Family Trips with the Meyers Brothers - JUNO TEMPLE Took a Trip to the Galápagos

Episode Date: August 18, 2026

This week on the pod, Seth and Josh welcome Juno Temple! Juno talks about growing up between Los Angeles and rural Somerset, and the Grand Canyon inspiration behind her name. She shares memories of ch...ildhood trips to Peru and Machu Picchu and the Galápagos, summers in the South of France spent thrifting and exploring flea markets, and her lifelong love of vintage fashion. Juno also reflects on growing up around Glastonbury, and her early experiences on film sets, including working on Tom Petty shoots as a child. Plus, she talks about the return of Ted Lasso! Watch this episode on the Family Trips YouTube or Spotify, or listen wherever you get your podcasts! Watch more Family Trips episodes: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlqYOfxU_jQem4_NRJPM8_wLBrEEQ17B6 00:00 Introduction with Seth Meyers and Josh Meyers 07:00 Joshua Tree Game Weekend 14:52 Juno Temple Joins 23:17 Growing Up LA to Somerset 31:53 Family Trips Galapagos Story 36:21 Flea Markets in South of France and Vintage Finds 45:08 Girls Trips 49:15 Machu Picchu to Punk Roots 55:17 Grandmother and Growing Up 58:30 Glastonbury Memories 01:00:57 Joe Strummer Stories 01:09:04 Grand Canyon Goodbye Support our sponsors: Fitbod Get 25% off your subscription or try the app FREE for seven days at https://Fitbod.me/trip Avocado Go to https://avocadogreenmattress.com/trips to check out their mattress and furniture sale. Mint Mobile To get your new wireless plan for just 15 bucks a month, go to https://MINTMOBILE.com/trips. That’s it there’s no catch. Upfront payment of: $45 for 3-months, $90 for 6-months, or $180 for 12-months, plan required, $15 per month equivalent. Taxes & fees extra. Initial plan term only. Greater than 50GB may slow when network is busy. Includes up to 20GB hotspot. Capable device required. Availability, speed & coverage varies. See https://MintMobile.com Song Title - Ms. Vintage Finds | Parody Of - Mr. Brightside by The Killers Josh Meyers performs “Ms. Vintage Finds,” a parody of The Killers’ “Mr. Brightside,” weaving Juno Temple’s adventurous childhood and lifelong love of vintage fashion into a playful musical memoir. From family trips to the Galápagos and Machu Picchu to Glastonbury, South of France thrifting, and her obsession with iconic designers, the song celebrates Juno’s eye for giving one-of-a-kind pieces a whole new life. Family Trips is produced by Rabbit Grin Productions. Theme song written and performed by Jeff Tweedy. About the Show: Lifelong brothers Seth Meyers and Josh Meyers ask guests to relive childhood memories, unforgettable family trips, and other disasters! New Episodes of Family Trips with the Meyers Brothers are available every Tuesday. Executive Producers: Rob Holysz, Jeph Porter, Natalie Holysz Creative Producer: Sam Skelton Coordinating Producer: Derek Johnson Video Editor: Josh Windisch Mix & Master: Josh Windisch Episode Artwork: Analise Jorgensen Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:31 Hey, Sufi. How are you? I'm good, how are you? Good, I'm in my childhood bedroom. Yeah, I can see that. Yeah. And I hear that the real talk of the town has been cucumber-based. Yeah, I'm home visiting mom and dad.
Starting point is 00:00:46 I'm about to do a charity event for Casa, New Hampshire, that's court-appointed special advocates, and the Granite State Children's Alliance. It's a wonderful, two wonderful organizations that look out for the kids in our home state. And I'm home and I would say mom and dad, 85% of their conversation has been based around cucumbers. Do we have one in the house? Should we go buy another one?
Starting point is 00:01:07 Where do you get cucumbers? That's been a big conversation. I don't live here. And I was in the backseat. Mom keeps offering to put me in the front seat, but I'd rather just be in the backseat. It's more like watching a show. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:01:23 It's more like listening to a podcast. called talking cukes. And so... And there's a lot... So anyway, then mom and I, we went to Whole Foods, and again, the amount they talked about cucumbers, I assumed the intake of cucumbers was going to be massive. So I thought we would maybe buy 50.
Starting point is 00:01:49 And instead, Mom said, no, I think we just need one. And then immediately the next morning, There was discussion about how we're running low on cucumbers. Now, how are these cucumbers being consumed? Great question. Great question. Thanks for asking. Bagels. Dad likes cream cheese and he likes cut up cucumbers on his bagel and cream cheese. Like little quarter-sized slices of cucumber.
Starting point is 00:02:18 Gotcha. Well, that's nice. Doesn't seem like you'd go through that many cucumbers. No, I feel like somebody's absconding with a little cucumber and off hours. Right. So a lot of talking about cucumbers. The other thing is mom, I finally had to tell her to stop remarking on why cars are in parking lots and also that it's not a mob scene. So we pulled into the bagel place as well once we got the cucumbers, obviously. You know, we needed a delivery system for the cucumbers.
Starting point is 00:02:52 And so we pulled into a bagel place. There were seven cars for 24 spots, let's say. And mom's like, this place is a madhouse. And I was just beside myself with the misuse of madhouse. Then we went in. We were the second person in line behind a guy who made what was an incredibly normal bagel store order. He just, you know, he ordered a dozen bagels. there was a selection.
Starting point is 00:03:22 Sure. Then we made our order, and then we walked out and hurries like, that took forever. It was a madhouse in there. I'm like, what is your definition of a madhouse? Yeah, I'm starting to think our house might be a madhouse. I mean, I think every, yeah,
Starting point is 00:03:39 it might be, by the way, any house that hurries in might be a little bit nutty. And, but then we went, we then went to their, their go-to restaurant last night, The Copper Door. Copper Door. And I will say the Copper Door was a madhouse.
Starting point is 00:03:55 Yeah. Genuinely. No place to park. And mom and dad, as well, they should be based on the amount of money they spent at the copper door treated very well there. No, I mean, mom's getting points. Mom's getting points. They had to start a loyalty program because they felt bad that mom was there so often without
Starting point is 00:04:11 any perks. She did say that her and her friend Deb go there for, like, they go once a week and they sit at the bar for two hours. Mm-hmm. And they each only have one drink. And then they tip really big because Harry was saying, you know, we feel bad that we take up two stools. Yeah. Because the place is, as established earlier, a madhouse.
Starting point is 00:04:37 Also, she was saying, yeah, Deb gets a shot glass of vodka and then just in a glass of water. And she just sort of keeps watering down her shot glass after each day. It seems like, I don't know. It seems like they're doing a lot. lot of, I don't know, acrobatics to figure out how to make a drink last two hours. Yeah, real chemistry. A lot of chemistry going on. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:05:01 She also, last night, mom ordered a martini, very James Bond of hers. And then dad ordered the fridious drink on the menu. Yeah, you sent me a picture of that. Yeah. Just, just think of, like, the orangest you've ever seen a drink look. I mean, I assume we've talked about this on here, but mom has moved past her phase of carrying around cocktail umbrellas, which she used to carry.
Starting point is 00:05:32 And if dad would order such a drink, she would just pop it into his drink to emasculate him. Yeah, to shame him. They did. I feel like one of the reasons she doesn't do it anymore is he has learned, because they did say when they brought his drink, the waitress said, do you want a straw? And he said no.
