The Graham Norton Show - S25E05 - May 03, 2019 || The Graham Norton Show (03/05/2019)

in him anything and you're staying it's local elections this week I know exciting good news is Teresa she went out and about yeah she visited a phone box mmm-hmm braixen Glasson government but hey she found time to visit that phone box apparently they're turning it into a library by putting books in there well you know nice to have something to read when you going to the toilet [Music] [Applause] Oh [Applause] but first the Elton John biopic a Rocket Man is the most hotly awaited film of the year and we've got two of its stars playing lyricist Bernie Taupin this man rose to fame has Billy Elias and has gone on to become one of our most versatile actors please welcome mr. Jamie Bell [Applause] is the style films like Kingsman Robin Hood and Eddie Eagle it's tarin [Applause] the scorned wife in the smash it dr. Foster now she's in new period drama gentlemen Jack please welcome back Saran Jones [Applause] nice card in Point Break speed and the matrix now he's shooting up once again a super assassin John wick please welcome [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] tell us see gonna see them sink [Applause] in tonight's celebrity groupings everybody backstage yes we did okay fine I'll leave it there because we start site with calories you donned the suit once more in John wick chapter three Parabellum the 15th of May I liked the success of these films is a mate I mean people love this character yeah which is really nice I mean you hope that because they're absolutely amazing there's nothing else no no the set pieces in this movie are extraordinary shield on the other day and be who does my facial hai bhi hai was telling me about these bones like the most unlikely person well maybe not I don't know but she was yeah she was doing my thing saying please don't dies and then the thing then it Wow okay yeah no I mean that's really nice to hear I mean you know like when we do the work we we hope that people enjoy it so it's been really nice we're used to seeing you in quor'toth the mean streets but this time John wick goes global now is it actually there's a horror desert yes yes I had a vision after chapter 2 that I saw John wick in a suit walking in the desert and I shared that with the director Chad's to hell ski and he went that's a good idea and then so we tried it we found a way and and it's a remarkable place it was the first time I had ever been there so let me see you walking the desert you got as you in the Sahara that's me ina Sahara with Halle Berry now I would say even tonight's a bad day even tonight you are more suitably dressed for walking through the Sahara because like lace-up shoes I know but it's John wick know we talked about like neo doesn't wrap his coat around his head do all these survival techniques no no it's Keanu Reeves and Halle Berry so you gotta think how could they be upstaged these dogs are amazing they're spectacular right now I don't want sperrit II was blushes wears a spoiler but there is a lot of ball biting that goes on yes in the film yeah they're attack dogs bull biting ball balls now is that just are they just put some cheddar cheese down there cheese cheese sausage and cheese yeah that's how you train a dog to do anything sausages and cheese you don't want them to bite you harder you want protection you're not like you don't want to entice gang did you have like stunt balls yes I but they're so sweet they're so smart and yeah and so once we got into the action of it it's kind of like dog food right so we have like car foo and John wick gun food now it's dog food so they become part of the action in house yeah commands them and it's pretty extraordinary this is essentially this is you as John wick doing what you do best yeah but I think this one is I had the idea of John wick walking in the desert in a suit and then the director had well we need we need ninjas on motorcycles with swords and that's what we've gone so I mean that's clearly your face no like but you're not doing that are you know so how is it yes but are you on the Batman or something or okay so in John wick we tend to just do everything in camera but we couldn't do that but you do look quite a lot of your own stunts Tony I don't do any stunts but I do action as much action okay as people do stunts but but no but I don't get hit by a car I love that you say that because it's so it's always the case that you're so pushed into the same you get the stunts you do the stunts as insurance but you ran now I was ready you had a stunt double in dr. Foster I know and I remember what stunts were in dr. Foster but we've got a picture of you with your stunt double I I think you can see which is which that day when you tune up when they say here's ray and he's your stunt driving there's a whole other conversation here of why wasn't that a woman anyway I think they may have sorted that out for me to era they know but they won't do that again and I drove