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Speaker 1: to be Buried With. Hello, and welcome to Films to
Speaker 1: be Buried with Welcome back. My name is Brett Goldstein.
Speaker 1: I'm a comedian, an actor, a writer, a director, attractor,
Speaker 1: and I love film. As Paolo Quelo once said, the
Speaker 1: simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only
Speaker 1: the wise can see them. Lock For example, we set
Speaker 1: in a car and it's just a bloke on a
Speaker 1: phone and it's really really good. That's true, it is
Speaker 1: actually yeah. Every week I invite special guests over. I
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Speaker 1: their life through the films that meant the most of them.
Speaker 1: Previous guests include Barry Jenkins, Kevin Smith, Sharon Stone, and
Speaker 1: even Cred Blambles. But this week it is the excellent,
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Speaker 1: a brilliant standout who recently tore up the Edinburgh Festival.
Speaker 1: She'll be bringing her debut our absolutely no worries if
Speaker 1: not to Leicester Square on Friday the eleventh of November,
Speaker 1: as well as Sulford, Bristol, Brighton and Cambridge in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty three. Tickets and more info are available on her
Speaker 1: social media at Anna Magliano. She's brilliant. We recorded this
Speaker 1: on zoom. She's so funny. I really loved this one
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Speaker 1: episode two hundred and twenty one of Films to be
Speaker 1: Buried With. Hello, and welcome to Films to be Buried With.
Speaker 1: It is me Brett Goldstein, and I am joined today
Speaker 1: by an actor, a writer, a TikToker, a stand up
Speaker 1: sketch show, a year, a chicken shop data, a twitterer,
Speaker 1: a legend a writer on many things that you like
Speaker 1: but didn't realize she wrote them, and a legendary stand
Speaker 1: up who has just absolutely kicked the dick out of
Speaker 1: the editor festival with incredible reviews across the board. Please
Speaker 1: wemet to the show. It's the brilliant, it's the one
Speaker 1: and only its years, It's and ye Magliano. Hello God.
Speaker 1: I've just clapped myself, but kind of hard not to.
Speaker 1: When you give me an intro that bolder should do,
Speaker 1: you absolutely should, And I was I don't even remember
Speaker 1: doing half of these things. You've done a lot of
Speaker 1: things that you've forgotten and we wiped your brain after
Speaker 1: you did them. But you've written on a lot of
Speaker 1: big shows that no one knows you did. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: under the radar, always on a Google doc typing away.
Speaker 1: That's where you'll find me. Tell me, And yeah, we
Speaker 1: did a gig. You were very funny and very good.
Speaker 1: But you were also about to go to Edinburgh, which
Speaker 1: I know back from I had a little Google. I
Speaker 1: don't know if you look at these things, not that
Speaker 1: they're important, but you did very well critically, you did
Speaker 1: very well. How was it? Yeah? I think it's easier
Speaker 1: to like retrospectively now be like, oh, I am happy
Speaker 1: with that result in the sense that like, do you
Speaker 1: know what, Like I obviously did care about reviews and stuff,
Speaker 1: but the main thing that I've realized after Edinburgh's that
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, I think I do stand by that show.
Speaker 1: Oh great's huge. Yeah, I think at the end of
Speaker 1: the month you kind of lose faith in everything you've
Speaker 1: ever said, done, or will do, or have ever thought.
Speaker 1: And I was like, I've lost my sense of self.
Speaker 1: Like four days after the Fringe, I was like, I'm
Speaker 1: applying to be a teaching assistant. Never done any training,
Speaker 1: but that's like the headspace I was in. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: hate children. I don't know what was going on, but
Speaker 1: now I did it. I did it again at Soho
Speaker 1: Theater and having a bit of space, I was like,
Speaker 1: oh I do like this show. I did have a
Speaker 1: nice time in Edinburgh. I just got a bit sad
Speaker 1: at the end because I was tired. Yeah. I mean
Speaker 1: I've talked about this a lot in the podcast. Every
Speaker 1: time I've done Edinburgh, I completely mad, doesn't matter how
Speaker 1: but it gets a bit later the more I've done it.
Speaker 1: But how late were you into it before you last
Speaker 1: your marbles last week? I got to the last week.
Speaker 1: It's impressive. Yeah, I was. I was being like super like.
Speaker 1: It was like the most regimented I'd ever been in
Speaker 1: my life, like I wasn't drinking. I wasn't drinking for
Speaker 1: most of the month, and then I had like half
Speaker 1: a beer halfway through and had to instantly have a
Speaker 1: nap because it knocked me out. My show was at
Speaker 1: four thirty thirty five. Yeah, kind of ideal actually because
Speaker 1: it didn't mess with my eating schedule, Like I was like,
Speaker 1: have lunch, I can still have dinner, and then I
Speaker 1: guess the show is secondary to that. Yeah, you've got
Speaker 1: to have priorities of the how many shows did you
Speaker 1: do twenty six? I did? However many is like every day,
Speaker 1: because well I did. I had a day off, but
Speaker 1: I did an extra show on one day, so it
Speaker 1: was a lot of shows. But that whole month, I
Speaker 1: think I did like thirty one because I was doing
Speaker 1: spots and stuff, which is so I shouldn't speak for
Speaker 1: that long, Like no one needs to hear me that
Speaker 1: much of the thirty one performances you did, how many
Speaker 1: of them would you go that was a fucking smash?
Speaker 1: Yet how many of them would you go that was fine,
Speaker 1: that was good? And how many of you go that
Speaker 1: was horrendous? I should leave. I think I would definitely
Speaker 1: like have an instinct of thinking it's good, but then
Speaker 1: as soon as I get out of the room, I'm like,
Speaker 1: I start to second guess it, and I'm like, I
Speaker 1: do this thing, which I think is quite It's like
Speaker 1: a protective instinct that I have, which if I know
Speaker 1: someone in the room and it wasn't like, in my
Speaker 1: opinion perfect, I'm like, oh god, that was that? Wasn't
Speaker 1: that good? Actually, So that they're not like, oh you
Speaker 1: think that was good and I think that was bad,
Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, that was rubbish. Well it's actually if
Speaker 1: they then don't go, no, it was perfect, then I
Speaker 1: start to spiral. Listen, you shouldn't ever have people you
Speaker 1: know in the audience, right, that's a pretty good rule
Speaker 1: for stand up. Yeah, I guess you can't really turn
Speaker 1: them away though I try. I mean I've made it
Speaker 1: pretty hard. And first rule with people I know, Yeah,
Speaker 1: but sometimes they sneak in and you think, you know,
Speaker 1: I've telled this. Who knows if I've told this. My mum,
Speaker 1: who I said, has never had to see my stand
Speaker 1: up once trying to sneak in wearing a wig, and
Speaker 1: I know her, I know what she you know, I
Speaker 1: know her face quite well. Yeah, down the steps and
Speaker 1: it's not like I'm playing the O two. It's a
Speaker 1: fucking gig. And she walked down the stairs and saw me.
Speaker 1: We locked eyes and she immediately went up and turned
Speaker 1: back up the steps. And I called her and said,
Speaker 1: did you just try and sneak in in a wig?
