Elle Fanning

Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster

Plosive

Comedy, Comedy Interviews

4.8 • 20K Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2025

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

Emmy and Golden Globe-nominated actor Elle Fanning – star of ‘The Great’, ‘Super 8’ and the new ‘Predator: Badlands’ movie – is this week’s dining guest. But is her new film better than ‘The Nutcracker in 3D’?

‘Predator: Badlands’ is in cinemas from Fri 7 Nov.

Follow Elle Fanning on Instagram @ellefanning

Watch the video version of this episode on the Off Menu YouTube on Thu 6 Nov

Off Menu is now on YouTube: @offmenupodcast

Follow Off Menu on Instagram and TikTok: @offmenuofficial.

And go to our website www.offmenupodcast.co.uk for a list of restaurants recommended on the show.

Off Menu is a comedy podcast hosted by Ed Gamble and James Acaster.

Produced, recorded and edited by Ben Williams for Plosive.

Video production by Megan McCarthy for Plosive, and Felipe Franco.

Artwork by Paul Gilbey (photography and design).

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Lucy Beaumont.
0:02.0	And I'm Sam Campbell, as a matter of fact.
0:03.9	Perfect Brains is one of the most enchanting podcasts. The effect it has on people is astounding. That is what we've heard, isn't it? Yeah. This changes people's lives. If you had to sum it up, how would you sum it up? An in-depth look at sumo wrestling and the scandals, because it used to be considered so
0:21.9	honourable, like sumos, and they all live together, Sumos. No two podcasts are the same. Do you remember that one where I just messaged loads of Derricks? I don't think people know that. I emailed 100 Derricks. I don't think it was Derricks. I thought it was Brian. Sorry, Brian. Yeah, Lucy emailed every Brian on Facebook.
0:40.4	Our podcast is out every Friday. It's really easy to remember.
0:44.1	It's like if you've got an office job, it's the first day you feel alive again.
0:48.3	Lucy and Sam's perfect brains, one of the hottest podcasts. People are going crazy for this podcast.
0:53.4	Yeah, please give it a listen. We're loaded up
0:55.3	on buzz balls. We've got a Laboooo in both hands and we are ready to screech. Welcome Welcome to the off-menu podcast, taking the raw steak of conversation,
1:18.1	chopping it up with the capers of humor, adding an egg yolk of friendship,
1:25.5	mixing it all up, maybe add some mustard of great chat, put it on a plate, a sort of steak tartar, I think I'm going for there. Sometimes I don't know when to interrupt because I don't know what the dishes. Sometimes I don't know what I'm going to. I don't know what this is. You didn't know what that was? Raw steak with all those things in it? I thought you might be about to cook the steak, maybe.
1:44.5	No man.
1:45.4	No man.
2:00.1	No man. No man. Raw steak. Raw ta-ta-ta-ta-ta. Ugly dogglery. That's, uh, oh, that's Ed Gamble. What? My name, I thought I'd probably talk like Ned Flanders for this one. No? Okay. Ned Fiders from the Simpsons You can look for the intro
2:01.2	But when we have a guest done
2:02.4	I'd rather you spoke like yourself
2:03.9	Time will tell Ned Flanders for this one. No? Okay. Ned Flanders from The Simpsons. You can do it for the intro, but when we have a guest on, I'd rather you spoke
2:03.4	like yourself.
2:04.5	Time will tell.
2:05.2	That said Gamble.
2:05.8	My name is James A Cassid together. We own a dream vest time. Every single week, we invite in a guest. And we ask them, guest. And we ask them their favour ever. start a main course.
2:13.1	Dessert,
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