Benicio Del Toro Headlines Star-Studded Graham Norton Lineup as Foo Fighters Play and Gordon Ramsay Reveals Massive 22 Bishopsgate Project
Benicio Del Toro is among the high-profile guests on this week’s episode of the show on 20th February, a broadcast that doubles as the last genuinely new edition of the current series and carries significance for several upcoming film and TV releases. The episode pairs Del Toro with Jennifer Garner, Gordon Ramsay, Charli XCX and a live studio appearance from the Foo Fighters, making it a packed hour of conversation, performance and promotion.
Benicio Del Toro on One Battle After Another
Oscar-winner Benicio Del Toro discusses Paul Thomas Anderson's critically acclaimed film One Battle After Another, describing the picture’s themes as “surprisingly timely. ” He explains the film was made two years ago and that events involving migrants in the States have since intensified, while noting the movie addresses much of that subject matter. Del Toro also recounts working with Leonardo DiCaprio on a driving stunt: he was driving at only 35 or 40 miles per hour, but when DiCaprio was hanging out of the car he felt responsible for protecting what he called the diamond and stayed intensely focused. On the film’s awards haul — 14 Bafta and 13 Oscar nominations — he calls it “a lot, ” adding with a touch of levity that Supporting Actor is up early so he can get away.
Gordon Ramsay and the 22 Bishopsgate project
Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay uses his slot to promote his new restaurant documentary series, Being Gordon Ramsay, a six-part show that dropped on the streaming service this week. The series follows him as he launches what is described as his biggest venture yet: 22 Bishopsgate, a London complex that sits 60 floors up and features five culinary businesses. Ramsay calls the restaurant project so massive that he doubts he could have undertaken it 10 or 15 years ago, and he says it has real wow factor. He and his wife Tana allowed cameras into their family life for the series, though daughter Megan and son Jack did not take part. Ramsay frames that access as an important, 360-degree insight into pressure and family time and says he wanted that honesty to come through.
Jennifer Garner's return and stunt revelations
Hollywood star Jennifer Garner appears to talk about her returning TV mystery thriller The Last Thing He Told Me, with the second series having just dropped on the subscription platform today. Garner discusses reuniting with her 13 Going on 30 co-star Judy Greer — identified in the context as Tam-Tam Lucy Wyman — and says people react strongly when they see the pair together, calling the reunion almost sensational. She reflects on her Alias years and the heavy stunt workload — each episode demanded something new, she says, and the production was stunt heavy at a time when few people registered how large those stunts were. Garner also states that CIA recruitment rose after Alias, a phenomenon she describes as the ‘Sydney effect. ’ One further note: she confirms she did her own stunts on Alias.
Charli XCX, The Moment and artistic reinvention
Award-winning singer-songwriter Charli XCX discusses starring in the pop mockumentary The Moment, an idea rooted in her own experience after making the album Brat. She says the album opened her to a much larger audience, an experience she found heavy, confusing and vulnerable, and that she responded by making art. When asked to make a real documentary-style concert film she aimed to poke fun at herself and the music industry, which she views as ripe for satire. Charli says she has always taken inspiration from film, realised she wasn’t always listening to music when making it, and therefore felt free to work across creative worlds. On her Wuthering Heights album, she describes feeling lucky and happy at its success.
Foo Fighters live and show schedule
American rock band Foo Fighters perform Your Favorite Toy live in the studio, after which frontman Dave Grohl joins the host for a chat. The episode airs on the broadcaster’s channel and its on-demand player on Friday 20th February at 10. 40pm. The edition is billed as the last new show of the series; the final two episodes will be highlights shows. Next week, on 27th February, the host introduces the first of two compilation shows featuring highlights of the recent unclear in the provided context.
This week’s mix of high-profile film promotion, a major restaurant documentary and a live rock performance underlines why the episode matters: it collects several cultural moments and promotional pushes into one broadcast while marking the lead-in to a concluding highlights run for the series.
