER

-Simon Pegg, what did you?

-Make it up.

-No, this is true, I bought a second-hand...

-Orphanage.

-A second-hand orphanage.

-LAUGHTER

I kicked all those little shits out...

That's where I park my Aston Martin now.

No, I bought a second-hand Mazda MX5 with my Switch card.

LAUGHTER

It was my first pay cheque for Big Train,

which was a sketch show on BBC TWO and I bought a car

with my Switch card, which was like a little debit card. You remember.

See, I thought you would have bought something kind of more nerdy,

like the Death Star made of Lego or something.

That seemed to be where you'd go shopping.

I did once by a Darth Vader helmet which cost more, but...

-That was slightly later.

-Was it original?

It was one that had been decorated by a graffiti artist.

They did this whole art project called The Vader Project

and they decorated all these Darth Vader helmets and I bought one.

Because that is you. You are a proper...

..you are a proper fan of all of these things.

And now you are every...

..people, nerds are so jealous of you

because you've done the trifecta, haven't you?

Yes, Dr Who, Star Trek and Star Wars, yeah.

You've been in them all.

Yes. I wrote Star Trek as well, which is an added point.

If I was a bit of chocolate, I would eat myself, wouldn't I?

LAUGHTER

And if you are listening to this and kind of thinking,

I don't remember Simon Pegg in Star Wars.

You were in it, you are properly in it. Here you are. That...

You had a character name and everything.

Unkar Plutt. Yeah. He was a junk dealer on the planet Jakku.

And I was wearing that in 50-degree heat.

And I had these big rubber, silicon gauntlets on which

were my fingers.

And when I took them off, I could pour the sweat out.

If you're interested, your sweat is a sort of milky colour.

GROANS TURN TO LAUGHTER

Cos, Henry, you are quite a nerd as well.

I mean, you must have been so geeked to be Superman, to kind of like...

-Yeah, yeah. No, I am a geek.

-Yeah.

-We talk a bit on set about stuff, don't we?

-Yeah, we do.

-Quietly in dark corners.

-We have comic chats.

We're actually... We're... Can I tell this story? We were in...

-REBECCA:

-He doesn't have a chance to answer?

-He didn't say yes.

What's he going to say?

-It's like, "Henry, get in this helicopter. You OK?"

-HE IMITATES HELICOPTER

-SHOUTS:

-"No!"

We were shooting a car chase in Paris and it was me,

Tom, Sean Harris, Ving Rhames and Henry.

You just asked him if he could tell it, you didn't ask me.

-Can I tell this story? You come out all right.

-Oh, yeah.

This is the one... Oh, yeah.

It is a very cramped car, particularly with Ving

and Henry, who are both big guys and me in the middle,

bombing around Paris. And every time we finished the shot, we have

to reset the shot, drive back to the start point so we can do it again.

Henry has had enough of sitting in the cramped car, so he says,

"Can I run back? I'll run back to..."

-Cos you do a bit of running, don't you?

-Yeah, yeah.

So, Henry took off and ran back to position one whereas we...

And we just drove next to him going...

HE HUMS THE SUPERMAN THEME SONG

He was doing the score, we were just driving. He did the whole thing.

The whole way right next to him.

It's one of the coolest moments of my life is having Tom Cruise

do that driving next to you.

You know you've made it.

Right, it is time for music.

This Brit Award-winning songstress is back with a number one album,

The Architect.

Performing Till I'm Done, it is Paloma Faith, everybody.

# I'm a fighter and I made it through

# Solid gold survivor That's my attitude

-# But I didn't know

-I didn't know

-# I didn't know

-I didn't know

# I had to be your hero

# Baby, don't ask me to be strong for you as well

# Pushed off the edge and now I'm back from hell

-# But I didn't know

-I didn't know

-# I didn't know

-I didn't know

# I had to be your hero, mm-mm-mm

-# So give me light

-I'm not built to carry us both

-# So give me light

-Time to rest my weary bones

-# So give me light

-You've got to go your own road

# Help me see

# Just when I thought I'd had enough

# Had no more light and no more love

# It's not over

# It's not over

# I won't save you when I'm weak

# Only got so much left to give

# It's not over

# It's not over

# Till I'm done

# Oh-oh, oh-oh, ooh

# Oh-oh, oh-oh, ooh

# Oh-oh, oh-oh, ooh

-# Till I'm done

-# Oh-oh, oh-oh, ooh

# Oh-oh, oh-oh, ooh

# Oh-oh, oh-oh, ooh

# Till I'm done

# You look at me and see how much I take

# But with this heart of glass I'm about to break

-# But I didn't know

-I didn't know

-# I didn't know

-I didn't know

# I had to be your hero, mm-mm-mm

-# So give me light

-I'm not built to carry us both

-# So give me light

-Time to rest my weary bones

-# So give me light

-You've got to go your own road

# Help me see

# Just when I thought I'd had enough

# Had no more light and no more love

# It's not over

# It's not over

# I won't save you when I'm weak

# Only got so much left to give

# It's not over

# It's not over

# Till I'm done

# Whatcha think you ever did for me before?

# So give me light

# Blocked out the sun and let the moon fall on the floor

# So give me light

# I am empty, ain't got nothing left to give

# So give me light

# And no, you ain't the one I wanna be with

# Just when I thought I'd had enough

# Had no more light and no more love

# It's not over

-# It's not over

-It's not over

# I won't save you when I'm weak

# Only got so much left to give

# It's not over

-# I can't save you

-It's not over

-# Just when I thought I'd had enough

-Ooh!

# Had no more light and no more love

# It's not over

# It's not over

-# I won't save you when I'm weak

-Ooh!

