That Gaby Roslin Podcast: Reasons To Be Joyful - Show n Tell with Corey Mylchreest

Episode Date: November 17, 2023

Corey Mylchreest shares an object that brings him joy, and which in his words 'he nearly died for' Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

So, Corey, this is our Friday show and tell. This is our extra nugget of joy on reasons to be joyful. And you have something in your bag. And we're going to actually live to the bag. We're going live to the bag. Okay. So grab your bag. Did you cycle in?

Because you told us in on Wednesday, on Tuesday's podcast, that you cycled. Yes, I didn't cycle. You didn't cycle? No. But I tell you what, I did get lost and I wouldn't have got lost if I cycled. If you cycled? Yeah. Okay.

So what brings you joy? What brings me joy? My bag grabbing. I don't know if I'm still being picked up. Yeah, you are. We can hear you. Right. I love that.

I love that. Okay, you've got your backpack. Okay, right, here we go. My backpack. There's a lot in the backpack. There is a lot in the backpack, actually. And I want to know. I'll tell you what, these are actually really good.

This also just gives me joy. They're vitamin C gels. They're the best. Okay. Sorry, that's completely. No, no. I do want to know everything that's in your bag. But this is a book.

It's a book. It's a Little Life. It was on stage recently. Yes. But I didn't watch that, so I don't know why I mentioned it. This is A Little Life by Hanya Yanagahara. It's the best book that I've ever read. It's my favourite book.

I like reading. I read this. I read this when I was at Rada, and because I don't know how other actors do it, but maybe it's because they're, clever and I'm not. I get sent scripts, you know, maybe like three scripts a, I don't know, maybe that's generous, two scripts a week, let's say, that's 60 pages. If it's a film, it could be anywhere from 90 to 120 pages. So I'm reading that. I'm probably reading it twice to get to know.

So I very rarely get a time to like do a book in a whole sitting. But when I was at Rada, I read this maybe over about 11 months. So it was really, and I wasn't reading anything else. So I was doing different plays and stuff. But this was like an 11-month period of my life. And I really liked that because I had loads of breakthroughs at the time, you know, sort of like personally and as an actor at school. And it was just, it was lovely. And I think the book is absolutely gorgeous.

Tell me about the book. It's completely... Have you read it? No, I haven't. It is about... What's it about? Four friends. And it starts in New York and they're all early 20s.

And it goes until their 70s maybe. Incredibly sad, but incredibly joyful. It's just written, one of them's a lawyer, one of them's an artist. I think the other's an architect, I think. And then one of them is an actor. And obviously, Hania Nagahara is none of those things. And every single one is spoken about in such detail. And specifically as an actor, I was thinking,

I don't know how you know these things because this is such a... Look at the book. It's falling apart. You love it. It's literally falling apart. And there is a chunk missing from the corner here where I was cycling from my dad's back to school. And I didn't want to put this back in my dad's. And I'd left my backpack at school.

So I got a plastic bag and I put this in the plastic bag and I put that on the thing, on the handlebar of the bike. And I was on the street. street and the plastic bag kept knocking against the wheel and then it got stuck in the wheel, stuck in the spoke, the bag went round and then it got chopped off and it got stuck and the whole bike flipped over. And so I nearly died for the book. Were you okay? Were you injured?

I was okay. I was really hurt. I was really hurt, yeah. But book, that's, you know, so it, I was fine. I was absolutely fine eventually. Nothing broken, just lots of bruises and a bit of blood. but a lot of memories with this book and it is exactly like that. It is completely falling apart. Are they doing a film of it?

They are apparently. Everyone, everyone, all of my mates want to play Willem. Yeah, there's a character in it called Willem. And that's... Have you spoken to Live about that? I haven't, but I will right now. I think you need to call Live now. Because that story in itself of the book and the bike

and you're hurting and it's here and that's the thing that brings you such joy. Yeah. And it's also the memory that, you know, I mean, that's why a book is so brilliant and that's why I don't, you know, and no offence to anyone who uses a Kendall. You might use a Kendall.

No, I love books. I love a book book. But because then, you know, if you're on holiday somewhere, it gets sun tanned with you. You know, if you read it in the bath. Yeah, exactly, right? But also books fire imaginations. And that's really important.

And I love it if I read it. a book and then it turns into a film. I never want to do it the other way around because I want the pictures. Exactly, because they're your pictures, as they should be. Anyway, that is my show and tell.

Read it if you haven't because for everyone, because it is genuinely, it is absolutely beautiful. Thank you, Corey. There we go. Thank you. Thank you so much.