Dev Patel - Short Haul
The Travel Diaries
Holly Rubenstein
4.6 • 758 Ratings
🗓️ 21 January 2020
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
BAFTA winner and Oscar nominee, Dev Patel, is one of Britain’s finest young actors.
He first graced our screens in the seminal teen drama, Skins, before going on to make his movie debut in Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire, which picked up eight Oscars, including Best Picture.
He’s gone on to star in many more critically acclaimed films, including The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, and Lion, for which he won a BAFTA, and received Oscar and Golden Globe nominations.
Now, he’s taken the lead role in Armando Ianucci’s adaptation of The Personal History of David Copperfield, which is already a critic’s favourite.
Like in Season One, this episode I’ve called a "short haul" episode, because I didn’t have quite as much interview time as I normally do. The way that it tends to work with movie stars is you meet up in a hotel - in this case it was the Soho Hotel in London, which is a real celeb haunt - and you’re given quite a tight time slot before the next interviewer comes in. If you’ve seen Notting Hill, it’s like when Hugh Grant interviews Julia Roberts for Horse & Hound!
Despite literally just getting off a flight from LA, Dev was as warm and down to earth as he seems on screen, and having shot movies and travelled all around the world in some fascinating locations, I really hope you’ll enjoy hearing his travel diaries.
Destination recap:
- Gujarat, India
- Mumbai, India
- Chor Bazaar, Mumbai, India
- Alibag, India
- Tokyo, Japan
- South Korea
- Norfolk, England
- Koreatown, Los Angeles, USA
- Quarters, Los Angeles, USA
- Toe Bang, Los Angeles, USA
- Johannesburg, South Africa
- Soweto, South Africa
- New Zealand
Dev’s new movie, The Personal History of David Copperfield is out now.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Travel Diaries podcast. I'm Holly Rubinstein. I'm a travel journalist and editor. |
| 0:13.1 | And here each week I'll be speaking to a very special guest about their adventures around the world and the travel experiences and destinations that have shaped |
| 0:22.7 | their lives. Today I'm joined by one of Britain's finest young actors, Dev Patel. He first |
| 0:28.7 | raced our screens in the seminal teen drama Skins before going on to make his movie debut in |
| 0:34.6 | Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire, which picked up eight Oscars, including Best Picture. |
| 0:41.2 | He's gone on to star in many more critically acclaimed films, including The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel and Lion, for which he won a BAFTA and received Oscar and Golden Globe nominations. |
| 0:52.9 | Now, Dev's taken the lead role in Armando |
| 0:55.3 | Ionucci's adaptation of the personal history of David Copperfield, which is already a critic's |
| 1:01.2 | favourite. Like in season one, this episode I've called a short haul episode because I didn't have |
| 1:06.5 | quite as much interview time as I normally do. The way that it tends to work with movie stars is you meet up in a hotel. |
| 1:12.9 | In this case, it was at the Soho Hotel in London, which is a real slab haunt. |
| 1:17.3 | And you're given quite a tight time slot before the next interviewer comes in. |
| 1:21.3 | If you've seen Notting Hill, it's like when Hugh Grant interviews Julia Roberts for Horse and Hound. |
| 1:27.3 | You know what I mean? |
| 1:28.8 | Despite literally just getting off a flight from L.A., |
| 1:31.9 | Dev was as warm and down to earth as he seems on the screen. |
| 1:35.6 | And having shot movies and travelled all around the world, |
| 1:38.5 | I really hope you'll enjoy hearing his travel diaries. |
| 1:41.9 | So, let's hear from Dev Patel. |
| 1:50.9 | Deb Patel, welcome to the travel diaries. How are you? |
| 1:55.1 | I'm very, well, thank you. But nicely jet lag, so this is very apt. |
| 1:57.4 | Yeah. Where have you come in from? |
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