Jez Butterworth

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446 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 14 Apr

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Service95 Book Club With Dua Lipa · Jerusalem: Jez Butterworth on Real Life Inspirations, Creative Instinct & The Myth of Rural England · 7 Apr 2026 podcast

the dragon has a dual personality where they're either, they've got a maiden entrapped or they are the maiden as well as the dragon.

I suddenly realized that he needed to have, there needed to be someone hiding in his, in his, you know, he needed to have a, that that was where my make room was going to be, that she was going to be this thing that was buried at the heart of the stage, like there the whole time, but not.

And at some point they were going to have to turn and that they were going to have to,

move around each other and that would do something that touched on what... Every time I think about it, including just right then, I feel chills.

And I think that that's always been my points north in any thing I'm writing is does it give me chills?

I don't care what it means.

I don't care how good it sounds.

If I don't get the chills, it's out.

And if I do, I follow them for the next one.

And I don't mind...

what it means when I get there I do find that when I look up afterwards that it's created a map that is perhaps quite familiar because I'm probably treading ground that's been trod before but I follow those like breadcrumbs through the forest so really whether she is safe or safer where she is whether she is in peril where she is

Are all questions I don't know the answer to.

And I'll never know the answer to.

I just know that nothing in the play suggests there's anything going on between them.

Nothing in the play suggests he's doing anything other than protect her.

And nothing in the play suggests that he's not attracted to her and she's not attracted to him.

Mm-hmm.

I think so.

I don't think he's ever done this before.

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