S2E3: King and Commoner
Foundation: The Official Podcast
Apple TV+
4.6 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 28 July 2023
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Lou Llobel (Gaal Dornick) sits down with Jason and David to talk about Season 2, episode 3, “King and Commoner.” David and Lou debate just how similar Gaal and Hari are and discuss the dangers of meeting your heroes. Lou also shares her thoughts on new characters Hober Mallow and Bel Riose and takes us behind the scenes on filming in the sand dunes of the Canary Islands. Jason closes by asking the question on everyone’s mind: How did Hari get his body back?!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, and welcome to Foundation, the official podcast from Apple TV Plus. |
| 0:06.6 | I'm Jason with Subcione, and this is your guide to the galaxy from |
| 0:10.1 | Trans-Tour, to Terminus, and hundreds of millions of other world spaces |
| 0:13.3 | a big place. We even make it smaller and brighter and add some context. |
| 0:17.0 | Everything you see on the show, every week I'm recapping and breaking apart |
| 0:20.6 | every episode of season two with Foundation Showrunner and executive producer |
| 0:24.0 | David Eskoyer. Welcome back David. Thanks for having me. And today we're |
| 0:27.7 | talking about episode three, King and Commoner, with a super exciting special guest. |
| 0:32.3 | Today with us is Lou LaBelle, who plays Gail Dornick. Welcome Lou. Hello. |
| 0:37.4 | Great to have you. Thank you. Let's start with a quick recap of this third |
| 0:42.7 | episode written by Lee Dana Jackson and Jane Espenson, and directed by you David. |
| 0:47.4 | We open with Harry telling Gail and Salvor that they're heading to a planet |
| 0:52.3 | named Ignis, but then they get to the planet and surprise he lied. I know how |
| 0:56.2 | the math works. It doesn't design travel a tineraries. It does now. It's an old |
| 1:01.4 | imperial mining planet with these massive, arachnid machines sticking out of |
| 1:06.3 | the dirt. Harry takes Gail on this little pilgrimage through the sand, and they |
| 1:10.4 | argue the whole time and kind of philosophical questions that they're going |
| 1:15.6 | over in their head. We're here at the Radiance Behast. It's not some detour |
| 1:20.7 | keeping you from what you want. What I want is to slap you. They get separated |
| 1:25.7 | in the mountains when Harry vanishes with Kale, the legendary scientist |
| 1:31.0 | mathematician who is maybe a manifestation of the Pride Radiant. We're not |
| 1:36.3 | not gonna turn over that card. We also meet Bel Rios, the imprisoned |
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