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okay my first guest terrific actor from
England but no I'm from the Bridget
Jones movies he's now starting with Emma
Thompson new movie called Nanny McPhee
very funny family kind of moved your
family yeah yeah it's like it's not
really a kids movie
it's a family it opens January 27 please
welcome Colin Firth
you
hey thanks for coming what didn't get
Slyke for colon Powell colon Powell
that's right he's yes I give it's
Christian Cullen it's the same problem
oh it in yeah yeah was it just it all
sounds like a medical it does something
committee I think old wears them
does it go both ways in England colon
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college that's you gobble no no I don't
know we know exactly which side our
bread is button right but I mean - hey
well can you can't beep tellin ya let me
ask you now is it but uh is callin a
colon also a common name there's a only
Colin in English no no no not colon
nobody's called : that's me you know he
would do that to the aisles like it
doesn't another cool but that's what I
be Twitter but I just I was I'm glad I
got it right cuz I'm a fan I enjoy I
know I can tell ya yeah I know you just
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moved into a new home in England you
live there that's right okay yeah moving
house is some you know they put it up
there with divorce and and bereavement
yeah and I it's a horrible it's fear
yeah I somehow managed to put it to the
top of those let that list I think of
stressful experiences I am I moved it I
was in a new neighborhood and I'm not a
particularly neighborly person you know
I don't like to be unfriendly but I like
to have my privacy you don't go out of
your way you know exactly so when I meet
the neighbors like you know I'm not and
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you know I don't want any intimacy I
don't want to get inside the front door
and I'd been in my new house for
probably three days four days maybe a
little longer and you know I was I
wasn't ready for company my family were
actually away I was alone and I you know
how undress is when one's not ready for
company I don't know how you - I mean I
won't go - right
I was wearing I came downstairs in a
pair of non presentation Underpants and
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also a pair of slippers which an
uncharitable friend had given me as a
sort of joke for this move neighbor
you know there's fluffy things with a
face on the front yeah some sort of
woodland creature possum or an ocelot or
something and that eyes and and they
were for once and that's all I was
wearing and there was a I needed to open
one of the windows for some air it was a
window looking under the backyard and it
was stuck was a sash window and I
noticed it was actually locked so I went
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to get a key and I climbed onto the
radiator which in order to reach it
which was under the window and even had
a kind of sharp edges so I kind of
needed the slippers and I perched myself
on the radiator opened the the lock of
the sat and the top sash came slamming
down taking three of my fingers with it
into a space which you actually wouldn't
have been able to get a credit card you
know so I was actually this is nine
o'clock on a Sunday morning in London
and I find myself on top of a radiator
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with three fingers jam between two
window panes and nobody to help and
various things went through my mind one
is what has happened to my fingers and
sure they ever be able to be
reconstituted in any way then the pain
started to make itself a parrot it was
quite considerable at this point and
then I realized that I couldn't possibly
go anywhere
I was coming around about two o'clock
that afternoon yeah by which time you
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know I had ideas about gangrene and and
then I suddenly thought do people
outside comic strip cartoons actually
use the word help do you actually do
that help exclamation mark and how do
you frame that word when you actually
need to use it and will anybody in
London listen I I mean I the answer is
No
then you yell for help
well actually I tried excuse me and go
into the if you see anybody who just
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yelling a student into this area because
the house is a little more isolated is
so hopefully out of earshot and this was
now counting you know against me and but
I excuse me with anybody
Barney trunk hello and it's very
different for English people to sound
urgent about anything yeah you're never
about to go into battle it's um
righty-ho it's gonna be a little bit of
a tricky situation some of you may not
so may not return and and so it's very
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difficult to tell whether an Englishman
is being disemboweled or having a cup of
tea
well so this is the situation I found
myself in and I said I knew that I had
to create a bit of drama in order to get
any attention and this is a horrible
thing because there was a part of me
that would rather my fingers rotted than
to meet any of my neighbors plus you
have your non presentational underpants
on yeah like that actually I began to
forget about the underpants and the
slippers at that point because you know
the pain in pain and but I called out
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and nobody came I called out several
times then he came what I thought I'd do
then was to break the glass so I let out
a blood-curdling scream and broke a pane
of glass at the same time but I thought
the sound of breaking glass can combined
with this with the scream might actually
attract some attention it did my very
reserved English name but left over the
fence came running to my rescue managed
to get in through the back door I'm not
sure how and failed to rescue me and he
couldn't do anything we haven't properly
introduced
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no we did chat it's all stolen and what
you do I will in no I know well thank
you very much I just one of my favorite
movies as well and yes thank you
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yeah oh your wife liked it in your mud
thank you so anyway about my fingers and
and he said he basically said I don't
think we can do anything for you
and at that point the front doorbell
rang and I said have she better answer
that and he did and my entire
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neighborhood entered my living room
there was the the old lady that looks in
the front window it was
the local wacko who only leaves his
house in order to shout at traffic you
know those the local newspaper seller
the pig you know there was just a with
that people discussing what can be done
about any situation somebody found some
sort of piece of metal prized my fingers
open and you know you know Mom I think
