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Love triangles and a royal banquet: Jack Edwards picks books for Pugh and Faist

Mike Faist leaves with Lily King's Heart the Lover, while Florence Pugh gets a novel built around historical feasts.

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Jack Edwards Story of October 16, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 174,873 views a day, 7.1 times a normal first day on this channel (24,568).

I bought books for Florence Pugh and Mike Faist

Jack Edwards has run out of interview time with Florence Pugh and Mike Faist, but not out of things to give them. "Guys, I think I'm out of time, but I brought you books to give you," he says, and each actor gets a pick chosen for them.

For Faist, Edwards follows a thread through two of his projects, Challengers and East of Eden. "I was thinking, love triangles," he explains, before handing over Heart the Lover by Lily King. Pugh supplies the verdict on her co-star: "King of the love triangles."

Her own book takes a different route. Edwards points to her love of food and of complex characters, then reveals May We Feed the King by Rebecca Perry, a story of historical banquet re-creations and dynastic rulers. Pugh hugs it to her chest. "Bless you, that's so kind," she tells him.

The Short reached nearly 158,000 views in its first 19 hours, around seven times the channel's usual first day for Shorts. It turns around two earlier uploads this month in which each actor named their own favorite books; Pugh's passed half a million views. This time the channel that calls itself "youtube's resident librarian" does the choosing, as it did for Nicole Kidman and Sandra Bullock, as we reported here.

The comments arrived more than twice as fast as usual, and many are about the interviewer himself, with a running joke that he is collecting celebrities like Pokémon. Others treat the gifts as a reading list: one viewer is adding Pugh's book to theirs, another warns that Heart the Lover's second half calls for tissues.

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What viewers say

jack youre becoming everyones favourite interviewer
@waterbottle5684See it on YouTube
At this point Jack is collecting Pokémon
@jshasan865See it on YouTube
Be ready to sob through the second half of Heart the Lover. One of my all time favorites.
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If I was a celeb you’d be my favorite interviewer
@e.k.5145See it on YouTube
Florence's book sounds really intriguing. I'm putting it on my reading list.
@raven_bardSee it on YouTube
my biggest hope is that jack hands a book to someone and that book then falls into the right hands to become a future project!!
@ameliacasarez8352See it on YouTube
May We Feed the King was SOOO much better than i was expecting!❤
@dawna3307See it on YouTube
You are the best interviewer and so thoughtful! The book recs are great
@KnjigomoljkaBinaSee it on YouTube
I want him to pick a book for me
@kaidaniel8117See it on YouTube
I've literally purchased 10 books in the last few weeks after subbing & reviewing past recs. Luckily most I've found on secondhand online sites. On behalf of my heart (not my wallet), thank you Jack!
@ImGravityRabbitSee it on YouTube