Good evening, everyone. My name is Tom Cruise. It is my pleasure to...
Tom! The show's about to start! Come on! OK. Er... On my way.
Welcome to The Graham Norton Show.
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
Oh!
Oh, hello! Good evening. You're all so welcome to the show.
And hello to our virtual studio audience. Hello, everybody.
CHEERING Yay!
Look at those smiley faces. I know why you're in such a good mood -
lockdown's starting to lift, staycations begin from Monday.
Woohoo!
Yeah, we'll be able to enjoy a British beach holiday.
Mmm! Soak up those rays!
It's almost too hot, isn't it? Almost too hot.
Hey, it's the last show of the series,
and we've got a good one for you.
Shall we see who's on the show tonight?
CHEERING Yeah!
Joining me right here, right now, is top comic John Bishop,
ladies and gentlemen! CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
Look, he's walking! He's walking!
John Bishop! Boom, boom, yeah!
Sit yourself down.
She's the Oscar-nominated star of The Theory Of Everything.
It's our own Felicity Jones!
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
It is...? Yes, it is! Yes, I wasn't lying.
She's back there. Felicity Jones!
Whoo! She shimmers, she walks, she sits.
Hello, Felicity Jones.
Later, we'll have music live in the studio from Years & Years.
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
We'll be joined down the line by rising star Wunmi Mosaku.
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
And we'll be meeting two of the stars
of the upcoming Top Gun: Maverick, Miles Teller and Jennifer Connelly!
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
But it's not Top Gun: Maverick without Maverick himself.
Please welcome to the stage the one and only Mr Tom Cruise!
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE Whoo!
Hey!
Oh, hello, hello, hello, hello.
Oh, have a seat.
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE I know. Yeah, come on.
Come on! Yeah, come on!
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
That's real applause. Wow. That's the crew.
LAUGHTER Wow.
Tom, would you mind just saying hello down that camera
to our virtual audience at home? Some people are watching. Yes.
Hello, virtual audience. Yeah. CHEERING
That's for you. Hello, you all.
Yeah. You chose to wear pyjamas, and now Tom Cruise can see you.
LAUGHTER Yeah.
So how does this happen?
Have you been in London for all of lockdown, Tom? Yes. OK. Yeah.
So you're just looking for things to do?
Yeah, this is... LAUGHTER
This is amazing. This is my first time out of the film bubble.
We were talking about it, it was just... This is just incredible.
Well, you're very welcome. Thank you.
Obviously you've been in your film bubble,
but have you had any of those lockdown lulls
where you learned to bake banana bread
or learned a language or something? No, no, no. No, no.
No, from the moment... No interest in self-improvement, no.
Really, from the moment we were in lockdown, it was...
I was working seven days a week, almost round the clock. Wow.
Because we were dealing with...
You know, we were finishing Top Gun, the edit.
We were prepping Mission and they shut us down.
I didn't have the banana bread moment yet. Did you? Nor me, no.
No, I tried to do banana bread. How'd it go?
Three times, burned every time. Really? Yeah.
The beginning of lockdown. Give it up. It's done, it's done.
I'm not going back to the banana bread.
In fairness to Felicity, though, in terms of lockdown productions,
like, you had a baby in that first lockdown.
Yeah, in the first one, which feels ages ago now.
I know, in the really scary one. What was that like?
Well, everyone was... It was when we were all washing our groceries.
We were all buying, you know, your vegetables and your fruit...
There's no-one there. LAUGHTER
I'm looking out to an empty audience. A few faces.
She's an actress. Such an actress! Yeah.
"And then I said... Oh." LAUGHTER
"Quite a thin house."
Not many tickets sold. Not many tickets sold tonight.
I had friends that were having babies, and it was quite...
Yeah, it was pretty...
Yeah, I mean, it was just sort of...
We just didn't know exactly what was going to happen, you know?
It was, um... It was pretty intense.
Now, I think...
In case this gets awkward later, I feel I should bring this up now.
Yes. That, John Bishop, you do have a connection to Tom Cruise.
Er, yes, yes, yes. You do.
Yeah, we do have a connection, cos we were both...
I was on Top Gear shortly after Tom was on Top Gear.
This is the Star in a Reasonably-Priced Car?
The Star in the Reasonably-Priced Car.
And you did very well, Tom.
I did all right. Yeah, yeah. Top of the leaderboard.
Er, how did you do, John?
Well...
Here's the leaderboard.
John Bishop, yeah.
Beat you - two seconds. LAUGHTER
What happened... What happened... Well done!
Well done!
And that's... Through gritted teeth.
Yeah, you can feel that, can't you? "Well done..."
"I left a bubble for this?!"
For this, to get abused?!
Cos what happened...
There was me, there was Tom Cruise, there was Cameron Diaz,
and then Rupert Grint was fourth, wasn't he? Rupert Grint, yes!
Yeah, so a wizard! I even beat a wizard.
You beat a wizard.
Not only that... You didn't just beat us, you crushed us.
That's 1.42.8. That's a good full second and a half on us. I know.
And the thing... Like, you can drive cars and you're interes...
I've got zero interest in cars.
LAUGHTER I literally... You know what?
You chose the wrong profession, sorry. Tell me about it!
I came away from that thinking, "I should be in F1,"
because all it was to me, though, was somebody gave me a car... Yeah.
