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Summer H. Howell is starring in the huge new adaptation of Stephen King’s Carrie, and she’s sitting down with Josh for a chat packed with spooky coincidences, fart machines and some seriously starry praise.
Summer opens up about auditioning for The Curse of Chucky when she was just eight years old, the start of a lifelong love affair with horror, and how missing her own high school graduation to film an indie thriller ended up being exactly where she needed to be. She also gets candid about the gruelling 12-hour shoot for Carrie’s traumatic shower scene, and why she thinks it says so much about the shame and silence still surrounding periods.
Josh and Summer also dig into the eerie moment her tarot deck landed on the gazelle card right before she booked her biggest ever role, the overwhelming response to the show (over 1.2 billion minutes watched in five days), and the surreal experience of Seth Rogen tapping her on the shoulder at a party to tell her he loved it. Plus she talks about her close, supportive friendship with horror icon Matthew Lillard, who plays her on-screen dad.
Summer also joins the group chat to answer your questions, including the chaos of filming with a hidden fart machine and the most surprising DM she’s ever received.
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The chats that matter
Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show is the podcast that reveals the chats that made our guests who they are today.
After years of interviewing some of the biggest names on the planet, Josh Smith knows how to get people talking. Known for asking the questions others don’t, he’s built a reputation for uncovering the stories, secrets and surprising moments you’ve never heard before.
In each episode, Josh gets guests to revisit the conversations that changed everything, from career-making advice and unforgettable encounters to hilarious mishaps and life-defining moments.
Full of laughs, revelations and brilliant stories that will get you talking, Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show proves that behind every great story, there’s a great chat. These are the chats that matter.
Senior Producer: Faye Lyons-White
Creative Director: Carrie Rose
Head of Production: Damy McConnell
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Siân Brooke is fresh off the back of BAFTA-winning Blue Lights, and she’s hopping on a video call with Josh for a chat packed with police ride-alongs, full moon theories and one of the most beautiful stories this podcast has ever heard.
Siân opens up about the conversations Blue Lights has reopened with her dad, a former police officer who rarely spoke about the job when she was growing up, and how reading the scripts gave her a window into a world she only ever glimpsed as a little girl. She also gets candid about struggling with depression in her early 20s, and the moment she first let her now-husband see her “warts and all.”
Josh and Siân also look back on her incredible run with Benedict Cumberbatch, from playing Ophelia in Hamlet just after giving birth to the surprise audition that saw her reunite with Benedict in Sherlock, and she relives filming that devastating, gruesome death scene as Queen Aemma in House of the Dragon. Plus, she talks about her powerful new ITV drama, Mavis Eccleston, based on a true story of assisted dying, the real family she met while preparing to play them, and why starting conversations like these is the part of the job she’s most proud of.
Siân also joins the group chat to answer your questions, including her Blue Lights wardrobe wish list for season five and the piece of advice she leans on most.
🎥 Subscribe to the YouTube channel & follow the show on Instagram & TikTok: @joshsmithsgreatchatshow
The chats that matter
Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show is the podcast that reveals the chats that made our guests who they are today.
After years of interviewing some of the biggest names on the planet, Josh Smith knows how to get people talking. Known for asking the questions others don’t, he’s built a reputation for uncovering the stories, secrets and surprising moments you’ve never heard before.
In each episode, Josh gets guests to revisit the conversations that changed everything, from career-making advice and unforgettable encounters to hilarious mishaps and life-defining moments.
Full of laughs, revelations and brilliant stories that will get you talking, Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show proves that behind every great story, there’s a great chat. These are the chats that matter.
Senior Producer: Faye Lyons-White
Creative Director: Carrie Rose
Head of Production: Damy McConnell
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Naomi Ackie has played Whitney Houston, starred in Star Wars, won a BAFTA - and now she’s joining the DC Universe in Clayface. In this episode of Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show, Naomi opens up about living with panic attacks since the age of 11, and the lengths she went to hide them. She speaks to Josh about the impact of losing her mum in her early 20s and how she has learnt to live with grief, as well as the unforgettable chats with her mum that still pop into her head exactly when she needs it.
Naomi also talks about what it means to be a woman of colour in the entertainment industry in 2026, how the goalposts are constantly changing, and what success means to her.