Starting point is 00:05:51 And I feel like, you know, I think he's learned to just drink him with no adornments. Yeah. Apologies for the barking. That's all right. I also have been posting some photos of Albert. And a lot of people think Albert looks like a human being in a dog suit because he got real people eyes. He got real people eyes. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:06:17 He's such a good dog. He's always so excited when we come home. He's a great dog. Dad was admitting today, and it was nice to have him admit it, that he, you know, again, six dogs all named Albert. First one when we were in middle school, you and I. Yeah. And he was saying he can't really make a distinction
Starting point is 00:06:37 between all the Albers over the years. Sure, I can't. Yeah, I remember the first two have the most impact on me because that was when we were living at home. But, uh, one of the ones. One thing we were saying is clear is that none of them have been agnostic about how they feel about dad. Yeah. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:06:55 That affection goes both ways and pretty, it's like a head-on collision of affection between dad and a sheep dog. He, your dog, at least your dog had the decency to bark during the daytime. Albert, for some reason, lost his mind at like three in the morning last night, started barking. Oh, yeah. And he's got that real scream. It's a real loud bark. Yeah. It's a real loud bark.
Starting point is 00:07:18 But it's very nice to be home, and you're going to be joining us too. Yeah, yeah, I'm popping on a red eye tonight. That's great. Yeah, I'll be there in the morning. What else's been going on with you? I don't know that we talked about this. Correct me, if I'm wrong, but I went to a friend's birthday party out in Joshua Tree last weekend. And it was a competition.
Starting point is 00:07:44 and you had to go into it with the mindset of there will be games. You will participate in these games. You're not going to be on time. If it says, like, meet in the living room at 315. You'd be there at 315. There were points that would accumulate over the course of the weekend. I think also pretty well established you and I like games. Yeah, we are those who enjoy games.
Starting point is 00:08:11 Gamers. Yeah. So this is the third. time this buddy has had this party. It's the first time I have been invited. And so a lot of these people, I feel like, have competed in the past. And, you know, there was a, we went, we went bowling. A lot of it was inside. It was in Joshua Tree, but it was like 112 degrees outside. So you couldn't do much outside. But we played some pop darts, which is a great game. How do you play Pop darts?
Starting point is 00:08:41 Pop darts are these little, imagine darts that have a suction cup on both sides. Okay. You each have three darts, and then there is sort of an aim, which has a bigger suction cup that's shorter, squatter. And so you throw that one, and that sets the mark, and then you're just trying to get closer. Great. Ideally, your pop dart sticks and stands straight up. closest Pop-Dart to the mark scores three points. Every pop-dart
Starting point is 00:09:12 standing scores one point. If you land it on the sort of base itself, that's 10 points. And so lots of games. Competitive Uno, round of competitive Uno, it was maybe going to be Texas Hold'em, but I think a lot of the
Starting point is 00:09:30 competitors weren't familiar. And Uno won in a vote. I really tip my cap to the the host who recognized that maybe Texas Holden. Maybe a mistake, yep. Yeah. What was, can I ask a quick question? How many, how are the teams for how many, did you say?
Starting point is 00:09:49 It was like sometimes you were teamed off. Like there was one game where McKenzie and I were a team, which two person teams, I think there were 14 of us total. And it was the one game that was outside and there were dice that were thrown in the pool. So the first round was just for time. Your two people, eight dice thrown in the pool.
Starting point is 00:10:15 One competitor goes in. The other one can sort of look and see where the other dice are, die, dice. You couldn't get all the dice in one thing. Each competitor had to go in once, at least. As soon as you emerged from the water and put your hand on the wall, then your teammate could dive down,
Starting point is 00:10:35 try to get the rest of the dice, and you do that until you got all of them. So McKenzie and I won round one, which was just sort of like setting the point at about 30 seconds. Wow, okay. Next round, two teams going simultaneously, two different color dice, 10 dice,
Starting point is 00:10:54 and when they're thrown into the pool, you have to look away. Oh. So you don't see where they're going. So that was fun, and that was the next round was the semi-final. So there were four teams left, so two and two. The number one seed played the four seed.
Starting point is 00:11:11 Two and three played each other. McKenzie and I advanced out of that. And the last round, ten dice again, two teams, but the dice were all black with either yellow pips or black with green pips. And if you ever came up with one of the other dye that you weren't supposed to have, they all go back in the pool. Wow. So that was really fun.
Starting point is 00:11:38 And I will say McKenzie and I smoked the other team. Do you think this is, in the end, was your advantage that you're better swimmers, better eyesight? What do you think it was that led to the smoking? I don't know. I think maybe a bit of both. I think a bit of both.
Starting point is 00:11:56 There was also, there was some user error from some early teams that should have learned, but like we were wearing goggles and we were given goggles. by the hosts. And some people would jump in and their goggles would instantly fall off their face and you can't have that. Oh, just people are bad at goggles.
Starting point is 00:12:16 Yeah. So I would sort of, you know, almost pencil my way in but holding the goggles against my face, let the bubbles clear and then start. So I think that was one of the keys to our success. But at the end of the weekend, awards were given out.
Starting point is 00:12:34 McKenzie was given. the MVP, which she's sort of like meddled in everything. She scored on the higher tier of every event. And then they give out an award for
Starting point is 00:12:49 the highest average score per event and highest total score. And I'm proud to say I won both of those. Wow. Yeah. What a weekend for you. Yeah, really was. Congratulations. Came home with some
Starting point is 00:13:05 Now, you know, and I think we can say this because, you know, we're keeping it pretty anonymous. But when you first clocked that group, were you like, oh, I fucking got this? I wasn't, but one of the first things was bowling. And I don't think of myself as a great bowler. It was two, we had two frames, two games. Yeah. And I had a 125 and a 144 and that handily beat everyone. Yeah. And people were like, did you just, you just set the level for our listeners in a way that I think was really helpful.
Starting point is 00:13:41 Yeah. They, a lot of people were like, did you like grow up bowling? Like I was in leagues as a child and I just went to birthday parties. Mm-hmm. And maybe figured out how to throw a ball straight. Yeah. I'm always, I'm always a little confused by people who can't just get a ball down an alley. Interesting. At this point in your life, I don't know if it's like, well, I mean, I guess if you haven't, the thing about it is, if you've never done it, I feel like there's very little you do in your life that is developing a bowling skill other than bowling.
Starting point is 00:14:18 Every time you bowl, do you have an opportunity to learn a little bit more? Yeah. You know what? If there's anything you can take away from today's episode. Judo Temple, very excited to talk to Juno Temple. Yeah. Ted Lasso is back.
Starting point is 00:14:38 Ted is back. Ted is back. That means Juno's back. Keeley's back. And again, you know, I remember we talked to her in late night about her incredible turn on Fargo. Yeah. Season five, I would say. I think that's right.
Starting point is 00:14:53 I think that's right. John Hamm season, great year that she was absolutely stunning in. So can't wait to talk to her. Thanks for listening, everybody. Hello. Hello. Oh my God. You're beaming.
Starting point is 00:15:27 You're beaming. Well, I've got a very good team that help me beam. Oh, we love our team beamers. We sure do. We sure do. How are you? I'm so pretty good. How are you?
Starting point is 00:15:38 Good. You must be getting run ragged with a very, it's very exciting when a beloved show has a new season after a long break. It is. It's a very, it's a special moment. And it's a moment that when you're tired, that becomes second. That's good. Yeah. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:15:53 Were you at the L.A. premiere? I was, yeah. Oh, I was there too. I did not see you. But we're old pals of Brendan Hunt's who plays Coach Beard. I'm sorry, who? Yeah. Yeah, you probably don't have to give the role they play, Push.
