My Therapist Ghosted Me - MTGM EXTRA! "Hollywood" - With Aisling Bea

Episode Date: January 31, 2024

The list of MTGM guests is short, but very distinguished. This week, Vogue & Joanne welcome actor, comedian and all round legend, Aisling Bea! If you’d like to get in touch, you can send an email to [e-mail] review Global's Privacy Policy: https://global.com/legal/privacy-policy/For merch, tour dates and more visit: www.mytherapistghostedme.com/For more information about Joanne's gigs, just visit www.joannemcnally.comThis episode contains explicit language and adult themes that may not be suitable for all listeners.Thank you!

This is a Global Player original podcast. Welcome to the bonus episode of My Therapist Goes To Me. We have a very special guest with us today. Who we've been trying to get for ages and ages and now we're thrilled she's here. It's Aisling Bea. Firstly, welcome to My Therapist Goes To Me. Oh my God, I can't believe, I didn't even know you guys had guests. So when I came, I was like, oh my God, this is like...

You know in LA there's that Magic Castle, which is a thing full of magicians and you're not allowed to just go. You have to be invited by a magician. This is the Irish ladies version of the Magic Castle. Bring us Aisling Bea. We would love Aisling Bea. We've actually wanted you for quite some time.

Have you? I didn't hear. Who do you say that to? Well, we try and say it to Joe, but Joe doesn't do his job very for quite some time have you I didn't hear who do you say that to well we try and say it to Joe but Joe doesn't do his job very well all the time you know we had a list we had a list of dream guests

and you were on them you were oh my god Joe has only ever sent me nothing but hateful abuse over email under a load of pseudonyms yeah he does do that

that magic kingdom I hate I can't bear magicians it is I can't bear a magician they're the worst any magician

if they come near me at a party or something when they're like do you want to do a card trick I'm like please god no how many magicians have you met

loads of magicians they do they do turn up at parties sometimes people get them for parties what bit of it is it that perturbs you because I know it's bullshit

it's a lie sorry I'm loving this yeah yeah yeah how do you feel watching people act like say dramas or anything like you because I know it's bullshit it's a lie sorry I'm loving this yeah yeah yeah how do you feel watching people act like say dramas or anything like that because you know that's not documentaries

that's also magic it's just the magic it's just trying to trick me into something that I know is bullshit and I'm like please please I just want to sit and have my drink

it's the same sometimes with live music I'm like oh no someone's started up to live music I gotta go live music they start bringing in

the sound you know the monitors and the guitars I leave straight away particularly if you're another performer like I'll never leave another performer hanging

no so now I have to turn around and make eye contact for three and a half minutes and then as soon as like in the Lord thank you very much

so anyway it's what I was saying I think we should meet at the next one we started again they say there was a secret code in your life anyway so thank you very much so anyway it's what I was saying I think we should meet up next week we started again they say there was a secret code in your life

anyway so thank you for coming on because you are you guys you're on LOL that Amazon yes yes

the Irish one and as an ex-publicist which I always like to throw in the mix are you an ex-publicist yes that makes so much sense

thank you because you're always hyping people up since I met Joanne McNally I remember Because you know When you know I'd like if she started

Hyping me up But then you need to do Something both You need to take it Down a notch It's you You're the problem It's you

Okay fine Whatever Because Joanne Hyped up everything So if you're not getting hyped Everyone except me Have a little look at that I remember the first time

I feel like it was the first time we'd properly gigged together Joanne and we'd known of each other well I definitely knew of you and of course I knew of you and it was Fickrest

not Fickrest Street Ivy Gardens yes and you were emceeing the hell out of this gig she was doing just an amazing job but you're just such a

really good hype man I do love a bit of hype you do you really bring people on and give them the best chance to like have a good go I felt like the queen of Ireland walking under the stage.

