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Yes, hello to you.

Hello over there. Very good.

Good evening, everyone.

You are so welcome to the show. I tell you, we have got some big stars for you

tonight. I'm actually a bit nervous. I'm sweating like Alan Carr on Celebrity

Traitors.

And that's sweating. But, hey, look who's singing for us later. It's the

fabulous Robbie Williams.

Yeah.

He'll be performing his new single, Pretty Face.

And plenty of pretty faces on my sofa tonight. First up, this music icon has

sold over 100 million records since her hit song Conga made her a global star.

And she's kept the world on their feet ever since. Now celebrating 50 years in

music with her new album Races, it's the queen of Latin pop, Gloria Estefan!

There she is!

Oscar nominee massive crime-solving in Sherlock a code-breaking in the

imitation game and the madness of the multiverse in Doctor Strange Now he

brings us a moving portrayal of grief in the thing with feathers. It's a Benedict

Cumberbatch

and early this year won a golden globe for his starting performance in the

penguin now in ballad of a small player he plays a gambling addict in the bright

lights of macau it's colin farrell yeah i'm not

lying hello hi there you go come on man

and she's a little up the big screen in countless hits like Pretty Woman, My

Best Friend's Wedding, Notting Hill, Ocean's Eleven, and her Oscar-winning

performance as Erin Brockovich. Now, she's wowing critics with her latest

role in controversial campus drama, After the Hunt. It is a warm welcome

back to Julia Roberts!

Hello.

So, nice to see you.

Have a seat, everybody.

Aw!

Welcome back to everyone. Julia, second time on the show. Hello. Second time.

Second time. Who do you know on the couch this time? Anybody?

I know Colin and I know Benedict and I know you and I am in awe... Oh,

good Lord.

I'm in awe of all of them.

And actually, you worked with Benedict.

We did, yeah.

Yes, August Osage County. Yes, you did. And were you in Wimbledon together as

well? Well... Julia was sat next to me. OK.

Which I thought, oh, great, I'm between my husband and Benedict. This is going

to be great.

But we were in a very special seating.

In the royal box, you could say. We were in the royal box. Amazing.

Which I was very excited about until I realised... Well, until Benedict pointed

out to me that...

I gasp every time the ball is struck.

It was like a scene out of Pretty Woman. It was amazing.

She was like... Brilliant.

It's impossible to be quiet in a scenario like... It's so exciting.

It's so exciting.

But Brendan had his tie and he was like... And he said, Julia.

And it's like, they hit the ball and go...

He's like, Julia, really? It's going to happen all day.

It's going to happen a lot today.

If they're lucky. One big scream and get it out of your system.

And Gloria Estefan, back, back, back again.

So happy to be here.

It's always so much fun. You've got a new album, Racist, which we'll talk

about later in the show.

But this is unbelievable. You have been in show business for 50 years. Yes!

I joined the band in 1975.

It was the Miami Latin Boys.

And then when I stuck around, we changed the name to Miami Sound Machine. I can't

believe it. I was shocked.

But do you know what I can't believe? I can't believe it is 40 years since we

all first heard this.

40 years!

Konga is officially middle-aged.

It's so good. And I'm glad you knew that, Colin, because Latin beats are

important to you.

Yeah.

Yeah, we saw you doing a bit of moving in Miami Vice here you They

they never cut to your feet

No, you're really doing it I'm really doing

it I cannot remember that scene

Woke up 48 hours later in rehab.

FACT.

You took Miami Vice too seriously.

Yeah, the mojitos were good.

48 hours later.

I mean, they were consequential. Yes, cut to.

That must have been very strange when you went to the premiere of Miami Vice

and you must have been big swathes of it you didn't recall.

Two thirds of the film, man.

Wow. I was like, don't tell me what's going to happen next.

Yeah. But, like, Julia Tennis.

Yeah, exactly.

No spoiler alerts.

Listen, tonight we've got three very different movies to talk about.

The first is a fabulous and timely drama starring Julia Roberts. It's called

After The Hunt. It opens on the 17th of October, that's next Friday, and it is

the latest from Luca Guadagnino.

Guadagnino. Guadagnino.