Starting point is 00:16:08 Yeah. I thought the L.A. premiere was such a special experience because at the end of that second episode, it felt like for a moment in time, all these different types of people in that cinema room, you know, different pronouns, different colors, different walks of life, different beliefs, different, all the, just different types of people.
Starting point is 00:16:24 And it was like a unit of positivity for a moment afterwards. And I thought that was a really, I thought it was a really profound thing to be a part of. Yeah, that's great. And in the Academy Museum, which is a great new museum in Los Angeles, just great theater. And I was sort of in that, for the party, I was in the room across the way from the main room. Okay. And then I realized like, oh, where is everyone? And then walked over.
Starting point is 00:16:51 and it was like, oh, this is where everyone's been. This is where it's happening. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I also, I see you very often. I don't know if you live near me or if you're just passing through, but I live near a Gelson's. You do?
Starting point is 00:17:04 I see you very often and you always have great determination and purpose, and I feel like you're always grabbing flowers. I love fresh flowers. And I'm probably always in my pajamas in some kind of sweat. I mean, you're moving with such speed that I've always resisted saying hello. and introducing myself. No, next time stop me in my tracks. Do it? Well, now we've met.
Starting point is 00:17:25 Yes. Okay. Well, I think if we, do you ever, is it, I think it's rude to stop someone in their pajamas because you assume they're either running home to bed, you know, you don't. Or are they okay? Are they okay? Do you have somewhere to go? Are you coming from somewhere?
Starting point is 00:17:38 Have you escaped? I know this is rude. Have you escaped from somewhere recently that maybe your family had arranged for you to live? I auditioned for a movie at one point in my career, and I thought I'd really put together my look. Because I'm guilty of being quite grungy. I don't have an in-between.
Starting point is 00:17:55 Like, smart casual is really not my MO, which is probably quite a good thing for an audition smart casual, right? And I've never really nailed that look. I'm either kind of ready to go out to a big event or I'm in, my friends say homeless. So I, and I did this audition
Starting point is 00:18:12 and I thought I'd done quite good. And I felt positive about it. Reach out to my team. They were like, they're actually not going to send your tapes to the head of the studio because they asked us about your look. They, in fact, asked us if you had potentially slept in your car the night before. And I was like, I don't drive.
Starting point is 00:18:28 So obviously not. It was like, that was my reaction. So, yeah, it took me a minute to kind of realize that you have to sort of go into an audition space trying to look as much like the character as well. They thought that you maybe read it as dumb casual? Well, yeah. So this is amazing because ultimately, because this is a podcast about family trips, We eventually at the end ask all our guests about their relationship with the Grand Canyon because it's such a family trip's destination.
Starting point is 00:18:58 And yet for the first time, this is truly amazing. We have someone named after part of the Grand Canyon. Yes, you do. You do. So Juno Temple is a part of the Grand Canyon. Well, I think the Juno Temple of the Grand Canyon, what's great is will always keep me humble because there is something more beautiful, older, wiser, with more kind of perspective of the universe than I will ever have. And I love that. So, but your last name, your parents' last name is Temple, though.
Starting point is 00:19:25 It is, yes. Gotcha. All right. So they were halfway there. And then they were like, oh, my God. They were actually standing on Juno Temple whilst my mom was pregnant with me and watching the sunset. Because I was originally going to be called, I think they were playing with Violet, which is now my middle name. And they were like, you know what?
Starting point is 00:19:43 Let's call her Juno. And then what was amazing is when my mom had me, she went back to, my parents were living in L.A. at the time, but my mom had flown to England to be with her mother to have her first child. And I was born in a hospital in London. And all the nurses had Juno on their brooches, on their like name tag things. My mom was like, what the, am I fucking tripping? What's this? And actually, Juno is the Roman goddess of children and light, too.
Starting point is 00:20:11 Unbelievable. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it is, as far as how did you get your name stories go, tough to be. It's a pretty great one. Tough to be that people with the surname temple were standing on Juno Temple and had a daughter on the way. Yeah, pretty great. I think our names were from the TV guide.
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Starting point is 00:25:39 Terms and more at applecard.com. So, uh, you were, your parents were in, uh, L.A. at the time, but you grew up in England or were you all over the place? So I spent my first sort of five years in L.A. I actually grew up in my parents, without realizing it, bought the house that was in the original Halloween, that was the Michael Myers house where he murdered his sister. Okay. Which they learned on the first Halloween they spent there and there was a tour bus that showed
Starting point is 00:26:09 up being like, and this is the original Michael Myers house. That makes it very clear they told the realtor maybe don't mention it. Maybe, right? Yeah, totally. Also because I think you can maybe think that it was a real murder. Like if I say the original, like my house, people like, oh my God, so there's actually a murder there? I'm like, no, no, it was actually a movie murder. It wasn't a real murder.
Starting point is 00:26:27 Right, right, right, right. But so I spent the first sort of five years in my life in L.A. and then moved to the middle of nowhere, Somerset in England. And that's where I actually, you know, kind of shaped who I was as a little girl. And then I moved back to L.A. in my late, at the end of my teens into my early 20s. And that's where I sort of shaped myself as a woman, I guess. Oh, yes, fantastic. But so where is Somerset for those of it?
Starting point is 00:26:54 Like, how far outside of London were you? It's about two and a half to three hours southwest of London. So it's kind of smack bang between the end of England, which is Cornwall and London proper. So, yeah, it's about, you know, depending on how fast you drive, two and a half to three hours. Got it. And was it a very pastoral upbringing? It sounds like it. It's where, it's what is, it's an extraordinary.
Starting point is 00:27:18 place to walk around and look at, because it's where all the romantics wrote their poetry. Where Byron and Coleridge and William Wordsworth, they wandered the hills and wrote their poetry about this incredible part of the world. So it's, it's very beautiful. It's also very remote. Like if you have a power cart where I grew up, you had no power for a good three, four days. I also grew up in a 750-year-old farmhouse, so that's got its own personality. There's been a lot of feet walking around it and um and my parents have kept a lot of the old actual original architecture of the house so that was a pretty special place to grow up and my my dad has got proper green thumbs and he would he's built the most incredible garden there and i was obsessed with alice and wonderland as a little girl
Starting point is 00:28:03 and he would create things like there was a hedge that he put in the garden that was shorter on one side and taller on the other so i could run up and down it and feel like i was growing and shrinking you know i I think the house was literally a place where as a child, you could do nothing but let your imagination run absolutely wild. And your parents are both artists, correct? Well, no, my mom's actually, she's much more organized than most of us in the family. It's helpful, by the way. You want to have one organized it. You can't just have five artists.
Starting point is 00:28:33 But the youngest brother, because I'm one of three, and the youngest brother is also incredibly organized. But my mom used to be a film producer. film with my parents had a production company together my dad is a film director um but my mom is now a therapist actually oh great fantastic yeah yeah um and two younger brothers two younger brothers one who is four years younger than me and one who is four years younger than me and the one who is four years younger than me is a poet um and uh appropriate yeah appropriate it's crazy a very handsome poet that is doing his PhD at Cambridge University at the moment on full scholarship yeah and i see he's an exquisite human they're two of my favorite human that's two of my favorite human
Starting point is 00:29:11 in the entire world. And then my youngest brother actually now lives in L.A., which is very nice for me. But he went to school to be an astrophysicist and now is doing really amazing graphic designing for a very cool company of whether you collaborate with a kind of artist and a brand to create clothing and other things, too. That's fantastic. Do you feel like you were one of the reasons he moved to L.A.? Do you think he would have if you weren't there? I like to think so because I think both of my brothers are brave and bold, but I I think it was definitely easier for him to have. I mean, but at the same time, you know, I'm a slightly agoraphobic, weird big sister.
