FULL Graham Norton Show 24/2/2023 Dame Helen Mirren, Ariana DeBose, Pedro Pascal, Freya Ridings

tonight A Broadway star a Mandalorian and a Dame who really kicks ass let's start the show [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] I'm going so fast I'm going so bad hello good evening y'all so welcome to the show I am so honored tonight's guests have agreed to come on I tell you I couldn't be more touched if I was Prince William's bottom at the baftas uh did you see did you see Kate Pat his bum oh there she is playfully touching him by the entrance or exit depending Catholic do you see but surely surely the most touching scene this week came when President Biden visited Ukraine now it was described as a surprise trip yeah and to be fair he does look quite surprised where am I again it was lovely uh wasn't it when Biden finally got to Kiev and had that tearful Embrace with President zielinski oh I didn't know if you'd still be alive they said to each other writings [Applause] first this actress dancer and singer has started in Westworld and Hamilton and won the Oscar for her role as Anita in Steven Spielberg's West Side Story it's Ariana [Applause] he's the star of narcos Game of Thrones and this year's hit TV show The Last of Us Now returning to a galaxy far far away as the Mandalorian it's Pedro Pascal hello hello [Music] and she's the bastard Emmy and Oscar winning star Prime Suspect calendar girls uh Fast and Furious and the queen it is the one and only Dame Helen Miranda [Applause] [Music] [Applause] let me just try to make make it through some of it you can make it work I said it's really gonna work a round of applause when he finally opens he's sacrificing comfort for style fasten my seatbelt because welcome it's your first time on the show it is my first time yeah [Music] were you nominated I don't know you weren't even nominated the last time I saw you but now you've won the Oscar for West Side Story I know [Applause] it was a great night it was a great experience I mean I think I might have blacked out I mean between like being in really tall Valentino shoes and trying not to trip over gray to paint it like it's a miracle I made it to the podium at all I think it was the tripping over Jada we were worried about [Applause] [Music] oh they're sheets love shopping Helen love shopping and Pedro Pascal sort of jobbing actor and now suddenly king of Television two of the biggest shows on TV the Mandalorian and the last of us so yeah and are you I mean because you know because like I say you've been in the business for a long time are you enjoying all this sudden attention yeah foreign are you the daddy of the internet what's internet Daddy me yeah you are uh internet Daddy yeah I'm still trying to figure it out no people are like Daddy there's daddy um okay with a z i mean that sounds that's very like silver foxy it's like kind of an air about you like that I'll take it off I guess that's the thing I'm a Sadie actually no this means itself but even on Twitter they're all going crazy for it uh like I I need to stop calling Pedro Pascal Daddy it's becoming a problem uh uh yeah Daddy every time I see Pedro Pascal on my screen is my cool [ __ ] Daddy yes I love this one down here Pedro Pascal is a biblically gorgeous man I want to feed him grapes I want to Fan him with the front of a date palm Forest Lebanon I want to find the alabaster vial of perfume oil that one woman broke for Jesus and comb it through his hair thank you yeah I'm gonna DM that person and the last sentence is like he's stressing me out you're gorgeous and actually talking of the internet and and religion Ariana Dubose on Facebook under religion on your profile what does it say uh well it used to say Helen Mirren into that church still attending attention no she had you had this great quote where you were just like oh when I turned a certain age I just really started using the words like [ __ ] off yeah yeah well of course walk around just like saying that to people but I just really I love I love your freedom I love your Vibe and that's that's a religion to me yay well we could all worship at the altar of Dave Helen in her new movie Shazam Fury of the Gods it's out on 70th of March so this is a Shazam Sequel and you are new to the whole world of DC Comics dude it sounds it's like you are nude you too yes I thought I'd watch the whole film new yes so who do you play in the in this world I play character a goddess of course called hespera and I have two sisters who are also goddesses played by Lucy learn and you're um oh Rachel and Rachel Ziegler yes Rachel's playing one of your sisters she is that is the coolest thing I know and Lucy Lewis my other sister so you know we this is Rachel zegler who played Maria in West Side Story so did she had she finished West Side Story was she finished website saw a bit hadn't been released yet so you know you guys you took quite a long time we did release it it was some waiting waiting waiting so you know Rachel was this