Karen Gillan 🤣

Life is Short with Justin Long

Wondery

Comedy Interviews, Society & Culture, Tv & Film, Comedy

4.8 • 9.3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2022

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Karen Gillan (Guardians of the Galaxy, The Bubble) talks with Justin about how the C-word is used in her native Scotland, the long hours she endures in the makeup chair for Guardians and what it was like to film The Bubble during the pandemic.

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0:00.0	Hey, prime members. You can listen to Life is Short. Add free on Amazon music. Download the app today.
0:12.8	When we were young, Christian and I both had jobs as babysitters. We babysitters. You both have to be babysitters when you're kids.
0:19.0	We were like the babysitters club. Yeah, but we didn't have a club. You have a club with two people.
0:23.3	I don't know, but we babysat several kids, not at the same time.
0:28.0	But we there was one particular family. We don't want to mention their name, but they had two kids. One was a lovely girl and the other was a boy.
0:38.4	Much less love. Yes. Yes. And the boy, let's call him Ricky. Okay. So Ricky was a rambunctious little type.
0:46.8	He was probably about five years old, six maybe. And yeah, satanic vibes. He did.
0:52.4	He did. I've satanic vibes. He was like the omen. If you ever saw that movie and he once they had a pet snake, like a beautiful little like a delicate little snake.
1:03.4	One day, we found it without its head. And he was smiling. And I said, what happened to the snake? I know, everyone was panic. The girl was panicked. I was, of course.
1:14.2	And he just had this big smile on his face. And I said, what happened to it? And he shrugged. And I said, Ricky, what happened to the snake?
1:21.6	And he, his smile grew. And he just pointed to a stomach. And I realized that he had bitten that off and eaten it. Like a little Ozzy Osborne.
1:32.7	And you never babysat again. I don't think I did until I have my own kids maybe one day. Yeah.
1:38.8	Life could be a dream. Life could be a dream.
1:47.0	You're listening to Life is Shorts. I'm your host Justin Long, who no longer babysits.
1:59.4	And with me, as always, is my also no longer babysitting brother, Christian. We do occasionally babysitting for our nephews.
2:05.6	What am I talking about? We do. Yeah. We just don't babysit for demonic children anymore.
2:09.6	No, we gave that up. It wasn't worth it. It was a tough racket. And he also, this kid used to do a thing
2:16.0	where he was about crotch level. I was maybe 14 or 15. And so, you know, it was a time where I was discovering how precious my
2:23.6	crotch region was. And he used to do a thing where he would, don't flatter yourself. Well, no, to me.
2:29.4	Oh, okay. He would do it. This kid would do a thing where he'd hold out his fist like he was
2:35.9	Superman flying through the air and he would just run at you. And you wouldn't really know to the
2:40.9	few seconds before he approached. He was on you. And he was, he would just punch you right in the
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