..and said, "It doesn't matter if you crash it."
LAUGHTER
"This is great! This is like being 17 again on my dad's insurance."
Brilliant!
Very good. I don't know, man. You crushed me.
Do you just go round a track? Is that right?
Don't belittle it. No, don't... Yeah.
Don't make fun. Don't make it sound stupid and pointless.
Yes, please, it's very serious.
It's actually not just... There's turns.
You've got to make right turns and left turns.
No, sounds really hard, guys. Yeah.
Tom Cruise, you're here tonight to tell us about Top Gun: Maverick.
Yes. And...
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE Yeah.
This is exciting, because it's over 30 years. That's a long time.
35 years. 35 years. It's a long time coming.
35 years. How did it happen now? When did the stars align?
For years, the studio's wanted me to do it and...
..audiences have wanted me to do it.
I've gone around the world, and there was just a moment where...
..you know, Jerry Bruckheimer wanted to do it, and he came to me,
we were talking about it, and we just came up with some good ideas.
And it was just that moment, I thought,
"If I'm going to ever do this, now's the time."
And I've been lucky enough to see it -
thank you very much for organising that - and it is...
We saw it on the IMAX. It is incredible.
It's like you're in the planes, it's amazing.
But, equally, it's all new and, you know, all bells and whistles.
But there are lots of references to the old.
You know, the die-hard fans will love it.
Little seeds there, little things. New, but...yeah, some Easter eggs.
And you've brought us some footage. Because this is...
You know, there's no green...
I'm right - there's no green screen, is there, in this thing?
No. You know what? The first time that I did it, one of the reasons...
You know, I've loved aviation my whole life.
And I was like, "I want to make this,
"but I want to be able to film in the F-14."
So with this one, technology,
we can really do a lot of flying now in it.
So I had to create a whole training programme for the pilots.
We had to develop the cameras to be able to fly in the F-18s.
I went and talked to the Defense Department and the head of the Navy,
and they gave us permission to fly in the aircraft. It was...
It's very, very interesting, because I not only had to create
a programme for the actors to understand becoming pilots,
but also I had to teach them about editing and lighting,
and the fighter pilots, to teach them about filming.
It was just like creating these cameras, creating...
You know, really put the audience in a position
where they feel like they're the fighter pilots. And, you know...
And you really do. And you talk about that stuff.
All that stuff you're doing at speed.
This is some footage you've brought kind of behind...
Yeah, cos I fly aeroplanes and helicopters and stuff like that.
Yeah, this is some of the behind-the-scenes stuff of the...
These are the F-18s, I think? This is the F-18s. Let's see it.
We are cleared into the area. Aeroplane cameras are on.
All right. Here we go. Three, two, one.
Here come some Gs. Oh!
Oh!
Argh! HE GASPS FOR BREATH
THEY LAUGH
APPLAUSE Let me tell you...
..that was fun.
I love that guy on his phone just going, "Whaa!"
I definitely won't be flying planes better than you.
LAUGHTER
We saw Miles Teller there - we'll be talking to him
and Jennifer Connelly about Top Gun: Maverick later in the show.
And, to go back to the first Top Gun,
I mean, was that very unusual,
that idea of an actor actually flying the plane themselves
and...that footage had to be in the film, didn't it?
Yeah, for me, I was like, "I want it to be in the movie." They...
You know, luckily, the studio,
they wanted me to do it so badly that they...
I was allowed to do that.
And Simpson and Bruckheimer were great, you know?
I learned a lot from them, and Tony.
Was that the first time you'd sort of done that on camera?
Yeah, when I did the F-14, I didn't want the...
..actors to go through what I went through,
because I trained with the Blue Angels, I flew with the Blue Angels,
and you had to do training to learn how to eject out of the aircraft.
But I didn't know about Gs. You know, I'd read about it.
There wasn't YouTube back then. You know?
And so they took us up and we started filming,
and we were hitting some heavy Gs. Let me tell you, it was...intense.
Gs, that's the kind of pressure as you're going really high?
Gs, like, right now, you know, we're 1G. It's our body weight.
2Gs is twice our body weight.
And in Top Gun, I was pulling 9.5Gs at one point,
so it's 9.5 times my own body weight when we were doing Top Gun.
And it was, er...not comfortable.
LAUGHTER
But that...that 9.5Gs, and he's piloting it,
so he's thinking about stuff.
Cos I did one thing once where I went to the European Space Station
to do a feature for a television show.
They put me in the spinner... Yes. ..and I got up to five,
and I was literally crying for my mum.
I was like, this is the worst thing.
Cos your body just collapses in, doesn't it?
You have to build up to it. Wow. Yeah.
And some people, sometimes, can't ever build up to it.
I mean, most of the aeroplanes...
And I fly aerobatic helicopters and aeroplanes and World War II planes,
and you really have to take time to build up to those Gs.
Getting in there is quite intense.
Cos, Felicity, oddly, you did The Aeronauts,
which would seem like such a lovely thing - floaty, floaty, floaty.
Not so many Gs. Yeah, what was that like? A few less Gs.
But you did go up properly high, didn't you? Did you go?
Yeah, they got really high up.
There we are. Actually, that was a real sequence that we did in a...
It's actually a gas air balloon, which is powered by sand.
And that was for real.
Look, I'm trying to compete with Tom now.
