Hectic life of a celebrity interviewer

It’s been a hectic week, but it’s worth it to speak to Kate Winslet, Hugh Jackman and Daniel Radcliffe.

I was in so many different time zones this last week I’m sure I passed myself at the airport yesterday.

It’s been a busy old week for me criss-crossing North America between Los Angeles, Toronto, New York and back again.

Between constantly having to change my watch and not getting any sleep, sometimes I think I need a degree in advanced mathematics to work out what hour it is where I am and what time it is back home.

I wouldn’t change it though I’ve got one of the best jobs in the world. Besides, how can I complain when I’m interviewing Kate Winslet? She works so hard she’d make legendary grafter James Brown look lazy.

The Titanic star was in Toronto to promote her new drama Labor Day, and was lovely to all the press. She walked the red carpet tirelessly despite being eight months pregnant. I’m sure she could have pulled a sickie if she’d wanted to, so how great is that?

She looked more beautiful than ever she was absolutely glowing. Kate got married to her third husband last year a man with the unlikely name of Ned Rocknroll. I can’t think why she kept her own surname!

Kate’s so down to earth and friendly with everyone. I just love speaking to her and she doesn’t mind talking about her baby bump at all.

“I feel really well I’m the same as any other pregnant woman, really,” she beamed. “You pull it together when you have to, then you can go home to have a lie down and put your feet up afterwards. I’m absolutely fine.

“It’s quite nice to have all the cameras focusing on the bump and not my face!”

Kate genuinely seemed in a great mood. This is her third child, but she wasn’t doing publicity during her previous pregnancies, so I wondered how she was handling it.

“I don’t think I’ve ever done the red carpet when I’ve been pregnant before,” she added. “This is a new thing. Wearing heels is a bit of a nightmare for me normally because I have huge feet, but wearing them with huge feet AND a huge belly . . . well.”

Trust me Kate, you’re doing fine.

Wolverine star Hugh Jackman was also in great form as he promoted his drama movie, Prisoners.

He plays a hard-bitten, alcoholic survivalist who’s looking for his missing daughter. The red carpet was a scrum when Hugh appeared there were 68 news crews there to see him that’s how much of a big name he is these days.

I was getting jostled so much while talking to Hugh I thought for a minute the press pack was trying to make him feel at home by staging an impromptu game of Aussie-rules football. I told him that I was struggling to keep my footing but the bold Hugh said he’d look after me. Since no one messes with Wolverine, we managed to find a moment to speak about the movie.

“This is one of those films that are a rarity,” he explained. “It is tense, but it also has a lot of drama to it. As an actor, with this cast and that director, it’s more than I could ask for.”

Unfortunately Hugh struggled with my accent I asked him about the town we were in and he thought I said “tone”.

We got there eventually, but not before he attempted a version of my Scottish accent. I’m not saying it was bad, Hugh, but I think Robert Duvall’s accent in A Shot At Glory was more believable!

It was a star-studded few days in Toronto and I also bumped into Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe.

Like me and Kate Winslet, Dan’s a busy boy at the minute he had three films out at the Toronto International Film Festival. They’re called The F Word, Horns and Kill All Your Darlings.

I told him we might have to change the name if it to the Daniel International Film Festival.

“Yes, it’s going to be called DIFF from now on,” he laughed. “You obviously don’t plan to have three films at a festival, because it won’t work out that way. It’s very convenient for me of course!

“They’re three very different films and I’m excited that people will get to see me in three different types of roles.”

None of the films Daniel was there to promote are exactly family-friendly adventures it seems the boy wizard really has grown up!