Starting point is 00:29:48 It's like, you know, does a lot of kind of, I'm a fiddler. I like to do things like make jewelry and sketch and write little weird bits of poetry. And I make clothing and stuff, but it means that I'm always a little bit late for things because there's just that one little piece of jewelry that I just should fix before I leave, even though I don't probably need to. But I, no, it's, I mean, I think having my brother in L.A. has been such a source of joy for both of us. Because on the weekends, you get to hang out with family,
Starting point is 00:30:21 which hasn't been possible in a while. Because even when you're working in places like home, like England, you're not there fully on your terms, right? You're there on a schedule that is important to keep up. And so sometimes being able to be a part of everyday life with family isn't doable. We've remarked on this podcast many times when like friends of mine come back to New York City to work, I'm so excited because I am under this false impression that we're going to hang out. And the reality is when you actually work on TV shows or movies, you have less time than maybe any other job. Yeah, sometimes.
Starting point is 00:30:56 Yeah. Yeah. Did you, were you aware of how special where you grew up was as a kid? Do you think you appreciated it early on? I do think I did the early part of living there. And then I think in my early teens, I wanted the city. I wanted to be able to walk around kind of places where I felt like I could be growing up by myself, I guess, in a weird way of like going and having explorations where you wouldn't have to depend on a car. Because it was the middle of nowhere.
Starting point is 00:31:25 Like you can't really get anywhere by foot. And I still can't drive. I can't really do anything with wheels, which is... It's maybe your brother came out to L.A. to, like, take care of you. to help me. Well, I can do everything in high heels, which is good. You know what I mean? I can run through an airport in a pair of stiletto glittery high heels.
Starting point is 00:31:45 Which is more important for an actor because ultimately they don't let you drive. When you're an actor, they don't let you drive whether you know how to drive or not. Or they ask you to and then you give it a go and they're like, you know, we're just going to push you. We're just going to give it a push actually. Or we'll get someone that looks like you and yeah. Exactly. I just saw Nathan Lane on Broadway and he doesn't know how to drive. In the beginning of death of a salesman, he drives a car.
Starting point is 00:32:07 all of 10 feet, but an actual physical car drives onto the set. And he basically admitted he's white knuckling at it every night. Every time. Because again, like if you don't know how to drive, like the last thing you want to do for the first time you drive is drive straight towards an audience full of people. Totally. Totally. In a space where like that could cause a lot of damage. Yeah, a lot of damage.
Starting point is 00:32:28 Yeah, a lot of damage. Yeah, a lot of. Could you grab a train from Somerset if you were on your own wanting to go into London? Was that doable? I would need my parents to drop me off. the train station or my brothers who now both can drive beautifully. And I, but then there was a train that would take you directly to London, actually. So that was, that was great.
Starting point is 00:32:47 And I actually went to boarding school from age 14. I chose to go and be somebody that stayed, stayed at school and do that whole thing. And that was both great and also complicated. Boarding school is a weird place, but also a wonderful place. Where was your boarding school? How far away from Somerset? So the first one I went to was actually in Somerset. It was in the local town.
Starting point is 00:33:07 And then that one wasn't really the school that kind of helped encourage me as an individual, quite an eclectic teenager that was interested in, I wanted to create surrealist lingerie. And I, you know, lived in kind of creating characters and couldn't do maths. Definitely never did geography. Like there were subjects that I wasn't very good at. Yeah. And so then I went to another school that was just outside of London in an area called. Peter's Field, which was a school that very much encouraged each individual child to kind of be as wild and free as they wanted to whilst also saying, but let's just pass the math exam,
Starting point is 00:33:50 and then you can paint all you want. We'll set up private canoeing lessons for you to figure out, but we've got to just get past these grades, you know? It was a school called Bidale, so it was great. And I actually started acting the summer before I went there. And then they also were very great with letting me kind of go and do. some jobs when I was in my last two years of school. And that school had a great surrealist lingerie program, yeah?
Starting point is 00:34:14 Yeah, very niche. Yeah. Top three. Top three in Southern London. Honestly, one of the top three in the world. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. So what were vacations like when you live in a place that it sounds like great many people would want to go spend a vacation there? So, you know, the draw to Somerset is obviously some kind of a dream vacation for a lot of people. Like, where would you guys go as a family? So my parents, I remember a really iconic holiday
Starting point is 00:34:42 that my parents took us on, which was one of the biggest holidays still to date that I've been on, where they took us to South America. So we went to Peru, and we went to Machupechu and Arakipa, and then we went to Guatemala, and we went and did the kind of, like, Darwin exploration of going and being a part of the wild in, oh my God, what's it called?
Starting point is 00:35:12 The Galapagos? The Galapagos. Thank you. Yes. And we went and stayed on a little boat doing that, which was unbelievable experience. Again, I remember there was another family on this boat with us, and they had just been literally hiking in the rainforest as a family. And I weirdly had this kind of strange moment.
Starting point is 00:35:29 If I'd arrived with sort of platform flip-flops and beaded chokers, and like matching Britney Spears kind of five bikinis. And we were on a boat in the Galapagos Islands. And there was a girl who was sort of similar age to me who was so much more prepared for that kind of existence. And suddenly feeling a bit kind of threatened that I was like, well, I have to keep up with her. I'm going to be able to do all the things that she can do.
Starting point is 00:35:54 And there being a moment where there was this giant, incredible sea turtle. And she just leapt over the side of the boat to go swim with it. And I was like, well, I've got to do that too. And I leapt and then a manta ray swam underneath me. And I had a moment of absolute paralysis and she had to come and save me. And it was such a humbling moment. I was about 15 turning 16. But I also had kept my choker on for this entire trip and got home and had a sun tan
Starting point is 00:36:23 of this kind of braided choker that went on for that year. So great. Yeah, it was a pretty iconic juno moment. And yeah, yeah, classic moment. And my mom was like, you might want to take it off. I'm like, absolutely, I will not. So that was an amazing, that was an amazing holiday. I love that you both, one, wanted to show your peer that you were built for this.
Starting point is 00:36:43 And two, also constantly let her know you weren't by not taking off your choker. Totally, exactly. Trying to make her do joint dance routines and stuff, which then, you know, I'd be like, I can do this. And then it was like, absolutely couldn't do any of the things that were the most exciting things to do in a place like that, which is just to explore. It's very funny to think of her saving you from, the Manta ray and then having it being like, well, it's not a big deal. I'm sure I'll have another chance in my life to swim with a sea turtle. And a giant Manta ray won't paralyze me.
Starting point is 00:37:10 Yeah. But I also grew up going to the South of France with my parents as well. We would go there in the summers and go and sometimes rent places or sometimes my parents have a great family friend who's got a place in the South of France. And so I have such great memories of being surrounded by the cicadas and the like smell of lavender oil around there. And that's a very precious group of memories. What was it south of France vacation?
Starting point is 00:37:32 Like, what did that offer that was not, like, sort of available at home? At the time, heat was a big thing. You know, I think obviously, climate change is fucking everywhere. It's so, it's so real and so happening. Like, in England, I don't know if you guys are aware of the heat waves that are going on there. It's like, England is not prepared for that. So that's new. Now, that's a new experience.
Starting point is 00:37:52 We're getting, like, New York balmy, like, weighted weather right now there. But so going to the South of France was a way to go and actually feel like you had a summer holiday. because it would be warmer than it ever got in England. Also, there are, you know, I mean, it was France. The things that you get, their food, the experience of going to explore these old chateaus and being a part of seeing history from a different perspective. Also, my parents both speak,
Starting point is 00:38:17 my mom speaks complete fluent French. She went to a French lise, and then my dad speaks pretty flawless fluent French too. So going and trying to learn the language, which again, I wish I was better at languages. because my brother that's at Cambridge speaks four different languages. And I, yeah, it's extraordinary. His ability to be able to inhabit language because he told me, I love this.
