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How might Lemar: The Movie go? It doesn't sound much like Spiceworld...

TOTP: If you were to make a film, what genre of film would you make?
Lemar: It would be an action movie. Yeah.
KA-BLAMMO!

TOTP: Excellent - so if it's an action movie, you have to have a car chase scene. What kind of car will you be using?
Lemar: I'll be using a Bugatti. Yeah, that's one of the fastest cars, so yeah. That one. That'd be cool, yeah.

TOTP: Do you have a preference for what city it would be set in?
Lemar: I dunno. It would take place in...hmm, where was I staying? [Lemar just got back from recording his album in LA - Ed.] I was staying in Santa Monica, so around that area. There we go.
TOTP: Is there good scenery for it there?
Lemar: Yeah, yeah. Along the - what's that road that goes up the - PCH! It goes up the beach. Yeah, there we go.
Santa Monica's PCH highway

TOTP: Would it be a straightforward action flick, or would you have musical numbers?
Lemar: There would be musical numbers, I guess, yeah.
TOTP: An action movie with musical numbers?
Lemar: Yeah, most definitely.

TOTP: Who would you cast as your love interest?
Lemar: As my love interest? I don't know! [Laughs.] Who would I have as my love interest? Nelly Furtado. Just because she's in my head right now. Nelly Furtado, yeah. There we go.
Nelly 'Ha! Ha!' Furtado

TOTP: What would you be doing during the inevitable sports-training montage?
Lemar: I would be learning how to do fencing. You know like in one of the James Bond movies? I'd learn how to do fencing.
TOTP: Perhaps you could get Madonna in for that bit.
Lemar: There we go! Exactly, yeah.

TOTP: What about the obligatory grossout scene, where something really disgusting happens - what would you do for that?
Lemar: [thinking on his feet] We're driving the car - the Bugatti - really fast down the PCH, and then...y'know... Madonna was teaching me how to do the fencing but she's really the bad...woman, and it's the last scene and Nelly Furtado - y'know, obviously there's a bit of romance there because she likes me and I'm this super...great guy. And then there's a helicopter that gets involved somehow and it comes down and Madonna gets ejected out of her car, who's chasing us, and her head hits the blades of the helicopter and then...ouch.
A helicopter. Not pictured: Madonna's decapitated head.

TOTP: Nice. So you've got Madonna as your arch-villain - does she have any accomplices?
Lemar: Accomplices? No. She'll just have a load of blonde females with shades that are just, like, cold and evil.

TOTP: Would you do your own stunts?
Lemar: Yeah. But there is one scene where there's a bungee jump and I didn't do that one. [Grins.] I'm not really a fan of them.
A bungee jump, clearly not performed by Lemar.

TOTP: Assuming you're too busy to record the soundtrack yourself, who do you get to do it?
Lemar: Um...who springs to mind? I don't know! It would be an old, kind of a funky one, so maybe I'd get, like, James Brown and Stevie Wonder and Marvin to all do stuff, and Timbaland would produce their stuff. So it would be like old and new - old, soulful singing with the new, quirky beats.

TOTP: You've already got yourself, Madonna and Nelly Furtado in the cast - any other celebrity cameos you'd like to include?
Lemar: It would be the Who's Who of music, y'know. Christina Milian would make a quick appearance, alongside Beyonce, and then also Sway from the UK would be in there, alongside Dizzee and Kano, and then there'd be me, and maybe - I don't know - Natasha Bedingfield at some stage. And Jamie Foxx would just come out of nowhere. There we go.
The line up for Lemar's movie. Pretty bunch, aren't they? TOTP: Star-studded, then?
Lemar: It would be star-studded. It'll be amazing! You should go and see it.

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Interview by: Steve P
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