Olivia Colman

So, yes, you know, Tony McNamara, amazing, Tony McNamara writer, he has loved War of the Roses, as we all did, and he's slightly changed it a bit, and so it's called The Roses, but that was definitely a big influence.

Benedict Cumberbatch.

Well, I think it works the other way, too.

I mean, I'm obsessed with American comedy.

And on Channel 4 here, every morning, we have Cheers and Frasier and King of Queens and Everybody Loves Raymond, all those lovely comedies that I remember.

Will and Grace.

Oh, shit.

Only the good ones.

Only the good ones.

But literally, and Friends and Arrested Development and, you know, and we are all, we can sort of quote most of

All my friends adore American comedy, and I find American comedy very sophisticated.

Oh, my God, yes, absolutely.

It's such a treat.

I'm so jealous that you haven't seen it.

I think that's lovely of you.

But I do sort of feel that way about watching all of you perform.

Well, I feel guilty saying no.

And I think in the early years, you know, not working very often was actually brilliant because it's made me very grateful for work.

Yeah.

And I think it's better that way around than doing really well straight away, I think.