LAUGHTER No, that's terrific.
That was for real, guys.
"I can now teach people how to hot-air balloon." Yeah, exactly.
That was really high. I know some of the guys that shot it. Really scary.
I know the guys that shot the aerial for you on that. They're very good.
Yeah, well, their helicopter was going round and round
and kind of getting closer and closer
and we were going, "A little bit nerve-racking, with ropes and..."
But how high...? Was the air thin how high you were?
How high were you?
No, all of that, all of the thin air stuff we just did with acting.
That was... LAUGHTER
Yeah, Tom, they did acting.
What?! What's that? I've got to try that sometime.
Yeah, well, you know, actually it's... How was that?
It's not the best route. It's easier... Did you enjoy that?
Well, actually, we had to do this whole sequence
where we were really high up, and we had...
You know, as you get higher, obviously it gets colder,
and then we were covered in icicles in our hair. Yes.
And I just thought, "I blame Tom Cruise for this.
"Honestly, I wouldn't be doing this without him."
We were actually... Let me tell you, don't do that. I know.
We were shooting it when you were doing Mission: Impossible.
And the thing that interests me about your job
is you're not just kind of the star of the film,
you're not just the actor.
When you're on set, you know, you set the tone of, you know,
the approach to the work, the dedication, all of that stuff.
You do all of that.
Did you learn how to be that sort of set leader, cast leader
from some of the greats that you worked with, like Newman or...?
You know, I was always...kind of just had a great work ethic.
I think it's something in my life, from...
You know, I've had jobs since I was a little kid, shovelling snow and...
..newspapers, selling cards door-to-door, you know? Yeah.
Cos we had to make money, and I liked it.
I liked having my own money and working and...
So I always worked very hard.
But definitely I was fortunate to be able to work with, you know,
great artists that were very generous with me,
from film directors to actors.
You know, Duval, Hackman, Newman.
But just to be able to watch them work on set, I would just...
Every day I was there. So I was very fortunate. You...
I heard you tell a story about Paul Newman
teaching you something very specific on The Color Of Money.
I remember we were doing Color Of Money
and I went actually from Top Gun to Color Of Money.
And we were shooting Color Of Money in Chicago.
I don't know if you've been. Do you go and do shows in Chicago?
I've been to Chicago a lot. OK.
In another life, believe it or not,
I used to work for a pharmaceutical company.
And the American Society of... GRAHAM AND FELICITY LAUGH
The American Society of Immunology
used to have their annual meeting in Chicago,
and our company office used to be in Chicago,
so I've been to Chicago about 15 times.
Well, you know how cold it is in Chicago.
Listen, a pharmaceutical meeting is not like making The Color Of Money.
LAUGHTER
I am not going to top you on that. But it's a cold, cold city.
I understand. But a young actor, though...
You know, I was there, and I tried my wardrobe on in the summer.
And I was like, "I'm going to have a leather jacket and T-shirt,
"you know, and I'm going to have my hair blown back -
"it's guaranteed up to 90mph." LAUGHTER
And there I am, in January, and I'm shooting this scene.
And I remember in the script, it was, like, outside.
I didn't think about it. Wardrobe was like, "Yeah, looks great."
And I'm doing the scene and I am...
I mean, I'm telling you, it's so cold, I can't even speak.
And I'm in between takes and...
..he's in a car, and I'm running to this area, trying to thaw.
And Newman's like, "Where's the kid? Where's the kid?"
Like, I was just trying... He's like, "Where's the kid?"
So finally, I have this scene where he's in the car and I'm next to him.
And I look in, I'm like, what? He had the warm coat.
He had the heater in there. It was an electric heater, OK?
And he just loved the fact that he's driving this car,
and he's got the electric heater, the warm coat,
and I'm in the T-shirt, and he looked at me, and he's like,
"T-shirt. You tried your wardrobe in the summer, didn't you?"
LAUGHTER Yes, sir, I did. He's like...
Lesson learnt.
"Watch and learn, kid. Watch and learn." I never forgot it.
APPLAUSE
I literally never forgot it.
It was like, now I'm like, "OK, where am I doing this?"
It's like the time when you choose food to eat in a scene.
And I was working with Coppola, and I was like, "You know what?
"I'm going to eat chocolate cake in this scene.
"I can get away..." We had bets going on with the other actors,
and I thought, cos I have to do it in the scene,
as part of the character, I'm going to eat chocolate cake.
We ended up shooting this scene for three days and we did, like,
100 takes of me eating chocolate cake and I had to keep eating it.
I was like, this is...
The first couple of takes, I was like, "Oh, this is so good!"
I have to eat it. Oh, it's the worst. It was so moist.
It's the worst, isn't it?
And then it was like...
I was like, "Oh, my gosh, this is... Did we get it?" You know...
"Did we get this take?" And Francis kept saying, "Let's do it again."
It was three days where... It was like 100... I was in sugar shock.
I was vomiting.
So, chocolate cake, and Paul Newman, the weather. Lessons learned.
Lessons learned, lessons learned.
All right, let's pause to meet our first virtual guest tonight.
This Bafta-winning Brit has starred in Luther
and Lovecraft Country, and can now be seen in Netflix horror His House.
It's Wunmi Mosaku!
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE Hello!
Hey!
Hi! Hi! Meet everybody.
