Charlotte Nicdao of 'Mythic Quest'

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

Jesse Thorn

Society & Culture

4.5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Charlotte Nicdao stars as Poppy on the Apple TV+ comedy Mythic Quest. She joins Bullseye to talk about that very funny show. We talk about her upbringing 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	Support for NPR and the following message come from the estate of Joan B. Kroc, whose bequest
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0:12.2	that meets the highest standards of public service in journalism and cultural expression.
0:18.9	Bullseye with Jesse Thorne is a production of of maximum fun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:43.7	It's Bolzai. I'm Jesse Thorne. My next guest this week is Charlotte Nickdow. We talked in 2022.
0:49.5	She stars on Mythic Quest, a comedy on Apple TV Plus that is now entering its fourth season.
0:55.5	Mythic Quest is about a video game company, but it's not really about video games. I mean,
0:59.6	you'll love it if you're the kind of person who waited in line overnight to buy a PS5,
1:03.9	but you will also love it if you haven't touched a game controller since the Colico Vision.
1:08.6	It's workplace comedy, but less the office, more the Larry Sanders show.
1:11.9	Everyone on the program cares deeply about the thing that they are working on, which is a video game, mythic quest, a massive kind of World of Warcraft-style
1:17.7	online fantasy experience. And in addition to caring deeply about the game, everyone on the show
1:23.5	also suffers from crippling insecurity. There's Ian, spelled like Ian, but pronounced like
1:30.6	Ian, who's played by Rob McElhenney, of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. Ion is the founder
1:36.3	and creator of Mythic Quest. He wears a lot of rings and bracelets and has a very expensive
1:40.9	looking haircut. In other words, he looks like a nerd who struck it rich,
1:45.1	which he is. But he also worries that Mythic Quest is the only good idea he'll ever have.
1:52.5	And then there's Poppy, played by my guest Charlotte Nick Dow. If Ion is a natural-born leader
1:57.9	who fears he can't lead, Poppy is the opposite, a talented engineer
2:02.3	with a million great ideas who doesn't really relate to people and constantly gets in her own way.
2:07.7	As in this scene from the first season of Mythic Quest, Poppy gets to take the lead for her first
2:12.7	big project, a new feature in Mythic Quest called Dinner Party. What is Dinner Party?
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