Kaya Scodelario

**Ed Gamble** (0:05)
Welcome to the Off Menu Podcast, Cracking the Walnut of Conversation.

**James Acaster** (0:09)
It's just a walnut.

**Ed Gamble** (0:10)
It's just a walnut, and there's nothing wrong with simple flavors.

**James Acaster** (0:13)
Ed Gamble, my name is James Acaster. Together we own a Dream Restaurant. Every single week, we invite a guest, ask them their favorite ever, star at a main course, dessert, side dish, and drink, not in that order. And this week, our guest is...

**Ed Gamble** (0:23)
Kaya Scodelario!
A wonderful actor, James. Skins, of course, is where many people discovered her talents. The Maze Runner, a huge movie series. And now Kaya is in... She's done other things as well. But now Kaya is in The Gentleman, The Guy Ritchie, Netflix TV series. Season two is about to start.

**James Acaster** (0:45)
Yeah, very excited to talk to Kaya about that.
And I don't know what food Kaya likes, so this is gonna be all new. I haven't heard Kaya talk about food before.

**Ed Gamble** (0:55)
No?

**James Acaster** (0:56)
So this is a new chapter in my life.

**Ed Gamble** (0:58)
That's true of a lot of our guests, I guess.

**James Acaster** (1:00)
No.

**Ed Gamble** (1:01)
Okay. The Gentleman season two launches third of September on Netflix. Heard of it?

**James Acaster** (1:10)
Oh yeah, more of a dum.

**Ed Gamble** (1:11)
Very excited to have Kaya on the pod and have a chat to her about The Gentleman, have a chat to her about food, her dream meal, et cetera. But of course, if she says a secret ingredient we have pre-agreed upon, she will be removed from the restaurant, which can be dangerous because she hangs out with some crazy characters in The Gentleman.

**James Acaster** (1:29)
Yeah, yeah. He might beat us up, I guess.

**Ed Gamble** (1:31)
Ray Winston. Have you any Jones heard of him?

**James Acaster** (1:35)
Yeah. Theo James.

**Ed Gamble** (1:36)
Theo James. Not a hard man, I guess, traditionally.

**James Acaster** (1:39)
He's pretty tough.

**Ed Gamble** (1:40)
He could probably, yeah.

**James Acaster** (1:41)
Beat us up.

**Ed Gamble** (1:42)
Oh, oh God, yeah. Yeah. But that is not my ranking system for hard men, whether they could beat us up or not, because then I'd be going around pointing a little babies and being like, that's a hard man.

**James Acaster** (1:53)
And this week, the secret ingredient is Cod Skin.

**Ed Gamble** (1:58)
Cod Skin. This is a combination between my idea and your idea.

**James Acaster** (2:03)
Yeah. Cod.

**Ed Gamble** (2:04)
Scodelario, Cod.

**James Acaster** (2:06)
Cod, that's my idea.

**Ed Gamble** (2:07)
Yeah. And skins, because Kaya was in skins.

**James Acaster** (2:10)
Cod Skin. We tried to figure out a way of getting maize in there because of The Maze Runner.

**Ed Gamble** (2:14)
And that was Benito's idea.

**Kaya Scodelario** (2:15)
That was Benito's idea. He said corn on the cob.

**James Acaster** (2:17)
As always, didn't really work.

**Ed Gamble** (2:18)
He said corn on the cob because of The Maze Runner, but I thought he meant corn on the cob because he thought she was called Kaya Scodelario.

**James Acaster** (2:25)
Oh, he thought it was Scodelario.

**Ed Gamble** (2:26)
Yeah, yeah, yeah. He thought it was Scodelario.

**James Acaster** (2:28)
Oh, that's embarrassing.

**Ed Gamble** (2:29)
But you've been practicing Kaya's name because you got to shout it and you're really worried about getting the name wrong.

**James Acaster** (2:33)
Yeah, I'm always worried about getting people's names wrong on this podcast. Sometimes it's the first time I've said that name. I've never said it out loud before. And I practice them all day. I have been practicing Kaya's name all day. So I really hope I get it right.

**Ed Gamble** (2:45)
Scodelario.

**James Acaster** (2:46)
Scodelario.

**Ed Gamble** (2:47)
Really good. Make sure you watch The Gentleman Series 2 and come see me on tour at gamble.co.uk Fresh Hell January 2027 It all starts. But now this is the Off Menu menu of Kaya Scodelario. Oh, James.
Welcome, Kaya, to the Dream Restaurant.

**Kaya Scodelario** (3:13)
Hello.

**James Acaster** (3:14)
Welcome, Kaya Scodelario, to the Dream Restaurant. Been expecting you for some time.

**Kaya Scodelario** (3:19)
Yeah, I didn't know this was going to be a shouty.

**Ed Gamble** (3:21)
I love it.

**Kaya Scodelario** (3:21)
Let's do it.

**Ed Gamble** (3:22)
I just saw it in your eyes there when I said welcome quite loudly.

**Kaya Scodelario** (3:25)
I'm awake. Let's go.

**James Acaster** (3:26)
Forehand, Kaya, you did say to us, I haven't listened to this yet.

**Kaya Scodelario** (3:30)
No.

**James Acaster** (3:31)
I just want to react in the moment and I thought, oh, I'm going to shout.