S24 E2 - The Graham Norton Show | Full Episode | Rowan Atkinson, Jamie Lee Curtis, Jeff Goldblum

Good evening, everyone. This is Jamie Lee Curtis saying welcome to the Graham Norton show Hey, what was the show? Hey, I suppose I start with an apology. Sorry. I didn't come on dancing to an ABBA song I'm not what's that word insane. I Mean, oh desperate. Did you see Theresa May dancing under the stage at the Tory conference? You see I mean here she comes I mean I Say dancing There is music and she is moving I'm not sure how connected the two are I've seen washing machines dance better than that. Oh Dancing Queen I've gone with SOS She seems to like dancing doesn't she I tell you she should do strictly at least then somebody might vote for her But you know what? I think it's quite a good idea politicians who associate themselves with ABBA songs and not just dancing Queen I mean you could have a take a chance on me But my personal favorite one of us is crying Biggest boy bands ever now he turns author with his new book a better me. Welcome back to Gary It's like a fish called Wanda and true lies now she's back as Laurie Strode in Halloween Please welcome for the first time the great Jamie Lee Curtis **** if she came out like a no cath like some sort of But go for it Do you think you would be dog? I'm like all dog Like walk it was a wolf it was wolf bull pie bull pie. Yes You don't know Gary do you are you gonna call me Jamie Lee Curtis the whole yes I know Gary a little. Oh, dude from backstage. Oh, okay You know, we can get very intimate very quickly. It's dark. I'm American Because Gary Barnum, yes, since he last saw you because you know Huge pop star but now movie star Absolutely. Yes Gary Barlow in Star Wars. Yes Here you look like you've won a competition What's your Star Wars name I use my own name I'm an X-Wing fighter. I fight as me. He's not making this up. He is it and that you are actually in the film Aren't you? Yeah, there's there's there's a point where I went twice to see it and missed it. I'll be honest In the end I needed the pause button to just catch sort of that much we were in a trench and It sort of goes past and boom. It's gone. But is your name in the credits your name? Yes You don't get a Star Wars name. That's the only reason to be in Star Wars They said I didn't need one. Well, we've got a picture of you This is you in action. There you go I've got to keep the outfit. Oh, yeah, that's Halloween forever now. Yeah, they measured me for the action figure They didn't actually So good to say You've had dolls before you're fine. It was a great day out. I must have been a big Star Wars fan since It was amazing. Absolutely Were you treated nicely or we just bossed around like a regular extra No, the the the young lady who got us onto it is a very big fan of the band. So if you take that tickets I mean that the director was I who is this guy? Okay, she's getting tickets taking on So you a pop star turned film star Jeff Goldblum film star, but you're not here tonight as a film star You're here as a musician Jeff Jeff Goldblum is our music act tonight Yeah, you play with the rings Yes, I do. Why what why what do you think about that? You you play piano, of course. Yes, I would prefer to take off the rings, but I like I like to look That this summer there's an extraordinary honor this statue of you was unveiled No, I did not Brian in fact, I didn't know that was going up I learned the first day that was up Hey, so say hey, look what's up in? And I went Wow We thought oh how lovely we could you know, bring the statue here and showed you I have a say we hadn't quite understood The scale of this I read what it was. It's like 25 feet long. So etc, etc All I can offer you all right, I'm not sure if you're allowed to keep this I heard about this but I have not seen it Oh my golly, hey Jeff you can post it on Facebook Is the lowest form of humor true or false Let's see Wow, well, I thought that would be I thought it was made of it's like Pepe a mache I thought it would be a concrete of some kind I'm not sure we can give it to you. Are we giving it to him? No, no, no, somebody wants it back I don't know what I do with it. No, I didn't I I didn't realize it could be Decapitated but I then I think they told me it was sectional, you know, imagine if this were like a voodoo doll I would have felt something But you know Like Wolverine, yes Kind of like a little Wolverine thing going. Yeah, I'll just lay you here. There you go That's Jeff Goldblum's big head. Yeah, there you go First of all tonight Jiminy Curtis. Oh You return as Laurie Strode in Halloween. It opens on the 19th of October Here's the thing. So we're 40 years on Unbelievably 40 years since the first Halloween movie and there have been other Halloween movies, but we discount them. Isn't that right? That is correct. We are just connecting the dot between the movie from 1978 and the movie in 2018 and Laurie's road. I mean her story could have gone in any direction But how it affected her is really extreme. Well, it's gone the way the trauma Will take you you know, October 31st 1978 she was young and filled with promise and excitement to romantic Dreamer and then October 31st happened Michael Myers showed up and the next day She went back to school a changed person because by then she was a freak and she was just the person that survived