September 25, 2025 • 10 mins
Welcome to the pumpkin capital of the world, where the pumpkins are epic, the rivalries are fierce, and the competition is anything but garden variety. Dinah Little, a no-nonsense farmer with a tough-as-a-pumpkin exterior, reluctantly takes in her abandoned niece, Charlie. Dinah is not quick to affection, and Charlie is not one for sitting still. So Dinah throws her into farm life, sleeves rolled up and hands in the dirt. Then comes the town's biggest spectacle, the annual pumpkin-growing contest, a Halloween season tradition that brings out wild stunts, eccentric characters, and record-setting drama. But Charlie has something no one else does, a special knack for connecting with plants that quietly reflects her own longing to feel just as seen and loved. But as both pumpkin and plot thicken, and rival growers pull every trick in the book, will Charlie and Dinah's unlikely entry stand tall against the fiercest competition the town has ever seen? As her pumpkin grows bigger, so does her bond with her aunt Dinah. Together they discover that the real prize is not measured in pounds, but in joy, laughter, and community. What begins as a seed blossoms into an exuberant and hilarious story of crazed competition, found family, and love that grows as boundless as the pumpkins themselves.Here's the trailer: Https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbfl-n50f8U
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, congratulations on this new movie Grow. And I'm so
glad that you guys did it because I have always
been a fan of the season of Fall, and you
really bring the season forward with us and you make
it so exciting.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Oh that's cool, isn't it. That's great. That's a great
thing to hear. Yeah, because you know, it's it's a
real alternative to the scary horror films that we know
of that usually come around in this season, and it's
in more of a kind of well, it's it's a
it's a founny thing, and it's a it's a kind
of celebration of the season. Yeah. I think you're absolutely right.
(00:33):
It's it's I think it's quite refreshing.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
I think I can relate with it because here in
the Carolina is everything that you guys are doing inside
this movie we do. I mean, we have the pumpkin contest,
we have we have everybody that spends their entire year
making sure the pumpkin patch is looking good and it's healthy.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Wow, it really happens, doesn't it. And I was talking
to somebody earlier and they told me there was a
there's saw something that was I don't know quite where
it was. But there was a there was a pumpkin
that came in at one four hundred and five pounds.
Can you imagine. I mean, you can't even lift them.
You'd have to get a dumper truck to put that
on the back of a van, wouldn't you. But yeah,
(01:12):
it is it is really about the season, and it's
not just about growing stuff. It's about growing relationships in
the movie as much as anything.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Well, plus, on top of that, what you guys do
in this movie is that is that Dinnah really you know,
I mean she she you know, struggles with everything that's
going on, the rainstorms, the you know, the different changes
in your own personal life and everything. To me, that's
what it's all about. It's not all about fantasies and things.
But you've got to have those struggles in order, you know,
to find love with victory.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
That's a fantastic phrase. Yeah, well, yeah, that's what happens
in the movie. And it's about making connections with the
distant family members and rekindling that flame. And the central character, Charlie,
who's pre and rose Brook, well isn't she gray. She's
(02:00):
she's so dynamic and she's she's such fun, such a
sweetheart kid. And she character Charlie goes to live with
with Dinah in the country and done is very grumpy
and she's you know, she's gotta she's got to work
it out on her as a farmer, you know, as
it is. And she's on her own, and she's got
(02:22):
she's got a useless sidekick played by Joe Wilkinson, who's,
you know, a real sloth of a character. And and
so she can't really take on a kid as well, so,
you know, but she does. And that's what's so beautiful
in the movie. And and of course we discovered that
Charlie has this ability to commune with plants and connect
(02:47):
with them and know how they should be treated and
whether they're in the right sun or whether they need
water or if they're having too much artificial sustenance and fertilizers,
you know, uh, And she can she feels their pain,
and she's like she becomes she's like a pumpkin whisperer
in a way. And and and they and they enter
(03:11):
this crazy competition and you're saying, and these things are
really competitive, and and you get you get a chance
to see the community, and you know, there's a you know,
the local policeman and the postman, and they all grow
their pumpkins in particular ways. And I play this really pressurized,
(03:35):
confounded scientist and I got to do the full as
you as you've seen, the full white coat in the lab,
crazy scientist. And I even asked, you know, I said,
can I have a gray streak in my hair like wondering? Yeah? Yeah,
and they said, oh, yeah, yeah, we love that. Yeah.
(03:56):
So and you know, mister Gregory, he's a under pressure
to win the competition because he's got big prize and
it's going to reflect on his fertilizer company that he
works for, you knows. And so it's such a fun
role to play. And playing my son was the excellent
(04:16):
Dominic McLachlin again, who's only ten or eleven, and I
remember being on set and he took some notes and
then we did the scene. I just thought, Ah, this
kid is so great. And of course now he's going
to be the new Harry Potter, yeah, which is I'll
be interested because he's Scottish. Actually, I'll be interested to
see whether he plays Harry Scottish, which you know could work.