you know obviously huge like you're a huge star in the making but nobody knew about it yet yeah so it was a very exciting time to be with her and Lucy and I would sort of give her why is wise instructions about how to behave when you know what to do when you are a big star and how not to be taken advantage we did behave like big sisters to her and so the three sisters your goddesses yeah what gives what's happening yeah uh oh gosh don't ask me [Laughter] but anyway our powers have been taken from us and we're very cross and Sam took them from us and we've come back and we've come down to earth to take them back um but the reason I wanted to do it was because I loved the first Shazam I thought it was so sweet funny and yeah and I'm not a big sort of superheroey type person but but I loved I love the idea of it these young kids you know being superheroes so so I happily signed up for the um the second one but of course they are young kids playing and I'm sure you know this from your your experience with Mandalorian they live in another world they talk a language I do not understand you know I would I'd be sitting amongst them and I got embarrassed to say too many times I'm sorry what are you talking about what are you referencing all the references are I mean I don't know half the references that kids are saying today I'm still again there's one that I learned recently that's really wonderful and somebody was saying you swerve did what swerving is no no swerving yes I was like I was like oh take get somebody off your scent or something like that I don't know confuse somebody and and they were like no you they come in for a kiss and you swerve that's great yeah only if you don't want the kids will you kiss me no I will all right I just know that I would never swerve on you okay so you chose spot swerving oh Petra it's so lovely to see you how are you darling cheated I feel like that's wrong you can't be swerved all right let's take a look at a clip uh this is Helen as hespera uh confronting Shazam played by Zachary Levi I kind of feel like you're taking this all like really personally and like I don't even know you lady right if thieves stormed your home in the night and stole all your coin and then flip you would naturally give Chase would you not imagine it is not money but the lifeblood of your father The Last Breath of your mother the power of all the gods the magic of the entire realm that was stolen and now this magic courses through you and you have the goal to believe that you deserve it this is very personal Billy you are very menacing I just want you to know that oh no message so it means proper Kick-Ass there's big fights and things so do you do all the stunts do the flying I don't do all the stunts but I do I did some of the songs I have my Shazam finger can you see that one that's sort of bent and that one's straight the little finger my little finger that's my Shazam finger how did you do that I broke it on one of the stunts but oh wow I was incredibly Brave and I didn't say anything you know I wanted to be a real stocky person you know stunty I'm stunty yeah um so um I didn't complain but um yeah I mean I didn't do all my instance far from it no you have we have these incredible stunt people yes that's it oh yes we do they are extraordinary be rude not to use them it would be that's how I feel yeah you look bored how did you do this and but actually you did learn some stuff uh Zachary Levi who saw there plays Shazam he taught you a skill yes he did he had one of those well I don't know what they're called well this is literally just a a ball with a board on it that you can balance on and then this thing yes that thing exactly what are they called what do they call this does anyone know what they're called one wheel picking this up say what you see say what you see is it a balanced sport I don't know I don't know I loved it though the kids oh you could swerve you could swerve on it yeah exactly I mean he's just so cool and he was you know riding around the studio on that so I was dying to have a go on it so he very kindly let me have a go on it is that how you broke your finger I really didn't wrote that on the set but um yeah but it it then I went on to the scooter scooters are much easier you know electric scooters always love those oh my gosh I went with scootering in Paris really really late at night and it was fabulous and like now I just want to scooter everywhere all the time what do you mean it's good in Paris like you can rent electric scooters and like take them on the roads I thought you meant like a center where you guys all go running scooters yeah they let you they let you drink on this show only just begun I'm actually talking of cell to learn a skill on the kingsman didn't you Pedro uh the lasso yeah I even said it the way it said here because it's a lasso it's one of the lasso it's the last thing it's totally allows that like Alaskan awesome in America you say absolutely I've never heard that yeah I feel