S23.E09: Ethan Hawke, Toni Collette, Aidan Turner, Jo Brand, Liam Payne 2018.06.01

[Athena]

Quote

The guests on Graham's sofa are Ethan Hawke, who stars in First Reformed, Toni Collette, starring in Hereditary, and Aidan Turner, who is in the West End with The Lieutenant of Inishmore. Jo Brand talks about her new film The More You Ignore Me.

Plus music from Liam Payne, who performs Familiar.

[walnutqueen]

"My face is everywhere".  Most especially under your fingernails, what's-your-name.  You need those newborn baby mittens, or a fucking shave, Dude. Stop with the facey scratchey, already.

Way to make someone else's near death experience all about you, Ethan Hawke.

Toni & Jo?  We hardly knew yew.

Even the red chair was a bit of a letdown - a woman walks because her kid licked bird poop?

[applecrisp]

WQ that is fucking Aiden Turner. Heartthrob and star of Poldark. He and Colin Farrell are 2 Irish lads that are the sexiest men on earth.

Seriously watch Poldark it is great. But Aiden does look better clean shaven. I was so glad he was finally on Graham's show.

[attica]

9 hours ago, walnutqueen said:

Most especially under your fingernails, what's-your-name.

Boy, I wanted to crawl through the screen and lotion his face. (No, not that way.) I feel like I'm channeling my mother when I was a kid with eczema: Stop. Your. Scratching!

I would like it if Jo Brand lived next door. You just know she'd be a good laugh over the fence.

I surprised myself by actually being charmed by those wee knitted figurines. 

[walnutqueen]

1 hour ago, applecrisp said:

WQ that is fucking Aiden Turner. Heartthrob and star of Poldark. He and Colin Farrell are 2 Irish lads that are the sexiest men on earth.

Seriously watch Poldark it is great. But Aiden does look better clean shaven. I was so glad he was finally on Graham's show.

Lest we both forget, I watched Poldark for far too long, and that heartthrob left me with a cold, dark  --- "heart".  So much of a turnoff, I actually turned off the rest of the series.  :-) 

Colin Farrell, on the other hand?  Could do me 'till the day I die.  I'd even make a slight allowance for beard scratching - as long as it didn't touch my tickly bits.  ;-D

 

37 minutes ago, attica said:

Boy, I wanted to crawl through the screen and lotion his face. (No, not that way.) I feel like I'm channeling my mother when I was a kid with eczema: Stop. Your. Scratching!

Seriously.  Get thee down a well and have that lotion lowered to you in a basket.

[MissLucas]

I know most people do not care but I was glad that someone finally pointed out that Poldark's handling of a scythe was painful to watch (same goes for Sidney Chambers btw.) - indeed it did distract me from ahem... other things and that's hard to forgive. 

[atlantaloves]

I still can't get over the fact that Aidan was a professional ballroom dancer.  There has got to be some film of him somewhere folks! That was a pretty good show, Jo is so friggin funny! 

[dubbel zout]

44 minutes ago, MissLucas said:

I was glad that someone finally pointed out that Poldark's handling of a scythe was painful to watch (same goes for Sidney Chambers btw.) - indeed it did distract me from ahem... other things

Scythe? What scythe? All I remember is a shirtless outdoor scene. ;-)

11 hours ago, walnutqueen said:

a fucking shave

In the poster Turner is clean shaven, so I guess the play hadn't started yet? I think the scratching stuff might have been self-consciousness, because I didn't see it when the focus wasn't on him.

1 hour ago, attica said:

I surprised myself by actually being charmed by those wee knitted figurines. 

That was some of the more adorable fan art we've seen on the show.

11 hours ago, walnutqueen said:

Way to make someone else's near death experience all about you, Ethan Hawke.

I found his whole demeanor to be a bit too pleased with himself.

Toni Collette was utterly delightful.

12 hours ago, walnutqueen said:

Even the red chair was a bit of a letdown - a woman walks because her kid licked bird poop?

I loved Graham's reaction to Susan having a best friend whose name was Jackie. Susan's story was meh to me, too.

