Brian Cox, Michelle Gomez, Kate Dickie on MK3D at the Edinburgh Festival
Kermode on Film
HLA Agency
4.4 • 913 Ratings
🗓️ 19 August 2025
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
This episode is the very first edition of MK3D recorded in Edinburgh, as part of the Edinburgh International Book Festival. Mark Kermode talks to three iconic Scottish actors: Brian Cox, whose directorial debut Glenrothan opens later this year. Kate Dickie, who is currently on Netflix in Department Q, and Michelle Gomez, BAFTA-nominated for her role as Missy in Doctor Who.
Sit back and enjoy this MK3D show recorded live at McEwan Hall in Edinburgh.
With thanks to Charlotte Matheson at HLA and Lilidh Kendrick and Jenny Niven and the whole, brilliant team at the Edinburgh International Book Festival.
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Mary Poppins (Robert Stevenson, Walt Disney Productions – featuring Julie Andrews)
Nope (Jordan Peele, Universal Pictures – featuring Keke Palmer)
Withnail & I (Bruce Robinson, HandMade Films – featuring Richard E. Grant)
The Exorcist (William Friedkin, Warner Bros. – featuring Ellen Burstyn and Linda Blair)
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| 0:00.0 | Do you belong here? |
| 0:03.0 | Next to me, about to jump into the sea on an army co-steering expedition. |
| 0:08.0 | What's your gut saying? |
| 0:10.0 | Walk away from the edge? |
| 0:12.0 | Or jump in and join a team that we buy your side for life? |
| 0:19.0 | Still listening? and join a team that we buy your side for life. |
| 0:26.6 | Still listening, you belong here. Army, recruiting now. Search Army jobs. |
| 0:31.6 | In every job that must be done, there is an element of fun. |
| 0:35.6 | You find the fun, and snap! |
| 0:40.9 | Did you know that the very first assembly of photographs and sequential order to create a motion picture |
| 0:46.2 | was a two-second clip of a black man on horse? |
| 0:50.3 | We want the finest wines available to humanity. |
| 0:53.4 | We want them here, and we want them now. |
| 0:56.6 | You really don't want me to play, huh? |
| 0:58.9 | No, I do. |
| 1:00.3 | Captain Hardy said no. |
| 1:02.0 | Captain who? |
| 1:04.4 | Hi, this is Mark Kermode and welcome to Kermode on film. |
| 1:07.8 | This episode is the very first edition of MK3D recorded in Edinburgh as part of the |
| 1:13.3 | Edinburgh International Book Festival. I talk to three iconic Scottish actors. They are Brian Cox, |
| 1:18.7 | whose directorial debut Glenn Rothen, opens later this year, Kate Dickey, who's currently on Netflix |
| 1:23.8 | in Department Q, and Michelle Gomez, BAFTA nominated for a role as Missy in Doctor Who. |
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