Congratulations.
Thank you.
I've said to everybody that when I started to work,
it was like, this is the perfect time to release some post-pandemic.
All the other nonsense that's happening in the world, people.
And it's coming out this summer.
Those are the perfect time to release this, would you say?
I totally.
That's how I felt when I saw the script.
I was like, I need to film something like this.
Like, this is amazing.
Like, you know, really, the pandemic felt very close, but it didn't.
Yeah, like we were testing every day for COVID and stuff when we were rehearsing.
And my first audition was before COVID was out.
So I had to sort of I got through the rounds and then cold.
It happened
and I kind of forgot about it, to be honest,
because it was one of them things that just never happen.
Like, I was like, Yeah, it never happened.
Then when it finally came around, I think I associated a lot of it
with with the pandemic at first, but then it makes it even sweeter,
doesn't it, when you think it wasn't going to happen
and then it does and it's like it feels really good.
So that's like, okay, maybe that added to it seemed to add an extra energy to the
to the film for you guys to be in bubbles
and all that kind of stuff that you're doing.
Let's make it.
If someone's going to be making
something like this, I mean, you know, just to even go abroad.
Being abroad.
Yeah. Yes.
You know, like to get passport for my children. It's
I mean, it was like, yeah, it did feel like a big thing,
like to suddenly be sociable and seeing people and,
and just like an independent film, getting my age just felt like a miracle.
Really? Yeah.
Like every time one gets made now, it's sort of feel like
we're really lucky to.
So, yeah,
it was, it was definitely, I think thinking back to
that time was like, Wow, we're lucky to be doing what we're doing.
Definitely, this is wonderful ensemble of this film.
Obviously you guys playing playing versions of young and old.
You can say, you can say, I've been say I haven't I,
I've literally been going where the old ones look
younger and younger than what you say.
Old. I like being old.
Yeah, Yeah, it's great.
It's wonderful ensemble.
You know, all the challenges
you guys face to go to work every day and have this camaraderie in
portraying this friendship.
I mean, that was kind of the joy of acting that you get to do something.
I mean, yeah, I mean, it was so fun to be with lots of women as well.
Not, you know, we don't like men or anything, but it's just like, oh,
I often don't you know, I was saying that like because I am a mum to young children
and I get to see my female friends as much as I'd like.
And suddenly I was in Greece.
I had parties used to not be
with the children for a short time, and I got to hang out with really fun
actors and it was just so lovely in that respect.
It's just
I think it was like a school trip.
Yeah, It's like, well, you guys could actually go out and have fun.
I was, yeah, we didn't film as much in Athens,
so we kind of went out and so I did
a bit of sightseeing and things like that, which was really nice.
Yeah.
And I was kind of like instead.
Clitheroe When I think of Clitheroe, it's literally
like five years ago, like Athens was like a year ago and I'm like, fine.
But like Clitheroe feels like because the weather was so bad, so
and so typical, I suppose.
But it does feel like a different filming experience.
Yeah, that shuddering and you know, you know what you
bikini.
Yeah. Yeah.
And these boys
have endured for three decades
and they seem to other spans of sense of of people how upset they don't like
take that their sounds come on and even the right mood or they're kind of dramatic
everyone knows the words Yeah yeah.
Especially that big bang.
It's doing this folk scene kind of how that by distribution is is
they're very irresistible, these songs.
And I think when you see a story put to them that's quite emotional.
I challenge people to not have a little tear
popping out of their eye because, you know,
you realize when I was looking at the script, I'd be sort of going,
Well, how does that work?
Nothing happens.
A song plays, but nothing happens.
And it's not until you're filming it that you go, Oh, this works.
This is going to get people crying.
But you don't quite realize
the power of it until you're there bellowing out the song.
Yeah,
that they
you know how well they work these songs out.
Yes, for sure. Yeah.
You get to step back into my teenage years in the nineties
and all of these things and I decided to cope as well.
I think you guys have probably the funniest joke of the year with that joke
which got to which obviously now in 2020 I actually reached out
about the Ceefax show.
You get to see Ceefax and there's a, there's a headline
about saving the money and it's just
so I still love
Ceefax It's such a great kind of period of our history.
Yeah, that kind of stuff.
It must be great to kind of step back for a little while and close.
Yeah, it was.
I mean, I did a lot of research about like the sort of 1990s and the fashion
obviously has is really into fashion and the music and it was great.
I mean, speaking to people like speak to my mum
about the nineties and things like that, it seemed like a great time.
I feel like my style, like the nineties already, like your age group.
We already interested in the nineties kind of and I was like, if I go to Urban
Outfitters, I'm like, Well, I might as well be in the nineties.
Yeah, I think it's very common.
Definitely so, yeah, I suppose I was.
And when I looked at the fashion and things, I thought,
well, all this stuff is kind of coming back now.
It's kind of not too far from where we are.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, definitely seems like a cool zine.
Whereas for me I just revisited it in a slightly like, Oh my God, telescoping
time, like, because I mean, there's a bit of sweetness about the film.
It's fur.
We feel good about it, but there is definitely a sense of like
what could have been, Oh, I was so innocence back then.
I knew I didn't know what the future held, you know.
And I think that's what's really clever about it, is
you could go as any age group and identify with one of the characters.
You know, if you're a teenager, you can identify with teenagers.
If you're older, you Yeah, it just brings back so many memories and thoughts.
It's it's really clever in that sense.
Yeah.
Very, very quickly before my time's up, favorite type of song,
you got very tired, so
I might
change mine because I'm gonna spice it up in saying the flood.
But what's that one that goes?
No, no, no, it's fine.
Carry on.
Go. Right.
Well, the shot will not shine.
The one about stars you like.
Yeah, well, that would rule the world.
I thought you said War of the world.
I was thinking no.
Yes, that.
Yeah. You're going to go that long?
Yes, I'm. I'm going to go with the floods.
It's nice. Just don't bring it up. You saved my time.
No one.
I already. I already talks about.
About being sad when Robbie Williams left and I thought, well,
can't you like.
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