Jo Whiley's Shiny Happy Playlist rolled into her Radio 2 Culture Club slot with James King popping up for the regular films chat, and the pair picked straight up from where they'd left off two weeks earlier. Jo asked James how his interview with John Malkovich had gone, prompting him to tease a picture of the actor at a red carpet event alongside Sam Rockwell. "He was charming, as he always is with you," James told her, adding that the full interview footage will air "next time I'm on" in two weeks, along with clips going up on Instagram.
Listen: Bedford's Malkovich headbutt story
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That Malkovich chat sparked a lovely listener moment later in the show, when a texter called Bedford got in touch to say he once literally headbutted Malkovich while on work experience at London's Shaftesbury Theatre in 1992, and that the actor was "warm and easy to talk to" and even gave him career advice.
James ran through his film picks for the week, awarding five sequins each to the stop-motion fantasy Wildwood and to Primetime, in which Robert Pattinson plays disgraced To Catch a Predator host Chris Hanson. Jo played a clip of her own Robert Pattinson interview from the London Film Festival, where he discussed Hanson's strange cult status in America. James also gave four sequins to Ghosts: The Possession of Button House and three to the Sophia Coppola documentary Making Marie Antoinette, before revealing he'd interviewed Julianne Moore, now the bookies' favourite for a Best Actress Oscar.
Jo spent the rest of the night reading out listeners' evening plans, from crocheting a baby giraffe in Italy to a nine-week-old Labrador puppy in Derbyshire, and previewed Fontaine's D.C. joining her in session the following night with a string section.
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