(logo whooshing)
- Abigail, I mean this was darker than anticipated, wasn't it?
And this is certainly for an older crowd, this series.
I mean, I guess those who grew up watching
the Winx Club would be the perfect age
for this new adaptation.
- Yeah. I mean, I love the saying...
I've been saying this so much
but the Winx audience grew up and so did we.
So I think that that kind of, I dunno, captures the idea
for this series and the mood for this series
but yes, it is definitely darker
but it still has the humor involved.
It's still has...
It's like the minute you think that you're in a dark moment
there's a joke being told
and it's such a mixture of a lot of different things.
- Yeah, 'cause I mean, Danny,
there's such a huge fan base to this already.
It must be so great knowing
that there's this kind of passionate audience
already in place
but does that add to sort of pressure of sorts
knowing that there's so many people out there
that have their kind of own ideas
of who these characters are and what they mean to them?
- Oh God yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I find myself saying this quite a lot as well.
Off the bat, we all got along really, really well
and we sort of relied on each other
especially like if we had loads of scenes with each other,
'cause we constantly...
Well for me anyway, I thought I was doing a bad job
and I'd have days where I speak to Abby
and be like, "God, I think I just didn't do that right,"
or, "I didn't do..."
All this kind of stuff and it just sort of...
- We both did that so much.
- Yeah. I mean, it was really great
because we built friendships really, really quickly
from that because we were sort of not relying on each other,
but we knew that if we had sort of like a badish day,
we knew that we could have a little almost a pick-me-up
from all the cast.
They're also wonderful and they do all listen
and they're all great listeners.
They're all fantastic listeners.
Yeah. And Abby fantastic.
So many days I'd be like, "Oh I think I messed up,"
and I'll just go over and have a chat with her
about what I did.
- Yeah, we both relied on each other so much
and leaned on each other so much throughout it
'cause we were so nervous and just in our heads
but definitely helped having each other.
- [Interviewer] Did it help...
Well, I'm sorry.
I'll just ask about being kind of the one American
in the leading cast members.
Was there anything you picked up
from your British counterparts?
Any sayings or any mannerisms
that you've kind of taken with you?
- I like to think now that I can, if I get...
Well, when I'm around them more
that I was told I have a really good accent now.
I can do their accent, but I'm actually not sure,
so I don't wanna actually toot my horn,
but I would also say I learned how I never spent
this much time around...
I realized how American I am, if that makes sense.
They would always say like...
They would always make fun of me for like little things
that I didn't even realize
that they were just Americanisms or something
and I guess I really picked up on that side of it
'cause I am...
Yeah. I realized that, which is funny just to see.
- It's an endearing thing, by the way.
When we're all picking up on these things,
it's coming from the heart, I promise.
- Now I want to hear you.
- Oh I know. It doesn't...
What's that?
- I said I want to hear your English accent now.
- Oh God. I knew by saying that you'd ask me.
Okay, let me think.
Okay, Danny you say something and I'll repeat it.
This might be bad.
- Okay, okay.
- It's been a while.
- Can I have some fish and chips and a can of Coke?
Come on. You wouldn't say soda, would you?
You'd say...
- Can I...
Say it again?
- Can I have some fish and chips and a can of Coke?
- Nailed it.
- That's pretty good. That is pretty good.
But I was gonna ask because also,
I mean obviously the fans of the Winx Club
and the Winx Saga now, they wanna know more
about who's playing these characters they know so dearly,
so I was gonna ask you some sort of quickfire questions
to try and get some answers for them.
So they're just kind of series of questions to find out more
about your fellow cast members.
So I'll start with you, Abigail.
Who was the biggest joker on set?
- Eliot [Salt].
- And Danny, I was gonna say
who would you say forgot most of their lines?
- I did quite a lot.
(laughs)
Yeah, I did.
Yeah me.
- And Abigail who's the most likely to turn up late to set?
- No one. Everyone was very punctual.
- Yeah.
- Genuinely. Yeah, no one.
I'd say maybe there were definitely days
where I would like be bursting out of the apartment
with like my hair in a bun.
I mean and still in my pajamas but I'm still on time
but I definitely woke up like a minute before.
Then maybe me, but I was still on time.
I will say that.
- Danny who was the best dressed and the worst dressed?
- Oh, okay.
This is a running joke between me and him.
I mean best...
Okay, okay. I see.
And another detail.
I definitely started off wearing nice clothes to set
and then I realized, what's the point?
You just get out of your clothes and you're in your...
So I just started wearing tracksuits to work every day
and I love the man so much by the way but Jacob [Dudman],
a hundred percent Jacob but then again,
he's more experienced than me.
- Worst dressed? He was worst dressed?
- Yeah, worst dressed. Yeah, worst dressed.
But then again, I can put myself in that category
because by the end I was coming downstairs
with my hair and like, you know...
I mean, I had a lot of hair on set as well.
It was like up over here.
I looked shocking in the mornings
like in tracksuits so I can put myself.
But like best dressed?
In my opinion, I think we all started out dressing to work.
Honestly, I can't remember.
By the end, I think a lot of us were like,
"Let's just go in
in warm clothes." - Precious [Mustapha].
- Did Precious always... Okay.
- Precious. - [Danny] I wasn't in the car
with Precious a lot. - Precious has style.
- [Danny] Oh yeah. - And Hannah [van der Westhuysen]
always dressed nice to work,
which I was always impressed with.
I go in literally pajamas every day, but yeah, Precious.
That girl's...
She's on it.
- All right, I'll tell her you said that
when I interviewed her.
But I agree about the tracksuit bottoms.
I wear them every day to work now.
That's the good thing about lockdown, I suppose.
- I know.
- I know, I was gonna wear sweatpants
on the bottom of this and then I was like,
"Well, if I do stand up I don't wanna, like..."
- [Danny] I could do that. - That would be bad but yeah.
- Well thank you so much for your time today, guys.
Best of luck with the series and hopefully I'll catch up
with you guys if there's another one. Who knows?
- Cheers. Thanks
- Thanks so much.
- Okay. Bye bye. - We did it.
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