S22.E12: Will Smith, Jenna Coleman, Jamie Oliver, Tom Chaplin

[Athena]

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Joining Graham Norton are Will Smith, starring in new sci-fi police drama Bright, Jenna Coleman, starring in the Victoria Christmas special, and celebrity chef and restauranteur Jamie Oliver, talking about his hit new book 5 Ingredients. With music from Keane frontman Tom Chaplin, who performs Midnight Mass from his album Twelve Tales of Christmas.

[Corgi-ears]

Thanks for ruining Christmas, Will Smith, with your ridiculous need to act out every story that the other guests told, an attention-whorish manoeuvre that went from fucking annoying to cringeworthy -- when you insisted on stepping on Jenna Coleman's punchline even though you had absolutely no idea what the Dr Who reference was -- back to being fucking annoying again.

Edited December 24, 2017 by Corgi-ears

[dubbel zout]

So...the usual from him, then?

Good to know this is one I can FF or even skip.

[TexasGal]

Ok, I’m only 10 minutes in and have to say I’m living for Jenna Coleman seeming so unimpressed with Will Smith’s extra-ness.

I wonder why BBCAmerica thought it was a good idea to wait 3 months to show the Christmas episode?

[dubbel zout]

I had to delete it about five minutes in. Smith had a good crack about being the Christmas Negroni, but wow, he could not. shut. up.

[peeayebee]

On 3/10/2018 at 11:56 AM, TexasGal said:

I wonder why BBCAmerica thought it was a good idea to wait 3 months to show the Christmas episode?

Me too. Heck, it's been a while since we've had any ep. Or at least it seems like it.

Will Smith CAN be entertaining, but, yes, he could not shut up. 

Has Season 2 of Victoria aired in the US yet? Seems like I've seen more than one season, but glances at the ep descriptions of S2 makes me think I missed it.

I'm curious about Jamie Oliver's 5 ingredient recipes.

[TexasGal]

11 hours ago, peeayebee said:

Has Season 2 of Victoria aired in the US yet? Seems like I've seen more than one season, but glances at the ep descriptions of S2 makes me think I missed it.

I'm curious about Jamie Oliver's 5 ingredient recipes.

Yes on Victoria, my PBS station just aired the last episode (Christmas special) 2 Sundays ago.

I'd forgotten about Will Smith commandeering the cookbook and wanting Jamie Oliver to sign it.  1.  That book isn't yours.  2. You went on multiple times about what fans shouldn't do, but you think it's ok to ask for an autograph on a book in the  middle of a chat show?

[dubbel zout]

It's different when Will Smith does it. 

[Bruinsfan]

Ugh. He's gotten on my nerves since refusing to act out any demonstratively gay moments in Six Degrees of Separation after campaigning for the role of a gay con man. (If I'd been the director I would have responded to his refusals with "That's fine, I'm sure there are other unknown young actors out there who'd be happy to play the role as written. We'll send an invoice for the costs of stopping production along with a copy of your contract with the relevant passages highlighted.")

Edited March 12, 2018 by Bruinsfan

[meep.meep]

On 3/10/2018 at 12:48 PM, dubbel zout said:

I had to delete it about five minutes in. Smith had a good crack about being the Christmas Negroni, but wow, he could not. shut. up.

Actually when they came back from the break, it was clear someone had said something to him and he toned it way back.

Why did they wait to run a Christmas episode?

[peeayebee]

On 3/12/2018 at 12:18 PM, Bruinsfan said:

Ugh. He's gotten on my nerves since refusing to act out any demonstratively gay moments in Six Degrees of Separation after campaigning for the role of a gay con man. (If I'd been the director I would have responded to his refusals with "That's fine, I'm sure there are other unknown young actors out there who'd be happy to play the role as written. We'll send an invoice for the costs of stopping production along with a copy of your contract with the relevant passages highlighted.")

As I recall, he was advised by another black actor not to do a gay part. I don't feel like googling right now, but I believe it was a big star who told him.

[attica]

The scene in which he had to kiss Anthony Michael Hall was blocked so awkwardly, it was apparent they weren't really smooching. But yeesh, who'd wanna snog AMH? ::shudder::  (Kidding. WS's refusal to play the scene was cowardly. Not kidding about being grossed out by AMH.)

[sugarbaker design]

11 minutes ago, peeayebee said:

As I recall, he was advised by another black actor not to do a gay part. I don't feel like googling right now, but I believe it was a big star who told him.

It was Denzel.

[Bruinsfan]

He also nixed appearing in a love scene, and kissing Eric Thal's character in addition to Anthony Michael hall's. So he basically signed on for the job while knowing that he would refuse to perform most of the concrete depictions of his character's sexuality. Who cares about some silly queers getting honest representation in one of their stories when the Fresh Prince needs to build his serious acting cred by any means necessary?

Edited March 13, 2018 by Bruinsfan