Hello?
- Steve?
- Yeah.
Who's this?
- It's Rob.
- Oh, hey.
Hey.
How are you?
- Good.
How-how are you?
- Yeah, good.
How is the show going?
- Uh, just finished.
Just starting the hiatus.
Yeah, I know.
I-I spoke to your agent.
Listen, The Observer wants us
to do more restaurant reviews,
another six lunches.
- Really?
- But this time in Italy.
Ma belle Italia, yeah?
Beautiful countryside,
beautiful wine,
beautiful women, beautiful food.
What do you think?
Well, um...
- And they?! fly you
to Europe.
First class?
- Or business
or upper-class Virgin.
This is according to
The Observer-
"Nowhere in Italy
compares with Piemonte
"for travelers looking for
a combination of fine wines,
"gastronomy,
and beautiful countryside.
"The area to explore
"is just an hour's drive
down the autostrada"
"from Turin, from Bra,
through Alba, then Asti,
"takes you through
a panoply of vineyards
"producing Italy's greatest"
Batch, Barbaresco, Barbara. "
Hanna-Barbara.
Sufferin' succotash!
I thought I thaw a puddy tat!
I did!
Pbbt!
"The Trattoria della Pasta"-
uh, which is where
we're going-
"is set in rolling hills
clad with vineyards.
"This elegant trattoria
is the ideal place
for a romantic evening. "
- You know I'm not a homosexual,
don't you?
- No, we're not having
a romantic evening.
We are gonna have
a stimulating lunch.
- Good.
Good.
And if romance should occur,
we'll deal with it
as it happens.
- The only time
I'd ever snuggle up to you
is if I was on the side
of the Eiger, on a shelf,
and not to do so
would mean I'd freeze to death.
Well, in that situation,
you know
what you're meant to do.
You're meant to get as close
to each other as you can.
- I know.
You have to spoon.
- Spooning, yeah, yeah.
- I know.
- Can wee on each other as well,
and that's-
- Well, that's where recreation
meets survival, isn't it?
Yeah.
I've also sorted out the music,
the iPod.
I've gone for a-
a broad selection,
a lot of Italian stuff,
a lot of, um, opera, obviously.
- Good. Good.
- Don Giovanni.
Rigoletto...
Uh, Verdi.
Then a smattering of Wales
and the Welsh
to tie in
with the beautiful countryside.
- Right, Verdi's sounding
very, very appealing
right now, I have to say.
- I've got some Stereophonics
and some Tom-
Jones.
- We're not gonna be doing
any impersonations, are we?
Because we talked about that.
- No.
If I sing along,
that's not an impersonation.
It just so happens
I bear an uncanny resemblance,
vocally and physically, to Tom.
- What?
'Cause you look 75?
Why is this-
Ohh!
- I promise you I haven't
sabotaged the sound system
because of my aversion
to your karaoke inclination.
- Why is-
there's nothing at all.
"Mm!
Bane.
That's actually-
That is-that is nice.
I'll take your word for it.
No, no, no, no.
Grazia.
- Grazia.
Seriously?
You're not drinking?
- No.
When did this come about?
- I've not drunk
for about nine months.
- So you're not gonna drink
at all on the trip?
Wow.
- I'm surprised The Observer
wanted you to do this again.
I mean...
- Well...
- Neither of us
know anything about-
with respect-know anything
about food, really.
- I know a little bit
about food.
Well, yeah, but you don't-
- But when I wrote
the last ones,
I concentrated
not so much on the food.
It was more a journey.
It was the culture.
It was-it was Wordsworth
and Coleridge.
Now it's gonna be Byron
and Shelley.
- It just feels odd doing
something for a second time.
You know, it's like
second album syndrome, isn't it?
Everyone has this amazing,
expressive first album,
where they
put everything into it,
and the second album's
a bit of a damp squib.
it's like trying to do a sequel,
isn't it?
It's never gonna be
as good as the first time.
Godfather ll.
- Which is the one
that people always mention
when they try to search
for an example
of a sequel that's as good as...
Just when I thought I was out,
they pull me back in.
- What's this licking thing
you always do?
You look like some sort of...
It's what Pacino does.
Small gecko.
That's what he does.
Just when I thought
I'd made two
terrific movies,
they go and make another!
I'm back in.
- it's okay; he's just doing
an impersonation.
it's fine.
Look at Byron.
You know, Childe Harold made him
the most popular poet
in all of Europe,
and when he wrote that, he did
the first two cantos, right?
And he said, "if this is a hit,
I'll write more. "
If it's not a hit,
I won't do any more. "
- You should do the same
at the end of your shows-
promise the audience
you won't do any more
if they don't like it.
- At the end of my successful
tours and live shows?
- Oh.
- Okay.
Oh, gosh.
Grazia.
- Grazia.
- Pnego. Bon appetite.
- Grazia.
- Molto grazie.
Mmm.
That is lovely.
Childe Harold,
Byron wrote, was a thinly veiled
self-portrait.
I was aware of that.
- Thought we could do
a similar thing with you,
Childe Stephen,
follow you
on your travels and-
- Well, it wouldn't be
a pseudonym, would it?
'Cause I'm called Stephen.
Byron wasn't called Harold.
- No.
- Was he?
- He was actually
George Gordon Lord Byron.
Gordon.
Understandably, he, um-
Ditched the Gordon.
He ditched the Gordon.
It's not a romantic name.
- it's not a poet's name,
Gordon, no.
it's not.
Gordon Byron on line three.
Oh, God, tell him I'm not in.
He does my head in.
So Childe Stephen-
we'll do it as an article,
turn it into a Sunday night
serial on BBC One.
Who plays you?
- A Sunday night costume drama
about my life?
- Yeah.
Who plays you?
It could happen.
Who plays you?
Play myself.
- You couldn't do that-
It's "childe. "
It's meant to be
like a young marl.
You could have Jude Law.
Jude Law's 40-plus.
He doesn't look it, does he?
He hasn't aged like you and I.
Well, he's balding.
- Yeah, but he's got that face,
he does.
- He's got that really young
bald look.
- When you played
Alan Partridge-
you know,
when he was popular-
you-he was more known
than you.
And, of course,
he was older than you.
But with me,
with The Rob Brydon Show,
my name is in the title.
I sort of push that.
- Yeah.
- If I were in a bar in a hotel
in Britain, right,
and I wanted to have a drink
with a girl,
I couldn't do it,
'cause there would be
an assumption-
"Oh, what's he doing?"
- Go and chat to Rob Brydon?
- Yeah.
People think I'm affable.
Affable.
That's what I-
- Well, you are.
- I'm affable. I'm affable.
- I'm not disagreeing with you.
- I'm an affable man.
I'm not disagreeing with you.
But my public persona
is even more affable
than I actually am.
I'm not as affable
as people think I am.
- You've made an affable rod
for your own back.
Yes.
Yes, and I'm not saying
I'm not affable.
I am affable.
We're agreed there.
But I'm not as affable
as perhaps I've given people
cause to think.
Crystal clear.
- So out here,
I can be off the leash.
I can-I can let my hair-
what is left of it-
down.
Yeah.
- And, you know,
have a good time.
Oh, lovely.
Mmm.
Grazia mills.
Bon appetite.
Grazia.
You know, there's a publisher
who is very interested
in putting these articles
into a book,
a Christmas stocking book.
- How do they think
they're gonna
get six articles
and turn it into a book?
- Well, we would also do
the ones from the Lake District,
from the English ones.
What did you think of them?
- I didn't read them.
I was in America, acting.
- They were
a lightly fictionalized account
of your adventures
in the north of England.
- How were they
lightly fictionalized?
The names were changed to-
What about my name?
- We kept your name, but
the girls' names were changed.
- So how do they know
it's fictionalized if it says
"Steve Coogan's Adventures
in the Lake District"?
Did you say,
"[Penned by Rob Brydonl"?
No?
- Not in the traditional sense.
No, no.
But then I did do the work
for you, didn't I?
Mmm.
Bellissimo.
- What do you think
on the mini, then?
You enjoying it?
I'm... I'm pleasantly surprised.
it's a nice car.
And to drive it in Italy...
Yeah?
- What?
- You see what I'm getting at.
- Yeah, The Italian Job.
- Exactly, yeah.
- I was wondering
whether you'd actually
booked the mini in Italy...
Well...
The Italian Job,
just to give you
the opportunity to say...
"You're only supposed to
blow the bloody doors off!"
But I've done it now,
so hopefully
that'll be an end to it.
Do your Michael Caine.
Did you see him
in The Dark Knight Rises?
And his voice
gets even more emotional
than it's ever done in the past
before.
I don't want to bury you,
Batman.
I will not put you
into the ground in a little box.
I will not do it, Master Bruce.
I will not do it.
- I'm not
gonna bury another Batman.
Another Batman?
How many Batmans
has he been burying?
How many are there?
I've buried 14 Batmen so far.
I've buried 14 Batmen.
- Their little pointy ears
into the box.
- I'm not gonna bury another
nylon cloak with pointy ears
that people wear
at birthday parties.
- With the little belt-
the very wide belt
that is flattering
to a man with an expanded girth.
I won't do that to you,
Master Bruce.
I will not do it to you.
- And I won't make the voice
like that.
- The voice
goes even more like that.
He's basically yodeling.
Yodel-ay-he-hoo!
And then Christian Bale says...
"You wanted to see me. "
And when he says that like this,
he puts his tongue up in front.
"I don't want to be a madman.
I don't want to be
a normal guy. "
You sound deaf.
It's so nobody
can recognize him.
I can't understand
a word you're saying,
Master Bruce.
Talk to me as Master Bruce,
not as Batman.
Why-why does he-
So he can have
the cloak of anonymity.
- But he doesn't sound-
you said,
"Here's that bloke in the cloak
with the-
who sounds
like he's deaf again,"
that is not anonymous, is it?
I'm deaf hero.
- No wonder when Batman arrives
and starts speaking like that,
everyone starts
looking at their shoes.
'Cause they're all thinking,
"Oh, God,
why does he talk like that?
Poor fella. "
You know?
- And what about Tom Hardy
as Bane?
Did you catch a single word?
They're, like, competing
to see who's the most-
the least understandable.
- Bane, you're never
gonna beat me.
You'll never beat me.
Wind.
Take off your mask, love.
I can't catch a word
you're saying.
Oh!
I was saying-
- He's a wonderful actor.
Don't get me wrong.
No, he's very good.
- Tom Hardy's
very, very muscular,
so he's a terrific actor.
No, he's a bit-he's good.
He's scary good, scarily good.
- But...
I don't-I don't-
I don't-do you know
what I think that is?
I think that they both
are very formidable actors...
- Yes.
- Very charismatic...
Yes.
- A little bit scary.
- Yes.
- Can you imagine a first A.D.
going up to one of them,
going, "Um, the director thinks"
"he can't quite understand
what you're saying.
Do you want to try
a different voice?"
What did he say?
- "Do you want to try
a different voice?"
Oh, certainly not.
- "The director's
just a little bit worried
that maybe people can't
understand what you're saying. "
Stick your foot
up his fucking ass too.
- "Okay.
All right. All right.
"No, um,
Tom says he's quite happy
"with the voice he's got
at the moment,
and he's happy to go
with that. "
What are you doing?
I'm on a set filming a scene.
Is something wrong with you?
