(with help from onlyforthepressed, celebreceipts, sophiekingawesome, australian-diasporaĀ , theoriginalitgirl, and whatfandomisitanyway)
His ENTIRE performance in Ali G Indahouse was super racist and classist. Here are a few clips to give you a taste, the entire movie is on Netflix instant.
āWhen I moved up here this woman I know said, āOoh! There are a lot of whiteys up thereā, and I said, 'I love white people; Iāve no problem with them at all. The idea was that I was going to complain because there werenāt enough blues dances out here; not enough ragga around. But Iām not bothered by it.ā
āMulticulturalism hasnāt and doesnāt help, because rightly or wrongly it polarises people so much. Racism is one thing and I donāt agree with that in any form but noticing that there are differences is normal and fine and to be encouraged.ā
āWeāve reached a state now where itās, 'You shouldnāt notice. Why are you noticing heās got a bomb and has a beard and is Muslim and wants to kill your family?ā
āThere is no country in the world like this. If all of a sudden all the traffic wardens in Ghana were Welsh, theyād really notice and might not love it. Ā We give ourselves a hard time in this country in a sort of mea culpa way. But if we were that racist, people wouldnāt come. Very simple.ā
āI really liked hip-hop until the gangsta rap took over. I come from a time when not every rap record was ā[n-word]ā this and ā[n-worda]ā that; an earlier socially and morally conscious hip-hop sensibility, when it was, 'Donāt call people [n-word]ā. But now it'sĀ [n-word],Ā [n-word],Ā [n-word]Ā and itās not funny or interesting politically, artistically or socially. I really donāt like it.āĀ (Note that he didnāt say ān-wordā, he said the actual word itself).
āThe funny thing about the acting business is that there are more p**fs in it than you can have hot dinners thrown at you. But no one is out. Itās not so bad here, but in Hollywood? Jesus Christ. Why donāt they just admit it? No one cares if theyāre gay or not. I certainly donāt.ā
āI metĀ Lucy LiuĀ at the Emmyās who was charming, but very ugly. Ā Sheās a dog, come on, sheās a very unattractive woman.ā
āStanding outside a location trailer is Martin Freeman. He is notably not wearing the safety helmets that are mandatory for everyone else on set, and is in the middle of explaining to one of the Sherlock runners ā who is wearing her safety helmet ā just why this is.
āIām a big fish, you see, love,ā he says, sipping at his tea. āIām⦠Johnny Big Bollocks. And youāre⦠youāre⦠whatās that stuff whales eat? Krill. Youāre krill. Location krill. Krill wears a helmet.āĀ ā
āHe makes a comment about Una Stubbs that it would be inappropriate to repeat in The Times. (āIāve been flirting with Una,ā he concludes, after the bad story. āWell, itās actually sexual aggression, but I often find the line between the two quite blurry.āā
How his partner Amanda Abbington describes their first meeting: āMartin walked in and I just had a thunderbolt. ItĀ dawned on me: "Oh, God itās him!ā We flirted with each other all day and when I went home he texted me, saying āYou left and I wasnāt done flirting with you. Thatās a bit rudeā, which I thought was really smooth.ā
āIāve got drugs. I can just make them [mimes falling over]. Slip them something in their goblet. Some will get offended by that now, because theyāll call it rape or whatever. But, you know, for me itās a helping hand.ā