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kanye west huh kanye west you could have failed to see his genius first first of all the way the way i even met and i did i blew it i didn't blow it but it worked out i know it's not making sense because i haven't told you the story yet but what happened was that i'm throwing a party for i throw all these parties in my crib so i'm throwing a party for puff and jay-z's there and pharrell's a big party and this kid walks in with with a backpack on and his jaw is busted and i said who's that and they said that's kanye west i said what do you do they say he raps and you know he he produces for jay-z that's what everybody comes to my house got to perform i got i got i got to see what this dude had so i walked into him and i said yo man they say you do your thing you know you rat and he killed with this freestyle was amazing i said wow well you're going to be famous right and then he said to me he said he said uh i have a a song that that i think that you would be great on uh if we could go uh to the studio uh that song i said man what i'm trying to get in the music business let's go cause i wasn't in the music business and i happen to have a studio in my crib so we go in the back we heard that yeah but the reason i did that because i would throw parties for musical people so i could try to get on a record so that's why paul and jay-z and all them were there they didn't know but we go in the studio and he says the song uh goes uh she says she wants some marvin gaye some luther van gaal i said i got it i got it i gotta she said she wants some marvin good and so he said yo what are you doing i said well you know you don't know you don't know r b see i'm r b singer so i got to put the r b thing on us i got to do that he said uh don't do that just seeing it simple because it's you know it's hip-hop and i was like all right so i sung it begrudgingly thinking this song is wack he's not going to make it it's not going to work right so i left and i went and did a bad movie and i came back put your jacket [Music] [Laughter] i do this bad movie i come back and i'm in miami and my boy was like yo remember that song you said was wack it's number one in the country wow and so that's how uh that's how you get it wrong but right sometimes yeah that's yeah whoo well look at you uh michael jackson was a real hero of yours um and yeah so now you you did you meet him or you didn't meet him there was a no no i never i no i talked to him on the phone yes how did that happen uh i would how did it happen i was i was in paris and i was with uh kenny ortega we were promoting high school musical three i want to say it was it was probably 20 maybe 20 or 21 at the time and we were at dinner and um somehow i got at that was at the head of the table and kenny was on the other side of the table our director kenny ortega and um his phone rang and i remember i got this look like you want this phone i was like okay so i came over and i was like what's going on he goes it's michael jackson i'm like what he asked me the phone and i was like uh hello and i heard um hi who's this i was like um this is zac efron i'm a massive fan and i'm an actor and you're like my hero and i didn't know what to say i was like kind of i was just at a loss for words and uh rambling on and then he said that's really nice can you hand the phone back to kenny that's what i did and i i was freaking out like i just talked to michael jackson he's my hero i was just tripping um and i sat back down just a little dizzy and then all of a sudden the phone rang again and um kenny answered and i saw him kind of confused across the table and and uh he like looked at me again he's like you want to get to the phone and i was like okay and he hands the phone to me goes it's michael jackson again and i was like what okay and i picked up the phone i was like hello and he goes oh this is zach from high school musical and i was like uh yeah and he was like oh i'm i love what you do i'm a huge fan i know what you do and i've lost it i just i lost my balance i think i fell over into the wall i started i was like do you know who i am and i just started crying i was a mess like literally i was just making a fool out of myself i like slid down to the floor pathetically and professed how much i loved him said like you're my hero you're the reason i do what i do like thank you so much michael for everything and uh thanks for showing me how to dance how to be you know how to how to believe in myself how to how to i don't know how to shine you know and um that made him cry they were both crying to each other on the phone and he ended the whole phone call conversation with um something along the lines of hey zach and i like stopped crying for a second he's like isn't it isn't it awesome and i was like what and he goes dreams really do come true don't they when i was like oh come on i was like you can't say things like that you're killing me man how are you it's good thank you nice to meet you too yeah yeah again yeah i get it because i went to see michael in concert the other day yeah it was so good i saw your film as well it was very good it was nice too because i could see you there was a point where i was singing and i looked back and all i saw you you had i think a glass of wine yeah and i saw it very clearly and the other you were doing this and you were dancing i thought yes he's into it he's into it i was i loved it i loved it now uh you you've worked with jennifer haven't you yes i was on her special yeah and we've we we've met up at different functions and things yeah and have you met dame judy jens before no we have now hi yes it's nice to meet you and now i don't know does matthew know that he plays a special part in your life uh no probably not please i play a special part in your life yeah can't wait to hear this well i mean i my wife and i sleep with you almost every night yes yes and every night there's an app called calm and i have insomnia and he has the most beautiful voice and i turn it on and i just hear where hello everybody it's me matthew mcconaughey i'm going to tell you a bedtime story and i just do this oh honestly got truth about it is my wife who's from argentina she always goes like you have the man talking again the man is talking in the bed again it's great though i love this it cost me 80 bucks well it was well worth it have you gone no we've got a little bit because i just thought it was you reading stories but you are actually putting people to bed this is this is matthew mcconaughey on the app but tonight i hope to send you off to peaceful dreams with that very thing in mind let your eyes close and your breath fall soft and slow as we begin our story which just might rekindle that sense of wonder [Applause] you've noticed something about british people and the way they speak that we do a funny thing well well no i mean i love all the