Karen Gillan

Podcrushed

Penn Badgley, Nava Kavelin, Sophie Ansari

Comedy, Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Today’s guest is the wildly talented Karen Gillan, the actor you know from major franchises like Guardians of the Galaxy, Avengers: Endgame, and Jumanji, as well as her breakout role as Amy Pond on Doctor Who. Karen talks about her early days growing up in Inverness, Scotland, and how her relentless teenage ambition landed her an agent (spoiler alert: she cold-called every casting director and agent in Scotland until one of them agreed to represent her).

Karen’s new movie, The Life of Chuck, is in theatres everywhere now!

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0:00.0	Lemonada.
0:06.1	I'll start by saying when you said we start at 12.
0:09.5	I thought I was being reprimanded for being 12 minutes late.
0:15.4	Andrew, you brought me back to being 12 years old.
0:17.6	I was like, whoa, oh, no.
0:20.2	Welcome to Pod Crushed. We're hosts. I'm Penn. I'm Navar., whoa, no. Welcome to Pod Crushed.
0:21.9	We're hosts.
0:22.7	I'm Penn.
0:23.6	I'm Nava.
0:24.3	And I'm Sophie.
0:25.4	And I think we would have been
0:26.3	your middle school besties.
0:27.6	Writing Legolas and Aragorn fanfic.
0:29.9	Ooh, steamy.
0:33.8	Welcome to Podcrush.
0:35.9	I am your host, Penn Badgerley, joined by my co-host.
0:38.8	Sylvia and Sauri, Neva Kavalin, and if you're watching,
0:42.6	yes, I am wearing Podcrushed merch that is no longer available.
0:46.2	You can't even eBay it.
0:47.7	Yeah.
0:48.7	Wow.
0:49.3	Actually, maybe you could.
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