I've been practising all week and still fucked it up.

He made Call Me By Your Name and Challengers, lots of other films.

And I was telling you backstage, I love this film. It's such a big moral mess.

So tell us what you can about it, who you are and what is going on around you.

I play a philosophy professor at Yale.

And my colleague and sort of best friend is another philosophy professor

played by Andrew Garfield.

And my prize student is played magnificently by Io

Adebri. And near the beginning of the movie, there she is, I throw a party

that this picture is from. My husband and I, Michael Stuhlbarg plays my

husband, a Freudian analyst.

Guy? Yeah.

And we have this party, and the next day she comes to tell me that they walked

home together and something inappropriate happened. So it's, who's

telling the truth?

There's lots of fallout from that. Yeah.

Among other things.

And we were saying, it's one of those things where you think it's just going

to be about the sexual politics of that, but it's about all sorts. It's about

young, old, gay, straight, men, women.

It's all in there. Pills, whisky, lots of things. There was a lot of whisky. I

wish I drank whisky watching that film. It's lovely.

You still can.

I feel I've left it too late.

Hey, I tell you what, we've got a clip, and this is you confronting student

Maggie, played by Iowa Debrey. Here we go.

I don't feel comfortable having this conversation with you any more.

Everything is supposed to make you comfortable, Maggie.

Not everything is supposed to be a lukewarm bath for you to sink into until

you fall asleep and drown.

And there are no rewards in death for suffering as much as fucking possible in

life.

You've constructed a life that hides your accidental privilege, neediness,

desperate desire to impress. At least I have the self-respect to be obvious

about what it is that I want.

It's all lies.

Ooh.

And when you... When you've been at screenings of this movie, I mean, it

must be afterwards.

Like, everyone must have an opinion.

There's lots to talk about after this. That's the best bit, is people seem to

have really robust conversations for days after this. And that's the best

part, because I feel like... To me, that's my favourite part of going to the

movies, besides the candy, is the talking actor.

And the cast, you mentioned all the cast there, had you worked with any of them

before? None of them, and our other castmate, there's many of us, Chloe,

Chloe Sevigny, and none of us had worked together before, and there was some kind

of alchemy that happened where we really... We have fallen into a life

together now.

I don't think... I mean, we finished this movie over a year ago, and I don't

think a week has gone by that I haven't spoken to or texted one or more of them.

Wow. Yeah.

Everyone who does interviews about this film all reference your banana bread.

Oh, yeah.

Like, do you cook anything else? No, I know, it seems like that's all I cook,

and it makes me sound like such a...

Not cool person And I do I can make anything I can make so

many more things and just ask me anything One thing and do it super.

Well, I banana bread.

Yeah, I can and I'm not just a baker

You know, there comes a time in life- Walnut bread as well.

Not walnut bread, don't be silly.

No, not a nerve. I love making banana bread. I wish I had made enough for

everybody here tonight, but, and I'm, yeah.

Well, I've let them all down now. Yeah, really.

Because, Colin, when you were working with Margot Robbie in her last film, A

Big Bold Beautiful Journey, you fed her... Was it every day you fed her? I

didn't feed her.

I mean, I would have if she wanted, but I gave the sandwich to her and she fed

herself a crisp sandwich.

You made her a crisp sandwich every day? Yeah. Oh, wow.

That's a lovely thing to do.

Thank you, the wooer. Yeah.

Did she not make it herself?

I just got into... I... I...

Adopt habits very quickly.

And so by day two, we were talking in rehearsal about the script and somehow

it led to our childhoods, which led to food that we enjoyed when we were little

and that evoke a sense of that bygone time. And I talked about potato crisps.

And a sandwich with Kerrygold butter And yeah, and I brought her one in and she

just was licking her lips and loved it And so that was it the second day by the

second day the habit had kicked in and it was every day. There was a Margot

Robbie I was a joy to bring her in. Do you squish it down like I used to as a

kid? Yeah, you get your fingerprints in there.

The FBI could profile you from a well-made tato sandwich

But is this something you do on sets?

Make things for people to eat? Yeah.

No. OK.

Have people made you things?

No. Did you get any of Julia's banana bread? No.

