Clare Dunne

Going like,

what do you think of this and blah, blah, blah.

And it's funny, the thing about Irish actors is we're a lot less Mayfair than most actors in the world.

Like we'd be real, did you go for that job?

you'd be great and I had an audition for somebody this is a weird thing where like about 80 to 90% of Irish actors would go actually I know a great person that'd be good for this like there's a weird thing where of course we want the job halfway through the audition she'd be like actually I actually know someone who's soothed better than me

There was a bit of that going on with the women around me, thank God.

They were like, Clare, you should play this role.

And I was like, no, I can't.

I have no screen experience.

I won't finance the film.

And I was right about that.

Eventually, when producers came on board and stuff...

I remember, like, it was Philadelphia Lloyd.

We were in a meeting, like, where I had suddenly somehow gathered this powerhouse team together that all came together in a weird happenstance way.

And I was at the Christmas party of Element Pictures.

And I remember just sitting across from Ed Guiney, who had just read the script the night before.

yeah, absolutely want to get on board with this.

Sharon Horgan's sitting to the right of me and Phyllida's on the left.

I mean, I didn't mean no one Phyllida was going to do this.

She was like, but the only condition is, is that Claire stars in the lead role.