Post by Chayna on Feb 25, 2006 18:45:04 GMT -5
At last I've got it done! Here's the transcript and you need to read the first general intro bit before PB's bit. Enjoy!
Chayna
Davina Show 22 Feb 2006 BBC1 in the UK
Davina: In a moment I'm going to be bonding with one of the most stylish and charismatic men in the movies. He is Pierce Brosnan. I'll be catching up with a boy band, kind of turned young man band and they'll also be performing their latest too. That'll be Westlife. Then I'll be joined by the man who put dish into judiciary. Quite hard to say that, but I got through it. He is Judge John Deed - Martin Shaw. And then there's the naughty young man who started out as a stand-up comedian, graduated to the Fame Academy and was most recently stranded on the Celebrity Love Island - Patrick Keilty. And there's gonna be music from the most breathtaking new singing talent Corinne Bailey Ray.
OK so my first guest always dreamt of being a character actor and in fact he went on to play the most famous movie character of them all, James Bond. In his latest movie, The Matador, out is his usual suave, sophistication and in is the down and dirty assassin, kind of hit man who’s got a bit of a penchant for walking round in his pants [her hands demo-ing area of pants].
A collage of 4 close-ups of PB in The Matador, a James Bond + gun still, 'In real life I'm not that suave or debonair at all' clip from The Muppets, walk in lobby from Matador [not all of it], and more Matador clips, fire eating and lobster clips from The Muppets, then [with PB voiceover 'When I discovered acting I discovered a wonderful home for myself, a sanctuary'] shots of PB getting out of car, TCA poster, LOA poster. Then another Matador clip, lab scene and [PB voiceover 'I have a passion about the work that I'm doing, a passion about being an actor. I love it, I just love it'] dancing in The Muppets, Matador clip, juggling wearing a turquoise glittery vest, more Matador clips.
D: Ladies and gentlemen, Pierce Brosnan
[who comes on saying 'Thank you' to cheering audience and as he kisses D, says 'Well done, judiciary, well done.']
D: Thank you, ahmm, it's not easy.
PB: Not easy [sitting down]. Thank you very much [to audience]. Thank you.
D: Judiciary, judiciary
PB: I'm glad I didn't have to say judiciary [eyes smiling in a gently teasing way]
D: Yeah but you just did it
PB: I just did it
D: Just like that. That's not fair
PB: Yes. Well [making himself comfy]
D: What was it like? Do you like watching that little [hands drawing rectangle] bit of footage of all our little bits that we put together?
PB: The film, it was great
D: It was quite sweet
PB: Yeah you got The Muppets
D: We got The Muppets. Legendary
PB: That was a really mad gig because that was just after I got GoldenEye, Bond, and The Muppets phoned me up and they said 'We'd like you to be on the show' and I said 'Well that's great.' I love The Muppets and they said 'Do you sing or dance?' and I said 'No, no, no I don't. I used to do a fire eating act' and they said 'Great, do that' and we went for that. That scene, me blowing the fire was shot first. So I'm there, I'm with The Muppets. I'm thinking 'This is fantastic' They said 'Well look, let's have a rehearsal on this'. I went out there and I just about blew myself up. It was rocket fuel.
D laughing
PB: The thing came right back into my mouth
D: NO!
PB: and my whole mouth exploded. So for the rest of the day I was going round with ice cubes in my mouth.
D: One of the things that 's interesting about you and one of the shocking things is that actually I don't think handsome men are ever, or often, given the chance to be funny. Because you know they see somebody really handsome [PB: Yeah] and they think [PB: yeah] you can't be funny if you're handsome [PB: yeah] D: I'm just gonna put you in a lead role. But you've really managed to kind of shake yourself out of that.
PB: I hope I have, I mean, erm, but I didn't do The Matador for that reason. It was just a really great script. Richard Shepard who wrote it, you know he sent it to me as a writing sample of his work and I don't think if anybody else was making this film that I would have been top of their list.