into the pub car park very fast okay so ray did that's it serrated beautifully they probably did use mine cuz I obviously wanted to do that right I can yeah now it's not just the motorcycle star that you're on you in this film you are on a horse and was that again was your idea was it another vision yes I had another vision after chapter two John wick is running out of Central Park and I said Chad I have a vision he was like what y'all knew and I said I want to ride a horse why don't I ride a horse I'm trying to escape and so he said that's a good idea and so began the training because of with John wick he can't just ride a horse ya have to come off the saddle you're supposed to fall under it held onto the pommel excuse me it's fine and then shoot some day we were training I couldn't really do it and I fell well as you do and so then they had to create something to make it safe and so they did this contraption that was like this truck with some beams and then a gentleman on a wire so I was picked in case I fell off the horse while we were on the streets and so that happened a couple times the horse took off and I was like falling and then they pulled me up and but uh so that was nice I tell you wouldn't have liked this this forum Jamie Bell you're not you're not a fan of the horse I did listen I didn't love horses me no certain particularly to get a long-grain like I'd be walking through a I mean not randomly walking through a field but like that'd be close to a horse like phenomena and now that guy's giving me energy and it would like run away because it would feel my fear I was terrified of them you know they're big and they're reputable never connected over this I was I was thrown from one on the set of Robin Hood we were I I got to a whole movie about Robin Hood and I never once got on a horse on camera is actually if you never on horseback I was never on a horse in that film Wow what because I couldn't I couldn't bear to I couldn't be within like ten weeks and then once I saw an offer I'm great yeah oh now but then you stopped Jamie because you had a special was a woman or maybe a person anyway name is camila nap ruse and she does she she does the kind of horse mastery on a lot of film she's the horse master on Game of Thrones like she's done everything she has a very specific technique which is kind of like strap you onto the horse and she's with you on another horse and she just kind of starts going like really like this it's all and then she goes quicker and quickly no seriously stop and then she'll ask you incredibly personal questions about like how was your farm well tell me about your father like what do you feel most guilty about and then ultimately you're like took cigarettes to school and my teacher let me off like and you realize I've totally forgotten about horse riding and it was a crazy kind of therapeutic amazing way of learning to ride a horse I don't know yeah we will ride you ride I love riding horse and ice that I went to like every week after I never would have admitted that I won't ride horses had I known that his story [Applause] [Laughter] the big movie for this week is Rocket Man from May the 22nd so tariffs you play Elton Jamie plays Bernie Taupin the lyricist here's a little taste of them about this movie suppose what we need to is that is that this is not a straightforward biopic it's not he was born and then no no it's um it's a it's a musical retelling of Elton John's life and the the sort of the central relationship in it is his musical partnership and friendship with Bernie Taupin and it's got these elements of fantasy so it's non-naturalistic kind of strange and kooky and trippy and and yeah we've been working on it for quite a while now probably about 18 months in total when thinking about all the studio time on the song yeah you must be so excited people to actually see it there yeah I mean terrified you'll notice that I don't yeah it's me singing so it's so you we sort of asked the audience to take an imaginative leap because obviously it's me singing so I don't know exactly like Elton but it's got I suppose it's got something of the stage show about it in that way and you sent Elton a lovely birthday gift do you yes yes he said very picture of yourself [Applause] the film no no that's one from my own person was he pleased for this person I I don't see a lot of pressure on you playing Elsa but then Bernie Taupin is this strange man in that you know we all know the name but actually people don't already looks like people don't know what he sounds like yeah is that freeing or did you still feel like I responsibilities to the man it is nothing like what Taryn must have felt in terms of approaching the role and and and you know the concept of him playing John you know Bernie lives in relative anonymity lives in Santa Barbara very happily with his wife Heather and I think he enjoys that sense of anonymity but their connection has last know there is lasted many decades there is an essential need