It's the thrill of it all. I fucking love it. It's pronounced trill. It's the thrill of it all. It's the thrill of it, lass. Because I remember what I was going to say to you. When I moved to London,

I reached out to you and I was like, look, I'm in London and I've got like no friends. Yes, I can't help crying. No, again again Vogue like she is saying to the side of your face my fault

I had like absolutely nobody in my life I had no one around in London just both of you I was living with at the time

small reason to live really and I wanted a comedian I had no I had no one in the comedy scene so I reached out to you

reached out to a couple people and you very soundly well you sent me a book. It was like attach the untethered spell. So I think I was definitely having some sort of depressive episode. You know, Your Honour, I don't have a memory of this moment, but to be fair, story checks out. Yeah, it sounds like something I would do.

Yeah, I was like, God, that sounds like I might have been in like, I know what this fellow comic needs. The Untethered Soul A book about connecting your essence and your ego God knows what I said to you God knows what I was going through as that was my reply My gentle Lol let's go for coffee I don't I'm like here's the Untethered Soul

But I obviously whatever I said was clearly not A casual let's go for a coffee I probably was like I'm really lost and alone I don't know what I said but anyway and then you very I must go back after the last one

hey Aisling I know we only met once but I'm really depressed no but you know like you know and this seems like an odd segue but you know

when like I'm not massively into sport but I can tell you like who I was going out with by those footballer celebrities I know based on like like if I said going out with by those footballer celebrities I know

based on like like if I said oh Michael Owen played you'd be like oh that means during the late 90s you went out with someone who supported Man United

like the celebrities you know are from a year or two and I can do the same with self-help books like I will be able to go with The Untethered Soul now what bad point in my life was I recommending that

to everyone that Joanne randomly walked into my trap of, you know the documentary you have to see? I certainly did. I had to live to 100. A bold move to send someone a self-help book. I don't want to hang out with you, but read this book.

But you know when you're in an obsessive state? I'm not available in person, but here's a self-help book for you. Depending on when you got in touch, the reply would have been the same with some other bit of bullshit like you have to read the psychopath test Joanne

oh you'll do you know what I did need it because I did I felt there's huge just disconnected from everything

because London when you move over here as you know it's big you know what I mean it's lonely and the clubs and you're on your own

because you're gigging all the time blah blah blah but then you very kindly invited me to your birthday party and I was gigging

and chiseling where was my fucking invite what is this again folks you have to work quite hard to be a person it was for comics I thought I was becoming

an comedian and you two were being bitches no no no loads of people were invited no no Joanne loads of people were invited loads of I'd say more Irish people

definitely Irish in London I had a crappy night it was crap every Irish in London was at that party night it was crap every Irish in London was at that party well you weren't did you go? I did indeed

oh did you? did you bring your book for Ashton to sign? on it you'd be like you okay hon? Ashton I've decided to hand myself to you how do you feel about that?

but I was so nervous because I was going to this party I was gigging in Chiswick so I was getting there late we hadn't met really since the Ivy Gardens so I was like I don't really want to go on my own to a party but was gigging in Shizik so I was getting there late we hadn't met really since the Ivy Gardens so I was like

I don't really want to go on my own to a party but it's really nice that she invited me so I'm going to go because I don't know anyone and if I don't go I'm going to have to text her

to say I didn't go and she's not going to give a shit if I go anyway and it's going to just fucking build up into this thing so I got the bus out after the show in Shizik and it was honestly

one of the bravest things I've ever done on your own on my own that is isn't it mad though the perception we have of ourselves

or of others if we're in a and sorry to be so untethered soul here guys but when we're in a low spot that like if that was a spot when you're like

coming off the Prosecco Express and having a great night you're like do you know what I'll pop into Aisling I've met her once I'm going to pop into her birthday party in town but when you're in a you know what I'll pop into Aisling I've met her once I'm going to pop into her birthday party in town

but when you're in a low place you're like this is I'm such a why am I with someone like me I know that we're obviously both comedians and I will include you in that if you'd like thank you you're too much pressure