D: Well there were moments when I was watching it that I actually guffawed out loud and this was one of those moments.
Complete clip of lobby walk shown
PB: Yes. Thank you very much. No acting required. Pantomime next Christmas.
D: Everybody's faces staring at you as you're walking through that [makes a face like those in film]
PB: Yes those were people [D laughing] those were real people as opposed to extras you know. These people were hanging around in the hotel that morning and we said 'would you mind standing here for about 20 minutes or so'
D: What a lucky break, to be staying in a hotel [PB laughs] and they say 'Do you wanna see Pierce Brosnan in a tight pair of pants? I don't know if you'd…?' 'YES, HELLO!'
PB: Well, No, I'm not everybody's cup of tea maybe, but er, it works for the character. It works for the film and it's a great sight gag and it's, actually when you see the picture* it makes sense.
*To me this shows he was brought up in Britain in the 60s coz we never said 'going to the cinema' but 'going to the pictures'. Nowadays everyone younger says cinema or films. I know in the US you say theatre instead of cinema.
D: Bond, as we talked about, was something, you know a role that you did for many years. But in a weird kind of way, was it, when you stopped doing Bond, was it like being freed?
PB: Yes and No. I mean you go into a job like that, you have a contract. My contract was for 4 movies, so you know the curtain is going to fall at some point. But you know, when the producers decided to move the goalposts, it was a surprise. But it came with a certain sense of liberation and freedom and like, once more an actor, so to speak.
D: Mmm
PB: You know, The Matador came at a perfect moment in time. Luck o' the Irish, tch [wry smile]
D: Do you remember where you were and what you were doing or what you were feeling when you did get the, coz it was - there was a lot of to-ing and fro-ing about the end of Bond for you, that, the end of the line. Do you remember the moment when you found out 'right that is actually it' and how did you feel about it?
PB: [has been looking serious during this last question] Erm, er, I was in the Bahamas making a movie called After The Sunset. It was in the afternoon and my agents called me and that was it really. They said 'Negotiations stopped' and erm …
D: But in a funny kind of way it's a very sad moment, letting go of a part or had there been so much to-ing and fro-ing that you were just kind of thinking [PB: No] actually
PB: Well no, I can't say it was sad. I mean, it's just par for the course really. It's just this business. It's, you know, you've got to be tough as old boots to play this game and sometimes you get blind sided by, you know, a decision, a piece of information like that. You take it and then you say OK, alright, what next? Onwards. Then you have to go through the whole rigmarole of talking about it or letting the world know and letting friends know. So listen, it's nothing, but, you can only look on the good side of things. You can't let those moments kind of hamper your life [D: No] or stop you in your tracks. You just gotta keep going.
D: Would it be unfinished business? Would you ever go back to it?
PB: I don't think so. No, I think I had my day in the sun with that role and I think Daniel's gonna do a fantastic job. He's a wonderful actor.
D: Did you hear about him this weekend [pointing to her mouth, and that tells us it was recorded last weekend]
PB: I, he got his, I don't know. It's all such a ballyhoo. The press you know skewers [hand movements] everything. He got a dig in the jaw and he chipped his tooth.
D: Do your kids watch you in films? Coz they're quite risque [PB: Erm, yeah] some of your movies.
PB Yeah, Kee is, I mean, when I was doing the Matador, the boys missed me a lot coz I was away and she put on one of the Bond movies [he was getting fidgety here and I think it was coz of the story he was about to tell] and they watched it. And my little 4 year old started doing movie kisses to his mother. [D laughing out loud] You know smooching [he seemed nervous and embarrassed here] You know, he comes up and lip locks her. 'No son, you're only 4 years of age.' 'Well Daddy did it.'
D:Yes, I've learnt it from the best
PB: You know, erm. So they don't really, erm, they know what Dad does, erm, and I try to put it in perspective as much as I can for them.
D: I read somewhere that you actually got a sort of a lot of valuable life lessons from milking a nanny goat.
