Will Sharpe

But I did feel very listened to.

And I guess it did feel like we were always working together to find who he was, even from our very first cup of tea, to talk about it in London.

And she definitely would... She has this incredibly fast story brain and is able to retain...

information and encounters in a very sort of formidable way.

And sometimes we'd have like a very offhand conversation about a scene or an episode that was coming up.

And then I'd see rewrites that seemed to kind of work that conversation into it.

But yeah, with the Felix Remen thing, he...

His name was Felix Remen in the show.

And I think I just was like, there is absolutely no way if his name was Felix Remen and he's half Japanese and he went to that kind of school that he wouldn't be called Felix Ramen.

There's just absolutely no way that he wouldn't be called Felix Ramen.

I mean, he was definitely, you know, like a huge comedy icon and was, you know, whether it be Fry and Laurie, the sketch show, or Blackadder, you know, was somebody I really enjoyed watching as a kid.

And maybe in some way would have been, you know, one of the reasons why I thought, oh, maybe if I'm at this university, being a part of this comedy group could be a fun thing to do.

But he's also just like...

He's just an incredible polymath.

How prolific he is in how many different fields and how thoughtfully he talks about so many different subjects.

I think he's kind of like just an extraordinary figure.

He's just an extraordinary figure.

And yet, you know, on set, so sort of just humble and...

you know, just like another person in the cast and kind of mucking in in the rehearsals and noses lines, very professional.

So, yeah, I was hugely excited to work with Stephen and to have met him.