Sarah Paulson on The Graham Norton Show

good evening everybody I'm James McAvoy and welcome to the Graham Norton Show [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] you're all very welcome happy New Year to all the new year we've arrived kicking and screaming into 2019 like Wayne Rooney is in the airport weird story I said my Christmas break it got a good heat stroke I bet I wasn't flying anywhere just playing with my new drone but hey everyone it's 2019 and guess what only 77 days till brexit Oh tech-savvy is that 77 the countdowns on whatever they go to call it Independence Day Briggs at a Armageddon we say the government's worried but this week it got lorry drivers to take part in a No Deal Briggs it rehearsal not very encouraging is it do it for the prime minister Oh spilling out L for loser trees of course still trying to sell her Briggs a deal to anyone who'll listen yeah terney she's wearing those blue plastic shoes because she's got a Veruca yeah irritating and really hard to get rid of now she knows how we feel now Teresa Teresa made meaningful vote takes place next Tuesday and oddly enough she seems to be looking forward to it apparently someone heard her say - Jacob Riis bhaag see you next Tuesday [Applause] but first this round has started germs like the age of innocence Dracula gossip Park in the career defying cult classic with snail and I now he's earning rave reviews for his performance in the real-life drama can you ever forgive me please welcome Richard Ebro [Applause] [Music] [Applause] thought in American Horror Story oceans eight and the people versus OJ Simpson now she brings us the much-anticipated thriller glass please welcome and start alongside Sarah in glass he's the personal star of Atonement filth and the blockbusting expen franchise it's always a pleasure welcome James MacAvoy [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] hello that was good fake showbiz hello in there made it look like we just met yeah it was good I was very very running out it was an awkward stillness I'm here now with questions you're all very welcome but Richard gotta start with you you are so hot right now you honor you're on such a roll thank you yes you've just been nominated [Applause] nominated for Golden Globe that would have been exciting a week ago yeah that's sadly you've sadly missed out on that was it was it a nice night or is it kind of horrible it felt like win-win because I'm a 61 and 3/4 year old nominee virgin in that I've never been nominated for anything in my whole life and suddenly everyone 19 Awards in one in two months so the beat of the Golden Globes sig next to Emily Blunt John Krasinski Melissa McCarthy Dick Van Dyke that was win win win as far as I was concerned yeah and you think god of being nominated is the most nerve-wracking thing but dares McEvoy you have to present at the Oscars yeah a couple of times now yeah I am I think the first time I presented at the Oscars I was standing backstage for a bit 25 minutes missing the show watching it on screen having a drink or something and I turned around and my kind of my crush at the time was Penelope Cruz and she's standing right behind me and I go higher you look at you look can you look care look really good than your dress and anyway so I walked wait and then about when is it like year later she winds up after and I'm presenting it and she walks up and she looks happy you see me and I just kick her really hard and are open towards you now Sarah Paulson a lot of people what should American Horror Story mm-hmm and I'm sorry yes yes I like to sad seven people whoop is it the eighth season you've what we judge season just aired yeah Wow yeah and obviously it's very scary show and lots of frightening things it is but what where is it you like this doesn't even like the natural milieu for you you are terrified of so many things it's true like so tell the people tell the people I don't like bees I don't like honeycomb I don't like sponges I don't like but I'm waiting with the honey coming to sponges these are related there it says I'm some I have something called trypophobia which is if you if you were to no not try no but it is yeah and I may be mispronouncing it some people say trip or phobia some people say trypophobia but it is basically the fear of holes and and when single hole is fine okay I guess but-but-but a whole mix when they're like smashed next to another hole and then they're like another hole on top of it and then another hole there and they're all like a whole jar enough apart and they're more oblong okay so the sets okay this set is alright I was worried for when there's space if they were all like I'm telling you if you google this thing half of you will want to retch and the other half of you will go oh but I promise you this is the new phobia for for some of you to discover that you have do you have any fears you like to share with everyone hard-boiled eggs smelly you don't like the video literally is like a fart on a plate if they're fried or whatever but if they're in an egg cress sandwich or something I've got to leave the room really yeah No thank you very thing that I'm necessarily freaking out