Alex Macqueen

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Rob Brydon | Wondery

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4.6 • 597 Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2024

⏱️ 72 minutes

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This week on the pod, Rob welcomes Alex Macqueen- a fellow actor, writer and old friend. The pair dive into The Thick of It and discuss where their paths have crossed on stage and screen, including a very queasy performance Alex had with Rob and Kenneth Branagh. Alex shares what it was like working with the legendary Michael Caine, Dame Judi Dench and Will Ferrell. Rob finds out about a new project Alex is developing with Adeel Akhtar and why he’ll forever be known as Neil’s dad.

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0:00.0	Hey, thanks for coming back.
0:04.0	My friend Alex McQueen is a most singular fellow.
0:09.0	He arrived here in the studio with a very unusual story of his activities the night before
0:15.0	that had kept him up till six o'clock in the morning.
0:19.0	From Neil's dad in the In Between Us,
0:23.2	to the Thick of It,
0:25.0	to working with Kenneth Branagh,
0:26.8	to 75 episodes of Holby,
0:29.2	to training as a barrister,
0:31.3	to being expelled from the National Youth Theatre
0:35.4	for the strangest of reasons.
0:37.9	Just sit back and enjoy this wonderful conversation.
0:42.2	Briden and the wonderful Alex McQueen.
0:52.9	How lovely to have you here.
0:55.5	You, the listener and viewer, not the guest, although it's also nice to have the guest,
1:00.0	my very dear friend, Alex McQueen.
1:04.1	Thank you, my Lord.
1:05.0	We go back a long way now.
1:06.2	We do now, but let's two things we were chatting about before we started, and I want to follow
1:11.6	through in them. You were in A&E last night. We'll come on to that. But you were just talking
1:16.4	about the saturated fat content of a croissant. Yes, I was. Which I was, which came as a surprise.
1:24.5	So you allowed 20 grams of saturated fat every day. And one quaffle is an entire
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