But do I...? I bring things in, yeah, definitely. I bring cakes in, but I

don't make them. Making it up.

I guess I'm very generous. I give people gifts all the time, I do think.

I bring tequila.

Oh, nice!

Absolutely, a really, really good tequila. But for after, not during. Do

you collect tequila?

I don't collect them, I collect them in my throat.

There's great ones.

They are. But it's celebratory, you know, at the end of the thing. But early

on, I would get so nervous that the band would do a pre-show shot. It could only

be one.

And you could only do that in your 20s. Because after that, you realize it dries

you out. You can't continue a huge tour with it. But yeah, at least it, you

know, chilled you out. No more.

No. Nice, nice. Happy memories. Happy memories. Talking of memories, now, the

last time you were here, Julia, we talked a lot about some of your old

movies, and I know nothing makes you happier than talking about those. But...

But Mystic Pizza, Mystic Pizza, you know, and look, you'd have been

successful, whatever, but this was kind of the film where everyone kind of paid

attention and noticed you. Absolutely, yes.

Well, life, I feel...

You may know this already. I don't know. I just feel a dread right now.

Life might have been different because the part was originally offered to... Do

you know this?

No. Gloria Estefan. Ta-da!

No. Yes.

Yes.

Thank you. I am rocking that same hair.

Honestly, I would have sucked.

It was terrible.

I wasn't ready. You know, the career... I wasn't ready. No, you were fantastic

in it. But my music career was starting.

They offer me this role. I go, do I have to audition? They go, no, no, no, you've

got the role if you want it. And I go, I'm not ready for this.

It's a craft, as you all know. Oh, absolutely.

That's such a wise... No, I did, because...

I could have messed up my music career if you fail at that. And I knew I wanted

to act one day, but I wanted to have time to prepare and, you know, study.

It's a craft, as you all well know.

And I know that that would have been a big mistake.

Well, thank you.

Good decision for both. I've never heard that.

I see some banana bread in your...

I expect at the least banana bread. But am I right, after the first audition or

something, you heard that they were looking for a Latin actress or did you

hear, was that?

No, not a Latin actress, but after like my third reading, my

hair was blonde.

And I'd never colored my hair before. And she said, you know, they're really,

the director's really thinking of someone with dark hair.

You know, these people are supposed to be Portuguese.

And so I don't know if you could do something with your hair.

That's probably why they offered me the role, my curly hair.

Well, I had the curls. I just didn't have the dark. And so I got some, they

used to have this colored mousse. I don't know if they still do, but I got

black colored mousse and I put in my.

already very curly unruly hair i walked in there it was like massive

and crispy well i think we've got some pictures that's you in

the movie that looks beautiful yeah man what's weird is here's a picture of you

gloria from around the same time sisters

Listen, you can see Julia in her new film, After The Hunt, in cinemas from

next Friday.

We move on now to Colin Farrell's new film, Ballad Of A Small Player.

It's in UK cinemas October 17th and Netflix from October 29th. It's a

beautiful and really kind of unexpected film, so we'll start with a clip, and

this is you kind of introducing your character.

My name is Doyle.

Lord Doyle.

I'm a high roller on a slippery slope.

A gambler with a pair of lucky gloves.

Washed up on the shores of Macau.

The gambling capital of the universe.

City of miracles.

And a land saved from the sea.

but i no longer believe in miracles and in a few days my life as i know it will

be over

I walked into this film not knowing anything about it. And so from the

beginning, I just thought, oh, it's a crime caper. Good. And that is not what

we're in for at all.

No.

What are we in for? We're in for a jolly good tale about addiction and

desperation and looking in all the wrong places for a sense of who you are and

the meaning that we all kind of try to scratch at and locate in our lives. You

know, he's looking in all the wrong places. Yeah, we meet the character,

Lord Doyle.

no backstory, he's just at the precipice about to kind of hit rock bottom.

And it's that thing of characters who don't know when enough is enough.

Like, it's about that kind of idea of just always wanting more.

Yeah, absolutely.

And your life, his life becomes just all smoke and mirrors. There's an enormous

amount of pretense, artifice, bless you.

