Is Wicked Pop-u-lar with Mark?

Kermode & Mayo’s Take

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

4.4 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2024

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Thomasin McKenzie is this week’s guest—star of Edgar Wright’s ‘Last Night in Soho’, Mark’s film of the year 2018 ‘Leave No Trace’—and now ‘Joy’, a new Netflix drama about the development of IVF treatment at Oldham hospital in the 1970s. Written by Jack Thorne, the film’s medical miracle story is focalised through McKenzie’s character Jean Purdy—a talented embryologist whose work was key to the team’s breakthrough discovery, but whose name was left out of the history books. She chats to Simon about putting Jean back in the picture in this latest in a line of meaty and challenging roles for the young actor. Reviews this week of ‘Blink’, a poignant documentary following a family determined to travel the world and create precious visual memories for their three children, who are losing their sight—and Amrou Al-Kadhi's debut drag queen drama ‘Layla’, which follows the story of the titular performer (Bilal Hasna) as they discover their confidence and creativity whilst navigating their queer Arab identity. Plus the much-anticipated stage-to-screen musical ‘Wicked’. The Wizard of Oz prequel stars Cynthia Erivo as green-skinned misfit Elphaba, and Ariana Grande as glam girl Galinda, both still witches-to-be as they forge an unlikely and rocky friendship at university. We find out if Mark thinks it’s going to be ‘Pop-u-lar'... Plus top quality correspondence from you and typical witterings from the Good Doctors as per. Our Christmas Spectacular with Mark and Simon live onstage at London’s Prince Edward theatre is now sold out! Event info here: https://www.fane.co.uk/kermode-and-mayo Timecodes (for our ad-free Vanguardistas): Blink Review: 09:30 Thomasin McKenzie Interview: 30:18 Layla Review: ~47:49 Wicked Review: ~57:00 You can contact the show by emailing [email protected] or you can find us on social media, @KermodeandMayo 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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1:01.2	T's and C's apply.
1:14.2	I want to see some naked dudes.
1:16.4	That's why I built this pool.
1:18.7	Is that it? We apologize for that scary start to this week's podcast as Mark is Blink 182 for reasons that will become clear.
1:32.3	I don't miss not hearing Blink 182, I have to say.
1:36.3	Well, I only used to hear them in the car when they were played by other members of the family.
1:40.3	But that is, I think that's the shortest, it's one of the shortest songs I've ever heard.
1:46.0	It is like 15 seconds long.
1:48.2	But no, okay, well that's good, but not as good as I think I might have mentioned before,
1:52.0	mega-armageddon death by the electro-hippies, which is on a John Peel session lasted one second
1:58.3	and is a single guitar chord.
2:04.9	And I, well, I was doing the evening session going up to John Peel. And because Radio One had broadcast a Genesis concert, the evening show had been
2:12.3	reduced instead of two hours to like 40 minutes. But Phil Ross, who was the producer,
2:17.3	decided that we were going to play exactly the same
2:19.1	number of tracks.
2:19.9	But to do that, every song had to be two minutes or under.
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