Simone Kirby: putting County Clare on the big and small screen map (Kneecap / Peaky Blinders / Calm With Horses) #619
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip
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🗓️ 20 May 2025
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip!
This week Pip is joined by absolute Irish acting royalty SIMONE KIRBY!
A rare treat here with the wonderful Simone catching up and checking in with Pip, in a celebration of so much of what makes the performances we see what they are. Simone's been putting in work on the stage and screen for a minute, and you will have surely witnessed her greatness in such projects as the ones in the episode title (and a cursory glance on IMDB), but it's always a valuable gift to hear about the life behind the lines. From growing up in County Clare and her origin story, to making it through the ranks of the acting path, as well as what a future in theatre could have looked like, moving to London, working with her husband and child, and an audition concluding with a simple note to tone down the Bond. How about that. Enjoy Simone, and catch up with the shows and projects she's involved in.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome, welcome, welcome. This is the distraction pieces podcast episode 619. And today I'm joined by someone |
| 0:08.2 | in my opinion, who is a living legend in acting. I'm joined by Simone Kirby. We get into it. We get into |
| 0:15.2 | some of the disrespect I have perceived in people not giving Simone her flowers, |
| 0:23.7 | Simone has been in some of my favourite TV shows and some of my favourite films. |
| 0:28.9 | We've kind of known each other in a way that you'll find out in the podcast for a good |
| 0:34.5 | while now. |
| 0:35.3 | But this is the first time we've properly met. |
| 0:37.5 | And honestly, this conversation was an absolute joy. |
| 0:40.3 | Both of us, it felt like I could, I don't want to speak for Simone, but it felt like |
| 0:45.0 | both of us came out of this conversation absolutely buzzing. |
| 0:49.3 | You know that when I have an actor on that I admire, you know I get particularly excited. |
| 0:54.9 | I don't have a lot of actors on at the moment. |
| 0:56.7 | I'm easing back. |
| 0:57.9 | I'm listening to you guys because there was a point where people were saying, |
| 1:03.2 | all you're getting on is actors. |
| 1:05.1 | And that was partly just because that's who gets pitched to me a lot. |
| 1:07.9 | But I've eased up on the actors, but I couldn't pass up on the opportunity |
| 1:11.3 | to talk to Simone, because I rate Simone massively. If you're not aware, right, Simone was in the |
| 1:18.5 | kneecap movie, Simone was in his dark materials, Simone was in peeky blinders, Simone was in love, hate, |
| 1:25.6 | Simone's in hidden assets, which you might not know about you, |
| 1:28.3 | but you're about to find out about, because it's one of my favourite shows at the moment. |
| 1:31.6 | Simone was in Calm with Horses, a film I've raved about for years, a film called Notes on Blindness |
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