And he is... Yeah, he's pretty, to be honest with you, he's pretty sick.

He's pretty in the grip of addiction and he doesn't...

There's no self-respecting. He does know when to stop.

Whether it's gambling or whether it's booze, they're his proclivities.

And watching it, I thought it was set... This is a clue to that. I thought it was

set in a kind of, like, dystopian future.

But that's Macau now.

That's what Macau looks like. Yeah, it's a really fascinating place.

I mean, I don't know that I ever would have found my way to Macau if it wasn't

for this film. It's off the coast of Hong Kong, I think, a little bit.

southwest of Hong Kong, I think. And it used to be two islands, Macau. There was

the old town Macau and then an island called Colouan, which is still an old

fishing village.

Really lovely, really rustic. And then they dredged the sea floor in 2006 and

they joined both those islands, so now it's one island. And the middle part

that they dredged and they built is in the space of, like...

an afternoon.

The Chinese don't mess around.

They built this whole gambling strip, so it's known as the Las Vegas of the East.

But you have that amazing fact about how it's much more serious than Vegas.

Yeah, I mean, they're big players.

I think the money spent in Macau in the space of something ridiculous like a

month is Vegas's revenue for the year. Yeah, it's mad.

You know the way you get to see behind the scenes when you're doing things?

What? The gasping.

Oh, yeah.

He did, yeah.

That was a good gasp, though. That was a good gasp.

Graham's role is sort, but it's easier to gasp on his side.

We went backstage and saw this room where the High Rollers play one day, and

the casino floor manager was showing me, and there was two baccarat tables, and

he said, we had a good night last night at the house.

And I said, what happened? And he said, we had two gentlemen in from the

mainland. They flew in on private jets. They didn't know each other.

One sat at that background table and one sat at that background table. And we did

well. And I said, do you mind me asking what a good night for the house is?

And he went, yeah, they played. They both played for four hours. And we were

up 24 million.

Wow.

I want to thank you for teaching me baccarat. I've always wondered when I

went by the tables how you played that. It's really interesting. And you don't

play it, is what you're teaching us. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Because, Gloria, you've played Vegas. Did you not do any of the gambling

things? Did you just perform?

I like a little bit of blackjack.

I'll do that for a little bit. But I like the penny machine.

All alone with the little thing When I perform in Vegas, I

am stuck in my room with 27 humidifiers I cannot leave because of the dryness.

We're not meant to sing in a desert. Yeah. Yeah, it's really rough But yeah,

it's brutal.

I was there for a 10-day stint in Celine's theater Before she opened

because I was rehearsing for my tour

And I was everybody having fun, having a great old time. And I was up there like

breathing in humidity.

Because Julia, you obviously made Ocean's Eleven in Vegas. Yes. Which must

be, I mean, the three of you and the rest of you in real casinos, was it just

a nightmare to make that film?

No, it was pretty fun.

Do they shut things down completely? No, no. Just little areas, just little

sections. But weren't just crowds gathering to watch the filming?

Yes and no, because, you know, people come to gamble. That's what they want to

do. Yeah. So, in a way, they're not really paying attention to what's...

It's like, oh, a movie seems insignificant to trying to win $24

million.

Or losing. Or losing.

And are you confirmed for... I think George Clooney just confirmed that

there's Ocean's 14.

Yeah, I guess he did.

Yeah,

I mean I've talked to we've all talked about it, but I didn't realize he was

gonna be good

Put the cell phone down, George.

Stop texting.

I'm just hearing about the artificial environment. That's the thing that

scares me the most about it, not just the addiction and the kind of pursuit

of, oh, this time I win as you keep losing more and more, but also just the

fact that you are hermetically sealed in an oxygen-pumped chamber in a desert,

just burning money. The whole thing seems like a nightmare, a fever dream,

which is what the film was about. Yeah, no, it really is.

Do you always think...

For this, you know, for fun, for a fun... No-one looks like they're having

fun. Everyone's just shuffling around because they've lost all the money they

brought in an hour and now they're here for another two days.

I do.

LAUGHTER Vegas is great to go with your... You know, it was one thing when

I was 22 or 23, but to go now with my kids, which I have done for the last few

years, and you go and see a Cirque du Soleil show, you get a steak dinner and

then you let your six-year-old walk around...