him And she got no help. So you see a woman who's carried trauma for 40 years It cost her her family cost her her marriages cost her her child because she knows he's gonna come back and obviously That's what happens on October 31st 2018 and you are ready for him I mean she is fully weaponized at this point in her life. Well, she is Traumatized and weaponized it is a combo platter But then you did have to I would have thought for some other movie you'd have had to do weapons training But for this one you you went and shot real guns I did and the first day I went in for my ballistics training. There was a guy named Ray in Charleston wearing basically a Halloween sweatshirt who is obsessed with Halloween and they didn't tell him I was coming in and of course There was a moment where he turned around and he was completely overcome And then what happened was he wanted me to shoot his laser disc So they took the Michael Myers face put it all the way down The gun ring. Yeah, and for my first shot with this Winchester, which is a live round It's a big heavy gun clunk clunk. Boom And do you have a picture of it? No, do we have a do we have a picture of it? Do you I there is a picture that exists. Oh, I'm sorry. Did you guys know I thought maybe they would have looked it up on my Instagram site That it was on there I'll say yes, we do. Here it is. And then tomorrow night on telly. It'll magically be So there I was Winchester in hand boom boom live round boom Wow, I don't think we've got the picture Do you have a picture of it? Between the eyes that Michael Myers. Yeah, I could see this. Yes We've got a show business Or it's not in the show tomorrow night we all just look like idiots Say I've watched this film. I probably saw maybe a third of The movie is incredibly intense Very very very scary and it is wonderful, you know, because when you made this in in 1978 I like this idea of that you had to figure out how to pace yourself Filming the scenes you have to gauge where you were I was my first job as an actress really and it's certainly my first large role and You know in a horror movie There's a level of intensity that builds and after a certain thing happens Basically, it's your full tilt boogie toward the end of the movie, you know, you're just really really intensely afraid but there's a lead-up there's a Gentle time and then there's questioning. So what I did and I think I was quite smart to figure this out Nobody did it. I Numbered my script so that I would know at what level I was as the script progressed So that then when you shoot the thing out of order and they go, okay, we're gonna shoot this scene now I would know it's sort of like a scarameter if you will. Yes, you know where ten is the Running and running and screaming and one is the sort of high school girl in her classroom a three would be the patented Jamie Lee Curtis incredulous Who are you look which is this? Go to an 11, oh, please Can I tell you something about 11? yeah, so my husband is Christopher guest who was in this is spinal tap and he's Nigel and Nigel's amp goes to 11 He would be so mortified that I just like did a bad cockney accent So good at it, but I drive a Tesla. I'm sorry, you know and When I was being shown the car by the technician the guy says to me Chris is in the car He says to me well turn up the air conditioning and I'm like Okay, and I'm turning up the air conditioning. He goes no keep going. I'm like Okay, I'm going he says no keep going and the air conditioning is going on and the air conditioning goes to 11 And the volume control in the audio Goes to 11 and it's because Elon Musk was a big fan of spinal tap and so in a Tesla the air Acting scared of me go bloom you've done you act scared you act scared, but was it Spielberg? He did a really good in Jurassic Park. He was directing reactions to talk us through what he did I know what you're afraid to he He the first time in the first movie, you know when we see the dinosaur the brachiosaurus the big yeah Yeah, Sam Neill and Laura Dern or I'm left in the car and he did this on that occasion and other occasions, too He did like silent movie directing whereby he he he said I'll know when I get it roll the camera Okay, Jeff cuz I didn't have any dialogue in this in this scene. He goes, okay Look at that tennis ball there. Look at the X. That's the dinosaur and Jeff just you're thinking right now, you know, what's that? Is that real? Is it a is it a Animatronic what the hell and then you're filled with a okay good. Now you're filled with a Incredible wonder you become four five years old again, and now you laugh You laugh a freer laugh than you've ever laughed And he does that a little bit and okay, I got it cut print Isn't that a wonderful story? But do you do that? Have you ever done that with anybody who who who did that? I mean they've done bad directors have done a version of it where before action they go Okay, Jeff and they don't whisper in your ear, but they go. Okay Jeff. Remember your parents have just died. You're very upset Mr. Spielberg didn't do that, but okay part of those we mentioned your work in Star Wars not just that you've also none of that in Star Wars Gave me no direction whatsoever Still myself nailed it. I did but you have done horror work. You've performed in some very Shocking violent scenes. Here's one of the few stills is one of the few stills