James on the Saturday Show Transcript
Today's Show was hosted by Matt Allwright (MA) and Amanda Lamb (AL) standing in for Gaby Roslin.
Show a clip of Suspects:
JM: One replica gun, the other one's been cleared by the DPS.
Damien Molony: Listen, I know this is a great idea but do you think they'll buy it?
JM: I think they'll buy it as long as you sell it. You've got to make sure that Stan doesn't spend any more time than he has to looking at that gun and then I suggest it finds its way to the bottom of the river.
DM: No problem.
JM: Good.
DM: Thank you for this. I know the kind of position that it puts you in and I appreciate it.
JM: Yeah, it does.
MA: That was a clip from the new series of Suspects starring actor James Murray. We'll be hearing from him very shortly.
AL: He looks quite scary over there, doesn't he? He's got that intense stare.
MA: Let's get him to interrogate us. Let's do that. That would be quite good.
AL: I'd crack.
Bit later...
AL: Now, popular police drama Suspects is back on our screens next week starring new boy James Murray as DCI Daniel Drummond...that's a great name for a DCI
MA: Drinks coffee like a policeman. He's got a technique.
AL: It is gripping from the start as the team comes to terms with the loss of one of their own.
Clip of Suspects:
JM: Now, you all know who I am, DCI Drummond from upstairs. This here is Alesha Brooks (Lenora Crichlow), she is an excellent detective sergeant, she's from Child Protection, before that she was with Professional Standards with myself. [Mod note DPS - Professional Standards - is the UK version of internal affairs, investigating the police and deaths in custody, complaints about police officers etc] Now she's been working with the key witness today, Daisy, Martha's daughter, what do you have for us?
LC: Well she's obviously in shock but she's holding up okay. But actually I wasn't the last person to speak to her, I think Jack relayed the information about Adrian, so I don't know how you thought she was getting on.
DM: She's better than I've ever seen her before. Yeah, she's fantastic. (Sarcasm)
JM: Okay, thanks Jack, so we have two murders on our hands. We have Adrian Bellamy who is, or who was a primary school teacher, no previous, no known enemies and of course his wife a police officer, Martha Bellamy. So yes this is personal, we can't let emotions get in the way.
End of clip.
AL: You've always got to let emotions get in the way.
JM: Emotions tend to override everything don't they?
AL: I mean, you've just joined the cast. And literally you hit the ground running.
JM: Yes.
AL: Tell me about your character because he looks a bit scary.
JM: DCI Drummond. He's come from upstairs, he's a detective inspector. He is given the case of Martha Bellamy's murder.
AL: That's Fay Ripley's character.
JM: Fay Ripley's character who we find in the first scene she's been brutally murdered so they ask me to take over the investigation and take over her team. And as you know it's all improvised.
AL: This is what I what to talk to you about.
JM: It was scary.
MA: So how does that work then? Because obviously you've got to follow a plot, you can't just make up "and the gun is here in the drawer".
JM: No
MA: The main points are laid out...
JM: No, that wouldn't fly (laughter). No. I think that would probably be cut out in the edit. You get given a breakdown of each episode and that's all you get given, you don't get the overriding story line of the 6 episodes and...
AL: Like literally bullet points?
JM: Bullet points literally, like scene by scene and you'e got to get point 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 for example.
AL: And is this something you've ever done before?
JM: No, not professionally, no. I mean it was part of acting training.
MA: We're doing it right now.
JM: You're doing it beautifully.
MA: Amanda was saying that's got to be really difficult, but how difficult can it be. ...We're going to do it right now. James.
JM: Yes.
MA: Amanda, either Amanda or I have committed a terrible crime and you have to interrogate us.
AM: (To Matt) Well, that's shirt's pretty bad. (Mod note: It is).
JM: Do you want me to...Great. (To AL) You're going to sell him down the swannee aren't you?
MA: Which one did it?
JM: Murder? Or anything?
MA: No anything...He's gone already. (James puts on his serious detective face)
JM: Where were you last Saturday morning, 10 o'clock?
MA: I was here, obviously.
JM: Do you have any proof?
MA: Proof, yeah, the whole thing was captured on film. Where were you? (To AL)
JM: I'm sorry I'm talking to you, not her. So you were here at 10 o'clock, so can anyone here in this room verify that?
MA: Everybody in this room can verify that.
JM: Okay, we'll do that one at a time. (To AL) And you madam...
AL: Yes, it was me, I did it.
JM: You can go, you're nicked.
AL: I think it must be, that I find incredible. I want to talk about you're doing a new supernatural, is it called Him?
JM: It's called Him, yeah.
AL: I love a supernatural.