Plus Naomi joins the group chat to answer your questions, including the most rogue afterparty she’s ever been to and the sweet act of kindness from a stranger that’s stayed with her ever since.
🎥 Subscribe to the YouTube channel & follow the show on Instagram & TikTok: @joshsmithsgreatchatshow
The chats that matter
Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show is the podcast that reveals the chats that made our guests who they are today.
After years of interviewing some of the biggest names on the planet, Josh Smith knows how to get people talking. Known for asking the questions others don’t, he’s built a reputation for uncovering the stories, secrets and surprising moments you’ve never heard before.
In each episode, Josh gets guests to revisit the conversations that changed everything, from career-making advice and unforgettable encounters to hilarious mishaps and life-defining moments.
Full of laughs, revelations and brilliant stories that will get you talking, Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show proves that behind every great story, there’s a great chat. These are the chats that matter.
Senior Producer: Faye Lyons-White
Creative Director: Carrie Rose
Head of Production: Damy McConnell
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Jessica Biel is back on the big screen for the first time in nine years with Matchbox: The Movie, and she’s sitting down with Josh for a chat covering everything from John Cena’s secret piano skills to the wildest 40th birthday parties she’s thrown for her friends.
Jessica tells Josh what convinced her to get back into movie making after so long, and the conversations she had with her husband Justin Timberlake about their children working in the entertainment industry. Plus - the funny reality of sharing a trailer with her 11 year old son Silas.
She also reflects on not finding her true voice in the industry until she became a producer in her 30s, and Josh and Jessica discuss the lasting impact of 90s body image culture, and why she thinks there’s still so much more progress to be made ten years on from the MeToo movement.
Jessica also joins the group chat to answer your questions, including her go-to quote, the book she’d love to adapt for the screen, and the unforgettable item she once put in a friend’s birthday gift basket.
🎥 Subscribe to the YouTube channel & follow the show on Instagram & TikTok: @joshsmithsgreatchatshow
The chats that matter
Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show is the podcast that reveals the chats that made our guests who they are today.
After years of interviewing some of the biggest names on the planet, Josh Smith knows how to get people talking. Known for asking the questions others don’t, he’s built a reputation for uncovering the stories, secrets and surprising moments you’ve never heard before.
In each episode, Josh gets guests to revisit the conversations that changed everything, from career-making advice and unforgettable encounters to hilarious mishaps and life-defining moments.
Full of laughs, revelations and brilliant stories that will get you talking, Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show proves that behind every great story, there’s a great chat. These are the chats that matter.
Senior Producer: Faye Lyons-White
Creative Director: Carrie Rose
Head of Production: Damy McConnell
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James Nelson-Joyce has gone from working part-time jobs in bars and restaurants to BAFTA nominations and now, apparently, 6/1 odds to be the next James Bond. He's sitting down with Josh for a chat packed with Scouse charm and moving stories.
James talks to Josh about the iconic moment he met Stephen Graham in Nando’s, and how Stephen has become a "big brother" to him ever since; the classism he faced through his time at drama school as a working-class Scouser; and how season two of The City Is Ours is about to take the drama up a notch.
And Josh puts James on the spot, and asks him: are you the new 007?
James also joins the group chat to answer your questions, including his most irrational fear (hint: it involves golf umbrellas), and where he'd take you on a big night out in Liverpool.
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🎥 Subscribe to the YouTube channel & follow the show on Instagram & TikTok: @joshsmithsgreatchatshow
The chats that matter
Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show is the podcast that reveals the chats that made our guests who they are today.
After years of interviewing some of the biggest names on the planet, Josh Smith knows how to get people talking. Known for asking the questions others don’t, he’s built a reputation for uncovering the stories, secrets and surprising moments you’ve never heard before.
In each episode, Josh gets guests to revisit the conversations that changed everything, from career-making advice and unforgettable encounters to hilarious mishaps and life-defining moments.
Full of laughs, revelations and brilliant stories that will get you talking, Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show proves that behind every great story, there’s a great chat. These are the chats that matter.
