Alan Cumming’s Awkward Italian Encounter | The Graham Norton Show – BBC
I’ve met myself in Spain Wow. and Iceland, I think, and in Italy and so I was making a film in Italy a long, long time ago. And I went to this dinner, and at the dinner was the person who dubs me in Italian. And I said gosh, how exciting,
This is so nice to meet you. And he sort of, and he got a kind of, you know, he sort of talks like this. And like, you know, so there’s a breathy kind of voice, and I thought, I get it. And anyway, so, very nice, la la la at this dinner.
And then he said, Alan, I will, I will walk you to a cab. I was like, okay. And so, we’re walking to the cab, And out of nowhere, he went, Alan, I cannot make love to you this evening. I was like, what? I was like hey, nobody asked you to.
And I said, okay. That’s what I told you this morning when I saw you. Sorry. I was like, what are you talking about, Mr Italian me? and then he said, I cannot make love to you this evening because I have to get up very early in the morning.
And I was like, okay. A, nobody asked you, and B, I think I’m worth having a late night for. His loss. Yeah, I thought so. It was just so weird like, the Italian me wanted to… didn’t want to make love to me, actually. But uh. Yeah, he was contemplating it.
That’s kind of the end of that story, yeah. And he didn’t want to have sex with me. But he was lovely about it. He was very nice, he let me down gently, even though I didn’t want to, it was just the weirdest thing.
Alan Cumming has met himself in Spain, Iceland and Italy, but it was his Italian counterpart that liked him the most 😅
Together on Graham’s sofa tonight: US comedy great Kevin Hart, talking about new heist movie Lift; Killing Eve and Broadway actress Jodie Comer, who appears in survival drama The End We Start From; Modern Family’s Sofia Vergara, playing a businesswoman turned drug boss in Netflix series Griselda; and Scottish-American star Alan Cumming, touring his new cabaret show Alan Cumming Is Not Acting His Age.
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Alan what??
Why the hell is he in shorts? It's freezing out there
He speaks like a baby when he says the L sound " Long long by time ago" I can't listen to him. 😠
😂 love him
Must be struggling for guests
Sad story: Alan is probably talking about Danilo de Girolamo, who was a very good voice actor, but unfortunately he died 12 years ago of a heart attack at 56 years old. He was a much-loved voice actor, because he was the voice of many characters loved by kids like me who grew up in the '00s. In Italian he dubbed Giancarlo Esposito in Breakind Bad, Remus Lupin in Harry Potter saga, Wallace in wallace & Gromit and Bear Bear in the big blue house.
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The head of the WHO, Tedros Adhanom, said at the recent COP28 conference that the world should shift to a plant-based diet in order to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions.
“Our food systems are harming the health of our people and planet,” he said. “Food systems contribute to over 30 percent of greenhouse gas emissions and account for almost one-third of the global burden of disease.”
He estimates that eight million lives could be saved each year with this one change. Although shifting away from red meat has been recommended for many years for health reasons, his motivation here appears to be purely environmental, with a context note on a video of him declaring the war on meat noting that climate change “refers to long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns, mainly caused by human activities.”
He went on to say “I’m therefore very pleased that over 130 have signed the COP28 UAE Declaration on climate and health.” This includes the United States, who, under the Biden administration, signed this declaration.
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The WHO’s war on meat is part of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) COP28 “roadmap” for reducing the rise in global temperatures by 1.5 degrees Celsius, in keeping with the Paris climate agreement.
Although the FAO claims the meat industry is harming the planet with its nitrogen and methane emissions, the jury is still out on this question, and researchers have found that methane actually traps heat in the atmosphere and forms cooling clouds that offset surface warming, meaning that livestock farming could actually be cooling the planet.
Ahead of the conference, Bloomberg News reported: “Nations that over-consume meat will be advised to limit their intake while developing countries — where under-consumption of meat adds to a prevalent nutrition challenge — will need to improve their livestock farming.”