0:00:04 > 0:00:06This programme contains some strong language.
0:00:06 > 0:00:09Hey, everybody - this is Cuba Gooding Jr saying,
0:00:09 > 0:00:15"Welcome to the Graham Norton Show!"
0:00:27 > 0:00:35Hello and welcome to the show.
0:00:36 > 0:00:41Oh, that lovely sound! So lovely! Thank you very much. Thank you.
0:00:41 > 0:00:44Thank you, all.
0:00:44 > 0:00:45We've got some great guests on tonight.
0:00:45 > 0:00:48We'll be chattering away like killer whales that have just
0:00:48 > 0:00:49learnt how to speak.
0:00:49 > 0:00:51Did you see that?
0:00:51 > 0:00:55Wikie the killer whale lives in one of those marine parks and they've
0:00:55 > 0:01:02taught her to speak through the hole in the top of her head.
0:01:02 > 0:01:04This is news, yeah.
0:01:04 > 0:01:06Wikie can just say simple things at the moment,
0:01:06 > 0:01:08like "hello", "goodbye" and, "For the love of God,
0:01:08 > 0:01:10please release me back into the wild".
0:01:10 > 0:01:13On the subject of blubbery creatures talking through their blow-hole,
0:01:13 > 0:01:20Donald Trump gave his State of the Union speech this week.
0:01:20 > 0:01:28APPLAUSE CHEERING
0:01:28 > 0:01:31That was all just so I could say that!
0:01:31 > 0:01:33It lasted one hour and 20 minutes.
0:01:33 > 0:01:36That's quite a long time to say, "We're screwed".
0:01:36 > 0:01:39Melania was at the speech and looked amazing.
0:01:39 > 0:01:47Put a pointy white hat on and that'd be Donald's favourite outfit.
0:01:49 > 0:01:51LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE.
0:01:51 > 0:01:58Meanwhile this week Theresa May has been visiting China.
0:01:58 > 0:01:59She's so lucky!
0:01:59 > 0:02:00That's her with the Chinese President.
0:02:00 > 0:02:02Apparently he asked Theresa two questions -
0:02:02 > 0:02:03"What's your name?"
0:02:03 > 0:02:05and "How long will you be Prime Minister?"
0:02:05 > 0:02:11And oddly, the answer to both those questions was "May".
0:02:11 > 0:02:17LAUGHTER
0:02:17 > 0:02:18That's clever, that.
0:02:18 > 0:02:20Let's get some guests on!
0:02:20 > 0:02:21Later we'll have music from chart-topping
0:02:21 > 0:02:24singer-songwriter George Ezra!
0:02:24 > 0:02:26APPLAUSE
0:02:26 > 0:02:28But first, this seven-time Grammy award-winner and founding member
0:02:28 > 0:02:30of the Black Eyed Peas is a musician, entrepreneur,
0:02:30 > 0:02:37producer and now author - please welcome will.i.am!
0:02:37 > 0:02:44CHEERING APPLAUSE
0:02:44 > 0:02:50Good to see you. There, there. Lovely. Go ahead.
0:02:50 > 0:02:52For over three decades, this British star has
0:02:52 > 0:02:53conquered stage and screen, and was Oscar-nominated
0:02:53 > 0:02:55for her role as Vera Drake.
0:02:55 > 0:02:57Now she brings us a new Brit-flick, Finding Your Feet.
0:02:57 > 0:03:02Please welcome, for the first time, Imelda Staunton!
0:03:02 > 0:03:09CHEERING
0:03:09 > 0:03:15Look at you! Hello, Imelda.
0:03:15 > 0:03:18And this Oscar-winning star has thrilled on the big screen,
0:03:18 > 0:03:20most recently gripped us as OJ Simpson and now he's giving us
0:03:20 > 0:03:22the old razzle-dazzle in Chicago.
0:03:22 > 0:03:24Welcome back, Cuba Gooding Jr!
0:03:24 > 0:03:30CHEERING
0:03:36 > 0:03:41APPLAUSE DROWNED SPEECH. CHEERING
0:03:41 > 0:03:46While!
0:03:46 > 0:03:49While!I racked my ghetto brains when I got out here.Lovely to see
0:03:49 > 0:03:59you all. You've never been here, Imelda. Is that...? I thought that
0:03:59 > 0:04:06was an evening purse.No, it's soda bread. I made it today. I made this
0:04:06 > 0:04:11morning and I'm Irish, my parents are Irish, and I thought I would cut
0:04:11 > 0:04:18you a corner.That so quite a few! Thank you very much! -- so kind of
0:04:18 > 0:04:24you. I'll just check it is soda bread. It looks like a giant drug
0:04:24 > 0:04:33deal otherwise. We smuggled it in plain sight.That brings up my gift.
0:04:33 > 0:04:37And you wrapped it in grease-proof and everything. Look at that! Oh,
0:04:37 > 0:04:44that's lovely. I feel like Mary Berry. It's a nice bit of whatever
0:04:44 > 0:04:52that is.It's my second one this week. I've never made it before, and
0:04:52 > 0:04:54it's my second one. LAUGHTER
0:04:54 > 0:05:00It's nice, a fine crumb. Is that what you say?Put on those of butter
0:05:00 > 0:05:07and it will be gorgeous.That's so quite of you.It cost £4.80.Cuba,
0:05:07 > 0:05:14we last saw you in The People v OJ Simpson. Congratulations.That was
0:05:14 > 0:05:21good!You did really well at the Golden Globes. You are and
0:05:21 > 0:05:23afterwards you celebrated a little bit. You enjoyed a drink and... And
0:05:23 > 0:05:29a bit of dancing...
