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Brett Goldstein chats with Meera Syal about life, acting, and cinematic experiences.

LOOK OUT! It’s only Films To Be Buried With! Join your host Brett Goldstein as he talks life, death, love and the universe with national treasure and acting royalty MEERA SYAL! Happy new year to one and all! This week Brett is joined by the phenomenal Meera, who has graced our screens for a while now and continues to put out excellence at every turn. It's a real gem of a chat and among all sort of cinematic goodness you'll hear about all things process including planning out novels, the circle of life, what life is like forming the power couple of she and Sanjeev Bhaskar, pre-nostalgia, being very scared through an honest mix-up, and the difficult lessons to be learned through problematic acting choices. A total breeze and a lovely, entertaining catch up with these two! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Video and extra audio available on Brett's Patreon!⁠ • ⁠Let Rocket Money help you reach your financial goals faster — join at https://RocketMoney.com/FILMS ⁠IMDB⁠ THE REVENGE CLUB TINSEL TOWN KERMODE ON FILM podcast –––––––––– ⁠BRETT • X⁠ ⁠BRETT • INSTAGRAM⁠ ⁠THE SECOND BEST NIGHT OF YOUR LIFE⁠ ⁠TED LASSO⁠ ⁠SHRINKING⁠ ⁠ALL OF YOU⁠ ⁠SOULMATES⁠ ⁠SUPERBOB (Brett's 2015 feature film) Learn more about your ad…

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Host: Brett Goldstein

Guest: Meera Syal

Topics covered

• life
• death
• love
• cinema
• acting
• process

Keywords

• Meera Syal
• Brett Goldstein
• interview
• acting
• cinema
• life lessons
• comedy

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Books & works: The Revenge Club, The Kumars At No. 42, Goodness Gracious Me, Ted Lasso, Shrinking, Superbob

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