you were like a superstar and you were and you were and you were really well connected I can't fight that accusation do you know what I mean I'm not going to stand here I just think you're just in LA

all the time or in Uggs on a plane I can't believe it's only Irish comics like even there's a clip of LOL and I don't watch myself in anything

and there's this clip of LOL going around I know it's my favourite clip but in it Tony Cantwell says something like oh she's off to LA or something and I'm like it's my favourite clip of that show but in it Tony Cantwell says something like oh she's off to LA

or something and I'm like it's the most Irish and only Irish comics say to me oh you're in LA you know and it's so like

you're probably in Hollywood on Hollywood Boulevard going to the Hollywood cafe for a Hollywood coffee are you and I have in America

a lot but it's so the perception when you're actually out there and just like I don't sat in your email scrolling through your Instagram you know eating a burrito on your own it's so the perception when you're actually out there and just like I don't sat in your email scrolling through your Instagram you know eating a

burrito on your own it's like the perception of the thing but you're you are like you're acting you're on Netflix

you are actually I know you more for acting because I met you remember at the Take That premiere for their you were in the

movie and you can sing and here's another compliment coming for you Vogue I bloody can't what do you mean another this will be the first one

but thank you you're right and I hope this one maybe takes off the first insult so we begin again at sort of a neutral space at least you can take

from this that she thinks her soul is tethered is it tethered to something she's going to leave here and I'll just get a message it could be tethered to the devil I remember

his name's Dr. Youn we had to normally on like a red carpet or premiere for something you're through the length of a carpet you know whatever

the length of a carpet is is the length of time you're there couple of chats with people and you're on the other side for the take that movie premiere it was never ending

oh my god never did we forget the length of that carpet it was it was about an hour and a half it was an hour and a half I think maybe it was never ending oh my god never did we forget the length of that carpet it was it was about an hour and a half it was an hour and a half

I think maybe because Take That were singing and so there were it was like they were setting up a whole gig so we were on the carpet being looked at

and filmed for an hour and a half and that is so embarrassing but you can only twiddle your thumbs enough and everyone's asking the same question

you were so nice to everyone though but when I saw Vogue's face, your big old smile, you were like, hello! And I was like, oh my God, something real and connected

and this could be fun and dry and I can be dry here and not it getting taken out of context or, you know, because the longer you're somewhere, you get more ironic and odd and silly and that's terrible when there's loads of journalists

with microphones around because you're like, oh no. It can be same-same, but as well, when you're on with microphones around because you're like oh no it can be it can be same same but as well when you're on the other side and you're chatting to people I think I rang my manager when I left

and I said that you were so nice because you were so giving and so nice in an interview and when I did the thing with LOL Ireland because I went I was doing

question time after they'd watched the shows and like it was at the press yeah we had a press launch in Dublin and Vogue was hosting a Q&A afterwards but there was all these questions written for me and then it was at the press event yeah we had a press launch in Dublin and Vogue was hosting a Q&A afterwards

but there was all these questions written for me and then it was all of you all these comedians in Graham Norton and I was like I'm not asking them that and it just went

but you were also giving that like it was just it was so fun and I'd say to be a part of that show as well must have just been gala I did

when I walked in I was like Joanne's going to be here somewhere like you would have had a ball as well, Joanne. Do you know, I am not good at that stuff. No, it's not. There's not a good at that stuff because it was us all chatting

in a room and the things that would throw us off would be more like you saying something small to me than something you targeted an audience. Yeah. So that's, it's this. It's what, you guys make each other laugh so much. It's the exact same thing as that and that's what's most likely to knock you out yeah a big song and dance thing so the concept the concept of the show is it's lots of irish comedians amazing irish comedians um and you're basically in a room with each other trying to make each other laugh but

you can't laugh and if you do laugh or if you smile then you're get a red a yellow card then a red card then you're out yes exactly and at the end you get money for your charity so you do want to win it's not like you can just be like turn up and leave like you do want to try and win the money and so

