congratulations on the show ladies
uh it's so so good uh i blitzed it
literally like less than a day it's just
it's just brilliant
so so good uh tell me about uh you guys
working with with gary um he's an
absolute tight in a british cinema but
in this he's not the gary oldman in many
respects that many people would be
expecting
tell me about working with him on this
show and working with him in general
i mean i was i was
terrified
just because you know you psyched
yourself up and i hadn't worked for a
year because of you know everything
that's going on and um
i would yeah i was so incredibly nervous
but that dissipated over the course of
an hour because he's just
such a gem and so welcoming and and
treats the actors in the crew like a
like a theater company and it just felt
so
warm and enveloping and
and then you see him in his costume and
you want to say to gary oldman like oh
there's a hole in your sock and they're
like oh no it's the character
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oh dear they've really messed up in your
costume don't tell him
now i couldn't wait to work with him
i've known of obviously known of gary my
whole career and
i admired him as a young actor myself
watching him on stage i saw him on so
many theater production i couldn't wait
um and
had a lot of fun and the relationship
between my character and his character
is so great anyway so
uh
there's this there's this wonderful kind
of interplay between you guys in in slow
house in this tiny little run down
all these tiny rooms and these really
weird corridors uh tell me about the
dynamic of you guys together because
there's a real kind of ensemble feel but
you all feel like friends and you'll
have your little kind of relationships
in between that must have been so much
fun to be part of that ensemble it was
and i think
the fact that we shot it in during the
pandemic you know personally i was
raring to go i couldn't wait to
get working again and we we had the
luxury of having a small bit of
rehearsal
before we kicked off and
all of us i think were just so excited
by it and a bit giddy about
you know
being with actors and yeah on set all
day and doing our bits and being around
london and
and these are yeah
and these are the people that you're
allowed to see when you couldn't see
anyone else and so
in a way you do cement these
these these bombs because you need it as
humans and i think that really
in a way is really helpful to what you
see on screen because
you know
some of us only have a couple of scenes
together but having spent that time with
each other
it feels like you've known each other
for years i think it's also a mark of
how strong the scripts are
because um
it's so woven into the dialogue and the
storylines and um
everything all the all the
all the
counterpoints and all the you know
opposites and the extremes and that is
it works really well and
a scene is never the scene is always
moving something on it's always it
always felt quite good exciting to do
and you guys as your characters you have
great kind of we know a little bit of
your back stories but we don't know the
whole truth of this thing i think is is
is really cool what was what was the
draw for you two playing these two
characters because there's a lot going
on but we don't necessarily see all of
it immediately
well i mean speaking for sid she's an
incredibly smart capable woman who
finds herself in slough house
because of of
uh you know un under a spec
specific guys
and then having to navigate
these relationships and
you know not come across as too
intelligent to undermine anyone else to
try and balance egos to use humor to
deflect from
her own background and also to try and
get in there and and
and just you know create this
relationship
with
river that you know
feels at once
um
uh that she
that you know she's that she's taken
orders to do that and then realizes that
oh god you know
these these feelings and and this
relationship actually goes
deeper than what is work-related and
what's not
and i don't know if you've seen all the
episodes but
i don't if you have then hopefully you
can agree with this i think gary has
probably the funniest moment of 2022 on
tv
in march i don't know if you know the
scene that i'm talking about there's a
scene towards the end when he arrives at
regent's park and he's in a car
yeah yeah yeah yeah you know at the
moment i mean i don't i can't see
anything topping that it's like the
funniest tv moment of 2022.
this have you seen i mean it's gary
oldman it's so shocking to see not
shocking that's one word but to see gary
oldman doing something so
hilarious uh have you seen do you think
it will be a memorable a memorable scene
for audiences
yeah yeah i have seen that which seems
like it but i'll tell you
yeah don't spoil it yeah yeah
i do and it's also like it's a treat for
audiences to see gary playing this kind
of
character um
because it is so shocking like you said
but god he just
he just embodies every cell of it
yeah
meme status for gary oldman i think
ladies thanks so much for your time real
pleasure thank you thank you so much
ladies and gentlemen you're watching
hey you guys
hey you guys how are you guys is that
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