Felicity Jones, John Bishop, Tom Cruise is here. Hello, Wunmi!
Hey, guys, how you doing? We're very well. Where are you, my dear?
I'm in LA. I live here now. Oh, wow.
Still a newbie, I still don't know it that well.
Cos you get quite frightened in LA quite often.
I mean, I had an earthquake... I had two earthquakes on Monday.
I have had four earthquakes in, um...all in the last year.
And it's been the shock of my life. I did not expect that.
I kind of, I just wasn't expecting it to be so dramatic, and it's...
Yeah, I jump out of bed, like, terrified.
Well, your books are beautifully arranged.
I was thinking that, I was like, they must have come off!
They do, they have, yeah.
But nothing's broken, thankfully. TV's still intact. Aces high.
Talking of TV, I first saw you in Lovecraft Country.
You are so good in that series.
I mean, that series is great anyway. You are brilliant in it. Thank you.
APPLAUSE
But as good as you are in it,
so there's a lot of gore in that series. And you're not a fan.
What is it about the gore you don't like?
Oh, I don't like being scared for scared's sake.
Like, I don't get it.
I'm not an adrenaline junkie, it doesn't appeal to me.
I don't know why I find myself in them.
But... It's just not my cup of tea. I like a love story and a musical.
But, listen, for somebody who doesn't like scary films,
your new film is properly horrifying!
His House is streaming on Netflix now.
So tell us about the film, Wunmi.
Yeah, I say I don't like horror,
but I guess what I love about these two shows specifically, Lovecraft
and His House, is that they have, like... It's about humanity.
It's about the horrors of humanity
and I guess that's the thing that I think is the most amazing thing
about His House specifically, it's like...
It's...it's these two asylum seekers who come to the UK
and it looks like a haunted house film,
but it really is about what they're haunted by,
the horrors that they've experienced,
and this house holds all of their...
..I don't know, all of their nightmares
of their experience and all of their trauma. Well, we've got a clip.
This is a taste of the spooky goings-on in His House.
This entire house is just for us.
It's going to be nice, you're going to be happy.
You having problems with the property?
HE YELLS OUT
APPLAUSE Oooh!
Seriously, it's really good.
Definitely see it.
And congratulations, Wunmi, Bafta-nominated, Sunday night,
you're up for a Bafta!
Thank you. APPLAUSE
Can't believe it. Do you get to go to the Royal Albert Hall
or is it this?
It's this. And I don't mind it, I'm not a fan of heels.
So it's great that I can just be glammed up from here up
and, like, you know, in my slippers, I love it.
Felicity, are you one of those people,
do you like being scared by a film?
I'm not. I'm not very good being scared by film.
But this sounds like it's quite psychological. No, it's also scary,
I'll tell you that! Do you like being scared by film?
No. I don't normally.
I don't, I like the look of that, and I want to get drawn into it
and, as you say, psychological, you don't mind that.
But I don't...I don't understand,
it's like people who eat hot curry, or get scared by films.
I think, why do something that you don't like,
that's not nice for you, you know what I mean?
There's nothing wrong with a hot curry!
LAUGHTER
But Tom Cruise, as we've seen, you are fearless. Can a film scare you?
Or do you kind of go, "Oh, it's a film?"
No, I get very invested in movies, I really commit to a story. Yeah.
Depends, you know, like anything, you like a good story.
But Interview With A Vampire,
that's the closest to a horror you've ever done, isn't it? Mm-hm.
And is it true that Oprah, not a fan?
Yeah, we... I was driving, she hadn't seen the movie,
and I was driving,
and she called me. She's a good friend of mine.
She called me and she said, "Tom..."
I said, "Oprah?" The movie wasn't over.
She said, "I know, I'm standing in the lobby right now with
"a bunch of women and we are praying for you."
LAUGHTER
I said, "Really?" I said, "What?"
She goes, "I just, this is not... I don't like this movie, Tom."
"It's scary."
And we were there, and I said, "I got it. That's all right.
"Let's have some fun, we'll talk about it."
Because, you know, some people liked the movie and some didn't,
so we had... It was a really fun show, actually.
We must just quickly say, next time we see you will be
in the world of Marvel. Yes! I'll be in Loki. Oh, fantastic.
Congratulations. Thank you. Do you know what episode you show up in,
who do you play, all that sort of stuff?
Oh, I'll show up at the beginning.
And I don't think I can tell you who I play.
Not even who you play?
No, I don't think so. You know what it's like with Marvel.
I know, you can't talk about anything.
I'm terrified, I'm terrified.
Those Marvel lawyers, they're just out of shot. Right.
You hear the phone ringing! Yeah!
Listen, well, we look forward to Loki and Marvel.
His House is streaming now on Netflix. Good luck with that.
Good luck on Sunday night.
Wunmi Mosaku, everybody! Thank you!
Thanks, see you, guys. Good luck. Thank you! Bye, Wunmi.
She's so lovely.
Now, Wunmi not being able to say anything about Marvel, John Bishop,
presumably that sounds familiar.
Because you've now joined the world of Doctor Who. I have, I have.
Can you tell us? My lockdown experience, yeah.
We've only seen your face...
Yeah. ..at the end of the New Year's episode.
Yeah, yeah, so I'm the new companion to the Doctor.
You're allowed to say that?
Yeah, I'm allowed to say that, but that's about it.
