ANSON BOON • 'The Good Boy' in cinemas now! (MobLand / Pistol / 1917) #664
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip
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🗓️ 25 March 2026
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip!
This week Pip is joined by the force of acting posititivity (and good boy) that is ANSON BOON!
As stated in the episode title, 'The Good Boy' (aka 'Heel' in the US) is out and about now, in which Anson plays alongside the powerful duo of Stephen Graham and Andrea Riseborough. Anson is capable of playing characters who aren't necessarily immediately charming, let's say, and some that might require a little work to warm to, but always make for some truly captivating and interesting, memorable performances which inspire conversation, debate and thought. So it goes without saying that this chat is an awesome one as Pip finds out where these choices originate, and traces the source of Anson's acting path. Of course there are so many facets and angles covered too, including basically becoming a fully functioning Sex Pistols tribute band by way of 'Pistol' (in which he was coached by Underworld!), his love of a film set, being a nepo gangster, the School of Kate Winslett, acting alongside Tom Hardy, Helen Mirren, Paddy Considine, Pierce Brosnan and so many more, and just a huge amount of fascinating goodies from his time in front of and nearby the camera. Inspiring and lovely stuff, enjoy!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome, welcome, welcome. This is the distraction pieces podcast episode 664. And I'm joined today by |
| 0:07.9 | Anson Boone. And what an honour. What an honour. This is the first kind of long form in person |
| 0:13.3 | interview that Anson's done. And I was excited about it. I've been a fan of Anson for a minute |
| 0:19.4 | from when he was Johnny Rotten in Pistol, the series, which is great. It's on Disney. |
| 0:24.7 | From his role in Mobland to his new film The Good Boy, out now with Stephen Graham and loads of amazing people. |
| 0:32.1 | We talk about that some more. So yeah, I was very excited to talk to Anson. |
| 0:35.7 | And partly because at least a couple of his characters, I've absolutely bloody hated. |
| 0:43.1 | And I'm like, everything I've heard from our mutual friends is that he's a lovely lad. |
| 0:48.2 | So I need to get to know this because he's so good at playing not lovely lads on screen. |
| 0:53.7 | And you know what? Spoiler, before we get into the interview, turns out. he's so good at playing not lovely lads on screen. |
| 0:55.0 | And you know what? |
| 0:59.5 | Spoiler, before we get into the interview, turns out proper lovely lad. |
| 1:02.6 | We are booked to you as ever by speech of element records.com. |
| 1:06.1 | That's where you can get merch and support the podcast by buying stuff. |
| 1:11.0 | Patreon.com forward slash scrupious pip, you can support the podcast for as little as a pound a month. month in fact you can go and follow over there for free and you still get some behind the scenes stuff |
| 1:15.1 | and twitch dot tv forward slash scrupius pipyo where i'm always doing loads of really fun |
| 1:19.5 | and interesting stuff all right that's probably enough isn't it let's get straight into this chat |
| 1:24.3 | this is my wonderful conversation episode six. Episode 664 of the distraction pieces |
| 1:29.7 | podcast with Anson Boone. |
| 2:01.5 | I'm here with Anson Boone. How are you, mate? I'm good. Very good. Yeah, how are you? I'm good. I'm really excited to talk to you because I've been a fan of your work for a while, and we've got a decent amount of time to really get into it. Absolutely, yeah. I mean, also, as we've discussed before, |
| 2:03.1 | we've got a lot of mutual friends. So you've worked with some of my favorite actors |
| 2:05.5 | and some of my favorite humans. |
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