Starting point is 00:38:37 He said, you know when you really speak a language when you start dreaming in it? I was like, wow, there's the poet in him coming out right there. It's like, so that was another thing that we would try and, we would try and speak French there. And then there were these incredible flea markets that we go to. I'm a huge vintage lover. I love vintage from head to toe on my body. but also vintage furniture, vintage art, vintage, I'm a big, I'm a big fan of things from the past and giving them a story that's alive today, you know, and that was a big part of me and my mom would
Starting point is 00:39:12 go to the flea markets in the south of France and go and sift through these great little kind of nighties or vintage beautiful kitchenware and like beautiful glass bottles that you'd fill with lavender oil and bring home and things. Yeah, so I remember that being a really beautiful experience too. I am genuinely jealous of that, the joy of that kind of shopping, because I feel like if you're in a place where that's available, that is such a wonderful way to, like, actually spend time. Oh, my God. And also, if you, like, if you go into a vintage shop and you decide to talk to the people that are running it, the amount of knowledge you can gain from different time periods of where fashion came from and why it was iconic in that moment and how groundbreaking it was,
Starting point is 00:39:58 in this element, but then how suddenly there were moments where all the big fashion houses were doing this or what was changing and how you can recognize iconic brands and why. I'm a big, I've always loved fashion and I've loved that it's kind of like an expression of yourself that you walk into a room with, right? And collecting vintage is something that I've always found to be really just exciting. And I love taking friends vintage shopping. Was your mom so excited to sort of have a running buddy for vintage shopping? Is it something she loved as well?
Starting point is 00:40:29 She's always loved vintage. Yeah, thrifting. Because she was in L.A., she would love going for thrifting in L.A. when she was younger, too. But then she also has great stories of her and her best friend shopping as Adina Laya back in the 90s and being like, we're going to go treat ourselves to a great piece, you know, and things like mixing in some of the iconic pieces in her wardrobe that I know she did buy new, but then a lot of stuff was thrifted. Always. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:40:52 If a proprietor of a shop told Seth some of the great detail about an. item in a vintage shop, he would probably just go, uh-huh, and how much, how much is it? How much is it sent? Does your, does your heart start to race when you feel like you discover a piece? Like, when you feel like you have an eye for a thing that is this buried treasure that only you truly appreciate the value of? Absolutely. It must be so exciting.
Starting point is 00:41:19 I get so excited about that. I mean, I'm wearing an outfit today that's actually one of my sets, which is a second, You know, it's from... Vintage isn't a complicated word, because I guess people are saying it now about the 90s and about the early 2000s. I would say that's probably a secondhand or recycled at this moment in time. But you can use the word vintage for it, too, of course. But I think, like, I've been collecting it since I was like 14 years old.
Starting point is 00:41:41 And being able to wear things now that I have had in my wardrobe for a long time in press moments because they have these kind of new beats of life. And actually, as Keely Jones, I use quite a lot of my personal pieces in her wardrobe. and having stories with things that you add to an additional story that's already kind of been created from the past. I don't know. I feel like it gives something a little extra something. And I feel honored to have worn something that feels like it still has life to live. And the quality of the way things were made.
Starting point is 00:42:12 And there's more fast fashion now, even with the big houses, you know. And so I think these lines and these cuts and these shapes that were created, I'm a big fan of the kind of early 90s fashion, especially when Tom Ford was doing Gucci in the lines that he would put these incredible beauties of, you know, models and women that were doing all different types of careers. But the fact that it just felt like it was celebrating different shapes of bodies and like a bias cut dress, which was obviously a big thing in the 1930s. And that being brought back into this sort of, again, when John Galliano was doing Dior and he would do these really funky prints of like denim silk, but it would then be this incredible. incredible bias cut dress. So it felt like a kind of punk rock version of a 1930s movie star gown or something. And I love all of that. And I've always, and my godmother was a costume designer, actually, and did a lot of music videos with my parents back in the 80s into the 90s in L.A.
Starting point is 00:43:11 And she taught me a lot about vintage, too. And the moment when you find a piece that you're just like, wow, this is a one-off thing. Like that Ozzy Clark in the 70s was somebody that I really appreciate too. And I remember finding these incredible black crepe trousers that were high-wasted. They were fucking great on the ass. And they had these little cherry, no, sorry, little strawberries stitched all over them. And they were a piece that I was so excited to a fact. And when they fit me, I was like, oh, my God, oh, my God.
Starting point is 00:43:38 You know, these moments that, and I think there's this Vivian Westwood coat that I have that I can't believe I own sometimes because it was from a Romeroke collection in the early 90s. And it was just such an iconic piece. And I sometimes just'm like, I can't believe I get to wear that. I love it. And also, you know, I think there's an element of being excited to find things because there will be a character one day that will get to use them because I don't always have the confidence to wear the pieces that I own.
Starting point is 00:44:03 And that's something that I love about Keely Jones is that she's like, she's confident to walk into a space wearing a bonkers outfit and feel really good in it. And that's been a gift for some of my items that have been looked at in my wardrobe but not been properly worn. What a wonderful outcome. Yeah. You mentioned Tom Ford. I'm a huge fan of Tom Ford. I've been lucky enough to meet him.
Starting point is 00:44:24 He's a lovely guy. He's a fantastic film director. I think he's a new movie coming out, which is the best. But his son is friends with a son of another person I know. And that person was going on a vacation that Tom Ford was going to be on. And he was so, he's just like a dude like me. And he's like, I don't know what to wear. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:44:45 No shit. Yeah. To be. And by the way, I don't, by the way, I don't think this is anything that. Tom Ford is, I do not think, sitting in judgment of anybody, but it's impossible to see yourself through. You are putting yourself in the other side of his eyes looking at you and you're like, I don't. My thing is, I would just want things to be tailored properly for me. Yeah, right.
Starting point is 00:45:05 I feel like you can wear whatever you want, but you want it to fit your body. Good fit, right, yeah. Yeah, and I remember doing a movie a long time ago. And I was on the job for about 10 days, but it was filled with a lot of grit. It was the last installment of the Christopher Nolan Batman. And I remember just sitting in the hair and makeup trailer And just seeing these incredible suit pants Passed by in the mirror and being like, oh my God, wow,
Starting point is 00:45:28 Those are incredible trash. And it was Gary Oldman. And I remember just being like, those. But it was the way they fit him. And the fabric that was chosen, he was like, I get these, yeah, I love getting pieces made. And I was like, that's why it's so showstopping because it is made for your body.
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Starting point is 00:48:34 In partnership with Airbnb, I'd like to share a travel story, Sufi. Oh, share it with me. And then everybody else can listen. Yeah, well, I went down to San Diego Comic-Con recently and I didn't, you know, not such a Comic-Con guy. So I knew that I wanted to have a great place that I could go to get away from sort of the hustle and bustle of the convention. And I found this beautiful little
Starting point is 00:48:57 apartment right on Balboa Park. I had these great hosts that I saw when I got there and I saw when I left and I did not see them in between at all. I was in this cozy little hideaway. I had a lovely patio that was all mine. You love a patio. I love a patio. I had a little kitchen. I had a little table to do some work at. I had a couch that was very comfortable that I could have slept on, but I also had a little bed and a loft. And it just put me in a neighborhood in San Diego
Starting point is 00:49:25 that I've never spent any time in. I would get home in the evening, walk around, I found great restaurants, I found a great record shop, and I just felt like a local, and I was not a local, and it was only possible through Airbnb. It's a wonderful story.
