Luke Kennard

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543 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 8 Jul

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London Review Bookshop Podcast · Luke Kennard & Will Eaves - Black Bag · 8 Jul 2026 podcast

So I think partly it's because I see actors as a kind of canary in the coal mine of the arts, right?

So I think as a writer, it can take you a decade to get rejected.

It can take a while before you get knocked back.

Actors are like every day going to auditions, putting themselves out there, getting told that not only their performance, but like their body and their...

Aura, everything is wrong and you're rejected.

You're not good for this part.

And that's like a daily thing for actors.

So I think like when things are going particularly badly for actors, that's like a sign that things are going badly for everyone and maybe we haven't all noticed it yet.

So I think it's like, so it's a sort of, it's an economy of like time more than anything else.

It's speed, I think.

So he could have been any sort of frustrated person

but I guess because I'd sort of come across the real life experiment first and I was like, well, obviously this is, the person who takes this role would be a struggling actor.

I also, I suppose I think that like everybody who is trying to do anything, who is trying to make any kind of work, who's trying to create anything is,

is probably struggling unless they're part of the kind of 0.01% who are doing okay.

There's an element of just like, you have your kind of ambitions, you have your belief in your talent and you have to kind of then both completely crush that

and then live off the runoff from that crushing and kind of still sort of believe in yourself, still keep going, still maintain.

But I think for actors, that is like a daily process.

And I think for writers, you only have to face that reality every so often.

yeah no i think that i think it is and i think i think the test is how it feels sort of out loud and i think in the past like the dickens thing the bleeding the dickens thing yeah and and and the kind of and i think if you're writing like i think long before i ever had a poem in print i did a bunch of kind of open mic stuff where you just turn up and you get five minutes you can do whatever you want it's an incredibly generous scene you don't have to sound like anybody else who's performing that night it's really i've always found performance poetry this kind of open and

yeah, generous kind of place where you can just do whatever it is.

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