Mathew Baynton
Brydon &
Rob Brydon | Wondery
4.6 • 597 Ratings
🗓️ 14 December 2023
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
From Horrible Histories to haunting performances, this week's guest never plays The Wrong Mans- it’s Mathew Baynton. Rob explores what it was like working on the star studded, highly anticipated Wonka, Mathew’s upcoming role as Bottom in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and stepping into new characters in the crime dramas Murder is Easy and A Good Girl's Guide to Murder. The pair also discuss what to expect in the final episode of the hit BBC series Ghosts.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, first of all, thanks for coming back. How many podcasts are there? Over 12. And you've chosen us. |
| 0:08.7 | When people come on my podcast, they will often have something to promote. Not Matthew Reese. |
| 0:17.1 | He's done it twice with, I think on either occasion, anything to promote, just there for the fun of it. |
| 0:22.1 | This Matthew, today's Matthew, Matthew Bainton, came in with me thinking he had four separate projects, turned out in the course of the conversation. |
| 0:33.1 | He had five. |
| 0:35.3 | He is a busy, busy man. |
| 0:37.2 | You may have first stumbled upon Matthew Bainton in horrible |
| 0:42.5 | histories, and then you probably saw him progress to yonderland, and then you probably |
| 0:48.6 | witnessed the success, the phenomenon that is ghosts, more of that later. |
| 0:54.8 | I'd worked with him on Gavin and Stacey. |
| 0:59.0 | He's one of Gavin's friends who comes down from Essex for the stag |
| 1:04.7 | when Brin says, there's no way you're getting me out in Cardiff tonight. |
| 1:09.4 | And Matt plays Dino, who comes down having learnt a few words of Welsh. |
| 1:14.9 | So there's some background for you. |
| 1:16.9 | We're a lovely conversation. |
| 1:18.0 | He has all these things coming out. |
| 1:19.9 | Wonka, the new Wonka film, for heaven's sake. |
| 1:22.8 | The Ghosts Special. |
| 1:25.6 | He's about to go into the theatre. Look, there's loads. Why don't you listen to him |
| 1:30.7 | instead of me? What a delight, Briden and Matthew Bainton. |
| 1:43.9 | Oh, joyous laughter. |
| 1:46.0 | Before we've even begun our interview, my guest today is he knows. |
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