Hello, are you doing? I'm Craig Parkinson. You are listening to the two-shot podcast.

Sit yourself down, pop the kettle on. We're going to have a nice old chat.

Who's in with this week? I'm going to tell you right now.

Hello, it's me. It's all right there. How the devil I am. Is that better? Yeah, it's me. Hello, I'm back.

Don't, don't, don't, don't be like that. I understand. I understand your frustration. Trust me, I've been frustrated too.

Apologies to everybody. And no, there's been a slight drought in episodes over the past few weeks.

What's your excuse, Craig? Well, it's been really busy. It's been super busy. And also, you know, I'm a bit of a stickler.

I want to always find the right guest for this podcast. Of course, people ask to come on, but sometimes I just don't think it's a good time or it's a good fit.

But this week, I am thrilled to welcome the actor Mark Bonner. And my God, it is a perfect fit.

I loved this conversation. Love talking to Mark. Look, you're going to know Mark from his groundbreaking, I think I can say.

I can say groundbreaking performance in London, duty in series two. And he's beautiful hysterical heart-breaking performance.

And that's not an oversight in catastrophe.

I was on Channel 4, if you're in the UK. And look, just to put it out there, you know what these conversations like, especially when I'm talking to actors,

I kind of don't really get into the ins and outs of the actor. Well, on this episode, we kind of do, but don't come back. It's fine.

There's no sides. There's no in jokes. I kind of approach it from a very human aspect of the business and work and ethics and rejection.

So it's something that, you know, everybody can take something away from it. And I really think that you get such an essence of who Mark is.

And we talk about, you know, the side of family member Mark, and I'm going to work Mark and the slightly versions, there's personas, but it's a great conversation.

And I'm so thrilled that after a few weeks off, we are kicking it back off with the majestic Mark Bonner.

What else do I have to tell you? Well, also the second apology. And don't think that I don't know about this, that I'm aware of this, that yet I'm really proud of all the episodes that we've been doing over the last four, six, eight weeks.

But one thing is they've all been very male heavy and we pride ourselves in casting the net far and wide with our guests. But don't worry.

We've got some incredible female guests coming on. It's just about timing. The timings have been so frustrating of late.

So don't think that this has turned into a great just talks to bloats podcast because you know it ain't that and it will never be that.

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