(04:42):
But yeah, and it's got really great characters in the show,
in the movie, and great you know British comedy talent
like Leuni Cross who's always so lovely and and gold
a resoval of course. He she's used to playing more
serious roles in Bridgetson, you know, but you know, with
(05:04):
the light touch as well, she's so great. Yeah, it's
a lot of fun. As you say, it's a it's
a great alternative to the to that scary season of movies.
It's it's it's a it's almost like a Christmas movie
in the fall, you know. Yeah, yeah, it's a great
it's really refreshing.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Please don't move. There's more with actor Jeremy Swift coming
up next. The name of the movie Grow starring Jeremy Swift.
Let's get back to that talk. Well, it's gonna be
fun to be at the movie theater watching how many
people are gonna come dressed up because I mean this
is a dress Yeah, they're gonna come in as little farmers,
or they're gonna come in with their Halloween costumes or
(05:44):
even buckets. Because it does have that festive vibe about it.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Oh that's true, you know. And if if it has
if it becomes a seasonal thing, you know, like in
the future then that people could dress up as the
characters or whatever. You know, that's the thought. Yeah, really
hadn't thought that through. I'd love to see pictures online
families coming dressed as farmers or whatever. That'd be so cool.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Now, do you know if there's going to be any
of the the so called movie theater merch that that
has become the hottest item where people have got to
have that specialized pumpkin. They've got to have something from
that movie to take home with them.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Oh, I don't you know. I'm not sure that I
think that that it coming to American theaters is quite
a recent thing, so I don't know whether they have
all that. I couldn't be certain that if they have
all that up their sleeve, But that would be great.
Wouldn't it be such fun for the kids?
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Yeah, because movies have become that. To me, it's like
the when we used to collect albums. You would get
inside that album to find out if there was a
rise waiting for you. And it's the same thing with
with movies these days, is that they are really making
the right effort to get into the lifestyle of those
that follow.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
That's very true, that's a real good take on the industry. Actually, yeah,
well we'll have to see what happens. You know, you
can maybe get your own just just a packet of
pumpkin scenes or something.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
I mean, what did you learn doing a role like this?
Because I mean this, I mean this, this is kind
of interesting for you as well. But at the same time,
it's like it's such a perfect role for you because
we look at you and going, oh my god, he's
I mean, it's it's you. You are the perfect character
for this movie.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
That's very sweet for you. I think I was so
touched by John McPhail, the young director. He's so such
of earnest, and he's so sweet, and he is such
a great way to get kids and sometimes like there's
a big crowd scene at the end, he really got
them going. And and and when we did some when
(07:42):
we had a little premiere in Edinburgh, because the film
was shown filmed it's kind of a it's got a
Scottish vite to there's a lot of Scottish actors in it,
and and it was shot just outside of Edinburgh. He
talked about his goal was always to to make the
audience have a good time, that's that's what it's all about.
(08:03):
And I just thought that's just so commendable. It's just
such a lovely thing to hear, you know, A directors say.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Yeah, because once, once you finish this movie, you really
want to watch it again. I mean, that's the kind
of movie this is.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Oh well, I'm glad you say that. That's Uh. I
hope people, do, you know, I really, I really hope
it takes off because it's it's it's so nourishing, you know,
and it's it's there's it's just full of great characters.
It's a it's an environmental film. It's full of community
spirits and and very heart won't we So yeah, I
(08:39):
can see that it could be a film that people
want to come back to. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
And I love the way that Charlie and I think
it's because I grew up in the farming villages of
Montana and and and I could relate with Charlie in
the way that I really felt like that I could
hear plants as well. But but to me, that relationship
started with when we were digging up potatoes up in Montana,
and I felt something eat the potato. Now, if you
respect the potato you will taste this fruit from this
potato right now in the dirt. Don't care what it
(09:04):
tastes like that dirt, But I got to taste that potato,
and I swear to God from that point forward, the
plants love me.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Wow, that is amazing to hear. Well, of course, you
know Prince now, King Charles, that's that was his thing
when when he was younger, he would talk to plants and
and and said that it really worked. And of course
a lot of people have poop poo that idea, but
you know there's a lot of there's a lot of
(09:34):
people who really go with that thought that you know,
you have to have. You have to have the connection
with the with your environment too for everything to work together. Wow.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Where can people go to find out what you're up to, Jeremy,
because this is not your only project right now. You
are endless when it comes to creativity.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Well, I've got a little part in a film directed
by Kate Winslet, which comes out on Netflix on on
on on Christmas Eve. Actually it's a it's a fantastically
scripted film by her son. I'm just a couple of
scenes in that, but I have a lead role in
an independent movie that I shot in Denver, Colorado last year,
(10:17):
which is a beautiful state. I loved it there. And
and that's a that's a kind of road trip comedy
and I'm the kind of male lead in it. And
as I say, and I think it's great. I've seen it,
and it's going to do the festivals next year and
hopefully you have a release nice towards the end of
this time.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Well, you got to come back to this show and
talk about it when it's time to put it in theaters.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Gots to do that. Yeah, absolutely, Aeron.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Will you be brilliant today?