that they both have I don't think that they could have done it without each other really and of course you didn't just meet out and you sort of become friends you've stayed in his house in the example Jean yes yeah it was my girlfriend and I went and stayed without the David for a few nights probably about a year ago and it was all going really well and we all having really lovely time and then we we got we Alan David teetotal but we got a little bit drunk I got caught by the head of his security raiding his larder at 3 in the morning so so grim and I thought Elton didn't know and the following day I was just kind of like going about you know going about the conversation you spent you know you were a little [ __ ] [Applause] when he heard you mean presumably you had to sing for him at some point yeah so we should have did like it we did like a test where I went to Abbey Road and sang in front of a piano he wasn't there that David was there but Elton wasn't there I think at that stage that would have possibly made me yeah since then we've actually we sang together earlier this year which was an incredible experience and and we actually have a we have an album coming out along with the film Jamie Ballantine have a duet we sing goodbye yellow brick roads together this little known actor named Richard Madden and I haven't yet we do punky cat and then very very proud to say that almond Bernie wrote a brand new song for me announced to do together which comes out later this month oh wow this is all under the sound album it's Adam made ready for that that's the one yeah made sort of worth but now there's all those kind of weird connections because you let Elton a long time ago Jamie but yeah when you were a little boy yes so so when Billy Elliot screened at the Cannes Film Festival 150 years ago he was there and it wasn't even called Billy Elliot at that time it was called denser we weren't sure what the film was gonna be was the first time we were kind of exhibiting it to people and he was there and and I remember meeting him at the reception afterwards and it was the first time I'd ever met anyone you know I mean he's stressed stratospherically famous yeah but he was really moved he was really kind of and he was weeping to be fair when I when I met him and and and so much of that film I think it was the the relationship between Billy and Billy's father in that film at know if you remember at the end of the movie Billy's father kind of turns up to see him perform yeah when he's older and Elton as you think told you he's also told me that his dad and he had a very complicated relationship with his with his father he never showed up to see him perform so I think that that really was quite profound for him yeah you know and of course and then the other issues that the whole who wrote to the yes wrote lee hall then he wrote the film but then he wrote the musical as well Elton and the music for the musicals I saw and then and yeah I've been kind of cosmically tethered to him and now in terms of the movie there you know where there is a musical there is dancing so are you cool with the dancing taranovich he's very good well it's funny she's saying that Jamie there's one big set this is one big chickens in the film where I sort of do have to dance a little bit and our fantastic choreographer Adam Murray sort of realized quite quickly that it wasn't my forte so um I I basically decided to do Billy Elliot so when you go and see our film which was I hope you will yeah Saturday Night's Alright for fighting is me doing my very best Billy Elliot and with far less finesse than Jamie Bell did it when dancing happens around you yeah do you feel really self-conscious like never gonna go I feel very pressured by it yeah do I expect he would be like really good if you're in that movie you must be amazing sorry if you'd like for it like example at wrap parties or you know like I don't go to clubs I'm not someone who like you know does that whole thing but like if I'm a rat part of the like like they're pulling me on the dance but like you got a dad you got to do some dancing but like I was a tap dancer tap-dancing does not go down well anything here in for star like a quiet everyone Fred Astaire moves in the night not many people know this Keanu Reeves you trained as a ballroom dancer no I didn't yes you did no no I took some ballroom lesson um it sounded like fun I'm sensing it walsim it was thrilling actually I remember one of the first lessons I had when I did the waltz with the partner and oh my gosh I mean I got high it was amazing that first time doing a woman and she bled and just like it was amazing thrilling to be moving through space like that you know yeah it was that's pretty special did the foxtrot and some tango yeah ChaCha have you kept it off absolutely no fun as it was great and I'm talking about you know pop icon's surround Jones and talk us through who you gave when you did celebrity stars in their eyes twice I did it twice did you really