Alex Zane and his celeb best mate, Hugh Jackman
Movie aficionado and presenter Alex Zane is back with a new series of his unmissable film-themed chat show whch see's celebs from across the entertainment spectrum choose films which have special significance for them in a compelling half- hour interview.
We thought it was about time we turned the tables on the hot little interview kitten, to find out what is sitting pretty in his DVD rack, and why Kiefer Sutherland should probably never meet Femalefirst...
Hey Alex, how are you?
Hey! I’m alright thanks! How are you on this summers day?
I’m super good thanks! Tell us about you new show Alex Zane Guest List.
You know Guest List isn’t actually part of my name? It’s the show that’s called Alex Zane Guest List! Maybe I should change my name to Alex Zane - Guest List… that would be a really good promotional tool, I thin Sky would love it.
They would! Do it!
It’s an opportunity for me to sit down! I sit down with someone like Hugh Jackman (who is on this week’s show) or Charlize Theron and just sort of ask “What are your favourite movies” as well as talking about their own career.
So like, in Charlize Theron’s case she was like; “I love Blade Runner, I think it’s amazing” and I get to go, “Wow, Charlize Theron, you like Blade Runner, and you’re super hot, do you like maybe wanna hang out or something?”
No, I would never do that, I’m a professional, I’ve never asked any of my interviewees to go on a date with me apart from Hugh Jackman because he’s super buff!
Yeah, defo. If I was a movie’s writer, I’d be all over him!
Yep, what movie would you cast him in?
Hum, well, I like action and war movies…
Let me stop you right there, Hugh Jackman in Wolverine there’s a sequence of a montage of him going through time in different roles - all of them in war! You see him jumping out of a boat with a cigar in World War II; I mean, how hot is that for you?
Can you not hook me up with Jack Bauer? I’m more into him…
Yeah, I mean, could do, but he’s really small in real life KieferSutherland.
That’s okay
He’s like a borrower, he can sit in your shirt pocket.
That’s all the better for kidnapping him when I meet him…
I don’t know what you’d do with him though, he really is tiny you know.
I’d just sit him on my desk and look at him. I love him.
Do you not think he’d be really intense though Ruth do you not think he’d be really intense and you’d wake up and it would go beep beep, beep beep and then he’d say *Alex puts on a bad American accent* “It’s eight o’ clock, this is going to be the longest day of your life.” and you’ll be like “Kiefer, chill out, let’s have some breakfast, let’s have some toast, we’ll relax and maybe watch some of This Morning.”
I’d constantly have to check his inbox to make sure he wasn’t misbehaving…
But he’s a good, you want him to be doing nice things… you’d be like; “Kiefer, who’s this, who’s Ach-med?!”
Exactly, I’m not up for that. So, you get to meet lots of actors and actresses, who’s been your favourite?
Favourite of this show, I’d probably have to go for Charlize Theron; she does a great impression of a mermaid. I’m really into marine life and the ocean, probably because I’m a Pisces - that’s what the Purple Ronnie book of horoscopes told me…
Oh, Purple Ronnie, that’s a reliable source, almost as good as Wikipeida! So what are your top five films?
Well, what films to do you like?
I can tell you my top five, Behind Enemy Lines, Leon, The pianist, Little Miss Sunshine and Monsters Inc!
Wow, that’s great, you’d be great on this show, the fact that you know your favourite films! I am so bored of asking someone what their favourite films are! I’ll be talking to my girlfriend and I’ll be like; “What’s your favourite films?” and she’ll say, “well I don’t really know, I live lots of films, I don’t really have a favourite” and I’ll be like; “Rubbish! You HAVE to have one favourite” and she accused me of having movie fascism.
But Ruth, come on, Owen Wilson in an action movie… what? I thought you’d pick something like Marley and Me, aww, isn’t the dog cute, it dies at the end by the way. I think there are loads of great Owen Wilson movies but he’s just not a great action star… did you see Behind Enemy Lines two?
Well, no, well sort of, I turned it off when that man got his hand nailed to the table… I couldn’t handle it.
