Gervais and Depp on Graham Norton - Part One

everyone excited yeah oh i know i have a good one for you tonight uh yeah the one and only johnny

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is here. Thats not all. Oscar nominee Carey Mulligan is here. Iris's best comedian, Ed Byrne, is on the show. The screenwriter, the director and the actor, Ricky Gervais. here we also have music from Snow Patrol it is a program that is a good show and of course I am delighted to have Ricky back on the program, everyone has a new comedy series called life is too short now, the program is a success, Ricky, the sun. follows the life of a showbiz dwarf, did you think what does Ricky know about that, what guy is he?

They all look lovely, beautiful, shoot the shoes, look at the shoes very carefully, those shoes are amazing, now listen, uh, I just want to check it out before Mr. Depp does. comes that there doesn't have to be awkwardness on the couch because I know that at the golden globes you were less than cheerful in the angelina movie I haven't seen this I haven't seen that one I said no I haven't It didn't stop me, although he will be fine, although of course that would be fine. I didn't buy the controversy with the Golden Globes. I think it was the press that kept going because I was there. really offended who did I offend really you know I was there I think you were offended this this is ridiculous he's on the new show you know um and everyone goes oh we insulted everyone johnny

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was furious so I emailed him and told him um what sorry about the balloons um, how would you like to recover? and he was like, I loved it, I wasn't, of course, I wasn't upset, you know, it's ridiculous, it's like, oh, he wasn't upset at all, so was Angelina Jolie in life. too low also I didn't ask her she didn't seem so happy terry gary you, uh, you blame johnny jett for ruining your hair um no, I played a little role as a prostitute in public enemies for a day, you're going to look dwarf She played a little prostitute a little prostitute role in public enemies where they convinced me to dye my hair white and that's how it all fell out and I didn't have to kiss it much.

I kissed him several times but they cut him out of the movie. No, I mean, yeah, very nice, oh, Johnny, dad, how many times did you kiss him? I think it was 16 because I was very uncomfortable. Okay, but they cut it. They cut it because I looked very uncomfortable. Yes, he was kissing Johnny Depp. I prepared myself, who could blame you? And, uh, Ed, you have a problem with Johnny Depp, other than the fact that he stole my gaze. Sorry, I'm sick of being mistaken for them all the time. It's very annoying, so he drinks in an American dress, that's amazing.

Yeah, do you have a Johnny Vegas one for me? not true kerry mulligan uh i love what happened to you it's just fabulous every once in a while it happens to someone no one knew you suddenly you're nominated for the oscars you're the it girl you're the most attractive actress on planet earth in this moment and, therefore, do you feel comfortable with all this? No, I feel like I've earned an audience on board to sit next to these two, so no, no, not at all, it's very strange. What's extraordinary is that, a

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from the occasional school play, your first job was Pride and Prejudice with Judy Dench and Brendan Beckham, yeah, oh, there I am or oh um, yeah, yeah, better now I feel like I feel like the Success has changed you, uh, yeah, um, yeah.

It was my first job, I laughed a lot, I didn't do much and now you have it, I mean, a lot of people wanted this role, but you're playing Daisy Buchanan in the Great Gatsby Leonardo Dicaprio, yeah, it's a bit of Johnny Depp because you were a Leo fan or an oral fan, I guess so, I mean, I grew up watching everything he had done, it's hard, I have to hide my inner fan when I'm around him, I mean, it's terrible, he says I can't dance when We're doing a dance scene and I have to hide the fact that I know he can dance because I've seen him dance in Titanic, but I don't suppress it. oh yeah, yeah, you're a bad dancer and I sit there, but he's amazing.

It would be great if they wrote that into the dialogue. It would be a very funny scene in the movie if you told the big Catholic. Yes, but I saw you dancing to Titanic and you're going back to Australia very soon to finish the movie, which is why you're here tonight to talk about Shane. It actually won't be released until January 13th. If I can. I'm telling you this because I know it's written and I've seen a previous movie, it's an incredible movie, it's a very different movie, yes, and for an audience member it's extreme, so I guess being in it was quite an experience.

