Origins With Cush Jumbo

Cush chats with Lashana Lynch about her journey from West London to Hollywood. Lashana opens up about her childhood battle with eczema, the unconventional diet it led to, and personal moments like getting her first period,  WWE sessions with her brothers and loosing her nan when she was a teenager. Plus she discusses her role in the upcoming Sky/Peacock drama The Day of the Jackal, where she stars alongside Eddie Redmayne.

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Cush and Ashley 'Bashy' Thomas' paths have been entwined since they were 16 years old, as they went to school together at BRIT. Ashley went on to play Cush's brother in The Good Fight, is a talented musician and

He talks about the tea parties his mum put on for him when he was a kid, juggling MC-ing at raves with school when he was a teenager, and on finding his agent.

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Kate Nash rose to stardom with her smash hit Foundations and scene-stealing role in Glow... but there’s so much more to this artist than meets the eye. Cush dives into the challenges behind her success: her journey with OCD, a Catholic upbringing that shaped her, and her near death experience that needed a bit of "tinkering under the hood" to fix her dodgy ticker.

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This episode welcomes Dr Who himself (the 12th one) to talk about his formative memories and life experiences growing up. Cush and Peter Capaldi co-star in the hit crime drama, Criminal Record, so this is a great opportunity to take a look behind the scenes at their off-screen relationship.

Peter talks about how his life would look very different if he hadn't been available to audition for The Thick of It (he played Malcom Tucker), and how he failed to get into drama school.

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You'll know Archie Madekwe from hit films Saltburn, Gran Turismo and Midsommar... What you might not know about this talented young actor, is his story of drama school, and what he was made to go through and survive to get to where he is now.

For the first time, Archie talks about his experience at LAMDA (The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art) and the racist abuse he suffered at the hands of his superiors at the school.

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From adoption to Ru Paul’s drag race, via more than a few New York clubs, Michelle Visage has made herself a global queer icon. But Cush gets to know the woman behind the ‘Visage’ (a name she gave herself while voguing and party hopping in 80s NYC). Michelle really opens-up about her difficult childhood, beginning with adoption into a New Jersey family, an unusual relationship with her mother, sharing her experience of being bullied as a teen by the mean girls at school, and how she became ‘cool’ when she found her first boyfriend, all while being ‘terrified’ of sex.

Michelle also takes us into the excitement of the underground vogue scene in New York, and how she found her chosen family. Oh, and she shares her secret for a happy marriage: you’ll have to listen to the end, her answer will surprise you.  This truly is a woman who has lived a life, and she shares it all with you here on Origins with Cush Jumbo.

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His name is a brand that's a household name: Michael Kors, the global fashion phenomenon, joins Cush in New York for this episode of Origins. He talks to Cush about his upbringing in Long Island New York, surrounded by women, as an only child where his birthdays were celebrated like a national holiday.

He speaks about his start in Paris the same season that Marc Jacobs started at Louis Vitton, and Michael began his work at Celine.

Cush surprises Michael with a voice note from the love of his life and they talk emotively about gay marriage and what it has meant to them.

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Star of The Good Wife, and Cush's on-screen best friend, award-winning actress Julianna Margulies joins Cush to talk about her upbringing.

Cush and Julianna reflect on their time filming The Good Wife, and Cush's nerve-wracking first day - where she was told by the director 'it will get better'.

Julianna gives unique insight into her challenging, chaotic childhood, about falling in love as a teenager for the first time, and how, aged 25, she landed a huge role in ER (she starred in as Carol Hathaway throughout the 90s).

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Harlan Coben has sold over 80 million books, and 12 of his novels have been adapted for film and TV. How on earth does someone gain such success?

Cush talks to Harlan about his childhood - growing up in 'Soprano's land' (aka Livingston, New Jersey) in the shadow of gangsters and a nuclear missile base; his real life love story of meeting his wife as a sophomore; and finally the death of his parents and the profound effect it had on him.

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David Schwimmer is an icon - a master of comedy, who we all feel we know insideout as Ross Geller. He appeared in 236 episodes of Friends, runs his own theatre company (for the last 36 years!), is a dad and also a great friend of Cush's.

In this episode David talks about growing up, a Jewish boy in LA with a mum who people called The Pitbull, the jobs he did before Friends including being a roller-skating waiter, a phone sales person (accidentally illegally) and taking a show to the Edinburgh Fringe aged 20.

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