Cush Jumbo on Talking with Her Mates in Her New Podcast

Cush Jumbo, who starred in The Good Wife, its spin-off The Good Fight, and most recently Criminal Record, tackles a completely different role in her new podcast Origins with Cush Jumbo: She plays herself. But it’s not as unlikely a career turn as one might think. “I’m a bit of a weird fish,” she says with a laugh. “Even before I was acting I was writing, directing stuff. I make things. I tend to get ideas about stuff, and then they kind of weirdly fall into place.”

In the podcast, which premiered September 3, Jumbo sits down with her friends to talk about three stories that made them who they are. In her premiere episode, she chatted with Anna Wintour, the famed editor-in-chief of Vogue and inspiration for the 2006 movie Devil Wears Prada. Wintour talks with Jumbo about her father, children, and life as an editorial assistant. Wintour confesses she was a terrible assistant who couldn’t type. It is a decidedly different Anna Wintour than the one that exists in our collective pop-culture psyche.

“I’m very, very nosy, very chatty,” Jumbo says. “I’ve often been told by many, many people that I get things out of people. They’re always like I can’t believe I told you this. That always happens to me. I’m one of seven children. I feel quite open. They’re just magnetized towards me and spill their guts.” Below Jumbo talks with Telly Visions about the podcast and what listeners might expect throughout the first season.