Speaker 1: I know your faith? Yeah? Did so she's never seen you,
Speaker 1: never seen me, unless she's got a better wig than
Speaker 1: I haven't. Yeah, she's got she's full prosthetic. She's in everything.
Speaker 1: She's got a wig that like covers like a big fringe.
Speaker 1: Even that I think I'd be like guys and it
Speaker 1: is in something's going on. Yeah, it's just too much.
Speaker 1: I think like I had parents come to They came
Speaker 1: to both of both sets, because my parents are divorced,
Speaker 1: both sets of like my dad and my mom my set.
Speaker 1: Dad came to this year's Edinburgh and it was I
Speaker 1: thought it would be really okay because I don't know.
Speaker 1: In my head, I was just like, that's not nerd wracking.
Speaker 1: But then in the actual show, I was just so
Speaker 1: like one half of my brain was always thinking, oh God,
Speaker 1: my dad's having to hear me talk about this thing,
Speaker 1: this thing, this thing, and it just actually was. I
Speaker 1: was like, why have I done this to myself? This
Speaker 1: was a situation that I chose, and all your stuff
Speaker 1: is very honest and some stuff yeah, and about them
Speaker 1: and about that yeah, I mean could you do that
Speaker 1: stuff looking in there? I did kind of prepare them before.
Speaker 1: I was like, just so you know. But also I
Speaker 1: think the fact that it is honest kind of worked
Speaker 1: in my favor because I was like, it's all true,
Speaker 1: so you shouldn't get annoyed about it, because it's just
Speaker 1: me telling facts, screaming at them from this dayee me
Speaker 1: sue me for libel. It's all true. Christ, Christ, well
Speaker 1: well done. Did you go out every night and get
Speaker 1: absolutely messed up? No? No, no, I was being so sensible.
Speaker 1: I think I found it like quite anxiety in juson
Speaker 1: being like, there are people who've paid money to see
Speaker 1: me do a show every day, so I was like,
Speaker 1: I need to make sure I'm doing the best show
Speaker 1: I can every day because people have paid so much
Speaker 1: money to be up here. Because it's so expensive and
Speaker 1: I paid so much money. I was like, no pint
Speaker 1: is worth the ridiculous amount of money I've spent on
Speaker 1: being in this city for a month. So I was like,
Speaker 1: I was like an athlete, you know. I was. I
Speaker 1: was playing football, like I was going to the gym,
Speaker 1: I was doing comedy. I was I was like a monk.
Speaker 1: That's not what monks do, but I felt like a monk.
Speaker 1: Yea sucker. What who are you living with? I was
Speaker 1: living with a few other comics who we were in
Speaker 1: this like unique block, and it was like all con
Speaker 1: flats of comedians in this uni block, which was obviously
Speaker 1: hell because you're like, I just want to walk to
Speaker 1: and from my show and like have a little cry
Speaker 1: if I need to without having to be like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: how's your run gooing? Like wiping the twos from my eyes. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And the beds were awful and the showers were like
Speaker 1: all overflowing. Well, damn, congratulations, thank you. We do it
Speaker 1: again next year. Yeah, despite everything I just said, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'll be back. I won't remember. I'll be like I'll
Speaker 1: be like a goldfish back in there, being like, why
Speaker 1: is this so bad again? And you're speaking of horrid
Speaker 1: I've forgotten to tell you something. Oh boy, you well,
Speaker 1: I should have told you this up front. I see,
Speaker 1: despite all the you've died, you're dead, really, Yeah, really God. Actually,
Speaker 1: that's classic me. That's classic me. That's textbook. And yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm honestly not even surprised. I'm not surprised I've done it.
Speaker 1: How did you die? Classic? Do you know that is
Speaker 1: the most mean thing that anyone ever said to me? Dead?
Speaker 1: She's dead? Yeah? What else is new? How did I die?
Speaker 1: Do you know what I think happened? There was like
Speaker 1: a huge fight outside my house, I really like sort
Speaker 1: of brutal fist fight which I was involved in, and
Speaker 1: I wasn't. I wasn't the cause of it. I just
Speaker 1: went in to save like a young woman, right who
Speaker 1: was being attacked by a strangers, say due by a stranger,
Speaker 1: by a boyfriend or no, just by friend, just a friend.
Speaker 1: They were fighting, and I went in and I saved
Speaker 1: the day. I split up the fight then went young
Speaker 1: women fighting scrapping around. Do you know why they were faith?
Speaker 1: Did you ever hear the beginning of it? They're friends? Yeah,
Speaker 1: they were fighting to do it was something to do
Speaker 1: with um. I don't actually know if I knew where
Speaker 1: they were fighting. It was just like a classic It
Speaker 1: was a classic girly scrap. Yeah, really brutal, as you said, Yeah,
Speaker 1: like a classic girly brutal. Classic girly brutal scrap are
Speaker 1: the four words that I've ended up saying. Yeah, classic
Speaker 1: girly brutal scrap. One of them has been absolutely pameled
Speaker 1: by the other. You come outside, Hey, hey, hey, calm down.
Speaker 1: I'm saying calm down, but I have to throw a
Speaker 1: few punches just to set and I don't favor why
Speaker 1: both of both of them. Both both of them get it,
Speaker 1: and then you know that actually you're a great teacher.
Speaker 1: This is good. That unites them because they're like, what
Speaker 1: the fuck are you doing? We're friends again, right, Okay,
Speaker 1: so it did sell it in a way. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: then I go home and then I get electrocuted by
Speaker 1: my phone charger. Well a night Yeah, horrible note, classic
Speaker 1: night classic. So you sort of resolved this fight, got
Speaker 1: to hit a few times, came in, touched the phone charger. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this is I think genuinely could be in my future.
Speaker 1: I've got this like sort of janky phone charger that
Speaker 1: like quite often in the morning when I reach over
Speaker 1: to like plug in like whatever charger I need into
Speaker 1: like the extension cable by my bed, I get a
Speaker 1: full electric shock up my arm, and I was like,
Speaker 1: I think this is how I'm going to die. But
Speaker 1: I also think I would have to be doing something
Speaker 1: victorious or like impressive first, and I'd get through that
Speaker 1: and then I'd come home and it would just be
Speaker 1: like every day, like usual, I don't turn the switch
Speaker 1: off of the Maids. I'm like, I'll risk it today,
Speaker 1: I plug it in, I get in a bolt up
Speaker 1: my arm, but one day it will just go to
Speaker 1: the heart. Is this too dark? No, too listen? This
Speaker 1: is less dark than the woman being brig Yeah. We
Speaker 1: I was like, let's pivot away from this because this
Speaker 1: was not This is not what I meant to say.
Speaker 1: Do you worry about death? Yeah? I hate it. I
Speaker 1: hate it so much. Yeah. And I think it comes
Speaker 1: and goes through phases in my life where I suddenly
Speaker 1: get really really scared about it, and like, I don't know.
