(audience applauding)
Thanks for doing this. My pleasure.
Thanks for bringing me on. Good to have you here.
You know, this is a...
I don't know.
I know that you're from Scotland,
but here in the States, Christmas is so over the top.
Right.
Is it the same?
Is it as big a deal in Scotland?
It's getting there.
We're always just one half a step behind you guys,
Right. Right. I think.
So, it's getting to be the same.
For example, have you...
Everyone's obsessed here
with getting their Christmas shopping done.
Yeah.
Some people I know have it done
like a week in advance, two weeks in advance.
What about you?
I've been here for about two and a half months,
doing this film called "The Tourist",
and people were talking about
their Christmas shopping
when we started in October.
I think so.
No, I've got one or two things,
I'm still way behind.
Right? Yeah.
Are you one of those guys?
I have a brother a goes to the 7-11,
the night before Christmas,
and just buys like Slim Jims for everybody.
(audience laughing)
Now, I mentioned the Star Wars films,
and you've done such a...
you've done-
You've had so much success with different films,
but growing up you were huge Star Wars Fan.
I was, yes.
And then you get to be in three
of the Star Wars films as Obi Wan Kenobi.
That's gotta be a...
Just kind of a weird,
surreal dream come true for you.
Yes.
I often think back to
when I was watching them, when I was six or so...
I think I was six
when the first one came out
and I imagine someone telling me then,
"You know, you'll be Obi Wan Kenobi one day son."
Right?
Oh yeah right, get outa here.
Someone in the theater,
just was bugging you-
Yeah just someone there.
Hey, kid, you're gonna be Obi Wan.
Leave me alone.
(audience laughing)
But, yes.
And it was-
it's been amazing.
They're tough to make, you know,
because they're all blue screen.
Very often you're acting on your own.
And it's very technically very difficult, but.
It's brilliant to be- That's the way
we do this show.
There's no desk here.
There's no chairs.
This is all added later. Yeah all added in...
The audience is very good. There's just tennis balls...
There's an apple on it. On steaks for the audience.
You're not even here,
right now. Yeah, yeah.
(laughing)
You're a broom.
Hi, how are you?
Nice to see you.
So, but it's been great to be in them
and to be part of that history
and the legacy of Star Wars.
It's been fantastic- What's it like?
The first day you show up
and George Lucas is there
and he's taking you around the set.
That's got to be a mindblower for you.
Yeah, it was, it was. I went up to leaves...
We shot the first one in Britain,
in a place called Leavesden, north of London.
And he took me right...
We went up there
and you know, it's an enormous,
movie stages everywhere
and they're building all the stuff, you know?
And he brought-
He led me through
and they were building
that submarine in episode one,
there was a, kind of under water submarine thing.
And they're building it,
carving it out of these huge blocks of styrofoam,
and I said to George, I went, "George, so will we be,
will we really get under water?
Will we be under water in it?"
Thinking that that would be great.
And he just laughed at me
and went, "It's none of it real, you know?"
(laughing) And it wasn't, none of it was.
When do I meet R2? I wanna (clapping) meet R2.
But then they took me to the props room
and the props department on a star wars film.
You've never seen happier people in your life.
For six months, they just get to make stuff.
The coolest stuff ever.
That's the background or light sabers
or whatever it is.
And the props master brought me,
this, looked like a huge cigar box,
with like three padlocks on it.
And he sat it down and he said,
"Are you ready?"
I went, "I'm ready."
So he unlocked the padlocks and he opened up
and there were, there must've been 7, 8, 9,
light saber handles.
All different styles of light saber handles.
And I got to pick my one... you got to choose your own?
Yeah.
Do you get to keep it afterwards?
No, no, no.
I like how you waited,
there. Yeah.
You don't want anyone going
through your apartment.
No, it's not in my apartment. No, I don't have one...
(audience laughing)
Near the cookie jar.
I did keep on. Yeah. (audience cheering)
(audience applauding)
Well, that's good to know.
'Cause so did I (shh, shh)
the coolest fight ever breaks out.
I know I'm changing topics here,
but I found out today that your,
your brother is just retired.
Yes.
Is that right?
He's in the Royal air force?
Yes, he was a Tornado bomber pilot, yeah.
That's a very powerful jet. Yes.
Unbelievable. Did you ever,
did you ever get to go up in the jet with him?
Yeah he took me up. The RAF are very particular about it
and they have to benefit somehow of it.
And my brother was the display pilot for a year
and was looking after children's hospice charity
that we're both involved in.
And so he took me up
in the backseat of his Tornado
and we did a lap of Scotland in about an hour
and 20 minutes or something.
The entire, you can go around the
Yeah the whole of Scotland. entire country,
that fast? It's unbelievable.
He said, you know, "We'll do some,
well we'll go to a bout a thousand feet
and then we'll do some low-level stuff
and then we'll come back up."
And so we started off for about two,
three minutes at a thousand feet.
And then he went,
we did the Glens of Scotland,
Glen Cole, and about 200 feet off the ground,
500 miles an hour,
just you don't know which way is up.
It's unbelievable.
But also the, G-Force is incredible.
Isn't it feel like there's an elephant
stepping on your chest
when you take those uh... It's horrible.
It's the worst travel sickness
you've ever had.
You know? and I thought I'd be all right.
I felt concrete.
You know, did all the things that were right.
I had a big breakfast.
I don't know if that was the right thing to do,
(audience laughing)
No, no, no, no.
It's like you ate a lot of sausage.
Yeah just get it down you.
And we did the low level stuff,
and then we came back up about 10 minutes later,
we came back up to a thousand feet
and then I just started,
I went white.
And he'd given me some things to do.
He wanted me to change the radio frequency
and stuff.
So then we went back low-level again,
and I'd managed not to be sick
or although I wanted to do it.
And then I was in there trying to get the radio
and we went round a corner like this,
you just stuck to the seat.
You know, because you can't see anything.
It was all over. Yeah.
But I managed to be very neat,
I had a little sick bag
in my pocket here Oh you threw up
in a little bag. Yeah, into a little bag.
And then when you land,
the ground crew come up.
You know, those guys, the top gear guys,
and they come up and open the canopy. And the first thing
you have to do is hand them your little paper bag.
(laughing)
It's really embarrassing.
(laughing) Here, fellas, but it was cool.