Robbie Williams tells the best stories about his life experiences, and they could only happen to him.
Last week, the singer was on The Graham Norton Show, and the host asked him if he knew the other people on the couch. They were Julia Roberts, Colin Farrell, Gloria Estefan, and Benedict Cumberbatch.
Williams said he knew them all from his telly. Then, he said to the Oscar-winning actress, “I’ve watched Pretty Woman six times in a row. And at the end of the sixth time, I was like, one day, I will take a prostitute shopping. And I did!”
Only Robbie Williams! I wonder if the stores in London were as snooty to her as the Beverly Hills shops were to Roberts’ characters.
And is it wrong that I want to tell him I am a prostitute so he can take me shopping? Because just like Vivian, “I want the fairytale.” And shopping at expensive stores with someone else picking up the tab is my fairytale!
Sean Hayes made his Broadway debut in Promises, Promises. He has an unforgettable story from one performance that has stayed with him for 15 years. He regurgitated that moment to Graham Norton a few days ago.
On Saturday Nights, people like to make going to a Broadway show a fun night out. They eat and drink with their friends and then go watch the performance. And that is not a wise move because you have to focus on the play or musical.
Well, one Saturday night, Hayes heard a woman projectile vomit in the one of the front rows, Then, he and castmates, who went on with the show, were all like did that happen? It did, and they were happy when the usher, came and took her away.
Like I said, the show went on, and the actors thought they were safe… But then, twenty minutes later, she came back for an encore. That’s right. She threw up for a second and last time in the theater. But the memory lives on in the Tony winner’s head forever.
I just have to say, I admire the audience for not doing the Stand By Me pie-eating contest scene and following her lead. The thought of it made me throw up a little in my mouth. So, I don’t know how they didn’t do it. Especially because they could not clean it up until the play stopped. Imagine the smell. And what if it got on you? The thought of it all. So gross!
And thankfully, Hayes can laugh about it now! As did everyone else on the panel, Because as gross as it was. It is a hilarious story, many years later.
Reese Witherspoon famously played a lawyer in Legally Blonde and its sequel. However, she is not one in real life. But she was so believable in the role that she was once mistaken for being one.
The actress shared a story with Graham Norton about how believable she was. Seven years after the first film came out, the actress was called to jury duty in Beverly Hills, and she was picked. When it came time to choose a foreman, the jurors wanted her to take on that role. Why? They thought she went to law school. As we know, she didn’t.
What was the case? She spent two weeks listening to a woman suing another one because she got bit trying to break up a dog fight.
Witherspoon didn’t say whether they found the dog owner guilty. But she did say everyone knows how to put your handle in the middle of a dogfight.
So, it sounds like even though she did not go to law school, the jurors made the correct choice by choosing her.
Robbie Williams decided to tell his life story in the movie Better Man, and they could not have gotten a better man to play him. Actually, I should say chimpanzee because that is who the Take That singer is in the film.
So you have to wonder why he chose an animal to play himself. He explained why to Graham Norton. “We realized we needed a created difference with the biopic,” he said. “The biopic genre got a bit long, a bit tired. So, we needed to have a unique selling point. And Michael Gracey, the director, came to me and said, ‘Rob, what is your spirit animal?’ And I was trying to find some self-worth for myself that day, as I am every day, and I went, ‘I am a lion!'”
Gracecy shrugged that answer off, so Williams went with the next best choice, a monkey. Then, Gracey told his star that everyone would be human, but you would be a CGI monkey. And the rest is Hollywood history.
If you need a reason to see the film that is out now, he gave us a reason. He said that for the first 45 minutes, he is a cheeky monkey, and the rest of the film is like Trainspotting.
Williams also has a message for any of his old bandmates or people featured in the film. To hear what it is, then click here!
We’ve all seen that photo of a bald Austin Butler with no eyebrows for his character in Dune: Part Two. But did the actor really shave off all of his hair?
Graham Norton wanted to know, so he asked the Elvis star when he was a guest on the show last week.
Butler told the host that because he had to shoot Bike Riders when he wrapped Dune 2, the director of the other film asked him not to do it.
So, he spent three hours every day getting a skull cap put on that went down to his eyelids. And if they didn’t place it properly on his eyes, one eye would stay closed.
When Jodie Foster and Olivia Coleman heard how much time he spent in hair and makeup, they were like, we would totally shave our heads.