You know Las Vegas Boulevard at one o'clock in the morning and he just

thinks the world is his wait You didn't say you're six-year-old. Yeah, but I

didn't go with him. I let him have space. I let him go It

got

him to count No g-strings on stilts

or anything

Well, listen, just a reminder that Ballad Of A Small Player is coming to

cinemas and on Netflix.

Meanwhile, Benedict Cumberbatch brings us an extraordinary piece of work. It's

called The Thing With Feathers. It's in UK and Ireland cinemas from the 21st of

November. So, this is Max Porter's famous book about grief, but that's kind

of... It's about more than that, and yet that is what it's about.

That is very much what it's about. I mean, it's a portrait of a family, a

father... his wife very suddenly and two boys in the year that they spend in the

aftermath of that chaos and what grief does and how it manifests and in this

imagining it manifests itself as a crow and it's based on Max

Porter's award-winning novel where this man is a Ted Hughes scholar so it's

about a group of his poems called The Crow and in this one he's an illustrator

so it's about the manifestation of this illustrator's imagination.

becoming real and manifest between the three of them. And the crow is more than

kind of an image. The crow is a character. The crow is a character.

It was a real man called Eric who is on stilts with an animatronic head and a

sort of cloaky thing with a weird arm shape that's half humanoid and...

a lot crow and claw, but this amazing, very heavy head and beak.

And it's David Thewlis' voice in the film, the final film.

Well, in the clip, we see you playing Dad, and it's one of your encounters

with Crow, but here we just hear the voice, as you say, David Thewlis' voice.

Doctor?

Doctor, I think I'm being followed by a crow.

You're not fucking real.

Stick to routines, is that what he said?

Children need routines.

Not those boys.

Those boys need bows and arrows, they need stories, they need myths, they need

chaos, they need crow!

You're not real!

And, you know, not surprisingly, it is a very moving film. It's a very moving

film. And the little boys, we didn't see them there, that play your sons, they're

so little.

Yeah. And I just... How can you cast...? You know, because they might mean very

good on the afternoon when you met them, but you're with them for a long time.

How do you know they're going to be any good?

Well, Dylan Southern, who's the director and also the writer, he's the visionary

behind this film adaptation of the book, and he...

In the audition process, they were the only ones he really, really wanted. And

when I went in to do a test with them, I came out and go... I'm scared.

I'm actually scared.

It was so dangerous. They're not actors.

They're untrained. They're two seven-year-olds. And they're brothers.

They're twins.

The purity of their vulnerability was the scary thing? No, just the fact that

they... are children mental and out of control yeah no you know they were

fighting each other they were throwing insults at me they were tearing around

the room oh wow but yeah but they are extraordinary and um richard is the

slightly older one by seconds uh to henry uh is sort of preternaturally old

soul he looks older even though they are seconds apart in birthing

And there were two moments that I remember very chiefly for how we kind of

got through it and can't quite believe we did it. One moment when I'm telling

them their mothers died and Richard just found it unbelievably funny from... He

just came towards me... And then,

you know, eventually he got into it and I said, I think, you know, because

you're upset, you might want to just sort of allow me to just cuddle. I think

we should have a huddle here. I think this is kind of a cuddle moment. He

went, no.

I don't like colours.

I don't like colours.

Just this once, just this once.

He did it. And during the take, he whispered in my ear like this. He was

like, you owe me big time.

Oh,

my God. I adore them. I mean, what a thing to go through. And, yeah, they

were amazing. They are amazing. Because, Julie, have you worked with children,

untrained kind of little kids that... I mean, in Erin Brockovich, I had three

children. Yeah.

And one of them was, like, a baby.

Or was that multiple babies? One was a baby. There were two babies. They were

twin babies.

Yeah, there's the baby. Oh, yeah. And they were all great. And the two babies

were wonderful until one of the babies I had in my arms for a scene where

there's... I'm filling up a pot with water and there's a cockroach or

something appears and I drop the pot.

