Amy Nicholson
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5,140 appearances
14 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 10 Sep
Amy Nicholson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Yeah.
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Like the parents in particular, you know, you hear the mom in like that first America scene.
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She's like, oh, America's not going to be that great.
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It's not that good.
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And the dad later on, when his daughter's like, no, maybe you hear these people calling for a Philly, like maybe that's our kid, you know, maybe that's Fievel.
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You are calling for a
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it's the dad this time being like, no, no, no, no, no, don't get your hopes up.
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And this movie kind of sketches this idea that, you know, optimism is really hard and it's hard to shake off a certain level of like cynicism.
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And the balance between like, is it good to get your hopes up and then come all the way to America and the streets are not paved with cheese and you get your heart broken?
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How can you balance that with the fact that you do need a little bit of hope and optimism to keep going when the streets are not
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cheese and you have to find your kid?
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Am I explaining that really clumsy?
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No, you are.
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But you kind of get the sense that the parents are like rooted in an older way of thinking and have to figure out how to live more optimistically here, even when it's hard.
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and the mama, by the way, is played by Erica Yan, who is Madam Ruby in, uh, Peewee's Big Adventure.
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The one who tells him that the bike is in the basement.
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Yes.
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He's the artist, he plays the violin, he's the dreamer compared to the mom.
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That's what I
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That's fair.
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