yeah the premise of it so it's like a premise that's already done in like Sweden I think Germany's done like five of them it's in Mexico it's in Mexico as well

it's everywhere I suppose the point of it being that there are rarely and like Amazon has enough money to make these shows in the countries and so many shows especially comedy

don't get to invest in in jokes of the country they're nearly always made for the world and saying this I couldn't believe like you know

it's not spoiling anything to say Zig and Zag show up and stuff like that and Krista Berg I heard Krista Berg came out of a wall Krista Berg came out of a wall where he'd been living

for the last ten years Finally emerged Your face is when Christopher came out of the wall They were like How did you not laugh When Christopher came out of the wall I was like

How did we not fall over and faint When Christopher came out of a wall That's the sort of stuff You'd see in a murder documentary When Christopher Came out of the wall It was the first sign Of the apocalypse

How did he come out of the wall Like was it He came out with a guitar And everything The wall opened Exactly The wall twirled around So it was the first sign of the apocalypse how did he come out of the wall he came out with a guitar and everything the wall opened exactly the wall twirled around so it was a revolving wall

but we had known it was a revolving wall because when do you it looked like they spent a lot of money on that show oh the set was great. Yeah, it looked amazing. But I suppose that's the point of it was,

it's rare that so much money gets spent for such local jokes. Yeah. And that's, I think, why it works in all the different countries it works in. Because in Germany, like, who's making stuff for only German people to kind of listen to, or like Swedish people or Canadian for very specific small jokes and that's kind of and you are allowed

to do that so I'd kind of forgotten how joyful it is to sort of gig at home around a load of people with the exact same references that you don't sort

of have to explain because I do think it would translate though to UK I started in the UK yeah well I don't know really I think because I've

watched the first three episodes and I think that it would definitely translate to the UK my favourite favourite bit was you and you're singing

and you forget I would have that would have got me that's kind of gone viral so we can talk about it but it was just I did nearly make myself laugh I have to say

I and it's the word because none of them were laughing and when you it rarely happens like I'm not my own type of comedy. Will you explain what it was? Because we haven't said what it was.

So there's a song in Ireland that I genuinely, like I don't think other, I don't think outside of Ireland it really relates because it's got such a 30 year history of being rolled out. It plays a special part in an Irish woman's life. And it's a song called Only a Woman's Heart. And I just had it in my head

that it might be really funny if I sing very seriously a woman's heart to a group of people where we're not allowed to laugh because when that happens

in a real environment and someone goes I have a song in me Jerry do you know the bars of a woman's heart or like oh lads and then you're in a pub trying to nod along

to this woman who knows has had pain she was the princess Diana of Ireland. It's the fact that you went to the end. And so we have to not smile or laugh. So then I just started singing it. And then I was imagining all the women who sang it.

And then I started. And I really was. And you don't see it in the record because they sort of put things in different places in the show. But it was quite early And I was like I might be gone In the first hour If I

And then I had to sort of do Little faces and stuff Only to get myself out of Laughing You laughing Yeah Oh Like I'd planned to change it up

So it wasn't just boringly Singing at a thing But I did have to lean into that In a big way To stop myself laughing as well and I rarely I don't I never thought

that I might make myself laugh but wouldn't that be like an own goal I know you're like I'm gas I just can't help myself I don't know what's wrong with you guys

but I'm out here you know there's no laughing at this girl don't come on over here guys my mother has a bit of that when someone does a laughter joke

it's such a wonderful form of self esteem I don't know what's wrong with anyone here no one has a bit of that When someone does a laughter joke It's such a wonderful form of self esteem I don't know what's wrong with anyone here No one has any personality That's a big thing No one has any personality And it's on them And I imagine

It kind of is on them Yeah exactly It's on them I just love that you did the whole song Oh the whole thing That's what made it really uncomfortable Like it was If you'd done like 30 seconds

