Ayesha Hussain: Stuntwoman making actual history in front of us (Deadpool & Wolverine / Gladiator II / The Acolyte) #605
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip
Scroobius Pip
4.7 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 12 February 2025
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip!
This week Pip is joined by the first South Aisan stuntwoman in Europe, AYESHA HUSSAIN!
It doesn't hurt to start with a legit history making credential, but let's not limit Ayesha's work to simply that... This chat is one that locks in so much of what has been bubbling in previous more movie-centric episodes with a hugely refreshing positive outlook on the future of the big and small screen. Ayesha's story is all here for you to engage with, and hopefully will throw up some truly inspirational portals for those looking to join in the world of stuntwork and acting. You'll hear a super wide range of goodness in here including the lessons she learned from her mother and the forever legacy which lives on in her absence, where rage and joy meet, rebellion, the Babes With Blades collective, navigating immigrant mentality and working in concert with that, her own work attitude, journeying through burlesque and cowboy culture, and - as stated in the introduction - being the first South Asian stuntwoman. You know this is a big episode. Dive in immediately.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome, welcome, welcome. This is The Destraction Pieces podcast, episode 605. And what an episode it is. |
| 0:07.9 | This is honestly one of my favourite conversations I've had. I've recorded two episodes in a two-day run. |
| 0:15.5 | And they're two of the best episodes I've ever done. It's this week's and next weeks. Obviously, we're on a hell of a run. Last week's was fantastic. Thank you for all the love for Christopher |
| 0:24.1 | McArthur Boyd. But this week's episode is honestly, it could have been three hours long. I'm |
| 0:30.6 | joined today by Aisha Hussein. And Aisha's fantastic. I've known Aisha for years and now was the perfect time to have this conversation. Isha's fantastic. I've known Isha for years and now was the perfect time to have this |
| 0:40.1 | conversation. Isha has achieved so much. Iisha's a stunt woman. I feel like I've said Isha about |
| 0:46.5 | a hundred times so far. Isha's stunt woman was in Deadpool and Wolverine, Gladiator 2, |
| 0:58.8 | Doctor Who, so many good things. but she's self-trained and she used to, like, her journey is absolutely mind-blowing and it's continuing because she's |
| 1:06.3 | now moving into acting alongside still doing stunt work, but is moving more interacting. |
| 1:14.0 | And we decided that this was the perfect time to sit down and have a conversation, |
| 1:17.5 | because more people need to know about this amazing, astounding human. |
| 1:23.0 | And the Distraction Pieces podcast is the perfect place to fly that all out there, |
| 1:29.7 | to let people get to know and enjoy yeah you're going to love this this feels like one of those ones that in three or four |
| 1:38.5 | years time people say oh you should get isha hussein on the podcast and i'd be like oh i had them on |
| 1:44.0 | years ago now you all |
| 1:46.4 | know about them like the episodes with people like florence pew or barry keogan or macaela cole |
| 1:54.0 | or any of these icons who came on way before they were the quite they were already killing it |
| 1:59.8 | but way before they were the global names that they killing it but way before they were the global |
| 2:01.2 | names that they became and this feels like one of them yeah i don't know what more to say this is |
| 2:06.4 | so exciting if you're in the active world i mean if there's any casting directors listening |
| 2:11.5 | agents all that good stuff i mean iisha hasn't asked me to say any of this, but everyone needs to be paying |
| 2:18.3 | attention here because, yeah, it's an exciting chat. And we get proper into it on society, |
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