he cruises boobs [Applause] first comes like stars James McAvoy and Sarah Paulson handily they're here films called glass it opens next Friday and this is it's a trilogy it's unbreakable then split which I think we're talking you talk to your but I think I don't and this one is glass so you are playing the same character I'm playing the same with many characters Mannie cat I'm playing nine of the same characters are played in the last one and an extra eleven in this one it's truly amazing but no buts mi Shyamalan who's made all these films he's saying interviews that you your character has twenty-four personality the character does have 24 personalities and we actually filmed 23 of them but we only when he cut out when he cut the filming got rid of three of them maybe I was rubbish as there was no way that was when I based one on you and I believed you I was like really that was actually one of the Irish twins is based on Saoirse Ronan when she was 12 oh you know I'm ser she used to talk like that yeah based on Sara who are you in the phone I play dr. le staple oh yeah look at me like that you got really scary for me for a second look a psychiatrist very nice yeah sort of subcategory I specialize in those who believe they are superheroes yes so it's not not a widely researched field no no I didn't do a ton of you know research work cuz there would be nothing to read [Laughter] listen let's watch a clip oh is this is Sara visiting James character Kevin in the sign I'm a professor of cinema specific absolutely no idea what I'm doing here I'm very much in favor of Kevin's we emerged and yet I find myself in a goddamn prison cell and I can assure you I am NOT young man wait you will not be able to get to the light it is set off by distance as well as being monitored by a camera I know this seems very unfair to you but you are stuck in this room gotta be fight he's right there you can't beat the beast you don't think you can beat the B study huh he's like something you can do the P study which two of you were in it but also bruce willis and samuel l.jackson are bad amazing I should have sued they were like cameos but like they're there for real massive movie stars and with what movie stars you what movie stars are your contemporaries and it is like wow so then a movie star but when you're working with somebody who's a movie star when you were a wee boy are we go and you watch somebody you're working with somebody who is in moonlighting when you were six you know I mean it's like it's unbelievable and it is we different because sorry talking about your heroes the last time we were on the show you talked about a share yeah love share and there was a moment when you smelled her hair I parted her hair with my nose no I do not buy her dinner first I we were we were at a party and she didn't even know I was there and I was behind her and I just like smelled really fragrant it was real it wasn't we know was not a wig well oh it might have been a wig yeah I was able to the wig is with my tip of my nose never did I did but no but now I hear so yeah we know man yeah so how was that I wept exaggerated not but someone didn't take a picture of Sarah and some friends be seing share everybody's happier posing superglue and I'm just like sobbing that's a wig on share for sure she noticed that you were smelling her wig like she did not notice that we were at a party that's true but in terms of meeting divas were fans of Richard you had that experience because when you were a little boy you were a fan of a particular singer yeah I was when I was 14 years old I got completely obsessed with Barbra Streisand because I seen her what's up-dock and funny girl and all these things so I know it's a phase that you're supposed to pass through when you become an adult but I had written to her when I was 14 I said dear Barbara Streisand I hear that you're having problems with Ryan O'Neal please come to Swaziland nobody will know who you are we've got a lovely house and a pool come and stay for two weeks and you know we get you sorted out she said and she's slightly beside she said I never got it and well slightly slightly yeah I had no idea she was bought on so everything has to be shot from the from them oh is that what that's about yes so when I finally met her I spoke to her for 22 minutes and she did ask me if I was stoned and Isis came by some cheesy line saying no I just absolutely gobsmacked to meet you were you so Julie yeah what did you talk about for 22 minutes I don't know she's very nosey sure she asked me a lot of questions as well but she was brilliant it I just sort of calming down my completely starstruck state so you know somebody's been so part of your life and then you meet them but I cry and you just were able to have a conversation and so when when josh brolin Merida I did feel like he was being stabbed in the back is my child that I know I can't count out Babs so on this movie who are so scary I mean that's you as the beast in the movie in glass and weirdly because of this movie and x-men you have no hair a lot like your ball are you scared that eventually your hair will get tired of going back if you want to look closely