The Extreme Experience is a little spicy because it deals with addiction, but there is a

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icular type of addiction in the film. Michael Fassbender's character is addictive. She is, yeah, so yeah. He is addictive. Addicted. Yes, really sex addiction. The other time I heard that is when they go, I'm texting and what you mean is they caught me so now I have to go to the priory to say sorry. Does a sex addiction really exist? When you see this movie, you classify yourself. I think so, it leaves it quite low, right? I would say yes, now I'm going to show you a clip that's not really about sex or addiction, so it's you, you're a singer, you just performed a song and you're meeting with your brother's boss, go, I hear the jingle of the rum bottles, the clicking sound, yes, ladies and gentlemen, he is here, hot food from the rum diary premiere, please, welcome, Johnny Depp, are you excited, are you very excited, how are you? you sir presumably presumably it's that that's so nice it was that it was a nice feeling of well-being I never expected it it's a kind of yes, no, it's a pleasure, yes, and you just came to the premiere, how was it?, it was good, Yeah. very good and the crowd showed up and did that the screams there was a bit of a crowd yes, yes, yes, there is a photo, I'm sure you've seen the photo from the New York premiere from the wrong newspaper, what happened, what's going on in that image that was the Heimlich maneuver had something lodged that really no no no you were not being mistreated by someone for some reason okay, that's fair okay, I have press charges we are delighted that you are here, but to be honest, I'm surprised that you are here so quickly because it seems that you are as charming to your fans as the story of you as Captain Jack going to see that girl in Greenwich.

It's an incredible story for people who aren't familiar. tell us what happened well, I got a letter, you know, I got this sweet little letter from a girl who went to school about three minutes from where we were filming and she said: you know we have to escape, you know we need pilots to help us, so I thought well, on lunch break we'll go, we'll bring about 12 pirates and we'll go crazy and we did it and it was very fun and very sweet, I mean the kids were so expensive that some of them were very scared. scary actually really scared because they didn't tell us how the hell you got that letter in a bottle right, let's talk about the rum diary uh presumably a real label for I love you did you find the original manuscript was it 14 years 14 years yeah It was by accident, you know, I was with Hunter Thompson and we were going through the manuscript of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, because I was preparing for the movie and then I found this other box, I opened it and there was Rum's diary I didn't remember writing it no no that's a little exaggerated now remember he didn't remember writing it but it had been many years he wrote it in 59 60 something like that so you convinced him I convinced him to do it Yes, this should be published and made into a movie and it is presumably something semi-autobiographical.

Definitely yes, yes, yes, he was kind of Hunter Thompson before he found his voice, before he found his outlet for anger, you know, etc. He was a journalist in Puerto Rico and he went through these adventures and yes, and you were good friends with Hunter under something definitely yes, but he sounds like reading about him, he sounds like a pretty difficult kind of person to be friends with, could you relax with him? oh yeah, really oh yeah, yeah, tell us about the first time you met him uh let's see the first time I met him I was in a um it was a bar in um woody creek colorado and I was sitting in the back there was kind of the scheduled meeting was around midnight and I was sitting in the back of this bar and all of a sudden the front door to the bar opened, I was way back and I saw sparks, these horrible sparks that were everywhere and then I realized when he I got closer, the sea was parting, people were screaming, darting out of the way and basically in his left hand he had a three foot cattle prod and in his right hand he had a taser gun and the next thing I heard he was out of the way , bastard and the sea parted and he came and then we shook hands and then we went back to his house and we built a bomb and I shot him with a shotgun and it went off, yeah, yeah, it was a good 80 foot bomb. fireball, yeah, huge, look, he doesn't use natural glycerin and stuff like that, yeah, I mean, it sounds fun, but again, I just wouldn't relax, I don't think I could sleep in that house, you slept in the house, well, that's how it was. in a counselor's house where I was practically I was going to invite you back to mine after this I think I would be disappointed when he died the thing about the ashes was that your idea was those whose wishes added up to his will that was his last wish What the hunter wanted was to be ejected from a 150 foot cannon and shot into the stratosphere and I think he knew I was the only one stupid enough to make that happen and I did it, how did that work?

Oh yes, very. well, let's show a clip from the rom diary that opens on november 11th. This is one of my favorite sequences in the movie. You had a great night and you lost. I think you lost the front. seat, yes, our car has been dismantled, yes, yes, but you need to get back to the city, we marched here, yes, so this is you in the rum diary.