The loud pot and it scared the baby and the baby started crying Which was fine

and great and appropriate good acting on the baby's part And uh, but then she

became the crying baby because anytime she came to me she was like scary pot

lady She's still crying somewhere in the world And so she truly was the crying

baby from that time I think for maybe the rest of the show. I still feel bad

talking of crying. I have to say, you know Actors often talk about how doing

difficult roles, you take it home with you and it's hard to take off.

But because of the amount of crying in this film, just in terms of headaches

and that kind of terrible tight head you get from crying, you must have had all

of that. Drunk a lot of water, yeah. Yeah.

Do you do a lot of crying?

Quite a bit in this, yeah. And it's, you know, when there are three different

setups and you're doing it eight times in each and, you know, those kind of

extremes you hopefully only ever have once or twice at most, hopefully, in

your life. I wish it on nobody, but, you know, we all go through it and it's a

very important part of why I was proud to make.

a small independent film about this subject. We don't talk about it much, we

don't deal with it very well in life, and especially as men, to be able to

talk about it and deal with it, which is what Max's work is about, what the film

honors, and so I'm not gonna sit here and bemoan the fact that I had to cry a

few times because the real thing's much worse, but yeah, you go through it a

lot. Yeah, and also, is it easier?

Actors discuss is it easier to cry if you're going to a very dark place like?

Grief and losing someone or is it easy to cry in like a rom-com? I'd say at the

end of Notting Hill Squeezing out a tear with Hugh Grant.

Did I?

Yeah, you did.

When? Why?

During I'm Just a Girl.

Oh, yeah

I did. No, you're absolutely right.

Oh,

that.

Only one of the most famous moments in the history of romantic comedies. Is it

very hard to produce tears at a moment like that, where it's happy and light?

No, I mean, I think when anything is authentic, obviously what Benedict is

talking about is so deep and profound and dark and bleak, but if you... If I

attach myself to it...

in a sweet, truthful way.

I mean, that was just, I mean, it was a beautiful scene and beautiful words to

say.

obviously touching to me. And that's how I portrayed it. But that's a very

different place that you're in. You know, tears have actual stress molecules

in them. Is that right? Yes, they do. And coming out is you are releasing

stress and pain.

So that's why they say cry it out, because it really works. I think you're

lovely. The idea about this film and that we don't talk about grief enough,

it's a huge thing. And that we don't talk about death.

Like, I know that sounds, of course, obviously more, but the word... Chacho,

Colin. Chacho.

We don't talk about Chacho.

Springtime for... I have a question for Benedict.

Julia, please.

When you're making this movie and then you go home to your beautiful wife and

your boys, like, how do you sustain...? I mean, do you just want to be joyful

and... and happy with them or do you feel like you have to kind of?

Maintain a bit of quietness, or you just put it all away? No, I let go.

It's enough to leave it on the dance floor and then go back and do it all

over again.

It's a car journey in and a car journey back, and that's it.

Those are the transitional moments, and the older I get, the easier that is,

especially with a family that... I remember you crying in August, Osage

County, and you come off the bus to Chris Cooper, and it is such a beautiful

scene. You've missed my dad's funeral.

And it is such a beautiful, sweet, touching... Little Charles.

It's such a great scene.

Thank you. You're very good, Benedict. Oh, well, Julia Roberts, so are you.

Well,

now, no crying, only celebration, because Gloria Estefan, she has made a

new album. Yes, she has.

It's called Raises.

Beautifully done.

Is it right?

Yes. Luca Guadagnino.

Yes.

Raises. Yeah, I think I've got it here. Yes. And unless people have been lying

to me, Raises means roots.

Roots, absolutely. OK. And this is your 30th album.

30th album.

I didn't count them. But here's the thing, Gloria. It's your first album in

Spanish for nearly two decades. So why, I suppose, why wait and why now?

Well, it's kind of full circle, but it all converged in this year somehow. We

didn't plan it that way.

But I wanted, I thought particularly now it was important to sing in Spanish.

It's a very autobiographical record of Emilio's and my love story.

He wrote his own love song for himself.

that I was to sing.