- "No, I'm just relaying what
the director said, Christian. "
- Well, if he got something
to relay,
the fucking guy comes
and fucking tells me!
"Yes, no, I understand. "
Don't you worry about it, Tom.
it's fine.
- "Yeah.
They're both upset now.
Okay' u
- He can just say it
in front of me...
- "Is this not something
we could fix in post?
Because I think you opened
a can of worms. "
- "I know. I know.
I'm on your side.
"I know.
I understand perfectly, Tom.
"And, Christian-no, you too.
Yes.
No, I understand. "
We're all in the same scene.
- 'That's what I told him.
I think he's-I think he-
"Yeah. Shall I?
He says it's fine.
Just-just go with the voices. "
- Fucking halle-fucking-lujah.
- "Yeah, okay. "
- I like Tom Hardy.
I couldn't do what he does.
I couldn't do it.
Neither could you.
But then he couldn't do-
he couldn't do what I do.
When you're saying
something like,
"See in store for details"...
- No way he could do that.
- No, no, no.
Sorry?
Where do I look for details?
- And what's the thing where
you have to talk really quickly,
with the disclaimer at the end?
- "Your home may be at risk
if you don't keep up
"repayments
on your loan taken out.
Terms and conditions may apply. "
No projection.
If you project, you add time.
Yeah.
Now, Hardy-
- You got through it.
- Well, yeah.
Look, I'm a pro.
I'm a pro.
I can't be any other way.
But your average family,
in the middle
of Comnation Street-
"'What the hell is that?"
They're throwing things.
They're throwing the remote
at the screen.
- Mm, yeah.
No, no, I'm with you.
- I can "Hardy" understand
what he's saying.
- Mm, I wouldn't say that
to his face, though.
- No, never.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Never.
If I see him-
"Loved Batman.
"Some people said
they couldn't understand you.
They're just wrong. "
- Yeah.
- Oh, wow, look at that.
- Yeah.
Grazia.
Grazia.
- Ah. Grazia.
- Grazia.
Look at that.
Do you know what?
That's just...
- There's a lovely-
- Mmm!
Lovely...
Mmm...
- Game.
- Mmm.
- We're both eating game.
Mmm.
Game's very good for you.
Mmm.
Because living in the wild,
it's had lots of nutrition.
it's been eating wild-
It's been-this is-
- Been exercising.
- On the run, very fit,
exercise.
- So if you were to eat
Mo Farah...
Yeah.
- It'd be fantastically
beneficial.
- it's the equivalent
of eating Mo Farah
if you were in a plane crash
with him.
Yeah. Yeah.
If you were in a crash
with him...
- In the Andes.
- In the Andes...
- I'd eat him first-
if he was dead.
- What if
he was mortally wounded,
you know there was no chance
of him surviving,
and he'd lost all feeling
in his lower body?
Would you start to eat
those fantastic legs?
No, 'cause that would be rude.
Keep in the freshness-
No, no, there's no rudeness.
He's gonna die.
He's already paralyzed
from the waist down.
"Mo, Mo, you know you're not
gonna get up again. "
- If you put a tent up
halfway along
and you distracted him
by chatting to him...
- Yeah.
- Possibly.
- About his glories
at the Olympics,
reliving those moments-
"You united the nation, Mo.
You were wonderful. "
- Well, you know what?
it's a bit
of a silly conversation,
but if you-
but given a choice,
I'd rather eat Mo Farah's legs
than yours, and that's not-
- Well, there's gonna be
a lot more benefit in them.
I'd be the first to admit.
Only a fool would eat
my legs over Mo Farah's legs.
Yeah.
I'm trying to think
who I'd eat your legs over.
Um...
Stephen Hawking.
- Yeah, yeah.
- Yeah?
- Although I'd definitely
eat his brains first...
- Yeah.
- Before yours.
Well, that was just right.
Shall I drive?
- You've had three glasses
of Barolo.
I haven't had any.
- All right,
but I am gonna drive
at some point on this trip.
- Perhaps.
To be discussed.
I can drive in the mornings,
have a bottle at lunchtime,
and then...
Slump in the passenger seat
in the afternoon.
- What are you doing
in the boot?
Just getting some music.
One CD.
Sounds ominous.
Not Tom Jones, is it?
Alanis Morissette.
You're kidding me.
it's, uh, Sally's.
My wife.
Ah, yeah.
Shall, uh-shall we?
- Uh...
Nah.
Hello?
- Uh, hey, Dad.
It's Joe.
- Oh, hello.
How are you?
- Uh, I'm okay.
Where are you?
- I'm in Italy with Rob-
Rob Brydon.
- Buongiomo!
- Yeah.
- That's him talking Italian,
like a native.
No. Yeah.
So maybe it's better you and I
talk later on Skype
at the hotel.
- Yeah, all fight.
Okay.
- Good.
All right.
Speak to you later.
Bye.
Yeah.
Ah, well. Teenagers.
He's, uh-he's in Ibiza
with his mum and Mamie.
Ah.
Wondered why
you were so willing to come away
when you could have
been with your kids.
You don't get to see them
very much, do you?
- Well, that's-that's why
I'm quite glad that, uh,
Pathology hasn't been
picked up for a third series.
Yeah, so-plus, I'm-
I'm just tired of L.A., really.
- So your hiatus has been
indefinitely extended.
- Yes, through the summer
to the autumn
but hopefully not as far
as the winter.
it's a midlife hiatus.
Your mini hiatus
is a midlife hiatus.
- You still want to get
your photograph taken
outside Byron's house?
Yes.
The publishers want photos
for the book.
1822 to 1823.
- it's only one year
he lived here?
That's just a holiday, that.
This was just before he died.
He was essentially on the run
from England
'cause he'd, you know,
slept with his sister,
sodomized his wife
and some young boys.
- Yes, some of that
is out of order.
Is it "Alahnis" or "Alannis"?
it's "Alahnis. "
How do you know that?
Because I just decided.
And that's-that's good enough.
- Right.
Because in America,
people just call themselves
what they want.
I'm sure her dad's probably
called "Alan. "
- In which case
it would be "Alan-is. "
Uh, not necessarily.
I wouldn't be surprised
if a lot of blokes in America
called Alan
say it's "Alahn. "
Hi, I'm Alahn.
I got some properties
down at Boca Vista.
I'd love you to take a look.
And "Morissette"-
it's probably
that she was a Morrissey fan
and decided to call herself
a Morissette.
She's not American, though.
I will pick you up on that.
Alanis is Canadian.
Avril Lavigne, in many ways,
is the young person's
Alanis Morissette.
- You know,
I don't want to be-
I don't want to do down
a young performer,
but she's no Alanis Morissette.
Alanis Morissette is authentic,
an authentic voice.
- So you do like
Alanis Morissette.
Yes!
Relative to Avril Lavigne.
Come on, then.
- All right, let's have
a nostalgia trip back to 1995,
when we were both
but 30 years old.
- That's why Sally loves it.
She was only 20 then.
Do I stress you out?
Yes, you do.
- J' My sweater is on backwards
and inside out
And you say, how... I'
- How appropriate.
- Appropriate
- You know, I can see the appeal
in a woman like this.
Volatile women are always sexy
when you first meet them,
but two years down the line,
you're sort of saying things
like, "Can you just put the lids
back on these jars, please?"
- "I admire you taking a stand
against society's mores
by wearing your jumper
inside out. "
- Yeah?
- "But enough is enough. "
Exactly.
"And I am frightened by
"the corrupted ways
of this land.
"If only I could meet my maker.
"And I am fascinated
by the spiritual man.
I am humbled
by his humble nature. "
Do you know what?
It is music that appeals
to neurotic teenage girls,
but it's actually rather good.
- Byron appealed
to teenage girls.
Very true, very true.
L' And all I really want I'
is deliverance 1'
But how
Look at that.
Doesn't get
much better than that, Rob.
- Absolutely stunning.
Gorgeous.
La Dolce Vita.
We're living the dream.
it's funny, isn't it?
Women that age just look
straight through us, don't they?
Nonthreatening.
- Yeah, they don't even
find us threatening.
They don't even
find me lascivious,
because they think
I couldn't possibly
be thinking like that.
- The one in the blue top
looks like a younger me,
a younger, idealized version
of me,
a lovely hybrid of Springsteen
and Pacino.
- He's like you,
uh, after a computer has-
has corrected
all your deficiencies.
- He's an airbrushed me.
Isn't he?
- He's like the best surgeon
in the world
has been given a year with you.
- Yeah, thank you.
Thank you.
- There was a-
there was a time
when I used to make eye contact
with a woman,
and she'd flash a smile back,
and that's all it would be,
just a little moment.
Those-those women just, uh-
they just-
the smile you get from them
is the smile they give
to a benevolent uncle.
Or a pest.
Well, let's just look this way.
Nature never disappoints you.
No rejection.
- Quite rough, though.
- Yeah.
- Supposed to be
getting a boat tomorrow,
going to the Bay of Poets.
Are we?
- Yeah.
Where Byron swam.
Hello?
- Hey, Dad.
- Hey.
So...
Ibiza, party central.
Ciao, bellissima.
Hi.
- Hey.
How are you?
Pm okay, sort of.
Chloe's still awake.
What?
- I can't get her
to go to sleep.
She miss her papa?
Stick her on,
and I'll say good night to her.
- No, I don't think
that will help.
I think it'll only
make it worse, Rob.
- All right, well-
- She's crying again.
I'm sorry.
We got to go, darling.
- You know, it'd probably
be more fun if there-
you know,
if my friends were here.
But, you know, they're all off
in London having fun,
and I'm stuck here by myself.
Pm 16.
Mum keeps treating me
like I'm a child.
I mean, I'm old enough
to join the army,
and according to her,
I'm not old enough
to just be at home by myself.
- Yeah, well, I think
they should raise the age level
for entry to the army, actually.
- All right, then.
So long, love. Bye-bye.
- Bye.
- Bye-bye.
Ciao, bellissima.
Ciao, bellissima.
Que belle ragazza.
Que belle ragazza.
Oh!
Ciao, bellissimo.
Que bella-
Yeah!
Rflqazza!
Think I better dance now
Que bella-
what a beautiful-
Ragazza.
Girl.
I think you got a wonderful tone
to your voice,
and I want you on my team.
Oh!
Okay' Okay'
Right.
Permission to come aboard?
Sorry. I don't need help.
No. I'm fine.
okay?
That's fine.
- All right.
Okay?
- Yeah, I'm fine.
Thank you.
If you just step-yeah?
Is this the, um...
Is it the actual boat?
'Cause I thought-
I was expecting
something a bit bigger.
- A little smaller
than I was expecting as well.
I'll be very honest with you.
Look at that!
WOW!
This is our boat, Patience.
Patience is a virtue.
That is beautiful.
Hi.
- Oh, hello.
Thank you.
Lovely boat,
lovely way to travel.
- Yeah, so the first stop
is San Fruttuoso,
where you'll have lunch.
"My soul is an enchanted boat,
"which, like a sleeping swan,
doth float upon the silver waves
of thy sweet singing. "
That's Shelley, read by Burton.
- Rob can't do poems
in his own voice
because he lacks conviction.
"My soul is an enchanted boat,
"which, like a sleeping swan,
"doth float
upon the silver waves of
thy sweet singing. "
Pnego.
Grazia mills.
Ooh.