It was funny No no You did the whole thing And they edited down to 30 seconds maybe but I did the whole like five minutes and I learnt all the lyrics as well

and stuff like that so yeah I'd really like you're still in my heart you're still in my shadows and one of them is and even though I manage on my own

I still and it's just like lyrics like and even though I manage on my own I still my heart like it's just such a

there's so much pain that she'll never get over. It's that sort of thing which always makes me laugh. Can I tell you one thing because I know this isn't exactly a live shout out show. But can I shout out

my friend Emmett from Waterford in LA because when in LA he also lives in LA. He's made it Emmet and we were drunk in a Barney's Beanery in West Hollywood

one night and it was the first night we met and he came up to me and goes are you Aisling B and I was like I was like yeah he's like oh god

do you know who I love Joanne McNally and I was like you couldn't like put anything in there before he told me about Joanne McNally he's like oh you'll need

to listen to my therapist ghosted me and so yeah shout out Emmet look at us now hi Emmet do you know he's like oh you need to listen to my therapist ghosted me and so yeah shout out Emmett look at us now hi Emmett do you know there was a girl on

she's very funny her boyfriend because I wouldn't look I don't think I look like the back of a bus but I'm not like you know

I'm a rat stop all the clocks I will not hear I just want compliments but anyway this girl she said her boyfriend

said do you know I really fancy I fancy Joanne McNally and she was so annoyed by it she went

she's actually a really good friend of mine and he was like what she goes yes that's really fucking

awkward now so she's like listen if we ever meet I'm now in on this secret that I'm really

good friends with this girl because she wanted to make it inappropriate that her boyfriend was finally but she couldn't

actually say you've hurt my feelings so she had to make up and laugh her tale. Oh honey, I hear that.

I think she said we were in college and I don't think so if you're listening. And doing medicine. Dr. McNally, Dr. McNally. I didn't know Joanne did horticulture

in college. So what's next? LA I guess again. Oh, back to LA. She's a tough, she's difficult. She'll be straight on the plane from here. I literally haven't even been in a year tough she's taking us straight on the plane

from here I literally haven't even been in a year and everyone's just like is there probably a chopper coming down the roof now for you is there actually Jo

can you tell him to hang on another five I'd love to give the girls a little bit more time you're very good Ashley you're very good I have another I'm a smaller part

in a show called Alice and Jack coming out on channel four in the next couple of weeks. And it starts. Are you allowed to let our Amazon sell us all on fire now? I know, our delivery packages will be real slow for about a month. They just won't deliver our stuff as quickly.

And it's with myself, it's Andrea Risborough and Donald Gleeson. I love Donald Gleeson. Oh, I love Donald. I was in school with his wife were you I love Juliet she's so funny and brilliant

she's such a ride oh she's top top class top top class and Donald is just a joy a very nice funny funny

funny person as well his wife's a ride he seems like a lovely person they're both rides I'd ride them both I'd ride them both

I'd get into that make that into a clip to make them both uncomfortable every time I invite myself around on my own get them on the pod get Donald on the pod

I know it's half eleven but can I come right so that's I'd say and that's like a drama that's like a romantic sort of drama hang on

what do you prefer and people ask me this but like you have like serious you're a comedian actress and you sing do you prefer and people ask me this but like you have like serious you're a comedian actress and you sing do you like just doing them all

or is there one that you could say this is what I really love I think it's funny it more happens and I'm sure you guys get this like I know I heard you talking Joanne

about like finishing your tour and just not wanting to go near like or not being sentimental because actually it's not like every night becomes magic in a way because it becomes your sentimental because actually it's not like every night becomes magic in a way

because it becomes your job and so it's almost like farming you know that you kind of tend to different fields at different times depending on the season and there's some times where the pressure

of being on your own and doing stand up and the loneliness of it and while you get all the freedom of your words and the ability to change it up and do what you like and that can be gorgeous

to make real connections being on your own for that length of time can be awful and to arrive onto a set with other actors and allow yourself to explore your untethered soul without making a joke about it but like to explore the bits of yourself you want to get in touch with and pretend to be someone else like it's so nice i remember i was going through quite a tough time during the fall and to get to go in every day and pretend to be a nurse from Northern Ireland was so lovely

like to get to go and pretend for just like seven hours that you're someone else was so nice and then other times you're like

