LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, MY FIRST GUEST TONIGHT IS AN ACADEMY
AWARD-WINNING ACTOR YOU KNOW FROM "THE DANISH GIRL,"
"FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM," AND "THE THEORY OF
EVERYTHING."
HIS LATEST FILM IS "THE AERONAUTS."
>> ALL I ASK TO BE GIVEN THE FREEDOM TO UNDERTAKE MY
EXPERIMENTS.
>> I'M NOT A COACHMAN FOR HIRE >> GOOD, BECAUSE I'M LOOKING FOR
A FELLOW SCIENTIST.
TO UNDERSTAND THE WEATHER, IS TO UNDERSTAND HOW TO MAKE SHIPS AND
SAILORS SAFER, FARMS MORE PRODUCTIVE, SO WE CAN PREPARE
OURSELVES AND OUR WORLD FOR FLOODS, FOR DROUGHTS, FAMINES.
WE CAN SAVE THOUSANDS OF LIVES.
I WANT TO REWRITE RULES OF THE AIR, MISS WREN, AND I NEED YOUR
HELP.
>> Stephen: PLEASE WELCOME, EDDIE REDMAYNE!
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>> Stephen: NICE TO SEE YOU AGAIN
>> LOVELY TO SEE YOU, TOO.
>> Stephen: NOW, I WANT-- I WANT TO GET TO THE MOVIE IN JUST
A MOMENT.
WE SAW YOU THERE WITH YOUR COSTAR, FELICITY JONES, NICE
SEEING YOU DO SCIENTISTS TOGETHER AGAIN FOR A PROJECT.
>> ABSOLUTELY >> Stephen: BUT YOU'RE AN
ADVENTURER AND SCIENTIST IN THIS.
YOU ARE ON AN ADVENTURE FAR MORE HAZARDOUS RIGHT NOW.
LAST TIME YOU WERE HERE, YOU JUST HAD YOUR FIRST CHILD.
YOU AND YOUR WIFE HAD YOUR FIRST CHILD
AND NOW YOU HAVE TWO CHILDREN UNDER THE AGE OF FOUR
>> YES >> Stephen: AND, FIRST OF ALL,
NICE GROUPING.
AND SECOND OF ALL, ARE YOU GET ANYTHING SLEEP?
WILL YOU REMEMBER ANY OF THIS CONVERSATION AN HOUR FROM NOW?
>> NO, IT'S COMPLETE CHAOS AND CARNAGE.
MY LIFE IS JUST-- IT'S A SORT OF BLURRY MESS OF-- OF-- AS YOU
SAY, A COMPLETE LACK OF MEMORY.
CONSISTENT COLDS.
>> Stephen: SURE >> AT THIS TIME --
>> Stephen: THEY'RE DISEASE VECTORS
>> LITERALLY.
I'M IN NEW YORK AT THE MOMENT -- >> Stephen: THEY'RE LYCRA
COONS.
>> EXACTLY LYCRA COONS.
I'M IN NEW YORK AT THE MOMENT MAKING A FILM AND MY KIDS ARE
WITH ME AND ONE GETS A COLD, AND BY THE
TIME THEY PASS IT ON TO THE OTHER, AND PASS IT ON TO MOM,
AND FASS ON TO DAD, AND IT'S TYPE FOR EVERYONE TO START ALL
OVER AGAIN >> Stephen: WHAT ARE THE AGES
OF YOUR CHILDREN NOW?
>> ONE AND THREE >> Stephen: SO YOUR DAUGHTER
IS THREE >> EXACTLY
>> Stephen: THAT'S A WONDERFUL AGE FOR CHRISTMAS
>> IT'S AMAZING >> Stephen: JUST THE WONDER
HAS JUST BEGUN >> YEAH
>> Stephen: WHAT TRADITIONS DO YOU-- ARE YOU BRINGING OVER?
>> YOU KNOW, A FEW YEARS AGO I BECAME-- WE DO TURKEY IN THE
U.K. AT CHRISTMAS >> Stephen: YOU DO?
>> YEAH.
BUT, ALSO, I AM QUITE INTO HAM.
I LOVE A HAM, SO I TOOK ON THE ROLE IN MY FAMILY OF BEING THE
PERSON, THAT LIKE, MADE THE HAM AND THIS PARTICULAR HAM --
>> Stephen: BY "MAKING HAM."
DOESN'T HAM COME TO YOU MOSTLY MADE?
>> NO, NO, NO >> Stephen: YOU'RE JUST
HEATING HAM, AREN'T YOU?
>> NO, YOU'RE PUTTING THINGS LIKE SYRUP AND DELICIOUS THINGS
AND CLOVES -- >> Stephen: PINE APAPPLE
>> NOT PINEAPPLE SNOW!
NEVER PINEAPPLE >> Stephen: YOU HAVE TO TRY
THE PINEAPPLE, MY MINE MAN.
