Beards, snow and Leonardo DiCaprio
Will Poulter and Domhnall Gleeson visited to discuss The Revenant. The film challenged Scott’s usual lack of interest in wintry stories populated by bearded men, but its brutal opening and reputation had drawn him in.
The actors described filming in extremely cold and remote parts of Canada, where the real landscape and weather replaced much of the equipment normally surrounding a production. Will recalled keeping cold, unpleasant soup in his mouth while tending to Leonardo DiCaprio after the bear attack, helping him look genuinely nauseous. Both men described DiCaprio as intensely professional rather than supplying the horror story Scott jokingly tried to extract.
Domhnall spoke about combining The Revenant with Star Wars: The Force Awakens. He had been sent a suitcase of merchandise, although he was amused by how few General Hux figures it contained. He also discussed accepting awards on behalf of absent nominees, including his father Brendan Gleeson, and the strange experience of becoming an action figure after never expecting to become an actor.
Creative Wikipedia history
A listener explained how he and his friends had inserted themselves into the online histories of emerging bands. They hoped a hurried researcher would rely on Wikipedia and ask an unsuspecting group what had happened to its missing member.
The confession reminded Scott of opening an interview with Nicolas Cage by asking about a supposed home in the Bermuda Triangle, a claim the actor immediately denied. Chris then discovered that his own page recorded the true but obscure fact that his parents had considered naming him Pádraig before settling on Chris.
In Real or No Real, the programme investigated whether voiceover presenter Alan Dedicoat was an heir to a biscuit fortune. The celebrity voice was real, but the imagined family empire was not.
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