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Okay, well, thank you man, it's great to talk to you.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Thank you, sir.
Hey, congratulations on this new movie Grow. And I'm so
glad that you guys did it because I have always
been a fan of the season of Fall, and you
really bring the season forward with us and you make
it so exciting.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Oh that's cool, isn't it. That's great. That's a great
thing to hear. Yeah, because you know, it's it's a
real alternative to the scary horror films that we know
of that usually come around in this season, and it's
in more of a kind of well, it's it's a
it's a founny thing, and it's a it's a kind
of celebration of the season. Yeah. I think you're absolutely right.
(00:33):
It's it's I think it's quite refreshing.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
I think I can relate with it because here in
the Carolina is everything that you guys are doing inside
this movie we do. I mean, we have the pumpkin contest,
we have we have everybody that spends their entire year
making sure the pumpkin patch is looking good and it's healthy.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Wow, it really happens, doesn't it. And I was talking
to somebody earlier and they told me there was a
there's saw something that was I don't know quite where
it was. But there was a there was a pumpkin
that came in at one four hundred and five pounds.
Can you imagine. I mean, you can't even lift them.
You'd have to get a dumper truck to put that
on the back of a van, wouldn't you. But yeah,
(01:12):
it is it is really about the season, and it's
not just about growing stuff. It's about growing relationships in
the movie as much as anything.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Well, plus, on top of that, what you guys do
in this movie is that is that Dinnah really you know,
I mean she she you know, struggles with everything that's
going on, the rainstorms, the you know, the different changes
in your own personal life and everything. To me, that's
what it's all about. It's not all about fantasies and things.
But you've got to have those struggles in order, you know,
to find love with victory.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
That's a fantastic phrase. Yeah, well, yeah, that's what happens
in the movie. And it's about making connections with the
distant family members and rekindling that flame. And the central character, Charlie,
who's pre and rose Brook, well isn't she gray. She's
(02:00):
she's so dynamic and she's she's such fun, such a
sweetheart kid. And she character Charlie goes to live with
with Dinah in the country and done is very grumpy
and she's you know, she's gotta she's got to work
it out on her as a farmer, you know, as
it is. And she's on her own, and she's got
(02:22):
she's got a useless sidekick played by Joe Wilkinson, who's,
you know, a real sloth of a character. And and
so she can't really take on a kid as well, so,
you know, but she does. And that's what's so beautiful
in the movie. And and of course we discovered that
Charlie has this ability to commune with plants and connect
(02:47):
with them and know how they should be treated and
whether they're in the right sun or whether they need
water or if they're having too much artificial sustenance and fertilizers,
you know, uh, And she can she feels their pain,
and she's like she becomes she's like a pumpkin whisperer
in a way. And and and they and they enter
(03:11):
this crazy competition and you're saying, and these things are
really competitive, and and you get you get a chance
to see the community, and you know, there's a you know,
the local policeman and the postman, and they all grow
their pumpkins in particular ways. And I play this really pressurized,
(03:35):
confounded scientist and I got to do the full as
you as you've seen, the full white coat in the lab,
crazy scientist. And I even asked, you know, I said,
can I have a gray streak in my hair like wondering? Yeah? Yeah,
and they said, oh, yeah, yeah, we love that. Yeah.
(03:56):
So and you know, mister Gregory, he's a under pressure
to win the competition because he's got big prize and
it's going to reflect on his fertilizer company that he
works for, you knows. And so it's such a fun
role to play. And playing my son was the excellent
(04:16):
Dominic McLachlin again, who's only ten or eleven, and I
remember being on set and he took some notes and
then we did the scene. I just thought, Ah, this
kid is so great. And of course now he's going
to be the new Harry Potter, yeah, which is I'll
be interested because he's Scottish. Actually, I'll be interested to
see whether he plays Harry Scottish, which you know could work.
(04:42):
But yeah, and it's got really great characters in the show,
in the movie, and great you know British comedy talent
like Leuni Cross who's always so lovely and and gold
a resoval of course. He she's used to playing more
serious roles in Bridgetson, you know, but you know, with
(05:04):
the light touch as well, she's so great. Yeah, it's
a lot of fun. As you say, it's a it's
a great alternative to the to that scary season of movies.