PB: [not fidgety now but laughs out loud] I wasn't sure where you were going with that. I was in a play a long time ago called Puckaree. In Ireland they have the Puck Fair, it's a pagan ritual and they celebrate the Puck, the goat. Anyway it was a mad, mad show that I did, an Irish rock musical about the Puck Fair. And this director, it was at the Edinburgh Festival back in the 70s, and he decided to get a goat. Thought it would be great to get the goat, but he got a nanny goat. We were a big company, it was like a bunch of hippies and they got the nanny goat but the nanny goat needed milking. I was the only one who knew how to milk the goat [D laughing] as I used to milk the cows at home. So we'd do the show at night and the goat had to be milked and everybody else went off to the pub and I milked the goat.
D: Aww and you'd be relieving her udders.
PB: [points to D with an amused look and does milking actions]
D: It must have been a great relief for her
PB: Honest [think that's what he says] she and I have, we had, it was a fond memory, it is a fond memory, [D: Yeah] I must say. But you had to go there. You had to milk 'em in the morning and milk 'em in the evening you know. So…
D: It's quite a commitment
PB [looking at audience] They're very quiet [audience laughter] Yeah it is, but I stood up to the cause.
D: To the challenge, well done. Now Pierce
Chayna
Davina Show 22 Feb 2006 BBC1 in the UK
Davina: In a moment I'm going to be bonding with one of the most stylish and charismatic men in the movies. He is Pierce Brosnan. I'll be catching up with a boy band, kind of turned young man band and they'll also be performing their latest too. That'll be Westlife. Then I'll be joined by the man who put dish into judiciary. Quite hard to say that, but I got through it. He is Judge John Deed - Martin Shaw. And then there's the naughty young man who started out as a stand-up comedian, graduated to the Fame Academy and was most recently stranded on the Celebrity Love Island - Patrick Keilty. And there's gonna be music from the most breathtaking new singing talent Corinne Bailey Ray.
OK so my first guest always dreamt of being a character actor and in fact he went on to play the most famous movie character of them all, James Bond. In his latest movie, The Matador, out is his usual suave, sophistication and in is the down and dirty assassin, kind of hit man who’s got a bit of a penchant for walking round in his pants [her hands demo-ing area of pants].
A collage of 4 close-ups of PB in The Matador, a James Bond + gun still, 'In real life I'm not that suave or debonair at all' clip from The Muppets, walk in lobby from Matador [not all of it], and more Matador clips, fire eating and lobster clips from The Muppets, then [with PB voiceover 'When I discovered acting I discovered a wonderful home for myself, a sanctuary'] shots of PB getting out of car, TCA poster, LOA poster. Then another Matador clip, lab scene and [PB voiceover 'I have a passion about the work that I'm doing, a passion about being an actor. I love it, I just love it'] dancing in The Muppets, Matador clip, juggling wearing a turquoise glittery vest, more Matador clips.
D: Ladies and gentlemen, Pierce Brosnan
[who comes on saying 'Thank you' to cheering audience and as he kisses D, says 'Well done, judiciary, well done.']
D: Thank you, ahmm, it's not easy.
PB: Not easy [sitting down]. Thank you very much [to audience]. Thank you.
D: Judiciary, judiciary
PB: I'm glad I didn't have to say judiciary [eyes smiling in a gently teasing way]
D: Yeah but you just did it
PB: I just did it
D: Just like that. That's not fair
PB: Yes. Well [making himself comfy]
D: What was it like? Do you like watching that little [hands drawing rectangle] bit of footage of all our little bits that we put together?
PB: The film, it was great
D: It was quite sweet
PB: Yeah you got The Muppets
D: We got The Muppets. Legendary
PB: That was a really mad gig because that was just after I got GoldenEye, Bond, and The Muppets phoned me up and they said 'We'd like you to be on the show' and I said 'Well that's great.' I love The Muppets and they said 'Do you sing or dance?' and I said 'No, no, no I don't. I used to do a fire eating act' and they said 'Great, do that' and we went for that. That scene, me blowing the fire was shot first. So I'm there, I'm with The Muppets. I'm thinking 'This is fantastic' They said 'Well look, let's have a rehearsal on this'. I went out there and I just about blew myself up. It was rocket fuel.
