{"id":2195528,"date":"2025-12-11T21:18:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T21:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2195528"},"modified":"2025-12-11T21:18:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T21:18:09","slug":"tom-basdens-scariest-the-ballad-of-wallis-island-ask-carey-mulligans-mumford-sons-husband-hearing-his-songs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/tom-basdens-scariest-the-ballad-of-wallis-island-ask-carey-mulligans-mumford-sons-husband-hearing-his-songs\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Basden\u2019s Scariest \u2018The Ballad of Wallis Island\u2019 Ask: Carey Mulligan\u2019s Mumford & Sons Husband Hearing His Songs"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Writing songs for the gently bent comedy \u201cThe Ballad of Wallis Island<\/a>\u201d was a tricky job for British actor, writer, musician and comedian Tom Basden<\/a>. In the film, which he co-wrote with his comic partner Tim Key<\/a>, Basden plays Herb McGwyer, one half of McGwyer Mortimer, a semi-legendary folk duo lured to a small island off the coast of Wales to play a private gig for what turns out to be an audience of one: Charles Heath<\/a> (Key<\/a>), an eccentric widower and sad-sack two-time lottery winner who used his windfall to isolate himself and obsess over getting the duo back together for his solitary enjoyment.<\/p>\n

In the story, which spins…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Writing songs for the gently bent comedy \u201cThe Ballad of Wallis Island\u201d was a tricky job for British actor, writer, musician and comedian Tom Basden. In the film, which he co-wrote with his comic partner Tim Key, Basden plays Herb McGwyer, one half of McGwyer Mortimer, a semi-legendary folk duo lured to a small island […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2195529,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2195528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Tom-Basdens-Scariest-\u2018The-Ballad-of-Wallis-Island-Ask-Carey.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2195528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2195528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2195528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2195530,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2195528\/revisions\/2195530"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2195529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2195528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2195528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2195528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}