- Ooh.
- Look at this.
- Lovely.
- "50,000 Leagues
Under the Sea. "
- It is a bit-
it's very Jules Verne,
this starter,
I have to say, yeah.
We're squids in.
- Squids in.
6 quid.
Ohh, I've got the squids.
Very nice, isn't she-Lucy?
' "Mm!
- Not the squid. Lucy.
- Mmm.
it's not very Italian, though,
is it, you know,
hanging out with
some British Sloane woman?
- If you look at
Shelley and Byron,
they were always
staying with English people,
all the expats.
That's how it was, you see?
You know,
when you're in L.A.,
I bet you are at Soho House
on a Saturday afternoon,
watching football on the TV
with Robbie Williams.
- No, I don't hang out
with Robbie Williams.
When I am in L.A.,
I do what Byron actually did
when he was traveling,
which is hang out
with local people.
Matt Stone, Trey Parker,
Matthew Perry, Owen Wilson.
You hang out with Owen Wilson
or you occasionally
work with Owen Wilson?
I know you've been
a miniature soldier with him,
but do you actually
hang out with him?
We run together on the beach.
- Is he aware
that you're running?
Is he running away from you?
I mean,
there's a distinction here.
I could say I've been running on
the beach with Robert De Niro,
when, in fact,
I'm furiously chasing after him,
and he's running for his life.
What are you doing there?
Just having a bit of wine.
You know, when in Rome.
- Wow.
When in Italy.
I'm your enabler.
Yeah.
I'd love to talk
to some of these locals.
Byron said,
"I love the language,
that bastard Latin,
"that melts like kisses
from a female mouth.
"It sounds
as if it should be writ on satin
with syllables that breathe
of the sweet south. "
Watch your heads.
- William,
the men are not happy.
Oh, "William," is it?
Not "captain" or "sir"?
Well, you can tell the men
that we will sail
around the Cape of Good Hope,
and we'll sail around the Horn.
You turned your back on me, man.
God damn your eyes!
God damn your eyes, man!
You turned your back on me!
He's doing Anthony Hopkins.
Don't worry-
It'll pass.
Well, you tell the men
that we will sail
around the Cape of Good Hope
and sail around the Horn.
Around the Horn, the quick way
round the Horn we shall go, sir!
- Around the Horn we shall go,
sir!
- Damn your eyes!
- Cover him-
Damn your eyes!
Damn you, Mad Max!
- You turned your back on me,
man!
Don't turn your back on me!
Round the Horn we're going!
The quicker way round the Horn
we shall go.
- Hey.
- Hi.
Ooh, careful.
Oh, yeah.
Not too rough for you?
No, no, it's fine.
You enjoying it?
Yeah, this is fantastic,
wonderful.
Steve's having a little sleep.
Had a drink, so, uh, at his age,
he needs a nap after lunch,
or he gets confused.
How old is he?
- He doesn't like me to say.
- Oh.
Doesn't like me to share that.
Does he drink a lot?
Well...
So this is the anchor.
- And then
if you want to stop somewhere,
you drop the sail;
is that right?
- Where are you from, then?
Wales, right?
- Wales, South Wales,
Port Talbot.
Oh, I love the accent.
- Do you?
- Yeah, it's beautiful.
- Seriously?
- Yeah, it's really lyrical.
To begin at the beginning.
Just got to
make your mouth very-
"To begin... "
- To begin.
- Yes, you have to-
to push your lips out.
"'To begin... "
To begin at the beginning.
To begin...
It's a lovely house.
I mean, it's better than
Byron's, isn't it?
You got a lovely balcony there.
Look out over the bay.
See if you can get my face
and it in so it's legible.
- Don't look ironic.
- I'm not.
- it's not
the most flattering angle,
but it's got
all the information, so...
- Did you like it?
Was it nice?
- It was-it was a bit busier
than I was expecting.
- Spoiled by tourism.
- Yeah.
- Yeah,
when Shelley lived there,
it would have been deserted.
Yeah?
- Do you want to go back
to San Fruttuoso?
- Yes.
- It was lovely there.
Come and have a drink!
' Okay!
Mm.
Yep.
I've still got it.
A bit shocked, aren't you?
- Not really.
I've always told you
that it was a possibility.
- You know, you're an acquired
taste, but, you know...
Something quite about melancholy
about this place, isn't there?
it's like getting stranded
on a desert island.
Yeah, only not as hot.
"Desert" doesn't mean hot.
"Desert" just means
there's no people there.
There still can be water.
It just means "deserted".
- Yes, I know that.
I know that.
Don't you think
everything's melancholic
once you get to a certain age?
I do.
Garrison Keillor said,
'When you're under 40,
"seeming unhappy
makes you look interesting,
"but once you're 40 and beyond,
"you got to do
everything you can to smile.
Otherwise, you just look like
a grumpy old man. "
Morrissey.
Byron was famously gloomy.
- What will
people remember of us
in 200 years' time?
U.
That's a big "if".
If we are.
Either of us are remembered.
I would say that it's-
it would probably be me.
- What would they-
what would they most remember?
What would be celebrated
about you, do you think?
Six BAFTAs.
You've got five BAFTAs.
- Yeah, but I'll probably
get a lifetime achievement.
- True. Yeah, you will.
- More if I survive.
- You could have it
posthumously.
I like to think
if you did win it posthumously,
I'd be the one to accept it
on your behalf.
Unless, of course, if I was
the architect of your death,
in which case I'd still
like to receive it from my cell
via satellite link.
Yeah.
Thrilled to have this.
You know, I killed Steve
for the good of mankind.
Do I regret what I've done?
Not really,
because I think the world's-
- Lights out!
- Got to go. Good-
Brydon!
Lights out, you nonce!
- Uh, yeah,
that's not what I'm in for,
but I accept it
as a general derogatory term.
Come on, Rob. Come to bed.
All right, Melvin.
I'll be a minute.
Anyway, that's all from me.
- I want a cuddle.
Yeah, it's all right.
I'll give you a cuddle.
Please just wait.
Um, so anyway, on Steve's
behalf, thanks for this.
He would have loved it,
but, you know, he's gone-
- Come on.
- Yeah, all right.
- I'm horny!
- I want to go on the inside.
- Of the bed, of the bed,
of the bed,
not the inside of the inmate-
the inside of the bed.
I better go and call Joe.
See you in a bit.
So how did you end up here?
Hmm.
My boyfriend had a boat.
We sailed together.
Then when we broke up,
I had to find work,
so I got a job on the crew.
Must be fun.
Sometimes.
Do you have children?
No.
I Wish I did.
Do you?
Yeah.
I've got a daughter, Chloe.
She's three.
Aww.
She's gorgeous.
Do you miss her?
Yeah.
it's been two days, so I'm...
I'm not pining, but...
Is thy face
like thy mother's,
fair, my child?
Chloe:
sole daughter
of my house and heart.
When last I saw
thy young blue eyes,
they smiled, and then we parted.
- Is that your Hugh Grant
impression?
- Yes, I'm afraid it is.
Yes, yes.
- I think that Steve's
absolutely right.
I do find it very difficult to-
uh, gosh, crikey-
say a poem, uh,
unless
it's somebody else's voice.
And Hugh
just happened to be passing,
you know, on-on the beach.
And he popped over for a blow...
- By-blow account
of what was going on.
"Sorrow is knowledge.
'They who know the most
"must mourn the deepest
o'er the fatal truth.
The tree of knowledge
is not that of life. "
Fuck.
Fuck, fuck, fuckity fuck.
You okay?
- Yes.
Fine.
How was last night?
Fine.
You want to elaborate?
I don't want to talk about it,
and that's not the cue
for an ABBA song.
- Well, I think
when most people say
they don't want to talk
about it,
it means it didn't go very well,
but with you,
I'd infer that, uh, it-
it went pretty well.
- Yeah.
Too well.
it's not how I imagined
it would be.
- I've never seen
so many deck chairs.
- See, you got Shelley
upon his funeral pyre,
Byron staring wistfully
into space.
That's Trelawney.
He's the guy that
commissioned the boat, so...
Oh, that's a bit awkward.
- Hence he's staring
at his feet.
- They wouldn't sue
in those days,
not like they do now.
Have you been injured at work
while composing romantic poetry
on a boat?
Call now!
- Yeah.
0800-471-471.
You could win up to 5,000.
Like Mr. Shelley-
Guineas. Guineas.
- You could win
up to 5,000 guineas,
like Mr. Shelley
from the U.K.!
They wouldn't have called it
the U.K.
Like Mr. Shelley
from Great Britain!
But this is a very idealized
version of everything.
I mean, he wouldn't have
looked like that.
He'd been bobbing around
for two weeks,
so he'd have been bloated
beyond belief.
- Everything looks better
in a painting, doesn't it?
- I sometimes think
that one day, I will be-
and so will you-
on a slab.
YEP-
- You'll have a little tag
round your toe,
and somebody will be there
embalming you.
- Yep.
- Ever think that?
'Cause it is gonna happen.
Unless you're lost at sea,
and we cannot find you,
which is unlikely...
Oh, God.
- You will one day
lie on a slab.
Ah!
You will. You will.
it's better to accept it.
You're gonna be on a slab.
- Yeah.
- And then-
and you'll be naked.
Then somebody else
will dress you.
Yeah, but I'd do-
- I would imagine, with you,
that will happen
sometime before
you actually die,
somebody else dressing you.
I see you in your later years...
Having to be dressed.
- I will.
- You will.
- And I'll be dressed by
a very attractive young nurse.
- Yeah, but you'll be able
to do nothing with her.
You'll be able to do
absolutely nothing with her,
'cause only your mind-
you'll be like
The Diving Bell
and the Butterfly,
and your mind will still be
as active as it is now.
- I'll still be able
to sort of clasp her hand
as she walks away.
- No, there'll be no groping
at all,
and that will absolutely
kill you from the inside,
because she'll lean over you,
knowing,
and she'll taunt you
with her breasts.
And there'll be nothing
you can do.
And I'd love to be there.
I would love to be there.
- I don't know what films
you've been watching.
- Do you know what I do?
I read for Steve.
"You heard what Rob Brydon
does for Steve?
"Steve is more or less
a vegetable,
but Rob goes every day
and reads. "
And the only reason I do it
is to be there,
watching you unable to reach out
to your Filipino nurse,
knowing how much
it's hurting you.
All right, just a quick one.
Look at that hair.
George Michael
in the Careless Whisper video.
Why do we have to do this?
- A picture is worth
1,000 words.
- The sign says
go the other way.
- Yeah, but the sat nav said
go this way.
- Well, I think the signs
were right,
and I'm the navigator.
It would help if we got
over 40 miles an hour.
All right.
See how I changed down, then?
- Yeah.
I love the crunch sound
that you made when you did it
as well.
I'm hungry, so let's just stop
at the first place we come to.
Care to explain this?
Oi, here.
What are you doing
with Casanovas autobiography
in your sandwich box?
It's just research. That's all.
Just gonna plump up the articles
with a bit of, um-
bit of culture, you know.
The, um-
this is just extracts.
The full thing is 800 pages.
How long was your book,
your autobiography?
I can't remember.
300? ZOO-and-something?
300?
- 200 of that has
got to have been padding.
There's not much padding.
I'll be very honest with you.
Have you read it?
- No, of course not.
No.
