>> James: LOOK AT THIS.
COULD THERE BE A MORE GLAMOROUS AND GLORIOUS-- SHUFFLE UP.
THERE YOU GO. SHUFFLING, EVERYDAY WITH
SHUFFLING. THAT IS WHAT-- THAT IS WHAT US
BRITS SAY, ISN'T IT IT. NOW YOU KNOW EACH OTHER VERY
WELL, YOU HAVE, WITHOUTED TOGETHER NOT ONCE BUT TWICE,
WITH YES? >> YES, INDEED.
>> James: WHAT DID YOU DO. >> I HAD THE GREAT PRIVILEGE OF
CASTING LILLY IN CINDERELLA. >> James: YES.
>> SHE DID A FANTASTIC JOB AND IT WAS A WONDERFUL EXPERIENCE.
>> IT REALLY WAS. >> James: AND THEN YOU DID A
PLAY. >> WE DID ROMEO AND JULIET.
>> James: IN THE WEST END. >> UH-HUH.
>> James: RICHARD MADDEN. >> PRINCE CHARMING.
>> James: THAT'S RIGHT, HE WAS PRINCE CHARMING AND ROMEO, AND
HE WAS JULIETTE IN CINDERELLA. >> YES.
>> James: SO THAT WAS WHY YOU CAST HIM BECAUSE YOU HAD WORKED
WITH HIM BECAUSE I ALWAYS FELT LIKE I WAS SORT OF OVERLOOKED.
>> WHEN I HEARD ABOUT IT I WAS LIKE.
>> I WAS INCREDIBLY DISA INT POOED TOO.
>> James: LILY, WHEN KENNETH DIRECTED YOU IN CINDERELLA, IS
THIS RIGHT, KENNETH CALLED YOU PERSONALLY TO TELL YOU THAT YOU
GOT THE ROLL, WHICH ISN'T ALWAYS WHAT HAPPENS WITH DIRECTORS.
>> DO YOU REMEMBER THIS. >> I REMEMBER WHERE I WAS, WHERE
WERE YOU? >> I WAS, I WAS FILMING DOING
DOWNTON ABBEY AND WE FILM IN THE ENGLISH COUNTRYSIDE WHERE THERE
IS NO SERVICE, IT IS A NIGHTMARE TO YOU SLEEP IN MUD.
SO I WHAT IS IN MY THREE WAY TRAILER AND GOT A CALL, THINKING
OH GOD, WHAT IF HE CAN IS CALLING ME HE MUST BE TELLING ME
THANK YOU SO MUCH BUT IT DIDN'T GO YOUR WAY BECAUSE THAT IS
PERSONAL BUT IF YOU GET IT YOUR AGENT CALLS YOU, MY HEART WAS
NEVER BEATEN SO FAST, YOU WENT HELLO, IT IS KENNETH BRANAGH, I
JUST WANTED TO CALL TO TELL YOU, DEEP DEEP DEEP, AND MY, THE
SERVICE WENT AND I WAS RUNNING AROUND THESE FIELDS
GOING-- FINALLY I GOT SIGNAL AND YOU CALLED ME AND IT WAS JUST
ONE OF THE HAPPIEST. >> IT WAS A LOVELY THING.
I WAS IN A HOTEL BATHROOM WAS THE ONLY PLACE I COULD GET
SIGNAL SO I WAS DOING THAT AND GOING UP AND DOWN AND TRYING TO
GET A SIGNAL THINKING IT WAS ME. NO, YOU HAVE GOT THE PART.
NO, REALLY. >> I HAVE, I HAVEN'T, WHAT?
>> James: DID YOU SAY HAVE OR HAVEN'T.
>> SPEAK CLEARER. >> James: IS IN SOMETHING YOU
OFTEN DO, DO YOU OFTEN THINK, BECAUSE IF YOU THINK THAT COMES
FROM YOU BEING AN ACTOR AND KNOWING WHAT IT IS LIKE ON THE
RECEIVING END OF THOSE CALLS, DO YOU THINK THOSE ARE GREAT
MOMENTS I IMAGINE BEING A DIRECTOR.
>> THEY ARE, AND NOT JUST OVERBURDEN BUT KIND OF LIFE
CHANGING MOMENTS. >> THEY.
>> I REMEMBER BEING IN A ROOM AT MARVEL STUDIOS ON A SATURDAY
MORNING, BETWEEN 9 AND 10 WHEN FINALLY HAVING CIRCLED A TABLE
FOR AN HOUR WE DECIDED WE ARE GOING TO CALL CHRIS HEMSWORTH,
WE'RE GOING TO CALL TOM HID ELSON AND HE WILL BE THOR AND HE
WILL BE LOKI. AGAIN, OVERLOOKED.
>> OVERLOOKED. >> I TRIED TO DISWRZ HI NO
SERVICE. >> WHEN ARE YOU IN ENGLAND.