And it's talking about who we are, our culture, that we need to really...

keep alive who we are from wherever we come and i happen to come from cuba i

have spanish roots and i wanted to recreate that picture of my mom and me

and that picture on the table that's where we lived when we first left cuba

when i was two years old so i recreated it because my mom's in me there's my

grandmother and my great-grandmother are in the picture in the picture oh yes

yeah yeah down here So it's a lot of fun, too. It's a lot of salsa. I love

singing that. She invited me to do Bemba Colora, which was a Celia Cruz record,

and I remembered how much I love this genre.

So when Emilio brought this song to me, which is a gorgeous song talking about

the things that really matter, family, love, nature...

I told them uh, I want to do a tropical album with a lot of really, you know

dance beats and salsa and fun stuff And that's what we've done on top of you

know, a couple real romantic things can't get away from that Well as you say

roots refers to not not just culture but also family and that's all reflected in

this clip from the video of the title track rises

So sweet!

I directed and edited the videos for the thing. And the other video we see now

about the nosy neighbor, I shot in the place where I lived with my mom. With

your mom?

Yes. Yeah, no, we really enjoyed doing this. And music, I sing since I talk. So

it just came with me. And I feel so blessed and privileged. Thank you,

everybody that has ever listened, bought any of my music. You make my life so

wonderful.

I appreciate you. I love you.

And I feel so, so blessed and privileged to make music. It's a magical thing.

And in the past, we've talked about your special honour. You had... Is it the

Miami...? Miami Sound Machine Boulevard is where we used to live. My sister

lives there now.

Yeah, there it is.

Oh, there you are! You know, people would steal that sign.

I'd be in Hawaii and somebody's holding up the street sign and it got expensive,

so now they made it smaller.

But now, apparently... I have my own way.

Gloria Estefan Way will be... Oh, it's not open yet. No, it's inaugurated on

Monday. This Monday the 13th, my lucky number.

And it's right alongside the hotel that Emilio and I have owned for almost three

decades on Ocean Drive.

The Cardozo historic Hole in the Head was filmed there. Frank Sinatra.

Something About Mary, that famous scene with the gel.

With the gel.

Yeah. Was filmed there in our bar.

And, yeah, there's a lot of history. Oh, Birdcage, also shot in that hotel.

Wow. Yeah. And now it's Gloria Estefan Way.

Yes, it's a little way, like me.

But, yeah, I'm thrilled, you know?

Well, get yourself down, Gloria Estefan Way.

That lovely happy record, congratulations on the new album,

Racist, is out now.

Well, I think we're all in the mood for some more music now, so it's time for

tonight's performance.

This British pop icon has had the most UK number one albums of any solo artist.

Here performing his new single, Pretty Face, it is Robbie Williams!

Here we go, here we go, here I go with you What I know, I don't know, but I'd

die for you Pretty smile, pretty eyes, big energy I'm pretty sure that I

know you'd die for me You're the reason why

I'm the man I am today You're the

reason why I see myself this way

She's got it.

She's got it.

i'm with you you're with me till judgment day i'm in love i'm in love i'm

in love with you you you're the

reason why i'm the man i am today

you're the reason why i see my

Gotcha!

Who do you know on the couch? I know everybody from watching them on the

tally. Okay Julia Roberts.

Oh my god. I can't but I've watched I've watched pretty woman Six times in a row

and at the end of the sixth time I was like one day I will take a prostitute

shopping

That's

a lovely story robbie that's that's really lovely So that song

that is off the new album uh britpop which is out in february february 2022

Thank you.

And... So, the idea... Britpop, you're referencing your appearance at

Glastonbury here.

Yes. In 1995, I was in a boy band.

You auditioned for a boy band, didn't you? Tell us about it. Yeah. Yeah.

Didn't go well. No, it didn't, did it? There was two dead mics and they

wouldn't let me have one of them.

Maybe it did go well.

I was in Take That and we were a lily-white pop band, a boy band.

And at the time, there was sort of, you know, uncool, naffness, that kind of

thing. And then Glastonbury was the height of militant indie-ness.

And people like me shouldn't go there. This thing doesn't exist any more. But

in 1995... And also, there was a lot of rules in the boy band.

I wasn't allowed to do anything, really.

