Domnhall Gleeson on Echo Valley

Kermode & Mayo’s Take

Sony Music

Tv & Film, Film Reviews, Tv Reviews, Film Interviews

4.4 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Vanguardistas have more fun—so if you don’t already subscribe to the podcast, join the Vanguard today via Apple Podcasts or extratakes.com for non-fruit-related devices. In return you’ll get a whole extra Take 2 alongside Take 1 every week, with bonus reviews, more viewing recommendations from the Good Doctors and whole bonus episodes just for you. And if you’re already a Vanguardista, we salute you. Our guest this week is the prounciationally challenging but very lovely Domnhall Gleeson, who sits down with Simon to talk about his new Apple TV+ thriller ‘Echo Valley’. In it, he plays the sinister dealer Jackie to Sydney Sweeney’s addict Claire—no more nice Domnhall. He and Simon talk accents, improv, and looking like a psychopathic Ronan Keating—don't miss it. Mark reviews ‘Echo Valley’, along with two more of the biggest big-screen releases this week. First up, ‘Tornado’, a Scottish Samurai tale starring Jack Lowden and Tim Roth as criminal heavies, and Kôki as the titular Tornado they are chasing down. Plus, ‘How to Train Your Dragon’: Mark delivers his verdict the live action (except for the dragon) remake starring Nick Frost, Gerard Butler and more. Some more excellent Jason Isaacs content too, and an iWttr mystery solved... Timecodes (for Vanguardistas listening ad-free): Tornado Review: 10:24 Box Office Top Ten: 16:46 Domhnall Gleeson Interview: 26:53 Echo Valley Review: 43:21 How To Train Your Dragon Review: 52:50 You can contact the show by emailing [email protected] or you can find us on social media, @KermodeandMayo Please take our survey and help shape the future of our show: https://www.kermodeandmayo.com/survey EXCLUSIVE NordVPN Deal ➼ https://nordvpn.com/take Try it risk-free now with a 30-day money-back guarantee! A Sony Music Entertainment production. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts and follow us @sonypodcasts To advertise on this show contact: [email protected] And to find out more about Sony’s new show Origins with Cush Jumbo, click here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This episode has been brought to you by Netflix. It's Ben here with a word on the next round of heavyweight docs. Netflix are releasing this month. I'm telling you, Netflix is the place for some of the hardest hitting true stories out there. Case in point, Grenfell Uncovered, which starts streaming on the 20th of June. Now, this feature-length documentary examines the disturbing chain of events that led to the Grenfell Tower fire in 2017.
0:23.3	And I'm not going to lie.
0:24.2	As a local, having already felt the horror and the pain of people so close to home, I found this a really difficult watch.
0:31.9	But the sadness and frustration and frankly anger, I felt, was a good reminder that the fight for justice continues
0:39.1	which requires strong emotions not apathy and also coming to netflix this month is train wreck
0:45.0	which is an eight-part documentary anthology series that's going to revisit some of the most gripping
0:49.7	sometimes even horrifying events that once dominated the mainstream media this is is kicking off June 10th with the Astro World tragedy.
0:57.0	So start streaming today for unmissable true stories only on Netflix.
1:02.1	Before we begin, a quick reminder that you can become a Vanguard Easter
1:05.7	and get an extra episode every Thursday, including bonus reviews.
1:10.3	Extra viewing suggestions.
1:12.0	Viewing recommendations at home and in cinemas.
1:14.7	Plus your film and non-film questions answered as best we can in questions, Schmestians.
1:19.1	You can get all that extra stuff via Apple Podcasts or head to extra takes.com for non-fruit-related devices.
1:26.2	There's never been a better time to become a Vanguard Easter.
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1:31.8	And if you're already a Vanguard Easter, we salute you.
1:50.2	Before we actually start this recording, what have you achieved?
1:50.8	This morning?
1:51.4	Yes.
1:52.5	Well, I'm here.
1:55.6	I mean, you know, I've got everything together and I'm hit.
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