Ambika Mod causes everyone to lose it! | The Graham Norton Show – BBC

Whenever I tell this story, I say that I was in bed and my eyes popped open, but I sleep with my eyes open, so they just sort of widened slightly. Sorry. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Stop the bus. Woah, why have we done the rest of the show

And not started with this bit? I sleep with my eyes open. – Really? Yeah. Not like, not like Gandalf. Not like. ‘Cause Gandalf sleeps with his eyes open. Do you know that? Of course he does! Of course he does! Leave him alone! He’s 85. Is he doing it at this moment?

But. Yeah. – No, no. We need to know more about this! I don’t know what else there is to say. I sleep with my eyes open! Not, not like, mostly, it’s not fully. It’s usually just like, Oh so it’s nothing weird then! Have you always slept with your eyes open?

Yeah. Yeah, since I was a baby. – Because as a kid… I mean, I’ve got 2 small kids. If I went in the room and they were just sleeping like that looking at me… – Yeah – I’d be doing an exorcism. – My mum says I used to do it as a baby,

And she was a bit freaked out by it, but she just sort of, you know, she was like… It’s probably fine. – So is it easier? Do we have to try and shut our eyes? Yeah. I actually find it really hard to close my eyes fully.

I feel like my eyelids aren’t big enough for my eyeballs, so, like, if I do that, I’m like really actively thinking about it. Like, if I’m just relaxed, I’m sort of like, I have really dry eyes. What are we doing here? We should be making a Channel 5 documentary. Yeah.

The woman who doesn’t blink! Sorry. Do you have very lively dreams? Uhm, I don’t remember my dreams Ian, actually. – Too busy looking at a bedroom ceiling! – Yeah. “That needs painting!” Uhm, if someone did that… If you say, fell asleep on a train. Would you like?

I wouldn’t, no, I wouldn’t see anything. Like, my vision is… my vision is still impaired when I’m sleeping, but I… I actually have very little information for you about this condition. – It’s quite a… it’s quite a short documentary. – Yeah. If you have been affected by any of the issues raised here

Tonight, please call Graham Norton. That is fascinating though… – Yeah, yeah.

Graham Norton and his guests want to know more when actor Ambika Mod reveals that she finds it hard to close her eyes fully, and sleeps with them open.

Among the guests on Graham’s sofa is knight of the stage and screen Ian McKellen, taking the role of Falstaff in Player Kings, a new version of Shakespeare’s Henry IV plays.

Also, award-winning actor Michael Sheen, talking about his new Welsh BBC drama series The Way, which he also directed, Ambika Mod, starring in the Netflix version of David Nicholls’ romantic bestseller One Day, and top comic Josh Widdicombe.

With music from chart-topper Gabrielle, who performs her single ‘A Place in Your Heart’.

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46 comments

  11. I do the same thing, when I was 3 my great aunt took me to the zoo I fell asleep in the car she thought something bad was happening cause my eyes were open rolled back in my head.

  18. its actually true for me and my daughter. im asian and we both have big eyes. i sleep while my eyelids are half shut. but its more of open than shut.people told me this since i was in high school during sleepovers now my daughter is sleeping like that as well.

  19. As an eye doctor, I know it sounds fascinating, but she must suffer from dry eyes like she mentioned briefly in this video 1:23. It will only get worse as she ages and it usually bothers people. The fact that she never fully blinks is also very concerning 😬

  26. I’d want to be famous just so I can be a guest on his show. I’d want to be MEGA famous and successful just so that he can let me crash the show without anything to promote, just hang out 😂 it’s the best talk show by MILES. Or kilometers I should say 😂

  32. I mean, Ian acutally had a scene in Lord of the Rings – The Return of the King that shows Gandalf sleeping with his eyes open. Pippin sees it when he snatches the Palantir and is a bit startled until he realises that Gandals the White is actually sleeping with his eyes open. So, I'm sure Ian know from that scene… oh, and all the character prep he did beforehand, I gues?!?!?!?

  42. 2 of my 4 children sleep with their eyes open….scared the life outta me once when i thought my daughter was adleep, went in to kiss her goodnight before i went to bed….and she said "night mumma" ….nade me jump 😂

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