0:05:30 > 0:05:32a bit of dancing... And what says great night out other than...
0:05:32 > 0:05:42Kentucky fried chicken! I knew it! The scariest round applause I've
0:05:42 > 0:05:51ever had. What was that? And you know it so funny, you are backstage
0:05:51 > 0:05:56after an awards show, and you with friends in the VIP and nobody has
0:05:56 > 0:05:58cameras because everybody has security, so you doing goofy stuff
0:05:58 > 0:06:06back there...
0:06:06 > 0:06:08back there... Marlon put it on Twitter the next day and was like,
0:06:08 > 0:06:17Cuba Gooding Jr, finger licking Cuba good!
0:06:19 > 0:06:22good! It isn't, it is! Life is about moderation, including moderation
0:06:22 > 0:06:30itself.Oh. LAUGHTER
0:06:30 > 0:06:37Here's a thing, and I right in thinking there is a lot less
0:06:37 > 0:06:44will.i.am to love than previously? Yes, so I lost almost 20lb.
0:06:44 > 0:06:51APPLAUSE I know! I'm surprised you lost that
0:06:51 > 0:06:56much. I don't remember you being that big.No, I'd just lay up, I'd
0:06:56 > 0:07:02wear a bunch of stuff, the hats, and I'd have a big brim hat to let me
0:07:02 > 0:07:07know that I'm a little plump. The bigger the hat, the smaller the
0:07:07 > 0:07:16face. So I stopped eating so, if it has a face, I don't taste it. If it
0:07:16 > 0:07:21has eyes, I don't eat it. I am just plant -based, no dairy, no milk.
0:07:21 > 0:07:33Just plant like rabbits.Rabbits?! Rabbit food.Oh, I see, because
0:07:33 > 0:07:36rabbits have eyes and feet and everything. I'm thinking, apart from
0:07:36 > 0:07:42rabbits.
0:07:42 > 0:07:45rabbits. For your last solo single, Fire, you went to a great cultural
0:07:45 > 0:07:50British eyed column, to the cobbles of Weatherfield. -- reddish icon.
0:07:50 > 0:07:56Coronation Street.
0:07:56 > 0:08:02Coronation Street. It is Coronation Street. So you went there. Is that
0:08:02 > 0:08:08you?Yeah.The Rovers return looks quite different in your video.I've
0:08:08 > 0:08:17got a big fat! I'm over 200lb. -- a big fat.And then you go outside and
0:08:17 > 0:08:24the cobbles are actually on fire.I was in a chair and Tom Jones said, I
0:08:24 > 0:08:30said fire, and Tom Jones with a Welsh accent said the same, and I
0:08:30 > 0:08:37was like, yeah. So I wrote a song about fire.If you say something,
0:08:37 > 0:08:44Imelda, you might be in a song. Gosh!
0:08:46 > 0:08:49Gosh!Talking of songs, Cuba Gooding Jr, you are taking to the west end
0:08:49 > 0:08:58stage in Chicago. CHEERING
0:08:58 > 0:09:02It's a big return to the west end, the 26th of March at the Phoenix
0:09:02 > 0:09:06Theatre in London. Remind people who Billy Flynn is in the musical.If
0:09:06 > 0:09:13you've seen the musical, which is in its 20th year of production around
0:09:13 > 0:09:19the UK, States, even Japan, I think, he plays a criminal defence attorney
0:09:19 > 0:09:24representing women on death row who have tested their mates and been put
0:09:24 > 0:09:32there because of murder and other charges. -- who have bested.And how
0:09:32 > 0:09:40did this happen?What the hell! I was on Broadway in 2013 in a
0:09:40 > 0:09:46production and it was one of those things, I started on stage, and once
0:09:46 > 0:09:49I stepped back on stage, I remembered this was truly home for
0:09:49 > 0:09:55me as an actor. If you think of every role that has probably been
0:09:55 > 0:10:01affected people most in my career, from the last one, OJ Simpson, to
0:10:01 > 0:10:10Boyz N The Hood, Radio, it's always characters I am scared to death to
0:10:10 > 0:10:13do, and here was another opportunity which scared the hell out of me, to
0:10:13 > 0:10:18do a musical, even though I come from a musical background, it's one
0:10:18 > 0:10:26of those things... It's what keeps me, the intensity.How's it going?
0:10:26 > 0:10:35Will you be ready?I'm ready now, baby.What are the big numbers?I
0:10:35 > 0:10:41have three big songs. Or I Care About Is Love, Razzle-dazzle, And
0:10:41 > 0:10:48Another One.Could you give us a bit of one? Which would you like?
0:10:48 > 0:10:53#I don't care about expensive things, cashmere coats, diamond
0:10:53 > 0:10:59rings, don't mean a thing #All I care about is love, that's
0:10:59 > 0:11:05what I'm here for. CHEERING
0:11:05 > 0:11:12And I have this one big... CHEERING
0:11:12 > 0:11:19Towards the end of the song, and I'm not even really warmed up yet, don't
0:11:19 > 0:11:27judge me on my voice, but I think... #All I care about is love!
0:11:27 > 0:11:32CHEERING
0:11:38 > 0:11:43And I get the other co-stars and the women and it's very sexy. It's very
0:11:43 > 0:11:48sexy. When they said, you've done Broadway, come to the West End, the
0:11:48 > 0:11:57tears were flowing, because this is Shakespeare, this is... I was very
0:11:57 > 0:12:01excited.You were saying you came from a musical background, because
0:12:01 > 0:12:08your dad was in a band and they had hits. I've got a picture of... Is
0:12:08 > 0:12:12that him in the middle? And then your mum was in a band, what name?
