Clare Dunne

I've got the power.

Yeah.

So I've been directed to do some hoity-toity shit.

And I just remember standing there and doing this real sassy version of it.

at the age of 11 the sass was going and I remember Chris was like he was looking at me and he was kind of going alright like and he was loving it he was just like because he was bored out of his tree he had no interest in being an actor and for some reason was given the fucking lead of this thing and he was like I don't want to be here like you know so he was like deadly bit of crack like you know we're only 11

So, and I remember we did that.

And my mom and dad still say to me to this day, they were like, we remembered that moment very well because we suddenly went, oh, fuck, she can do this.

Because I just, it was like, I just realized, oh,

you just have to have the crack and you just sense what the audience are feeling.

And it was a sense of timing or something.

It was just something in the air.

And so like my spark for everything came from wanting to make people laugh and just tell a good story.

And so when I was in drama school and we used to do the improv stuff as well, which was the basis of our training, our whole basis of training in Royal Welsh College is actually about what you give to other people.

But anyway, we'd be doing improvs and they'd be just free improvs.

I remember after like a few weeks of doing them, I remember Jamie Garvin, the acting teacher, I remember him taking me aside one day and just going,

every time you get up like it's brilliant it's always truthful it's great it's great it's great but like you're always just making everyone laugh like you're gonna have to lean into a bit of like can you just allow something to happen that's in the darker shades of the human emotional territory and I'd be like okay stop

One day he obviously said it to somebody in the class and I get up, right?

And I'm like, he obviously said like, make her do something serious, make her do something serious.

Say something she can't turn into a joke, right?

This fella, Alex, gets up.