Richard Osman

And we know what he went on to do next, which we've talked about before, which was.

Great.

dropped out of normal not completely out of normal education but sort of sat around watching a lot of movies sam leveson i said i had a childhood where he'd been through various you know substance abuse issues and so he was writing that sort of thing anyway and in a meeting someone said oh we got this show euphoria from israel would you like to adapt it and he said yes and essentially just wrote the thing that he wanted to do but that's the way the tv works sometimes yeah so

It felt real.

Do you know stories about Sam Levinson that you would never be able to say in public?

Okay.

It's often the case that if you are looking at a scene to go, okay, step outside of this, step behind the camera, think about that morning.

Think about all of those actors and think about how they were asked to do what they're going to do, how they felt during it and how they felt after it.

And then ask yourself whether you would be comfortable doing that.

By the way, as I say... The people in the Euphoria cast is sort of in the same universe.

Sort of, yeah.

so what you're saying is we've got the three of them who've done this incredible show that they owe an awful lot to and before the next one comes out they're all massive superstars in the meantime the director and writer of this show has done a massive dump right in the middle of Hollywood

It didn't, unlike a massive dump, it did not hang around for long, did it?

I mean, don't, but you can.

It sort of happened all around us.

So we know it already that television, especially for a younger generation of actors, has equal, if not more prestige than movies.

And this is an object case, and the three of them are happy to co-star in this thing on television because they're not thinking, I could be making a movie instead.

They're thinking, no, this is an enormous worldwide...

four months plus promotion well that's why this is perfect this is like a movie to them isn't it this is all the advantages of the scale of television with none of the disadvantages which is you're going to be tied up for years and years and years this is that this is a one and done because they've already done the first two seasons so this one they can just go in do a thing they know is going to absolutely explode everywhere around the world and get out and back into the uh ten million dollars a movie

Would you recommend season one to our podcast listeners?