ED GAMBLE

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FORMATIVE SF FILM

I remember watching ET through a veil of tears and being quite distressed by it. you can put a spoiler warning here but when you think he’s dead and then he’s not – I remember that being the biggest rollercoaster of emotions I’d ever been on at that point in my life. I was in tears. I remember thinking, “Well, the world is awful if you can show me this wonderful film about a weird alien and now he’s zipped up in a bag.” then he’s fine and saying he’s going to phone home and suddenly I was the happiest I’ve ever been.

FAVOURITE SF/FANTASY TV

I’m enjoying Westworld. I’m a bit behind with it because I was watching it with my girlfriend – now she’s decided she doesn’t like it but hasn’t properly vocalised it. So we’ve stopped watching but we’re going to have to have the discussion where I say I’m going to take the journey alone. I think it’s time for me to go rogue. I watched Happy! on Netflix as well, about an alcoholic ex-cop who has to save a child’s life with the help of the child’s imaginary best friend who’s a flying blue unicorn voiced by Patton Oswalt. It’s pretty outrageous.

SF/FANTASY GUILTY PLEASURE

I’ll tell you the specific type of thing I really enjoy regardless of the quality of the film: high-concept time travel. The Butterfly Effect is the biggest guilty pleasure I have. I really like it because it has a high-concept time travel thing at its heart. Ashton Kutcher absolutely pulled it out of the bag in that one. I’m not sure he’s ever done it since then but I really enjoyed it. SBl

Ed Gamble is performing his new show “Blizzard” at Edinburgh Fringe. Further dates can be found at edgamble.co.uk