Speaker 1: It's hard to know what the like right thing to
Speaker 1: do or in my head what the right thing to
Speaker 1: do is, because sometimes I think, with like certain difficult emotions,
Speaker 1: it's like I need to feel this emotion. I need
Speaker 1: to make myself sit in it, like sometimes with anxiety
Speaker 1: or like jealousy or like those sorts of emotions, But
Speaker 1: when it's like death anxiety, I'm like, what's the point
Speaker 1: in feeling this? I just need to do something else,
Speaker 1: Like it's not going to make me live forever? Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: So I do get scared about it. Does that thought
Speaker 1: help you? Going, well, what's the point of this? It
Speaker 1: helps in the sense that I move out of it
Speaker 1: and start worrying about something else. Right. Is the fear
Speaker 1: an empty nothingness or is it I've got so much
Speaker 1: to do? Or is it scared of not being here?
Speaker 1: What was the fear? I think it's kind of like
Speaker 1: the incomprehensibility aspect, just like I have no tools to
Speaker 1: understand this. It's like bigger than what my brain can comprehend,
Speaker 1: and there's not much that fits in that category. But
Speaker 1: I think it's like it's also the fact that like
Speaker 1: at this point in my life, at the point of recording,
Speaker 1: like all the kind of grief I've experienced has been
Speaker 1: like been seen coming. It's nothing has been a real
Speaker 1: surprise or a shock. So like, I think there's also
Speaker 1: an element of like scared of other people's death and
Speaker 1: like surprise death that sort of thing, plus my own,
Speaker 1: like I don't there's no death, my cat's death. Like,
Speaker 1: there's so much death that I'm like, Oh, that's going
Speaker 1: to be a nightmare when that happens. Yeah, when you
Speaker 1: put it like that, Yeah, but that's why I say don't.
Speaker 1: My advice if you're looking, it's don't love, don't, don't
Speaker 1: get close to anyone or anything, okay, avoid to avoid
Speaker 1: that sort of pain. What if I done that? Okay, Well,
Speaker 1: I would say, yeah, keep running into Brule's head first
Speaker 1: and hope that you get taken out before. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the people are things you loved it, Okay, then you
Speaker 1: won't again. You won't have to worry about the pain
Speaker 1: is losing it. Yeah, that sounds like a good plant.
Speaker 1: Do you think there's an afterlife? What do you think happens? Oh?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I think I definitely so. I was
Speaker 1: so scared of death as a child, Like it used
Speaker 1: to stop me sleeping at night. I used to be
Speaker 1: like awake in my bed just like I couldn't see.
Speaker 1: My mom would come in, and my mum's a doctor,
Speaker 1: and she would tell me these stories of like oh
Speaker 1: they've done like studies or like they've had patience where
Speaker 1: they've died for like ten minutes and then they've been
Speaker 1: brought back to life. And these patients have said that
Speaker 1: they felt alive or like they could see the world,
Speaker 1: they were like rising up about them. She used to
Speaker 1: tell me these stories, I think, to calm me down,
Speaker 1: And I think I did find them comforting because I
Speaker 1: was like, well, that's sorted there, Yeah, that's great. It's medicine.
Speaker 1: It's medicine, and she's a doctor, so she wouldn't lie
Speaker 1: to me. And I don't know if I've like consciously
Speaker 1: thought about it that much in like the rest of
Speaker 1: my life since then. That was probably the time where
Speaker 1: I was most like, I need this evidence of an afterlife.
Speaker 1: But I wouldn't describe myself as like religious or or anything,
Speaker 1: but I guess it's one of those things. And I
Speaker 1: know a lot of people have said this sort of answer,
Speaker 1: but like, what what have you got to lose in
Speaker 1: believing in one? But also there's always a part of
Speaker 1: me that's like, but why would I believe in it
Speaker 1: if I don't actually believe it? Well, it's the same
Speaker 1: as like people saying, you know, have a positive attitude,
Speaker 1: and because better to enjoy the bit before the disappointment
Speaker 1: rather than go, this is going to be disappointing, and
Speaker 1: then also be disappointed. I suppose it's like that, so
Speaker 1: he could go, there's there's a little be great, and
Speaker 1: then it will be also. Listen, let me tell you something,
Speaker 1: and it's all right. There is a heaven. Yeah, she
Speaker 1: was right. That's science. That's science, baby, science wins again.
Speaker 1: If a doctor said it, it's true. And also everyone's
Speaker 1: having the same hallucination when they nearly die. Come on,
Speaker 1: these are hard facts. This is science. There is a heaven.
Speaker 1: You're welcome there. Everyone's very excited to see you. A
Speaker 1: lot of fans of your eneby show. By the way,
Speaker 1: tell the people that I'm who who maybe haven't seen
Speaker 1: your show. What it was called. It's one of the
Speaker 1: great title. Oh, thank you. It's called absolutely no war
Speaker 1: as if not. It's such a good title. Tells you
Speaker 1: everything you need to do. Yeah, it really does it
Speaker 1: really really really good tale. Thank you, great title. There
Speaker 1: is a heaven. It's fully of your favorite thing. What's
Speaker 1: your favorite thing? My cat? Okay, there's a lot of
Speaker 1: your cats, claiming to millions and millions of cats. The
Speaker 1: savors are made of cats. You walk on cats. Their
Speaker 1: phone with it by the way, Yeah, all around you
Speaker 1: there's cats suits alive, Yeah, creepy, I like it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and cats serving cats and cat tras. Anyway, the cats
Speaker 1: cats are very excited to see you. They love it.
Speaker 1: They they're excited to see you. They want to talk
Speaker 1: about your life, but through films, and the first thing
Speaker 1: they want to know is what's the first film you
Speaker 1: remember seeing? Oh my god, I've accidentally done like the
Speaker 1: perfect transition. The first film I remember seeing was Cats. No, yeah,
Speaker 1: not the new one film Cats. I had. We had
Speaker 1: a video tape of the musical. Oh like the films,
Speaker 1: the film stage version, yeah, and cats. Cats were my
Speaker 1: favorite animals since I was like whatever one one of
Speaker 1: the earliest ages. They were my favorite animal And we
Speaker 1: had this musical taping of it, and I watched it
Speaker 1: every night before I went to sleep. When I was
Speaker 1: like two to four. I would say I loved it
Speaker 1: so much. I used to draw all the cats. I
Speaker 1: wanted to do ballet classes because the cat in it,
Speaker 1: one of the cats in it, does like a ballet solo,
Speaker 1: and I was like, well, that would be my job.
Speaker 1: Like I was obsessed with it. Have you seen the
Speaker 1: new Cats? Yes? And how do you feel about it,
Speaker 1: knowing you're obsessed with cats, absolutely like horrible, right. Me
Speaker 1: and my mom went to see it because she was like, oh,
Speaker 1: I want to see it because it was such a
Speaker 1: big part of your childhood. And I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: I don't know, Like it doesn't look like it's going
Speaker 1: to be great. There's all this controversy about their buttholes
Speaker 1: that sort of thing. And she was like, no, let's go,
Speaker 1: and we went and we watched it, and I thought
Speaker 1: it was pretty bad, especially as a cat's purist myself. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And then she just came out and she was just
Speaker 1: I loved it. I loved it so much. Great, but
Speaker 1: I think she loved the like nostalgia of it as well,
Speaker 1: Whereas I was just like, they're ruining magical. Mister mustaphilis here, guys.
Speaker 1: This is awful because he has a butthole, because he
Speaker 1: doesn't have a but I wanted more buttholes right any reason.