I mean, I've skimmed the index
in WHSmith's,
saved myself the 1.99.
Ah.
Ravioli.
- I see.
- Pasta.
Grazia mills.
You know we're not that far
from the hotel.
You know that, don't you?
About 10 miles.
I know.
- Because I checked a thing
called a map.
it's what they used to use
in the olden days, Rob.
- Fine,
so when we get to the hotel,
we'll enjoy the hotel.
Yeah, I know.
We could have been
eating there now.
- This is good.
What's wrong with this?
Nothing wrong with it.
This is good ravioli.
"He possessed two of the most
"important ingredients
of greatness:
"total self-confidence
and super-abundant energy.
"He feared nobody.
He was equally at home
in a palace or a tavern... "
Tick, tick, tick.
- "A church or a brothel. "
- Tick.
- "He was totally devoid
of a sense of morality.
Love for him"...
- Well, that's not me.
"Had no connection with evil.
It meant pleasure,
pure and simple. "
- That's not me.
I've got a moral compass.
- Oh, yes,
you have a moral compass.
it's just you don't know
where it is.
Grazia.
Pnego.
Hello.
- Hey.
How's it going?
- Great, great.
We're a bit-
Well, it's all right.
We're a bit lost.
- Oh, dear.
Well, I'm sorry to hear that.
I am just calling to remind you
that I'm coming out tomorrow...
- Oh, great.
That's good.
- With Yolanda,
the photographer.
- What, the same photographer
as last time?
Yeah, um...
Is-is that okay?
- Uh...
Well, who booked her?
- I don't know.
I think it was The Observer.
Is that a problem?
Because I could always
try and change it.
No, no, that would be rude.
No, just-we'll-
I'm sure it'll be fine.
All right, great.
Good for you.
All right, well, listen...
I'll see you tomorrow.
Can't wait.
- All right, lovey.
Take care. Ta-ra.
So the photographer
who's coming tomorrow
is the same one...
we had last time.
Really?
- Yeah.
Yolanda.
Oh, the one you slept with?
- Yeah.
- Oh.
Is that gonna be awkward?
Be interesting.
How do you do it?
Just take your trousers off.
Serious question.
- And your underpants,
socks optional.
- I'm seriously asking you,
how do you do it?
it's reputation.
You're famous.
No.
Although
I don't see any reason to not
use everything
you've got in your arsenal.
People say, "She only slept
with you 'cause you're famous. "
You say,
'Well, she only slept with you
"'cause you're good-looking
and young. "
Wow.
Look at that.
Isn't that beautiful?
- Yeah.
- So you have reserved
the Duke of Genoa suite
and the Napoleon suite.
Which is bigger?
Oh, both are very nice.
- Yeah?
- Yes.
- I think I should have
the Napoleon.
If it's based on height.
Or complex.
This is your sitting room.
Right-.
And this is your bedroom.
Mm.
You have a beautiful view.
- Wow.
That is, uh...
That's stunning.
Yeah.
I'm going to show your friend
his room.
- Okay.
Of course.
I like your uniform.
You look like an air stewardess.
- That's-
that's in a good way.
Eh.
You're a dick.
- Hi, Rob?
It's Donna.
Pm just calling
to check you got my email
with the script pages.
No, uh, I haven't.
What is it?
What's the part?
it's a really good part.
it's a supporting role,
but you're gonna be great in it
because it's very sympathetic,
and people will-
will love you in it, really.
You'll be playing an accountant
for the mob.
- Oh, brilliant.
All right.
Um, comedy?
- No.
It's a thriller.
- Really?
Why me?
You're perfect for the part.
You look like an accountant.
And also, you're totally unknown
in America,
which is what they want.
Uh-huh, yes, very good.
- Yes, you've got
to put yourself on tape
and email me.
Yeah, I can do that.
I can have it with you
by tomorrow.
Che belle palazzo.
It's the sort of place
that Byron would have rented.
Mm.
Ciao. Buona sera.
Buona sera.
Buona sera.
She's got a lovely gait.
Probably padlocked.
Oh, yes.
You know, there's very little
separating "Byron"
from "Brydon. "
- Yeah.
- Just a D.
That's all there is.
Yeah.
But the almost anagram
of your names is the only thing
that you really share, isn't it?
Because what Byron represented
is probably
the antithesis of you, because
he was shaking the tree
from the word "go"
to when he popped his clogs,
and that ain't you, mate.
- So we'll go
no more a-roving I'
J "J"
So late into the night 1'
When I imagined
where we'd be ten years ago,
this is what I wanted.
I love you.
I love Izzy.
I love this house.
You know?
You know.
You know.
You know.
You know.
You-you know. You know.
You know!
You know.
L' And the heart 1'
Must pause to breathe I'
And love itself 1'
You know, I-I-I love you.
And Izzy and the house, but-
but now-now we have it,
and I-I-
you know,
there's too much going on.
Famous claustrophobic.
Uh, there's too much going on.
I can't just close the door
and leave it behind, you know?
My head has to be out there.
I think it's very unlikely
you'll get this part,
and you have to come to terms
with this, I'm afraid.
it's very unlikely.
I know.
Well, why you bother, then?
Oh, you know, give it a go.
But I think it's very unlikely.
I know.
Well, why are you doing it?
Why are you doing it,
you fucking idiot?
'Cause I think I might get it.
I think it's very unlikely
that you'll get it.
Why?
Because you are
an inferior talent.
- For you, sir.
- Grazia mille.
- Prego.
- Grazia.
Pnego, sir.
Sleep well last night?
Yeah. Like a baby.
I didn't.
Up worrying all night.
. Why?
- Been sent a script
for an American film.
Got to put it on tape,
get it back to them today.
What's the part?
- The lead
in a Michael Mann film.
What?
- Really?
- Yeah.
Well, it's a mafia film.
One of-one of-
one of the leads.
He's sort of
an easily led sort of guy
who gets killed
at the second act.
But you're Welsh.
- Lot of similarities between
the Welsh and the Italians.
You know that.
- No, there aren't.
- Yes, there are.
Both love singing,
both short and swarthy,
both love ice cream.
There's loads of Italians
in Wales
who run ice cream parlors.
Are you-are you-
are you winding me up?
No.
So will you help me
with the audition later?
- it's just an-
it's just an audition.
it's not an offer, is it?
- No, I've got
to put myself on tape.
So will you help me?
- Help you
and read the other part?
- No, Alba's gonna read
the other part.
' Who?
- Alba.
The receptionist.
- She's gonna read
the other part?
- Yeah.
It's a woman's part-.
How'd you wrangle that?
I asked her.
We rehearsed last night.
She'll read.
I just need you
to hold the camera.
A nice shot.
You're back?
Working late-sorry.
You want a drink?
I was already in bed.
Long night.
When I used to imagine
what we'd be doing
ten years ago...
She'd be at school.
This is it.
I love you.
I love Izzy.
I love this house.
But now that we got it,
I can't enjoy it.
There's too much going on
out there.
My head has to be out there.
Why don't we just get away,
go to the lake house,
just a few days,
like we used to?
I can't right now.
Mm.
That's, um...
Do you want to do it like that?
Why not?
- I think a sprinkling
of Al Pacino
would be good, but you-
but do you really want
to be doing an impersonation?
I want to do it like this.
- Mind you, they might not
recognize who you're doing,
so there might be some method
in your madness.
Well, I'm a method actor.
There is method in my madness!
That is Al!
Al Pacino.
Not what I was doing!
Right, shall we do it again,
Mr. Kubrick?
Alba, when Rob kisses you,
you look very uncomfortable.
- No. I'm happy.
- Yeah?
I'm comfortable.
- Okay. Great.
Whenever you're ready.
J "J"
J' I'm broke, but I'm happy
I'm poor, but I'm kind
I'm short, but I'm healthy
Yeah
J "J"
I'm high, but I'm grounded
- J' I'm sane,
but I'm overwhelmed
I'm lost,
but I'm hopeful
Baby
And what it all
comes down to
Is that everything's gonna be
fine, fine, fine
J "J"
'Cause I've got one hand
in my pocket
And the other one
is giving a high five
- Yeah.
Keep your hands on the wheel.
- Well, that's what she-
- That's what she's saying.
She's not driving the car,
though, with a passenger in it.
Yeah, but she's like-
- Yeah,
if she were driving the car,
I would say the same to her.
"Alanis, love, both hands
on the wheel, please. "
1' Pm working, yeah 1'
- There is light
at the end of the tunnel.
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
- Yeah,
but then just when you think
everything's good,
all of a sudden...
- Then suddenly...
- Out of nowhere...
- Out of nowhere,
you're in the dark again.
1' Sony, baby 1'
- Right.
Now, then.
Go-go left.
Go left. Go left.
- Fuck, fuck, fuck.
I can't go left.
Fuck, fuck, fuck?
You're being Hugh Grant.
Fuck, fuck, fuckity fuck.
That's no entry.
- Can we have the sat nav on
now, please?
. OKQY-
Where are you?
- Uh, we're-
well, I think we're in-
we're in the outskirts of Rome.
- Right.
Well, we're-we're here.
We've arrived already, so...
She says that you follow
the signs for the center.
We're near
the Piazza del Popolo.
- What signs?
There are no signs.
- If you follow signs
for the center...
Guide us in.
Ask her just to talk us in,
like a stricken pilot
in an airliner.
Have you not got your sat nav?
- Its having trouble
finding the, um, satellite.
And go left.
Go left.
I can't go left.
There's a biker.
I'll kill him.
Right, right.
You got a right, right, right,
right up there, there-
Whoa!
Bloody hell.
This is where we're going,
right?
That's where we want to be.
You need to go round.
Watch him. Watch him.
Watch the Smart car.
Watch the Smart car!
- Oh!
- Bloody hell.
What's wrong with him?
- Right, go round this wall,
and get back inside.
J' Fine
J "J"
'Cause I've got one hand
in my pocket
- Yeah, yeah, this is it.
This is it.
Oh, thank God for that.
Fucking ridiculous.
it's not like-it's not like
it's a new town.
They've had 2,000 years
to sort out the traffic system.
- Are you gonna bring up
the suitcases?
- No.
They can do that.
And they can park the car.
Steve. Steve.
- Hey.
- Hi. Hi.
How you doing?
- Hello.
- You all right?
- Yeah. It was a nightmare.
- Hello.
- How are you?
You all right?
- Oh, God.
- Good to see you.
- Nice to see you too.
- You remember Yolanda?
- Yeah, hi. How are you?
- Hi, Steve. Nice to see you.
- How are you?
Careful. I'm very, very sweaty.
- Yeah.
- Looking good.
- Thank you.
- Nice dress. Lady in Red.
Terrible song.
- Well, you've made it
in the end.
You're here now.
- Yes, all roads lead to Rome.
Absolutely.
- All the ones we were on
went round in circles.
Oh, no, thank you.
Sorry.
I'm-I'm okay.
- You're not gonna have
a glass of wine?
Come on. We're all gonna have
a glass of wine.
- Yeah.
No, I-I can't.
Uh...
- You on the wagon?
I can't,
um, because I'm pregnant.
- Oh, my God.
- Really?
- Congratulations.
- Wow.
Thank you.
- Wow.
No, um...
That's fantastic.
- Thanks.
Well, congratulations.
- Yeah, no, um-
- How far gone?
About 3112 months.