# Only got so much left to give

# It's not over

-# It's not over

-Till I'm done

# Oh-oh, oh-oh, ooh

# Oh-oh, oh-oh, ooh

# Oh-oh, oh-oh, ooh

-# Till I'm done

-Oh-oh, oh-oh, ooh

# Oh-oh, oh-oh, ooh

-# Oh-oh, oh-oh, ooh

-It's not over

# Till I'm done. #

APPLAUSE

Paloma Faith, everybody!

Great job! And the backing singers and the band.

Hello, darling. So lovely to see you.

That was fantastic. Come and meet everybody.

It's Simon, Henry, Rebecca, Tom.

-Nice to see you.

-Beautiful job, lady.

-Very good, very good.

-My goodness.

-Oh, she's shiny.

-Hello, lovely to see you.

-Lovely to see you.

Have a seat. Now, so that is off the new album.

-The Architect.

-Congratulations.

-Thank you.

Here you go. That's it. Number one, ladies and gentlemen!

I love...

I was listening on the radio.

I love how happy you are that it's number one.

-You are not pretending to be cool.

-I know!

-You're just over the moon.

-I've never been cool, Graham.

I feel like I've just come to the office party at the end of the day.

LAUGHTER

"Hi, guys. So, as a morale building exercise,

"I'm here to just brighten up your lives, so you can slave away

"for another 12 months for my business."

Here's the weird thing. So, you've recorded this album

and you were pregnant when you recorded the album.

-Yeah. As are you.

-Now, girl, tell me all about it. No, I'm just joking.

No, but here's the weird thing. I didn't know this.

So your voice changes when you're pregnant.

Well, no, it wasn't when I was pregnant.

It was afterwards that I felt like it was better.

-Oh, OK.

-Like, because...

-Have you done it before? Had a baby?

-My voice is spectacular.

-SIMON:

-Or a number one album.

-Have you had a baby?

-Yes, I have had.

So, like, your, sort of, body kind of... Everything moves.

All the organs move and it opens up and goes a bit wild.

A bit graphic. LAUGHTER

-So, I'm like...

-Oh, I didn't need that.

No, I'm quite lucky cos some of the things that were like really

bugging me, like continual ailments,

like, never came back because it must've just moved a bit.

And I think my lungs, like, went into a better place or something.

And I was like, "I really just want to re-sing everything."

Cos I'd sung it all pregnant and prepregnancy

and then I was like, "No, this is better."

I feel like I can go from low to high.

But maybe it is psychological because...

-Maybe should have more babies.

-I think I might.

Like, can we do one now?

-No.

-LAUGHTER

It's...it's late.

-It's late, Paloma.

-All right.

There's quite a few nice people to choose from.

It is quite the gene pool. It really is quite the gene pool.

You are right.

-Maybe we can all amalgamate.

-Oh, my God.

Well, Tom needs to work tomorrow, so...

Let me ask you very quickly. You are off on tour, aren't you?

-Yeah, in March.

-Yeah, fantastic.

-I'm really looking forward to it.

Brilliant. Thank you so much for that great performance.

-Paloma Faith, everybody.

-Thanks.

Right. That is nearly it,

but before we go, just time a visit to the Big Red Chair.

This is your least favourite bit of the show.

Tom hates this.

-Who's there? Hello.

-Hello.

-Hi who are you?

-My name is John.

John, hello, John. Where are you from?

-I'm from Scotland.

-Lovely.

-Happy Burns Day for yesterday.

-Thank you.

LAUGHTER

-And do you live down here now?

-I do, I live in central London.

-Oh, right.

Oh, central London. None of your suburbs for John.

No, he came from Scotland. He made it!

Zone one!

-What do you do, John?

-I'm a lawyer.

Oh, he did make it.

Oh, yeah. Zone one John.

OK, off you go with your story.

-So, my grandad died and...

-LAUGHTER

It happens.

We were having an open coffin for him at my grandmother's house.

And they were keeping the coffin out in the conservatory.

And we were having lots of visitors, coming

and going to pay their respects.

So, that damaged the front door to my grandmother's house.

So, my grandad had been a tradesman.

We looked up his book of contacts to find someone

we thought might be able to fix it.

So, we find a man called Jim, give him a call,

and he turns up very early the next morning.

So, he's working away on the door

and I think, "I should probably make small talk."

So, I ask him, "Do you want to pop through and see grandad?

And he sort of casually looked up and said,

"Yeah, I'll pop through when I'm finished, son."

So, he finished the job, got up,

casually walked through into the conservatory,

at which point, I realised he didn't know Grandad had died.

LAUGHTER

So he walked in expecting to see my grandad in his slippers,

reading the paper but saw my grandad very dead, lying in a coffin.

LAUGHTER

The colour completely drained from his face

he then made this inaudible sort of...ooh!

Turned round, and just went out the house so quickly.

And we've never seen him again. And that was about 15 years ago.

That's a good story.

You can walk, John. You can walk.

If you would like to join us on the show and have a go in our

Big Red Chair, you can contact us

via our website at this very address. That is it for tonight.

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

Paloma Faith.

Simon Pegg.

Henry Cavill.

Rebecca Ferguson.

And Mr Tom Cruise.

Thank you. Thank you, Graham.

Do join me next week with musical guest George Ezra,

voice judge Will.i.am, Oscar-winner Cuba Gooding Junior

and for the first time, one of our favourite British stars,

Imelda Staunton.

I'll see you then. Goodnight, everyone. Goodbye.

APPLAUSE

OK, so come, Tom, in, in three, two...

What does that mean?

-I'm going to cue...

-LAUGHTER

-You see what I'm saying?

-You are not good at this.

-I don't know.

It is three, two, and then he points.

Does that mean I start talking at that point? OK, good.

-I go on the point.

-Go on the point.

-OK, good. All right.