Speaker 1: It was all about but I was a two year
Speaker 1: old girl lapping up those butt holes. What have you got?
Speaker 1: Brothers and sisters? No love it? Well, I've got step brothers,
Speaker 1: but they're like later, they've come on later on in
Speaker 1: my life. So I grew up, I have the personality
Speaker 1: of like an only child with none of the excuse.
Speaker 1: Now I really like that. That's that's very nice. What
Speaker 1: is the film that made you cry the most? Are
Speaker 1: you a cryer? I am a cryer. I cried like
Speaker 1: twenty minutes before this call because I watched a video
Speaker 1: of a young child getting a dog as a present.
Speaker 1: Animals made me cry. But the film that made me
Speaker 1: cry the most, I think was the Truman Shot. Really yeah,
Speaker 1: I went round to my friend's house, like when it
Speaker 1: was when I was in primary school, like one of
Speaker 1: my best friends. I just went around to her house
Speaker 1: like after school. I showed up like a bit later,
Speaker 1: and they were all her family were watching The Truman Show.
Speaker 1: And so I started a bit later later in maybe
Speaker 1: like half an hour in. And yet it's still like
Speaker 1: emotionally affected me so much. I like found it the
Speaker 1: scene where he's like realizes that it's all fake, Like
Speaker 1: I just was like bawling my eyes out, And it
Speaker 1: was so embarrassing because I was at my friend's house
Speaker 1: and her like hot older brother was there, and I
Speaker 1: was like, there's nothing hotter than like a friend's older brother,
Speaker 1: and there's like nothing worse than crying. So it's like
Speaker 1: the worst combination of events. And I don't know what
Speaker 1: about it made me so sad, but it just like
Speaker 1: unlocked something and I was bawling. That answer has never
Speaker 1: come up in this category before, although it's a very
Speaker 1: good film and everyone loves it. Is it because you
Speaker 1: worried that what you were growing up with wasn't real
Speaker 1: when your mum and dad got divorced? Maybe I think
Speaker 1: it was like a sense I feel what I get
Speaker 1: really emotionally affected by. It is like seeing vulnerability in
Speaker 1: other people, and like that moment is like really vulnerable,
Speaker 1: And maybe it's something to do with like the meaningless
Speaker 1: of it. It's like, oh, your whole life was like
Speaker 1: so much, so different to what you thought it was,
Speaker 1: and that's really sad. And I also think, like I
Speaker 1: think I have a soft spot for like any male
Speaker 1: actor of that kind of dad playing Edge. I was
Speaker 1: always like whenever they would go through something hard, I
Speaker 1: would find it really upsetting. And that is probably to
Speaker 1: do with like parents divorce stuff. But like any Steve
Speaker 1: Carrell film where he got sad, I would be like
Speaker 1: crying so much. It's just like all of that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it feels it feels it feels so like I want
Speaker 1: to protect them. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, firstly, thank you
Speaker 1: for taking the what I said about your parents straight
Speaker 1: and without going what I do therapist. So I'm very
Speaker 1: used to. And it's that about the divorce. I mean,
Speaker 1: I thought it's been a bit cheeky, but I thought
Speaker 1: with it. Okay, what was your dad vulnerable cry in
Speaker 1: front of you? No? Yeah, no, I don't know. I
Speaker 1: think a lot of it was just like my emotions
Speaker 1: about it. I don't think like he was still around
Speaker 1: and stuff like, it wasn't it wasn't particularly complicated. I
Speaker 1: think it was probably just like as a child. There
Speaker 1: was like when I was four. So it's just like
Speaker 1: you don't know how to deal with that. So like
Speaker 1: if you just lock it down or like learn to
Speaker 1: be independent about it, then whenever you see a film
Speaker 1: that like slightly pushes one of those buttons, it's like,
Speaker 1: well it's all coming out now. Yeah. Yeah, A great answer.
Speaker 1: What about being scared? What's the film that scared you
Speaker 1: the most? Do you like being scared? Oh? Okay, So
Speaker 1: I have two answers for this, if you don't mind,
Speaker 1: because it's quite different okay, cool. So actual fear that
Speaker 1: changed my life was James Bond You Only Live Twice.
Speaker 1: There's a scene in it when James Bond has just
Speaker 1: had sexual relations with a woman and they're lying in
Speaker 1: bed together and they're asleep, and like a spy or
Speaker 1: like an assassin comes in and crawls over the rooftop
Speaker 1: beams and drips along like a string down and starts
Speaker 1: dripping poisons that will go down the string into his mouth.
Speaker 1: And he's lying like sleeping with his mouth open, and
Speaker 1: then at the last moment, like he stretches or something,
Speaker 1: and they move to the Bond girls underneath the string
Speaker 1: and it goes into her mouth and she wakes up
Speaker 1: fluttering and chokes to death. And I got so scared
Speaker 1: that that would happen to me that as I watched
Speaker 1: that when I was like maybe like eight or ten,
Speaker 1: and I slept with the dove covers above my mouth
Speaker 1: every night, which is absolutely bizarre because I didn't have
Speaker 1: beabes in my house and also I didn't have any one. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I didn't I was like eight, so I was
Speaker 1: at the top of the priority list for like assassinations.
Speaker 1: But it really freaked me out. Yeah, we can't know
Speaker 1: that for sure. What was the other one? The other
Speaker 1: one was Boyhood. Yeah, because of the passage of time.
Speaker 1: When I watched it, I watched it in the cinema
Speaker 1: and it sent me into like a four week long
Speaker 1: depression because I was like, oh God, this is inevitable.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I feel like I'm doing a really no,
Speaker 1: this is this is the ship. So it was the
Speaker 1: passage of time that makes sense. I think I watched
Speaker 1: it when I was like sixteen as well, which I
Speaker 1: think is just like the age where you're watching it
Speaker 1: and you're kind of realizing a lot of this has
Speaker 1: already happened. I'm getting older, Like what's left for me?
Speaker 1: I'm sixteen having a full crisis about the aging. It's early.
Speaker 1: That's early to have that. Yeah, I don't know, it
Speaker 1: just it just unlocked something in me. And I saw
Speaker 1: it with like my boyfriend at the time, and I
Speaker 1: remember he loved it, and I was just like sitting
Speaker 1: on the bus on the way back, just like having
Speaker 1: a full out of body experience, just like this is it.
Speaker 1: This is this is the end. It's going to be
Speaker 1: the end of the relationship. It's going to be the
Speaker 1: end of my life. Wow, Yeah, what is the film
Speaker 1: that you love? People don't like it. It's not critically acclaimed,
Speaker 1: but you love it. You don't give a shit where
Speaker 1: anyone says Johnny English great. In my head as well,
Speaker 1: I thought of this as like an answer, and then
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, maybe it is critically acclaimed. And
Speaker 1: then I looked it up and I was like, oh, no,
Speaker 1: it's not. It is good. I watched it recently. I
Speaker 1: had to watch it for this podcast, and it's good.
Speaker 1: I mean, is it is technically comfortent comedy. It is good.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it would stand. I haven't watched
Speaker 1: it for a long time. If you like English, it's
Speaker 1: really good. Yeah, it's classic Johnny English. Content title Johnny English.