0:12:12 > 0:12:21The Sweethearts. That group headlined at the Apollo theatre. And
0:12:21 > 0:12:27the opening act for her was a little group called the Supremes, with
0:12:27 > 0:12:33Diana Ross. Mum used to tell the story, when I got pregnant and my
0:12:33 > 0:12:39sister got pregnant, we had to disband and the Supremes took our
0:12:39 > 0:12:43spot!Beside you is Imelda Staunton, who has starred in so many musicals,
0:12:43 > 0:12:52a huge amount. But Gypsy, that is proper heavy lifting.It is.And you
0:12:52 > 0:12:57prepare and prepare but there are some things you can't prepare for.
0:12:57 > 0:13:08When you went on one night?I get back show for eight months.Eight
0:13:08 > 0:13:12shows a week...Yes, eight months. And my character, a mother from
0:13:12 > 0:13:17hell.
0:13:17 > 0:13:20My character, the showbiz mother from hell, and I start at the back
0:13:20 > 0:13:23of the auditorium and the kids are on stage and they
0:13:23 > 0:13:25are starting the show and I'm immortal, Sing out,
0:13:25 > 0:13:26Louise!
0:13:26 > 0:13:28I got dressed in the dressing room.
0:13:28 > 0:13:31I got the dress, coat, hat and also she has a little dog,
0:13:31 > 0:13:34a real dog and I'm standing at the back and my coat
0:13:34 > 0:13:36was a bit uncomfortable and I thought, never mind.
0:13:36 > 0:13:38And as soon as I started speaking and walking down
0:13:38 > 0:13:40the aisle, I thought, there is something in my...
0:13:40 > 0:13:41Ah!
0:13:41 > 0:13:46That's the mouse.
0:13:46 > 0:13:49There was a mouse walking up my arm up the inside of my coat.
0:13:49 > 0:13:50As part of the play?
0:13:50 > 0:13:52No.
0:13:52 > 0:13:54My coat was lying in the dressing room and it had crawled
0:13:54 > 0:13:58into the arm of my coat, all lovely, lovely, snuggly, lovely
0:13:58 > 0:14:01and suddenly shouty woman, put the coat on and the mouse went
0:14:01 > 0:14:02Jesus!
0:14:02 > 0:14:05And it started walking up my arm and I was like,
0:14:05 > 0:14:06sit down, sit down Louise!
0:14:06 > 0:14:07Come on!
0:14:07 > 0:14:10Talky talky all the way up onto the stage, Mousey up here,
0:14:10 > 0:14:11talky, talky, and I start singing...
0:14:11 > 0:14:13# Some people...
0:14:13 > 0:14:16Mousey, Mousey...
0:14:16 > 0:14:21All the way back and then I started to do a lot of...
0:14:21 > 0:14:23Trying to get it to jump out.
0:14:23 > 0:14:26I thought if I do that, mouse will fly...
0:14:26 > 0:14:30Mouse didn't do that.
0:14:30 > 0:14:32Clinging in there.
0:14:32 > 0:14:33Obviously.
0:14:33 > 0:14:37And then at the end of the scene, I came out and said I had a mouse!
0:14:37 > 0:14:38I had a mouse!
0:14:38 > 0:14:42I saw that mouse.
0:14:42 > 0:14:48"It came down at the back and just ran off."
0:14:48 > 0:14:50All the people in the company...
0:14:50 > 0:14:51You can't stop.
0:14:51 > 0:14:54You see, there is a lesson there, Cuba, a lesson.
0:14:54 > 0:14:56Check your trousers, mate.
0:14:56 > 0:15:04Oh, there is so much to say!
0:15:08 > 0:15:16Will.i.am, you got into music, as a form of escape?Music got into me.
0:15:16 > 0:15:21OK!
0:15:23 > 0:15:30OK!I'm 12 years old. My mum had a double cassette deck and a record
0:15:30 > 0:15:35player and I would take my favourite parts of the record and recorded
0:15:35 > 0:15:39down here and then loop it and then take that over there and take the
0:15:39 > 0:15:44headphones and plug it into the microphone, then saying over that. I
0:15:44 > 0:15:50don't know what told me to do that...How old were you when you
0:15:50 > 0:15:53missed out on being in one of the most iconic dance videos of all
0:15:53 > 0:16:02time?There were two times. They were
0:16:05 > 0:16:10were filming Electric Boogaloo at a gym near my house and they came to
0:16:10 > 0:16:19my door, they are filming a movie up the street!
0:16:21 > 0:16:30the street! Tell your mum! Mum! Can I go and shoot a movie? What movie?
0:16:30 > 0:16:40You ain't shooting no movie? I said it is break dancing! She said no.
0:16:40 > 0:16:46She was like, you will sit your butt over here on this couch. It was sub
0:16:46 > 0:16:54break, maybe my report card was not good. A year later, or the year
0:16:54 > 0:16:59before...At a different time.They came knocking on my door, the same
0:16:59 > 0:17:08person. Michael Jackson is over their shooting Thriller in the a la
0:17:08 > 0:17:14ways.
0:17:14 > 0:17:18ways. Over by the alleyways, Michael Jackson was shooting Thriller and I
0:17:18 > 0:17:25said, please, mum, and she said boy you ain't going in no alleyway with
0:17:25 > 0:17:36Jackson! APPLAUSE. -- with Michael Jackson.
0:17:36 > 0:17:43Talking about musicals, we have an adorable picture. Is this your first
0:17:43 > 0:17:49ever job, Imelda? This is
0:17:52 > 0:17:54ever job, Imelda? This is you end Guys and Dolls. No sign of Europe
0:17:54 > 0:17:59mouse!
