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Transcript by Lori

                  Regis: Alright, he spent days researching the man I listen to every morning    
before our show, you know I have these Martin records playing. Here's Jeremy
Northam.
(Jeremy comes out smiling and waving to audience)

                   Regis: How are you doing? (Shakes hands with JN)

                   Kelly: How are you doing? (JN kisses Kelly on the cheek)
                   JN: Very Good.
Kelly: You smell very good.
                  JN: Well thank you very much

Kelly: What is it that you're wearing? (someone in audience hoots)
JN: Ah, it's some kind of aftershave stuff.
Kelly: It's great...wow!
Regis: She's pregnant. (Audience laughs--Jeremy smiles)
JN: As long as she doesn't start eating my suit, it's alright.
Regis: Well Jeremy, let's talk about this. I think it would be very
daunting to play someone like Dean.

JN: Yeah it is, it was daunting. But I suppose at the same time that crust
of the mill for, to most actors, I think, you need a bit of challenge. I
mean it's daunting because, I think, uh, of course the public knows him in
their own way.
Regis: Sure
JN: And uh, you have to get to know him as someone that could exist in your
own imagination in reality.
Regis: So how did you research this role?
JN: Well, we didn't have much time. I started with the songs, actually.
Because I wasn't that familiar with Dean. I mean I grew up in England, I
still live there. Although Dean is known, he's not known as he is in this
country. I didn't grow up on Saturday nights watching him on variety shows.
So, uh, started with the songs, really to work out how he made the sound that
he did. And there's a number of good books, particularly the Nick Tasha...
Regis: You know, Jeremy used to sing in college?
Kelly: Right... (JN laughs)
Regis: Sort of as a singing waiter
JN: No, not as a singing waiter, I used to sing in restaurants.
Regis: In restaurants?
JN: (Jokingly) We used to clear restaurants. (audience laughs)
If they wanted to close up then they used to put us on for the second set and
people would stampede to the door.
Regis: (talking to audience--then to JN) And you probably saw him in Gosford
Park and I thought you were terrific.
JN: Thank you (looks down, shy like)
Regis: So they picked the right man.
JN: Well, you know, John Gray who wrote and directed this, was, you know, a
huge help and helped, you know, put ones mind at rest, and uh, really offered
a lot of encouragement.
Kelly: They really made you look like him as well. I mean, looking at you
here, you look nothing like him.
JN: There's a bit of face pulling going on as well. We didn't have enough
time for, you know, or money for prosthetics. There's things one could of
done. Built up the brow, done something else with the nose. I got obsessed
with the hands.
Regis: Yeah, he used them a lot.
JN: He had huge boxers' hands, which he mashed up as a young man. So all
his knuckles were broken, and I don't have hands like that so we made the
cuffs a little bit tighter on the shirts, the jackets a little bit shorter.

[Regis talks a little about Martin and Lewis' relationship...and then
introduces a clip, which is then shown--Scene is when Martin and Lewis are
just starting to make it big and Martin shows Lewis around his new apartment]

(commercial break)

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