Speaker 1: I think I remember like also as one of the
Speaker 1: films that I watched with my parents and they were
Speaker 1: finding really funny, like either my mom or my dad,
Speaker 1: I can't remember, but like I think when you're watching
Speaker 1: the film when you're young and like everyone's laughing, it's like, oh,
Speaker 1: this is the funniest thing in the world because we're
Speaker 1: all finding it funny. Yeah. I also think the theme
Speaker 1: tune to it is so good. I think i've got
Speaker 1: it saved on my Spotify. Can you see it? To me?
Speaker 1: He's a man for our seasons, loves him and leaves
Speaker 1: him alone. So alone, He's totally Johnny English. What's the
Speaker 1: film you used to love but you have watched recently
Speaker 1: and you've thought this is no longer for me? The
Speaker 1: prestige interesting poor Qua. So I remember watching it the
Speaker 1: first time and being like, oh my god, what a twist.
Speaker 1: This is crazy. This is incredible storytelling. I had no
Speaker 1: idea this was coming. Also, okay, I have to do
Speaker 1: a quick detour to explain something about my whole relationship
Speaker 1: with films I think, which is that I don't know
Speaker 1: if I definitely have this for sure, but my dad
Speaker 1: has it. I think he has this like face blindness
Speaker 1: thing where you really struggle to detect faces, And I
Speaker 1: think I have it to some extent because I'm really
Speaker 1: bad at recognizing people and for ages in my life,
Speaker 1: I hated watching films because I would forget what every
Speaker 1: character looked like loads, and so I just would wouldn't
Speaker 1: recognize characters returning, and I'd be like to hear like
Speaker 1: non stop people in this film, Like it was really
Speaker 1: confusing to watch the new characters everything. Yeah, another one.
Speaker 1: I think that was maybe also like something that passed
Speaker 1: when I was young. It was worse when I was younger,
Speaker 1: and now I've just like grown out of it or whatever.
Speaker 1: I don't really know how it works, and I haven't
Speaker 1: looked into it enough, but I did think, like I
Speaker 1: just remember being really confused in all films and not
Speaker 1: I'm really bad at recognizing famous actors in a film,
Speaker 1: like I won't know who it is. So I thought
Speaker 1: The Prestige was like an indie film. I didn't realize
Speaker 1: that it headloads of famous actors in it. So when
Speaker 1: I watched it again, I was like, I think I
Speaker 1: was talking to my flatmate about It's my flatmate is
Speaker 1: like the biggest film. He's a film writer. He's writing
Speaker 1: a film at the moment. It's like being made. He
Speaker 1: loves films so much. Any good film I've seen in
Speaker 1: my life is like because of him. His name is Harry.
Speaker 1: He's like, should get all the credit for any good
Speaker 1: response that I give. But we were talking about it,
Speaker 1: and I think we watched it again and I was
Speaker 1: just like, they just use a bit of actual magic.
Speaker 1: The whole premise is like, oh, it was trick, it's
Speaker 1: magic and then it's like, oh, but also he does
Speaker 1: clone someone or something like that, and you're like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know if you can do that. I hear you.
Speaker 1: It occurs to me whenever I watched The Foot do
Speaker 1: really love that film, but I am a bit like
Speaker 1: there was like an extra bit. The extra bit is, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it feels like it changes the rules of what the
Speaker 1: film is during it, the same as the now you
Speaker 1: see any films I love, like a magic film, but
Speaker 1: I find it funny when it's like they're like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: but also there will be some unbelievable magic in this, yeah,
Speaker 1: but there will also be a card trick. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: wonder if, like I wonder if it does exist on
Speaker 1: Like I have a friend who has face blindness and
Speaker 1: they recognize people like fire. They're like identifiable hairstyles, which
Speaker 1: I guess is like a way around it. But it's
Speaker 1: probably not something that has had like a lot of
Speaker 1: research into because it does just sound like you're being
Speaker 1: an asshole, yeah, of being like I've got a disease. Well,
Speaker 1: i think I've got name blindness. I think I've got
Speaker 1: name blanders because I don't remember anyone's name, and people
Speaker 1: think I'm very rude, but I'm like, I think it's
Speaker 1: the things I know, their face, I know they are
Speaker 1: I'm happy to talk to them about. Yeah, give me break.
Speaker 1: I'm disease. Yeah, give me a condition for God's say on,
Speaker 1: diagnose it. You know what I'm talking about, Lily. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'll get my mom to diagnose you. She'll do anything. Yeah, please,
Speaker 1: She's good at that stuff. What is the film that
Speaker 1: means the most to you? Not because the film itself
Speaker 1: is necessarily good, but because the experience you had seeing
Speaker 1: it always makes it a special one for you. And
Speaker 1: this isn't a film that I've like rewatched, but the
Speaker 1: significance of the first viewing of it was really big.
Speaker 1: High School Musical two right, I will explain please, When
Speaker 1: this came out when I was in primary school, I think,
Speaker 1: and the first one came out when I was in
Speaker 1: primary school as well. But we didn't have Disney Channel
Speaker 1: like me and my mom didn't have like any of
Speaker 1: the extra TV channels. We just had like one, two, three, four, five,
Speaker 1: the classics, and so I couldn't watch High School Musical
Speaker 1: And like everyone else at Schooll watched it and everyone
Speaker 1: was like obsessed with it. It It was all everyone was
Speaker 1: talking about in the playground, like everyone had high school
Speaker 1: musical like lunch boxes, like everyone was like casting themselves
Speaker 1: as characters. And I was just like, I have no
Speaker 1: idea what everyone's talking about. So then my dad kept
Speaker 1: trying to like torrent it for me, and he'd like,
Speaker 1: I'd get like CDs in the post of like a
Speaker 1: CD that then like wouldn't play on our TV, and
Speaker 1: it was just like impossible. I just I was not
Speaker 1: able to watch it. And then somehow, I still don't
Speaker 1: know how he did this. I haven't actually asked him properly.
Speaker 1: He managed to secure tickets to the High School Musical
Speaker 1: two premiere. Yeah, so I got to see the second
Speaker 1: one in the cinema at the like actual premiere where
Speaker 1: they like turned the O two into like the holiday
Speaker 1: camps that they go to during it, and I was like,
Speaker 1: now I've seen it before everyone else, so that's balance
Speaker 1: this out. Did you go with your dad? Yeah, and
Speaker 1: he took we took our cousins as well, and it
Speaker 1: was just like the best best dad. That's very very cute.
Speaker 1: I like that a lot. Yeah, it was really really nice. Actually,
Speaker 1: I'm like God. I didn't remember that story until I
Speaker 1: was thinking about the answers to the questions, and now
Speaker 1: I'm like, I should say thank you for that. That
Speaker 1: was really cool. Yeah, your dead sense, all right? You
Speaker 1: know from any mom. Give her a break, she's diagnosed
Speaker 1: both of us. What is the film you most relate to?
Speaker 1: This is like a hard one. I think. I definitely
Speaker 1: remember watching a film that I thought I was going
Speaker 1: to relate to because I didn't know what it was about.