we're being pranked I've never heard that and it was and you know I've worked with Harrison Ford in uh yeah [Applause] and so did you try to learn to what I was I was terrible with the lasso I was good with the whip oh there you are that was the electric lasso but uh there's nothing there and so it was really just kind of a rope that ended here and you know you had the green tape and the rest was uh special effects but you had to um you know make it convincing and sort of shake with it and you want me to I should do it right oh yeah [Applause] I did definitely giving daddy you mentioned 1923 which is the Paramount uh Plus show you do with Harrison and that is set in 1923. so does he I want to say lasso um no he doesn't let her okay does anyone have so I don't think any yeah some people are so yes they do I saw you so me no I drive you but I would last so yeah you learned to track sucky I had to drive a buggy yes um that was fun well the good news is uh you could see Helen in Shazam fear of the Gods and that is out from March the 17th very good Pedro Pascal continues his run of great TV hits with season three of the Mandalorian it starts next Wednesday March the First on Disney plus uh so now the fans obviously very excited about this for people who for some reason have not encountered the Mandalorian so far who is the Mandalorian what can you tell us about him the Mandalorian is a foundling that goes by the name of din jarin he's a bounty hunter and a very dedicated Mandalorian which means he never shows his face there are a couple of instances where the rule is broken he is a baby grogu's protector and um and he and he says yes to everybody's missions and he's exhausted yeah but he's sort of a it's a really kind of Timeless character he's that kind of the lone guy walks into town the incredible silhouette the Sergio Leone Akira Kurosawa uh inspired uh Lone Wolf and Cub badass that's season three yes I'll tell you everything I will not swerve you and I will spoil the entire season of the Mandalorian nope can't tell you anything it is good we've got a very exclusive clip this is you as the Mandalorian uh talking to the great Carl Weathers about future plans now as I was saying there is a beautiful parcel available right down here by the flats I appreciate the offer but I have some matters to look after one confused I thought you had completed your mission but you're still running around here with the same Little Critter it's complicated I completed my quest he returned to me I removed my helmet and now I'm in apostate which is all the more reason for you to stay here with us where you're from you may be an apostate but here you'd be landed gentry so uh baby Yoda back which is exciting when you're doing the scenes do you know that at all times you're being upstaged yes absolutely let them do all the heavy lifting and baby Yoda like a lot of these things are green screen but baby Yoda is there yes baby it is there and what is there's two different versions okay well you're not supposed to say that it's the first time oh I gotta go the people from Disney are waiting for you yes yeah but he's baby Yoda right um you know just just following the rules okay so in the show he's baby grogu and uh but so what's there [Laughter] what was the question uh what's that what's there so there's two there's two yeah one that goes by remote okay um and it it is the most immaculately made realistic looking creature um by remote so that you can work in a wide shot and his ears will move and he'll look up at you and stuff like that and steal the scene yeah yeah and um and then there's one for the close-ups and stuff where it's he's like wired into Nassau NASA you know what I mean Nassau County everyone but he is it's so like the eyebrows and the eyeballs and the teeth and the little fingernails and everything and he's all um fully fully there and they're like a real scene partner to be honest does he ever mess with you they mess they they can make them do whatever you know and they're like yeah basically what are you doing it looks like talking to myself and I was like whoa you know um you're really really chewing up the scene on this one aren't you and he's like you know looks up at me and when adults recognize you as the Mandalorian in the street in life right they want you to do the voice yeah to their well because they get so excited and they say my kid loves the Mandalorian and then you know they'll either it'll be a FaceTime thing or they'll be like hey you know Charlie this is the Mandalorian and they're like what what and they look at me and they're like who the hell is that and then they're like well you know do the you know do the voice well no I I I I tried to once but it sounded so inappropriate because it's actually kind of a very breathy low register bedroom voice you know it's like yeah it's me you know it's like it's like it's just like so creepy close your eyes and listen to my voice but you are your family are huge fans Pedro and there's