SO CLOVES.
>> CLOVES AND THINGS.
THERE WAS THIS THING THAT FOR YEARS AS A KID I WAS OBSESSED
WITH THE, LIKE, MEAT SECTION OF THE DELI COUNTER.
YOU KNOW THOSE MACHINES THAT YOU CUT HAMS WITH --
>> Stephen: THOSE CIRCULAR, THESE THINGS
>> YES.
I DON'T KNOW WHY I WOULD SIT MESMERIZED
>> Stephen: THEY'RE BEAUTIFUL.
>> THE THINNER THE BETTER AND IT WAS THE LIFE'S AMBITION TO WORK
AT THE DELL GLE THAT'S FALLBACK IN CASE THE ACTING DOESN'T WORK
OUT?
>> I MEAN, IT'S SORT OF JOKE, BUT IT WOULD MAKE ME VERY HAPPY
( LAUGHTER )
THE OF NOWHERE, I THINK I HAD SAID THIS ONCE IN AN INTERVIEW
OR SOMETHING.
AND-- AND ON CHRISTMAS DAY, IN THE SNOWY BRITISH COUNTRYSIDE,
MY WIFE PRESENTED ME A GIFT, AND IT WAS ALL BEAUTIFULLY WRAPPED
UP AND I OPENED IT, AND IT WAS A
HAM-CUTTING MACHINE
>> Stephen: ONE OF THOSE THINGS YOU PUT THE LOAF--
>> IT'S DEFINITELY A SMALLER VERSION.
IT'S NOT THE FULL DELI PROPER, SUPER-DUPER --
>> Stephen: BUT IT'S THE SPINNING STEEL WHEEL.
THAT LOOKS DANGEROUS >> OH, IT'S TERRIFYINGLY
DANGEROUS >> Stephen: YOU HAVE CHILDREN
>> I DO.
AND EVERY TIME YOU USE TYOU HAVE TO CLEAN, LIKE, THIS VICIOUS
CIRCULAR BLAZE BLAID WHICH IS ALWAYS GOING TO CUT YOU.
IT ONLY GETS USED ABOUT ONCE A YEAR, AND THE CLEANING OF TI
SORT OF HAVE TO WEAR LIKE GARDEN GLOVES.
I JUST REVEALED A RANDOM PIECE OF MISCELLANY ABOUT MY HAM
>> Stephen: YOU CAN MAKE A HELL OF A SANDWICH YOU'RE SAYING
AT A MOMENT'S NOTICE.
>> YES, THE THE THINNER THE BETTER
>> Stephen: LET'S GO FROM THAT WONDERFUL PIECE OF TECHNOLOGY TO
THIS FILM ABOUT BEING USING TECHNOLOGY TO DISCOVER WONDERS
OF SCIENCE >> YEAH.
>> Stephen: BEAUTIFUL TRANSITION.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
( LAUGHTER )
>> AN AERONAUT IS SOMEONE WHO GOES UP IN AN AIR BALLOON
>> Stephen: YES.
>> FROM THAT CLIP WHICH MAKE THIS FEM LOOK LIKE AN ELEGANT
PERIOD DRAMA.
IT'S MANUFACTURE AN ADVENTURE MOVIE ABOUT TWO PEOPLE STUCK IN
A BASKET TAKING ON THE LELTS >> Stephen: THE BASKENT IS
ATTACHED TO SOMETHING, PLEASE TELL ME.
>> AT MOMENTS.
AT MOMENT S >> Stephen: DID YOU
ACTUALLY-- WHEN YOU WERE WORKING ON THIS, DID YOU-- IS IT ALL
GREEN SCREENED OR DID YOU ACTUALLY GO UP IN THE BASKET IN
THE BALLOON?
>> DO YOU KNOW WHAT, THEY ACTUALLY-- THIS FILM IS A
COMBINATION OF TRUE STORY THAT HAPPENS IN THE 19th CENTURY.
BUT IT'S-- ONE SPECIFIC BALLOON ADVENTURE IN A BALLOON CALLED
"THE MAMMOTH."
AND THEY RECREATED THIS GAS BALLOON.
SO IT'S JUST A SILK BALLOON FILLED WITH HYDROGEN HELIUM GAS
ATTACHED TO A BASKET AND THEY BUILT THAT FOR FILMING.
AND OUR FIRST COUPLE DAYS OF FILMING WERE IN THE BALLOON.
AND WE TOOK OFF, AND GAS BALLOONING, RATHER THAN HOT AIR
BALLOONING IS VERY RARE IN THE U.K
SO WE HAD A PILOT WHO WAS HIDING IN THE BASKET BUT FELICITY AND I
WERE FULLY DRESSED IN OUR GEAR AND THEY HELICOPTERS AND DRONES
SHOOTING AROUND THE BALLOON.