I think we talked about that this is the first time I think so I did so a song Coronation Street for four years and so they used to ask everyone who was on Corey would you want to come and do Matthew Kelly stars in their eyes so I just joined so it's hardly been there like a couple of months I said yeah I want to do it I want to be Sinead O'Connor with a ball cap and pop a tear-out amazing no you can't do that you have to be Madonna so I was like Oh which Madonna they said it'll be hey mister DJ not my personal favorite I love Madonna but not my personal favorite and yeah I did it I did that and then I did him the second time I did it I was like can I do something cause I'm leaving Corey now so maybe it'd be like an audition if I did like in Chicago new TV period drama gentlemen Jack this is BBC one Sunday nights at 9:00 p.m. from the 19th of May now this is you working again with the great Sally Wainwright she wrote this but am I thinking she's she ever directed you before no never so no we've worked on this is the fourth project but she's written all the others yeah it's gotten Bailey Unforgiven life and crime of Julie Bottomly and then this so it's um so it's a part series and it's based on the real diaries of an Lister and she she left almost 5 million words of a diary and it described her as an astute business woman and she documented the social economical landscape of Halifax at the time but then a sixth of it was in code crypt hand or secret code and that was because she those parts the secret parts documented her affairs with women and relationships with the women which is a very important document because of the time we don't have many documents that detail it in the way that she detailed it so sometimes when you say detailed it yeah and so she's often referred to as the first modern lesbian I mean lesbian wasn't even a word because it covers 1832 to 1834 and she talks about her gender and her identity I mean it's so transgressive it's it's unbelievable that we don't already know about I mean lucky for me than we don't but yeah well about it more in a bit let's just have a look at a clip this is you as an Lister meeting your love interest and Walker played by Sophie Randall so did she hide them or to just nobody know what they were because they they lay on red for what 50 years or something yeah so at the end of the 19th century a relation of hers John Lester and his friend Arthur Burrell found them and when and they managed to crack the code obviously when they cracked the code and they realized what was in the secret part of the Diaries Arthur Borel said you need to burn these Diaries because you know you can't be associated for that as a family member but John didn't so he hid them in the wall of the house Shipton Hall in Halifax where we actually filmed so I got to literally walk in her shoes because they allowed us and you can visit there as well it's a beautiful place very magical and then they it wasn't until the beginning of the 20th century that they were given to the library in Halifax and then I think it was a historian called Helena Whitbread that cracked the code and and then we're talking kind of light through the light late eighties 90s but even when it's translated it's still kind of she uses odd phrases and things too high yeah because it was so deeply secret at that part of her that she couldn't yeah so she'd use things like in curing across about miss Walker would mean masturbating over her or wintering in Rome which meant full sex or going to Italy meant for sex so yes she was still hiding it within the coat yeah wintering in Rome winter in Rome but yeah yeah or grumbling which just meant a quickie okay yeah I'm all right thinking don't you read Elton John's Diaries yes I did so at that same trip where are ya it's a trick either he's winter in Rome he use the same code stealing Oreos from his kitchen did I went and read his Diaries and my favorite one my favorite one the only one I remember my favorite one is went to a restaurant tonight did a moody and smashed a plate of french fries was always stuck in my mind in circus we can characterize elements by perform a little bit did a moody broken plates you know dr. Foster Gentleman Jack on HBO and yet there was a time in your career well maybe people don't predicted those glittering Heights all your first was it theater education was it craggy CIA yeah crack rats crap yes so chronic rats would go around to schools yeah and what would you what were you teaching people so have you ever done any T ie stuff no a drama school I do so you so you get your van and you get your set and you get your costumes which people have borrowed from all their aunties and Nana's and stuff like that bad wigs put it in the van go to all the schools and we were teaching post education options so we would go in and set our thing up and then the 15 16 year olds would come in to their assembly and then and then I and my team would sing songs to them about their options and obviously