a lot of them there's so many yeah like there's dozens 34 first cousins really yeah so they must be all very excited that you're now this big star oh gosh yeah they're like you little [ __ ] you were so annoying you finally got all the attention you were after but don't they they call you and ask for favors and things they do yeah yeah like yeah they all have my phone number they have my phone number and they they give it out oh I get messages every day every day every day every day would you say this for my birthday or my school my daughter's graduating or my you know nurse is you know having a baby or my priest is upset and you know like like you always have to do the voice they will let me be myself I think for the most part but I think that there there are no limits for what what what may be requested Ariana your mom from a very early age she was your biggest fan I mean she really went out of her way well my mom is amazing number one and she raised me as a a single parent to an only child and the greatest thing about my mom is like she's an educator and I grew up in the studio Dance World which is highly competitive and she was not a like a dance mom she was very much like here's your bag do your homework I'm grading see you at nine and it it like she drove me up and down the east coast of the states to different convention competitions and things and just helped me make it happen because she was like no you're passionate about this go for it keep trying I know she allowed herself to be very very excited by your success now oh yeah she lives she lives at a party honey okay I remember the Hamilton opening night party at um Tavern on the Green Broadway because I did are you both darling I saw you I saw you did you real quick and I saw you on Broadway yeah and the public was smaller there were like you know what I mean there's everything about it was really intimate but um we it was the Broadway opening night party and she was like baby I just met common we've been chatting and then he said Come dance with me and then she was like I said hi to Mariska Hargitay and I was like yes Mom you live your best life and now it's just my date to kind of everything I mean she's my date at the Oscars it's such a pleasure isn't it to be able to share this sort of thing with your parents when I you know as I got you know more successful and I would be taken like to Paris to do publicity or something I'd bring my mom with me you know and we'd stand these incredibly Posh hotels like the Korea Hotel my mother had never been in that sort of situation and um it was just so wonderful to be able to give her that experience I on I'm just so thrilled that I was able to share it with her like that yeah and also it's even nicer for them because they don't have to do anything exactly they don't have to work which I love because moms work really hard and we get to spoil yes [Applause] is performing for one night only on the west end stage but not just any old stage where will you be on April 1st oh I'm playing for London Palladium today because I actually got to go visit and I walked in and I it really hit me what I had said yes to and I'm really excited and sensibly scared um but it's going to be so fun I treat cab well my shows they sort of like have a Cabaret style to them but like ball stuff to them and it's I it's like you're joining me in my living room the London is so famous yeah have you have you seen anything in the London Palladium or was it what you expected when you went oh no I haven't seen anything in it and I looked at the pictures and I don't really think the pictures do it justice like it's such a gorgeous space and the energy in it is like I mean it's legendary it's palpable and you know I can't actually believe I have the opportunity to do something there you know I feel like my career is just like this amalgamation of like very strange opportunities that find me and then I'm like yeah that sounds great let's go yeah um and that's sort of what this is going to be with mashups medleys and maybe I'll spill some tea about the experiences I've had because I've a lot of West side stories that didn't actually make it um and so when you say mashups is it All Broadway music or no you oh no I'm really eclectic taste like I'm kind of a weirdo like my influences started from like Donna Summers or Ray Charles to Burt Bacharach to Coldplay and Judy Garland LuPone like I love it all and I think uh mashups which I've been creating with my my music partner Ben rahula for a really long time they're a really fun opportunity to see how these stories or these lyrics speak to each other well uh to give people a taste of you in concert we've got a clip of you knocking it out of the park as the host of the Tonys in New York last year if you are [Music] time Every Mountain [Music] [Applause] right [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Applause] it's so cool like that mashup that has like 52 songs in it and we worked on it for quite a while but like