- Wow.
- So, yeah.
Why? Did you just think
I'd gotten fat?
Well, I didn't like to say.
Well, you-you look good.
- No, you're blooming.
I was-
"Blooming" is what you say
when you think
they're packing a few pounds.
No. no, you are.
- I thought
you're either pregnant
or you're depressed.
And you're eating.
Service.
Grazia.
- Prego.
- Grazia.
- Pasta's perfect.
- Very delicate.
- You can tell
that's handmade pasta.
You can tell, can't you?
- Yeah.
- Yeah, yeah.
- What's the food been like
so far in Italy,
compared to the food
in the Lakes?
- A lot of pasta.
- A lot of pasta.
Yeah.
You can't do the Atkins diet
on this trip.
That's for sure.
- Well, you are-
you are in Italy.
- I'm gonna channel
my inner Julia Roberts
'm Eat Pray Love
and get in touch
with my love of pasta.
We were gonna go to Naples
'cause Shelley lived there,
Casanova,
but he's put the kibosh
on that, so now-
- I just wanted
a bit of glamour.
In my head, I thought
we'd get a bit of glamour,
a bit of, you know, like, um,
Dolce Vita,
Anita Ekberg and Marcello-
- Ooh, yeah,
in the Trevi Fountain.
Um, what's his name?
Marcello Mastroianni.
Marcello Mastroianni.
- Very cross when I told him
I couldn't deliver Anita Ekberg.
He-he had
one of his fits then.
Driving along in a TR3
with a cigarette hanging out
the corner of his mouth-
'Ciao, belle. '
- Well, the cigarette
might fall out if you said that.
- We were gonna go there,
but he doesn't want to.
So instead, we're going
to the Amalfi Coast.
- Nice.
- Pompeii. Sicily.
- On.
Why Sicily?
Why Sicily?
Yeah.
You're asking me why?
She's asking you
what it's got to do
with Shelley and Byron.
To Sicily?
Let me tell you.
"Nothing" is the answer.
Sicily is the home
oi The Godfather.
Of course.
We think of going to Sicily
because it's where
The Godfather began,
you know, in Corleone.
I want to have a homage.
- Sounds like you're deaf.
- A pilgrimage.
I love you very much.
- He knows very well
I'm not doing a deaf person.
- I normally like
your impressions quite a lot.
That's not his voice.
It's more like that.
- I know that's not his voice
either.
it's a deaf person.
- Well, you show me the voice.
Show me the voice.
- I can't do the voice.
All I know is that
that's the deaf person.
- Come on, you can do
Marlon Brando, can't you?
- Come on, Steve.
You can do it.
- Let's have a Marlon-off.
- Come on.
Let's hear your Marlon.
Let's even things out now
with your Marlon.
- You need to put bread
in your cheeks.
- Careful.
That's crusty bread.
He finds
some of the crustier bread
a little difficult these days.
I cut it up for him.
- Oh, you have to puree it
for him.
- Yeah, I cut it up for him,
yeah, gonna be good.
- Okay.
- Oh, there you go.
Oh, now, there you have it.
It's like going to the dentist.
- You what?
- What?
It's like going to the dentist.
Say again?
- You wondered
where your tent is?
What?
Send reinforcements.
We're going to
send reinforcements.
We're going to advance.
"Send three and four pence.
We're going to a dance"?
Thank you very much.
Go on.
- You do the-do it, Rob,
the background-
The whole time, you know,
I just bite my tongue, you know,
and, hey,
don't call me Godfather.
- What is it you're playing,
Steve?
- Mandolin.
- Mandolin.
Was it a miniature mandolin?
Are they all that size?
Are they all that small?
- They're very small, yeah.
Have you seen a mandolin?
Service.
- Shall we begin?
- Yes, I think we shall.
- Let's let the expectant mother
set us off.
Okay.
- And so she plunges the knife
into the John Dory.
"Ouch," says the fish.
- Oh, don't!
- And we're away!
- Fantastic.
- Mmm.
Mary Shelley, I think,
was the most interesting
of all of them.
I agree.
- I absolutely loved
Frankenstein.
- She was more successful
than her husband.
- She was.
She was way more successful.
Probably why Shelley had
so many affairs
with so many women,
probably just jealous of her.
- And he slept
with her stepsister Claire.
- Mary and Shelley together-
they had five kids.
Four of them were lost
before he drowned, though.
That's why they left Rome,
was because William had malaria.
- Ugh,
it must have been horrific
having kids in those days.
- Yes, well, talking about
Frankenstein, of course,
brings to mind my dear friend
Sir Kenneth Branagh
and his production
of Frankenstein with De Niro.
I got a-
I got a-I got a bolt
in my neck.
Got to get a bolt...
- Got to get the bolt
out of my neck.
Got to get this bolt
out of my neck.
Good God.
- He's got a big bolt
in his neck.
Pop a cap in his crazy ass.
I can't get it out.
- Bloody hell.
That's not-that's subtle.
- Loom.
You' re bursting.
- Robert here
is trying to divert you
from the fact that
he can't do Robert De Niro
because he doesn't know
how to do it,
speak through the nose
like that.
You know,
you got to get that sound,
talking through his nose
like that, you know?
And the whole
facial gesture thing-
that's-
that's all part of it, you know?
- Yeah, that's a bit
more familiar.
Talk like that, you know?
That's the way he talks.
- Hey, Frank,
what you got in your neck?
You got something in your neck.
What's that thing
sticking out of your neck?
- I got some goddamn bolts
in my goddamn fucking neck.
You shut the fuck up,
or I'll rip your head off,
shit down
your goddamn fucking neck,
you stupid bitch-sucking
motherfucking asshole.
That's how he-
he speaks like that.
- It was like
watching the video.
- I don't remember that
from Frankenstein.
Was that on the extras?
- Oh, you have to buy
the box set to see that?
You know, Shelley wrote,
"It could make one
fall in love with death,
to be buried
in so beautiful a place. "
And within a year, he was dead.
- Well, be careful
what you wish for.
It is lovely, though.
There's Shelley.
Wow.
- "Nothing of him
that doth fade,
"but doth suffer a sea change
into something
rich and strange. "
Defying the physical, isn't it?
Transcendent.
Yeah.
Here's Trelawney.
- His poetry lives on
in a way that-
"- 'These are two friends
whose lives were undivided. "
Trelawney died aged 88.
What-Shelley was what, 26?
So that's 62 years
they were divided.
- And he-
and he bought this plot
'cause he maintained the grave.
And he bought the boat
that sank-
that killed Shelley.
So it's a bit rich,
him burying himself next to him.
He spent his whole life
dining out on the fact
that he knew
Byron and Shelley-
and claimed to know Keats,
which he didn't.
Steve, look at the book.
Good.
- Okay, now I'm looking away.
I'm thinking.
- Uh-huh.
The light here is great.
- My favorite film
is Roman Holiday.
Oh, yes.
Do you remember Gregory Peck?
Of course.
- He had his flat
in number 51 Via Margutta.
Yes.
This is Via Margutta.
Seriously?
- Yeah. This is it.
- Wow.
- And do you remember he took
her upstairs, and he said-
No, she said
when she got up there-
'cause it was so tiny,
and she's like,
"Is this the elevator?"
Yeah. Yeah.
I love Audrey Hepburn
and Ingrid Bergman.
Keats. Shelley.
- Brilliant,
brilliant actresses.
- La Dolce Vita.
- Si.
- Well, actually, most people
think La Dolce Vita
is about the glamour of Rome,
but it's about the opposite.
it's about...
- Yeah.
The emptiness of that life,
the superficiality.
- Yeah.
Vacuous people.
Mm-hmm.
The term "paparazzi"
comes from the film Dolce Vita.
That's where it came from?
Oi course, 'm Roman Holiday,
Gregory Peck
plays the journalist,
and his photographer friend
is played by Eddie Albert.
- Yes, with his Zippo lighter.
- Yes.
- Which is where the term
"Eddie Alberto" comes from.
Hello?
- Rob?
It-it's Lucy.
- So tell me about-
are you still seeing that guy?
What's his name?
- Roberto.
Roberto.
Roberto Brydono.
I'm sorry.
A horrible thought.
Go on.
- Hello?
- Can you-can you hear me?
- Yeah.
How are you?
Yeah, yeah, Pm good.
Um...
We been missing you.
Oh, Well, I-I, um-
I've missed you too.
Really?
Yeah.
- I-I mean, I've been missing
Hugh Grant as well.
Well, yes, of course.
I mean, it's a terrible loss.
I think we'll all miss him.
I'm sure that-that,
were he here now, he-he would
apologize profusely,
uh, for his, uh, absence.
And I daresay, he-he would
delight at the prospect of-
of dropping anchor,
uh, once again, in, um-
in, uh-in Lucy, um, Cove,
if that's not too,
uh, inopportune, uh, sort of.
Uh. Yeah.
- Oh, you laughed.
Thank God.
- It would be lovely to
see you again, if you wanted.
Yes, it would, wouldn't it?
Yes, um-yeah.
How do we-how can we do that?
Well, I don't know.
Um... where are you?
Uh, Rome.
Ah, I see.
Well, um, look,
shall I call you again?
- Yeah.
- Would you mind?
Is that a good idea?
- Absolutely, yes.
That would be good.
I'd accept the call, definitely.
- It's nice to see you.
- It's nice to see you too.
- Yeah, yeah.
You look fantastic.
Thank you.
There's something in your hair.
- Good.
Well, Vll call you soon, than.
All right, bye, Lucy.
BYE. Bye-bye.
- Bye.
So how did it go last night
with Yolanda?
- Good.
Mission accomplished.
Everyone's happy at,
uh, Houston Ground Control.
Small panic when I disappeared
round the dark side of moon.
Oh!
We lost communication.
But both of us achieved
a very satisfactory splashdown,
and, at which point,
Houston broke into
a round of applause.
When Vesuvius erupted,
it just went "bang!"
And-a cacophonous bang.
They would've seen
a plume of smoke, just-
just "boom,"
right from back there.
And a cloud
going up into the sky.
30,000 Hiroshima bombs,
200 megatons-
imagine that loud a sound.
This whole city's preserved
in formaldehyde,
like this artificial-
that's why it's so remarkable.
it's like a photograph
of the past.
it's a sculpture of the past.
- Well, you know,
a sculpture is an impression.
A photograph-that's reality.
- Yeah,
but a sculpture is 3-D.
A photograph is 2-D.
Uh... yeah.
Yeah. Yes. Yeah.
Yeah. All right.
Yeah,
these people just are caught
frozen in their death throes.
- Look at his sandal.
- Wow.
They're like yours.
- They are, aren't they?
Yeah, they are.
- It shows you
that even 2,000 years ago,
there were people
with bad dress sense.
For me, the big question is,
how did he get in the box?
Was he an illusionist?
Was he a sort of
David Blaine of his day?
But it is incredible, 'cause,
look, he's gone in;
he's sealed it.
He's like that guy they found
in the hold all in the bath.
it's a small man in a box.
"Here I am.
"Oh, my word.
"How did I get in here?
"I can see the volcano erupting,
and I am petrified. "
The thing is, he was real.
He was-
this is a real man who died.
I wonder if anyone cried
for him.
I wonder if anyone who escaped
loved him and cried about him.
"- 'We didn't get on. "
"It seems like he's a little
oversensitive to me. "
I agree.