you see that it might be oh no it's getting a little fatigued get into the age of 40 pause receiving this recipient can Eli um yeah it's just quite like it the would be honest with you yeah quite like shaving my head okay yeah so you do quite like shaving like how old were you when you used your grandfather's razor oh no how old was that granda was all year someone here I can't remember what it was where's where's your granddad [Laughter] I might have been over I think it might have been a bit 12 or 13 I don't know I was younger than that I was getting pubes gotten past point two three I tried the plot I saw I basically got enough of them that I thought I don't know if I want this for my future so I'm gonna I'm gonna I was bored one day and I saw mcgrann this reason I thought I'll have a bang at that and then and I started shipping off I did it badly and I stopped quickly and I cut myself a little bit bleed and so I got some tissue and I dabbed it and I just like I was blood in a chucked it in the toilet cleaned it was the not and I went on the stairs and about ten minutes later I just hear James James and I'm like company top of stairs I'm like AHA and they're like can come down here for viewing that Sun and I was like why what's up something you were like you're right and I was like yeah I'm fine why what's up and they were like you're right and I was like yeah I'm alright and like James are you okay and I was like I'm alright they're like does blood in the toilet and the razor and I think they were worried that were you doing [Laughter] [Applause] on their faces was kind of like as no there was a stunned silence you were and then after they collected themselves my granny so it took me to say Dan explain to me things about hygiene and her he's gonna be using that in his face since the floor good point granny now obviously the lots of fans of James McAvoy's all over the place but one particular fan I think you were aware you're aware of the lady the balloon Butler REO Norman yeah it's her name you know she's here Maria's here where's Rhea Norman hello Ian or so now so really now you make balloon models of other people but you do a lot of james yeah so is that because he's easy to not a lot of balloons or are you a fan you're a fan I'm a huge fan oh thanks yeah I think you became aware of Ria's work when you saw this picture this is four of your characters from the movie split right created using balloons here they know that's a stick he's holding I think don't actually remember him holding a snake in there you all remember other film atonement yes so imagine what would that beautiful scene look like if we created using balloons here you are as Professor X oh that noggin professor a perfect you think you would think that is perfect for balloon work thank you it's harder than you think people have to smile it's an upturn finally finally mr. Tumnus oh here we go mr. Tumnus there you are Oh dorable here is mr. Tumnus in blue but now so we've got you know these are just pictures but we thought now if you're looking there Rhian you're thinking she seems a bit red in the face a little breathless it's because she's been backstage Oh pumping away something or blowing what I imagine pumping one of the I mean you know it's 2019 yeah those anymore gentlemen please let's meet balloon James MacAvoy [Applause] [Music] [Applause] oh it's lovely be here it's lovely [Music] shaving your balls I was trying up the blood yeah sting to see me off thanks for having us on our second film tonight is can you ever forgive me it's out on the February the 1st and as far as Richard II ground I'm Melissa McCarthy no Melissa was here last year telling us about it and it is it's the most extraordinary true story if people haven't heard about it they do talismanic she was a literary biographer who fell on hard times in the early nineties and couldn't afford to pay her rent and she started forging dead famous writers letters and selling them and she fell in collusion with an hiv-positive kleptomaniac alcoholic drug addict and they they got caught in their scam and they form this sort of weird interdependent relationship and people have really responded to these characters and yet on the face of it they should be so unlikable and yet they're I guess it's because it's you and Melissa yeah that must be the reason because if you say on paper you say what is it yeah a gay alcoholic guy and a lesbian writer who hates everybody and that they form this friendship and do pull of all these frauds that's the sound like people give me a running to the multiplex is to see that but they have yeah and your character is called Jack Hawke Jack Hawke yeah and I did improvise two words in the first day of shooting I said in a bar scene I said Jack Hawke big and odd is so Jack Hawke was a real person normally for playing a real person there's you know particularly someone in such recent history this was kind of the 1913 Isis yeah so you would think there'd be some source material but you there's very little to go on no there were none of his family I think he was disowned he came for Portland in Oregon although they asked me not to do an American accent and all