Clare Dunne

But you do all that, like, that's like your foundation work, you know, to use building speak.

But like, that's all your structural stuff.

If I don't say drill or screw, screw, screw you.

Yeah.

if I don't use some speak no but it is like you get your lines in you know all that kind of thing your words and then but then you have to like let it free and just like let something flow between you and the other person in a space because that's what it is like you're people in space talking to each other you know there's either a camera on you or a live audience watching you and essentially you're trying to give in to the moment of truth that's happening for the characters at that time yeah

And it feels amazing.

It's very freeing.

It's really freeing actually, especially actually, this is a bit weird to say, but like you've seen the state of me coming in this morning.

Like I absolutely shit myself when I have to do stuff like this because I have to be me.

actors like anyway actors that I know and what I'm like is I've realized that like actually I am quite like shy and internal a lot and I need like I'm actually quite like I feel more safer with my own close tribe you know what I mean and then I can be a lot more mad and crazy when I'm just in a character yes or like expressive and free and do things that I wouldn't really do in the garden or

with you on the street or whatever.

So there's something really freeing about playing a character.

And with Amanda, it was like... I mean, the first series was pretty tough because it was all very griefy.

There was a lot of grief in the role.

And that was tricky because it was during COVID and I lost my granddad during it.

So that was tricky because...

Usually I'd have a clearer line between myself and a character, but I found that tough then.

When halfway through the shoot, I lost my granddad and he was in the hospital next to my apartment, but they wouldn't let me in.

So we had a chat on the phone a couple of days before he died.

And that was lovely.