JM: It's a three part drama for ITV and its about a 17 year old dysfunctional boy who is my son and he is telekinetic.
AL: That's moving things with your mind isn't it?
JM: Yes, he can move things with his mind.
AL: I'd love to do that.
JM: And he's very, disturbed is the wrong word, he's sort of conflicted...
AL: Well you would be if you could move things without touching them
JM: Yeah, you would be wouldn't you?
MA: As his father do you know this or is it all under wraps?
JM: No, nobody knows this apart from the audience and him. So it's quite a hard sell, it's very good, very social realism piece in as much as it's very stark, it's very real, apart from the fact that he can move things with his mind.
MA: Which is the thing about superheroes is that they're apart from society, so represent a lot of people out there who might be watching thinking actually I'm different, it gives them that sort of power
JM: Exactly, it's for the minority, it's for the underdog that thinks that they're different and conflicted and inflicted and it gives them a sense of empowerment absolutely.
MA: James it's lovely to have you here. And Suspects is on...
JM: Channel 5 on Wednesday at 10 o'clock. Straight after Celebrity Big Brother [Mod note: I lol'd at James' unimpressed face about that]
James is now part of the cooking segment of the show. They're learning how to make sweet potato and spinach curry.
AL: We all love a good curry. [Mod note: I'm just going to transcribe James for this section and paraphrase everyone else]
James is cutting up a sweet potato as AL talks about how hard curry is. Chef says it's easy to do. Compliment James on his chopping.
AL asks who cooks, James or Sarah?
JM: Me. Well yes, I do most of the cooking I think it's fair to say I enjoy it.
AL: Are you good at it?
JM: No. But I'm getting better. And I'm going to read his (chef's) book.
AL: Blahs about her cooking style versus her husbands.
AL talks about burning garlic. James agrees it can smell throughout the next day.
Impressed with James' chopping of the sweet potato.
JM: Do you have to put coriander in it?
AL: Do you not like it?
JM: No it's the devil's herb. [Told there's even more to come at the end] Really? I'm not even touching it.
AL: Do you hate it?
JM: To me it tastes like someones just poured perfume all over it.
AL: Stephen Fry hates it.
JM: And Oscar Wilde apparently.
AL: All the clever ones!
JM: All the clever ones *g*
Some blah about cooking.
AL tries to put coriander near James. Chef offers not to put coriander in it but James says not to do that just for him.
JM: It smells good.
And that is it.
Show a clip of Suspects:
JM: One replica gun, the other one's been cleared by the DPS.
Damien Molony: Listen, I know this is a great idea but do you think they'll buy it?
JM: I think they'll buy it as long as you sell it. You've got to make sure that Stan doesn't spend any more time than he has to looking at that gun and then I suggest it finds its way to the bottom of the river.
DM: No problem.
JM: Good.
DM: Thank you for this. I know the kind of position that it puts you in and I appreciate it.
JM: Yeah, it does.
MA: That was a clip from the new series of Suspects starring actor James Murray. We'll be hearing from him very shortly.
AL: He looks quite scary over there, doesn't he? He's got that intense stare.
MA: Let's get him to interrogate us. Let's do that. That would be quite good.
AL: I'd crack.
Bit later...
AL: Now, popular police drama Suspects is back on our screens next week starring new boy James Murray as DCI Daniel Drummond...that's a great name for a DCI
MA: Drinks coffee like a policeman. He's got a technique.
AL: It is gripping from the start as the team comes to terms with the loss of one of their own.
Clip of Suspects:
JM: Now, you all know who I am, DCI Drummond from upstairs. This here is Alesha Brooks (Lenora Crichlow), she is an excellent detective sergeant, she's from Child Protection, before that she was with Professional Standards with myself. [Mod note DPS - Professional Standards - is the UK version of internal affairs, investigating the police and deaths in custody, complaints about police officers etc] Now she's been working with the key witness today, Daisy, Martha's daughter, what do you have for us?
LC: Well she's obviously in shock but she's holding up okay. But actually I wasn't the last person to speak to her, I think Jack relayed the information about Adrian, so I don't know how you thought she was getting on.
DM: She's better than I've ever seen her before. Yeah, she's fantastic. (Sarcasm)
JM: Okay, thanks Jack, so we have two murders on our hands. We have Adrian Bellamy who is, or who was a primary school teacher, no previous, no known enemies and of course his wife a police officer, Martha Bellamy. So yes this is personal, we can't let emotions get in the way.
End of clip.
AL: You've always got to let emotions get in the way.
JM: Emotions tend to override everything don't they?
AL: I mean, you've just joined the cast. And literally you hit the ground running.
JM: Yes.