we can show from your work in What you learn everybody 1999 that was I know that I've read Gary Barlow's book a better me Which is out now lots of Toby stories, and I love the title. Thank you Thank you No and also as you read it you become it's true you are in such a better place and a better you because the book begins and Take that but but take the band the band the band the band was over Robbie was at his height your solo career had stalled and you know, and I felt stupid because obviously I knew that wasn't gonna be Sort of a laugh or a great experience for you, but I had no idea of just how Dark and low that that left you. Yeah, because you know, it's funny We had those years in the 90s where everything was just that like a hundred and fifty percent We were just in a washing machine going on planes touring the world being screamed out Everyone telling us were brilliant and all of a sudden I just lost my deal Robbie went off into the sunset and and you just kind of left with no job. There's nothing else I'm even trained for it's music's all I've ever done. I was a new dad at the time We had two young kids as a man. I felt pretty useless at that point Famous so you can't do anything, you know, I can't do anything else. Yeah. Yeah I mean, yeah, definitely and and and to me, you know the whole because I put on a lot of weight in that period a lot of depression But you know, the funny thing is looking back and writing this book It's been really interesting because at first you look back on those times and you go, but it was alright really But then when you look again, you go actually there's some quite serious issues Yeah, really and I feel like right now we're in 2018, you know We've we we we know that women are so good at talking about all this stuff men never do And I've I've really enjoyed just getting in there talking about what happened And up to now the the interest has been really lovely What I suppose a lot of showbiz stories have that dark side That's normally where those stories end and what's extraordinary about this is that you came back from it and and not just You know, oh look he's working it. I mean you're bigger than ever and it sort of was kind of accidental the big comeback Yes, of course it's been amazing It's been unbelievable and you know The one thing that I know I talk about a lot in the book is that our audience? Yeah, I believe there's no other band out there who has an audience like ours our audience I've been with us through thick and thin we've lost BAM members. We've added band members They've been through everything and they're still here showing us amazing support and I can't thank them enough for that You know, I don't know you very well, but it always struck me that you were kind of the songwriter You were you know, the guy the smarts in the band, but in fact, you were the classic little boys show-off I mean you you oh, yeah, you You were that guy still up Oddly not always music one of your first shows wasn't music. Well, no before music Every everyone thought I was actually gonna be a magician Your shirt says you still might be Thank you, I love you, too. That was hard Why does why the shirt like I'm a I don't know Jess For those in the know it could never be a magician shirt because the sleeves on yes, but you'd be a very good musician I'm a magician Now in the book there's a picture of I think is this one of your first ever gigs look at him there he is But I like it you've got your own banner Gary follow you Decorations the keyboards the exit sign you've got the songs But then your mother as you're going on says, but you you're gonna have to say something. That's right Well, this was my first job and the way I got my first job as I entered a talent competition Not as a magician this time, although people were asking for the more magic. I said no. No, I'm leaving the magic behind I'm retiring early. I'm gonna be a musician and I'd learned like three songs on the organ I pull it bass pedals and two manuals and my mom said just before we went out. So I must have been 11 She said oh, you're gonna need to speak between songs and she gave me a few lines to say good evening Ladies and gentlemen, I'm sorry. I'm slightly late. I had a detention Anyway, I must be leaving now I've got school in the morning You're like 20 But now what's weird is so you grew up in this family that wasn't particularly show business and yet that's all you wanted But for you Jamie, it was it was the opposite because you were born into kind of Hollywood and you've now forged this You know career, you know, you know, it's the Scream Queen Jamie Curtis, but then your mom Janet Lee I know famous. I mean she was the original Scream Queen in Psycho Yeah, and so was it weird that your first movie was going to be a horror? Yeah but you know, the truth of the matter is it's just a fun curio, but Horror fans are as loyal as yours. And when you were talking about how you felt when those people I am on what I call Affectionately the victory lap European tour for Halloween. I'm just going around high-fiving everybody because the same things with horror fans the same exact thing the amount of love and Appreciation for these movies. I don't know why people like to be scared But when you were talking about it, it made me I was sitting here thinking that's exactly how it feels to be in a Halloween movie