Starting point is 00:49:41 If a table is in a kitchenette, can I call it a table at? table at. Sure. Okay. You're going to allow it? I will allow it. Oh, thank you.
Starting point is 00:49:49 It was truly exceptional. It's my favorite way to stay in a city that I'm not really familiar with. Well, you know what? On behalf of my brother, who had such a nice trip, thanks Airbnb. You mentioned that you and your mother would go sort of, you know, looking for vintage stuff. Yeah. Would you ever, would you and your mom ever take trips that were just girls trips? I think it was more, we would go up to London for girls' trips and go and see exhibitions and sometimes go and have like a tea at Fortnham and Masons.
Starting point is 00:50:26 But then we would be meeting people probably in London or sometimes we'd go with her mom, my grandmother. And we'd go to the theatre sometimes or there would be a reason to go up to London together and have a sort of girls date. But then what was joyous about my, you know, my life at this moment. And early on, too, like, when you start being invited, I've had a couple of moments where I've been invited to Paris for a fashion show. And I would say, ask my mom if she wants to come. And so we've had a couple of trips like that, too. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:50:57 And those have been really precious moments. I think those kind of things are such an honor to be a part of, and you want to share them with people you love, to be honest with you, right? And especially someone that helped shape you with your personality and who you are. That's great. Also, if you take someone thrifting as a kid and then they ice you out of the fashion show when they're an adult? You're an asshole.
Starting point is 00:51:17 You can't stand for it. Yeah. Yeah. As a parent, you can't stand for that. Yeah. No, it's not cool. Yeah. Was there ever any tension on trips having a brother who's 10 years younger than you?
Starting point is 00:51:30 Because I imagine your interests aren't necessarily aligned if you would do things as a whole family? No, there was never a tension on family trips for that. It was just more like, also I'm quite a child. Like, there's a lot of my inner child that is very out, you know. And like, so actually I'm very, I've always been very playful with both of my brothers and create kind of fantasy worlds for them to come join. It was more like, if they didn't want to join the fantasy world, I'd be like, why not? What's wrong with you? I think there was sometimes moments of not knowing references that we would be talking about.
Starting point is 00:52:10 And I was a big fan of MTV 2 as a kind of early teens girl. And there were definitely certain things that my brother probably wasn't allowed to see at age, sort of, you know, two to four. He probably wasn't allowed to watch Beavis and Butterhead, which one of my favorite shows. I'm a big cartoon fan. But then I remember when the first Transformers came out, and that was a moment where I loved that movie a lot. And so did my younger brother.
Starting point is 00:52:35 And we had a total field day of joining hearts with that. Same with Wally, actually. That's one that we both still watch a lot and talk about. But I think more of the tension would more be, like, my brothers wouldn't want to go vintage shopping when they were younger necessarily. But we would always, my dad is an incredible historian, and we would always love going and exploring these historical places that he would take us to, and we'd love learning about the history.
Starting point is 00:53:02 And he was very good at navigating little tidbits that would be for each one of us. And, you know, like, so a big part of it, would be potentially what kind of dresses the queen would have worn in this chateau when she came to visit would be brought into my education with it, whereas my brother, the poet actually was very, he was big on like the Knights of the Round Table and that sort of moment in ancient history. And my dad would educate him on certain battles that had happened. And then it became poetic too. That would be a key element of kind of, my dad is a pool of knowledge that was very good at kind of guiding us in ways that were going to peak our interests, you know?
Starting point is 00:53:46 And that's something that I, as I've gotten older, I just think about more and more. Because, you know, when you go to school and people ask you, like, what was your favorite subject? You always connected to a teacher that actually made it a subject that you could then be interested in. Yeah. And that you felt like your brain could tick to and your heart could tick to. And I think when a parent really understands that with each individual kid, It's a fucking gift.
Starting point is 00:54:10 Yeah. Yeah, that's great. Yeah. That's really fantastic. Machu Picchu, did you hike there? No, we didn't. Because my, we were, I was, I think I was 15. Yeah, so you got a five.
Starting point is 00:54:23 Maybe I was a bit young. Maybe I was like, well, maybe I was 16. I don't remember exactly how old it was, but it meant that my youngest brother was pretty little. Yeah. But we had a wild day when we went up there because it was, there was some kind of voting. like a political vote going on. And weirdly it meant that Machupechu was empty.
Starting point is 00:54:42 We have a picture of me and my brother playing chess and you cannot see another person behind us. It's insane. Yeah, yeah, we got it. So you brought a travel chess board to Machupecchu? Yeah, my brother was really into chess. That's fantastic. This is the astrophysicist?
Starting point is 00:54:58 No, this was the poet. The poet. The astrophysicist was very tiny at that point. Yeah, that's true. But I will say, if you grow up to be an astrophysicist, I wouldn't be surprised if you're crushing chess at five years old. Yeah, this is true. This is true. And truth be told, I remember when he told me that that's what he was going to graduate in from, he went to UCL in London. And I remember being like, I just need you to quickly tell me what is an astrophysist.
Starting point is 00:55:24 I would ask. I mean, I have a general idea, but it's like, yeah. And what do you do with that? Totally. Well, truthfully, I think the dream would be to work somewhere like NASA, but he wasn't born in America. because we can't. Right. You can't even work for NASA? No. Huh. Huh.
Starting point is 00:55:41 I didn't know that. Let's change it, guys, because you've got a good addition waiting. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That is, yeah, because I guess England's not a great space program. There isn't a lot of funding for it, is there? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:55:54 So it's like that's, but actually, then what, I mean, when you start asking him questions about it and asking him about the great beyond and like the infiniteness of the galaxies and stuff, And him talking about the complex idea of how time is different, that if we were to go and be able to be on Mars, that actually we would skip through so many moments of time. And time is something that has always been a bit of a head fuck for me. I'm not very good at paying attention to real time. But also the idea of time feeling like it can speed up and slow down within one day.
Starting point is 00:56:30 It's something just that sometimes it makes me very anxious, actually, and that I think it can hold a lot of emotion in time. There was a great Bakowski quote of like the sadness is so great. I hear it in my clock. And I think that's something that can be very true with time. So the idea of being able to skip time and jump through time and fast forward time to then backtrack it in space travel is something that makes my brain go, whoa, wow.
Starting point is 00:56:56 And so but the conversations that you can have with him, I love that both of my brothers do this because they both have such extraordinary brains and hold knowledge in ways that I wish I could retain. But they will stop when I'm looking at them like, and they will help do it slowly like I'm 10 and educate me in a way where I feel like it can sink in without any judgment and it's something that I've always loved them for. I get some of the best education from both of my brothers.
Starting point is 00:57:21 That's fantastic. They must be excited to have a sister who is a working actor. Yeah, they're so freaking proud of me. I mean, I think the only thing they would say is that they, they wish it would allow me to have more control over time to be spent with them. Yeah, of course. But I just had this insane moment with my youngest brother, who's Felix, who's the astrophysicist, where both of my brothers, there are these poetic, gentle, kind, beautiful humans.
Starting point is 00:57:52 And yet they are diehard football fans. Oh, interesting. Great. Crazy Chelsea fans. And sometimes they're so in it, I'm like, I don't know who you guys are. This is language that I so didn't expect. Just to come out of you guys. And I got to take Felix to a World Cup game to watch Messi play. And that's because of Ted Lassau.
