Zawe Ashton • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #263
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip
Scroobius Pip
4.7 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2019
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Welcome, welcome, welcome to episode 263 of the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! A perfect conversation on all things theatre, art, culture, creation and all that these elements bring, with the powerful and awesome ZAWE ASHTON!
“You cannot work for an audience, you have to work for the truth of what you’ve created, and just trust that the response you get will be the truthful response and the right response”
This episode’s theme: HOLD YOUR NERVE.
What an epic one this is… A great back and forth with Pip and Zawe, who have crossed paths on a number of occasions but now find over an hour to catch up and all for our benefit! It only took them four years to sort out… In a way that’s worked out perfectly though, as there is just more to talk about! With Zawe currently starring in Harold Pinter’s ‘Betrayal’ at the Harold Pinter Theatre, she is fully immersed in the Pinter world (this podcast was also recorded there), and as such has a lot to add about his universe and the many facets thereof, but not before we go back into time and take a peek at the old skool spoken word days! From humble beginnings with poems scribbled on school folders, to being at drama school from a very early age, to Jungian mantras, to casting yourself in your own life, to being in an onstage ‘throuple’ and on-screen ensemble, to the many masks we all wear in our own lives, to her love of art and the abstract, to growing into her adult self and finding that flow state, to the trials of having her own play performed after years in limbo and SO much more including her new book 'Character Breakdown'… You’ll get much out of this one. Enjoy.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome, welcome, welcome. This is episode 263 of the Distraction Pieces podcast. How you're doing guys? |
| 0:07.8 | Thank you for tuning in. This week I'm joined by the Amazing as Ari Ashton. You'll hear |
| 0:14.7 | how long we've been trying to book this one. It's surprised both of us I think, as it didn't seem |
| 0:20.8 | quite as long as it's been, but it's an amazing chat. Before I get into it, thank you for the love |
| 0:25.6 | for last week's episode with Ron Perlman. Yeah, that was a cracking chat. I really enjoyed it. |
| 0:32.0 | I mean, this year in general, not that I, you know, obviously we've been going for five years now, |
| 0:39.7 | but a quick rundown if you're not up to date on this year. We've had Eddie Marce and Mark Miller, |
| 0:47.1 | Adam McKay, Richard E Grant, Joel Ligger, to Mary J. Blige, Joe Cornish, Lolly Had a faux-paste |
| 0:53.5 | even merchant, Stephen Knight, PC Leo McLeod, one of the biggest episodes of the year, |
| 0:58.7 | a Johann Harry Winston-Jute Jade Adams, Jamie East and Ron Perlman, and there might have even |
| 1:03.8 | been a secret episode in there somewhere. So, yeah, man, it's off to a hell of a start, right? |
| 1:11.1 | Thank you all for tuning in. I'm going to give some plugs up front. First of all, I want to really |
| 1:16.8 | plug as Zoe's new book, Her Character Breakdown. I'm adoring it. I literally, we recorded this |
| 1:23.8 | podcast on a Tuesday. I received the book Friday afternoon and I was two thirds of the way through |
| 1:33.0 | by the time we met to record. And it's because I just couldn't put it down. I'll normally, |
| 1:40.4 | obviously I like to read a whole book if someone's got a book out before a podcast, but because |
| 1:45.4 | I only came through last minute, I thought I'll read a chapter or two. And yeah, I think it's |
| 1:49.7 | amazing. The way she's structured it, it makes it so readable. There's some really important |
| 1:55.7 | insights and tales and stories there. And yeah, I really enjoyed it. As Zoe is also in betrayal |
| 2:02.9 | at the moment. In London's West End, it's at the Harold Pinter Theatre. A well-developed bus |
| 2:12.5 | saw is on Netflix to go give that a look. We discuss all these things, but I thought I'll give you |
| 2:19.2 | the plugs at the start because often people tweet me saying, what was that thing? And then, you know, |
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