Paddington – Hag & Con talk to the Brown family!!!

Paddington – Hag & Con talk to the Brown family!!!

Afternoon Tea with the Brown Family – Julie Walters, Samuel Joslin, Madeleine Harris, Sally Hawkins and Hugh Bonneville!!!

When you worked with Paddington was he a chatter box and what did he talk about? Con age 7

Sally Hawkins – We couldn’t shut him up

Julie Walters – What did he talk about – do you remember?

Samuel Joslin – Just marmalade

Julie Walters – Marmalade mainly. Mainly wanting to eat Marmalade sandwiches.

Samuel Joslin – There was a lot of Marmalade on set. He just bathed in it really.

Madeleine Harris – Every room stank of the stuff. Oranges everywhere.

Julie Walters – Mrs Bird was just constantly making it.

Sally Hawkins – He was quite professional though.

Hugh Bonneville – He was very professional – except….Michael Bond, who knows Paddington quite well. His wife very kindly gave us all a jar of her own marmalade. Foolishly I put it down by my chair on set one day and I came back and it had gone. Paddington came waddling over licking his lips.

He liked to talk about the weather quite a lot. There’s 42 different ways to says it’s raining.

Samuel Joslin – And he said 30 of them.

Hugh Bonneville – Yeah.

And so he arrived very well versed about Cats and Dogs

Samuel Joslin – Stair-rods

Hugh Bonneville – Sheeting it down. He loved talking about the weather because apparently that’s what English people do a lot.

How often do you go to Paddington Station in a year? Hag age 10

Julie Walters – No…never. I’ve not been there in years. I do do trains on occasions – just not Paddington.

Hugh Bonneville – I probably go about 4 times and when we were filming there Sally and I went and said hello to Paddington’s statue. His statue is there.

Sally Hawkins – I go quite a bit. (As an average?) about 6.4 times.

Samuel Joslin – Well I once went when I had a school trip to York and on the way back I arrived at Paddington. So only the once really.

Madeleine Harris – I go quite a few times because I don’t live in London. So when I come up for auditions, if we don’t drive up – we catch the train and we always come to Paddington. So about the same.

Sally Hawkins – Can you put a number on it?

Madeleine Harris – You know possibly the same – maybe going 7.

What’s your favourite Kidz show ever? Con age 7

Sally Hawkins – Good question. That is a hard one though.

Hugh Bonneville – Sam?

Samuel Joslin – Well I don’t really watch TV you see so….

Madeleine Harris – Do you know I can’t really think of a children’s show that generally I would always watch. But I enjoy cartoons. That’s one really childish aspect of me is I love cartoons. Probably Spongebob to be honest. It’s probably my favourite of those.

Samuel Joslin – Simpsons is quite good.

Hugh Bonneville – I’ll take your Spongebob and raise it to Wacky Races. Any advances on Wacky Races?

Sally Hawkins – Penelope Pitstop.

Julie Walters – Magic Roundabout

Sally Hawkins – Why Don’t you was a good one. And Box of Delights.

Julie Walters – Rag Tag and Bobtail

Dad with Madeleine Harris (Judy Brown) & Samuel Joslin (Jonathan Brown)

Gifts for the Kidz!!!

Paddington on DVD, Blu-Ray and Digital Download 23/3/15!!!