have deeper chats as well but it was it was like pop songs to let them know their options one particular is an S Club 7 songs so we'd go in and sing don't stop never gave up old yet I am reached the top we're all doing an NVQ and working in a job I mean to make it works like that is not bad enough then then you give out forms and you say so what did you think of the crack rats because obviously community thing you need to give feedback and we'd go in the van get our bodies from down the shop and a mine would usually say the one with the dark hair as big tits that's a crag well so that's the company that's the T ie neither is yeah what did they mean when they picked crag rap I have no idea more of your code young people in their lives whom you should call it crag rap a diversity thing for bin men yeah and we sang our songs yeah right time for our next guest this pop icon has sold over 18 million albums as a Grammy three Brit Awards to our name now celebrating 30 amazing years in the business please welcome [Applause] [Music] [Applause] do you know economy is you know Connie Minowa I do yeah actually when I was filming the matrix in 90 98 you would come out with an album yeah yeah so you are everywhere there might have been a good thing passing something at a something nothing okay wait to see no why not no this is the director of Rocket Man is sat in the audience is called Dexter Fletcher and Kylie's music video the name of the song Jack's gone [Applause] some kind of person we were gutsy sorry I'm just running around in Spain it was a lot of fun it was a lot of fun two days in Spain just driving around in a car with Kylie acting like I was trying to act like I was cool very cool but your your is you have duets with Elton John I did a long time ago I believe was 1995 oh my gosh yeah okay at the Royal Albert Hall yes now did you know that Sir Elton would look like this specifically was he went as Donatella Versace did I know I think I knew but can one fully prepare themselves for that no no one cannot now this is a big weekend for Kylie and Kylie Minogue fans because you're announcing a new album sort of yeah a greatest hits album which turns out to be far more emotional than I had anticipated because this is your definitive greatest hits yes although there wasn't enough room for all of them so there are a couple missing okay it's out on the 28th of June but people can pre-order it now I've got it here look everybody it's step back in time now I mean I was really I thought they were all along well almost surround jobs you vote what here are you looking for have to be especially for you we've got that we've got that lucky right yes oh yes yes yes locomotion oh it's here let's have a look we could get a montage of just a few of Kylie's hit okay [Applause] the next thing the next time yeah what's it like to kind of stop and take stock it's positively weird and as I said before it's emotional I mean just looking at those few clips I could bore you senseless with stories about the day that I did the song or we had to you know fight for weeks to get this song or do the video or the first time I performed it live I mean it's just yeah but also I think what somebody's it taps into an audience's memory of thirst I was hoping that as that was played but and that that's the joy of it and put aside my emotional part of it and pride I definitely have pride some embarrassment of course but I do hope that it takes the audience on on a journey as well because it marks so mean I mean it's 31 years worth there so yeah [Applause] [Music] you're you're taking it on tour om what bunch of summer shows coming up yeah and is this going to be kind of full-on like cardi shows it will be slightly stripped back or how is it I mean first of all shows are slightly different because that's the stage you can really do not much more with it you don't get a soundcheck you just like rock up pray hope everything goes fine so well we'll try and put enough on there yeah yeah I know you're doing your first solo Glastonbury yeah yeah I mean I would I did a phone interview yesterday and I just was taking a little sip as though a month of conversation and the word glastonbury came up I said I guess I just about spat my coffee it's it's a huge deal for me why is that one so scary or so big and I guess for me you know it's been I was meant to headline Glastonbury in 2005 and I couldn't I had a diagnosis then which stopped me doing that so haha the road to Glastonbury has been I think if you're gonna get the legend slot it's been a long road anyway but you know it's been a long and winding road with a few speed humps along the way yeah yeah here's the thing so we're celebrating your career tonight 30 glorious season I think people have an idea that once you've arrived once you've arrived show business is lovely and that's why you make it seem you make it seem like you arrived and then it's been 30 years over hits hits hits and loveliness I think since I last saw you somebody I