Ben Bailey Smith

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403 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 16 Jul

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Kermode & Mayo’s Take · Is THE ODYSSEY truly epic? With SIR CHRISTOPHER NOLAN · 16 Jul 2026 podcast

And I want to take the whole family.

Anyway, so thematically, I just wanted to go backwards.

Same.

It triggered a core fearful memory for me, which is that when I first started reading on my own, you know, when you sort of moved on from your parents reading you stories and you start reading chapter books, I started with Roald Dahl like a lot of people.

And I must have been about seven or eight and I was reading the BFG.

And that concept that he instills at the beginning, that if you're still awake at a certain time, this huge hand is going to swoop in and grab you.

That absolutely terrified me as a kid.

So when that big hand came sweeping down in the cave...

Absolutely.

It was the second big gasp moment.

I think I had a gasp moment before you.

I understand what you say about the opening of the film, but two things really worked for me within that period.

One, I didn't look up who was in this film.

I genuinely didn't know.

So as each face appeared, I was like, oh, okay.

Wow.

Like it is star laden and it feels like everybody's really grafting.

So I had that little thing to sort of keep me going in that section.

And then it was the, um, the sight of the horse.

I literally, the first time you see the horse, that is, I had a little gasp.

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