0:17:59 > 0:18:05mouse!-- no sign of Europe mouse. Not from that angle!This was
0:18:05 > 0:18:13lovely, you found love in the show. I met my husband in that show, 1982,
0:18:13 > 0:18:18Guys and Dolls, I was the smallest and he was the tallest. We got
0:18:18 > 0:18:24together then.It was fantastic. Breaking all showbiz moles, still
0:18:24 > 0:18:31together.Yes. A lot of people know him as Carson from Downton Abbey.
0:18:31 > 0:18:38Has that blighted your life now? Totally! Not at all, it has been
0:18:38 > 0:18:42fantastic.When you went on holiday, presumably you cannot get away from
0:18:42 > 0:18:48that.We thought we had and we went to New Zealand last year.For five
0:18:48 > 0:18:54weeks. They are always here.
0:18:55 > 0:18:57weeks. They are always here.People recognised us and asked for
0:18:57 > 0:19:05pictures. And we made it into the newspaper, the front page but we
0:19:05 > 0:19:09were not off... We were down at the bottom, nice people from England are
0:19:09 > 0:19:18here. The headline was triplets were happy to go back to school!They
0:19:18 > 0:19:24took the big picture. Education is very important. Imelda Staunton has
0:19:24 > 0:19:31a new movie called Finding Your Feet. It is a comedy, it has got
0:19:31 > 0:19:38romance, but it has got so much heart.Tell us about it. It is about
0:19:38 > 0:19:49me! No, no. A woman whose husband is retiring, they will have a lovely
0:19:49 > 0:19:53retirement and go on a cruise and she finds out that he has been
0:19:53 > 0:20:02playing around. Can you imagine? So, she walks out and goes to live with
0:20:02 > 0:20:06her rather bohemian sister, my character is quite uptight and she
0:20:06 > 0:20:12lives with her sister played by Celia Imrie. She tells her to let go
0:20:12 > 0:20:19and enjoy yourself. No, I cannot do that. This is about her journey, my
0:20:19 > 0:20:23character, how you have a life after a failed marriage and how you have a
0:20:23 > 0:20:29midlife that should have some life and fun and maybe love, I don't
0:20:29 > 0:20:32know, but just to be able to enjoy yourself and think, I am this age,
0:20:32 > 0:20:39that is it. I think it gives... The film and the story gives a lot of
0:20:39 > 0:20:44pleasure and there is me, there is Timothy Spall, we were at drama
0:20:44 > 0:20:47school together, we have known each other a long time and I have known
0:20:47 > 0:20:54Celia Imrie since 1978. That made it quite easy to be friends, and we
0:20:54 > 0:21:00play sisters and that made it very easy.It is very nice, you're
0:21:00 > 0:21:05filming with friends and it is on location, was it hard to be away
0:21:05 > 0:21:12from home?The travel, which was for me, ten minutes,... It was a
0:21:12 > 0:21:18nightmare, Graham! I thought, why am I doing this job. Because it is up
0:21:18 > 0:21:24the road!That is glorious, it does not happen. That must be the nicest
0:21:24 > 0:21:29thing in the world.They had not done before, it was so exciting to
0:21:29 > 0:21:37go up the road.Usually you travel far.If you do theatre, you travel
0:21:37 > 0:21:46every day.I look forward to it! It is such good fun!
0:21:46 > 0:21:48is such good fun! I have to say, presumably people recognise you and
0:21:48 > 0:21:54Joanna Lumley.Yes, there was a scene we were filming in Leicester
0:21:54 > 0:22:01Square. I am here but the camera is over there filming us. Then the
0:22:01 > 0:22:06theatre, the audience started to come out. A couple of friends, came
0:22:06 > 0:22:15over, hello, Imelda! Keep walking, I am filming.
0:22:16 > 0:22:21am filming. That was one of the drawbacks.We have got a clip, this
0:22:21 > 0:22:27is you and your sister played by Celia Imrie and you're having a
0:22:27 > 0:22:31moment of catharsis.Yes. No wonder you stuck it out for so long, you
0:22:31 > 0:22:37must have barely seen one another. What is with all this silverware? It
0:22:37 > 0:22:45is like a bloody Strine!I used to spend hours polishing those. And I
0:22:45 > 0:22:54think... Yes, from that tournament on, he was sleeping with her.Well,
0:22:54 > 0:23:01he doesn't deserve any prizes for that!
0:23:01 > 0:23:09that!, and, your turn!I can't. Just do it! Go on, Sandra, give it
0:23:09 > 0:23:14to him!
0:23:14 > 0:23:20to him! How does that make you feel? I was going to say better than sex
0:23:20 > 0:23:22but it has been so long, forgotten what it was like!
0:23:22 > 0:23:33CHEERING AND APPLAUSE. Very good. Now, ladies and gentlemen, Mr
0:23:33 > 0:23:37will.i.am, you have done so many other things, entrepreneur,
0:23:37 > 0:23:42producer, singer, you are now a novelist, ladies and gentlemen! He
0:23:42 > 0:23:48has written a novel. Wizards and Robots. It is clever.Tell people
0:23:48 > 0:23:55about it. Wizards and Robots is a collaboration with me and Brian
0:23:55 > 0:24:01David Johnson, we were both in the Futurist department at Intel and the
0:24:01 > 0:24:09whole premise of the Futurist department is to consult on how to
0:24:09 > 0:24:12bring new chipsets and technologies to popular culture, so artificial
0:24:12 > 0:24:20intelligence to make is still exciting and this book is about this
0:24:20 > 0:24:27race of robots that are being attacked, in the year 3000, that
0:24:27 > 0:24:34need to find a way to help solve their problems. So, whenever a
0:24:34 > 0:24:38species, and intelligence PCs cannot solve its problems, in praise to God
0:24:38 > 0:24:45and in this case, the god to a robot is a human. And the rest, you have
0:24:45 > 0:24:46to check that the book, it's really good!