Senior Producer: Faye Lyons-White
Creative Director: Carrie Rose
Head of Production: Damy McConnell
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Tom Hopper is back on our screens in season two of The Terminal List, and he's joining Josh for a chat packed with Black Hawk helicopters, Navy SEAL friendships and some seriously good marriage advice.
Tom opens up about the body dysmorphia he quietly dealt with throughout his teens, modelling himself on 80s and 90s action stars, and how that insecurity still shows up for him today.
Josh and Tom dig into fatherhood and how becoming a dad to his son Freddie, who is autistic nonverbal, changed his outlook on life and communication. Plus he shares the piece of advice from his own dad that he credits with saving his marriage during one of its toughest periods, and why understanding his wife's love language was a total game changer.
Tom also joins the group chat to answer your questions, including the stunt that went painfully wrong on Black Sails, what it was really like being "burnt alive" in Game of Thrones, and whether dying on screen is as easy as it looks.
🎥 Subscribe to the YouTube channel & follow the show on Instagram & TikTok: @joshsmithsgreatchatshow
The chats that matter
Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show is the podcast that reveals the chats that made our guests who they are today.
After years of interviewing some of the biggest names on the planet, Josh Smith knows how to get people talking. Known for asking the questions others don’t, he’s built a reputation for uncovering the stories, secrets and surprising moments you’ve never heard before.
In each episode, Josh gets guests to revisit the conversations that changed everything, from career-making advice and unforgettable encounters to hilarious mishaps and life-defining moments.
Full of laughs, revelations and brilliant stories that will get you talking, Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show proves that behind every great story, there’s a great chat. These are the chats that matter.
Senior Producer: Faye Lyons-White
Creative Director: Carrie Rose
Head of Production: Damy McConnell
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Chris Olsen has built an empire on TikTok with fourteen million followers, his own coffee brand and a bestselling memoir, and he's sitting down with Josh for a chat that goes way deeper than the algorithm usually allows.
Chris talks to Josh about his recent breakup, his close friendship with Meghan Trainor and some of the most formative conversations of his life that he had with his mum whilst she was discovering she was an alcoholic. He walks Josh through the intervention that changed everything on September 28th, 2017 and the biggest misconceptions people still have about addiction.
Josh and Chris also get into coming out at 13, the internalised homophobia that still exists within the queer community, and why Chris thinks the UK's new social media age restrictions are the right call.
Chris also joins the group chat to answer your questions, including about that viral Harry Styles "daddy" sign and the worst opening line to a TikTok video.
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If there is anything in this Great Chat that may have affected you, please see below for links that may help:
https://www.alcoholics-anonymous.org.uk
https://talktofrank.com
Josh Smith's Great Chat Show
The chats that matter
Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show is the podcast that reveals the chats that made our guests who they are today.
After years of interviewing some of the biggest names on the planet, Josh Smith knows how to get people talking. Known for asking the questions others don’t, he’s built a reputation for uncovering the stories, secrets and surprising moments you’ve never heard before.
In each episode, Josh gets guests to revisit the conversations that changed everything, from career-making advice and unforgettable encounters to hilarious mishaps and life-defining moments.
Full of laughs, revelations and brilliant stories that will get you talking, Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show proves that behind every great story, there’s a great chat. These are the chats that matter.
Senior Producer: Faye Lyons-White
Creative Director: Carrie Rose
Head of Production: Damy McConnell
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Fiona Shaw is an icon of stage and screen, after roles in Killing Eve, Bad Sisters, Harry Potter and now as she stars in Sense and Sensibility she joins Josh for a chat that proves she's still got the same mischief that once landed her on the front page of the Irish Times, much to her father's horror.
She and Josh dig into her scene-stealing turn as Mrs. Jennings in the new Sense and Sensibility, including how she found "the laugh" and why playing a bumbling school teacher in the 90s nearly derailed her film career before she happily returned to the theatre. Fiona also opens up about her friendships with Jodie Comer and Jodie Foster, working alongside the late Dame Maggie Smith, and that unforgettable Fleabag cameo with Phoebe Waller-Bridge.
Fiona also joins her first ever group chat to answer your questions, gives her verdict on that divisive Killing Eve finale (did Villanelle really die?!?) and shares the piece of advice from her father that she's very glad she ignored.
Sense and Sensibility is out in cinemas on 25th September.