"Are you knocking about
with him?"
Yeah, we're just
traveling round Italy.
"On, my God.
It must be a nightmare
for you. "
It really is.
In many ways, I envy you.
You're inside the box.
I mean, at least for you,
it's muffled.
"Yeah, I'm just
picking up the odd word,
"to be honest with you,
"but, you know, in all honesty,
"I'm kind of glad
I died when I did,
and I never got the chance
to meet the guy. "
I know. I know.
If I could climb in there
with you,
I would.
Anyway, it's been really good
to talk.
"Yeah, you too, fella. "
What's that?
"I just said
I love your sandals. "
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
I like yours too.
Take it easy.
We're a bit late.
Sorry. Sorry.
- Hello.
- I think we're in row nine.
50f"!-
This is the review
from Man's Claim.
'We head instead to
the green tip of the peninsula,
"to the Relais Blu Belvedere,
"a beautiful, modernist
boutique hotel
"tucked away high above the sea.
"The marvelous terrace
for summer service
"has a superb view of Capri.
"Dishes with the flavors
of Campania
enhanced with skill
and inventiveness. "
- Serving linguini pasta
for you, sir,
with bluefish and fresh tomato.
Grazia.
- For you, sir,
is a homemade ravioli
with rockfish and pepper.
Grazia mills.
Hmm.
Oh, my God.
Not good?
That's fantastic.
Very, very nice.
You know what would
make this perfect now?
Michael Bubl.
Bit of Bubl.
Do you like Bubl?
Where do you stand
on Michael Bubl?
His windpipe.
You don't mean that.
- Parkinson loves him.
Michael Bubl!
Michael Bubl.
Michael Bubl.
- Michael Bubl.
- Michael Bubl.
- Michael Bubl.
- Michael Bubl.
- Real music.
- Real music.
- Ah, wonderful.
My guest today is Steve Coogan.
Steve, I mean, you're in comedy.
I mean, for you,
character comedian,
maybe, you know,
your roots in the north, you-
Yeah. Yeah.
- I suppose for you,
Peter Kay-
Peter Kay, I suppose,
would be the benchmark.
- I wouldn't call him
the benchmark; I'd say he's-
- Sacha Baron Cohen
would be another one, I suppose.
I mean, Sacha-
I had him on the show.
He's a strange man,
a curious man.
He is a little, yeah.
- Do you watch him,
and do you take inspiration
from Sacha Baron Cohen?
- I think we all take
inspiration from each other
when you're at a certain level.
- I suppose the benchmark
is Gervais.
I mean, The Office
and Extras,
Life is Short-
I mean, all of these programs.
- But Life is Short,
maybe some people
didn't think was so good,
but that's by the by.
- But to be the first man
to put a dwarf
on mainstream television-
I mean, it was quite
an achievement, wasn't it?
- Yeah, well, if you look at it
that way, but, you know-
I love Simon Pegg.
I mean, I watch him in
the Star Trek films, you know-.
Yeah, I haven't seen them,
but I'm told they're very good,
and, as I said,
I'm delighted for his success.
And to work with Tom Cruise,
as he does in
Impossible.
I mean, imagine working
with Tom Cruise.
- Yeah, well,
I have worked with Tom Cruise.
I worked on Tropic Thunder:
- Yes, you died in
the first ten minutes, Steve.
You died
in the first ten minutes.
I died in the first ten minutes.
- I felt you died
in the first five minutes,
in all honesty,
but that's just my view.
We'll come back to Steve.
Here's Michael Bubl
with a new record.
When we think about you,
we think about the '90s,
don't we?
- Yeah-what?
- We think about the '90s.
What a wonderful period
that was.
We think Oasis, Blur.
You're smacked off your tits
in a central London hotel
trying to get your life
together.
But you've turned it around now,
haven't you?
Tell us about your recovery.
Well, I'd rather not.
I'd rather talk about
me new film.
- 'Cause you are still acting.
I think-
I want that to come across
for the viewers.
I want them to know.
- Yeah.
I've done a lot of things.
I've done some brand-new
sort of-
- Always lovely
to catch up with Steve Coogan.
Michael Bubl has a new record,
and it's about to come out.
it's called Christmas
is a Special Time for Me,
and it's a special time for you.
He's gonna sing a track
from it now...
Just another-
- Called Holly Leaves
and Christmas Trees.
Michael Bubl!
Steve, please, for fuck's sake,
don't talk over me on-
Is that all right, Steve?
I'm sorry I didn't get
to mention the fitness video.
- You know,
they're pretty tight these days
with that sort of thing.
Time now for some music,
and we're going to listen now
to Alanis Morissette.
Port master
coming up in a moment
and Lynn with the travel.
All that still to come.
Ay!
88 and 91 FM.
L' Walked up the stairs I'
- I opened your door
without ringing your bell
Very polite.
Walked down the hall
Into your room
What, mine?
Where I could smell you
And I...
Bit loud.
Shouldn't be here
Well, that's true enough.
Without permission
Shouldn't be here
Would you forgive me, love
J "J"
If I danced in your shower?
Weird.
Would you forgive me, love
J "J"
Why are you
round at my house
rooting through stuff?
Would you forgive me, love
If I stay all afternoon?
On.
Do you basically
want to borrow my flat?
Is that what you're saying?
- Hello.
- I am Lorenzo.
- Nice to meet you.
- Welcome to Ravello.
Buongiomo.
Hi, Mr. Coogan.
We walk to Villa Cimbrone.
- Walk?
- Walk?
Yeah.
- How far is it?
- Five minutes.
- Five minutes, okay.
Great.
- Should really have asked him
for his I.D.
I mean, we're trusting him,
basically,
on the strength of a polo shirt
with a logo on it.
Seemed very nice, though.
I think this is-
I think steps are better
than a slope.
- A slope, I think, is better
for your leg muscles.
I'll try the slope.
- See?
It's nice, isn't it?
it's smooth.
it's just different.
The Camelia suite.
Right, okay.
Pnego.
Oh, wow.
Uh, I'll have this one.
This is a very nice room.
Please have a look outside
as well.
On, boy.
Pnego.
This is the Greta Garbo suite.
Greta Garbo?
- Yeah.
She also stayed here.
Wow.
- Well,
you know what Byron said...
about Don Juan.
"Could anyone have written it
who has not lived?"
- Hi.
Rob?
It's Donna.
I've got some good news.
You've got the part.
Seriously?
- Yeah. Seriously.
They loved you.
They loved your audition.
Right.
Wow.
- They want you in L.A.
week after next
for a costume fitting.
And how long is the shoot?
Eight weeks!
Eight weeks?
I know.
It's great news, isn't it?
- God. Right.
Um...
- The film starts filming
in three weeks.
I'm in the Greta Garbo room.
- Are you?
- Yes.
- Really?
- Yeah.
Oh, wow.
Look at that.
- This is called
the terrace of infinity.
John Huston filmed a scene here
for Beat the Devil
with Humphrey Bogart.
They all stayed here:
Bogart, Huston,
and Gina Lollobrigida.
Wow.
Gosh.
Incredible.
- And now Rob Brydon
and Steve Coogan.
- Yeah, right.
Yeah, sure.
- Well, thank you very much.
- Thank you to you.
Enjoy your evening.
Thank you. Bye.
Whoa, God.
Wow.
It'd be great to go back in time
to the 1950s.
- On, God.
- 195a-
Go back in time
and just come up here
with Gina Lollobrigida
and just snog her.
This is as good as it gets.
Ahh.
it's a lovely little, uh...
- Ooh.
Nice?
You know what that is?
- Very nice.
- You know what it is?
- Sweet.
it's a kumquat.
Come, come, Mr. Bond.
You derive just as much pleasure
from saying...
"Kumquat" as I do.
- Come, Quat,
it's time for us to go.
Quat!
Quat, come!
- Quat, come.
Come, Quat.
- One of the most erotic
experiences in my life
was seeing a quat come
right in front of my eyes.
- Oh, please.
For God's sakes.
- God, you've not lived
till you've seen a quat come
right in front of you
in a bar in Vietnam.
- Mmm.
My God!
When that quat came-
ahh.
Grazia.
Bogart, when he made
Beat the Devil-
you won't know this-
had an accident
during the filming.
Did you know this?
This is news to me.
Why the hell didn't you tell me?
I came as quick as I could.
Humphrey Bogart's
had an accident.
No, he had a car crash,
and he knocked some teeth out.
So when he was talking...
- Of all the bars
in all the towns...
In all the world...
- Of all the bars
in all the towns,
you had to come into mine.
Kinda relaxed kinda guy.
- Just relaxed.
You believe he's living it.
He's saying the words.
You don't believe he's acting.
- I imagine his arms
are always at his side.
"On, hey. "
He acts as though
he knows something
nobody else knows, yeah?
- Yeah.
Oh, yes.
- You know that?
- Yeah. No. Yeah.
- That's what I do.
No, sorry. I do the opposite.
I act like everybody else
knows something I don't know.
Right-.
- Mm.
That's me.
Now, Humphrey Bogart.
Keep talking.
- Yeah.
He couldn't talk.
Nowadays,
you get an Oscar for that.
Absolutely, yeah.
Okay, but in those days, no.
So what do they do?
Okay, I'll tell you.
I'll tell you.
They had to dub him.
Who dubbed him?
Steve Coogan-two points-
who dubbed Humphrey Bogart
in Beat the Devil?
George Raft.
I
Peter Sellers.
- Imagine Truman Capote
sitting here, can't you?
Can you do him?
- I could have a stab
at Philip Seymour Hoffman
or Toby Jones doing it,
but I couldn't really, you know.
I couldn't really-
no, not really.
I think you either do it well
or don't bother.
- Better not to try, then.
- Yeah, exactly.
Gore Vidal said
about Truman Capote
that he turned lying
into an art form...
a minor art form.
Yes, I also said of Truman
that dying, for him,
was a great career move.
Oh.
- But did he purse his lips
at the end and go like that?
"Ohh. "
- Well, the thing
with Gore Vidal-
Gore spoke as though he had
worked out the secret of life,
and he also said,
"It is not enough
for me to succeed.
My friends must fail. "
Mm.
You know, Byron was a bit like
Gore Vidal because-
How so?
- Because they were both
in exile in Italy.
True.
- Self-imposed exile,
cultural exile,
because they-because their-
the way they thought and lived
was totally at odds
with the zeitgeist
of their respective countries.
You know what he said?
When Byron came to Italy,
you know what he said?
He said, "I will not give way
to all the cant of Christendom. "
He said, "I have been cloyed
with applause"
and sickened with abuse. "
. Well.
One of those must ring bells
with present company.
I refer to the abuse.
- Yeah, I know, but I've been
cloyed with applause.
So have I.
Yeah, well, I've been-
I've been cloyed
more than I've been abused.
And so have I.
- Well, yeah.
Well, there you go.
- All right,
so we're both happy.
- Mind you, if you got to be
exiled anywhere,
I could be exiled here.
I could see out my days here
quite happily.
- Yeah, well,
you'd be able to finally,
you know, come out,
wouldn't you?
What a relief that would be.
- Oh, it'd be such a weight
off your shoulders.
- Yeah, yeah,
finally say to people...
"Happily living with Steve
in our villa
overlooking the coast. "
Finally, we can be ourselves.
Can you wiggle both eyebrows?