AND IT WAS AMAZING.
WE SHOT THE SCENES, FELICITY DO ALL THESE STUNTS AND WENT UP TO
THE RING OF THE BASKENT.
IT WAS TRANQUIL.
IT WAS BEAUTIFUL.
IT WAS WONDERFUL.
THEY GOT ALL THE FOOTAGE THEY NEED, AND THEY KIND OF DRIFTED
OFF AND WE WERE COMING TO LAND.
AND AS YOU COME TO LAND, YOU PULL ON A ROPE THAT ALLOWS THE
GAS OUT OF THE TOP OF THE BALLOON AND GRADUALLY YOU START
COMING DOWN BUT YOU CAN'T COMPLETELY CONTROL IT.
WE WERE HURTLING TOWARDS THESE TREES
( LAUGHTER )
WAS LIKE, "OKAY, OKAY, THROW OUT THE BALLAST.
THROW OUT THE SANDBAGS."
AND THERE WERE ALL THESE SAND BAGS.
AND FELICITY AND I ARE FEVERISHLY THROWING OUT THE
BAGS.
WHICH MEANS THE THING ROSE A BIT AND WE MISSED THE TREE EXPRPZ
SORT OF HUGGING, HIGH-FIVING, WE'RE PROPER AERONAUTS, WE'RE
NAILING THIS.
AND WE LOOKED TO THE ACTUAL PILOT, AND HIS FACE, EVERY OUNCE
OF BLOOD HAD GONE FROM HIS FACE AND HE WAS JUST LOOKING TOTALLY
TERRIFIED.
AND WE LOOKED, "WHAT'S THE PROBLEM?
" HE SAID, "YOU'VE THROWN OUT ALL
THE SANDBAGS."
AND WE LOOKED AT HIM AND SAID, "YOU TOLD US TO THROW ALL THE
( BLEEP ) SAND BAGS OUT WE TOLD YOU TO THROW THEM NOT
ALL OF THEM AND WHAT IT MEANT IS WHEN WE
WERE NEXT LANDING AND HURTLING TOWARDS ANOTHER FOREST, WHICH WE
DWE HAD NO WAY OF AVOIDING IT, BASICALLY
>> Stephen: THEY COULD HAVE JUST THROWN YOU OUT
>> HE MAY HAVE WISHED HE DID.
AT THAT MOMENT WE CRUNCHED INTO THE TREES, CAME HURTLING TO THE
GROUND, SMASHED ON THE GROUND, AND FELICITY'S HEAD SMACKED BACK
AGAINST THIS CHEST, AND THERE WAS SILENCE.
AND THIS WAS OUR FIRST DAY OF FILMING.
AND THERE WAS TOTAL SILENCE.
AND I HEARD FELICITY GO, "I DON'T, I CAN MOVE MY NECK."
AND SO THAT WAS HOW WE STARTED THIS FILM.
AND FROM THAT MOMENT, WHAT WAS-- WHAT WAS WONDERFUL IS THAT A LOT
OF THE FILM WAS THEN SHOT ON GREEN SCENE.
SHE WAS TOTALLY FINE, BY THE WAY.
NO FELICITIES WERE HURT IN THE MAKING OF THIS MOVIE
>> Stephen: NO SPOILERS.
>> WE HAD THE MEMORY OF THAT.
AND RECENTLY OUR DIRECTOR -- >> Stephen: YOU HAD THE MEMORY
AND I HOPE YOU HAD A LAWYER, TOO?
>> YEAH, WELL, MASOCHISTICALLY, THE DIRECTOR TOLD US RECENTLY--
BECAUSE NONE OF THAT WAS USABLE.
THEY HADN'T SHOT ANY OF THAT FOOTAGE.
BUT WHAT THEY DID-- WHAT THEY DID USE WERE THE SCREAMS, OUR
SCREAMS.
THEY HAD RECORDED OUR SCREAMS, EVEN THOUGH THEY HADN'T CAUGHT
IT ON CAMERA.
AND THERE'S A MOMENT IN THE FILM IN WHICH WE'RE HURTLING TOWARDS
OUR DEATH, AND THE DIRECTOR REASSURINGLY WENT, "BUT DON'T
WORRY, YOUR SCREAMS ARE IN THERE."
I WAS LIKE, THANK YOU FOR NOTHING."
>> Stephen: WHY DON'T THEY JUST PUT YOU IN A SOUND BOOTH
AND BEAT YOU WITH STICKS NEXT TIME.
ED, IT WAS LOVELY TO SEE YOU AGAIN.
MIRY CHRISTMAS >> MERRY CHRISTMAS.
>> Stephen: "THE AERONAUTS" IS IN THEATERS THIS FRIDAY.
EDDIE REDMAYNE, EVERYBODY!
WE'LL BE RIGHT BACK WITH COMEDIAN JOE PERA.