is the one who drove the window and and
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then it was all invitations to tea and
all of us did you put any trousers at
this point you know what I that all came
afterwards I I had to be helped down
from the thing yeah and they they left
and I made arrangements to move house
immediately
it's moving I enjoy very much by the way
thank you a lot of kids of animals yeah
it's like sort of yes
whoever said that was a wise man but not
working with the children and animals if
it's a little unfair to lump them
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together I mean they are different there
are different species if I thought
you're gonna know various animals and I
think you know I have nothing but good
feeling towards most of the children and
animals that we worked with
I mostly ya know the donkey it's almost
even possible to so I don't if anyone's
ever worked with the donkey but they
don't have a reputation for being
cooperative and I remember Emma Thompson
at one point saying you know I think I
would like to harm this donkey I would
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then like to have something written at
the end credits that said the donkey was
harmed
Thompson now I did tarantulas this is
what are those native to England the
Train no I believe they are this
tarantula was actually an old Coast
co-star of mine it work together we have
worked together before and same agent
the agent may actually be closely
related no the tarantula was called
Colin and I we had been named at my
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insistence on a film which absolutely
nobody saw about two years ago called
Troma in which okay so okay in which kid
in which I used the transferor as a
murder weapon then one changed the turn
by going that direction but no there as
far as I was concerned it was a she
actually was a was an adorable little
furry creature so you could flirt a bit
being female well you could fly it with
it you could you know flare with her
channel have a stuffed and made into
slippers so how did you prepare for this
film and they see this Oliver it's not a
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comedy but it's comical yes um you know
it's always a bizarre process preparing
for a role because you you go into some
other zone and it's very odd for the
people who are living with you because
you you you become immersed in something
and sure sometimes you externalize your
preparation in a way that's involuntary
you suddenly find yourself you know you
go through your lines in your head and
you're in a restaurant or something and
you start muttering and letting out
expletives that shouldn't be there
antisocial now if you're preparing
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physical comedy yeah which is Bradley
the first time I ever have that becomes
quite complicated and we were going
through the the possibilities of the
comic double-take now this is not
something that I'm a specialist in I
think it's probably better I don't know
you know you sort of do the you know the
how many can you do you can do the
triple take Peter O'Toole used to claim
that he could do eight hoc tuple take
and pull it off you know but how would
that go
and you know and I was thinking is that
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actually possible and if so can I bring
it into my performance in Nanny McPhee
and I was musing on this in unfortunate
after the hotel I was in a steam room
and I it was quite a crowded steam room
and quite small and must be eight or
nine vilde naked businessmen through the
through the gloom in the haze and I was
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deeply immersed in what now if you do
the kind of you could do the slow burn
and the then you could do a couple of
quick ones maybe you could get to five I
suddenly realize the room is empty
thirty seconds that had taken to
evacuate that wheel because I the naked
actor was sitting wagging yeah
suddenly realized I was alone and it was
time to leave before security arrived is
the spit-take popular in England what's
that
the spit-take know what's I don't know
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no you see I all right you say yes but
you could say I was with your wife last
night I was with your wife
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popularizes cr-z bit crew do yours is
more subtle we go for the broad is a bit
different in all manner but I will
import that doing it yes now we have a
clip from the format now tell us who you
put you're an undertaker you have what
is it seven children eight yes seven
children and then the motherhood I'm
actually a makeup artist for corpses
okay that's what it is and so that's my
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job description and we are the children
are unruly my wife has died recently and
we're about to end up in the poorhouse
right so the kids are running rampant
you need to bring in a nanny but
seventeen nineties been fired up to this
point we know that's right there are no
more nannies no ones no one will decay
all these children take a look now I
can't even display omean stupid come in
I understand to have extreme meal
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behaved children no no no no
yeah why yeah it could be for the
suggestion playful but in the main
concern it says hmm do they go to bed
when they're told what no no no no do
pick it up when they're told
uh well pregnant money thank you they
get drip
well now that's a good question do they
say please and thank you in more context
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that will do tree gain on with your
children need me
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it was those sneak into your own movies
just to see how they're doing you ever
do that - okay I had a had a bad
experience doing that it was quite some
time ago I thought it might risk it just
to see what it would be like to be among
the crowd you know and - and to soak up
the atmosphere and you know it not like
a premier way everyone knows you're
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there right right just just to hear
where the laughs came and where they did
what worked and what didn't I don't want
to get caught doing that I mean how much
more embarrassing right yes yeah yeah
yeah yeah exactly so I disguise myself
as heavily as I possibly could you know
I had bowed someone's glasses and pulled
the Hat down of my eyes and held her up
and bought my ticket like this and
walked up the steps and you know kind of
kept my head down as I shuffled into the
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background looked up and realized I was
the only person in the movie good ones
Bob you Larry exactly the movie master
of disguise you see any big feel it
opens on the 27th
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