I don't want anything fake anymore just want to be real I'll be able to say what I want have no one in charge of me no one touching my face putting on makeup like and so there's different

yeah the bit I find the hardest is writing I find that very if I can't do other things in the day and to sit down at the computer

and just like your dad's job yeah that's that's the bit that really you're an amazing writer god this is like em like

I'll ghost my therapist after this and just stay here a lot tell yourself to those two yeah we're here

you wrote I've read some of the stuff you've written it's phenomenal and then this way up I was like I have to say

I hope you don't mind me saying I was jealous because I was like how the fuck am I ever going to be able to do anything like that because I there will come a time

people kind of go where's the where's the sitcom and I'm like I can't write I just I don't know how

I was like how did she do that it's well through enormous amount of difficulty and that's the where's the sitcom and I'm like I can't write I just I don't know how that's not how did she do that it's well through enormous amount of difficulty and that's the truth of it like I shouldn't say jealous that's not fair I should say I was in awe of thank you very much that's very sweet it just it comes one of my friends was saying the problem when you're a performer writer is it's such a long go like you write bits on your own and then maybe two years later someone watches that stuff and like maybe a year and a half later you get to perform it

around other actors and maybe two years later someone sees it for like goes I love that and that's you get tears and whereas at least

with a stand up like tonight I could hop onto a gig and feed it's probably an egotistical thing but some some dopamine boost and it's a really long

and I think writery writers love that cocooning away and find the end bit harder but maybe that's the bit that slows me down how do you get the dopamine boost to get you through it's a very long process but I'd say you but it's it's kind of like if you give you know when you're telling your you know when you're telling your stories I sound like I've never seen stand-up you know you're on stage and you're doing your hello hello hello but you know when you have like another voice of someone that you're describing you're on stage and you're doing your hello hello hello anyone in from America but you know when you have like

another voice of someone that you're describing you're like my mum came in and said this or John came in and said that then you just put those words down as another actor

and you know who they are and you give them a voice and so that's the kind of and what would you find interesting like I love Real Housewives I love it and I realise one of the reasons I love it

is because I love watching the stakes of people of the reasons I love it is because I love watching the stakes of people who from the outside should be getting along but something in their childhoods

and the drama is making this so fantastically watchable or the traitors or something because of their characters and let's see what happens if you just sit them

at the table and most of my favourite things to watch are people sat at a table going no I understand, but, well,

if you just let me finish, well, I don't like being interrupted and that's so dramatic to watch and you just put those characters together with some stakes doing that and that's actually normally fascinating. I feel like if you sit down

and you write, like you just kind of, or you're doing something like that where you are stuck in like an office-y kind of environment, I kind of like that every so often. And they can't escape.

To just sit and just be like, I don't know about the comedian thing though because like you enjoy your own company, but I would of like that every so often to just sit and just be like I don't know about the comedian thing though because like you enjoy your own company but I would be like you I would not like to be on my own

for that length of time See I enjoy my own company it's more to work on your own is the tough to not have a bounce for work so it's the

You need someone to bounce off of you I found that very tough because I you know I was just on my own especially during the second series

of the pandemic it was just me with a laptop for ages and then it's always lovely when you get feedback on the other side but it was nearly all over email

so there's no eye contact or something so that bit was very tough did you win a BAFTA or am I imagining I did yeah you did

oh you won a BAFTA I know I lost one as well so it just shows you lost it in LA did you lose it in LA I didn't you lost it as in I lost the second well so it just shows in LA did you lose it in LA I didn't I won the first one as in I lost

the second oh sorry I was like well they're not just for places really yeah I know you lost it didn't you redecorate

or something for your BAFTA no that was I made a joke to an interviewer and this is what happened after last week when we premiered LOL

someone wrote a headline Ashing B bames a famine for her comedy and I'm like I saw that I love that you know when you're like give ushing B blames A famine for her comedy And I'm like I saw that I saw that You know when you're like Give us a break