AL: Tell me about your character because he looks a bit scary.
JM: DCI Drummond. He's come from upstairs, he's a detective inspector. He is given the case of Martha Bellamy's murder.
AL: That's Fay Ripley's character.
JM: Fay Ripley's character who we find in the first scene she's been brutally murdered so they ask me to take over the investigation and take over her team. And as you know it's all improvised.
AL: This is what I what to talk to you about.
JM: It was scary.
MA: So how does that work then? Because obviously you've got to follow a plot, you can't just make up "and the gun is here in the drawer".
JM: No
MA: The main points are laid out...
JM: No, that wouldn't fly (laughter). No. I think that would probably be cut out in the edit. You get given a breakdown of each episode and that's all you get given, you don't get the overriding story line of the 6 episodes and...
AL: Like literally bullet points?
JM: Bullet points literally, like scene by scene and you'e got to get point 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 for example.
AL: And is this something you've ever done before?
JM: No, not professionally, no. I mean it was part of acting training.
MA: We're doing it right now.
JM: You're doing it beautifully.
MA: Amanda was saying that's got to be really difficult, but how difficult can it be. ...We're going to do it right now. James.
JM: Yes.
MA: Amanda, either Amanda or I have committed a terrible crime and you have to interrogate us.
AM: (To Matt) Well, that's shirt's pretty bad. (Mod note: It is).
JM: Do you want me to...Great. (To AL) You're going to sell him down the swannee aren't you?
MA: Which one did it?
JM: Murder? Or anything?
MA: No anything...He's gone already. (James puts on his serious detective face)
JM: Where were you last Saturday morning, 10 o'clock?
MA: I was here, obviously.
JM: Do you have any proof?
MA: Proof, yeah, the whole thing was captured on film. Where were you? (To AL)
JM: I'm sorry I'm talking to you, not her. So you were here at 10 o'clock, so can anyone here in this room verify that?
MA: Everybody in this room can verify that.
JM: Okay, we'll do that one at a time. (To AL) And you madam...
AL: Yes, it was me, I did it.
JM: You can go, you're nicked.
AL: I think it must be, that I find incredible. I want to talk about you're doing a new supernatural, is it called Him?
JM: It's called Him, yeah.
AL: I love a supernatural.
JM: It's a three part drama for ITV and its about a 17 year old dysfunctional boy who is my son and he is telekinetic.
AL: That's moving things with your mind isn't it?
JM: Yes, he can move things with his mind.
AL: I'd love to do that.
JM: And he's very, disturbed is the wrong word, he's sort of conflicted...
AL: Well you would be if you could move things without touching them
JM: Yeah, you would be wouldn't you?
MA: As his father do you know this or is it all under wraps?
JM: No, nobody knows this apart from the audience and him. So it's quite a hard sell, it's very good, very social realism piece in as much as it's very stark, it's very real, apart from the fact that he can move things with his mind.
MA: Which is the thing about superheroes is that they're apart from society, so represent a lot of people out there who might be watching thinking actually I'm different, it gives them that sort of power
JM: Exactly, it's for the minority, it's for the underdog that thinks that they're different and conflicted and inflicted and it gives them a sense of empowerment absolutely.
MA: James it's lovely to have you here. And Suspects is on...
JM: Channel 5 on Wednesday at 10 o'clock. Straight after Celebrity Big Brother [Mod note: I lol'd at James' unimpressed face about that]
James is now part of the cooking segment of the show. They're learning how to make sweet potato and spinach curry.
AL: We all love a good curry. [Mod note: I'm just going to transcribe James for this section and paraphrase everyone else]
James is cutting up a sweet potato as AL talks about how hard curry is. Chef says it's easy to do. Compliment James on his chopping.
AL asks who cooks, James or Sarah?
JM: Me. Well yes, I do most of the cooking I think it's fair to say I enjoy it.
AL: Are you good at it?
JM: No. But I'm getting better. And I'm going to read his (chef's) book.
AL: Blahs about her cooking style versus her husbands.
AL talks about burning garlic. James agrees it can smell throughout the next day.
Impressed with James' chopping of the sweet potato.
JM: Do you have to put coriander in it?
AL: Do you not like it?
JM: No it's the devil's herb. [Told there's even more to come at the end] Really? I'm not even touching it.
AL: Do you hate it?
JM: To me it tastes like someones just poured perfume all over it.
AL: Stephen Fry hates it.
JM: And Oscar Wilde apparently.
AL: All the clever ones!
JM: All the clever ones *g*
Some blah about cooking.
AL tries to put coriander near James. Chef offers not to put coriander in it but James says not to do that just for him.
JM: It smells good.
And that is it.