Sam Mendes
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Sep 11, 2026
Simon BrewHOST
Well, I, I mean, I, I, your, your work is ext- ...
Simon BrewHOST
I, I mean, I, I think it was Sam Mendes who, uh, uh, who brought ...
Simon BrewHOST
Was, was it he who offered you your first Hollywood film?
Susanne BierGUEST
Yes.
Joe Sky-TuckerHOST
And the fact that, to me, it's like that, to me, lights the fuse for Sam Hargrave and what he does in Extraction and Extraction 2.
Joe Sky-TuckerHOST
We also have the Sam Mendes film, what, 1917, which is just, it's an entire one-shot movie.
Joe Sky-TuckerHOST
I'm about halfway through it.
Joe Sky-TuckerHOST
Yeah.
Cassie BradleyGUEST
You know, and I've had amazing people that have championed me from my drama teacher at my comprehensive school in Nottingham to tutors at drama school to other actors that have really taken me under their wing or given me amazing advice.
Cassie BradleyGUEST
I did... incredible play at the National Theatre in London that Sam Mendes directed.
Cassie BradleyGUEST
It was King Lear.
Cassie BradleyGUEST
It was my first job out of drama school.
Clive RoweGUEST
I love that production.
Clive RoweGUEST
Sam Mendes.
Clive RoweGUEST
Who's he now? He disappeared.
Clive RoweGUEST
He
John RochaHOST
Right.
John RochaHOST
But you don't catch the you don't catch Sam Mendes go.
John RochaHOST
I need to talk to the first director of James Bond to get their permission.
John RochaHOST
I need to talk to the director of Dr.
speaker_3HOST
But what happens when the studio takes a comic and dresses it up in a tuxedo?
speaker_4HOST
Well, you get a film like the 2002 Sam Mendes masterpiece, Road to Perdition.
speaker_3HOST
Man, let's really look at this one because finding out that Road to Perdition is a comic book movie, it honestly feels like discovering that an award-winning, sweeping classical symphony was actually adapted from an underground heavy metal song.
speaker_4HOST
That is a great analogy.
speaker_3HOST
They just hid it.
speaker_4HOST
Completely.
speaker_4HOST
They sold it purely on the pedigree of Tom Hanks, Sam Mendes, and Conrad L.
speaker_4HOST
Hall.
Justin AcriHOST
Bingo, bango.
Justin AcriHOST
Uh, this movie ended up winning Best Picture 2000, and it was directed by Sam Mendes, starred Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening-
Phil ElsonHOST
Oh, American Beauty.
Justin AcriHOST
That's right, Phil.
David Lindsay-AbaireGUEST
I was approached first, which is why I didn't audition.
David Lindsay-AbaireGUEST
It was Sam Mendes' idea.
David Lindsay-AbaireGUEST
What? Sam Mendes went to Jeffrey Katzenberg and was like, you should do a Shrek musical.
David Lindsay-AbaireGUEST
And Jeffrey Katzenberg was like, huh? And so he's like, yeah, and I would like to direct it.
David Lindsay-AbaireGUEST
And I have a great writer to do it because Sam had produced my play, Funny Mirrors, on the West End, actually.
David Lindsay-AbaireGUEST
So I knew Sam and he thought tonally I would work well with Shrek with similar sensibility and sense of humor.
David Lindsay-AbaireGUEST
But originally it was going to be an original story, not the first movie.
David Lindsay-AbaireGUEST
So Sam Mendes and I- Oh, like a
Marty SchwartzHOST
To Away We Go.
Marty SchwartzHOST
It's a film from 2009, Sam Mendes directed.
Marty SchwartzHOST
We've seen his work before in 1917.
Marty SchwartzHOST
Yep.
Brian O'SullivanHOST
I think
Stephen MatthewsGUEST
that that was probably I would imagine primarily sort of fueled by Sam Mendes, who had in his mind a very, you know, very specific look that he wanted the show to be.
Stephen MatthewsGUEST
And I remember, you know, because Sam at the time was AD, Artistic Director of the Donmar Warehouse.
Stephen MatthewsGUEST
Right.
Stephen MatthewsGUEST
And I think I happened to go on.
Stephen MatthewsGUEST
I was covering Tenardier and I happened to go on for Tenardier.
Stephen MatthewsGUEST
And I I heard a rumor that Sam Mendes was in.
Stephen MatthewsGUEST
He was kind of doing a bit of a recce because our widow Corny at the time.
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