Interview: May 8

The iconic Cher chats with Andrew Denton on this week’s Interview.

This is another location interview recorded in a hotel suite during her visit to the Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras.

Also featuring in studio is comedian Ross Noble.

Cher
At 71 years-old, Cher’s icon status is undeniable.

Tomorrow night, Andrew sits down with the Academy Award, Grammy and Golden Globe winner for her only Australian TV interview. Their career-spanning conversation covers Cher’s extraordinary wardrobe choices, the critical and commercial film successes of her 1980s movies, famous partners including Sonny Bono and Gene Simmons, the challenges of ageing and her life as both a mother and daughter. Cher candidly discusses the #MeToo movement and her first-hand experiences. “You do the crime, you gotta do the time. No matter who you are.”

She also recounts how she and Meryl Streep once saved a young woman in Texas from being mugged and explains why she signed on to the upcoming Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again movie (she plays’ Meryl’s mother, even though the two are only three years apart in age) without even seeing a script.

Ross Noble
Not many guests would be happy to make their entrance on a motorbike. But not many guests are Ross Noble.

One of the world’s funniest men speaks with Andrew about his need to ride something noisy in order to get some quiet and why a rhinoceros makes a perfect anniversary gift. The comedian also talks about his love of horror movies, how you prepare to play a killer clown, and why he’s the only person legendary funny man Mel Brooks has ever told to “tone it down”.

In a jaw-dropping moment that Ross didn’t see coming and yet couldn’t seem to talk himself out of, he also shares an intimate yet comedic memory of a bedroom escapade.

9pm Tuesday on Seven.