his friends had died of AIDS so there was there are no photographs of him or anything about him so with just a tiny bit that was in the memoir that she wrote that I had to go on a little cigarette holder and the fact that he was really good at fleecing people and scamming them giving them the old stuff about who the real letters were from yeah this is yourself and Melissa as Lee and Jack and you're sort of discussing your finances you were looking at one month's rent who's Marlene lena 414 what I just saw a little tape something musty laxative just left bomb you know what do me a favor and keep me away from your cv dealings ladies present that may I ask how sweet your cinnamon roll is it's perfect if you don't like it I'll eat it yeah I'll have a coffee can you hold it up of course I can [Applause] yeah yes fingers in his ears the whole time well comfortables what's the equivalent of well do you like watching yourself back if I mom I feel I ought to watch what you mean yeah so willing okay if you're on do you just happen to have the telly on whenever you're on no no but if I mean on a Friday night I would watch this just because I feel you know why do I expect anyone else to watch it sure doesn't that make sense yes it does yeah do you watch American service I haven't watched anything I've done since Oh Jay I didn't watch it I haven't watched anything in the last five three years four years Wow that's a Quillin thank you you know it's like it's like having sex is fantastic but if you unless you're of wire filming it and then watching it back again that's what it feels like [Music] what [Applause] two hulls [Applause] my next guests tonight are taking on the iconic roles of Laurel and Hardy in the biopic stan and Ollie once the oscar-nominated star of Chicago blue nights and Step Brothers the other is the BAFTA winning actor and comedian behind Philomena the trip and the one and only Alan Partridge please welcome john c reilly and steve coogan [Applause] [Music] [Applause] very Fred no each other is in the showbiz well all chums everybody except you Graham excuse me once for tonight every Kelly Macdonald thing yes a pub let's not talk about that Alexa I met you once to Felicity's house I think yeah I think we were on Broadway together Sarah in case you forgot well congratulations gentlemen congratulations on stan and Ollie what a terrific film and I run a bus on the way over here I saw it was very exciting you got the bus yeah Wow is it a private bus or knows a double decker you know classic English bus Wow well done you yeah they're thinking we didn't come on the bus I didn't come on the bus during the side of the bar [Music] I've been reading the bus in 30 years please understand it's BAFTA nominations Steve zapper leading Actor ladies gentlemen British film so you mean it's this is going as well as it could yeah his people people like it was a bit of a bit of a risk we think both of us stood to do it would be anxious about doing these iconic people have sort of admired by so many people over the age of 40 but we actually helped some younger people appreciate Laurel and Hardy but but people were you know people are laughing at it and then they're crying at it we're supposed to cry at it yes we should say stan and Ollie is out tonight and the the story sort of focuses on this this final sort of chapter of their career which oddly took place in the UK yes yes at the end of their careers after World War Two they were having a lot of trouble getting any kind of movie work in America and theatrical promoter approached them about doing a theatrical tour of England and Ireland and Scotland and Wales and they needed some cash sadly unlike some of their contemporaries they had no box-office participation and no residuals at all from TV there were salaried employees while they're making their films and so they were a little hard up towards the end of their life and it was a beautiful thing I have to say that UK audiences gave Laurel and Hardy at the end of their lives this reaffirmation of how beloved they were and that's a lot to that personally yeah and that the biggest affirmation they got if their final show they ever did together which was in Dublin and the Irish gave them the warmest welcome of all I am how about that it's true the thing about the bells that when they arrived yesterday the the local church played the the cuckoo the answer the coop dancers cuckoos when they came off the boat and it was that yeah the last show they ever did together Wow got a kid this is the two of you cut this is sort of at the beginning of the film when you're the heights of your success and you're having a discussion about money here we go what are you looking for us down I'm looking for a fair price for a lot and hardly picture and you know it I picture cell all around the world we haven't got to die that's because we keep getting divorced no it's because you're a cheapskate who got rich off our backs come on now stay is he's a cheapskate a skinflint adapt our venue a parvenu he thinks because my contracts up and yours isn't that I won't be able to go anyplace else and I'll have to take what he's offering well wait what's a