I love the Spice Girls. I'm still friends with
all of them and see them. Oh, I
worked with Julia Roberts. Oh, I worked with
Sophia Loren. I've been starstruck my entire life.
I'm very glad to be alive. It's lovely to
see you. Thank you very much. I did
think when I was looking at this cast and how
serious a film it is. Are you the biggest
choker on this set, because. I've interviewed you
before and I know what you're like, and I
feel like you're the one who's bringing the light relief
in those darker moments. Well, you have to
. I'm also the oldest person on every job now
. So this is one film I've done that's coming
out this year that I don't die in, because
I've died on 6 other ones that I've, so
I'm very glad to be alive each time. So
, You have to, you know, lighten it
up. Absolutely, I'm glad that we've got you
for that, um, but it is a serious
story. And it is an important one as well
. What would you say, like what makes it
such an important film? Because it's all told from
the point of view of a military psychiatrist called Kelly
, played by Rami Malek, spending all this time
in a prison cell with. Goering, played by
Russell Crowe, you go into the story from a
personal point of view and you see this weird friendship
that develops between these two men, each. With
a different agenda, but it humanizes everything, even
though he's a narcissistic psychopath. You understand maybe how
people would have thought, well, Goering was actually
charming and he had a beautiful wife and daughter,
he had a family like lots of people do.
But when Kelly is like initially going into that room
to meet Goering for the first First time. Yes
. I know he said he was intimidated by like
that first meeting. And I was curious for you
whether in your career, listen, I don't imagine
now, but has there ever been anyone who you've
been intimidated to for the first time? I've been
starstruck my entire life because I grew up in a
tiny country where there was no movies, no show
business, no television. So, every time I
meet people, and you know, especially the cast
of this, this film, you know, meeting
Russell Crowe and Michael Shannon and all these people,
I'm, you know, gobsmacked, wide-eyed in Babylon
, yeah, that has never changed. And I
think that you're either like that or not. And
I remember I was on a chat show 30 years
ago, and I was great friends with Carrie Fisher
from Star Wars. And she'd seen me on the
show because she was filming in London at the time
, and she said, I saw you, you
were really embarrassing on that, because you were like
going, oh I worked with Julia Roberts, oh
I worked with Sophia Loren, and she said,
You're no longer. Um, A tourist, you're
one of the attractions. People get starstruck you.
And I said, I can't see it that way
around. She said, well, get over yourself
because that is the reality. But you know,
yeah, I'm 6815 now and I still don't feel
any different about that. I'm still starstruck by people
because I think there's nothing. More exciting than this
invisible thing that people have which is called talent,
and you have that in bundles, but I thank
you, it sounds like I was sort of setting
myself up for you to harpoon a compliment. I
didn't mean it. No, no, you have
though, but I hope that you're OK. Also
, I know you make these great films and films
like this which are serious, but there is a
generation of us who will always love you for Spice
Worlds, and I hope that that's OK, that
that's part of your legacy. Thank you very much
. I love the Spice Girls. I'm still friends
with all of them and see them. And we
wait for Spice World 2 with eager anticipation. I
think that now we have Lady Victoria Beckham. I
don't think that's going to be possible. No,
let's not kill the dream. Let's not kill the
meatloaf is no longer with us, so, you
know, it's not gonna be possible. We live
in hope. We live in hope. Good luck
with this one. Lovely to see you. Thank
you. OK, bye.