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Claire North

Aug 5, 2026

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Ancient Greece, for example.
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So the thing which you're going to get bored of me saying, but I think holds the big truth in it, is you always have to ask, what is your intention? So, for example, with ancient Greece, a few years ago, there was a massive flurry of Greek retellings led by people like Madeleine Miller and Jennifer Sait.
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Stephen Fry.
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And that bubble was collapsing.
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And then Christopher Nolan injected a $3 million marketing budget into it, thanking our Lord and Saviour, Sir Chris.
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But there was a theme, there was a bubble.
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And everyone who got into that world, I think, got in with very different intentions.
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But what about for a fictional world? Do you grapple with the ethics of defining a fictional world where you can't go and look at ancient maps and trawl through Google? Yeah.
speaker_1HOST
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How did you connect in the first days of long distance? Would you kind of remotely work out with each other in some ways? I
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mean, we discussed it.
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I mean, I was in the gym quite regularly when Pete would be messaging me.
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So he'd always be asking me about what I was training that day and what I was working towards.
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And I remember he supported me virtually through my first strongman competition.
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Unfortunately, he was unable to come down the weekend that it was on.
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But, you know, I felt like he was there.

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speaker_1HOST
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How do you both kind of support each other through those physique changes? And I guess, Claire, especially thinking for you, dealing with those changes, having Pete as your coach, so pushing you to meet different goals and also being your romantic partner.

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