WILL POULTER (Midsommar / Detroit / The Bear) • Friday Rewind
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip
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🗓️ 30 January 2026
⏱️ 71 minutes
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emocleW, emocleW, emocleW to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip!
This is your bonus FRIDAY REWIND episode! Today, we catch up with Will Poulter, originally episode 167 from 2017-10-17.
Original writeup below:
In the midst of his current promo run for Kathryn Bigelow's 'Detroit', Will takes time to sit down with Pip for a long overdue chat covering - as you will have come to expect from the DPP - a crazy large number of bases... From the issues raised in portraying a violently racist policeman in 'Detroit' (and the poignancy of the film itself), a powerful back and forth is triggered with Pip and Will, which is the beauty of films like this and how an open discussion can be had which leads into so much more besides - race, politics, society, it's all here. On top of that, you'll hear his tale from the very early days back in 'School Of Comedy' and how his young foot in the acting world's door gave him the necessary inspiration for a full on career, Will drops some gems from his unique perspective on his experience with acting and his ascent from those younger days right up to 'Son Of Rambow', 'The Maze Runner' and 'The Revenant', the latter of which had him up alongside Leonardo Di Caprio and Tom Hardy no less. A rich and diverse filmography right there, which has in many ways freed him from his somewhat reductive nickname of 'that Weird Eyebrow Actor'. Get yourself involved, it's a goodie and as interesting as it is entertaining.
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| 0:00.0 | in Mo Clue, in Mo Clue, in Mo Clue. It's the Rewind episode. It's Friday. And I've got Will Porter on. |
| 0:08.7 | Now, Will, this chat is from back in 2017. It's the first time we'd met properly, I think. |
| 0:16.9 | But I adore Will. And I'm such a fan of him as an actor and as a human. |
| 0:21.7 | Like he does some really great activism. |
| 0:24.2 | He's in the bear, man. |
| 0:25.9 | It's probably the best TV show of all time. |
| 0:28.8 | It's up there. |
| 0:29.5 | It's one of the best. |
| 0:30.9 | Yeah. |
| 0:31.8 | Come on now. |
| 0:32.9 | It's Will Porter. |
| 0:34.4 | He used to come to my club night every now and then. |
| 0:40.5 | And even since this interview, |
| 0:46.1 | now I'm not saying it's because of this interview, but since this interview, he's just gone from strength to strength to strength. Career-wise and just physically, the dude's jacked. But yeah, |
| 0:52.8 | this is a beautiful chat. I hope you enjoy it. This is my |
| 0:55.5 | chat from 2017, September 2017 with Will Porter. |
| 1:01.5 | This piece of fiction is the intro to the structure. This piece of fiction is the intro to the |
| 1:07.0 | structure. This piece of fiction is the intro to the structure I said, this piece of fiction is the intro to the structure this is this base of fiction is the intro to the station. |
| 1:15.7 | And I sat down with Mike Skinner and spent 10 minutes |
| 1:18.9 | setting up as I've just done. |
| 1:21.9 | And he just laughed at me and said, |
| 1:23.3 | you know you can record these on an iPhone now, right? |
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