parvenu but it's someone who salad out the nothing got rich but has no class look it up in the dictionary how there's a picture of you oh you think is some sort of smartass huh well guess what I'm smarter has she told you yet we're setting up on our own hell it might be best if you could see your way to a small race you're setting up on your own huh well how about this babes still under contract with me and I ain't releasing it you can't have hardly without Laurel okay bye as well John was you seen when the trailer was on that they were 39 at that point so right yeah they're in their late 30s they got kind of a late start that was the that was the end of their career that it's really an emotional biography of two friends you know if you loved Laurel and Hardy you'll see some of that yeah right but but what's interesting about the film and why you should see the film is because it's it's a part of their life that no one has ever seen yeah it's what it's those conversations were like backstage and train compartments and hotel rooms when they learn to love each other as human beings as opposed to components of an act and to read beautiful time of their life and in terms of the boards is Steve you're known for kind of doing voices and impressions but as you had to get a voice that right before you know I'm not much of an impressionist actually accents I can do but it's not really my trade in sincerity you know that's that's my that's my brand if you will but luckily my speaking voice is not so far off from oliver hardy speaking voice we have the same range vocally we both sing in a similar style so it wasn't such a long way to go and of course Steve I had a lot of competition with Steve he had like a out of the box Stan Laurel impression immediately I was like alright well I better get to work here yes guy can already well that can be one well but that can be a curse that if you think that because you can do an impersonation you've sort of nailed something then your honor there's a fool's errand you know you've got a it's kind of strange sort of the reverse of method actually how all these this physical stuff and you've got the voice and you look like them and then you think well that's all external stuff you've got to try and use it to reverse engineer your way back into who they are you know yes people and in I mean I know the trip isn't real life but you know where you're doing all those voices all the time when you were filming this do you have to be really strict with yourself and gotta go I'm only doing Stan Laurel I know it's a bit it's funny enough when I start to do more serious acting rather than just being stupid all the time it's just been very good for me but Minh I got was from Stephen Frears when I did Philomena all he ever did was when I was being too big he just look at me and go Steve bring it down so all I do is just not not be big and not hang around Rob Brydon I'd see that the people in your cannon are you adding to it all the time or who's in your cana-don'ts around us I don't really I mean my impression stop around some Neil Kinnock which shows you how long it is since I actually practiced impersonation so I can only do sort of I mean I can only do people from you yeah how don't people in the Senate remember Ronnie Corbett oh I used to do Ronnie Corbett in week in Vietnam there was you know in the jungle from the bushes remember the Vietcong [Applause] [Music] you slice me you still do Sly Stallone yeah I used to routine about Sly Stallone and Alan Bennett in the same film which was I'm actually being able to reuse this sort of saying you know do lot of swearing like that I just have one of those days mother-loving came out of Buster's s what about you I have one of those days what about you Alan yes I've had one of those days I was accepted to the corner shop for the package of lemon puffs and I came back with happy faces [Applause] what say Alan Partridge is back yes yes BBC one next month he's back with areas in front of BBC with a new show called this time yeah already back on telly he's back on BBC well actually we have to sort of create a narrative that makes sense given the islands funny when he's losing you know all comic characters tends to be work best when they're right they're failing and what we decided was that the there's a coke that we created this fictitious show with a very lovely co-presenter played by Susanna fielding and very funny actor and she she has a male co-presenter and he's unwell so Alan's parachuted in substituted for that week and Alan sees an opportunity people do love their character I have loved for years so you must be aware of the the people collecting the accidental Portage's yeah I I don't sits on line looking at that stuff graves that'd be weird but people do tell me about like me politicians do a loss of accidental partridges like trees in May she's an accidental partridge see there you go this one is exciting I mean of course he's in it Nigel Faraj clearly accidental poetry to her right down to the Blazers Commission so much but in terms of accidental parting I did not expect to see this man Barack Obama [Applause] someone recently posted this on