Speaker 1: I got really into boxing and I was going to
Speaker 1: do like a boxing camp and I watched Million Dollar
Speaker 1: Baby on the plane on the way there because no
Speaker 1: one told me what it was and told you where
Speaker 1: it goes. Yeah, and I just got off a plane like,
Speaker 1: oh fuck, I've got to do a month of this now. Really,
Speaker 1: where was it Thailand? I want to do boxing in Thailand? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was really cool. I loved it. It was a
Speaker 1: mad experience. It's like two hours minimum of boxing a day,
Speaker 1: but you can do four plus like other stuff. But
Speaker 1: it's just like in a tiny camp in the middle
Speaker 1: of like a town four hours away from Bangkok, with
Speaker 1: like no one else there other than the people doing
Speaker 1: the camp. Like everyone else about like forty. I think
Speaker 1: the change because you could do it for different length
Speaker 1: of time. So like I was there for a month,
Speaker 1: but some people just came for like two weeks and stuff. Yeah,
Speaker 1: when was this January twenty twenty. Yeah. Yeah, I'm still
Speaker 1: in a few group chats. So because everyone was from
Speaker 1: all over the like, it was such a mixed group
Speaker 1: of people, all people who were like running from something
Speaker 1: in their lives obviously because they all had to go,
Speaker 1: Like you don't do something like that without being trying
Speaker 1: to solve some sort of crisis. Yeah, it did. Actually,
Speaker 1: Like it's funny because I have ended up mentioning the
Speaker 1: camp on podcasts and stuff, but like the story is
Speaker 1: too bleak of like why I went there. But it
Speaker 1: was just like a really bad end of the year
Speaker 1: where I had to quit my job. I was just
Speaker 1: having a really rough time. And then I was like,
Speaker 1: I want to do boxing and I want to go
Speaker 1: somewhere hot. And then I was like tie boxing, that
Speaker 1: feels like a thing, and I just googled it and
Speaker 1: then just like cooked a camp and went had you
Speaker 1: done any boxing before that? I've done like box fit.
Speaker 1: I think the sort of like fitness boxing classes and
Speaker 1: I was like, I like the feeling of hitting things.
Speaker 1: Was it the same standard you and everyone was? It
Speaker 1: was quite a mix. But they were all tie the
Speaker 1: boxes obviously, and they didn't really speak English. It's all
Speaker 1: quite limited, like the way you were being trained. But
Speaker 1: what was quite funny was that, like, I think some
Speaker 1: of this is on me. I should have known this,
Speaker 1: but I started following the instructions and they were all
Speaker 1: teaching like standard like right handed boxing, but I'm left handed.
Speaker 1: So I did three weeks of right handed boxing, and
Speaker 1: then in the fourth week, in one session, I like
Speaker 1: just did the other punch by accident, and the guy
Speaker 1: was like, hang on a second, and he like made
Speaker 1: me switch and then like suddenly I could hit really
Speaker 1: really hard, and he was like wow. Obviously he wasn't
Speaker 1: speaking in English, but I could tell. He was like,
Speaker 1: you're a fucking idiot, Like why have you done three
Speaker 1: weeks backwards? Oh? Wow? Are you good now? Yeah? I'm
Speaker 1: still doing it. I'm not like I stop. Obviously stopped
Speaker 1: during the pandemic, and I just couldn't find the time
Speaker 1: with gigging and stuff because the place near where I
Speaker 1: lived did classes only in the evenings and I was
Speaker 1: going out in the evenings to do comedy. So but
Speaker 1: I want to get back into it now because I
Speaker 1: want to fight people. Right, So, you going out into
Speaker 1: that brawl in the street before you died was pretty
Speaker 1: average for you. You were like subconscious raised voice, You're
Speaker 1: rushing in too, I'm ready, I'm ready. You think that's
Speaker 1: where do you see my left? I don't think I
Speaker 1: could do it in real life. That's a sad thing,
Speaker 1: is that, Like I think it's something where I will
Speaker 1: always want in my head to be like that's an
Speaker 1: option for me. I could do really well in the
Speaker 1: street fire, but I'll never have to try it, And
Speaker 1: then it would anytime, like if I've ever had like
Speaker 1: a guy like wolf Whistle or be creepy in the
Speaker 1: street or whatever not that I would instantly go fight that.
Speaker 1: But I'm always just like I'm going to run away now,
Speaker 1: and in my head I'll be like, oh, you should
Speaker 1: have said something like I'm not actually confrontational at all.
Speaker 1: Like if I have to tell my friend anything about
Speaker 1: like they've done wrong or whatever, I'll send it in
Speaker 1: like a WhatsApp with like four apologies. I'm very absolutely
Speaker 1: no worries if not like that doesn't match with like
Speaker 1: fighting someone in the street. Do you want to do?
Speaker 1: You want to fight? That's me in a nut show.
Speaker 1: I think, tell me what is the sexiest film of
Speaker 1: all time? I think the sexiest film got to be
Speaker 1: Blue is the warmest color. Yeah, it absolutely can be that. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I don't really remember any of the film other than
Speaker 1: the sex in it. And I also don't think i'd
Speaker 1: seen any like queer sex on screen at that point.
Speaker 1: And I also don't think i'd fully come out as
Speaker 1: But so I think it was like the combination of
Speaker 1: those factors meant that I was just like, what the fuck?
Speaker 1: This is interesting stuff, but like completely zoned out for
Speaker 1: the rest of the film. And then the sex, I'm like, zoom,
Speaker 1: it's a lot of sex, long sex. It's a good film.
Speaker 1: The rest of it's really good. Yeah, I should check it.
Speaker 1: I should check out the rest of it. You should
Speaker 1: ute the rest of it. I mean, yeah, listen, I
Speaker 1: don't know if you know this. It's problematic? Is it
Speaker 1: the actor only because the actors have said they were
Speaker 1: not comfortable making No, it's sad because they're excellent, you know,
Speaker 1: I get it really so, yeah, that's respectively awful you
Speaker 1: hate to read that stuff. You hate to read it
Speaker 1: because you go, well, was oh, that completely invalidates my answer.
Speaker 1: I don't want I don't want it to I don't
Speaker 1: want to find it so sexually at all. I'll go,
Speaker 1: I'll pick I'll pick Johnny English again. Yeah, I don't
Speaker 1: want to take away you know what I mean. No,
Speaker 1: that's good to know that. I think like that is
Speaker 1: a shame, and it's also a shame, and maybe it
Speaker 1: just says something about like I hadn't just seen that
Speaker 1: many non male gaizy female sex scenes as in like
Speaker 1: two is the thing. It's a male director. It's all.
Speaker 1: I don't know. You'd have to do more more reading
Speaker 1: on it. But it is a shame when you read
Speaker 1: stuff like that, because I do think that film is great,
Speaker 1: it's really great, and there's so much good in it.
Speaker 1: But it's a shame. That's so fucked. Yeah, that could
Speaker 1: now go in your traveling bone worrying why doesn't there
Speaker 1: you go, No, my troubling bone, I've got full different answers.
