#325 Fighting With My Family - Interview with Stephen Merchant
The Not Old - Better Show
Paul Vogelzang
4.7 • 106 Ratings
🗓️ 1 March 2019
⏱️ 17 minutes
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"Fighting With My Family" - Interview with Stephen Merchant
Movies for Adults Interview Series
Welcome to The Not Old Better Show, I'm Paul Vogelzang and this is show #325
As part of our Art of Living, Movies for Adults series, today's show reviews the new film, Fighting With My Family, and we'll be speaking with writer and director Stephen Merchant. Stephen Merchant you'll recall brought us, along with Ricky Gervais, UK's excellent series "The Office." So, truly comedy genius at work here.
I will tell your right up front, I've never been a huge fan of wrestling. Even as a kid, I found the sport — or, at least, the version presented by the WWE bizarre, noisy and unbearably silly, fake and even ostentatious, and too theatrical for sport. That hasn't changed. I still think it's weird.
But, the film Fighting with My Family, based on a true story, and originally from the 2012 documentary in which the Bevis family from Norwich, England, where we are invited into their home to show us just how much wrestling meant to them. They all wrestled; mom, dad, the kids — everyone.
This is an excellent film, well done by Stephen Merchant, and perfect for your Friday night, tonight, or weekend viewing. Stephen Merchant's family romance not only inspires laughs but leaves us churned up. Once trapped in Ricky Gervais's shadow, the gentle giant tiptoes into the ring, lays siege and makes us see stars.
I hope you enjoy the film as much as I did, and now let's welcome to the program, Stephen Merchant.
My thanks to Metro Goldwyn Mayer Pictures, Inc., Stephen Merchant, and EPK for all the great assistance in putting this interview, review and show together for you, my Not Old Better audience.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Nadd Old Better Show. I'm Paul Vogel saying and this is show number 325. As part of our Art of Living Movies for Adults series. Today's show reviews the new film |
| 0:27.0 | Fighting with my family and will be speaking with writer and director Stephen Merchant. |
| 0:31.8 | Of course Stephen Merchant. Of course, Stephen Merchant, you'll recall, brought us, along with Ricky Gervay, UK's excellent series, The Office. |
| 0:39.7 | So truly comedy, genius at work here. |
| 0:43.0 | I will tell you right up, friend, I've never been a huge fan of wrestling. |
| 0:47.0 | You know, even as a kid, I found the sport, I guess, if that's the best way to describe it, |
| 0:52.0 | or at least the version presented by the |
| 0:55.0 | WWE. Bazaar, it was noisy, it was unbearably silly, fake, and even ostentatious, and too theatrical for sport. |
| 1:06.0 | I don't think that's changed. I think it's still weird. |
| 1:10.0 | But the film, Fighting with my Family, based on a true story and originally from the 2012 documentary |
| 1:17.9 | in which the Bevis family from Norwich, England, where we're invited into their home to show us just how much wrestling meant to |
| 1:27.3 | them. |
| 1:28.3 | They all wrestled. |
| 1:29.3 | Mom, Dad, the kids, everyone. |
| 1:32.0 | Well in anticipation of viewing the film fighting with my family and his background |
| 1:36.0 | for my review, I watched the documentary. And it is clear that this fly-on-the- wall series makes a point of showing us that the teenager |
| 1:46.0 | Suriah is going to go on to big things. |
| 1:49.0 | So luckily, writer, director, Stephen Merchant, with a little help from executive producer |
| 1:56.1 | Duane The Rock Johnson, has taken it upon himself to fill in the blanks with this |
| 2:01.8 | delightful and enlightening dramatization |
| 2:06.2 | titled of course fighting with my family. The fabulous Florence Pugh is |
| 2:11.1 | Soraya Bevis the 18-year-old daughter of Rowdy Ricky Knight, who's played by Nick Frost, |
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