I did a thing for some drama students in Liverpool,
you know, a big Zoom thing.
And there was a Q&A, and it was just talking about acting
and how you get into it and how you get into stand-up comedy.
And then one of the questions was, "Can you tell us anything
"about your character in Doctor Who?"
You know, where does he come from?
And I went, "Well, where do you think he comes from? Have a guess!"
You know what I mean? Like, I'm not Tom Cruise. I can act,
as long as the character happens to look and sound a lot like me!
So, I just mentioned that the character was from Liverpool,
which then, somewhere on a Doctor Who website,
someone picked it up, there's a new character,
he's from Liverpool, the story is based in Liverpool, that becomes...
Then the BBC phoned me up and said, "You've broken the cardinal sin.
"You've told them something about Doctor Who."
And I went, "I haven't told them anything!
"Anybody who looks at me knows he's from Liverpool!"
LAUGHTER
Let's be honest!
It's a giveaway. APPLAUSE
But something you can tell us about is that you are going on tour.
Yes, it kicks off 31st August.
Go ahead, come on, John!
It ends on the 8th April at the O2 in London,
so this is a proper, big arena tour.
Yeah, this was the tour that I was doing when lockdown happened. Yeah.
I was doing it, and then they just said, "Everything's got to end."
And so we picked up the dates and we were going to move them,
we ended up moving them to next September
cos it fitted in with Doctor Who,
but also to try and allow time for people to be allowed back in.
And this must be amazing to come back,
to think of going back to the tour, because is this...
It must be the longest you've been away from an audience
since you started stand-up?
Absolutely, yeah, it is.
And that's the big thing about it, in terms of, you know,
I'm very lucky to be doing Doctor Who,
very lucky to be doing anything, any of us.
But for live events, that part of the industry has really suffered.
Yeah, yeah. But not only the industry,
the people, because we miss people. Yeah.
You know, we're desperate just to be in the same place as other people.
Yes, we are. And that's one of the things on the tour as well,
I'm getting behind this campaign called Give It A Go.
Oh, yes, tell us about that.
Which is a campaign of a friend of mine
from New York, Joe Diomede,
and he noticed nobody makes eye contact any more.
You go into a cafe or you're at a bus stop,
everyone's looking at their phone.
So he got a little community together saying,
wear a badge saying, "Give it a go."
Which means, "Give it a go, just say hello to me."
So I thought, for my tour, I'm going to get behind that.
We're going to have people with badges,
because I've done two lockdown gigs on Zoom
and I was amazed at how many people were watching on their own.
And I thought, those people want to go to gigs,
but won't go to gigs because they're on their own.
Whereas if they can go to a warm environment,
you're in the same building with people
who have got something in common
cos you're all there, and you can talk to a stranger,
because they're advertising the fact,
they've broken the ice by wearing a badge.
It's like your film. People can wait or they can go to a cinema.
When they go to a cinema, wouldn't it be nice, in the interval
or beforehand to not feel inhibited, just to say hello to somebody?
Yeah, and also, there's a good get-out-of-jail,
because the interval ends or the movie starts.
Yeah, yeah... It's not weird,
it's not, like, give it a go!
When this thing ends you just want to go up
and just start hugging people, do you know what I mean?
You just want to be like, "Don't take this personally..."
And also, this is not to just for people who are on their own.
I mean, at the end of the day, I've been in lockdown
with my wife as well, I am desperate for a conversation with anybody.
Oh, I wondered what you were going to say there!
No, we're all desperate! So, it's a conversation! Oh, yeah.
Please, talk to me about something else,
that doesn't end up with me being criticised.
Oh! So, arenas reopening.
And, Tom, seriously, you have played a big part in all of this
because Mission: Impossible, that was the first production
of that size to get back on its feet.
How long were you shut down for?
I don't know. I mean, we were shut down for a few months,
but actually, look, the moment it happened,
I was working around the clock
cos we were finishing post on Top Gun and so we had editing,
we had to figure out musicians and at that time people were like,
"It's never going to happen, you're not going to finish it."
So, yeah, we just... It was great. We worked with a lot of people,
to just get people back to work
and worked with governments in writing the laws,
and doctors and, you know, we were figuring it out.
It was when everything...
How are we going to do this, how are we going to keep people safe
and kind of work with them to get through it?
You know, and I felt obviously very responsible in ensuring
everyone's safety throughout.
And, you know, all of us were still learning.
You know, what is this, how can we do this?
How are we going to progress forward? As you guys did.
I mean, look, you came back and you were nonstop.
I really admire what you've done, and appreciate it.
Well, you kind of bounce, you know... We've all done it.
You know, that thing of, you could have a little bit of audience.
Oh, now there's no audience. But hopefully we're getting back there.
We're getting back there. Absolutely.
And you have to believe, you know, like, we're going on tour,
other people are coming on the show saying they're going on tour.
You have to book the date, you have to aim for something.
It's going to be the roaring '20s, you know that, when this is over.
Oh. It is going to be the roaring '20s.
I'm exhausted already! We are going to be like,
there's going to be, it's just going to be so energised.
As I said, this is the first time
I've been outside of my film bubble, guys.
I was just so excited. You know, I was like, "Hey." "How are you, John?
"How are you?" "Oh, hey, Graham."
So it does feel like this is, this is humanity
and we are going to get there.
We are absolutely going to get through this.