They love it and they show their love back to you with this Tremendous love and support for these stories that they seem to love So in the exact same way that you felt that gratitude with your bandmates, I feel it on my victory lap JLC around the world And having a blast and talking about being young Jeff Goldblum You recently posted a picture of yourself as a young man, and it well it brings up many questions But primarily what what did you want to be when you grew up? How old do you think I am there 27 Was a late bloomer 11 or something like that. Well, I'll tell you wait till mr. Rowan Atkinson comes out here because we have a bit of connection besides the movie we did a long time ago because he was in a James Bond movie and I think I had just seen the first run of Maybe either Goldfinger I think it was a Goldfinger probably Goldfinger not Thunderball Which was the next movie which they remade later called never say never again in which Rowan Atkinson appeared in any case I digress, but I was doing Yes, I like your shorts, thank you very much I have something which you guys don't even know I'm gonna say to you because I just was reminded When we made a fish called Wanda there was a day where I went up to Kevin Kline And I couldn't figure out like he had invented this guy Otto and I finally said to him. Oh You're doing Jeff Goldblum. Oh my god, and if you watch that movie again You will see it's all that Wonderful and he didn't like that I said that really he didn't love it either This British comedy legend has created characters like Blackadder Johnny English, and of course mr. B. He's returning to our screens in Johnny English strikes again, please welcome the great Rowan Atkinson proper showbiz reunion Yes, we haven't talked about it yet, but we did a movie in nineteen eight thirty years ago. I'm afraid so yes it was With Richard Curtis the tall guy yes, yes exactly it was a sort of a quasi Autobiographical thing about the in fact there. We are in which I played a hideous self-centered comedian Jeff played my sidekick Who which was the Richard Curtis role because Richard Curtis and I used to do a show you know together the first time that we? set out doing our comedy reviews, and it was me and it was Richard and So Richard then later wrote this movie In which he portrayed this hideous monster of comedian Against and it yes It was it it was kind of tricky thing because obviously one doesn't want to admit that it was in any sense biographical But it was thought maybe that if I played the role no one could possibly say well of course that's really Rowan Atkinson Someone else has played the role then they would have said that they would have said you know that it is But it was me anyway, so they thought oh they can't be he can't be like that really he's just pretend He's just ending up playing this this horrible comedian The show Johnny English tries to get it is out tonight, and these follow Wow tonight tonight This is this is the third one and these films are Huge I mean they're so successful because they're funny. Oh, yeah, they do well. I mean I mean they're fun I mean they're very silly and they're a family comedy Which is a relatively rare thing in this day and age you have family comedies, but they're normally animation You know they're normally animated and and food and to have live-action family comedies actually there aren't a lot of them most comedies are more Adult yeah, and this one begins with Johnny English. He has retired. Yes. He's retired He's a geography teacher in a small school in Lincolnshire He's not teaching a lot of geography because he's decided to employ and teach his espionage Techniques from his past to his pupils Doing and he's having a whale of a time And of course the children are having a whale of a time as well because it's fun. You know yeah, you know being a spy It's fun But yeah, I don't think he's teaching a tremendous amount of geography There are just those fantastic set pieces that people love watching you do the you know the the energy tablets yes Yes, yes, yes, yes, yeah, it must be not that must be knackering it was it was knackering actually yes It was yeah, it's a dance sequence in which I I display some extreme. I think we've got a dance move there's some of your It's very and it was very taxing yes, yes, I have to say and you know it doesn't get less taxing with the advancing years To keep it going and and we just did a couple of takes in which I just sort of did the silliest stuff I could and is it very kind of po face kind of going mm-hmm. That's funny. Yes funny, or yes, do not laugh Do you never laugh? Oh? Oh? I do love yes. Yes. Yes, that's good But do you make yourself laugh? Very very occasionally that I find what I do funny, but it's It's almost actually it's often very It's often on stage where it happens the most when you feel you know something about stage Performance it's more likely that your performance will run away with itself You know sometimes trying to do performance or trying to make a moment funny It's like trying to push a ball up a hill and you're trying to get it as high as you can and then sometimes there's an Extraordinary moment when it sort of tips over the other side and runs away from you and actually you are no longer In charge of the performance that actually there's something about the moment It just goes whoa, and you