Live Christmas Spectacular with Nia DaCosta and Jason Isaacs

Kermode & Mayo’s Take

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

4.3 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2025

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Some exciting news—The Take is now on Patreon: www.patreon.com/kermodeandmayo. Become a Vanguardista or an Ultra Vanguardista to get video episodes of Take Two every week, plus member‑only chat rooms, polls and submissions to influence the show, behind‑the‑scenes photos and videos, the monthly Redactor’s Roundup newsletter, and access to a new fortnightly LIVE show—a raucous, unfiltered lunchtime special with the Good Doctors, new features, and live chat so you can heckle, vote, and have your questions read out in real time. To those of you who joined us for our Live Christmas Spectacular at the Prince Edward Theatre in London’s West End last weekend—thank you for being a fabulous audience and we hope you had as much festive film buff fun as we did. To those of you who couldn’t be there—fear not! This week’s Take brings it directly to your ears. Recorded live from the auditorium, it’s stuffed full of more goodies than your Christmas stocking, including interviews with Nia DaCosta on next year’s 28 Years Later sequel The Bone Temple, and Jason Isaacs beamed to us chatting about whatever he was doing in a massive conference centre in New Orleans... Plus reviews of some brand new films you can watch in cinemas and at home this holiday: Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery—the latest instalment in the whodunnit franchise that’s fast becoming a Christmastime screen staple, starring the fabulously accented Daniel Craig as detective Benoit Blanc and Josh O’Connor as a priest at the centre of the case—alongside the stellar ensemble cast we’ve come to expect from Knives Out. Plus we’ve got Goodbye June—the directorial debut from Kate Winslet that sees a dysfunctional family thrown together when their matriarch falls gravely ill at Christmas. The ensemble cast includes Helen Mirren, Toni Colette, Johnny Flynn, Timothy Spall, and Andrea Riseborough, alongside Winslet herself—and its screenplay was penned by her son Joe Anders. Kate Winslet will be joining us for an extended Christmas special interview on the Take—so you’ll hear a little sneak peek of that too. And finally, on a less festive note we’ve got Lurker—a fame and fandom psychodrama about a retail worker who becomes part of a pop star’s inner circle. We’ve got a Christmas cracker edition of the Laughter Lift too (oh you lucky things). Enjoy it, and we hope to see some more of your fabulous faces in the audience next year! Timecodes (for Vanguardistas listening ad-free) Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery review: 11:19 Nia DaCosta Interview: 19:27 Christmas Cracker Laughter Lift: 42:22 Lurker review: p1 47’17 Jason Isaacs interview: 48:50 Lurker review pt 2: 1:00:53 Goodbye June review: 01:05:35 You can contact the show by emailing correspondence@kermodeandmayo.com or you can find us on social media, @KermodeandMayo Please take our survey and help shape the future of our show: https://www.kermodeandmayo.com/survey 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: podcastadsales@sonymusic.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This episode is brought to you by Mooby, the global film company that champions great cinema.
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0:22.3	food and cinema.
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0:29.5	one battle after another and you think, wow, that Paul Thomas Anderson, he can really direct,
0:33.7	then check out Phantom Thread. Also, the fantastic performance by Daniel Day Lewis and Vicky
0:39.1	Creeps and a brilliant Leslie Manville with an amazing score by Johnny Greenwood, which is one of
0:44.1	my favourite scores of recent years. The whole film is an absolute miracle. Just don't eat the mushrooms.
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1:03.7	enough in a day? Let's say you've spoken about your new book for the first time, recorded our
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1:11.1	for subscribers, maybe rehearsed with a band, you know, like the gang of three, that kind of thing.
1:15.5	I'm getting tired at just a thought. Well, when you've done enough, Uber eats. Get my favorite meals.
1:22.8	Well, food, snacks, shopping, all the Epicurean delights which your heart desires. Imagine hopping onto that sleeper
1:29.9	depends ants. And as you're pulling out, you open Uber eats and have them deliver what you want
1:34.8	as you arrive home. What are you getting, would you say, in an ideal world? I don't know,
1:39.9	a plate of sushi and some ice cold Japanese beer. I have to say my favourite is the slightly guilty
1:45.7	last minute emergency supermarket delivery when you've just come back from holiday and you
1:50.8	realise you've got like nothing in the house at all. So when you've done enough, order some food
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