Well, just to tease people about one of the treats they can have,
there's a stunt, and I'm sure there's lots of stunts
in Mission: Impossible 7, but there's a stunt you do,
and I'm sure you can't tell us anything about it,
but this is... So it involves this ramp.
Now, this is in Norway, right?
This is in Norway. OK.
Now, there's a man on the ramp, but can you tell us
what you do on the ramp or is that a secret?
Yeah, I ride a motorcycle off that ramp.
He's not lying. Bloody hell!
So wait, though. So that... So you're looking at that.
So you gave us, this is a tiny little bit of footage, just to
give you an idea of where he rides the motorbike.
OK, so this is you and the director, I think you're on it. OK.
So he comes up that ramp, and that's where you go!
ALL GASP That's where he drives it.
That makes Evel Knievel look like a bit of a wuss. That is... Wow.
And in the thing, we see it, it is amazing. But what made me laugh
when I was looking at this, I was thinking, people live here,
in the middle of nowhere in Norway.
It must have been like, "What is that noise?"
How many days were you there for?
In Norway for over a month, five weeks. They were amazing.
Like, every day they were there at the bottom, you know,
when we were shooting. I did this...
I did this particular one eight times.
I did it six in one day and two the other day.
And we spent a good year prepping this thing and figuring it out.
I've wanted to do it since I was a little kid.
I mean, you love doing this stuff.
Yeah. The first time I did it, it was pretty nerve-racking.
We didn't know what was going to happen.
I mean, no matter how much you train and what you do, it was...
There's just so many things that could have, you know,
that were challenging.
But it is, it is exhilarating attempting to do it
and, you know, it was exhilarating.
Because don't directors have to remind you to stop smiling
when you are doing this stuff? Chris McQ!
Yeah, Chris McQuarrie, he's like, when I was flying the helicopter
in Fallout, we were doing aerobatics and he was like, "Tom, Tom."
And I was like, "What, what, what?" He was right in the middle...
He says, "You're smiling. Stop smiling!" I was like, "Oh, yeah."
"You're supposed to be saving the world!"
Yes, exactly, exactly!
Well, talking of audiences, audiences obviously
returning to the arenas for stand-up but cinemas are set to reopen,
and Felicity's new movie will be in them.
It's called The Last Letter From Your Lover
and it's going to be opening in cinemas in July.
So, Felicity, tell us all about it.
I know, it's so... It's...
Yeah, you know, like Top Gun, it's so good to get back to the cinema,
as you were saying.
It's one of those things I think we've all missed the most.
But that was on Richmond Bridge,
walking along looking lovingly into each other's eyes.
It is The Last Letter From Your Lover
and it is based on a book by Jojo Moyes.
And it's a...
I play a character who is having a bit of a tough time.
She's in a phase of her life where things haven't been going that well.
I sort of played her like she's always got a permanent hangover.
So she sort of, she's drinking too much, she's lost a bit of hope.
A bit like living in Covid times.
She's sort of lost a bit of perspective.
And she discovers these old letters, these old love letters.
And the story pivots from her modern-day story,
trying to meet someone,
trying to find out what the meaning of her life is,
to then understanding and exploring
this love story in the past, in the 1960s,
played by the brilliant Shailene Woodley and Callum Turner.
Oh, look, there we are. Oh, there you are.
Because you're producers on this, you and Shailene?
We are, yes. It's what Tom was saying earlier.
It's that thing, you sort of get to a point
where it's so nice to be involved as early on as possible.
To be involved in the development of the script
and just have a little bit more input, rather than, you know,
traditionally as an actor you sort of come in at the end.
And I thought, actually, I'll have a really fun time making this,
which we did. It does look like Shailene maybe had a MORE fun time.
Because you're in scenes like this.
And here's Shailene Woodley...
LAUGHTER ..having a very different time!
Were you there on set when they were shooting that,
so you got to be on the boat while they were shooting?
Yeah, totally, we were on the boat the whole time.
Exactly! So she was having a good time. You weren't there.
Were you really there? No, absolutely not, no.
We got to East London, I think was the furthest we got to, yeah.
It's lovely ON a nice day. I used to live there. Yeah.
I'm going to help you. Producer, like, look at the locations.
I know, I should be making decisions
based on the glamour of the location.
Not literally half an hour down the road.
Yeah, live and learn.
I learned about the T-shirt and leather jacket... LAUGHTER
I'll tell you about locations.
Venice, Rome. We've got a clip.
This is your character waking up in bed with a one-night stand,
played by Jacob Fortune-Lloyd. Here we go.
I actually have to sort of start getting ready for work,
so I might have to ask you to...
Erm... ..to...if you don't mind. This is actually my flat, so...
Oh, shit. Erm...
Well, in that case, at ease, Monsieur.
No problemo.
I'd love to see you again.
As in... I had a really great time last night.
Well, the thing is, Rob, I'm just...
My name's not Rob.
Erm...
Andrew. Andrew.
I actually...
I just came out of quite a straight-up soul-destroying...
So thank you. I'm just saying I could give you my number.
Or you could not, and we can avoid the whole, you know,
me feeling guilty and never calling you back,
you feeling dejected and never hearing from me again.
I feel so used.
Well, you know what, Rob, welcome to my world.
My name's not Rob. Andrew!
APPLAUSE
Happens all the time.
