Thomas Brodie-Sangster

And someone from the crowd sort of raised their hand to ask a question.

And the question was to Brodie Sangster.

And the question was like, who do you ship?

Yeah, it was like, who do you ship your character with? Like this character or this character? And Thomas Brodie Sangster was like, what are you talking about? Who do I ship? And the atmosphere in the room went

real frosty.

Yeah, one of the other actors like leant over and was like, oh, it's like short for relationship, right? So it's like, do you see your character in a relationship with this boy or this girl? And he was like, what? What are you talking

Then why are we bothering making the film?

A dark stain spreads across the front of his trousers.

[upbeat music] Hello, and welcome to the Dinosaur Box, the podcast where we dig up and study dinosaur TV shows, brackets usually in this case, to see what makes them thrive or go extinct.

I'm your host, Thomas Gomasal.

And I'm your co-host, Darby Knight.

And on this episode, we're covering something a little more left field than our usual content, a show that's really flown under the radar of a lot of paleo media fans.

[gentle music] So for those of you who have never heard of this show, which I imagine is most of you, Stig of the Dump is a 2002 CBBC miniseries adaptation of Clive King's 1963 children's novel of the same name.

The story follows Barney, a young boy visiting his grandparents in England, who falls over the edge of a disused quarry, where he discovers and befriends Stig, a caveman who has constructed a den out of discarded rubbish.

The miniseries stars Thomas Brodie-Sangster as Barney, and it's the second adaptation of the novel following a 1981 effort produced for ITV, which we have neither watched nor will discuss here.

Darby, any history with Stig of the Dump in any of its forms?

All right.

So, Hugh Grant, and do you know Thomas Brodie-Sangster?

Oh, from Love Actually.

Yeah.

They...

Yeah, this is all you're gonna get in terms of strength.

Thomas Brodie-Sangster, for those wondering, where you're like, "Love Actually, which one?" He's the little boy who's the son of Liam Neeson-

Yeah

The granddad is Geoffrey Palmer, famous from lots of British things, but like, yes, minister, and yes, prime minister is probably what he's best known for.

Barney is played by Thomas Sangster who people will know from things like Love Actually where he plays the little kid that plays the drums he's also in Game of Thrones as well as Jojen I think his name is and lots of other things he just looks he eternally looks 11 he's going to look 11 when he's like 65 he's like the youngest looking actor there is um But he's very good in it.

I think the acting in this one is a lot better than the acting in the 81 series.

We get a bit more kind of, I don't know, this doesn't feel like it's probably come from the book, but they've kind of added and fleshed out the context a bit more.

How many stories feel like a version of Romeo and Juliet? And ultimately, I mentioned it already, Paddington is not too dissimilar in terms of this outside figure who comes in and helps to mend a rift within a family.

Anyway, carrying on, what else do we know here? So, working title films first brought Nanny McPhee to the screen in the 2005 film written by and starring Emma Thompson, alongside Colin Firth, Angela Lansbury, Kelly MacDonald, Imelda Staunton and Thomas Brodie-Sangster.

I think Celia Imrie was in that as well.

It was a brilliant cast.