Ashley Jensen

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Rob Brydon | Wondery

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4.6 • 597 Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2023

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Joining Rob this week is a guest who has taken a break from sleuthing in the Shetland isles. Straight from the pages of MODE magazine, she’s more than just an Extra, it’s the one and only Ashley Jensen. Rob finds out about Ashley's first big break, what makes Ricky Gervais stop telling jokes and what it was really like working with Samuel L. Jackson, David Bowie and Ben Stiller. Rob also explores Ashely’s new starring role in the BBC drama series Shetland.

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0:00.0	Thanks for joining me. Today we're talking to a wonderful actor, a wonderful woman, a wonderful human.
0:07.7	I spent four months with her in the theatre 11 years ago. What do you know her best from? Probably extras, but she's done so many other things.
0:25.6	Ladies, gentlemen, everyone, Ashley Jensen.
0:33.0	We're rolling.
0:34.2	We're rolling.
0:35.6	Merely, we roll along.
0:36.9	Rob, we are rolling. Rolling with Rob. Rolling with Rob, I see, that. Do you know, funnily enough, when I used to go to America, when I used to go to America, when I lived in America. We've barely been talking a second, and the power play from Ashley Jensen in casually mentioning, oh, yeah, I used to work in America.
0:54.7	No, what it was the way.
0:56.1	When we used to sit around and do the table reads for the beginning of ugly Betty,
1:01.2	we used to go, hi, my name is, hi, my name is America Ferreira and I'm playing Betty.
1:06.6	And they'd get a round of applause of saying your name.
1:10.1	No.
1:10.4	Hi, I'm Ashley Jensen and I'm playing Christina McKinney. Ray! Get a round of applause just for saying your name. Well, tell you what, we're going to change how we do things around here. Because I think that could be the thing that would set me up for the day. I know. Well, it is. It's quite affirming, isn't it? Well, you know, I've said it
1:29.1	before. I've said almost everything before. But when I've been out there and the person, the valet
1:37.1	parking person, is really nice to you. And someone will say, oh yeah, but they don't mean it.
1:44.2	My response is, I don't care. I don't care. It's the same when you're getting, when you go to the groceries,
1:48.6	the grocery store, the shops, and they pack your shopping for you. And then they compliment
1:54.2	you on what you've chosen. That's a wonderful apple pie. Is that right? You're like, oh, thank you. Yeah.
2:00.8	Oh, yes. Thank you. And I'm like, oh, thank you. Yeah. Oh, yes.
2:01.3	Thank you.
2:01.8	And I'm like, quite, I've already got a tick. I like it. It's just a, and when I, whenever I've been there, it's been sunny. Oh, I know. Yeah. That makes a difference. It does. It does. It really does. And you were over there for Ugly Betty.
2:00.2	I mean, you mentioned America, Ferrar.
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