It's very, very good, and it will be in cinemas in July.
In July. In July, very good.
Right, our final virtual guests tonight are here.
They are Tom's co-stars in Top Gun: Maverick.
It is the star of Whiplash, Miles Teller,
and Oscar-winner Jennifer Connolly.
APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
Hey, Jennifer, Miles.
Hey!
Guys! Guys!
MILES: Hey, Tom. I miss you guys.
We miss you. Love you, man. Wish we were there.
I know, my gosh, I wish you guys were here.
Where are you? Jennifer Connelly, where are you?
I'm at home in Brooklyn, New York.
And Miles? Nice house! It does look nice.
It's lovely. I'm in... I'm in Los Angeles, I'm also at home.
Oh, OK. Also a lovely house.
Nice. Look at the lighting. When Covid's is over,
I've got to come to both your houses, have some dinner.
You're welcome, any time. Come over, Tom.
So, tell me this.
So, Jennifer Connelly, acting with Tom Cruise - a dream,
or was there added pressure? How was it?
SHE LAUGHS Um, both, actually.
I mean, it was extraordinary, it was such a privilege.
Um, I had such a great time,
I did things that I have never done before.
And who do you play in the movie, Jennifer?
I play Penny Benjamin, an old friend of Maverick's.
There she is, on her very cool car. Wow.
And Miles, the character you play
is kind of the big connection to the first movie.
Yeah, so I play, I play Goose's kid and...
Are we allowed to say that?
Oh. Yeah.
Uh, maybe not. I think we are. Yeah. You are.
I don't know, yes, you can. It's out now. Yeah, it's out now.
Yeah. Yeah, so...
LAUGHTER
That's a joke, right? That's out, that's out. Yeah.
But yeah, so... So I play his kid
and obviously there is some history there with Maverick, so I think...
I think it's really wonderful.
You know, and Tom, I had such a pleasure working with him
and everybody in the cast and, you know, the film is phenomenal.
Not to depress anyone, but Miles wasn't born
when the first Top Gun came out. No. So had you seen the first Top Gun?
Yeah, absolutely, and I told Tom he's been...
he's been waiting my entire life to work with me, literally.
LAUGHTER
Listen, we've got a clip.
This is a taste of what to look forward to in Top Gun: Maverick.
Good morning, aviators, this is your captain speaking.
Today's exercise is dogfighting. Two versus one? He's got to be kidding.
What the hell?!
Bogey! Right, right!
APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
The photo of her flying in the P-51 with me... Yes!
She... That was unbelievable.
You know, what I never...
I was afraid to tell Tom at the time was
I had just recently come out, sort of like decided to out-think my...
Think myself out of a really crippling fear of flying
that I suffered from for years.
And so originally when I signed on to do the movie,
there was no flying for my character.
My character was on land, she was on the water, she was never in the air.
There was a scene at one point where we were...
..like on...taxiing on a runway, maybe in a plane together,
so Tom and I are shooting that scene,
and the plane, the P-51, it's like tiny, the top of the cockpit
is right here, my knees are up against his back and he's like,
"Wow, Jen, have you ever been in a plane like this before?!
I was like, "No, no, I haven't, Tom. It's amazing."
He's like, "Ever done any aerobatic flying before?"
And I was like, I'm starting to get nervous, "No...
"Why? Will I be doing some?"
He's like, "It's going to be very graceful, very elegant,
"just some very elegant rolls, you know,
"it's going to be nice and easy."
So, yeah, that's how I found out that I was going to be
up in the P-51 with Tom flying it.
And Miles, tell me this, when you signed up for this,
did you know that it wouldn't be green screen?
Did you know that this was all going to be proper g-force and real?
Um...
Yeah, I think that was... Yes! I talked to you for hours, Miles.
I think that was in the small print, in the fine print somewhere.
In the fine print somewhere. No, I mean... I did...
I did, absolutely, but I...
I absolutely underestimated the training that it would take
to be able to withstand, you know,
the g-forces that we were pulling, you know...
People were throwing up in the cockpit fairly often.
Like, it is no joke to get in those jets,
and we're making Top Gun, you know?
So we're never going around sightseeing.
It's... It's very intense. Like, what Miles said. I told you...
I said, and I shot the early test, I showed you the early test.
You might have whispered it to yourself
but you never said it out loud to me, Tom. I told you.
I said, and I even shot first and I showed you the footage.
Show me the e-mail.
LAUGHTER
It's been great to talk to you. Tell me this,
so, we're going to have to wait to see Top Gun: Maverick in cinemas,
Have you guys seen it yet? Yes. Yes. I saw it on a huge...
..in a theatre, and it was such a joy to be back in a movie theatre,
it was on a huge screen with an incredible projection. And it was...
I actually saw it with my husband and, um, two of our kids.
Um, and literally my... Both my son and my daughter
were sitting on the edge of their seats the entire time.
Agnes, my daughter, was bouncing up and down the entire time.
It's amazing.
And Miles, did you get the big screen experience?
I watched it on an iPhone.
It was...amazing.
You son of a bitch, Miles.
One of the new iPhones, like the really big iPhones.
Miles... It was incredible. ..I am going to crush you.
I'm going to crush you, OK?
You'll never find me, Tom.
Wait till... You'll never find me. Look, I'm going to have...
I'm calling your wife and she is going to help me.