- Oh, of course I can.
Elementary.
Go on.
- Yeah, you looked at me
like I couldn't do it.
You looked me-
'cause I can do the same.
That's no great achievement-.
You either can or you can't.
- Can you wiggle your ears
independently?
- Let's see what you can do
first,
and then I'll answer.
Tonight on The South Bank Show,
Steve Coogan
and his new art installation
"Ears on the Move. "
We ask him why and how.
Hello?
- Buona sera.
How are you?
- Hi.
How's it going?
It's good.
We are in
such a beautiful place.
We're-
- Lucky you.
It's horrible here.
- Is it?
Oh, sorry.
- I've just got so much work
to do.
It's chaos.
Okay, well,
let me lift your spirits
with a little news bulletin,
courtesy of our friend Dustin.
I have some terrific news
to tell you.
And the news is-
- Rob, sorry.
I'm just in the middle
of something.
Can Dustin wait?
I'll see you on Monday, okay?
Little bit of news?
- Hey.
I've been trying to Skype you.
- Have you?
Sorry,
- Yeah.
What-what's going on?
What are you up to?
- Not much.
Nothing, real! y.
There's nothing to do.
- Well, you must be doing
something.
- All right, love.
Bye-bye.
' BYE-bye.
' BVHWe.
Bye-bye. Bye-bye.
Bye-bye. Bye-bye.
Well, that's a disappointment.
That really is.
I was looking forward
to telling you my news.
That's terrific news.
Wait till you hear this.
I'm gonna be in a movie.
That's right.
I'm gonna be
in an actual American movie.
I'm going to L.A.
I'm going to Hollywood.
I'll be out there.
You'll be in London with Chloe.
Right.
Yeah.
Let me talk to Mum, all right?
Yeah.
I'll give her a call now,
and then
I'll call you straight back.
Okay, great.
- All right,
we'll figure something out.
All right, love you.
Love you too.
Okay. Bye-
I got some other news too.
I had a pretty exciting
random sexual encounter
with a pirate.
Yes, I did, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Turns out I'm-
I'm quite something.
Mm.
Yeah.
Eh.
Baciamo la mani, Don Ciccio.
Mi benedica.
Benedetto.
Come ti chiami?
Mi chiamo Vito Corieone.
Ah.
E tuo padre-come si chiama?
Si chiama Antonio Andolini.
Piu forte.
Non ti sento bane.
Awicinati.
- Mio padre si chiama
Antonio Blydon.
E questo per ta.
Ugh!
E questo. E questo.
E questo.
E questo per ta.
E questo per ta.
- Hi.
- Hi.
- Sorry. Did I wake you up?
- No, no.
- Joe, uh,
has said he wants to come out
and, you know, hang out with us.
Excellent.
- It means
that Emma's got to fly
to pick him up in Ibiza,
and I've got to meet them both
in Naples.
- Right.
- Is that okay?
Yeah, absolutely.
- 'Cause it means
missing Sicily.
- it's your boy.
That's more important.
- Okay, thank you.
Great.
- Good?
- All right, yeah.
All right.
- Good.
See you at breakfast.
Breakfast.
Grazia.
- Oh.
I am starving.
Aah.
Look at this, eh?
Oh, yes.
Oh, yes.
This is good.
- Mmm!
That's good eggs.
Yeah, yeah.
You can taste a good egg,
can't you?
Yeah.
What I've discovered
on this trip
is that I can live very simply.
I mean, I'm very happy
right now...
Yes.
With a simple breakfast,
a simple view, nothing fancy.
And that's just wonderful.
I don't think you can top it,
really, with anything.
- Could put some brown sauce
on it.
That's true.
Emma's organized a place
for us to stay on Capri.
So I was gonna ask you,
if you want,
you can come and stay...
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Because then you still have
your six places to write about.
Great.
Be a shame not to go to Sicily,
though.
I was looking forward to that
for obvious reasons.
Well, you don't have to-
you don't have to be in Sicily
to do impressions.
- See the
coffee commercial he did?
No.
- Pacino-he sits there,
and he says,
"You know, for me,
coffee is a way of life.
"A Pacino script will always
have coffee marks on it.
That's how you know
it's a Pacino script. "
And then he takes a sip
and goes-
'That's good coffee. "
"And you go,
'That's Al Pacino?"
And that's another reason
why I think,
well, so I did Crunchy Nut
Cornflakes, you know?
But he did coffee.
- There's a lot of similarities.
- Yeah.
- Two short, brooding,
intense actors,
promoting products
they genuinely love.
Hello?
- Hello. You all right?
- Yeah, great.
- I've got Joe,
and we're just about
to get on a plane to Naples.
- Okay.
How is he?
- Good.
He's great.
We're gonna get a cab
from the airport,
and we'll go to
the Fontanelle catacombs, okay?
- Why are we meeting
at a cemetery?
- Well,
it's on the edge of town,
so it'll be easy, 'cause Naples
is crazy for the traffic,
and I've always
wanted to see it.
It's in
one of my favorite films.
- All right, listen,
tell Joe I love him
and we're gonna have
a great time.
- All right, brilliant.
I'll pass it on. See you soon.
- Thanks, love.
Okay, bye.
Right.
Let's see.
Let me see.
Where are we?
Okay, I know. I've got it.
I've got it.
Don't you-
you just concentrate on driving.
- Paul McCartney,
The Long and Winding Road,
and he may well have been
talking about the Amalfi Coast.
Right. Very close.
Very close.
We can almost touch it.
Right.
Have a look at that now.
Tell me-is that where
we're meant to be?
Um...
- That should be working
with us, not against us.
- I'm trying
to make it go bigger.
it's a bit like
being at one of your shows.
Ah, a lot of people.
it's full.
I'll give you that.
Weird, isn't it,
that Byron used to drink
out of a skull?
Ohh...
You all right?
Alas, poor Yorick.
I knew him well.
That's a total misquote.
it's, "Alas, poor Yorick.
I knew him, Horatio. "
- Alas, poor Yorick.
I knew him well.
- It's not, "I knew him well. "
It's, "I knew him, Horatio. "
It's the most famous misquote
in the English language,
and you just did it.
- What's the actual quote?
- I'm a bit shocked.
- All right,
what's the actual quote, then?
- Alas, poor Yor-ala-
Alas, poor-
- See, you don't know it
yourself.
I do know it.
Alas, poor Yorick.
Alas-
Alas, poor Yorick.
- Well, who are you talking to,
me or the invisible man?
- I'll tell you.
I'm talking to him about you.
- Who am I?
- You're Yorick.
Alas, poor Yorick.
I knew him, Horatio,
a man of infinite jest...
Thank you.
Of excellent fancy.
Thank you.
- He hath borne me on his back
a thousand times.
That is true.
- Where be your gibes now,
your gambols,
your songs,
your flights of merriment
wont to set a table on a roar'?
Puff.
Feel lucky, punk?
He didn't say that.
- I deliberately got it wrong
to reel you in.
- All right, go on.
What's the real quote?
- I know what you're thinking,
punk.
You're thinking,
"Did he fire six shots
or only five?"
Tell you the truth,
I can't quite remember myself
in all this excitement.
- It's a myth
that he whispers all the time.
Sometimes
he just speaks normally,
but his jaw is clenched.
- If I wanted a lesson
in how Clint Eastwood spoke,
I'd talk to Clint Eastwood.
Oh, shit.
Hello?
- Hey.
Hey, we're here.
- Are you?
Oh, great.
We're just at the entrance.
- Right.
See you in a bit.
Is she here?
Yeah.
Have they arrived?
Yeah.
Come here, lad.
Hey!
- Nice to see you.
- You too.
it's good to see you, buddy.
There he is, big boy.
- Yeah.
- Hello. All right?
Almost as tall as you...
- I'll have to start
wearing me high heels soon.
- So listen, I've arranged
for the mini people
to come and collect the car
from here,
and then we can take the taxi
to the port.
It'll be about ten minutes.
I, in the meantime,
am gonna have
a quick look around.
- I'll come with you.
- Good.
- Hey, mate, it's just really
great to see you, honestly.
- Yeah.
- How are you?
I'm good, yeah.
- How's Mamie?
- Oh, she's good, yeah.
Enjoying it
a lot more than I was.
Yeah.
Why are we here?
Ingrid Bergman.
Which one is she?
She's not here.
But she was in Journey to Italy.
- Well, how do you feel
about your exams?
- Oh, you know,
I hope they went fine.
I'm just trying
not to worry about them.
Just gonna relax.
- I'm sure they're fine.
I'm sure they're fine.
You worked a damn sight harder
than I ever did.
- First her husband goes off
to Capri
to try and have an affair,
and her friend brings her here.
Her friends come here
to try and pray for a baby.
Ugh.
Let's get out of here.
it's, uh-it's a bit
of a downer, to be honest.
I'm not quite sure why, but...
- Antonella?
Si.
- How are you?
- Thank you.
- Hello, hello.
Thank you.
- Joe, do you want to go
and put your bag
in the back of that taxi?
Sure, yeah.
- All right, love.
Thank you.
That's a nice hat.
- Borsalino.
Al Capone used to wear these.
Thanks very much.
You all right, Joe?
Yeah, pretty good.
See that double bass case?
- Yeah.
- Carbon fiber.
it's the strongest man-made
material in the world.
- Could stop a bullet, that.
- It does.
They use it
in bulletproof vests.
I still get like a-
sort of a frisson of excitement
crossing water.
Vedi a Nepali a muon'.
What does that mean?
"See Naples and die,"
in Italian.
Ciao.
Right, look, look, look.
The birds are following us.
Look. Look. Look.
Look at that one there!
Look! He's following us!
- Quite scary.
- Like The Birds.
- It is.
- You could be 1'ippi Hedren.
" Aah!"
I'll be, uh, Alfred Hitchcock
just telling you what to do.
He really let her get pecked.
- He let the birds
peck 1'ippi Hedren?
Yeah, I think so.
- He also named
all the individual birds.
Yeah, well-
- And when-they'd be having
a go at 1'ippi Hedren,
and he would instruct them.
So he'd go up to one.
He'd say, "Gregory, peck. "
- Come on.
Let's go and wander.
. OKQY-
Yeah, no, what happened
was that all the ash
buried everyone.
Is it still active?
Um, I like to think so.
You got sun, sea, sangria,
and, uh, La Dolce Vita
over there.
Maybe wander round this way?
- Watch out.
Wait. Wait. Wait.
Watch out.
Don't die.
- Look, it's the house
from Le Mepris!
What's that?
- Oh, with Brigitte Bardot.
It's incredible.
They're making a film, and she's
married to the scriptwriter.
It all starts to go wrong,
and there's that incredible
piece of music.
They keep playing it
all the way through.
it's really romantic,
but it kind of gets annoying,
sort of
again and again and again.
- Is that the one
where she's naked on the bed?
Yes, that's the one.
What happens at the end?
- She gets together
with the producer
and then dies in a car crash.
I like the sound of that.
Really sexy
with no happy ending,
like the opposite of a massage,
you know.
- You have the...
- Local?
- The local wine.
- Si.
- That's a del Furore.
- Furore?
- Yeah.
It's from our region.
Buono.
Furore.
Ah!
- Here you have
the scalloped fish.
- Ooh, lovely.
- And the seafood salad.
The bonito fish, raw.