D laughing
PB: The thing came right back into my mouth
D: NO!
PB: and my whole mouth exploded. So for the rest of the day I was going round with ice cubes in my mouth.
D: One of the things that 's interesting about you and one of the shocking things is that actually I don't think handsome men are ever, or often, given the chance to be funny. Because you know they see somebody really handsome [PB: Yeah] and they think [PB: yeah] you can't be funny if you're handsome [PB: yeah] D: I'm just gonna put you in a lead role. But you've really managed to kind of shake yourself out of that.
PB: I hope I have, I mean, erm, but I didn't do The Matador for that reason. It was just a really great script. Richard Shepard who wrote it, you know he sent it to me as a writing sample of his work and I don't think if anybody else was making this film that I would have been top of their list.
D: Well there were moments when I was watching it that I actually guffawed out loud and this was one of those moments.
Complete clip of lobby walk shown
PB: Yes. Thank you very much. No acting required. Pantomime next Christmas.
D: Everybody's faces staring at you as you're walking through that [makes a face like those in film]
PB: Yes those were people [D laughing] those were real people as opposed to extras you know. These people were hanging around in the hotel that morning and we said 'would you mind standing here for about 20 minutes or so'
D: What a lucky break, to be staying in a hotel [PB laughs] and they say 'Do you wanna see Pierce Brosnan in a tight pair of pants? I don't know if you'd…?' 'YES, HELLO!'
PB: Well, No, I'm not everybody's cup of tea maybe, but er, it works for the character. It works for the film and it's a great sight gag and it's, actually when you see the picture* it makes sense.
*To me this shows he was brought up in Britain in the 60s coz we never said 'going to the cinema' but 'going to the pictures'. Nowadays everyone younger says cinema or films. I know in the US you say theatre instead of cinema.
D: Bond, as we talked about, was something, you know a role that you did for many years. But in a weird kind of way, was it, when you stopped doing Bond, was it like being freed?
PB: Yes and No. I mean you go into a job like that, you have a contract. My contract was for 4 movies, so you know the curtain is going to fall at some point. But you know, when the producers decided to move the goalposts, it was a surprise. But it came with a certain sense of liberation and freedom and like, once more an actor, so to speak.
D: Mmm
PB: You know, The Matador came at a perfect moment in time. Luck o' the Irish, tch [wry smile]
D: Do you remember where you were and what you were doing or what you were feeling when you did get the, coz it was - there was a lot of to-ing and fro-ing about the end of Bond for you, that, the end of the line. Do you remember the moment when you found out 'right that is actually it' and how did you feel about it?
PB: [has been looking serious during this last question] Erm, er, I was in the Bahamas making a movie called After The Sunset. It was in the afternoon and my agents called me and that was it really. They said 'Negotiations stopped' and erm …
D: But in a funny kind of way it's a very sad moment, letting go of a part or had there been so much to-ing and fro-ing that you were just kind of thinking [PB: No] actually
PB: Well no, I can't say it was sad. I mean, it's just par for the course really. It's just this business. It's, you know, you've got to be tough as old boots to play this game and sometimes you get blind sided by, you know, a decision, a piece of information like that. You take it and then you say OK, alright, what next? Onwards. Then you have to go through the whole rigmarole of talking about it or letting the world know and letting friends know. So listen, it's nothing, but, you can only look on the good side of things. You can't let those moments kind of hamper your life [D: No] or stop you in your tracks. You just gotta keep going.
D: Would it be unfinished business? Would you ever go back to it?
PB: I don't think so. No, I think I had my day in the sun with that role and I think Daniel's gonna do a fantastic job. He's a wonderful actor.
