Ben Bailey Smith

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

Ben Bailey Smith’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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

Something about it, I was just like, I'm glad that you've got the artist's feelings and all of that at heart, but it's just, it's not for me.

But the thing with this film that I thought was kind of perfect is exactly what you were saying.

The way that even as you're watching it, you're in this sort of uncanny valley place where it's like...

Is that acting?

Is that an actor?

Is that real?

And I immediately, as soon as it finished, started Googling everybody.

And of course, the AI is an actress.

She's a Romanian actor with a very unusual face.

And she does a lot of unusual stuff.

So that's a great piece of casting.

But then the very opinionated filmmaker who's sort of the center of it, I think she's Lebanese.

is a very opinionated filmmaker.

Massively.

In that weird way you enjoy stuff that also slightly puts you on edge.

I never felt at ease with the film, but not because it was working.

It was working, which is why I wasn't at ease.

I was constantly recording lines from it into the voice notes on my phone because there was this little things like nostalgia being this thief of joy and things like that.

There was just lots of things that made me think a lot.

I don't know about everybody else, but that is what I want from my cinematic experiences.

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