know you've been pushing you tried all you can But and you've got it pretty high, and it's fine But then suddenly it can go beyond and suddenly you're not in control of your performance. It's rather a strange thing I think it's only ever happened to me on stage when doing sort of comedy sketches and being on stage rather than on film Where's film? Oh? Film I find very very difficult Stressful this Constant belief that what you're doing is not as good as it could be you know and of course the problem with film is you? Can have another go if you've got over you that guy I'm afraid so you are that guy could I'll do it again? I'll do again. Yeah, I mean I do stop eventually when I get bored To reach the point when you just can't be bothered And that's normally when the director goes Jamie you are you a bad corpse right you do a lot of laughing. Oh, that's all I do Yes, no no Kevin I think Kevin Klein hates me for many reasons mostly because I would ruin great takes that he would do because I would laugh I have as I have a Secret though you take a toothpick or a needle or a safety pin And I hold it between my fingers here below the camera, and I squeeze it really hard till I bleed. Oh It works. Yeah, I don't want to do that. I don't need to do that. No Laughs yeah, I'm an easy laugh I'm I I never they they very often try and get this sort of blooper tapes together things like the Blackadder and they're always looking for the moment when I corpse or when I laugh or when I make a Mistake and there are none In all this all the series of the Blackadder there are none of me being remotely amused by it It's very sad You're back as Johnny yes in this third movie, what about mr.. Bean eyes have you drawn a line under him no more mr. Bean I You know I I doubt that he will reappear, but but you never know you must never the people have spoken But you know you must never say never again So you must never say never, but I you know you That does come a point when you feel as though you've done most of what you want to do with him And because it's not based on language because it's so physical mr.. B. Assuming. It's popular Everywhere yeah, it is it has what we might call a global outreach so like our holidays of misery Can you go anywhere? Yeah, I can't go to many places. It's where you're not recognized And it's the yeah the thing I find most tricky is when people don't Recognize you particularly, but half recognize you you know that strange thing where they go And of course that means they stare they stare a lot, and they just look Feeling I wish that person wouldn't stare at me, so you know I'd rather just you know hold up a flag saying yes A Few years ago there was I was in a Land Rover parts department near Peterborough the kind of place you find me on this yes And we're waiting for car parts and car parts you guys hang around a lot Because you know to get a part the guy has to go half a mile to the back of the warehouse And then come back again, and he brings it back, and he says this is this is a left-hand one Oh, you wanted to write on one. Sorry. I'll go And it takes forever anyway. I was standing around with with a group of guys, and I could see this guy doing that And he came up to me after a while, and he said excuse me has anyone ever told you That you're the absolute spitting image of that mr.. Bean Well actually I am the actor who plays mr.. Bean, and he said I'll bet you wish you were Followed this bizarre conversation in which the more I tried to claim that I was Whom he thought I merely resembled Unless he believed me So he but what was funny was how was how close he thought I was He said the resemblance Is uncanny have you ever thought of doing any you know look-alike work like? Stagnates and head night you know you go along as mr.. Bean He said cuz you can make an absolute foot And I could tell after a while I had to bring the conversation to a close because Clearly not only was he not believing me, but he was getting quite annoyed I was pursuing this line. I am Rowan Atkinson when and clearly he thought I was this total ass Just as I happen to look a bit like mr.. Bean goes around the country actually claiming to be The big red chair God What's your name sir Nick Nick and you're from from Australia from Australia I'm from Adelaide Adelaide, and do you still live there you live here now. I live here now all right. What do you do? I'm an IT project manager Off you go with this story So I was giving my sorry I was giving a best man speech to my at a wedding and Bless you it's going very well so far. I was giving a could have gone anywhere So let's let's be just grateful it went with best man speech at a wedding We're on your side, we're on your side and at the end of the speech I was giving a toast to the bride and groom and I actually Get a toast to the bride so the the groom and his ex-girlfriends Yes keep going So there was silence obviously and I don't know who it was but someone gave me a bit of a nudge And I actually thought that no one heard so I actually repeated it Him walk cuz that's genius Contact us by our website just their dress and that is it for tonight. Please a huge. Thank you It's true all of my guests James Jeff the hood woman and Mel DeVay Sensation BTS Actors Jamie Dornan and Rosamund Pike crooner Harry Connick jr.. And comedy legend whoopie Goldberg. I'll see you there good