{"id":32781,"date":"2023-05-14T08:00:31","date_gmt":"2023-05-14T06:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1829492"},"modified":"2023-05-14T23:55:18","modified_gmt":"2023-05-14T21:55:18","slug":"sharon-horgan-on-bad-sisters-season-2-life-is-going-to-change-for-them","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/sharon-horgan-on-bad-sisters-season-2-life-is-going-to-change-for-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharon Horgan on Bad Sisters season 2: \u2018Life is going to change for them\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

This interview originally appeared in the Radio Times Magazine. <\/p>

By Huw Fullerton\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Sunday, 14 May 2023 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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This year, Sharon Horgan\u2019s Apple TV+ series Bad Sisters<\/a>, a black comedy about five Irish siblings bound together by their brother-in-law\u2019s death, is up for a best drama series BAFTA and, more than anything else, she\u2019s relieved. \u201cYeah, thank God, right?\u201d the 52-year-old Irish actor, writer, director and producer laughs when we connect over Zoom. \u201cIt would have been weird being in the BAFTA edition of Radio Times without that. I was a bit worried\u2026<\/p>\n

\u201cA more well-rounded person would tune it out because sometimes there\u2019s no rhyme nor reason to it. I attach too much importance to awards. But then I also kind of laugh it off a bit. We were happy and delighted [to be nominated]. It\u2019s a bit silly, because it should be about making a great piece of work. But you do find yourself wanting your peers to say, \u2018Well done.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

If you cast a glance at Horgan\u2019s CV, it\u2019s a smorgasbord of cult classics and critically lauded hits, including Pulling, Catastrophe, Motherland and Divorce. And as we speak she has a hand in eight ongoing or upcoming TV series (that we know of \u2013 she hints at more), some as actor, some as writer or creator and some as executive producer through her company Merman.<\/p>\n

Among these is the second series of Bad Sisters \u2013 \u201cThe scripts are all there, piled behind me,\u201d she says \u2013 which she co-writes, produces and stars in.\u00a0 On top of that, she regularly crops up in movies \u2013 last year, she played Nicolas Cage\u2019s wife in The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, and the year before that she was in the movie of musical Everybody\u2019s Talking about Jamie. She also has two teenage daughters. How does she fit it all in?<\/p>

\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of stuff in my email inbox,\u201d she agrees. \u201cI just compartmentalise, you know? At the moment, it\u2019s a little bit hard. I literally just flew back from LA, and I\u2019m completely banjaxed, jetlag-wise. But for the most part, when I\u2019m doing one thing, I\u2019ll just be doing that. I catch up on another couple of things when I down tools on whatever I\u2019m writing.\u201d<\/p>\n

At which point, Horgan\u2019s daughter bursts into the room with an announcement \u2013 she\u2019s just been accepted to university. True to form, Horgan manages to juggle celebrating with her family and completing this interview \u2013 once RT has expressed suitable felicitations.<\/p>\n

\u201cCongratulations from the Radio Times!\u201d Horgan says. \u201cOh my God, honey. I\u2019m going to make you breakfast in a minute.\u201d<\/p>\n

Given how much else is on her plate, it\u2019s slightly surprising that she opted to make a second series of Bad Sisters, originally intended as a one-off. Now critically acclaimed and BAFTA-nominated, it makes obvious business sense for the show to come back \u2013 but does she worry about diminishing returns?<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, thanks a lot!\u201d she laughs. \u201cIt\u2019s true, I had no intention of doing any more, but while we were on set I kept thinking of this one idea that could be a possible second season. The first series did have a lovely end, but I think when you kill a man, when you put yourself through that \u2013 and there were five of them in it \u2013 life is going to change. You don\u2019t just dust yourself off and get on with your life. I was interested in what would happen to these women next. And we\u2019ll find out.\u201d<\/p>\n