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Brydon &

Máiréad Tyers

Brydon &

Rob Brydon | Wondery

Comedy

4.6597 Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

This week on the pod, Rob is joined by rising star Máiréad Tyers. Rob finds out how Máiréad got into acting and what it was like being cast by Kenneth Branagh, in his Oscar winning film, Belfast. The pair also discuss Máiréad’s first leading role in the Disney+ superhero series, Extraordinary. As well as their upcoming parts in the new fantasy period drama, My Lady Jane.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I spent seven months last year filming a new series for Amazon Prime called My Lady Jane.

0:10.0

And one of the other actors on that was Marade Tires.

0:15.0

Now, we didn't do that much together, but we would see each other.

0:19.0

So imagine my delight when I see that she's coming

0:22.3

in to talk to me, mostly about her Disney Plus show. It's a big hit called Extraordinary. First season,

0:31.5

already been shown, second season in the can, getting it ready to go. She's a very bright young, new talent, yet another

0:41.0

one of these actors that was accepted by Rada, which always gets my goat up. She tells us how

0:47.7

she came to go to Rada, the challenges of being there, and the very good fortune of being cast,

0:56.1

pretty much straight out of Rada in Rada President Sir Kenneth Branagh's Oscar-winning film Belfast.

1:02.2

As she says, she only does a little bit in it, but she does it very well.

1:06.4

And it's a mark of her talent that Ken spotted her and wanted her in the film.

1:11.9

We reminisce a little bit about our time on My Lady Jane,

1:15.8

and I think, generally speaking, had a fine time.

1:19.5

You be the judge as you lie back in the bath,

1:23.5

keeping your airways unobstructed,

1:26.0

and listen to Briden and Marade Tires.

1:37.3

We've shot a thing Marade and I know each other because we shot this big new thing,

1:41.9

which I think is coming out months away. I mean, we can't be

1:46.1

promoting it now, Marais. No, no, no. We could whet people's appetites, couldn't we?

1:50.8

What is my lady, Jane, that we've both filmed together? Well, I suppose, well, we'll start

1:56.8

with saying it's a drama, comedy, set in Tudor Times. Sometimes an excuse that for a comedy that isn't funny. That's not the case. It's not the case. It's very quick with it. We've already seen the first two episodes and we're rather pleased, won't we? Yeah, very pleased. And I think it's very, I mean, the writing of it was incredibly quick and there's such a clear tone just when you read script like it's all there but then not only that they've got like I think we can say there's incredible actors on it like they've announced everyone who's in it haven't they like you've got Jim Broadbent yourself and a chancellor like I couldn't believe it when I read the list of people that were going to be in it I was like okay, okay, contain myself here. They've got all the oldies that still have their faculties, like me,

2:38.6

Jim Broadbent, and a chancellor. And then they've got exciting new talent. They've got exciting

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