Starting point is 00:58:10 And so that was a moment where I was like, watching him watch that happen was one of the most magical things. I felt pretty spectacular about that, actually. I feel I have a bit of empathy for you because I think you're so good at dialects, basing this on you were just so fantastic in Fargo. That's not easy to do. I know where you're from. and you nailed it and I was thinking your family must be so impressed
Starting point is 00:58:36 but then they all speak actual other languages so they're probably a little bit like the fact that you can sound like you're from I can sound like it from somewhere but not actually speak the language but they're like
Starting point is 00:58:45 it's still in English you're like it is still in English yes yeah yeah but I do want to say from where I'm sitting I find that to be an incredible talent you have honestly I love dialect
Starting point is 00:58:55 I think it completely changes how you are as opposed it like it can help you become somebody else in a way that feels so much deeper than just your physical body, you know? And I just finished a job in the UK, actually, a new show that's going to be with Apple and A24,
Starting point is 00:59:15 which I'm really excited about. It's called The Husbands. And it was the first time since I was teenager, I did my natural accent, and I felt fucking naked. I was like, well, I don't know about this. And I remember saying to the, I was like, do you think I should just see a dialect coach who maybe let lower my voice or just
Starting point is 00:59:35 I don't know something? And she was like, I love your voice. I was like, okay. Okay, cool then. Yeah. And it took me a couple of days to actually be like, okay, just let it go. It's okay. It's fine. But that felt more exposing than any kind of like, you know, weird, awkward sex scene or anything like that I've had to do. Or like, I'm so sure. Whoa. Okay. That's how I sound too. Yeah. I'll do whatever sex scene you want as long as I get have a different voice. Yeah, because then it doesn't feel like me. Yeah, it's like, that wasn't me. There's something more vulnerable about, yeah, doing a whole six months with a person that you're inhabiting with your own voice.
Starting point is 01:00:14 Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Were your grandparents, did they, did you grow up nearby them or were they a drive away or a trip away? My dad's parents were in London and then my mom's parents were in Oxford, but then my mom's mom spent the last sort of, again, my concept of time isn't great, but I just remember her being pretty local from me being about age 12. And she was one of my honestly greatest, closest friends growing up, my mom's mom,
Starting point is 01:00:49 she could write Dina. And quietly, she had, I think, like, probably from when she was quite young, I don't know exactly when, but she quietly did kind of want to be an actress. And I remember there was a moment where I did a movie a while ago, and I had a review where they had a moment of comparing me to Vivian Lee. And it was, she had it framed up in her house. And I remember that being such a cool thing. Like, what an iconic thing to have. And she would come and visit me sometimes on different sets.
Starting point is 01:01:19 She died a couple of years ago now, and that was a big, yeah, big loss. I miss her and think about her a lot because she was an extraordinary woman. that also was an huge advocate for mental health stuff and really was just a really wise woman that had seen and been through a lot. She was also like an insanely beautiful woman. Puff. Whatabada. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:01:41 Yeah. So just to me was one of the way. Did she know it? Because our grandmother was a very beautiful woman who knew it. I think she probably did it in moments. But I think she was very insecure in a lot of ways that, But she wouldn't necessarily own it. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:01:58 Yeah. It didn't feel like she was somebody that walked into a room being like, well, look at me, you know? Yeah. Our grandmother was maybe a tick too secure. Yeah, she was. Yeah. She was great. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:02:13 Yeah, she was great. But, yeah, not. Classic grandmother's stuff. Could you get yourself over to your grandmother's house on your own? Later in life, because she ended up moving to a house literally down the road. And that was great. That was gorgeous. thing, a very special thing.
Starting point is 01:02:26 Yeah. Our mother had a similar situation with her grandparents. Anytime she got mad at her parents, she would just walk. She'd be like, all right, I'm going to go see Nani and pop up, and they're going to give me ice cream, and I'll be back when I'm back. I'll see you later. Yeah, exactly. I'm going to go shoot the shit, and I'll see you for dinner.
Starting point is 01:02:41 Yeah. Not to lean into the stereotype, but how muddy would it be? Like, when I'm picturing Somerset and you walk into grandmother's house, I'm thinking of days where it's just, like, insanely muddy. Oh, where the road becomes a river? Yeah. Is that accurate? I remember there was a most.
Starting point is 01:02:55 There was a great moment where I had the lovely gift. Thank you, Dolce Chinkabana. I'd been sent a pair of beautiful leopard print Dalchhinga Bonner pajamas, right? And I was wearing them one Christmas and all this water started pouring into the kitchen because it was a downpour Christmas. And, you know, as you do, you just get right in there and start welling it out like with the family. My mom was like, not in the Dalchies. I was like, what are we going to do?
Starting point is 01:03:22 What are you going to do? And they survived and they're great. and they are better for it because now they look even more vintage. But yeah, there was, I mean, the weather would be... I also grew up going to Glastonbury Festival, the music festival. And I grew up quite close to that. That was about 20 minute drive from my parents' house.
Starting point is 01:03:38 And you would just go knowing to not bring changes of clothes, just let yourself become a cesspool of dirt and stank and just enjoy the experience. And sometimes the back garden and the... road kind of going down the hill from my parents' house could become the same thing. Yeah, yeah. It's definitely not stiletto terrain. It's funny as you talk about, you know, getting to tell a new story with these vintage clothes. I bet that Dolce pajamas weren't like, oh, I didn't think the story would be flooding.
Starting point is 01:04:12 Yeah. I don't think it would be a flooded kitchen. Glastonbury's multiple days? Yeah, we would go for multiple days for sure. I, there's some great pictures from there when I'm probably about 10 years old. And I'm supposed to be painted like a lion, but it actually looks like I'm a really old person. It's a kind of a Benjamin Button look with like braids and my hair would be just so wild and matted and like, and I used to love it because you could just run free. And yeah.
Starting point is 01:04:45 And at the end of a day, do you retreat home and sort of reset? No, no, no. We would go and camp there properly and then go home after, you know, the three, four, five days. there. But as I got older and my friends would start going to Glastonbury too, they would come back and shower our house before returning to their homes. Yeah. Sort of decompressed and get back to reality. Best act you ever saw at Glastonbury.
Starting point is 01:05:08 I had a magic experience with, I was a huge killers fan growing up. Yeah. And I saw them play the new band's tent the first year. Then I saw them play one of the bigger tents that I've forgotten what it's called, the middle sort of size. the following year, and then the third year, they were headlining at the pyramid stage. And that seeing that kind of arc with a band that you love was unbelievably cool. So that, I would say, as a whole, was pretty extraordinary.
Starting point is 01:05:38 Then I remember the white stripes were incredible. They were incredible. And then also I got to go, my parents' great friend was Joe Strummer, and he was in Joe and the Mascaleros, and we got to go on stage and dance around like maniacs when I was about eight or ten, something with them. Yeah, that was pretty iconic. So you, did you know Joe Strummer well? He was my little brother's godfather.
Starting point is 01:06:00 Oh, my God. Please tell me, Joe Strummer was everything I wanted him to be. I'm telling you he was. Yeah. Magic man. I mean, I will say, like, reading about him and just the person he was, just, but it's nice to hear from somebody who actually knew. He was a magic man that was a really important part of my childhood. along his his stepdaughter was a great friend of mine
Starting point is 01:06:24 and we grew up being able to be again wild and free and we were allowed to kind of discover what ticked us in both positive and negative ways and yeah and he was a huge part of my parents' life very special special person. Great. Being on stage dance with Joe Strummer, I mean, I will just say I'm impressed that the killers even got a mention.
