00:00 The mystery of the obscene little Hampton letters is causing widespread distress across
00:07 the nation.
00:09 Sometimes real life is weirder than fiction. This story was a perfect example of that.
00:14 True story and it was debated in Parliament in all the broadsheets every week. The whole
00:18 country was reading it.
00:20 Edith Swan lives with her mum and dad.
00:23 Edith starts getting obscene anonymous letters.
00:27 It's shocking, they are.
00:29 Incredibly insulting.
00:31 Full of swearing.
00:33 Everyone assumes it's Rose Gooding.
00:34 Living next door with a potty mouth.
00:36 She says it's not her, off we go.
00:39 Everyone knows it's her love ever since she got off that boat.
00:41 It was quite wild realising it was true. My character ended up going to prison for these
00:45 letters.
00:46 Why would I be doing that?
00:47 I just kind of read it back and was like... because it just sounded so ridiculous.
00:53 This happened.
00:54 What sort of person does this?
00:56 Next.
00:57 It was really important to keep going back to the fact that this is a real story, set
01:02 in a real place at a real time.
01:05 You want in the nose you old beetle.
01:09 Beetle?
01:10 Right.
01:11 The whole nation was kind of going crazy.
01:13 The ever growing scandal of the Little Hampton letters.
01:17 This story's genius is sort of putting one foot into the past and then one foot in the
01:21 now and the timelessness of it as a modern story.
01:24 There's a hierarchy in the police love.
01:26 Yes sir.
01:27 It is a period piece that isn't trying to be modern, it just is.
01:31 We forget that there was an old social media, it was called writing a letter.
01:35 The letters were just very funny.
01:37 Edith Swann takes it up the swanny and she loves it.
01:40 All right man.
01:41 I think a film like this, it's always fun because of the words, because of the real
01:48 story.
01:49 In the bones of it, there's a dramatic human journey.
01:53 I hope it'll be slightly shocking but it's really funny.
01:55 And audiences do like a bit of a swear.
01:59 The fact that this vituperative, filthy language bursts out of this buttoned down world, that's
02:05 what makes it very hopefully funny.
02:07 Say that again, say it again.
02:09 F*** off you pasty old crusty old piss bearded f***ing old...
02:13 I think.
02:15 I'm loving that.
02:16 (upbeat music)
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