0:24:46 > 0:24:56CHEERING AND APPLAUSE. It is out now. You can buy it already. What
0:24:56 > 0:25:06sort of age would you need to be? That is a young adult's novel. We
0:25:06 > 0:25:11have been working on that for six years.A lot of it, obviously there
0:25:11 > 0:25:16is fantasy in it, but the historical bits are based...It is all
0:25:16 > 0:25:23plausible science. Even the past bits. If you think about wizards,
0:25:23 > 0:25:27you have been in Harry Potter and stuff like that, you can sit there
0:25:27 > 0:25:33and say, that is fake, you can say, a Ladin is fake with the genie in
0:25:33 > 0:25:40the bottle or you can go out and buy, Seery or Alexa Right now, you
0:25:40 > 0:25:45talk to something, say a magic world and outcome results. 20 years ago,
0:25:45 > 0:25:49that was fictitious and fake, that is real now. A lot of the things
0:25:49 > 0:25:58that you see, they are just a product away from becoming real,
0:25:58 > 0:26:03especially with artificial intelligence.In the book, time
0:26:03 > 0:26:06travel plays an important part. Do you genuinely believe that time
0:26:06 > 0:26:10travel is possible?Word you think I'd is came from?
0:26:10 > 0:26:17LAUGHTER. I did wonder why you were late! You really need to upgrade
0:26:17 > 0:26:23that machine!
0:26:23 > 0:26:31that machine!Anyone from the future is not late, they are early!OK! I
0:26:31 > 0:26:42guess it is how you look at it.Can I get something a little harder?
0:26:48 > 0:26:51Because you love an opportunity, you are always thinking about the next
0:26:51 > 0:27:00thing, could this be a film?She has wizard form. Am I the future? That
0:27:00 > 0:27:07is all I need to know.Being in Harry Potter, has that made you,
0:27:07 > 0:27:18children, that is your fan base? Yeah. Not fan base. I have to... I
0:27:18 > 0:27:23am not a very nice sort of person in Harry Potter so when I am recognise,
0:27:23 > 0:27:28kids have two get frightened and I have to reassure them... Or not? I
0:27:28 > 0:27:33get more fun out of that.Parents must appreciate it! That will shut
0:27:33 > 0:27:38them up!
0:27:38 > 0:27:40You're in this showbiz world.
0:27:40 > 0:27:42You've worked with all these amazing people and yet you don't seem
0:27:42 > 0:27:43that bothered by it.
0:27:43 > 0:27:46Like when you were nominated for an Oscar, did you go?
0:27:46 > 0:27:47Yes.
0:27:47 > 0:27:50But I reckon I was the only person in the limousine
0:27:50 > 0:27:51going to the Oscars with sandwiches.
0:27:51 > 0:27:54LAUGHTER.
0:27:54 > 0:27:55Oh, yeah.
0:27:55 > 0:27:56I thought...
0:27:56 > 0:28:02Apparently it's a really long journey to the Oscars.
0:28:02 > 0:28:05So I said, right, I've got to get sandwiches.
0:28:05 > 0:28:07I couldn't make the bread, but I thought, OK.
0:28:07 > 0:28:10There was myself and Jim and my daughter and I had a mate
0:28:10 > 0:28:13with me and I had ordered the sandwiches and we had them
0:28:13 > 0:28:15and I thought, let's get the sandwiches out now,
0:28:15 > 0:28:17because it's taking ages and I had the sandwiches
0:28:17 > 0:28:19and it was like, we're here.
0:28:19 > 0:28:20Sorry?
0:28:20 > 0:28:21And I was...
0:28:21 > 0:28:22Ham, ham, ham!
0:28:22 > 0:28:23Ham in my teeth!
0:28:23 > 0:28:24Ham in my teeth!
0:28:24 > 0:28:25Checking my teeth.
0:28:25 > 0:28:28But we weren't hungry and I had a bag full of snacks.
0:28:28 > 0:28:31I thought, oh God, how English of me, just to go,
0:28:31 > 0:28:33what about the food?
0:28:33 > 0:28:35My daughter was 11 at the time and I thought,
0:28:35 > 0:28:37I can't have her hungry!
0:28:37 > 0:28:40I can't have her sitting there starving!
0:28:40 > 0:28:41She went with you?
0:28:41 > 0:28:43Yes, she did, it was lovely, it was absolutely great.
0:28:43 > 0:28:46One of the things, once it is someone else's name called
0:28:46 > 0:28:49out, you then kind of rewrite history and you thought, of course,
0:28:49 > 0:28:52I was never going to win, it was always going to be them.
0:28:52 > 0:28:55But a bit of you has to think, somebody has got to win it!
0:28:55 > 0:28:56It might be me.
0:28:56 > 0:28:57Yeah.
0:28:57 > 0:28:59Well, I sort of knew...
0:28:59 > 0:29:03You don't literally know, you've got an Oscar, I'm not bitter.
0:29:03 > 0:29:04LAUGHTER.
0:29:04 > 0:29:12APPLAUSE.
0:29:14 > 0:29:15Talk them down.
0:29:15 > 0:29:16Talk them down.
0:29:16 > 0:29:17Talk it down.
0:29:17 > 0:29:18Stupid Oscars!
0:29:18 > 0:29:20Oh for goodness' sake!
0:29:20 > 0:29:22But my film was quite a contentious film.
