Xelia Mendes-Jones: self-tapes and screens of all sizes (Fallout / Havoc / The Wheel Of Time) #631
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip
Scroobius Pip
4.7 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 12 August 2025
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip!
This week Pip is joined by the incredible actor XELIA MENDES-JONES!
Such a great episode as Pip and Xelia catch up over everything involved with life on and off screen (I mean, mainly on-screen - but there's huge amounts on both sides). Xelia has led a unique journey from an initially very promising start in football right up to getting self-tape auditions sent out and landing some major roles in the process. Of course, you'll hear about the whole journey and a ton elsewhere too, as Xelia has a lot to report from said off-screen environments including navigating their path as a trans person. So much to enjoy and discover and Xelia's awesome company. You'll love this one...
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome, welcome, welcome. This is The Distraction Pieces podcast episode 631. |
| 0:06.9 | Oh man, I've got a hell of an episode for you this week. I'm joined by Zelia Mendez Jones and Shrines |
| 0:14.4 | who sat in the background and another person, Shrines is part of our Twitch community. |
| 0:20.3 | And that's where I originally met Zelia, but Zelia has then gone on to be this superstar |
| 0:24.8 | actor in Fallout, in Havoc, in Wheel of Time. |
| 0:29.3 | It's amazing. |
| 0:30.6 | And Zelia was kind enough to come to my studio in my hometown. |
| 0:37.3 | He made the trip out to Essex out to sunny essex and i don't know |
| 0:42.1 | the ones that happen in my studio just seem to have a different relaxed a different level of |
| 0:47.8 | relaxness i guess it's that feeling that we can overrun because there's not a time limit |
| 0:52.9 | we're not in a rented space we're not in someone else's not a time limit. We're not in a rented space. |
| 0:55.1 | We're not in someone else's space. |
| 0:56.6 | We're in my space where he can talk as long as we want. |
| 1:00.0 | Zili was great. |
| 1:01.0 | He was so just open and willing to talk about things. |
| 1:04.9 | There's some really interesting conversation about the development of women's football. |
| 1:10.2 | Like not a conversation I expected to have, but I didn't know certain parts of his story. |
| 1:15.7 | So I'm glad to get this story out there as such. |
| 1:19.3 | Where I bought you as ever by Speech Development Records.com, there's some stories over there, |
| 1:24.1 | whether it be my books or my Edinburgh Fringe show DVD, there's stories. |
| 1:31.0 | Oh, believe me, there's stories. |
| 1:33.2 | Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. |
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