Benicio Del Toro: Puerto Rico to Hollywood and dreaming in English (The Phoenician Scheme / The Usual Suspects / Sicario) #620
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip
Scroobius Pip
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🗓️ 27 May 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip!
This week Pip is joined by one of the greats... it's BENICIO DEL TORO!
"I'm a FAN!" proclaims Benicio at various points in this lovely catch up with Pip, and it's so heartening to hear. Not that anyone ever expected him to be anything less than awesome, but this is actually quite a rare appearance from someone evidently beloved by those involved in cinema and those who view the films alike. While a quick Google search will bring up a bunch of films he's been in and you wlll love, you could just do an old fashioned analogue mind search and come up with something equally quick, as everyone will have one. BDT is in town and on the promo trail for the new Wes Anderson joint 'The Phoenician Scheme' in which he plays a major role, but during this episode you'll also hear about that road up to it including everything along the way. How he fit so much into such a short time here we'll never know, but rest assured you'll have a fine time enjoying and discovering his past lives along the actorial path. A real treat, you already KNOW this is gonna be an awesome episode.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome, welcome, welcome. |
| 0:02.1 | This is the distraction pieces podcast, episode 620. |
| 0:06.7 | And what a guest we have for you this week. |
| 0:09.3 | I won't build it up and add the mystery. |
| 0:11.4 | You've seen it in the title. |
| 0:13.4 | I'm joined this week by Benicio del Toro. |
| 0:16.3 | A literal living legend. |
| 0:18.8 | One of my favorite actors, as I'm looking over at my DVD and Blu-ray collection |
| 0:25.0 | now, I can see the usual suspects. I can see the way of the gun. I can see Sikario. I can see |
| 0:30.8 | numerous. I can see Shay. Yeah, just what a legend. I was delighted when this one came in. |
| 0:38.3 | I went to a previous screening of Benito's no film that's out now. |
| 0:44.3 | Wes Anderson's no film, the Phoenician scheme. |
| 0:49.0 | And I got there and I bumped into Ben Bailey Smith, |
| 0:52.1 | Doc Brown, previous guest and friend. |
| 0:54.9 | And he was very excited because Palace won the FA Cup, |
| 0:58.8 | which is amazing, |
| 0:59.6 | amazing time for London teams with Palace and Spurs having huge wins. |
| 1:06.0 | Hi, quick producer production interruption from Buddy Peace here, that's me, hello. |
| 1:12.5 | This is like a very small scale Rashomon style pickup on an incident from the screening |
| 1:17.2 | of the Phoenician scheme. Basically on Mark Komode and Simon Mayo's very excellent take podcast |
| 1:23.0 | released on the 22nd of May, Mark mentioned that he was blanked by Ben Bailey Smith on entering the |
| 1:28.4 | screening with Pip. This interruption, which I'm making here, is just to clarify that neither |
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