And then... Stuck by that, didn't you, Rowan? I did, yeah.

Yeah, yeah. So, anyway, and then one day, cos we weren't allowed to go to

clubs or things like that, and we weren't allowed to go to festivals, and

then one day I was just not having it. When I realised that they couldn't fire

me any more, when we were, like, too popular to be fired, I was like, I can

do anything I like now!

And I'm going to.

So I turned up at Glastonbury in 1995, and a lot of people were like, what are

you doing here? And I was like, well, I'm having it, aren't I? That's what I'm

doing here. But then inside the album, there's this blue plaque that... So did

you make this blue plaque?

What's it say?

This is the one... And then I'll decide if I did it or not. This is the one that

was put up... Oh, yes, I did. Was this up in Glastonbury this year?

Yes, it was. So I think we've got a picture. This is the blue plaque. It's

up in Glastonbury.

And it's basically, Robin Williams entered this area without accreditation,

authorisation or alignment with prevailing taste.

His presence was uninvited, unofficial and ultimately inevitable.

Yes, I wrote that. Yeah.

Were you at Glastonbury this year?

No, but everybody thought I was. So for, like, when that went up for 24 hours, my

phone was blowing up. We know you're here, we know you're doing the secret

performance, we've seen you in the healing field, what time are you on? And

I was in Belgium!

So it was fun to take over Glastonbury and not actually be there. And I'd like

to announce on the TV tonight that I'm playing Glastonbury next year.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

That's result on next year. No, I'm gonna put I'm still gonna play it though

Yeah, so I'm not like it or not because they haven't asked me since 1998

so I'm gonna go do it anyway Okay, so I'm gonna turn up in a truck and then

put the side down and then do off an hour to say it's like a carny Yeah, are

you gonna tell anyone you're there?

No, okay?

I am doing it Between us

Listen, very quickly, European Stadium Tour was your summer and everything,

huge. But now, next year, you're going out with this album to proper small

venues, where, like, there'll be a frenzy for these tickets.

Like, you're playing Barrowlands, Liverpool Olympia, Brixton Academy.

I mean, these are small venues for you. When was the last time you played venues

like that?

In 1997, I think, was the last time that I had to do that.

Thankfully, I'm choosing to. This is not where my career is at, everybody.

What is the thinking?

Well, actually, so it's...

Maybe 30 years now since I put out the first album, Live For A Lend, so what

I'm going to do is I'm just going to play my first album from beginning to

end and then make them listen to my new album too, which I will also play from

beginning to end. I'm just suckering them in, really.

I'll give you this, but then I'll hit you over the head with this new stuff

that I'll make you listen to.

And very good it will be.

Listen, you always put on a fantastic performance. Thank you so much for that.

Robbie Williams, everybody!

That is nearly it, but before we go, just in time for a visit to the big red

chair. You've been in the chair now, have you? Yes, I have.

It's not as far back as you think it is. No, no.

Hello. Hi, how's it going?

Good. And what's your name?

I'm Ben. Ben. And where are you from, Ben? I'm from Limerick in Ireland.

Lovely.

Loving Limerick. And what do you do in Limerick, Ben?

Well, I'm living here full-time now, working in construction.

Oh, right. When did you come over?

This time last year.

How's it going? Very well. OK, Ben.

Going very well.

Off you go with the story, Ben. Right, so it was around Covid time when all the

regulations started easing up and you could start going...

drinking in hotels again. So me and my friend had a great idea. We'd book into

a hotel in Limerick where we both lived and we'd stay there so we could go on

the beer for the night.

Basically, the hotel we were in, our friend was working there as well and he

was very, very heavy-handed with the portions he was giving us.

So the last thing I remember is walking out of the front door of the hotel and

the next thing I remember is an absolute banshee scream and I woke up.

looked around me, I was in a tiny box, and I look out the little hole, I see my

mother looking in at me. I was asleep in my dog's kennel out the back garden.

We love Ben. You can walk, Ben. You can walk.

Well done, Ben!

All right, that really is all we've got time for. If you'd like to have a go and

share yourself and tell your story, you can contact us via website at this very

address. Please say a huge thank you to all of my guests. Robbie Williams!

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