0:29:22 > 0:29:24I played an abortionist, that was a difficult subject
0:29:24 > 0:29:27for a lot of people, funnily enough.
0:29:27 > 0:29:30So, Hilary Swank got the Oscar that year for Million Dollar Baby,
0:29:30 > 0:29:34which was brilliant.
0:29:34 > 0:29:37And then I did a film with her later that year,
0:29:37 > 0:29:38so I could look at her!
0:29:38 > 0:29:41LAUGHTER.
0:29:41 > 0:29:43And I stopped myself saying, it should have been me!
0:29:43 > 0:29:48I stopped myself.
0:29:48 > 0:29:51So, you know, for all of us, it is about the work.
0:29:51 > 0:29:53There is a real unspoken anger though, that you are not talking
0:29:53 > 0:29:56about and I will tell you two quick stories if I may?
0:29:56 > 0:29:57Oh please!
0:29:57 > 0:30:02Thank you very much.
0:30:02 > 0:30:04Who was the first one that said, I think Jack Nicholson
0:30:04 > 0:30:06said to me, he said, Cubey...
0:30:06 > 0:30:08Because I did a movie with a lot of actors,
0:30:08 > 0:30:11that I grew up idolising and then sharing the screen with them
0:30:11 > 0:30:14and it was like whatever they say, you hang on every word.
0:30:14 > 0:30:16He said, Cubey, when you're nominated, you're hot
0:30:16 > 0:30:20until that award show.
0:30:20 > 0:30:22When you win you're hot for one year.
0:30:22 > 0:30:23And that's it.
0:30:23 > 0:30:28That's it.
0:30:28 > 0:30:29In Hollywood.
0:30:29 > 0:30:32Because the next year, you're replaced by the next winner
0:30:32 > 0:30:34and then they get that kind of calling card.
0:30:34 > 0:30:42But, here's what happened with my standing ovation.
0:30:42 > 0:30:45Listen, I'm not taking away from it, brother lost his shit out
0:30:45 > 0:30:46there, you know that.
0:30:46 > 0:30:48You have a room, like this room of audience here
0:30:48 > 0:30:49and everybody here is nominated.
0:30:49 > 0:30:50So everybody...
0:30:50 > 0:30:51Yeah, that's the picture.
0:30:51 > 0:30:52Go ahead.
0:30:52 > 0:30:54Everybody here thinks they could win.
0:30:54 > 0:30:56So potentially we have a room full of winners.
0:30:56 > 0:30:59I walk out, I lose my mind, everybody is like, that's me!
0:30:59 > 0:31:00Yes!
0:31:00 > 0:31:01Two minutes.
0:31:01 > 0:31:04By the end of the show, you have a room full of losers,
0:31:04 > 0:31:11with a small group of winners.
0:31:11 > 0:31:15You're happy, everybody else is like, fuck you.
0:31:15 > 0:31:18All they want to is hear and the best film is
0:31:18 > 0:31:21and then it is like, yes, let's get the fuck out of here!
0:31:21 > 0:31:22That's what it is.
0:31:22 > 0:31:27That's what it is!
0:31:27 > 0:31:30That's what it is and that's why you see, everybody puts up
0:31:30 > 0:31:32with everything in the first half an hour of the show,
0:31:32 > 0:31:34that third hour, people are hungry.
0:31:34 > 0:31:35Not me!
0:31:35 > 0:31:40I might be a loser, but I'm full!
0:31:40 > 0:31:41That's right!
0:31:41 > 0:31:42LAUGHTER.
0:31:42 > 0:31:48APPLAUSE.
0:31:50 > 0:31:52It is time for music.
0:31:52 > 0:31:54This Brit-nominated singer burst onto the scene four years ago
0:31:54 > 0:31:55with his multi-platinum debut album.
0:31:55 > 0:31:56Now he's back.
0:31:56 > 0:32:00Singing Paradise, please welcome George Ezra.
0:32:00 > 0:32:04CHEERING
0:32:08 > 0:32:10# My love (My love)
0:32:10 > 0:32:11# My lover, lover, lover
0:32:11 > 0:32:14# I'm in paradise whenever I'm with you
0:32:14 > 0:32:16# My mind (My mind)
0:32:16 > 0:32:18# My m-m-m-m-mind
0:32:18 > 0:32:22# Well, it's a paradise whenever I'm with you
0:32:22 > 0:32:23# Ride on (Ride on)
0:32:23 > 0:32:25# I will ride on down the road
0:32:25 > 0:32:28# I will find you, I will hold you, I'll be there
0:32:28 > 0:32:30# It's long (How long?)