think somebody sent me this clip on Twitter and it's one of those things were you gonna go like a lesser reformer a lesser performer would have cracked I might crack now don't say but have you seen this recently I thought like a tiny bit of it and I could watch no more we're only watching a tiny bit so explain this so it's Spanish television you know I think about 1990 yes that's about all yeah well I think it was the Spanish this is so weird it was the Spanish government and they decided they were trying to appeal to a younger demographic right see probably no one told me that at the time okay they just surf you out so they were trying to appeal to young would you ever go I'm not sure it worked but what you have to admire here is Kylie Minogue professionalism in really some difficult circumstances that the crowd weren't loving it okay [Applause] that is the League of Gentlemen surely that's Royston Valley right there Kylie [ __ ] them [Applause] your mind blank congratulations 30 years ago so Jay its music time this 21 year old singer won the BBC's all together now and has gone on to become Britain's entry for Eurovision 2019 at Tel Aviv here with the song he'll perform on May the 18th it's mr. Michael rice [Applause] Oh [Applause] that was a great performance thank you if it's as good as that on the night I mean that is some voice and by the way if you want to buy bigger than us it is out now so are you all set are you ready for television yeah totally I'm really excited more than anything so yeah I'm just ready to go out there and just sing my heart out yeah because now you've been going around Europe they were doing it where they're getting the other countries to hear our song this year so where've you be I've been to Madrid Korea Amsterdam Spain like I don't know a TV show in Spain and Bahia yeah I forgot excited than Kylie's been so crazed I'd like to think I've got funds and other countries I just never thought I'd ever have funds which I know it's fantastic yeah fantastic by the way isn't there a strange link you and J okay so I'm gonna take over this is from Harley Poole I come from a town called Billingham there like 20 minutes up the road and I really applaud you for [Applause] like mixing you say Jimmy but like you're from Hartlepool he's only from around the corner for them yeah it's real nice to be with you and you guys so yeah and what is it good luck because seriously it's a beautiful voice and you fire it so so Wow big chair who's there hello hello hi what's your name Lee Lee lovely Lee and what do you do I'm a navy engineer an AV engineer yes something like an aviation engineer let's go with that audio-visual kylie minogue's I'm audio-visual engineer that is correct that is correct me and some friends were drinking in a bar and it was my turn to get around so I rocked up to the bar and I we're not next to this kind of scary-looking guy who had some like tattoos and he looked a bit rough and I was looking and I had my bar 10 on so I was a bit happy and I kind of asked I couldn't establish the conversation I was like because he was buying two drinks I was like oh you know one for each arm and then he it got real awkward real fast because he turned around and to my horror he only had one arm [Applause] that was a good story yeah that was a good story as we try one more okay let's try one more here we go hello hi there Mike what's your name I meant Edie yeah and were you from in stoke-on-trent stoke-on-trent and what do you do it I'm a software consultant a software consultant Kylie on it off you going a story so earlier on in my career I had my first proper job interview and obviously I was quite nervous I'd heard some tales about the person due to interview me and she was a bit of a terror so I turned up 10 minutes early in a place that I wasn't really familiar with waited about half an hour she was quite late so I've started phoning and I phoned her once and I'm not very good on the phone and didn't really want to do this phoned her again and then decided last second or I really needed to toilet so put the phone in my pocket ran into the toilet came out pulled the phone out to see if she'd phoned me and the phone was recording on to her voicemail absolutely everything so I come back to the room she's there she's about to pick up her phone no no please don't pick up your phone please if the interview it went horribly somehow managed to get the job and to this day I still don't know if she said it [Applause] [Music] I'll tell you a story about that conveyor but it's got their dress please say you saying you don't all of my guys tonight Michael rice [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Shakespeare's sister comedy genius Kevin Hart Oscar winner Octavia Spencer and from Aladdin Namie Scotland with YouTube star Will Smith I'll see you there [Applause] so we'll all be revealed will we learn the true identity of H so many ants

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Published: Fri May 03 2019