Dennis Kelly

You can't just watch people read, you know, you can do that on a book, but you know, and so I think I sort of stuck on this idea of getting her to tell a story and gradually that, and the story is really,

Miss Honey's story, you know, but she doesn't know it and she's telling it, you know.

So I should have said spoiler alert there for anyone that wants to go see the show, but it's been going for 15 years, so I think maybe it's OK.

Yeah, that went really well.

Alicia was amazing.

She was fantastic.

She was.

Yeah.

And they were they looked really hard for it was I can't remember how many kids they looked at.

But I know Matthew was like that, you know, they couldn't find someone.

And then the moment he's he's got really good instincts.

I think the moment he found Alicia, it was like this.

This is it.

We either do it with her or we don't do it.

And she's absolutely brilliant.

I think more the second really, you know, that you just sort of get on with it.

Like, I mean, I sort of, I, you know, I don't.

You know, when we were making Matilda, I was incredibly involved for the first two or three years, you know, and then at a certain point, you've got to pull away because you can't be there all the time.

You know, you can't sort of, you know, it's not helpful for you to be there all the time because you're seeing things that other people can't.

can't you know you realize that you're looking at something in a detail that the audience just doesn't see you know so then you realize your your opinion isn't that helpful and then you know you just get on and do other things and you know it's otherwise I think otherwise you just go crazy you would turn into this weird sort of obsessive about this one particular work it's like raising children isn't it Dennis you've got to say right you're ready now you're ready to go into the world off you go I'm moving back I've got I've