[applecrisp]

Well I hear Colin Farrell likes 'em older, so there is hope for us Walnut. No word on Aiden. 

I loved the knitted Graham.

[dubbel zout]

How much older? (Asking for, uh, a friend.)

[atlantaloves]

I read somewhere that he had a thing with Elizabeth Taylor there for a while. But it might just be gossip.

[attica]

13 hours ago, walnutqueen said:

Way to make someone else's near death experience all about you, Ethan Hawke.

I used to know a doctor who was on the list at the NY Met Opera for free seats. Apparently they have a rotation so that there's always 'a doctor in the house.' Which seems smart, but maybe smaller theaters can't spare the seat and just have to take their chances.

[dubbel zout]

29 minutes ago, atlantaloves said:

I read somewhere that he had a thing with Elizabeth Taylor there for a while. But it might just be gossip.

He told Ellen DeGeneres:

Quote

...he went over to visit Taylor and that was the beginning of their almost two-year relationship. “It was kind of like the last, it feels like in my head, not hers,” Farrell said, “I’m projecting ... But the last kind of romantic relationship I had. Which was never consummated.”

<snip>

"I just adored her, she was a spectacular, spectacular woman. I wanted to be [husband] number eight, but we ran out of road.”

He was one of the few non-family invited to her funeral and read a poem.

[walnutqueen]

40 minutes ago, dubbel zout said:

He told Ellen DeGeneres:

He was one of the few non-family invited to her funeral and read a poem.

Dammit!  Just when I thought I'd put all childish things behind me, there's THAT.  

Gotta say, he's foine.  Almost foine enough to reconsider celibacy  ... and since I won't be having a funeral I could go straight to hell in a handbasket for imagining him discovering what my screen name truly means.

[/nasty woman]

[TexasGal]

18 hours ago, dubbel zout said:

I found his whole demeanor to be a bit too pleased with himself.

Toni Collette was utterly delightful.

I loved Graham's reaction to Susan having a best friend whose name was Jackie. Susan's story was meh to me, too.

Ethan Hawke always seems that way to me.  At least he acknowledged it with the idea that he needs too much attention on himself.

I rewatched Graham reacting to Susan and Jackie a few time.  Adorable!!

I didn’t even notice Aiden Turner being scratchy.  I might have to watch again.  For, uh, science. 

[MissLucas]

I had no problems with Hawke - quite the contrary. His Robin Williams story was great (damn it still hurts). I also saw him on the Colbert show where he spent a huge deal of his interview praising another actor (Marc Rylance). Different day - different energy.

I find the Red Chair stories this season seriously underwhelming.

[peeayebee]

I enjoyed the show. I didn't notice any weird scratching from anyone, and I thought Ethan was just fine. I heard him speak about this new film and his general film choices on the radio recently, and he came across as intelligent and perceptive. 

I'm very curious about Toni's new film, but I can't watch scary films. Either they give me nightmares or I just can't sleep. Or both. Sometimes even reading the synopsis and spoilers is enough to give me nightmares.

I haven't watched Poldark. I guess I should, huh?

[attica]

I remember LOVING the Poldark series of the 70s. I watched the first two seasons of this incarnation and gave it up. It's fine, you know, the cast is pretty and the costumes are great (when they wear them, heh), but the source material is awfully dated, sexual politics-wise. Plus, all of the problems encountered by the characters would be solved with Fewer Secrets, which is a trope that doesn't work for me anymore. Sheesh, people, have a fucking conversation! Stop pining from behind the draperies! Use your words! (In other words, it's a pretty standard soap. Loved 'em when I was a teenager, not so much now.)

[SmithW6079]

On 6/10/2018 at 1:49 PM, MissLucas said:

I find the Red Chair stories this season seriously underwhelming.

My unpopular opinion: I hate the Red Chair. Seeing people embarrass themselves or tell embarrassing stories makes me cringe. I often fast forward through them.

[StatisticalOutlier]

On 6/9/2018 at 4:12 PM, attica said:

I used to know a doctor who was on the list at the NY Met Opera for free seats. Apparently they have a rotation so that there's always 'a doctor in the house.'

I learn the damnedest things here on PTV.  Thanks for sharing that.