Speaker 1: I think for that, what's your traveling v worrying? Why
Speaker 1: don't a film we found it rousing that maybe you
Speaker 1: shouldn't it's not the film, but it's characters. Okay. Covid
Speaker 1: in The Lion King two is really sexy. And yes, Covid,
Speaker 1: he's like the sun of scar and he's got like
Speaker 1: bad boy lion quiff. So it's like bad because I
Speaker 1: think it's like he's an animal, and I think he's
Speaker 1: also probably like teenager. It's okay. I mean as long
Speaker 1: as he's you know, the sixteen or making sixteen, that's troubling. Also,
Speaker 1: the sexy and Angelina Jolie character in Shark Tale that fish. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I get it. It's the jolly. It's hard
Speaker 1: not to I get it. Absolutely fine, funny when they
Speaker 1: make the animals sexy. Yeah, because someone's job is like
Speaker 1: designing that, isn't it. It's like putting the boobs onto
Speaker 1: the fish. What a job? Yeah, what a job. I
Speaker 1: often think about that, like with Jessica Rabbit, when people go, oh,
Speaker 1: it's just a cartoon. They go, but it's obviously very sexy.
Speaker 1: It's a sexy cartoon. But someone drew probably on their
Speaker 1: own in the office later, Still very odd, didn't Someone's
Speaker 1: adding bulges to these yeah, two d things, like it's
Speaker 1: a conscious It's not like an accident, is it? But
Speaker 1: I think it says how basic we are in it,
Speaker 1: Like it is literally a picture of a round thing.
Speaker 1: Can we go that fucking circle is lovely, fucking perfectly
Speaker 1: drawn circle? God, we're so not complex? No, I am
Speaker 1: certainly not. Yeah, a circle in front of me. I'm anyway,
Speaker 1: what is the objectively the greatest film of all time?
Speaker 1: I couldn't back myself in an argument about films ever,
Speaker 1: Like I'm not. I don't think I've like particularly good
Speaker 1: taste in film. But I think I think I'll say
Speaker 1: Dead Poets Society. That's a that's a great answer. You
Speaker 1: can have it. No one said that in this category
Speaker 1: you can have that. I think I think I'm judging
Speaker 1: it on like the emotional intensity it made me feel,
Speaker 1: like the characters like I just remember, just absolutely loving it.
Speaker 1: Do you know who directed that? No? Is it some
Speaker 1: pedophile or something? No, second guessing all my answers. No,
Speaker 1: it's a brilliant filmmaker called Peter Weir. You know what, els?
Speaker 1: Peter Weir directed the Truman Show. What ye look at you?
Speaker 1: Peter Peter Weirs? Then I'm in the Truman Show, I
Speaker 1: must be Yeah, wow, that's where you would say, shitbait. God.
Speaker 1: He gets to my whatever his emotional languages is mine
Speaker 1: as well. He knows how to turn my buttons. That's
Speaker 1: not the word. I want you to watch a film
Speaker 1: called Fearless that he made that not many people seen. Okay,
Speaker 1: I think he's fearless. I think it might it might
Speaker 1: sort you out A great answer. What is the film
Speaker 1: that you could or have wat's the most over and
Speaker 1: over again? The film I've watched most over and over
Speaker 1: again for a period of my life. I haven't watched
Speaker 1: it recently is the Hugh Grant rom com music and Lyrics,
Speaker 1: Yes Love, which I was like when I first got
Speaker 1: like a laptop and was allowed to download one film
Speaker 1: from iTunes. That was I think the one I downloaded
Speaker 1: just by chance, and so it was the film I
Speaker 1: just ended up like watching loads. But I also loved it,
Speaker 1: and I loved the songs in it. I actually think
Speaker 1: I did rewatch it. I rewatched it when I had
Speaker 1: to do like a I had to do like a
Speaker 1: weekend of gigs away last year. It was like December.
Speaker 1: It was in Hereford. I died on my ass at
Speaker 1: both the gigs, and I was like, I need to
Speaker 1: watch music and lyrics, like something in my body just
Speaker 1: took over and I was like, this is the only
Speaker 1: thing that will help right now. And it was quite good.
Speaker 1: It's like a classic silly, silly romcom film where you're like,
Speaker 1: this is ridiculous. I love it. He's great, he's great,
Speaker 1: she's great. I've been watching About a Boy for the
Speaker 1: first time over the past few nights. Great. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: good stuff. I haven't seen any films. I'm not a
Speaker 1: very good person to come on a film podcast like
Speaker 1: I listen anyone beat a weird films? You're fine, Yeah,
Speaker 1: this is good. Yeah, we don't know to be negative?
Speaker 1: Do it quick? Oh please? What's the worst film you
Speaker 1: ever seen? And where the cruel Dad's sing? Wow? Very new. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I was so angry when I watched it because I
Speaker 1: love the books. I think it's like I don't think
Speaker 1: it's like an objective judgment on the film. I think
Speaker 1: it's like, yeah, how high my hopes were versus what
Speaker 1: direction the film went in. And I was just really
Speaker 1: sad because I was like, this feels like it could
Speaker 1: have been done so differently in a way that was
Speaker 1: that made me feel like I felt when I was
Speaker 1: reading the book, but instead it just feels like it's
Speaker 1: not the same question what is the perfect film of
Speaker 1: a book? Like what do you want when you love
Speaker 1: a book so much and then they make a film?
Speaker 1: I would do almost sometimes I'm only thinking this now
Speaker 1: for the first time ever. I'm thinking why would you
Speaker 1: see the film? Like what in your head is the
Speaker 1: perfect version? Is it exactly what you imagined when you
Speaker 1: were reading it, or is it a new way of
Speaker 1: looking at the book that surprises you and makes you
Speaker 1: see it in a different way, Like what's the ideal
Speaker 1: version of that book? Yeah, that's such an interesting question.
Speaker 1: I don't know what it is. I think it might
Speaker 1: be like I think you probably you'll be better to
Speaker 1: say the second one, because it's so unrealistic that someone
Speaker 1: would make one that's exactly what's in your head. I
Speaker 1: guess you maybe want to want them to make some
Speaker 1: like cool creative decisions which use the film medium to
Speaker 1: add something rather than just try and make it as true,
Speaker 1: not as true to the books. That is what I
Speaker 1: was criticizing, what the chord that'd sing for? But like,
Speaker 1: I don't know, I think I like it when book.
Speaker 1: I think the way a book makes you feel is
Speaker 1: so different from the way a film makes you feel,
Speaker 1: just because of the way you're engaging with it. That
Speaker 1: like you've got to use whatever film has to your advantage.
Speaker 1: Put a cgi dragon in that sort of thing. You know.
Speaker 1: One of my favorite books and films is The Virgin Suicide.
