JAMES NELSON-JOYCE • from a chance meeting in a chicken restaurant to a beautiful acting path ahead (A Thousand Blows / This City Is Ours / Black Mirror) #653
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip
Scroobius Pip
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🗓️ 14 January 2026
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip!
This week Pip is joined by the most excellent actor JAMES NELSON-JOYCE!
A delightful session with Pip and James, which will bring you adequately up to speed on all things past and present. A lot of seeds were sewn in a not-far-off Nandos where he bumped into Stephen Graham and Hannah Walters (two names which will create the warming glow you can feel from this episode), and from then on we hear about what followed including playing Stephen's brother in A Thousand Blows, how to play a chemistry read, building the backstory, the internalised shame of holding back the reveal of wanting to be an actor, school monologues, the arts being for everyone, and working as part of an ensemble. Naturally you'll be treated to so much more besides, but all in all you can trust that this one's a great one and your attention towards James's past roles will be rewarded!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome, welcome, welcome. This is the Distraction Pieces podcast, episode 653. And it's my first guest of the year. |
| 0:09.0 | Today, I'm joined by James Nelson Joyce, who as you will hear, I've been a fan of for a long time. I've been following him for a minute. |
| 0:18.9 | We're getting into that. James, James in a thousand blows is teamed up with |
| 0:24.4 | Stephen Graham. They play brothers. And just before this, I was watching, I got to preview |
| 0:31.8 | watch series two of a thousand blows. Absolutely adored it. So some of you know that Stephen Graham is someone that comes up a lot |
| 0:38.5 | on this podcast because he's someone that I'm a fan of, but also is a dear, dear friend. This episode |
| 0:44.8 | has a lot of love for Stephen and Hannah Graham. I will tell you up front and it's a beautiful thing. |
| 0:51.2 | But it's also got a love for James Nelson Joyce, who I think is just fantastic |
| 0:56.5 | in everything I've seen him in. And I've seen him in a lot. So it's great to sit down for the first |
| 1:01.6 | time and properly get into it. We brought you as ever by speech development records.com, |
| 1:06.9 | patron.com forward slash scrupious pip and twitch.tv.tv.4-Scribius pipyo. |
| 1:13.0 | A thousand blows. Series 2 is out now. If you didn't catch Series 1, binge that. It's on Disney Plus. |
| 1:18.9 | Binge that and then get into Series 2 because it's so good. I loved Series 1. I've raved about |
| 1:24.4 | series 1. I loved Series 2 even more. So go and get into that. |
| 1:29.9 | But for now, enjoy this episode. |
| 1:33.4 | Episode 653 of the Distraction Pieces podcast with James Nelson Joyce. |
| 1:40.5 | This piece of fiction is the intro to the distraction pieces. |
| 1:43.8 | This piece of fiction is the intro to distraction pieces. This piece of fiction is the insult to the distraction. This piece of fiction is the intro to the structure. |
| 1:47.0 | This piece of fiction is the insult to the structure. |
| 1:53.1 | Right, I'm here today with James Nelson Joyce. |
| 1:56.0 | How are you, man? |
| 1:57.0 | I'm good, mate. |
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