Yes. Congratulation on the movie, guys.
Thank you so much.
It's it's great fun.
Really sweet and really, really lovely.
There's a line in it that made me laugh so hard towards the beginning
where someone says you have the manners of a Billingsgate fish wife,
which kind of sets the tone for all of the for the piece.
I just wondered what your actions it was reading the script, seeing that,
and then seeing, you know, the comedy mixed with the love story
at the same time, because it's that's quite a phrase that you.
Yeah.
I think Emma Holly Jones did a wonderful job of like
lifting a lot of those comedic moments from Suzanne Allain's book
and like her first draft, which I'm like completely reconstructed.
But it was also she was also excellent at creating the environment for us
and especially Zawe Ashton and Oliver Jackson-Cohen and Divian Ladwa to like
elevate the script even further and just like riff and play in
a script.
A script, right? You, you put your own thoughts onto it.
But seeing what artists do with it in the final product,
like I can't stop smiling and think about the performances.
I think they're absolutely wonderful.
So true.
And obviously you guys were involved
in that in the show as well, which came out a few years ago.
How excited are you to do the feature?
Because obviously you have a show,
you have you know, you have a little tease as to what it could become.
Mm hmm.
And then during the for the full film, you must have lied with how it went.
Oh, completely.
I mean, I think we all were
shopping, and I and Oliver were part of the short as well.
And Debbie as well.
And I think we were all just waiting for this moment, like
when are we going to get the green light and go ahead and make this movie?
Because we've been waiting for it for so long.
And actually, when the short came out and it was release on refinery
and YouTube, the reception to it was phenomenal.
What people kept asking me was the rest of this film, and so and so we were like,
okay, we now owe it to all of these people who want to see the rest of the film.
The funny thing about this film is, till
literally the
11th hour, we kept having hiccups.
Yeah, we we lost our actress at the last minute.
And and one of the things I will say, because I definitely feel like
this is a good opportunity to share this about a year ago
when they were when the producers were looking for
their Julia Thistlethwaite, I was like, What about Zawe Ashton?
I did this amazing TV show with her, Guerrilla, and she's phenomenal
and she's magnetic and she's got this really amazing presence.
I think she'll do Julie a lot of justice and I knew
Zawe had amazing dramatic skills and I thought she could
easily, obviously pull of comedy, but I had never seen a comedy skill.
Mm hmm. And I kept pushing, and I kept pushing.
And at the 11th hour, when we had to find out,
Julia, I said, remember the the Zawe Ashton suggestion?
Can you go back there?
And as soon as I said yes, this film came to life.
Yeah, absolutely. It's it's her.
She was kind of like the final and the most accurate fit of to the puzzle.
Mm hmm.
You know, and she came in and transformed everything, and
she said the same about Theo James.
There's nice to see Theo doing some accommodate because he's his comedy.
Timing is pretty good as well.
So the two of them together is a pretty good match, the same as it's pretty good.
So I asked the guys this as well How is your croquet game?
Have your skills become refined since you've played croquet?
Because the other guy is like, no,
no, it's it's not going to happen.
I think he did realize that I was pretty competitive, like, I want to win, okay?
I just my character wasn't allowed to be good, but
I think I would have been good if I were allowed to be good.
I'm going to say that everybody left the film
as good as they were before the film, which means no improvement was made.
But I don't think Peter was acting in that scene at all.
Actually, that's when that's quite exciting.
Yeah. Yeah. When a good editor
that comes into play.
Right, because it makes you look like croquet superstars.
Sure.
The camaraderie.
Yeah.
It's all about the camera angles.
So were you disappointed you didn't get to wear a mustache?
And this is I have to say,
Theo has a fantastic mustache game, and I think he's the only one.
I mean, I was afraid of you.
I mean, disappointed not to have a mustache.
I think that he was the only one that could pull that off
when he came out of the trailer with it.
I think everyone's mouth dropped, but he's like, No, I'm going to own it.
It's going to be great.
And the final product,
it's like the proof of the pudding is in the eating and he looks divine. And
you see him when he had the mutton chops as well.
He was telling me about at the mutton chops and the connecting.
Yeah, that was. Well, we did agree.
I mean, to make the film, I thought I was disappointed
at what he was doing.
His check and the make up test
didn't see that pop.
I think pearls and mustaches I think they were they rule this movie.
I do. Yeah.
I love a good mustache.
I've always, always got Ron Burgundy has a mustache.
So, you know, mustaches will get.
I wanted to ask you about the costumes as well.
No, no, I'm sorry.
Go. I'm sorry. Sorry. No, no, sorry. It's fine.
I was just talking about the costumes.
There's in a period setting, obviously get to wear these wonderful costumes.
Do you guys have a love hate relationship with what you have to wear
or do you kind of feel like it's it's befitting of obviously the culture,
but do you feel at home in the costumes you've got to wear?
Some of the costumes were a little uncomfortable,
but that's also because and but I kind of love the idea of those.
They were kind of not made specifically for me.
They were from the
warehouse, whatever you call it, angels.
Yeah. Where the costumes came from.
So they kind of felt like, you know, they live their lives.
And so in many ways, it felt like, oh, this is not
specifically made for me, but it's had another life before.
And so it felt more aged because of that.
So not all of them were 100% comfortable.
And I will also share that I was pregnant when I was filming.
And so I kept asking the director, Do you think I could lose in my corset?
Because, you know, the scene is up here.
And I think that gave it away
at some point because I kept asking her that too often.
So not as much as I enjoyed the corset.
There was there were moments and days.
I was like, Mm, not sure about this corset right now,
but great for the boobs.
Look I've no comment. No comment.
I think I think, I think now Zawe and I all
we every day our focus was
are our boobs perked up enough
oh dear, no comment again
our guys congrats on the films
and thank you so much for your time and I really enjoyed it
because I like so much.
Have a good day. Thanks so much.