Sally Wainwright

That's a real achievement.

Yeah.

Do you know the wonderful thing was it really bonded them.

You know, like when you rehearse with actors, they bond anyway because they're all putting their hearts and souls on the line.

But actually asking them to play music together, it gave them a real buzz.

There was real adrenaline in the room.

You could feel it in the show.

Well, Tamsin would tell you she was acting at that point because she actually got better as Tamsin than she was supposed to be as Ollie.

When she was practicing, you know, she'd learned so much.

But they had to play two gigs.

One is at the concert in episode four.

And then one is at the festival in episode six.

Because of the magic of telly, we had to put the music on top afterwards in the edit.

But they were actually playing properly.

So when they came off stage, they were saying, I can understand why you do want to go back and smash your hotel room up.

They got so much energy and adrenaline flowing.

I think there's this common thing that women go through when they're... I did, and I've talked to other women about this.

When you get to 40, you go through a phase of thinking.

Oh, I don't care anymore.

This is me.