that's the type of creativity I love and that was a cool opportunity because I'd won an Oscar and gotten to come back to the Broadway community and celebrate my roots and celebrate the people that I love so much yeah and if you notice those lyrics it's like there's very clear messaging in there like if you know you know keep it gay keep it game but like I am what I am like I think these are all beautiful things to put into the world and hello Camp fun that's what it is so we're gonna do a little bit of this a little bit of that and it'll be great so listen uh Ariana Dubose will be at the Palladium for one night only on the first of April good luck with it it's not a joke it's not an April Fools thank you we've got to quickly mention uh the show everyone's obsessed by The Last of Us Pedro which we're up to [Applause] um episode six we're at now it's episode six episode six okay and Britain's own uh Bella Ramsay there yeah yeah I had no idea she was British really no well you saw Game of Thrones didn't you no oh you didn't oh what it's got dragons in it why would I watch that I've seen all your episodes but the I don't think I've ever read such good reviews for a television show I mean they're incredible rap for us were you familiar with the game I didn't know about the game before I got the job and then I got the job and I found out very quickly about the game it's a very famous video game yeah I've heard that um yeah you haven't played The Last of Us no I needed it needed to be explained to me um but when I when I when I got the job I I uh I was very familiar with HBO I was very familiar with Craig Mason who who created uh Chernobyl yeah and uh but I called my sister who's got two teenage boys uh uh and I was on speakers when she answered she was dropping them off at school and she's like what's going on and I said well there's this job offer and uh uh or opportunity um that uh it's based actually on a video game and uh Bruno and Pedro are my nephews names and they're like what is it I was like it's called the LA The Last of Us you talk about getting that job your experience of getting that job quite hazy I think yeah I was in London I was in London okay okay so it all happened very very quickly it was a very strange thing where it was read the scripts talk to Craig uh uh us and then you know it was getting later and later at night and uh was shooting in London at the time and uh they needed me to stay up late to meet the creator of the video game and the executive producer Carolyn Strauss who was on Game of Thrones and um to continue kind of like you know convincing trying to convince them to hire me for the job and um by the time it was all said and done it was late and uh I uh I took a an Ambien a sleeping sleeping tablet that's that's strong to go to bed yeah because I knew that I needed to because I was at that point I was kind of hyped up yeah the next day but yeah and I was excited about the the prospect so they called me and to tell me that I had gotten the job but I'd already taken the tablet because I really didn't think I thought that I would at least have to wait until the next day you know and um okay yeah I remember actually that's cool yeah yeah and then like a couple of minutes on the call went by apparently and I was like so what's up did you did I get the job what are you talking about we called you we told you you got the job and I was like oh I did what's it and I was like oh I took a tablet I forgot that completely woke up in the morning it was all like oh my god did I get the job I'm gonna have to wait all day there in L.A I'm in London so many I'm gonna be waiting by the phone and everything and and and I I had gotten the job I'm surprised you kept the job let's think again and this is The Last of Us continues on Sky Atlantic and the Mandalorian season three start streaming on Disney plus next Wednesday okay [Applause] at right it is time for music this Brit nominated Rising Star returns with her second album blood orange here performing weekends it is fair ridings [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] dessert now I see you busy [Music] cities but another time my heart wants to scream where is the love that I know [Music] I should go [Music] say to me you're happy and you're actually seeing somebody and you're both [Music] fire in me [Music] people not so very lonely no one really knows [Music] [Music] to hold Friday night [Music] so very lonely [Music] great job everybody [Applause] thank you so much for that it was gorgeous lovely lovely lovely beautiful it's a big hug it was amazing yeah that that track weekend status off the new album blood orange here it is thank you it's so good if this isn't out yet it's out on the 5th of May but you can pre-order it yes you can so feel free to do that um now the story behind this album this is such a great story so this story you began writing the songs in a state of heartbreak I did so this this album is like a time capsule of the last three years of my