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Film Stories with Simon Brew

In conversation with Mia Threapleton - The Phoenician Scheme, dyslexia, Tesco ClubCard

Film Stories with Simon Brew

Simon Brew

Tv & Film, Film History

4.9767 Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Mia Threapleton, in her teens, was obsessed with Moonrise Kingdom, and wanted to work with Wes Anderson. Fast forward to now, and she's the standout of his new film, The Pheonician Scheme. In this long interview, she talks about working with Wes, about how dyslexia affects how she processes a script, and why she keeps being stuck on trains when she gets important phone calls. The Phoenician Scheme is in cinemas now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

The Steakhouse Stack, with two layers of delicious beef, crispy onions and peppercorn sauce.

0:04.5

It's the kind of McDonald's you take photos of to put pride of place on the mantelpiece.

0:08.2

Sure, you'll need to make room, but you remember what your wedding day looked like.

0:11.5

The Steakhouse Stack. It's McDonald's, and then some.

0:15.6

Available to the 17th of June, served from 11am.

0:17.9

Subjects of availability, participating in restaurants only.

0:20.4

Hello, this is Simon

0:22.0

Brew. I'm the editor of Film Stories magazine and a very warm welcome to a very special episode

0:28.2

of the Film Stories podcast. Come with me. And I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes. In movies,

0:37.3

movies that had stories.

0:39.0

That the story just sucks a man.

0:41.4

This is just the beginning.

0:44.0

We would be honored if you would join us.

0:51.0

Hello and a very warm welcome to film stories with Simon Brew. I am Simon Brew as always. That's

0:57.3

absolutely everything you need to know about me. The aim of the podcast though, well, it's given away by

1:01.9

the title. I'm here to talk of the stories of films and I tend to talk about development stories,

1:07.2

production stories, marketing stories, release stories, all the ingredients really that go

1:11.4

towards making the films that we know and sometimes love, just that the films that we know

1:16.1

and sometimes love. The films I tend to cover on this podcast, they lead more towards the mainstream

1:21.3

than anything else. They're films I'm interested in or invested in to some degree. I try not

1:26.1

to do snark. I try not to punch down. This podcast

1:28.6

is a celebration of cinema and a real appreciation that somehow, somehow films managed to get

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