Ralph Ineson: ascending and adjusting, and being a larger than life character, literally (The Fantastic Four / The Office / Nosferatu) #628
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip
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🗓️ 22 July 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip!
This week Pip is joined by Leeds acting legend RALPH INESON!
We join Ralph in that limbo state of him being wrapped on a film but us, the public, having not yet seen it (at time of broadcast) - but playing the role of Galactus must be quite a trip, and certainly quite a height to come back down to Earth from. Thankfully Ralph is a delightful blend of proud but also humble, and we get to hear a perfect collage of tales from his career. From the early days of wokring as security to being a teacher and then - with echoes of Ed Skrein's past mantra - someone saying "Why the f•ck not?" in regards to whether or not he should give acting a shot... We also get to hear about the conflicts of playing, or maybe rather being associated with 'Finchy' from The Office, the strangeness of being part of the MCU which already has a very dedicated fanbase, and his 25 year old son leading the bootcamp for him in the MCU too. There's also the uniquely strange experience of playing Galactus and how that whole thing worked - but this is all for you to enjoy...! As well as Ralph's unmistakeable voice.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome, welcome, welcome. This is the Distraction Pieces podcast, episode 628. And this is an exciting week |
| 0:08.5 | because after over a decade of putting out at least an episode a week, if not two, this week's |
| 0:15.7 | episode contains the greatest voice that we have ever had on the distraction pieces podcast. I'm joined this week |
| 0:22.4 | by Ralph Ironson, who's a living legend in my opinion. I'd been talking, like we go into it, |
| 0:29.1 | but I tried to get a Ralph on back in 2019. And you may know Ralph as Chris Finch in the office. |
| 0:37.6 | He's in loads of the Robert Eggers film. |
| 0:39.7 | He was the dad of the family in The Witch. |
| 0:42.2 | And then he was in the Northman and Nosferatu. |
| 0:46.2 | It's just been in loads of really good stuff. |
| 0:47.9 | I proper adore this man's body of work. |
| 0:51.6 | And then out of nowhere, seemingly, and we get into this, he was cast as Galactus |
| 0:56.4 | in the new Fantastic Four film. Now, I'm a comic book nerd and Galactus is one of the biggest |
| 1:01.2 | villains and characters in Marvel history. So this was hugely exciting. And the story of how we got |
| 1:06.5 | cast and all that is amazing. But yeah, it's really exciting. The Fantastic Four First Steps is out this week. |
| 1:12.1 | If you're listening to this on day of release, I believe it's out tomorrow. |
| 1:16.1 | I couldn't be more excited about it. |
| 1:17.5 | I got to go to this preview event where there was an interview with the director |
| 1:21.8 | and with Pedro Pascoe, Vanessa Kirby, Joseph Quinn, |
| 1:26.8 | Ebon, fucking Richie from the Bear, in my opinion, |
| 1:31.7 | the best character in TV history, Julia Garner and Ralph Inison. |
| 1:36.7 | But there was also a preview, a footage preview screening, and I normally hate these, right? |
| 1:42.6 | I begrudge them. |
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