Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street with Michael Cerveris

Blank Check with Griffin & David

Blank Check Productions / Talkhouse

Tv & Film, Society & Culture, Comedy, Film Reviews

4.6 • 6.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2019

⏱️ 111 minutes

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Summary

Tony award winning actor, Michael Cerveris, joins Griffin and David to discuss 2007's film adaption of the renowned Stephen Sondheim musical, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. Why did Tim Burton cut The Ballad of Sweeney Todd? Does Michael have a take on National Treasure: Book of Secrets? Timothy Spall goes big? Together they examine how the film holds up against the live production, the trailer lacking singing, letter writing with Sondheim and Michael's experience portraying Sweeney Todd in the 2005 Broadway revival.

And check out Michael Cerveris' band, Loose Cattle!

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0:00.0	🎵RankJack with Griffin and David🎵
0:20.5	At last! My podcast is complete again!
0:24.9	He's not a pirate!
0:26.2	I can't get that laugh!
0:27.6	His voice is so weird and awes.
0:29.7	I'm just a chat lost.
0:31.5	The one I wanted to find was Alan Rickman saying,
0:34.9	you gandered four times in a row.
0:37.1	Oh!
0:38.0	You gandered, you gandered.
0:41.1	I can't do it.
0:42.1	Hey, I can't do Rickman.
0:43.1	You can't do Rickman and I'll say you don't remember the line.
0:44.6	Right.
0:45.6	But you know that part where he catches Jamie Campbell Bowie.
0:47.8	Oh, my ward.
0:48.8	Right.
0:49.8	And he just keeps on saying, gandered over and over again.
0:52.2	And that's like, that's my new ASMR.
0:54.5	I had forgotten what a sort of pleasurable physical response I have to hearing Alan Rickman
1:01.3	say gandered five times a row.
1:02.8	You gandered at her.
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