Julianne Moore talks about finally winning an Oscar, Rebel Wilson admits to smelling Brad Pitt, Ant and Decchat about Prince Charles and Little Mix perform live in the studio
On this week’s show (12thFebruary) Graham welcomes Oscar winner Julianne Moore, Australian actress and comedian Rebel Wilson, entertainment superstars Ant and Dec and pop group Little Mix.
Julianne, talking about finally winning an Oscar for her role in Still Alice after losing out on four previous nominations, she says, “It was great, very exciting. I tried to stay calm and present, but it’s three hours long and I was the very last award before the award for Best Film so it was agonising. I’d won other awards for the role, but then thought, ‘What if I am the exception and don’t win the Oscar.’”
Asked if she is a method actor she says, “I’m not ‘methody’ at all, I’m just pretending. It’s all pretending.” And on her self-confessed annoying habits on set, she says, “I talk constantly between takes about what I’m having for lunch, my weekend plans, the shoes I bought and do you like the shoes I bought… all the way up to ‘action’ and eventually everyone says, ‘Please be quite!’
Revealing the only thing she always uses of all the luxury goodies in the $200,000+ Oscar gift basket is a voucher, Julianne says, “I always donate the pet meals to an animal shelter.”
Ant and Dec, talking about hosting ITV’s coverage of The Queen’s 90th birthday celebrations, and asked how that came about, they say, “Apparently she asked for us to do it. We don’t really knowhow it happened but can only imagine she’s called Charles and asked if he knew anyone that could do it?’ and he’s said, “I’ve just met a couple of lads who’ve been following me around for a year.’”
Talking about the programme they made on Prince Charles, they say, “We were invited to stay at his house in Scotland. It was the weirdest thing. We thought it would be a massive place and we would stay in another wing but it is a house and we stayed in rooms next to Charles.”
Revealing more about their stay, they say, “We shared a butler and as we were going to bed he asked if we’d like anything else and we asked for two bottles of wine. We then got drunk with our wives but we were very conscious that Charles was down the corridor so as we got louder every now and again one of us would go, ‘Shush, he’s in bed!’ It was very bizarre.”
Asked about their new Saturday Night Takeaway sketch Who Shot Simon Cowell, and how it came to be penned by Broadchurch writer ChrisChibnall, they say, “We asked him on the off chance and he said yes. We were like, ‘What?’”
Talking about hosting the Brits when Madonna fell, they say, “We’d done our last link by introducing Madonna. We’d ‘landed the plane’ and we were out of there, drinking champagne. Then we heard a massive gasp in the room and saw she was on her back – we couldn’t work out what happened and thought it must be part of her routine. It was only when we watchedNews at 10and saw the headlines that we realised she had fallen. It was the first we knew about it and we were like, “Oh, is that what happened!”
Rebel, recalling a particular star struck moment, says, “I was at the SAG Awards and got to meet Brad Pitt but I was too nervous to say anything so I just smelt his hair. It was so embarrassing. You’re really packed in like sardines and everywhere you turn there is someone mega famous and you don’t know what to do so you smell their hair.” When asked what it smells like, she quips, “Like unicorns.”
Talking about another celebrity hair incident, she says, “When I was in Ghost Rider with Nicolas Cage I was told, ‘What ever you do don’t look him in the eye and don’t speak to him unless you’re spoken to. You’d think it was a myth but I was actually told that. I of course broke all the rules. He came up to me and I said, ‘Wow, you look really good,’ and touched his hair and realised it was a wig. He was really angry! That was my first Hollywood experience.”
Revealing her acting career didn’t get off to a great start either, Rebel says, “At my very first agent meeting I got rejected after they looked me up and down and said, ‘You’ll never be on Home and Away so we’re not going to take you.’ I guess they couldn’t see me in a bikini down at Summer Bay!”
Little Mix performsSecret Love Songlive in the studiowith Jason Derulo before joining Graham for a chat about their new album.
And finally, Graham pulls the lever on more foolhardy audience members brave enough to sit in the Red Chair.
The Graham Norton Show, BBC One 12 February 10.35pm
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Notes to editors – all quotes in this release were said during the recording but won’t necessarily appear in the final show.
Next week (19th February) Graham introduces a compilation show featuring the best chat and guests from the series. The show returns on Friday 25th March.
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12th February 2016