James Purefoy

Bryony Gordon's Mad World

The Telegraph

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

James Purefoy is one of Britain's most prolific actors, appearing in everything from the Royal Shakespeare Company to Netflix's Sex Education. But his latest film, Fisherman’s Friends: One and For All, while ostensibly about a bunch of Cornish blokes who sing sea shanties, is really about the fragile issue that is male mental health.

James joins Bryony to talk about dealing with the grief of his father, while playing a character grieving their father, boarding schools as a place to 'cauterise people’s emotions' and the power of articulating your pain.

Fisherman’s Friends: One and For All is in cinemas across the UK and Irelands from Friday 19th August |

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0:00.0	The telegram. Podcasts.
0:12.0	The worst is not. So long as we can say, this is the worst.
0:20.0	Right there, 400 years before Freud, before anybody,
0:24.0	is Shakespeare saying, talk. If you can articulate your pain, it is not the end of the line.
0:38.0	He's one of Britain's most prolific actors appearing in everything from the Royal Shakespeare Company to Netflix's sex education.
0:45.0	He's done Hollywood blockbusters, lavish costume dramas, HBO mega shows,
0:51.0	and he's played vampires, kings and serial killers.
0:54.0	But today he's here to talk about his latest role, which sees him dressed up as a fish finger.
1:00.0	Welcome to Mad World, James Purify.
1:03.0	It's such a pleasure to be here. Thank you, Bronie.
1:05.0	How are you really?
1:07.0	How am I really? I love that question that you do.
1:09.0	I've been listening to a lot of your podcasts on a job.
1:12.0	I've been filming up in Leeds recently, and I've listened to so many of your shows,
1:16.0	which have had me laughing and crying, Abby Morgan just broke my heart.
1:21.0	There may be tears from this man today, so...
1:24.0	We've done three records today.
1:26.0	I leak quite bad.
1:28.0	And there's been a lot of leaking. But this room is made for leaking.
1:31.0	Yeah, no, I can tell.
1:32.0	Lots of members of the telegraph just come in here to cry generally on that.
1:37.0	Not even...
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