0:32:30 > 0:32:32# Well, it's a mighty long road
0:32:32 > 0:32:36# But I'll find you, I will hold you and I'll be there
0:32:36 > 0:32:39# I know you heard it from those other boys
0:32:39 > 0:32:42# But this time it's real, it's something that I feel
0:32:42 > 0:32:46# I know you heard it from those other boys
0:32:46 > 0:32:49# But this time it's real, it's something that I feel
0:32:49 > 0:32:51# And if it feels like paradise
0:32:51 > 0:32:53# Running through your bloody veins
0:32:53 > 0:32:56# You know it's love heading your way
0:32:56 > 0:32:58# If it feels like paradise
0:32:58 > 0:32:59# Running through your bloody veins
0:32:59 > 0:33:07# You know it's love heading your way
0:33:10 > 0:33:11# My time (My time)
0:33:11 > 0:33:12# My t-t-t-t-time
0:33:12 > 0:33:16# It's a never-ending helter-skelter We'll be out whatever the weather
0:33:16 > 0:33:17# My heart (My heart)
0:33:17 > 0:33:18# My boom boom heart
0:33:18 > 0:33:23# It's a-beating, it's a-thumping and I'm alive
0:33:23 > 0:33:25# I know you heard it from those other boys
0:33:25 > 0:33:29# But this time it's real It's something that I feel
0:33:29 > 0:33:32# I know you heard it from those other boys
0:33:32 > 0:33:36# But this time it's real It's something that I feel
0:33:36 > 0:33:37# If it feels like paradise
0:33:37 > 0:33:39# Running through your bloody veins
0:33:39 > 0:33:43# You know it's love heading your way
0:33:43 > 0:33:44# If it feels like paradise
0:33:44 > 0:33:46# Running through your bloody veins
0:33:46 > 0:33:52# You know it's love heading your way
0:33:52 > 0:34:08# Paradise Roll on, roll on
0:34:08 > 0:34:11# Meet me there Roll on, roll on
0:34:11 > 0:34:14# Paradise Roll on, roll on
0:34:14 > 0:34:18# Meet me there Roll on, roll on
0:34:18 > 0:34:22# Paradise Roll on, Roll on
0:34:22 > 0:34:25# Meet me there Roll on, roll on
0:34:25 > 0:34:28# Paradise Roll on, roll on
0:34:28 > 0:34:32# Meet me there Roll on, roll on
0:34:32 > 0:34:34# If it feels like paradise
0:34:34 > 0:34:35# Running through your bloody veins
0:34:35 > 0:34:39# You know it's love heading your way
0:34:39 > 0:34:40# If it feels like paradise
0:34:40 > 0:34:42# Running through your bloody veins
0:34:42 > 0:34:47# You know it's love heading your way
0:34:47 > 0:34:49# I know you heard it from those other boys
0:34:49 > 0:34:53# But this time it's real It's something that I feel
0:34:53 > 0:34:56# I know you heard it from those other boys
0:34:56 > 0:35:00# But this time it's real It's something that I feel
0:35:00 > 0:35:01# If it feels like paradise
0:35:01 > 0:35:03# Running through your bloody veins
0:35:03 > 0:35:06# You know it's love heading your way
0:35:06 > 0:35:08# If it feels like paradise
0:35:08 > 0:35:10# Running through your bloody veins
0:35:10 > 0:35:14# You know it's love heading your way
0:35:14 > 0:35:15# If it feels like paradise
0:35:15 > 0:35:17# Running through your bloody veins
0:35:17 > 0:35:21# You know it's love heading your way
0:35:21 > 0:35:23# If it feels like paradise
0:35:23 > 0:35:25# Running through your bloody veins
0:35:25 > 0:35:28# You know it's love heading your way. #
0:35:31 > 0:35:35CHEERING
0:35:39 > 0:35:46George Ezra, everybody! Come on over. Well done, sir. Well done. You
0:35:46 > 0:35:57did it! This is will.i.am. Cuba. That's Imelda. Very good. Have a
0:35:57 > 0:36:05seat. Well done. That is from the new album, Staying At Tamara's. You
0:36:05 > 0:36:09can pre-order it, it's out on the 23rd of March, and you did stay
0:36:09 > 0:36:18there,.I didn't know I was going to.Who is she and if this house?
0:36:18 > 0:36:30That's my first girlfriend toss name.Was she nice?She sure were!
0:36:30 > 0:36:35Where does your Tamara live? Barcelona. I realised I needed to
0:36:35 > 0:36:44write another record.Yes, the other one was four years ago.But I find
0:36:44 > 0:36:49it hard to be creative when I'm on my sofa at home so I had to take
0:36:49 > 0:36:53myself out of my comfort zone and what I decided to do was to go over
0:36:53 > 0:36:58to Barcelona for a month.Into a more comfortable zone.
0:36:58 > 0:37:06LAUGHTER But instead of getting a hotel room
0:37:06 > 0:37:09for the month or renting an apartment, I found a stranger on the
0:37:09 > 0:37:11Internet and agreed to go and live with them.
0:37:11 > 0:37:22LAUGHTER On Tinder or something? Are,
0:37:22 > 0:37:29creative genius!I just assumed it was really bad I could just ducked
0:37:29 > 0:37:33out. If they were unfinished, I could always just take myself away.
0:37:33 > 0:37:40And she was lovely. I thought it was a great idea until the door was
0:37:40 > 0:37:46open, closing, people were coming and going, her friends...That
0:37:46 > 0:38:02Tamara! She is on all the websites! Her name was Consuela...
0:38:02 > 0:38:03Her name was Consuela...Does she know you've written this album?She
0:38:03 > 0:38:10does. On a trip like that, I took notebooks and filled them up, and
0:38:10 > 0:38:15those ramblings informed the songs. Halfway through the trip, I was kind
0:38:15 > 0:38:19of like, this is proving to be a really important trip for what I'm
0:38:19 > 0:38:22doing, I think the record should be named something around this, the
0:38:22 > 0:38:26songs coming from this trip, and I said, how would you feel about me
0:38:26 > 0:38:33maybe naming a record Staying At Tamara's? There wasn't a language
0:38:33 > 0:38:35barrier, but she wasn't as happy as I thought she might be.
0:38:35 > 0:38:42LAUGHTER Kind of like, yeah... But she's
0:38:42 > 0:38:47excited now, she wants me to send her a copy.Obviously you are doing
0:38:47 > 0:38:54the summer festivals, but are you doing your own tour?Very good
0:38:54 > 0:39:00question, Graham!That's why they pay me. By the way, I don't know. It
0:39:00 > 0:39:04was a great question. It's a genuine one, I have no idea what the answer
0:39:04 > 0:39:09is. Someone will tell me, I'll tell you, then you ask me again and I'll
0:39:09 > 0:39:14tell you.I'll be there...You may be alone on this we tell people
0:39:14 > 0:39:20where it is. When does it start? It's the end of March, beginning of
0:39:20 > 0:39:24April. APPLAUSE
0:39:24 > 0:39:29They are excited! They want to go and see you. Listen, it's great to
0:39:29 > 0:39:32have you back. George Ezra, everybody!