every regional accent every time uh i'm a big fan you're not getting into that scone mess um uh but i i like that because there's so many accents to such a small country everybody sort of puts on different voices when they're doing little bits but i had a thing where uh i was checking into a hotel and somebody came out and said oh do you need help with your bags and i i thought they were doing a bit so um i went oh i've been traveling all day i have no idea and then they um kept talking like that so i had to like slowly transition out of it and i know that that sounds like an exaggeration of their voice but then i was back in the country several years later and they were on tv on gogglebox because it was steph and dom from so they actually talk like that that is i never knew that that was a real hotel that represented yeah but you stayed there stayed there and accidentally made fun of them to their face allen what's that story you have about that is it yeah a very good friend of mine she was going for a really stressful time and and a lovely aunt said listen i'm going to get you a head massage so she went to this clinic had a head massage she was in the room and the woman said uh can you take your knickers off bit weird for a head massage okay okay yeah so she took her knickers off and she's like that and then the woman came back in she was south african she went no nicholas nicholas [Applause] [Laughter] [Applause] this is so sweet i don't i haven't seen this picture before this is uh you in school and you've sort of changed a lot and not changed at all this is you just in there what were you what were you giving well that was a play called fried bacon and fried bungies elizabethan play written about shakespeare's time and i was playing the young heroine oh but but there were girls in school you can't quite see the boy in the sixth form who i was madly in love with do you want to try and find him brian he's quite handsome that one no no never mind i don't know him i'm going to struggle i mean it's a good game but uh i'm not sure i'm not sure i'll get it yeah he might be just out of shot i think yes oh dear and people obviously get very excited when you go on tour and places rather you've got a blue plaque haven't you most people have to die to get a blue plaque i've got a number of bloopers oh have you ever i've got one on the house where i was born in burnley but i i did go and visit it on my second only visit to burnley because we left when i was two months old and i think they put it on the wrong house no this other one is in liverpool i think or leeds maybe i think it's liv we thought it was leeds but i think it's like we think it's liverpool yes yes well what was that doing there i think i can tell you what you were doing there i could tell you what you're doing there siri miguel and sat here on table five and enjoyed a jacket potato in a latte [Applause] that's precisely what you were doing there yeah yeah where do you know where that is it's it's on the university campus oh yes was it a nice potato liverpool's looking gorgeous these days since they've done it up oh yeah [Music] i mean i used to go to liverpool when i was a kid and it was a dangerous and dirty and dank place pre-beetles everything but now of course it's it's spanking it's terrific oh it's beautiful now yes and uh in the show obviously you'll be you know as you said you'll be talking about shakespeare and doing scenes but you'll be uh also telling stories about your your life and people you've worked with there's a story actually do you damn you just try don't ask me just tell another maggie smith story no every time i see her she said you've not been doing me again now you've done her again it is traditional at this point in the show when john bishop is on the couch to turn to the americans to say understanding anything yeah no no i'm getting it wrong oh yeah yeah [Laughter] this is a weird thing so chris pratt is this this seems so unlikely that you have now learned how to do the voices from towie yeah sort of yeah we love that garbage tv back in my wife was crazy about it and when i was here filming guardians we shot guardians of the galaxy here in in london and and my wife anna came out to visit and she fell in love with this show towie the only way is essex it's this show that's like basically their jersey shorts the jersey shore from right from here it's like this uh town somewhere essex i guess and these folks are just like the worst and it was like i'm a parrot a little bit and so when i hear when i hear it all the time i just started picking it up and started like i could pick up their accent and do their accent a little bit you know yeah i'm okay it's gonna sound this is really embarrassing to do in front of a whole room full of brits here but i'll try it anyways so it's like so like honestly i like i saw this guy [Applause] because he's telling me he's like you know no i miss you or whatever and i'm like you miss me what am i your mother [Applause] that will never be useful that would be useful but that's very good now i want to watch i love the fact that you spent months in england and that's what you talk about i have read will that you have this amazing amount of music that you haven't released but tracks with extraordinary artists like michael jackson and prince and people like that will you ever release those tracks uh no because you know especially artists like michael jackson where working with michael jackson is his critique and his two cents so you know without him guiding on completing it it's not my right to to do that he was a friend so i wouldn't i wouldn't do that and what was the story that you brought michael jackson and princeton yes you you brought michael jackson and prince together yeah so one time we had a show in um in vegas and michael jackson called hey where's michael okay yeah so i heard you guys are doing the show tonight yeah we're going at nine o'clock oh rats i gotta put the kids to sleep so i was like well i'm performing with prince later on at 12. so anyways michael came to see me rock with prince and it was a it was a magnificent night to see it was me chris tucker and then watching me chris tucker michael jackson watching prince rock on stage so to make a long story short prince steps off the stage and plays the bass in michael jackson's face rips the freaking base in 10 different pieces make a longer story shorter michael jackson leaves and goes home and says leave me in the house for breakfast so i go to his house with breakfast knock on the door first words he says why was prince playing the base of my face though cause he's no no prince he's just being nice you know no prince he's always been a meanie but bless their hearts they were so passionate and um you know we've lost a great musician [Music]

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Length: 16min 52sec (1012 seconds)

Published: Wed Sep 15 2021