>> I REALLY WANT TO TALK ABOUT BELFAST BECAUSE, I THINK IT IS
THE MOST EXTRAORDINARY FILM. NOM NAILTED THIS NORNG FOR SIX
BAFTAS, I KNOW THAT THIS IS AN UNBELIEVABLY PERSONAL PROJECT
FO YOU, HOW DOES IT FEEL IN THIS MOMENT RIGHT NOW TO HAVE
SOMETHING THAT MEANS SO MUCH TO YOU TO BE RECEIVED IN THIS
MANNER? HAS IT CAUGHT YOU OFF GUARD AT
ALL? >> MOSTLY A WEEPING RECOGNIZE,
ACTUALLY. IT IS A VERY PERSONAL STORY,
VERY MUCH INSPIRED BY THINGSES THAT HAPPENED TO MY FAMILY AND
WHAT HAS BEEN BEAUTIFUL IS THAT IT SEEMS THAT OTHER FAMILIES AND
OTHER PEOPLE WHO WERE YOUNG AND HAD A MOMENT WHERE THEY HAD TO
SORT OF ASSUME ADULTHOOD IN QUITE SORT OF CHALLENGING WAYS,
PEOPLE RECOGNIZE THAT AND RECOGNIZE A CERTAIN KIND OF MIEG
GRANT STORY AND FOR ME AND MY FAMILY, AND THE PEOPLE I FOE
BACK IN BELFAST WHERE I COME FROM, IT HAS BEEN A SOURCE OF
GREAT PRIDE. SO WHAT IT DOES IS EXPOSES YOU A
BIT, BUT THAT IS PART OF WHY I ASK IT, AND IT MAKES YOU VERY
EMOTIONAL, YEAH. I WOULD SAY.
>> I FIND THE WHOLE THING INGREDDABLY EMOTIONAL.
I HOPE WHEN I FEEL SO CERTAIN YOU ARE GOING TO BE IN THAT
CONVERSATION FOR ACADEMY AWARDS, YOU HAVE BEEN NOMINATED FIVE
TIMES. >> NAH.
>> FIVE TIMES YOU HAVE BEEN NOMINATED AT THE OSCARS BEFORE,
DO YOU THINK, HOW MUCH DO YOU THINK ABOUT WINNING?
WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT AWARD CEREMONIES, DO YOU FANTASIZE
ABOUT WINNING ONE OF THOSE? >> I MEAN IT IS UNBELIEVABLY,
YOU SEE THE FILM. YOU KNOW HOW FAR I CAME TO BE
SITTING ON THIS SOFA, SO THAT IS KIND OF UNBELIEVABLE AND
INCREDIBLE. AND FANTASTIC.
BUT AN IRISH THING IS NOT TO GET TOO CARRIED AWAY WITH THAT,
THERE IS A MINISTER IN THE FILM THAT IS VERY STERN AND FIRE AND
BRIMSTONEY. I WOULD HEAR THAT KIND OF VOICE,
IF YOU EVER EVEN REMOTABLY GOT AHEAD OF YOURSELF, WE ARE KIND
OF PRACTICING IN THE MIRROR, I THINK THAT IS THE MOMENT WHEN A
LIGHTNING BOLT WOULD STRIKE YOU, SO I TRY AND AD VOID THAT.
>> I'M THRILLED TO BE IN THE CONVERSATION.
>> IT IS, I ALWAYS FIND AWARD SHOWS, THE START OF AWARD SHOWS
ARE INCREDIBLY EXCITING AND AS THE NIGHT IMOAS ON IT JUST
BECOMES A NIGHT OF LOSERS. BECAUSE ONE PERSON WINS AND FOUR
PEOPLE LOSE, SO AT THE START OF THE NIGHT EVERYONE IS
LIKE-- HALFWAY THROUGH PEOPLE ARE LIKE-- .
>> BECAUSE 80% OF THE PEOPLE GO AWAY EMPTY-HANDED.
>> YEAH, AND WHICH IS WHY YOU CAN'T DO TOO MUCH ABOUT WINNING,
JUST BEING IN THE CONVERSATION. >> THEY'RE ALL WINNERS.
>> EXACTLY. >> James: YOU'VE BEEN ON YOUR
FAIR SHARE OF RED CARPETS, HUGE EVENTS, SUCH AS YOUR LIFE RIGHT
NOW. ARE THEY ALWAYS AS GLAMOROUS AS
THEY LOOK? DID YOU FIND THEM TO BE
GLAMOROUS. >> I MEANER IN'S NEVER, EVER AS
GLAMOROUS AS THEY LOOK. USUALLY QUITE THE OPPOSITE.
I HAD A FUNNY AWFUL EXPERIENCE. >> DON'T LOOK AT ME WHEN YOU SAY
THAT. >> I'M TELLING YOU BECAUSE AGAIN
IT WAS CINDERELLA IN BERLIN, THE BERLIN FILL FILM FESTIVAL, THE
BIGGEST NIGHT OF MY LIFE, WE ARE ALL GETTING READY TO GO.
BUT AT THE SAME TIME LIKE THE THE THERE-- HAD A URINE
INFECTION. >> THE CINDERELLA STORY.
>> I MEAN I AM REGRETTING THIS AS I SAY IT DISWRZ WHEN THE
CLOCK STRIKES 12. >> YOU WILL NEED A CRANBERRY
JUICE. >> YEAH.
