Charlotte Nicdao of Mythic Quest

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🗓️ 6 December 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Charlotte Nicdao stars as Poppy on the Apple TV+ comedy Mythic Quest. It's a workplace comedy about a video game company, but it's not really about video games. Everyone on the show cares deeply about the thing they're working on. It's the massive online role-playing fantasy video game Mythic Quest. Charlotte Nicdao joins Bullseye to talk about the new season of Mythic Quest and playing the part of Poppy on the series. She also talks about growing up in Australia, and the first time she visited the United States when she was a teenager for music camp. She also takes us back to the time she auditioned for the part of a mob boss in her school's production of Guys and Dolls.

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0:00.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:21.1	It's Bullseye, I'm Jesse Thorn. My first guest this week is Charlotte Nickdow. She
0:26.2	stars on Mythic Quest, comedy on Apple TV Plus. Mythic Quest is about a video game company
0:33.3	that's not really about video games. You'll love it if you waited in line overnight to buy
0:38.3	a PS5, but you'll also love it if you haven't touched a game controller since the days of
0:43.8	ColecoVision. It's a workplace comedy, but think less the office, more the Larry Sanders
0:50.1	show. Everyone on the program cares deeply about what they're working on, a video game,
0:57.1	Mythic Quest, a massive world of warcraft style online fantasy experience. Along with
1:03.3	caring deeply about that game, everyone on the show also suffers from crippling insecurity.
1:09.3	There's Ion spelled I-A-N like Ian, played by Rob McElhenning of It's Always Sunny
1:16.6	in Philadelphia. Ion is the founder and creator of Mythic Quest. He wears a lot of rings and
1:22.4	bracelets and has a very expensive looking haircut. In other words, he looks like a nerd
1:27.4	who struck it rich, which is what he is, but he also worries that Mythic Quest is the
1:33.4	only good idea he'll ever have. And then there's Poppy, played by my guest, Charlotte
1:38.8	Nickdow. If Ion is a natural born leader who fears he can't lead, Poppy is the opposite,
1:45.3	a talented engineer with a million great ideas who can't really relate to people and constantly
1:51.2	gets in her own way. Like in this scene from the first season of Mythic Quest, Poppy has
1:57.3	gotten to take the lead on her first big project. It's a new feature in Mythic Quest called
2:02.4	Dinner Party. Now, what is Dinner Party? Well, no one actually knows. But it doesn't matter
2:09.3	as you're about to hear, Dinner Party is ready to deploy. And to celebrate, Poppy gives
2:14.9	a speech to her team. A lot of hard work has gone into this and now all that's left to
2:20.2	do is hit this button. Where's Ion? Doesn't usually do the speech? Yes, Michelle, he does,
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