life and it's called blood orange because there's two very distinctive halves one half I was very very heartbroken and alone and suffering and then the other half I was falling in love and allowing myself like the you know joy to be happy yeah um yeah um so that's why but the twist is the twist is that both halves involve the same man yeah there's a lot of like you know in lockdown like you know we could only go out to the supermarket into the park to sort of like scanning the every aisle for his face and yeah and then we got back to going yeah and you got back together again then Happy songs yeah and then it's like the fear and like can I like jump like can I like you know let someone love me and trust me like all the way especially when your whole life has just been heartbreaking songs it's kind of like am I allowed to be happy but I am and this album is kind of all of us yes Queen I know but Ariana it gets it gets more kind of meta than that because then the ex-husband who's now your husband I think your ex-boyfriend tell your husband yeah uh so he then worked on the album yeah it's very confusing together in lockdown um so at the end of the lockdowns and there was sort of still not very many Studios open so he like built his parents have a shed in their garden and he built a sort of makeshift studio in there and helped me write a lot of the the heartbreaking songs I'd written about him thinking he'd moved on with someone else um and then helping me finish the album which is great [Laughter] yeah that's a part of the story isn't it 100 yeah like the love stories around the whole covert experience not the breakups and the heartache yeah falling in love it's so painful to Lose Yourself like you know the person that you know to be with um but yeah I've been in that heartbroken place for a lot of my life and it's just it's so strange to be happy but to also have a record of the the pain coming through to the Joy is just yeah I'm very proud of this album so you are this wonderful performer you've got this new album uh and real Showbiz credentials because you're a dad now your dad is an actor he is and not just any actor he plays a very iconic role I mean we're in front of incredible actors and my dad's an incredible actor he's in the audience he's in the audience so who does he play uh so he's the voice of daddy pig in Peppa Pig hello [Applause] [Laughter] so you you just talk like Daddy Pig the whole time you can't kind of yeah with less cake yeah that's a real daddy yes but now say hello to uh internet Daddy oh oh hello Internet daddy oh yes I know what you mean about those those voice messages well I'll be 600 people trying to get him to do one thank you very much Richard and uh Freya so love to have you on the show thank you good luck with the album great writings everybody it's gorgeous right that is nearly it before we go at just time for a quick visit to the big red chair hello hi hi what's your name I'm Victoria Victoria what do you do Victoria I work in finance oh yes well let's draw a veil where do you live um I live in Clapham okay Victoria off you go with this story so when I was at University and this guy asked me on a date and he was being a bit tricky about what we would do so I sort of suggested going out for dinner but he was being very picky about what he was eating I said going for a drink he'd also given up alcohol so in the end he just suggested that I go around to his flat oh I know swerve um on my way there I stopped by Tesco and I drop him a text and say can I pick up anything because usually I pick up maybe a bottle of wine or a dessert but I thought I have no idea what this guy actually sort of drinks or anything I wasn't expecting to get a text but sure enough I got a massive paragraph come through milk rice and in a sort of paddock I just thought oh what's he making so start putting it all in the basket get to the checkout I'm walking over to a spot where these two massive bag for life full of Tesco food stood outside ring his doorbell and there was no response a few minutes later I looked down I get a text saying I'm not feeling very good could you just leave the shopping [Applause] you should be in the chair yeah okay that really is all we've got time for if you'd like to have a go in that red show yourself and tell your story you can contact us via our website this very address and please say a huge thank you to all other guys tonight for your writings Pedro Busco and Dave Helen Mirren that's it for this run but do join me over the next two weeks for a look back at some of the highlights of the past series it will be back in the Autumn till then say to everybody good night bye-bye [Music] stunning backdrop brutal challenges pushed to the limit in a brand new endurance test go hard or go home press red to watch now on iPlayer Jermaine genus gives his phone to Michael McIntyre next on BBC One Big Show in a moment foreign [Music] 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Published: Sat Feb 25 2023