Hello and welcome to another episode of IWave with Jimmy Lijamel. I hope you're well. I'm great.

This week I have a guest that I have wanted to not just have on my podcast, but I've just wanted to

kind of properly properly meet her and chat to her and I've selfishly used all of you as an excuse

to do that. Her name is Zoe Lister Jones. She is an actress, a writer, a producer. She's just one

of the funniest and coolest and most unique people on television and I'm completely obsessed. I

have been for years since I was much younger than I am now and I've just kind of grown up alongside

her, watching her career and just kind of marvelling how different and wonderful she is.

And so I asked her to come onto my podcast to talk about her film, How It Ends, because I thought

it was a very poignant story for what's happening in the world right now. I mean, she literally

shot it mid-pandemic. It's not about the pandemic, it's about a kind of alternative version of the

world ending. And I think there was a large period of time in which we all kind of felt like that

was happening. I think there are still days now where it feels that way when we're watching the

news and learning about the climate. And this film is about what you do if you found out you had one

day left on earth and it's so introspective and relatable and such an interesting idea and it kind

of just led to a really big conversation, not just about the film and about, you know, how much

of that came from Zoe in and of herself, but also her life as a filmmaker, what it was like to

shoot in the middle of a pandemic, what it's like to be able to use your role as a woman in power

to usher in other women to build your team around as a, on a film set. But we also talked a lot

about her mental health, something that she's been very open about and was especially candid.

I think more so than on some other podcast she's done. So I felt very honored that she was open

with me where we talked a little bit about eating disorders, anxiety, depression. She does, I just

wanted to trigger warning you all. She does mention suicidal ideation, but we talk about it for

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