Speaker 1: When you read I saw the film before I read
Speaker 1: the book, and when I read the book, I was like, like,
Speaker 1: the film really feels like the book. The book feels
Speaker 1: like the film. Film feels like the book. That's a
Speaker 1: great examp when you think about it. There's music in
Speaker 1: the film. It is obviously not in the book, and
Speaker 1: that makes that I think that's the sort of one
Speaker 1: of the creative ways she makes the feeling of these
Speaker 1: descriptions of love and obsession and feeling is through music. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I guess there's something about that, isn't it. Like did
Speaker 1: you say you read the book after you watch the film? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I watched the film first. I think that's quite a
Speaker 1: nice way around, I guess because you are like adding
Speaker 1: depth potentially rather than like losing it. I think sometimes
Speaker 1: it feels like you're losing it when you watch a
Speaker 1: bad film of a book. Well, we're all having a thing,
Speaker 1: aren't we what is? You're in comedy, you're a comedian,
Speaker 1: you're critically acclaimed. When now, what is the film that
Speaker 1: made you laughter most? Other than Johnny English? I think
Speaker 1: it might have been watching Anchor Man in the cinema
Speaker 1: with all my friends when I was like at a
Speaker 1: stage in life where going to the cinema is like
Speaker 1: what we did every week, and we just saw all
Speaker 1: the comment we saw like Bridesmaids. That's another close call
Speaker 1: for that, seeing these group strong character cast films. We'd
Speaker 1: just be losing our minds, like coating it to each
Speaker 1: other for the rest of the year. I think it might.
Speaker 1: I think it probably was Anchor Man. But I don't
Speaker 1: touch any of these films again, Like I let them
Speaker 1: like exist as that memory. I don't revisit them, So
Speaker 1: I don't know if i'd still find that the funniest film. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a risk in it. Yeah, sometimes you have to
Speaker 1: let them go. Yeah, I don't know. I think, like
Speaker 1: I don't really laugh out loud that much when I
Speaker 1: watch stuff, So unless I've seen it in a cinema
Speaker 1: with friends, like it's unlikely that I've had a physical
Speaker 1: response to it. So in my head. It doesn't get
Speaker 1: categorized aes like funny. Yeah, do you laugh out loud
Speaker 1: when you watch films? But it's surprising. When I was
Speaker 1: watching Baskets, the TV show Baskets, and there was a
Speaker 1: scene where the mum drank an in time bottle of
Speaker 1: bottle of something until until she just just suddenly in
Speaker 1: the middle of the scene downs an entire bottle of
Speaker 1: I think sparkling water until she basically burps, and it
Speaker 1: made me laugh. So I laughed for about five minutes. Right, wow,
Speaker 1: and what are you doing? Okay? Thank you? By surprised,
Speaker 1: I think I'm very basic. I think if someone burps
Speaker 1: or that does it for you. Yeah, I told you
Speaker 1: I need circles and burps. I'm very simple. Yeah, you're
Speaker 1: really back to basics or the guy real back to basics, guy,
Speaker 1: Annie Meglana. You've been absolutely delightful, fascinating and brilliant. However,
Speaker 1: when you took your lethal weapon at my boxing skills
Speaker 1: to the streets when you had two friends, two friends
Speaker 1: having a lovely yet brutal scrap outside your door, and
Speaker 1: you went outside and you said, I'm believe the weban,
Speaker 1: I'll leave the weapon. I beleave the weapon right hand,
Speaker 1: right hand, right hand, and they went, your right hand
Speaker 1: is quite weak, and you went shut out power and
Speaker 1: hit with the left hand, and they ran off, screaming
Speaker 1: into night. And you said, my work here is done.
Speaker 1: Yet another couple of women are radily beaten up. And
Speaker 1: then you went inside and you went to plug in
Speaker 1: your phone, because you hope you were filming it as
Speaker 1: well from TikTok. You point the plug in your phone
Speaker 1: and it electrocuted you right into your heart and you
Speaker 1: fell to the ground and you sat on fire, and
Speaker 1: then your house sat on fire, and then it spread
Speaker 1: to the street, and your entire street was a blaze.
Speaker 1: Hundreds of people died. It was absolutely really dark nightmare. Anyway,
Speaker 1: I was walking past with a coffee, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm like, And I see this blaze ago, bladdie, isn't
Speaker 1: it where Annie mcdanna lives? Put out of the fire
Speaker 1: using my own spit, but out of the fire, and
Speaker 1: I find your your burnt carcass there it is still
Speaker 1: holding desperately, your TikTok still running. It was a live feed.
Speaker 1: Your views are gone through the roof. You'd be delighted,
Speaker 1: thank God. And anyway, chuck you up into bits, put
Speaker 1: you in the coffee. There's more of you than I
Speaker 1: was expecting because of all the furniture and stuff that's
Speaker 1: burned into you. And there's no room in this coffin.
Speaker 1: There really isn't. It's full. There's only enough for room
Speaker 1: for me to slide one DVD into the side for
Speaker 1: you to take across to the heaven field with your
Speaker 1: cat claimed a million times? What film would you like
Speaker 1: to show the Cat of Heaven when you it is
Speaker 1: your movie night and your Megliano School of Rock. Yes, please,
Speaker 1: thank you, You're welcome. Best film of all time for me? Correct? Correct?
Speaker 1: I think I know all the words. Nothing wrong with that?
Speaker 1: What a perfect answer. A perfect film. It's perfect. There's
Speaker 1: nothing wrong with that film. It's so good, so good,
Speaker 1: I can like see it in my head. I directed that?
Speaker 1: Who not Peter were No, but the guy directed Boyhood
Speaker 1: did what? Yeah, it's just all the same guys. You
Speaker 1: like two guys you like Richard link Letter in Peter Weir.
Speaker 1: They're both excellent filmmakers. Wow, maybe I do have to
Speaker 1: change both of them. Range dead Players fucking Boyhood is
Speaker 1: called the rock the Range. Yeah, God, I guess I
Speaker 1: was maybe I can talk about my favorite maybe I
Speaker 1: have favorite directors. Maybe that's something that I know about myself.
Speaker 1: Now you love an auteur's classic. You can't shut me
Speaker 1: up when I get onto autars. Just Bagliardo, They should
Speaker 1: you and your Bagliano. Is there anything people should look
Speaker 1: out for, watch, listen to of you? Oh yeah, I've
Speaker 1: got a show. I'm doing my show, the one from
Speaker 1: the one from the title. Absolutely no worries. If not.
Speaker 1: I'm doing it in the Leicester Square Theater on Friday,
Speaker 1: eleventh of November at nine thirty pm, and that's like
Speaker 1: the last night I'm doing of the show. It's like
Speaker 1: one big, one big bang, one big bang if anyone
Speaker 1: wants to come to that. If not, just like the
Speaker 1: classic social media I am posting on this so much,
Speaker 1: so much, but yeah, any of those okay, say hello, Well,
Speaker 1: thank you very much for your time. This has been
Speaker 1: a real pleasure. Thank you for having me. I hope
Speaker 1: you have a wonderful death and good night bye. So
Speaker 1: that was episode two twenty one. Head over to the
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Speaker 1: us a five star rating, but don't talk about the show,
Speaker 1: right about the film that means the most of you
Speaker 1: and why Maureen reads them. She always cries she loves it.
Speaker 1: That's very nice if you do that. Thank you so
Speaker 1: much to Anya. Go see her show. Thank you to Scrubs, Pit,
Speaker 1: Tracks and Pieces and Network. Thanks to Buddy Peace for
Speaker 1: producing it. Thanks to ACAS for hosting it. Thanks to
Speaker 1: Adam Richardson for the graphics at least allied them for
Speaker 1: the photography. Come and join me next week for another
Speaker 1: hilarious guest fucking funny one. Anyway. That is it for now.
Speaker 1: In the meantime, I hope you're all well, have a
Speaker 1: lovely week, and please be excellent to each other.