RadioTimes.com<\/a>, star Emer Kenny has revealed that working with People Just Do Nothing trio Steve Stamp, Allan Mustafa, and Hugo Chegwin and Murder in Successville pair Tom Davis and James De Frond was a total blast.<\/p>\n\u201cIt was absolute chaos,\u201d she said. \u201cThe People Just Do Nothing boys, and James and Tom who made Murder in Succesville, they are sort of masters of improv because they\u2019ve done so much of it. And what all of them tend to do is try and shoot the script, but then do a bunch of really long takes where they just throw stuff at the wall.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve worked a bit like that in the past, but not as much as them. And so coming into that was interesting because they all know each other really well, and in order to improv and kind of let things go and try things out, you have to be really comfortable. But I just had to jump off and do it!\u201d<\/p>\n
She added, \u201cIt\u2019s the unexpected ad-lib lines that make you crack up because you\u2019re just like, \u2018What have you just said?\u2019 and there\u2019s so much of that. I mean, I\u2019m really excited for any kind of blooper reel from the show, because it will be completely insane.\u201d<\/p>
Asked if there was one scene that caused particular hilarity, Kenny picked out one towards the end of the series \u2013 which sees her character Tash have a frank conversation with Albert (Mustafa) and Sidney (Stamp).<\/p>\n
\u201cWe did, like, 12-minute long takes of Allan leaving the room then coming back and saying stuff and I\u2019m just sort of standing next to the camera actually shaking with laughter,\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019m trying not to shake the camera, because they would just be off on one doing stuff. So that was one where I remember it was like, \u2018Oh my God, I don\u2019t know how they\u2019re gonna edit this together!’\u201d<\/p>\n
The series concerns a group of bumbling friends who, thanks to something of a fluke robbery, find themselves in possession of \u00a330 million worth of gold bullion, against the backdrop of Thatcherism and a major recession in the early 1980s.<\/p>\n
Tash is very much the most sensible member of the crew, and Kenny explained that she enjoyed playing the \u201ctoughness\u201d of the character \u2013 something she said was a relatively new experience for her.<\/p>\n
\u201cI remember when I first got the character breakdown, and it was like, she\u2019s tougher than all of them,\u201d she recalled. \u201cI haven\u2019t done much of that in my career so far, so it was really nice to get to do that.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was hard for me to get my head around at first, because I sort of felt like, \u2018Oh, am I the straight woman and you\u2019re all clowns?\u2019,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n