Tell Keleigh she's going to help me, OK? Oh, no. That's not true.
Well, we all look forward to seeing you all on the big screen.
Thank you so much for joining us tonight,
Miles Teller and Jennifer Connelly, everybody.
I miss you guys. Miss you, Tom. Thanks. Miss you too. See you soon.
Which we could be there. Great seeing you.
Wow.
Right, it's time for music.
Here performing their latest single Starstruck,
please welcome Years & Years.
# I can't help it I get starstruck around you
# I feel like all these people in this room
# Don't shine like you
# Whoa-ho-oh Whoa-ho-oh
# If I could bottle you up I would sip ya like cosmic juice
# Whoa-ho-oh Whoa-ho-oh
# So gimme that good love Good good love all night
# I don't need your cash, I got my own to spend it on ya if I like
# And if you wanna dance, Baby let's dance, we can dream
# Till the sunrise
# I can't help it I get starstruck around you
# What can I do, baby?
# I can't help it
# I get starstruck around you What can I do?
# There ain't no reason
# Why I can't speak, think or stop staring at your glow
# Whoa-ho-oh Whoa-ho-oh
# I wanna tell ya everything that's on my mind, baby
# Even if I choke Ooh, yeah
# So gimme that good love Good good love all night
# I don't need your cash, I got my own to spend it on ya if I like
# If you wanna dance Baby, let's dance, we can dream
# Till the sunrise, ooh!
# I can't help it I get starstruck around you
# What can I do, baby?
# I can't help it I get starstruck around you
# What can I do when I got my hands on you?
# I'm not giving, not giving you up
# I'm not giving Not giving you up
# I'm not giving Not giving you up, up, up, no
# I can't help it I get starstruck around you
# What can I do, baby?
# Starstruck, not giving you up
# Starstruck, not giving you up, wooh!
# I can't help it, I-I can't help it
# I can't help it I-I can't help it
# I can't help it, I Oh, oh, oh!
# I can't help it I get starstruck around you
# What can I do, baby?
# I can't help it I get starstruck around you, I do
# What can I do? Oh, what can I do?
# I'm not giving, not giving you up
# I'm not giving Not giving you up, wooh!
# I'm not giving, not giving you up
# I'm not giving, not giving you up, up, up, no
# I can't help it I get starstruck around you
# What can I do, baby?
# Starstruck
# Not giving you up. #
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
Years & Years, ladies and gentlemen. Come on over.
Thank you very much to the backing vocalists.
There they go. Sir, there's a chair waiting for you and a glass of fizz.
Hello, congratulations.
Hello, hello. Hi, lovely to meet you.
This is Olly, John, Felicity. Tom.
Eagle-eyed viewers will have noticed backing vocalists,
but just Olly - is Years & Years now just Olly?
It is. OK. There's nothing bad. So it's all amicable?
Yeah, we all decided to kind of just like go our separate ways.
And might they be producing music as well?
They're doing their own thing, like separate from Years & Years.
Yeah, whatever.
Yeah, losers.
There's a Years & Years tribute band called Days & Days.
So that's the single, that is out now, and it's a great...
That is a great track. Thank you so much. Hit written all over it.
But there is an album coming, right?
There will be an album at some point this year, yes.
GRAHAM LAUGHS
I sound like your teacher, kind of going, "Where is your album?
"Have you done your album? Have you started on your album yet?"
Yes, Graham, I've made a lot of songs. OK, very good.
Tidy them up,
and you can hand them in later in the year. Very good.
And, got to say, because I haven't seen you since,
just to say congratulations to your face on It's a Sin.
FELICITY: Oh, fantastic.
APPLAUSE
It's something crazy...
It's not on Netflix, it's on Channel 4,
and it's been streamed about 20 million times or something crazy?
Yeah, yeah. I know. I mean, that's...
Amazing. I mean, you must be delighted.
I'm just so blown away, because we came on,
I was on this show right before it came out,
talking about it, and you just have no idea how
an audience is going to respond to something like that,
because it is such a sensitive topic, but the show,
I loved doing it so much, I'm just so...
..overwhelmed and blown away by the response from people
and the conversations it started, you know?
It is the single best thing I've seen this year.
Thank you. FELICITY: Superb.
Have you done acting before? Did you grow up and train and study or...?
When I... I actually played Felicity's alcoholic cousin?
Yeah, in Cheerful... I was going to say alcoholic nephew, but no.
Was it nephew? So I did some acting kind of before
I was doing...with the band, before the music took off,
but I took a break. So I went back to it for the show It's A Sin
and it was just the best experience.
Congratulations. Thank you. Thanks, Tom!
Listen, thank you for that great performance,
good luck with the single and the album when it happens.
Olly, Years & Years, everyone.
APPLAUSE AND CHEERING Yeah. Yeah.
Listen, that is all we've got time for.
No time for red chairs tonight, I'm afraid.
Please say a huge thank you to all of my guests. Years & Years.
APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
Wunmi Mosaku.
John Bishop.
Felicity Jones.
Miles Teller.
Jennifer Connelly.
And Mr Tom Cruise.
That, I hate to tell you, is that for this series, but do join me
over the next two weeks
when we take a look back at some of the highlights of the past series.
We'll be back in the autumn.
Till then, have a fantastic summer, goodnight, everybody, bye-bye.
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