0:39:32 > 0:39:35Right, that's nearly it, but before we go, just time
0:39:35 > 0:39:38for a visit to the big red chair.
0:39:38 > 0:39:47Who was there?Hi. It's Lauren. Where do you live?Bedfordshire.
0:39:47 > 0:39:57What do you do?I'm a student in Bournemouth, and that's home.What
0:39:57 > 0:40:04are you studying?Public relations. OK... Hmm...A fuel years ago when
0:40:04 > 0:40:10my name was alive, she had a fall and me and my dad went to see her in
0:40:10 > 0:40:14hospital and when we did she got there -- we got there and she was
0:40:14 > 0:40:17confused, asking if I was in a school trip, a bit clueless as to
0:40:17 > 0:40:21who we were, and we thought it might be concussion. We were there for
0:40:21 > 0:40:26about half an hour and when we left we were walking down the corridor
0:40:26 > 0:40:29and they wheeled past my real man on a bed and it turned out we'd been
0:40:29 > 0:40:38talking to a similar looking stranger. -- they wheeled past my
0:40:38 > 0:40:45real nan.That's a good story! Old people all look the same. You've
0:40:45 > 0:40:52seen one granny, you've seen them all. Diagnosed her with an easier.
0:40:52 > 0:40:57There's nothing wrong with her. Time for one more? Hello. What's your
0:40:57 > 0:41:08name?My name is Talia.What do you do?I work in administration.Are
0:41:08 > 0:41:19you from New Zealand?Yes.I thought as much.I'll be home soon.I won't.
0:41:19 > 0:41:29APPLAUSE She's staying in and then.
0:41:30 > 0:41:33She's staying in and then. -- in admin. Have you moved here?For a
0:41:33 > 0:41:41little while.OK, until they catch you. On with the story.I was seen
0:41:41 > 0:41:48this guy for a little while and I went to a family dinner. At that, I
0:41:48 > 0:41:52was hanging out with my cousin, we were on Facebook and, while we were
0:41:52 > 0:41:58going through, I saw we had a mutual friend who was this boy, and I
0:41:58 > 0:42:04sipped her, how do know him? She was like, he is my brother. What are
0:42:04 > 0:42:08your broker or your brother? No, my brother. I was like, how does that
0:42:08 > 0:42:17work? She was like, well, my biological father, it's his son, or
0:42:17 > 0:42:22his stepson. I was like, so does that technically make him my cousin?
0:42:22 > 0:42:27She was like, I guess so. I was like, no reason...
0:42:27 > 0:42:32LAUGHTER
0:42:40 > 0:42:46I don't know how far New Zealand is. But it didn't warrant that journey.
0:42:46 > 0:42:55Shall we try one more? This will be the charm. Hello. What's your name?
0:42:55 > 0:43:00David.What do you do?I work for the Ambulance Service.Are you a
0:43:00 > 0:43:08driver?A bit of a paramedic. Whatever they need, you have a go.
0:43:08 > 0:43:18Did that help? That kind of thing. OK, off you go.When I was younger I
0:43:18 > 0:43:26was a bit of
0:43:26 > 0:43:35was a bit of a masseur...Sorry, a masseur?My mum works in a hospital
0:43:35 > 0:43:41in Ireland. She was working night duty one night and myself and my
0:43:41 > 0:43:47mate decided we wanted a trip to court so I took the spare key from
0:43:47 > 0:43:56my old man's khakis, we took the car out, we drove up to PCs, we had our
0:43:56 > 0:44:03ships and my mum was none the wiser. A couple of weeks later, she got a
0:44:03 > 0:44:07speeding ticket in the post, and she had no idea where it came from, and
0:44:07 > 0:44:09she was adamant it wasn't her because she was working that night
0:44:09 > 0:44:15and the car was there the whole night, and I pretended there was
0:44:15 > 0:44:19nothing, she got a fine and a load speeding tickets and penalty points,
0:44:19 > 0:44:25and I was afraid for years, trying to make it up to her and saying,
0:44:25 > 0:44:33once I make it up to her, I can tell her how it happened, so I got the
0:44:33 > 0:44:38tickets for the Graham Norton Show, and that's it!I'll ask your mother.
0:44:38 > 0:44:46Shall we flip him?He's forgiven. This was a fantastic...You are
0:44:46 > 0:44:53forgiven, you can walk. APPLAUSE
0:44:53 > 0:44:54Well done, everyone.
0:44:54 > 0:44:58If you'd like to join us on the show and have a go in the red chair,
0:44:58 > 0:45:00you can contact us via our website at this address.
0:45:00 > 0:45:03That's it for tonight - please say thank you to my guests -
0:45:03 > 0:45:04George Ezra...
0:45:04 > 0:45:05Will.i.am...
0:45:05 > 0:45:06Imelda Staunton...
0:45:06 > 0:45:09and Cuba Gooding Jr.
0:45:09 > 0:45:13Join me next week with break-out star Keala Settle,
0:45:13 > 0:45:16comedian Rob Beckett, Will and Grace Ewers McCormack
0:45:16 > 0:45:19and Debra Messing and Oscar nominee Saoirse Ronan.
0:45:19 > 0:45:20I'll see you then!
0:45:20 > 0:45:23Goodnight.