online it's a sports presenter doing a classic accidental partridge and you have to listen quite closely because it's just taped off the telly so the sound isn't very good in the ground there's no good joined by a beautiful lady there's a man actually there [Laughter] it is time for music this is over 55 million records at 14 UK number one and one for great awards and now they're back for over the decade away ladies and gentlemen it's only Westlife [Applause] the times I Drive it nearly meant to but when your majesty beautiful and I know that a bunch of way above so lucky that we fell in love [Music] sometimes I wonder am i enough cuz you could have some money without a belly of a temper perfect teeth hair growing where it's bad you know my lips are an old against you this is all that I'll ever need you and I [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] you will know that all the good things you do when people take advantage of your heart is pure so beautiful [Music] and I know that it's just a wig [Music] fathers mother's dog and to tell me that you don't give enough [Music] now [Music] semi something this is all I wanted to be [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] without a Betty of the temper perfect teeth hair grow and rabbits man you know my lips are like an old against you this is all that I'll ever need you and I [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] okay I feel like we're just picking on Westside for giving you stools it's because there's too many people we we do not have to sit on a stool no we actually we're good at that I was a little bit was a proper world those are Westside schools behind ones atlas of congratulations on that performance and that song that is the new single hello my love which has gone straight to number one I was talking to some of your fans before the show is it eight years since you did a seven seven years our last TV show was there I asked you hey wasn't he no7 okay anyway and when you were class together your kids were all quite young and now presumably they're teenagers and things I think yeah we've my daughter's 13 yeah she went to her first disco last nine children between four of us so these ladies you're not gonna sing all those rubbish songs from the past like I yeah and you're like my god you know what that they're kind of hates your clothes obviously we're very happy to see you back but I heard you tell a story where in the early days some of your fellow musicians weren't that keen on you well see the thing is so you talk about the the Oasis story yeah yeah so basically we were a young band in 1998 and we just signed a big record deal over here we've flown into London and the label said to us you know go to there's a brand new Tommy Hilfiger store opening in Bond Street or salon she go along you know trying to puffed and try and be you know noticed and when we arrived there was like superstars like glaze her laces were there and this was 98 and they were like you know what's the story Morning Glory biggest album and we thought we have to go over and say hello so they were having a little drink and it was like a circle of people what could go wrong exactly we walked I thought we go we go so me and one of the boys walked over and they're you know they had the back to us and we took them on the shoulder and went lean we're at will Louie Walsh a manager will Louie's new band I need you [Laughter] so your your touring your tour starts in Belfast on the 20 22nd of May on the tour the drugs could be sold out and sold out in minutes yeah it's all that pretty fast so we've decided to add a few more days so that we just added Carter good luck with the tour with the album this year later this year end of the area end of the year hopefully just in time for Christmas but thank you for that before everybody [Applause] chair who is there hello hi hi what's your name Lucas sorry recast noches dude he casts his friend she's 29 so do you live here Lucas I do okay what do you do I'm a chef ah Keltie same story Lucas I was a pastry chef in Ireland then we organized a wedding on the night of the wedding we bring the cake to the party there was a room in in between where we when we turn around we saw the bride and groom having sex basically on the table when we actually get into the room where the party was going the groom was at the table waiting for his missus [Applause] very good because it was such a terrible start couldn't understand their meter it was in Ireland for no reason Shyamalan could make the movie she's not there yeah okay one more one more okay we go hello if you'd like to tell your story you've got that justify website this is a very des please say thank you to all my guests see joining x-rays with using wax in 1975 a great sofa of acting talent Stephen Mangan Laura Linney tuba - Ella Mae and Saoirse Ronan I'll see you then [Music] get all the backstage gossip behind the scenes of our big new show the greatest dancer by checking out the podcast with Radio One's Mollie King just download the BBC sounds app to listen [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music]

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