D: Did you hear about him this weekend [pointing to her mouth, and that tells us it was recorded last weekend]
PB: I, he got his, I don't know. It's all such a ballyhoo. The press you know skewers [hand movements] everything. He got a dig in the jaw and he chipped his tooth.
D: Do your kids watch you in films? Coz they're quite risque [PB: Erm, yeah] some of your movies.
PB Yeah, Kee is, I mean, when I was doing the Matador, the boys missed me a lot coz I was away and she put on one of the Bond movies [he was getting fidgety here and I think it was coz of the story he was about to tell] and they watched it. And my little 4 year old started doing movie kisses to his mother. [D laughing out loud] You know smooching [he seemed nervous and embarrassed here] You know, he comes up and lip locks her. 'No son, you're only 4 years of age.' 'Well Daddy did it.'
D:Yes, I've learnt it from the best
PB: You know, erm. So they don't really, erm, they know what Dad does, erm, and I try to put it in perspective as much as I can for them.
D: I read somewhere that you actually got a sort of a lot of valuable life lessons from milking a nanny goat.
PB: [not fidgety now but laughs out loud] I wasn't sure where you were going with that. I was in a play a long time ago called Puckaree. In Ireland they have the Puck Fair, it's a pagan ritual and they celebrate the Puck, the goat. Anyway it was a mad, mad show that I did, an Irish rock musical about the Puck Fair. And this director, it was at the Edinburgh Festival back in the 70s, and he decided to get a goat. Thought it would be great to get the goat, but he got a nanny goat. We were a big company, it was like a bunch of hippies and they got the nanny goat but the nanny goat needed milking. I was the only one who knew how to milk the goat [D laughing] as I used to milk the cows at home. So we'd do the show at night and the goat had to be milked and everybody else went off to the pub and I milked the goat.
D: Aww and you'd be relieving her udders.
PB: [points to D with an amused look and does milking actions]
D: It must have been a great relief for her
PB: Honest [think that's what he says] she and I have, we had, it was a fond memory, it is a fond memory, [D: Yeah] I must say. But you had to go there. You had to milk 'em in the morning and milk 'em in the evening you know. So…
D: It's quite a commitment
PB [looking at audience] They're very quiet [audience laughter] Yeah it is, but I stood up to the cause.
D: To the challenge, well done. Now Pierce
may I say how old you are or is that rude?
PB: No you can say how old I am.
D: OK you're 52 [PB goes Mm hmm again] Are you worried about getting older or are you looking forward to it?
PB: You know, being 50 and being in the 50s, you certainly do think of it. You look down the road. You look time past, time present, time future. How can you not think in such a fashion? But you don't dwell on it coz you keep going forwards the whole time hopefully; creatively, emotionally and you know it's easier for the guys in some respects, like you said yourself [D goes Mmm] in that town called Hollywood or the movies, it's a hard world out there. It's the independent world of film making that's the exciting place to be in and always had been in some respects.
D: Well listen, thank you so much for coming on the talk to us. Good luck with The Matador.
PB: Thanks
D: A very, very funny and lively movie
PB: It is
D: I loved that
PB: It had a good heart to it at the end. You go on a big ride on this film and it has a lotta laughs
D: A lotta laughs. Ladies and gentlemen, Pierce Brosnan
PB [to audience] Thank you [to D but you can't hear it, just read his lips] Thank you very much. Very kind. Thank you.
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While the end credits are scrolling along the bottom of the screen there are snippets shown from different parts of the show, some of which are outtakes. PB's are here:
D: Trust me I'm a presenter.
PB: [laughing] I wasn't sure where you were going with that.
******
PB: They said they didn't but I think 'Hmmm' I'm not sure
******
PB: He's kind of sailed his way through life
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D: No, I'm not trying to flatter you or anything, but you're quite good looking [looking down and sideways as she says all this]
PB: Go ahead, go ahead
D: And, ahh [laughing]
The End
Thanks Chayna!
