Danny Boyle • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #276
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip
Scroobius Pip
4.7 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 2 July 2019
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Welcome, welcome, welcome to episode 276 of the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! In continuing with Pip’s stellar lineup of screenwriting and directing heavy hitters, he is joined this week by none other than the great DANNY BOYLE!
Of course, you already know Danny through his past crowning glories including Trainspotting, T2, 28 Days Later, Slumdog Millionaire, and a good large handful of other classics. So as far as introductions go, you know who you’re here for! Danny is out and about right now putting in the good work in support of his new film ‘Yesterday’, which presents a world in which the Beatles don’t exist. It’s a premise which poses question upon question and kind of demands your viewing time, and you’ll hear all about it here, including the sheer importance of the band, the goal of fame in today’s world, how important rehearsal is (VERY!), the mechanics of recording on set and how live recordings were achieved, finding the right lead in Himesh Patel, the balance of melancholy and joy in the Beatles’ music, representation and deepening the talent pool which dovetails nicely into how the Beatles wouldn’t play segregated crowds, and the importance in soundtrack in a Danny Boyle film which is none more resonant than in this film right here! Greatness. Your troubles will seem so far away after this one, folks.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome, welcome, welcome. This is episode 276 of the distraction pieces podcast. Thank you for tuning in again. |
| 0:06.9 | Last weeks was one of the biggest reactions we've had and part of that reaction was excitement about this week. |
| 0:13.7 | So last week was Charlie Brooker and this week we've got Danny Boyle. |
| 0:18.0 | So man, after Jed MacUaryo the week before, this is a who's who are British writers and directors. |
| 0:25.5 | So yeah, I'm really excited to have Danny on. It was great to sit down and chat with him. |
| 0:31.4 | One of the easiest people to talk to I've ever met just instantly. |
| 0:35.4 | It felt like the most relaxed and casual chat. So I'm sure you're going to enjoy this one. |
| 0:41.0 | Oh, we're talking about his is no film yesterday, which is in cinemas now. |
| 0:45.5 | Obviously we talk about other things as well, but that's what we're primarily here to talk about and I loved it. |
| 0:50.3 | I did a tweet about it because I mean, |
| 0:53.1 | we talk about it in the podcast, but on papers like I don't know if this idea has got a film in it. |
| 0:59.1 | It might it might be like a black mirror episode, but I don't know if it's a whole film, but |
| 1:03.7 | it's fantastic. Honestly, I really enjoyed it. So I won't ramble on too much. |
| 1:08.6 | As ever, there's patreon.com slash screws.pip. You can head there, |
| 1:13.6 | Parliament of the month will have just come out or will it just be coming out? It will have just |
| 1:18.2 | come out. So there's Parliament of the month will be up there. We do the distraction pieces rewind |
| 1:22.3 | every third Monday of the month and there's loads of cool stuff and previews and stuff over there. |
| 1:26.7 | It's a dollar a month going get involved and obviously speechdevelopmentrequels.com is where |
| 1:31.7 | all my stuff and merch is at loads of summer stuff, but let's get on with a podcast. |
| 1:36.4 | This is episode 276 of the distraction pieces podcast with the legend Mr. Danny Boyle. |
| 1:52.3 | Right, I'm here today with I mean, I live in legend. Danny Boyle, how are you doing, sir? |
| 2:12.1 | I'm good. I'm living still. I don't know about the other bit. I went to say with sir Danny Boyle, |
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