Sam Brigger
speaker
1,127 appearances
24 recordings
1 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 6 Jun
Sam Brigger’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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That's our guest David Tennant as Doctor Who in his first big scene. So you're asking, you're like, who am I there? One of the things that I really liked about your portrayal of of the Doctor was this unbridled enthusiasm that you brought to the character.
But here you are at this point, you've been classically trained, you went to the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Dance, and now you're playing this important British pop figure. How did all of the things that you had learned and the ways that you've trained help you sort of embody this role?
Well, it's pretty remarkable how much the show has given you. Again, like it's sort of this great wish fulfillment. You also met your wife, Georgia, on the show. She actually played your daughter in an episode.
She's an adult character in the show. She's an adult character, yes, exactly. And George's father, your father-in-law, was a different incarnation of Doctor Who.
Our guest is actor David Tennant. More after a short break. This is Fresh Air.
You've also played a bunch of villains in your career. And one that particularly stays with me is the supervillain Kilgrave from the Marvel TV show Jessica Jones. And Kilgrave basically can have people do whatever he wants. He can just command them. He abuses this ability and Very sadistic ways, taking away consent from women, like telling people, like, if I'm late, carve your face off.
And, you know, this character is charmless and like really repugnant. Can you talk about how you found a way to play him?
Thank you.
Fresh Air · Best Of: Amanda Knox / 'Adolescence' Co-Creator & Actor Stephen Graham · 5 Apr 2025
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In the historical drama A Thousand Blows, Stephen Graham plays a bare-knuckle boxer in Victorian London, prone to rage and more likely to beat you up than have a conversation with you. The show was created by Stephen Knight, who also created Peaky Blinders, something you may have caught Stephen Graham in in its final season, playing the character of Union Man Hayden Stagg.
The other show that Stephen Graham is in is Adolescence, one he co-created. It's a four-part miniseries following what happens to a family when their 13-year-old son is arrested for murdering a girl from his school. It's a devastating show, very difficult to watch, and very difficult to stop watching. Graham plays the father, Eddie, trying his best to be a good parent, but maybe not doing enough.
Adolescence as a show is not interested so much in who is guilty, but why do these kinds of things happen? Is it the family's fault? Is it bullying? Is it part of a kind of toxic masculinity young boys can find on social media while they're sitting alone, supposedly safe, in their own bedrooms? The show is remarkable in many ways, but one of them is technical. Each episode is a one-take.
There are no edits. The camera is turned on at the beginning of the episode and turned off at the end. They're like plays but moving throughout different locations and scenes. It adds an urgency to the drama. Before we start talking, let's hear a scene from Adolescence.
This is from the first episode, where the police have raided the family's home, arrested the son Jamie, and taken him to the police station. Here's Stephen Graham, who is in shock, is asking Jamie's court-appointed lawyer, played by Mark Stanley, what he can do in this moment of crisis.
That's a scene from Adolescence starring my guest Stephen Graham. Stephen Graham, welcome to Fresh Air.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you. Thank you.
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Yeah.
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