Blames the famine Blames the famine Not like Ashing B makes a famine joke I actually have that Blames the famine So Well it wasn't ideal

Because you know you're there I know it wasn't And I still Sometimes I get hunger And I'm like The famine The ancestor Yeah Ashing B blames

The famine for making her So funny Like How old are you? Exactly Well the famine the ancestor yeah actually we blamed the famine for making her so funny like how old are you exactly well four hundred and eight

years that's what I'm saying writing takes ages so with the with the whatchamacallit that

I was doing an interview with someone and they were like oh congratulations on the BAFTA and he's like where do you keep your BAFTA and I was like oh congratulations on the BAFTA and he's like where do you keep your BAFTA and I was like

oh it's in the loo and what's good is like the shape I got a new bathroom and the length of it I want to be you know people put their awards in the loos rather than out front

where you should be proud of them it's a very cool thing to do even though you're actually secretly proud of yourself but that it's the exact length the little nook in the bathroom and then

they made the headline, I rebuilt my bathroom around my BAFTA. There we are. Another one I had for you was Aisling B says bringing Irish humour to a global audience was like having a bath in mash I did say that to be fair

but that's they didn't go together those two sentences I said like oh working around a load of Irish people felt like having a bath of mash

was so comforting you know and another one was I did Richard Herring's podcast after I'd had dental surgery and Tato had sent me a hundred bags of crisps of their new flavours

and I was like obviously that's a great perk and the only thing I could eat that day was like mushing up the crisps in my mouth and eating a Tato and I was like oh I must have been sent about 100 bags of crisps then the headline was Aisling B eats 100 bags of crisps to deal with her bad

tooth and you know when it's like it's just not that glamorous it's not like Aisling B talks about living life and getting on and fashion it's just like Ashing B eats a hundred

bag of tins off her tooth it's so like you can smell the cheese and onions from the headline yeah you're like

they're not right I don't want to be relatable yeah when they put stuff as headlines it sounds like that's the first thing you walked into the room

and said hello guardian guess what I bet my betta remember my betta any questions when they put stuff as headlines it sounds like that's the first thing you walked into the room and said hello Guardian guess what I bet my betta I'm a betta any questions anyway that's not how it happened or without any

nuance of a conversation that's why podcasts are lovely when you get to talk to people you feel safe around so not this situation but my brother's she's just clearly we're not putting anything out

well that was a that was a lovely chat we're so glad that we had you on we're so glad that we had you on we have to go now go win another award and then come back into us oh my god

we'd like to have you back on we'd like to win an Oscar yeah we'd like yeah if you could do the Oscar next my mother wondered why I didn't win an Oscar for my TV show

and I was like well part of it is mother that they don't I would be the first winner of a TV show of an Oscar in film

it doesn't matter actually you should have done it you should have done it you should have done it that's the mother's belief in you exactly she backs me

100p one more question for you please if you don't mind Aisling B is that your mother's maiden name was that her jockey name

no my dad that's from your dad my dad who passed away anyone get a relate hello we love a dad dad's club right here okay

can a woman get into this industry with a father these days who's alive you can but you won't you're good you used to have to sleep your way to the top

I love that you did something so nice because his name was Brian wasn't it yes and so I took the B there was already a great Irish actress called Aisling O'Sullivan

and so you can't be called like Judy Frank Dent you have to get a new name because being an actor is like having your own business type of thing with a name and so you can't be called like Judy Frank Dent you have to get a new name because being an actor is like having your own business type of thing with a name and so I took B

from the start of Brian O'Sullivan and adding B is for Brian yeah so that's so sweet just a bit of carrying that trauma

with me at all times lest I forget we've done fuck all for our dads we can do something it's quite fun you