LENA HEADEY • how to navigate the maze of the acting world #662
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip
Scroobius Pip
4.7 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 11 March 2026
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip!
This week Pip is joined by one of the greatest to do it, please welcome LENA HEADEY!
Lena is a very esteemed colleague of the podcast and a treasured member of the past guests club (her debut on here was back in January 2018 no less) - and so it is a fabulous thing when there is chance of a reunion. And that is what we have right here! So much to talk about and catch up on, and Pip is coming in hot so you can expect a goody here. It crackles along at a nice speed all the way, featuring all the actorial nuggets and goodness you would want and just a straight up classic all rounder. Lena's a champ and always a pleasure to hear from so enjoy this one - it's a lovely episode.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome, welcome, welcome. This is the distraction pieces podcast episode 662. We got a superstar back in the |
| 0:08.9 | building. Third time guest, I think. Maybe third time, maybe fourth, at least third. I was so delighted to |
| 0:16.7 | once again sit down with Lena Heedy. Amazing human, amazing actor. |
| 0:21.4 | In our first conversation, I think I pissed everyone off |
| 0:24.5 | because we spent ages talking about Dread, |
| 0:27.1 | because I think it's such a good film. |
| 0:29.0 | And at that point, Lina was at the peak of her powers in Game of Thrones |
| 0:33.4 | as Circe Lannister. |
| 0:35.6 | So, yeah, I annoyed people. We did also talk Game of Thrones, just |
| 0:40.5 | Dred's really good, man. So I wanted to have Lainer on again to talk about a million different |
| 0:45.2 | things, and we get straight into it. It gets quite heavy off the bat, and I didn't warn Lainer of |
| 0:50.2 | this. I was just having a bit of a heavy day, I think. Straight off the bat, I started to throw some big subjects and topics out there. |
| 0:58.2 | And she reacted perfectly, as you would expect. |
| 1:00.7 | We're brought to as ever by speechdevelopmentreckels.com. |
| 1:03.8 | Patreon.com forward slash scrupious pip and Twitch.tv. |
| 1:06.6 | If you don't know. |
| 1:09.8 | Right. Let's get into this, shall we? |
| 1:11.9 | This is the Distraction Pieces podcast, episode 662, with the wondrous, Lena Heady. |
| 1:20.4 | Hello, Scroobius Pipi just interrupted my own podcast quickly, |
| 1:24.3 | because I've got some really exciting news for anyone who's even within reach of London. |
| 1:28.6 | The iconic Prince Charles Cinema in Leicester Square has asked me to put on a night of short films |
| 1:34.0 | that I've been involved in and I'm doing it. Thursday, April 9th at 6pm I'm going to be |
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