Jessica Hynes

When I would do fantasy exercise classes as kickboxing, I would imagine that I was... You're facing a mirror en masse of an instructor.

Yeah, kind of doing the kickboxing moves, but not actually kickboxing.

Maybe nobody cared, I think, is probably...

I think that's the anecdote here.

She was a genius.

She was brilliant, beautiful, graceful, amazing, so bright, so brilliant, so brilliant to work with, so specific about the rhythm of the comedy.

Yeah, always.

Ricky was allowed to improvise.

yeah ricky tomlinson of course yeah but yeah it was word for word and uh yeah it was just an amazing thing working with somebody that absolutely faultless in yeah in in her vision yeah making it happen and it was it was brilliant how did she deal with sort of

the producers and the bbc where they've always got an idea of like putting in a studio and trying to make it look like a traditional sitcom did you ever see over those conversations because in my experience that's always the most difficult party to that because i mean i was a you know i was just part of the kind of like acting team but all i mean all i can i mean i think she probably dealt with all of that like she dealt with a lot of

everything which is just like absolutely what charm just absolute wit and charm yeah which she was just just exuded so she was she could you know and she also knew what she wanted and so yeah she was of course naturally trusted yeah because the proof was in the pudding and the shows were yeah

I mean, it was weird actually, I think the first season, people didn't know how to respond to it at first.

They're like, what's happening?

And then once people were like, oh God, we see what's happening and it's amazing.

I used to walk in sometimes and think, I can't believe I'm actually coming into this front room.

Also having seen it.

Yeah.

And I'm very much thinking, this is just...

Yeah, and it was a whole different thing as well going up north.

So if I'd go to Manchester, it was just a different thing.