You not into that? [FF: No, I’m not into that!] You didn’t watch the directors cut of The Pianist where he nails his hands to the keys? [FF: No….] oh, and the directors cut of Monsters Inc where Mike Wazowski kicks the shit out of… [FF: You’re Lying!] there’s a crucifix scene in Monsters Inc!
But your also a well known face on the music scene, which would you choose between music and films if you could only have one in your life?
Movies! Because movies have music in them… but if you’re listening to a song, I guess you could create mages in your head, and then if I had projectors for eyes I could project them onto a screen and make a bit of money!
That’s a great idea, I’ll take that out of the interview, copyright it and go on Dragon’s Den!
Well that would actually be a breach of our unwritten interview trust!
Okay, well finally, we ask everyone we interview to come up with a question for the next person we interview, and Liz McLarnon want’s to know, what was the first thing yo did when I woke up this morning?
I fed my cat a special diet of rice because she’s getting fat and it’s a weight reduction food.
And can you quickly come up with a question for the next person I interview please, it’s Louis Malloy, the tattooist.
Is it acceptable to tattoo an animal? Because the animal can’t say yes or no, but a pig might look good with a heart on it’s rump.
FemaleFirst - Ruth Harrison
The second series of Alex Zane's Guest List presented by Alex Zane on Sky Movies Premiere/HD is currently airing on Thursday nights at 7.30pm.
Movie aficionado and presenter Alex Zane is back with a new series of his unmissable film-themed chat show whch see's celebs from across the entertainment spectrum choose films which have special significance for them in a compelling half- hour interview.
We thought it was about time we turned the tables on the hot little interview kitten, to find out what is sitting pretty in his DVD rack, and why Kiefer Sutherland should probably never meet Femalefirst...
Hey Alex, how are you?
Hey! I’m alright thanks! How are you on this summers day?
I’m super good thanks! Tell us about you new show Alex Zane Guest List.
You know Guest List isn’t actually part of my name? It’s the show that’s called Alex Zane Guest List! Maybe I should change my name to Alex Zane - Guest List… that would be a really good promotional tool, I thin Sky would love it.
They would! Do it!
It’s an opportunity for me to sit down! I sit down with someone like Hugh Jackman (who is on this week’s show) or Charlize Theron and just sort of ask “What are your favourite movies” as well as talking about their own career.
So like, in Charlize Theron’s case she was like; “I love Blade Runner, I think it’s amazing” and I get to go, “Wow, Charlize Theron, you like Blade Runner, and you’re super hot, do you like maybe wanna hang out or something?”
No, I would never do that, I’m a professional, I’ve never asked any of my interviewees to go on a date with me apart from Hugh Jackman because he’s super buff!
Yeah, defo. If I was a movie’s writer, I’d be all over him!
Yep, what movie would you cast him in?
Hum, well, I like action and war movies…
Let me stop you right there, Hugh Jackman in Wolverine there’s a sequence of a montage of him going through time in different roles - all of them in war! You see him jumping out of a boat with a cigar in World War II; I mean, how hot is that for you?
Can you not hook me up with Jack Bauer? I’m more into him…
Yeah, I mean, could do, but he’s really small in real life KieferSutherland.
That’s okay
He’s like a borrower, he can sit in your shirt pocket.
That’s all the better for kidnapping him when I meet him…
I don’t know what you’d do with him though, he really is tiny you know.
I’d just sit him on my desk and look at him. I love him.
Do you not think he’d be really intense though Ruth do you not think he’d be really intense and you’d wake up and it would go beep beep, beep beep and then he’d say *Alex puts on a bad American accent* “It’s eight o’ clock, this is going to be the longest day of your life.” and you’ll be like “Kiefer, chill out, let’s have some breakfast, let’s have some toast, we’ll relax and maybe watch some of This Morning.”
I’d constantly have to check his inbox to make sure he wasn’t misbehaving…
But he’s a good, you want him to be doing nice things… you’d be like; “Kiefer, who’s this, who’s Ach-med?!”
Exactly, I’m not up for that. So, you get to meet lots of actors and actresses, who’s been your favourite?
Favourite of this show, I’d probably have to go for Charlize Theron; she does a great impression of a mermaid. I’m really into marine life and the ocean, probably because I’m a Pisces - that’s what the Purple Ronnie book of horoscopes told me…
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