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Speaker 1: Great to flick with Benochet, guys just enjoying the full

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Speaker 1: dancing A yeah. Absolutely. Now Hugh Grant, like we remember

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Speaker 1: Talking about Die, he couldn't be anymore unpleasantness, and he

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Speaker 1: couldn't be that sort of foppish, foppishly poppishly fringed dandy

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Speaker 1: The Gentlemen, Gentlemen. So he was so wonderful. He looked

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Speaker 1: The Gentleman. And so now he comes along in Heretic,

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Speaker 1: films always look beautiful, they're always quite sort of intellectual,

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Speaker 1: like that film, Heretic has got a really simple premise.

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Speaker 1: Like so many of these genre films, the build up

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Speaker 1: think you'd watch this just see a different side. You

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Speaker 1: no weddings and lots of funerals. Very good. Well, you

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