Hi.
Hi!
Thank you, that is a warm welcome.
Guys he smells really good.
I must say it’s nice to meet you Jimmy, you look very different on tv.
Thank you!
Thank you.
I’ve had a little work done.
Yeah, well you’ve got a good surgeon.
Thank you.
Um, it’s great that you’re here.
Did you see the prom proposal that we just did?
I did, very sweet.
So cute.
Did you go to your prom?
I definitely feel like you would go to a lot of proms.
In England we don’t have proms but we would have the occasional school disco, which sounds
very eighties.
Funky!
Yeah funky.
I only went to one because it was the greatest two weeks of my life, leading into the worst
day of my life.
The most popular girl in our school- Rachel ——, who I had an enormous crush on, everybody
had a enormous crush on, I was thirteen, so was she.
And she asked me to be her prom date or her school date, two weeks before.
So I was just made up, on cloud nine.
And uh… we’re sort of planning the rest of our lives, and you know children’s names
and such.
And then the day before she told me she was only joking.
And she went with Sebastian —— And everybody knew like we were like royalty
at school at that point, everyone knew we were going together.
So I couldn’t go ask someone else, so then I had to go by myself.
My mom said “Do you want me to come with you?”
I said No mom that makes it worse.
Can I just say one thing?
[BLEEP] you Rachel Gould.
Not cool.
I bumped into her a few years ago.
Did you?
And I reminded her of this and she didn’t remember.
She said “I’m so sorry…
Yeah… too little too late Rach.
If only she could see you know.
Now that I’m king of England and all.
Right?
You were on Sons of Anarchy for a very long time.
Yes.
You rode a motorcycle.
I did.
Do you still ride?
You rode right?
You’re in to motorcycles.
I did.
You know it’s funny on Sons we did it for so long and we all sort of fancied ourselves
little outlaws.
A real biker gang.
We kind of got the experience of a real biker club for that seven years.
So I rode everywhere.
And I went 100 miles per hour everywhere I went.
Really?
And after seven years you know you really got away with a lot.
I mean I had a- Were you dangerous?
Uhhhh yeah.
But you know it’s so funny I had…
I had only one real unfortunate incident.
I was on the 101 coming in like by Universal, and I had just ridden like 300 miles up North.
Now no problem and I was just…
I came over to get on to the exit cause I was like one stop away from where I was getting
off the freeway.
And this brand giant white Lexus comes barreling on right on to where I was.
Like really aggressively towards me, and I looked over to the car, and there was nobody
in the driver’s seat.
It was a self-driver?
One of those self driving cars?
The lady who was driving had dropped her mobile phone and was bending over to pick it up,
and there were two cars in front of me pinched in and I couldn’t get by and an SUV here,
and I thought if she hits me and I hit this SUV it is game over.
That’s a wrap.
So I said what do you do in this situation?
So I went BAM, and slammed my bike into her car.
And my peg that my foot was on hit her front wheel and bent under the bike, and I looked
down - I mean, I felt - and I said, “oh dear, I’ve just ripped my foot off.”
And I looked down, and thankfully my foot was still there, but the peg was not.
And so after— ay yi yi- after that experience, after seven years of getting away with it,
I thought after I finish the show maybe I should take a little sabbatical from riding.
Take a break.
Yeah, well I- listen, I feel like we have a lot in common.
I’ve never been in a motorcycle accident.
I got my license to impress my husband who loves motorcycles, and I never rode after
I got the license because I’m not good at it.
But I know you like motorcycles, I like my husband who likes motorcycles.
You like cooking, I like cooking, I also love food.
Here’s my question: can we go three for three?
I’m really obsessed with animals.
Do you like animals?
I do.
Do you want to see a picture of my cat?
OF COURSE I DO.
I’ve got a cat who is the homie, I’ve had him 17 years - I actually saved his life.
Legit a picture of your- wait what?
You saved his life?
I did.
Aw, he’s very cute!
Can we see that there, you got it?
Yeah, hold it there he is.
There’s the homie.
Wait how did you save his life?
He was born on my roof on Valentine’s- well no, he was born about a week before Valentine’s
day, 2000 - in 2000, 17 years ago.
And I was going to bed one night, and I heard this kitten crying, what sounded like a kitten.
It was pouring rain, and in order to climb onto my roof I used to have to climb onto
the garage, and it was about a three foot gap, and the roof was about 2 feet higher
than the garage, so I’d have to run, and like Superman style jump over.
You got onto your roof a lot of times previously before having heard the kitten.
It was like a regular thing?
Just, go up to the roof!
So yeah, but it was 11:00 at night and pouring with rain, and I said I’m either gonna kill
myself or the cat, so I set my alarm for 5am the next morning, ‘cause I was so worried
about this cat.
And the alarm went off, and I thought, “why am I late for work?” and then I remembered
the cat.
So I climbed up - no cat up there, went back into the garden - no cat there.
Climbed up just to check once more, and he was lying - I thought it was a piece of wood
- he was lying like this, half submerged in a puddle.
And I picked him up and my heart broke.
I literally just started crying.
I thought this is the end of my life.
There’s no chance for happiness for me now.
I’ve killed this cat.
And he was completely solid, like rigor mortis had set in and he went - and no sound came
out.
I said, “he’s alive!”
So I brought him down and put him under my armpit to try and warm him up, and I didn’t
have a car or anything at that point - I was totally broke, but so I ran to the vet-
You RAN to the vet?
How far away was the vet?
Two miles away, two and a half miles away?
With the cat underneath my arm.
You’re kidding!
And then the vet wasn’t open ‘cause it was 6:00 in the morning.
You can’t catch a break.
No really, I know, it was a bad day.
So then two hours later they opened, and he’s like flopping around.
They said he’s 100% not gonna make it, and I said, “that is an incorrect analysis my
friend.
You are gonna give him a shot, and put him in an incubator, and do anything you can do
- you’re saving this cat’s life.”
And they said alright crazy, we’ll do what we can.
Four hours later they said he made a complete recovery - come pick him up.
Rachel, you blew it - you blew it.
I’m not getting drawn into this mess.
There’s an army of you, there’s only one of me.
I haven’t had a fight for years.
But I’ll talk.
I’m happy to talk.
But there is no way that I am fighting.
Yeah!
Now I saw this film last night and it is fantastic!
It’s so, so, so good.
Thank you, we had a lot of fun.
Yeah I bet you did.
Like just visually, and the acting is great and everything, but speaking of visually…
you had a very nice frame in this film.
And I don’t say that to objectify you.
I say that because I care about the human condition - its sufferings, its victories…
I’m not sure about those leather pants.
You know sometimes you go to a photoshoot- and they’re like, “try this!”
You’ve gotta break out of your comfort zone!
Can I tell you something?
Nobody’s looking at the leather pants, they’re looking at the upper area.
And let me ask you this, ‘cause I feel like you were even bigger in “King Arthur”
- not that I remember what you look like with your shirt off - just because I watched it
so recently and dreamt about it, what did you do to get in that kind of shape?
Like seriously.
I did a lot of fighting.
I did some Muay Thai, some boxing, some Jiu Jitsu.
Guy, the director, is big into Jiu Jitsu, but mainly I set myself a goal of doing 1,000
push ups a day, minimum.
1,000?
Yeah, for six months, and I’m a little bit crazy - if there was a day when I didn’t
get 1,000 then I would punish myself and have to do 2,000 the next day.
Oh honey.
Yeah, you know, you gotta get after it.
Eye of the tiger!
Well listen, it did great things for you and for the movie.
“King Arthur: Legend of the Sword” is in theaters May 12th.