I LIKE YOUR FILM DO ELEPHANTS PRAY. WAS IT THE SCRIPT THAT ATTRACTED YOU, OR THE CHANCE TO WORK WITH DIRECTOR PAUL HILLS AGAIN? It was both really. I met Paul (Hills) in '94 when I did my first film with him, Boston Kickout, which I did with John...
DOES IT FEEL LIKE IT'S ALMOST 50 YEARS SINCE YOU FIRST PLAYED UHURA? It feels like 100 years.and also like yesterday! It really does because there were so many wonderful things about it. It was a very new venture for me.
HOW DID YOU LAND THE ROLE IN HALO 4: FORWARD UNTO DAWN? I was in Los Angeles at the time, and they were very secretive about the material. They gave out a treatment with a series audition scene; whenever someone's being secretive about material, it...
ARE YOU LOOKING FORWARD TO THE TOUR? Yes, absolutely. I really enjoy touring over here, and I guess we get to go maybe once or twice every album, but we may end up beating our record - this is already our second trip.
WRECK IT-RALPH IS RELEASED ON DVD AND BLU-RAY ON JUNE 3, TELL US HOW YOU RECORDED THE VOICE OF SERGEANT CALHOUN. We basically did them in isolation. I know that Sarah (Silverman) and John Reilly had a couple of sessions together, and I worked with...
TELL US ABOUT MORGAN. Morgan's the daughter of Conrad Ecklie (Marc Vann), the chief of police. He had an estranged relationship with his daughter, so she's this angry but very driven tomboyish, shoot-from-the-hip girl who plays by her own rules.
WITH FINDING NEMO RELEASED ON BLU-RAY AND 3D BLU-RAY ON MAY 27, WHAT ARE YOUR MEMORIES OF RECORDING NEMO'S DIALOGUE? It was a really neat experience to be a part of. I did a lot of the recording at Pixar Animation Studios in San Francisco, and it's...
THE WRIGHT STUFF HAS BEEN ON AIR SINCE 2000, DO YOU EVER WORRY ABOUT RUNNING OUT OF SUBJECTS TO DISCUSS? Of course not - we're a news-based show and we've never run out of news, have we? If good issues are ever in short supply, then I just ask...
WHAT'S THE BEST THING ABOUT WORKING ON THE LYING GAME? There's lots of great things about the show, like the cast and the showrunner. The producers involved are very hands on and approachable, and it shoots in Austin which is a great city.
WIZARDS OF WAVERLY PLACE WAS YOUR FIRST MAJOR BREAK IN THE STATES. HOW OLD WERE YOU WHEN YOU DID THAT? I was 17 when I started, and now I'm just about to turn 21. HOW WAS IT GETTING BACK TOGETHER FOR THE NEW TV MOVIE, THE WIZARDS RETURN: ALEX VS ALEX?
WILL THE CONCERTS BE LIVE PERFORMANCES OF THE BRITISH ELECTRIC FOUNDATION ALBUM, MUSIC OF QUALITY AND DISTINCTION VOLUME 3? Largely, yes, but we're going to get the guest artists to perform the track they've done on the new album, plus one other...
ARE YOU THRILLED ABOUT BEING BACK FOR THE NEW SERIES OF FOUR ROOMS? Yes I am, of course. It's really nice to be back. I initially said I wouldn't do any more episodes because the first series I did was really scary, but you end up forgetting how...
HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE MOTOR MORPHERS? Basically, two teams are challenged to complete an interesting exercise where they've got to morph an automobile intended for one purpose into a machine that's going to do something completely different.
TOM CRUISE MAY BE PHYSICALLY DIFFERENT TO JACK REACHER, BUT DO YOU THINK HE CAPTURED THE SPIRIT OF YOUR CHARACTER FOR THE MOVIE? Yes, totally. Clearly we gave up an exact physical representation; what we got in exchange was 100% of the attitude and...
TELL US ABOUT THE MAKE IT WITH MINCE CHALLENGE. The parameters of the competition haven't changed over eight years. It's open to entrants between the ages of 11 and 16, they've got to create a recipe using beef or lamb mince within the hour, with a...
HOW DOES IT FEEL TO BE BACK? It feels so good. I feel 19 again, when we were starting out. I remember when we first started back in 2001, doing interviews and photo shoots and going to parties and it's great to be a part of it again, 10 years on.
TELLS US WHAT GANGS OF BRITAIN IS ALL ABOUT. It's about the history of gangs. If you imagine Who Do You Think You Are? but for gangs, that's it. In each episode, Gary and I split up, and Gary looks at the historical gangs of one city, and I look at...
HOW DID YOU FEEL ABOUT PRESENTING A SHOW BY YOURSELF? It's probably the best thing I've ever done, with the exception of Bremner, Bird And Fortune which I found personally fulfilling. This is my first job presenting and being myself on telly.
WHAT IS DEFIANCE ABOUT? Defiance is a science-fiction show set 35 years in the future. At this point, humans are living side by side with seven alien races. But this is after a big war which has pretty much devastated Earth, changing it so that it...
THE PHOTOS OF YOU TAKEN BY RANKIN FOR THE APPLETISER CAMPAIGN ARE REALLY STUNNING. Oh, thank you! It was really exciting. I've always admired him as a photographer and always hoped to work with him. So getting involved on this has been great, it's...