Starting point is 01:06:49 I mean, I remember being like, Whoa, so Joe was in like kind of a big band, right? I've seen people wearing Clash T-shirts in my local town. And this was when I was 11 years old or something. I was like, so his band was a pretty big deal. My parents were like, yeah, it was. Yeah. It is, I was literally in the gym today.
Starting point is 01:07:08 I'm visiting my hometown and Rock the Casbah came on. There you go. And so the clash is Fred Armisen loves a clash. And I texted him because it's very funny, like just in the 80. You know, there's the line about fighter jets, and then they're like, peon, peon, pew. Yeah. It was really making me laugh. I was texting Fred, like, it's just so funny to think at one point the clash was sitting around being like, what instrument?
Starting point is 01:07:31 Show you. What sound makes fighter and just, I was like, God, it's just fun when you remember that a song. Because, again, you're in the gym. Everybody's happy to hear a song that's like 40 years old. You know what I mean? Like, it's not an old age. It feels like as, as, like, new as it was when the first was. It feels like ageless, doesn't it?
Starting point is 01:07:46 Yeah, but, like, at some point, they sat around and, like, talking. about it. Like, it's just so funny. You think it just like happened and then it's been there. It's like, no, people came up with it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. No, I, I, and I think that's also, like, the person that you want to text, like the person it makes you think of, certain songs and certain moments and how music just takes you to completely a different place sometimes. It's like, it is true time travel, I think, music. And I grew up with a lot of punk rock in my house. My dad was a big punk rocker and did a lot of stuff with the pistols and the clash growing up. Yeah. He was the kind of the pistols guy. Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 01:08:18 Fantastic. Would you go, you mentioned music videos that they made. Would you go to shoots? There's some pretty iconic pictures of me looking absolutely furious on Tom Petty shoots. He did the music video for Into the Great Wide Open. Wow. Yeah, yeah. He did a lot of Tom Petty music videos, actually some really spectacular ones.
Starting point is 01:08:37 But there's, I don't know if you guys remember in that video that there's Tom Petty sitting at a desk where there's all, like, he was a giant person with all these desk things. So there was like a giant, a razor. a giant pencil, a giant, and I'm sat. Obviously not wanting to be there because I want to be at home playing with Barbies or something like that and just being in an absolute rage because I have no idea what's going on around me, you know? And so I think I was definitely a set baby. My mom, I think the minute I arrived was like, okay, I'm back to work and just like strap me
Starting point is 01:09:05 onto her hip, put off I went. And that stuff is kind of a bit too early for me to remember. I think my parents have always been really big on making sure that I finished my education. So school was important. And they did prioritize that. But when my early days being in the world and my parents were still living in L.A., there are some great pictures. There's a great picture of Dolly Potton holding me.
Starting point is 01:09:31 I'm literally the same size as one of her boobs. It's great. So, yeah, there's some pretty great moments that I don't, I would be lying if I said I remembered them. But they did have them. That's good. That's what pictures are for. Yeah, exactly. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:09:45 Yeah. I imagine Lamin Yimal doesn't remember. that picture of messy bathing him. Yeah, great moment. But it's there. It's there. This has been so lovely, Juno. Thank you so much.
Starting point is 01:10:00 We know how busy you are at times like this. We're so excited. The Ted Lassau is back. We too. And we would, Josh is going to ask you our speed round questions real quick. Okay. Thank you for having me. Thank you for asking me to do this.
Starting point is 01:10:12 It's great to have you. Our absolute pleasure. We were thrilled when it came across the wires as a possibility. I also want to tell you, because I'm home, I mentioned my parents said, who are you doing it with today? And when I said your name, my dad very, he's like, oh, I think she's going to be great. I'm a big fan of her. Oh, well, say hi to them.
Starting point is 01:10:30 Silence from my mom. Just silence. And aggressive. I was wondering if you guys had history. It was weird. Not really, yeah. Tell her, I'm sorry. Okay, got it.
Starting point is 01:10:41 And see her soon, hopefully. It turns out there was one time she was in France at a thrift shop and right before she picked a vintage item. This girl, yeah. Yeah. Give me our address. I'll make sure I get some. All right, you can only pick one of these. Is your ideal vacation relaxing, adventurous, or educational?
Starting point is 01:10:59 Right now, relaxing. Yeah, I believe it. What is your favorite means of transportation? My husband is a, builds custom motorcycles, and I like being on the back of the bike with him. All right. If you could take a vacation with any family, alive or dead, real or fictional other than your own family, what family would you like to take a trip with?
Starting point is 01:11:22 One of the surrealists, so maybe I'll see Salvador Dali, because people normally know him. Yeah, he was also a demi-god. There you go. I mean, that's pretty rare. If you had to be stranded on a desert island with one member of your family, who would it be? I think I'd have to bring both of my brothers. I didn't have to answer that. I'd have to bring both my brothers with me.
Starting point is 01:11:43 Yeah. Well, the astrophysicists could probably figure out a way to, like, to get there without. So me and Leo, the poet, could get there together and then the astrophysicist could get in. I will tell you, if I had to pick one of your brothers, I'm taking the astrophysicist over the poet. If you're like, hey, do any luck? Just for practical purposes? Any luck of building that boat?
Starting point is 01:12:03 It's like, no, but I've written a sonnet. Trust me, you'd be surprised. I mean, I can't pick between the two of them. We won't make you. Yeah. Yeah. What is your dream destination for a family vacation? vacation? I really want to go to Cuba. Yeah. Great. Yeah. Once they get the power back on,
Starting point is 01:12:24 probably, I would imagine. It's rough right now. It's rough in Cuba right now. I mean, it's rough in a lot of places right now, isn't it? Yeah. It sounds like Somerset is your hometown. It's an important part of my heart. If you had to get more families to come visit Somerset, what would you tell them about it? Well, I feel like people are very interested and somewhat obsessed with kind of old England, right? And the exploration of the history of England and wanting to know more about it and can't believe it's real when they get there. It is. It's ancient. It's old.
Starting point is 01:13:02 And it's more beautiful than you could possibly imagine, actually. And if you are a fan of those kind of romantic poets and those moments in literature, You know, Coleridge, Sam Taylor Coleridge did actually grow, wrote, he lived in this tiny little village called Netherstoy that's very close to me. And he wrote the ancient mariner about this incredible wood that I grew up next to and would go walk around on Christmas holidays, which I used to call the Wiggly Wogley Wood, but it is also actually like where he envisioned on a lot of opium. Albatrosses stopping ships from being able to make it to their destinations. And, you know, caverns and ancient rivers in Zanadu and Kubla Khan and all these amazing things that I think if you're
Starting point is 01:13:49 interested in that kind of romantic moment in history and the kind of bleeding hearts that come along with it, Somerset is a place to come visit. Great. Sold. Great. Excellent. Seth has our final questions. I'm actually curious.
Starting point is 01:14:03 Have you been to the Grand Canyon? I haven't yet. Unbelievable. Do you want to go? Absolutely. Me and my husband were talking about it. He was like, we've got to go and see you your namesake. I mean, I feel like a back of a motorcycle.
Starting point is 01:14:16 I know. That's the way to do it, right? That's the way to do it. What will I wear? What will I wear to meet my actual true inspiration to being alive, right? I don't know. Well, that's the thing. Don't go till you figure it out.
Starting point is 01:14:30 Don't blow this. You got one chance to meet your namesake for the first time. Yeah. It's so nice to see you and talk to you. Congrats on everything, Juno. An absolute joy. Thank you. I'll stop you next time I see you in the grocery store.
Starting point is 01:14:43 You better. I will. All right. Thank you, Juno. Bye. Lots of love, guys. Thank you. Bye.
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