It's been a while since you've been here, because usually
you're here more often.
Two or three times a year usually.
Yeah.
I've been working.
You're working like crazy.
Are you working right now?
I start something in a couple weeks in London.
But I got back from--
I was doing a job close to the North
Pole for about three months.
I know.
I want to talk about that.
Which was insane.
I know.
But first, I want to talk about this picture that
got a lot of attention of you with hair that's not--
I'm just going to pretend like I don't know
that this picture is going up.
[LAUGHTER]
Yeah.
Here.
Look straight ahead.
Oh, yeah.
Is that for this thing you're doing now?
That's me not camera ready?
[LAUGHTER]
That was me four hours ago before I hit the makeup.
[LAUGHTER]
No.
The job I finished up close to the North Pole
was fairly intense.
So at the end of films usually I like to do something.
It might even be as simple as paint
a nail black or something, get a haircut, a shower.
And I decided to dye my hair when
I came back to Los Angeles.
So I went to Rite Aid and spent about--
spent about $80 on L'Oréal's finest.
And how long did you keep it like that?
It went [BLEEP].
It went bad.
Yeah?
Yeah.
I kept it like that for about--
well, that was I think color five.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
It went purple.
And then it went piss yellow.
Uh-huh.
And then it went whatever the hell that is.
Gray.
Foxy, silver gray.
Yeah, foxy--
And then I had somebody come by the house and fix it.
Yeah.
A friend.
Yeah.
Well, it's--
Terrible!
No.
It's fine like that.
Misguided.
But yeah.
It was something to kill a few hours.
Now, what are you playing in this new movie
that you're about to do?
I'm playing Oz Cobblepott, I'm playing a character
known as the Penguin.
Uh-huh.
Oh, in Batman.
Yeah.
Yes.
You're playing the Penguin.
Yeah.
[APPLAUSE]
Yeah.
Thank you.
The reviews are in.
I did well.
Uh-huh.
Do you start tomorrow?
No.
I start in about two weeks.
Two weeks?
Yeah.
Now, your kids must be happy that you're in Batman.
No.
They're sick of me being a bad guy.
Aw.
Yeah.
Which apparently reading between the lines
leads me to believe that they think I'm OK.
Yeah.
Clearly.
Can I ask you--
this is something I learned today--
that you took your kid.
You don't let your kids see your movies, cause a lot of them
are kind of--
Well, I wish I had a choice.
They don't want to.
[LAUGHTER]
You're right.
I don't let them see.
I keep them away.
I have them locked where they can't reach.
Cause some of them are kind of heavy.
Yeah.
A lot of them through the years.
And yet, you took your youngest kid to see It.
Oh.
What is wrong with you?
How can you take--
how old was he?
That was a parental dropping of the ball of epic proportions.
That's a scary movie.
No.
I didn't take him.
We watched it at home.
And we watched half of it.
And I could discern a certain discomfort
that was emanating from his eight-year-old body.
And then we watched the second half the next day,
and then he was fine.
He was fine.
But I won't be-- yeah.
Good one, Colin.
Yeah.
That's good to show an eight year old kid.
We watched it before bed one night.
Oh.
I know.
I mean, I really dropped the ball.
Yeah.
So let's talk about the Arctic where you filmed.
Right?
Where exactly?
Svalbard, Ellen.
Now, you and Portia, you must go there someday.
It looks very cold.
It's not as cold as it looks.
Really?
It's very easy to get to.
It is simultaneously easy to get to and the most
remote place I've ever been, and somewhere
where I felt the kind of vastness, and the beauty,
and the power of nature like I've never felt before.
And I've been lucky enough in my life
to see some really beautiful naturescapes.
But this was--
Yeah.
Look at that lad.
Wait.
You're just sitting there.
And it's just--
Yeah.
We shot this thing for the BBC.
And it was set up in kind of Davis Straits,
off the West coast of Greenland.
And the director, Andrew Haigh, who wrote it as well--
it's based on a novel--
he wanted to go up there.
And for four weeks, there was three boats.
Wow.
A crew of 150 people.
No land within 400 miles of us.
We were 600 miles from the North Pole.
Look at that.
Yeah.
I mean, these are all pictures I took on my camera phone.
You know?
I was told we were the most northern production that's
ever shot, outside of obviously documentaries and stuff.
Show the picture of him jumping in the water.
Oh, damn you.
I mean, that must have been freezing cold.
Well, I had an extra few--
[LAUGHING]
Oh!
Come on.
Why did you do that?
Why did I agree to let you show that?
Anyway, why did I do that?
Cause it was fun.
It was a challenge.
They talk about, what's it called?
The polar plunge.
Yeah.
We all did it, the cast and crew.
Wow.
I'm a bit obsessed with going back.
But you and Portia, you should-- you go up.
You fly from Oslo, through.
You stop in [INAUDIBLE].
We'll talk to our travel agent.
Oh, yeah.
[LAUGHTER]
All right.
Yeah.
Well get there.
Yeah.
You should definitely do it.
It's so beautiful.
All right.
I have the guy as well to give you the number of the guy.
We'll go.
I'll give you that.
We'll be back.
So The Gentleman is you, Matthew McConaughey, Hugh Grant.
Charlie Hunnam and Michelle Dockery, Eddie Marsan,
a bunch of amazing actors.
And Guy Ritchie directs this.
Guy Ritchie wrote and directed.
And yeah, it's kind of a throwback to his earlier films
that he kind of became renowned for,
Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch.
It's a Dublin-- or not Dublin.
It's a London gangland story about an expat, an American who
has built up this marijuana dynasty
and is trying to sell it on.
He's reached a stage in his career
where he doesn't want to know any more about it.
And then the sharks start circling.
They hear that he's selling his business.
And people try and move in on his turf.
And I play Coach, who's this local lad who
looks after a bunch of young boxers, who get involved
with the wrong side of the law.
And I try and bail them out.
And I get caught in this very dramatic story, violent story.
And you get to--
I mean, really you don't get to use your own accent that often.
But you get to just talk the way you talk.
Yeah.
Just a foul mouthed Irishman.
Yeah.
So it wasn't too much of a stretch.
And you wear a lot of fancy tracksuits in this.
A lot.
Yeah.
Dodgy.
Yeah.
He had a theme.
But it made sense.
It made sense for these boys, cause
I'm trying to create kind of a sense of community
in their lives, and a sense a uniformality.
So it made sense.
I like it.
But I won't be wearing it off camera very much.
Oh, I think they're fine.
Thank you.
I kept the Adi-das.
You what?
I kept the Adi-das sneakers.
What you call them?
Adidas?
Yeah.
Not Adi-das.
I'm like, what are you talking about, Adi-das?
Same spelling.
[LAUGHTER]
Same spelling.
Adi-das.
Come on.
What about those Nikes?
You like the Nikes?
Paul Air Bear were gorgeous in Svalbard.
Aw.
It's called The Gentleman.
It opens in theaters this Friday.
We'll be right back.