It's it's it's a it's almost like a Christmas movie
in the fall, you know. Yeah, yeah, it's a great
it's really refreshing.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Please don't move. There's more with actor Jeremy Swift coming
up next. The name of the movie Grow starring Jeremy Swift.
Let's get back to that talk. Well, it's gonna be
fun to be at the movie theater watching how many
people are gonna come dressed up because I mean this
is a dress Yeah, they're gonna come in as little farmers,
or they're gonna come in with their Halloween costumes or
(05:44):
even buckets. Because it does have that festive vibe about it.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Oh that's true, you know. And if if it has
if it becomes a seasonal thing, you know, like in
the future then that people could dress up as the
characters or whatever. You know, that's the thought. Yeah, really
hadn't thought that through. I'd love to see pictures online
families coming dressed as farmers or whatever. That'd be so cool.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Now, do you know if there's going to be any
of the the so called movie theater merch that that
has become the hottest item where people have got to
have that specialized pumpkin. They've got to have something from
that movie to take home with them.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Oh, I don't you know. I'm not sure that I
think that that it coming to American theaters is quite
a recent thing, so I don't know whether they have
all that. I couldn't be certain that if they have
all that up their sleeve, But that would be great.
Wouldn't it be such fun for the kids?
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Yeah, because movies have become that. To me, it's like
the when we used to collect albums. You would get
inside that album to find out if there was a
rise waiting for you. And it's the same thing with
with movies these days, is that they are really making
the right effort to get into the lifestyle of those
that follow.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
That's very true, that's a real good take on the industry. Actually, yeah,
well we'll have to see what happens. You know, you
can maybe get your own just just a packet of
pumpkin scenes or something.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
I mean, what did you learn doing a role like this?
Because I mean this, I mean this, this is kind
of interesting for you as well. But at the same time,
it's like it's such a perfect role for you because
we look at you and going, oh my god, he's
I mean, it's it's you. You are the perfect character
for this movie.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
That's very sweet for you. I think I was so
touched by John McPhail, the young director. He's so such
of earnest, and he's so sweet, and he is such
a great way to get kids and sometimes like there's
a big crowd scene at the end, he really got
them going. And and and when we did some when
(07:42):
we had a little premiere in Edinburgh, because the film
was shown filmed it's kind of a it's got a
Scottish vite to there's a lot of Scottish actors in it,
and and it was shot just outside of Edinburgh. He
talked about his goal was always to to make the
audience have a good time, that's that's what it's all about.
(08:03):
And I just thought that's just so commendable. It's just
such a lovely thing to hear, you know, A directors say.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Yeah, because once, once you finish this movie, you really
want to watch it again. I mean, that's the kind
of movie this is.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Oh well, I'm glad you say that. That's Uh. I
hope people, do, you know, I really, I really hope
it takes off because it's it's it's so nourishing, you know,
and it's it's there's it's just full of great characters.
It's a it's an environmental film. It's full of community
spirits and and very heart won't we So yeah, I
(08:39):
can see that it could be a film that people
want to come back to. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
And I love the way that Charlie and I think
it's because I grew up in the farming villages of
Montana and and and I could relate with Charlie in
the way that I really felt like that I could
hear plants as well. But but to me, that relationship
started with when we were digging up potatoes up in Montana,
and I felt something eat the potato. Now, if you
respect the potato you will taste this fruit from this
potato right now in the dirt. Don't care what it
(09:04):
tastes like that dirt, But I got to taste that potato,
and I swear to God from that point forward, the
plants love me.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Wow, that is amazing to hear. Well, of course, you
know Prince now, King Charles, that's that was his thing
when when he was younger, he would talk to plants and
and and said that it really worked. And of course
a lot of people have poop poo that idea, but
you know there's a lot of there's a lot of
(09:34):
people who really go with that thought that you know,
you have to have. You have to have the connection
with the with your environment too for everything to work together. Wow.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Where can people go to find out what you're up to, Jeremy,
because this is not your only project right now. You
are endless when it comes to creativity.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Well, I've got a little part in a film directed
by Kate Winslet, which comes out on Netflix on on
on on Christmas Eve. Actually it's a it's a fantastically
scripted film by her son. I'm just a couple of
scenes in that, but I have a lead role in
an independent movie that I shot in Denver, Colorado last year,
(10:17):
which is a beautiful state. I loved it there. And
and that's a that's a kind of road trip comedy
and I'm the kind of male lead in it. And
as I say, and I think it's great. I've seen it,
and it's going to do the festivals next year and
hopefully you have a release nice towards the end of
this time.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Well, you got to come back to this show and
talk about it when it's time to put it in theaters.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Gots to do that. Yeah, absolutely, Aeron.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Will you be brilliant today?
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Okay, well, thank you man, it's great to talk to you.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Thank you, sir.
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