>> AND SO WE'RE GETTING, I'M FEELING A PAIZING BUT I'M ALSO A
LITTLE BIT FAINT AND WE GET IN THESE BLACK LIMO, A CONVOY OF
LIMOS AND I WAS LIKE I CAN'T TAKE IT ANY MORE, SO I EXIT THE
LINE OF LIMOS, HEAD TO A PETRO STATION, GO INTO THIS MOST
DISGUSTING TOILET, WITH MY DIKER DRESS ON, THINKING OH, THIS IS
JUST NOW THE WORST DAY OF MY LIFE.
GET BACK THERE, GET BACK TO THE CAR AND SUDDENLY IT IS LIKE.
>> WOW. >> IT IS QUITE AMAZING TO THINK
THE MOMENT ARE YOU AT THE WORLD'S PREMIER OF CINDERELLA
JUST 20 MINUTES EARLIER YOU WERE IN A GAS STATION TOILET.
WOW. TALK ABOUT A TRUE CINDERELLA
MOMENT. >> IT IS, ISN'T IT.
>> James: NOW KENNETH, WE TALKED ABOUT BELFAST, ARE YOU
ACTUALLY HERE FOR YOUR OTHER INCREDIBLE FILM, YOU ARE
ARGUABLY THE MOST PROLISK MAN ON PLANET EARTH WHICH IS DEATH ON
THE NILE. YOU DIRECTED THE FILM.
YOU STAR IN THE MOVIE. FOR ANYONE WHO DOESN'T KNOW,
TELL US WHAT THIS ONE IS ABOUT. >> DEATH ON THE NILE IS ANOTHER
STORY OFFING AATEA CHRISTIE. POIRO IS IN EGYPT AND PART OF A
WEDDING PARTY ARRANGED BY TWO NEWLYWEDS, A FAMOUS HEIRESS,
THEY BRING ALL THEIR FRIENDS BUT ALAS EARLY ON IN THIS VERY GLAM
YOWS TRIP TO THIS AMAZING LOCATE, THE PYRAMIDS AND GREAT
NILE AND THE WONDERFUL BOAT, IT IS AN AGATHA CHRISTIE MOVIE SO
SOMEONE LOSES THEIR LIFE VIOLENTLY EARLY IN THE STORY, IT
IS ON THE BOAT SO IT IT CAN ONLY BE SOMEBODY WHO IS ON THE BOAT.
AND SO THE WHO DUN IT THAT SHE IS SO DELICIOUS ABOUT
PRESENTING, AGATHA CRISTIE SPREADS OUT FROM THERE.
THE USUAL DAZZLING ARRAY OF CHARACTERS, YOU GET TO FEEL AS
YOU YOU ARE ON AN EGYPTIAN HOLIDAY.
>> James: DO YOU EVER TALK BECOME THIS IS YOUR SECOND POIRO
MOVIE S THAT RIGHT. >> THAT'S RIGHT, IT IS.
>> James: DO YOU EVER THINK ABOUT DOING A POIRO MOVIE WHERE
HE IMOAS ON HOLIDAY AND HAS A NICE TIME, DO YOU THINK THAT
WOULD BE AN INTERESTING TWIST, DO YOU CALL IT LIKE DEATH ON
A-- DEATH IN NEW YORK BUT ACTUALLY HE'S JUST HAVING A
BREAT TIME? >> I THINK THE GREAT-- TAKES IN
A COUPLE OF SHOWS, BRUNCHES. >> James: LIKE SEX IN THE CITY
BUT WITH POIRO. >> YOU COULD BE IN THAT ONE.
>> SEE SOME FRIENDS, HAVE COFFEE, TALK ABOUT STUFF.
>> James: NO ONE DIES, YOU COULD HAVE REALLY GOOD MOMENTS
LIKE OH,-- THEY FALL OVER AND JUST MISS.
NOW THERE IS AN AW STAR CAST IN THE MOVIE.
INCREDIBLE CAST, YOU ORGANIZE DINNERS AND GAME NIGHTS, ARE
THEY A COMPETITIVE BUNCH, WHO WAS THE MOST COMPETITIVE.
>> GAL GA DOT IS QUITE COMPETITIVE, ANNETTE BENING IS
VERY COMPETITIVE, AND VERY, VERY GOOD, YOU NEED SOMEBODY WHO IS A
KIND OF HOST. SOMEBODY WHO.
>> AN ORGANIZER. >> AND GETS ALL THE PIECES OF
PAPER, THE PENCILS READY, THE POST-ITS TO PUT IT ON YOUR-- TO
NAME THE THING. >> I LOVE THAT.
>> ALL QUITE ORGANIZED AND GET THE COCKTAILSES, BECAUSE OF
COURSE IF YOU DO A FILM WHERE YOU ARE TRAPPED SOMEWHERE ON A
TRAIN OR BOAT, THEN WE MIGHT AS WELL BE TRAPPED IN THE EVENING
PLAYING GAMES. GIVE ME THE POST-ITS AND
MARTINIS. >> James: SOUNDS LIKE A JOY,
AS DOES THE FILM.