🎥 Subscribe to the YouTube channel & follow the show on Instagram & TikTok: @joshsmithsgreatchatshow
The chats that matter
Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show is the podcast that reveals the chats that made our guests who they are today.
After years of interviewing some of the biggest names on the planet, Josh Smith knows how to get people talking. Known for asking the questions others don’t, he’s built a reputation for uncovering the stories, secrets and surprising moments you’ve never heard before.
In each episode, Josh gets guests to revisit the conversations that changed everything, from career-making advice and unforgettable encounters to hilarious mishaps and life-defining moments.
Full of laughs, revelations and brilliant stories that will get you talking, Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show proves that behind every great story, there’s a great chat. These are the chats that matter.
Senior Producer: Faye Lyons-White
Creative Director: Carrie Rose
Head of Production: Damy McConnell
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From Downton Abbey to a leading lady of Mobland season two, Joanne Froggatt sits down with Josh for a proper catch-up five years in the making.
Joanne tells Josh how she feels about the rumours about Tom Hardy’s on-set behaviour that have been following the cast of Mobland around, and the chat she had with him that put her completely at ease when she needed it most.
Josh reminds Joanne of the chat they had five years ago about the double standards women face - and how the conversation has moved on (or hasn’t!) - from the industry's obsession with how women age, to the guilt and logistics that come with being a working mum.
Plus she shares a beautiful memory of working alongside the late Dame Maggie Smith, and opens up about her new HBO series on the trial of Louise Woodward which will get us all chatting!
Joanne also joins the group chat to answer your questions, including the wildest thing she's had to learn for a role, and whether she could take Pierce Brosnan, Helen Mirren or Tom Hardy in an argument…
🎥 Subscribe to the YouTube channel & follow the show on Instagram & TikTok: @joshsmithsgreatchatshow
The chats that matter
Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show is the podcast that reveals the chats that made our guests who they are today.
After years of interviewing some of the biggest names on the planet, Josh Smith knows how to get people talking. Known for asking the questions others don’t, he’s built a reputation for uncovering the stories, secrets and surprising moments you’ve never heard before.
In each episode, Josh gets guests to revisit the conversations that changed everything, from career-making advice and unforgettable encounters to hilarious mishaps and life-defining moments.
Full of laughs, revelations and brilliant stories that will get you talking, Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show proves that behind every great story, there’s a great chat. These are the chats that matter.
Senior Producer: Faye Lyons-White
Creative Director: Carrie Rose
Head of Production: Damy McConnell
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Miku Martineau is living out our dream life leading Netflix's new love triangle drama ‘Crew Girl’ and it’s the show we are all going to be chatting about!
In this chat with Josh, Miku opens up about growing up as a Japanese Canadian in a predominantly white neighbourhood, feeling like an outlier at school, and how the things that once made her stand out are now the things she wears as a badge of honour.
Josh and Miku also chat about why we need to stop dissecting women's bodies, after she was told she was too ‘twiggy’ growing up.
Miku also tells the story of the incredible moment at the ‘Star Trek’ wrap party when she got to tell Michelle Yeoh, in person, that she had booked her first ever lead role in Netflix series ‘Bet’. Plus she gets candid about ending a long term relationship and why walking away is a win rather than a failure.
Plus Miku joins the group chat to answer your questions, including the truth about her childhood pet eels, and whether she is Team Cam or Team Josh…
🎥 Subscribe to the YouTube channel & follow the show on Instagram & TikTok: @joshsmithsgreatchatshow
The chats that matter
Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show is the podcast that reveals the chats that made our guests who they are today.
After years of interviewing some of the biggest names on the planet, Josh Smith knows how to get people talking. Known for asking the questions others don’t, he’s built a reputation for uncovering the stories, secrets and surprising moments you’ve never heard before.
In each episode, Josh gets guests to revisit the conversations that changed everything, from career-making advice and unforgettable encounters to hilarious mishaps and life-defining moments.
Full of laughs, revelations and brilliant stories that will get you talking, Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show proves that behind every great story, there’s a great chat. These are the chats that matter.
Senior Producer: Faye Lyons-White
Creative Director: Carrie Rose
Head of Production: Damy McConnell
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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