- Raw, okay.
- It's not for you.
Not for me.
- Octopus to the grill.
- Grazia.
- There's another octopus
to the grill.
Grazia.
Bonito fish.
Grazia mills.
Oh, grazie mills.
Do you want some of this?
- Oh, yeah, sure.
- 'Cause you'll like this.
- The calamari
is absolutely gorgeous.
Try it.
Perfect.
- Mmm.
- Think I'll have some of this.
Lovely Furore.
- "Furore" -that's a-
- Furore.
- That's an angry
Italian sports car.
I might have a glass of Furore
or perhaps a carafe
of kerfuffle.
- Well, I like to
think of myself as a fine wine
maturing with each passing year.
- Sitting in the dark,
getting fusty.
If he sits there too long,
a little heavy.
- He does get a little heavy.
- A little heavy.
- Well, it's a very,
very fine wine.
Can get bitter.
A little bit bitter,
a bit vinegary, a bit cynical.
- He's not as cynical
as he makes out, you know.
Remember we were watching
Mamma Mia!
And you know,
you're watching it with Mamie,
and then at the end,
when Meryl Streep
gets together
with Pierce Brosnan,
you started crying.
- Yeah, yeah.
- What?
- Cried at Mamma Mia!
- Yeah.
- You cried at that bit
with Meryl Streep?
- I mean, I loved Mamma Mia!,
but I didn't cry.
I love old Pierce Bro-
I can't do Pierce Brosnan.
I'll be very honest with you,
Joe.
I can't do him.
I can't do him very well.
When I do him, I sound like
a very effeminate Bono, so I do.
Top 0' the mornin' to ya.
The name's Bond.
Top 0' the mornin' to ya,
Blofeld.
I'm o'oo1.
I'm James Bond, 0'007.
What he's meaning to say is,
"The name's Bond, James Bond,
007, license to kill. "
You need a slight huskiness,
and it's slightly mid-Atlantic,
but it's very
sort of subtle like that.
Am I getting it now?
That's Northern Ireland.
Rob, no!
Well, he's a secret agent.
He's got to be able
to go other places
and lay low, hasn't he, now?
- Interestingly,
up until Daniel Craig,
there was only one
English James Bond.
- Sean Connery-
- Yeah.
- Connery.
- Scottish.
A milkman by trade
and a part-time actor,
he took the role
and made it his own.
He went for the audition-
I don't know if you know this-
and "Cubby" Broccoli
and Saltzman auditioned him.
They thought he was good.
He left the room.
As he walked away in the street,
they said he walked
like a panther.
Now, in reality,
that would be impractical.
He'd be on all fours.
He'd be soiling the furniture.
- George Lazenby.
- Australian.
Australian.
- Come on.
I know where this is going.
- Roger Moore,
of course, English.
And, um...
- Dalton.
- Where was he from?
Welsh!
- No.
- Oh, yes.
- Now Rob's gonna go-go on.
Do your Timothy Dalton.
- I'm not gonna do
what you think I'm going to do.
I thought you were gonna go...
"My name's Bond, James Bond. "
- No, I'm not gonna do that.
- License to kill.
- No, he's got a northern-y-
you do him well.
He's got a northern sound.
- Things could have turned out
very nasty.
- That's almost
a very butch Alan Bennett.
Things could have turned out
very nasty.
Who's your best Bond?
Daniel Craig.
- Ah!
- Definitely.
- Our generation.
- Exactly.
- You and me.
- Yeah.
- Go on, let's hear
that Roger Moore again.
- What was that?
- The Roger Moore again.
- Oh, you would like
to hear it again?
- Yeah.
- Course you would.
It must be nice
for you to hear-
- He's so well brought up,
isn't he?
- It must be lovely for you,
Joe,
to hear an impression
properly done, yeah?
And when I say "properly done,"
I mean done properly.
Right. Ready?
Here he goes.
Uh, my name is Roger Moore.
Now, I'm a lot older
than I used to be,
so there's a degree-
I'm still doing it, Steve.
Please don't interrupt
in front of your son.
Do him when he shouts.
Do him shouting.
We are in a nice place.
You there, come back.
No.
Move!
It squeaks slightly.
Move!
- Move!
- Move!
- Move!
Move!
- They sound like a cow
when they're doing that.
- The name's Bond.
- Move!
Move!
- Hold on.
I want both of you,
one eyebrow-one eyebrow up.
Oh, good, good.
- Of course.
That's entry level.
Ah, very good.
- I can do that eyebrow,
or I can do that eyebrow.
Oh, that is really impressive.
I can do them
with very little effort
at exactly the right time.
- it's a linguine
with shrimps and zucchini.
Great cooking, huh?
- Great.
- Look at that.
- And here you have
the paccheri with anchovies.
- Oh, that's lovely, that.
- Yeah.
For you, that's the linguine,
same with the shrimps
and the raw egg cooking.
For you...
- Yes?
That's the best plate.
- Best one?
Wow!
Look at that!
- Mmm.
- Ooh.
How is it?
- Fantastic. Beautiful.
Oh, yeah.
- I have an announcement
to make.
- Oh?
- Really?
- You're pregnant.
- No.
I got a part in a film.
- Well done.
That's great news.
American film.
- Great, wow.
Good for you.
The Michael Mann one?
Yeah.
A Michael Mann film?
Yeah.
- Rob, that is amazing.
Wow!
Want to do another one?
Oh. Thanks.
Gosh, that's incredible.
- I know,
and it's one of the leads.
- It's not the lead.
- It's one of the leads.
it's a supporting-
I play a mafia accountant.
I can really see it.
That's amazing.
I can see it.
- Gangster accountant?
- Tough guy with a pen.
- I can't make
these numbers add up.
I just can't do it.
- You didn't do that, did you,
in the-
Wasn't far off.
That's not what you had to do
for your-
- No.
- That's not what he did-
- I kissed a waitress
in the audition.
Remember that?
- Did you?
- Yes, I do.
It was a peck.
- His eyes.
He wasn't happy.
- So how long
you gonna be away for'?
Eight weeks.
- Eight weeks?
Gosh.
That's tough.
- That's a long time to be away,
though, isn't it?
What am I gonna do otherwise?
I'd just do more panel shows.
- Joe's, uh,
just finished his GCSEs,
doing his A-levels now.
A-levels, gosh.
What A-levels you gonna do?
- Oh,
I'm going a bit science-y-
maths, further maths,
physics, chemistry,
and electronics.
- Seriously?
- Yeah.
Bloody hell.
- Well, you see,
it runs in the family.
My dad's an engineer, scientist.
- Yeah.
Granddad.
- What about
skipping a generation?
Car swerved out of its lane,
almost went into a field,
and then came back in the road.
- Listen,
I know a damn sight more
about engineering than you do.
Yeah, but I know nothing.
- I think I'm gonna go
for a walk.
- Yeah?
- Is that okay?
Yeah, of course.
Say hello to those girls
over there.
- No, no, no, no.
- They've been looking over.
Definitely not.
Leave him alone!
Plenty of time for all that.
Oh.
- He's so grown up, isn't he?
- What a nice boy.
Yes, nothing like me.
Credit to you, so he is.
Well, he's taller than me.
Of course, you've both got that
to look forward to.
- Oh, yeah.
- Won't be long for me.
Chloe's nearly four.
I'm gonna have a look for Joe.
- Yeah.
- Rescue.
Get my priorities right.
Exactly.
See you in a bit.
I'm gonna have to have
a chocolate boob, I think.
Nothing wrong with chocolate
and chocolate sauce.
- All right.
Let's go sit in the shade.
Yeah, definitely.
.Joe!
Hey!
Do you want to go for a swim?
Yeah, okay!
- Oh, grazie.
- You're welcome.
- Grazia.
- Grazia mills.
- Oh!
- Thank you.
You like cappuccino?
Yes, grazie.
- Not for me.
- Okay.
And look, I've got the view.
it's absolutely beautiful.
Well, thank you very much.
- This shirt
is rather flattering,
and I suppose this light
casts me
in a rather heroic frame.
- It does.
It's very flattering to you.
- Oh.
I need this.
Yeah.
- Kids diving off there
before today.
Yeah?
- Great news about your film
as well.
Thank you very much.
Amazing.
I have another announcement,
uh, to make, actually.
- Really?
- Yes.
I've had a little adventure.
Right-.
- You know the boat
that we went on?
Yeah.
- I had an...
altercation with a-
a deckhand.
You had a fight?
No, no, quite the opposite.
A-a lady, uh, deckhand,
who-who-
who shivered my timber.
She-she circumnavigated
my globe.
She-she scraped the barnacles
from my bottom.
- And she hoisted,
uh, my mainsail.
- I get the picture.
- Yes, yes.
- And, of course, the-
the thing is...
I'm thinking about
hopping aboard again
before we return home.
- Really?
- Yes. Yes.
Slight fly in the ointment,
of course-
wife, small child back at home.
Yeah.
- I'm-certainly don't want you
to sit in judgment.
Oh, Rob, I wasn't.
Or to profess an opinion.
. OKQY-
But what do you think?
Oh, God.
Do you know what?
Hormonal pregnant women
probably aren't the best to ask.
I don't know, really.
Ah.
" Rob!"
Rob, are you gonna come in?
No, thank you!
Go out for a swim?
No, thanks!
You're missing out!
I know!
- Ah!
- Oh, sit down there.
Oh, this is relaxing.
- Remember
the end of Roman Holiday,
when Gregory Peck
and Audrey Hepburn
have that amazing day together,
and then she goes back
to being a princess?
And she gets told about
her duties as a princess.
And she says,
"if I wasn't aware
of the importance
"of my duties to my family
and to my country,
I wouldn't have ever come back. "
Joe.
' "Mm?
I'm gonna sell the flat.
- Really?
- Yeah.
I'm gonna-
I've been thinking about it.
I'm gonna get a house
near you guys.
Oh, okay.
- Walking distance.
- Yeah.
So you can come over.
You maybe could come
and live with me if you wanted.
Mamie wants to live with Mum.
Yeah.
- And I don't want
to not be with her.
- Yeah, I know.
I know.
I mean, no, that's right.
That's right.
I mean...
But I'm around the corner
anyway, so you can...
Have your own key.
- That scene
at the press conference.
YEP-
- Gregory Peck signals
he's not gonna run the story.
The photographer
hands back the photos.
That would never happen now.
- You know they copied that
in Netting Hill?
You know the scene
in the press conference...
Oh, yeah!
- With Hugh Grant
and Julia Roberts,
where he says-
he says, "Oh, gosh",
"crikey, crikey, gosh.
"I was just wondering, uh,
"if a person realized, uh,
that that person
had been a daft prick... "
- 'Whether that person might,
you know,
"sort of get down
on bended knees
"and plead with you
to reconsider,
whether you might,
in fact, reconsider. "
- Well, everyone's a daft prick
sometimes.
That's my point, yes.
Yes, that's my point.
- You could come over
with your mum,
if you want,
for supper one night.
I'll cook for you.
Try out my mushroom risotto.
Sounds good.
it's a work in progress
at the moment,
but... I'm getting there.
Should we go for a swim?
Yeah, okay.
Of course, in Netting Hill,
they run off together.
None of this
sacrificing love for duty.
No.
I prefer
the Roman Holiday ending.
Unrequited love.
Don't really do that anymore.
No.