00:00oh my god middle school let's just let's just scrap it and you know maybe we just don't even
00:05redo it we just we just may i present lady jane gray history remembers jane as the ultimate
00:16damsel in distress known for her death rather than her life fuck that congratulations on the
00:24show it's been like such a joy to watch i love watching it's been so fun um something that's
00:29really refreshing to me about the show is that there's always so much chatter about historical
00:34accuracy in these like period pieces and your show basically just takes historical fact and
00:41then throws it out the window i'd love to hear from you emily what it was like to kind of play
00:46in that space of based in history but also disregarding the actual events of history
00:51we had so much freedom which was so nice because you you know anna said it earlier today it's like
00:56we're sort of setting lady jane gray free a little bit giving her the chance to have this
01:01full wonderful amazing life um and yeah i i think you know they made it very clear in the beginning
01:08that this is a fantasy in more than one way there's really some strong fantastical elements
01:15that sort of gave us the opportunity just to tell history but with this this really fun freedom and
01:24you know the way that we wanted to tell it we took the bits that we wanted and the bits we
01:27didn't that didn't work we said no it's important to keep the the some bits of history it's important
01:32to keep so that the stakes are still very high so in a tudor court what's essential is the structure
01:38the status the hierarchy and how you work your way like a chessboard how you stay alive that
01:44has to be like very prevalent and very real else there's no drama and also the reality of what it
01:50means to be a young woman in that time which is at the heart of this you know why we're telling
01:53this story because back then you know options were none and life was not valued as a woman
02:01so that needed to be you know explained explained unbelievable and then we just kind of gave it a
02:08modern sensibility and a twist of that made it you know i think a lot of people will be able to see
02:13bits of themselves now in this sort of fantastical time period yeah absolutely that fantasy element
02:20though really just like brings it to life in such a fun way the first time someone turned
02:24into an animal i was like oh my god well that's yeah because then you know that anything can happen
02:29exactly yes so then you think you know the story you think you know what world you're in and then
02:33you're like why where are they going to go with this and it's funny because it's not really they're
02:38keeping it quite it's not really in a trailer and know that any of that bit so unless people are
02:43fans of the book i think they'll actually be like shocked which i think is going to be very fun yeah
02:49yeah totally so fun um and something that's so fun about watching you two on screen is your
02:53dynamic i mean you two being at such different points of your career anna being really established
02:59emily being a little bit newer what was it like to be on set together did you guys really find it
03:04um a new experience were you able to learn anything from each other being at such different
03:08points in your career while on the same show oh yeah i mean this is very new for me you know i'm
03:15i'm still at the beginning of learning about all this and being you know the lead in a show like
03:21this it could it could possibly be so overwhelming that you're not able to you know bring your full
03:26self but getting to work with anna who is someone who i have always looked up to loved i'm so
03:33inspired by and see her just bring a game every single day it makes you like show up and you know
03:41she was so wonderful enough to teach me every day you know if i was if i had thoughts on something i
03:47couldn't work it out i would ask you and you would help me sort of figure it out well what do you
03:50think about this and i really like well we can you can do that or you can try that or so i have i
03:56have experience obviously especially costume drama and theater and but but then emily emily bought
04:03this of this wonderful freshness and is willing to learn and just so much fun i think it's so
04:10fun to have people at different stages of their lives and that we could meet in the middle and
04:14teach each other it wasn't like one person knew more than the other necessary we could just help
04:19each other we we loved each other when we met i know yeah we really did and then i had to leave
04:24and it was horrible i had to come back and be like bye everybody have fun it was like you were ripped
04:29out of our family when you went yeah a little bit because everyone still lives there and i'm
04:34across the universe totally and one last question if you were able to rewrite one aspect of your
04:40own history what would that be oh my god middle school let's just let's just scrap it um and you
04:47know maybe we just don't even redo it we just we just get some white out on that yeah i would like
04:54i wish they taught us about astronomy at school i'd love to learn about the moon i looked it up
04:59the other day i realized i know nothing about the moon and the stars and you know you're so right
05:05i think literally they taught us in a week and i'm so i'm going to go back and try and educate
05:09myself to an astronomy degree yeah degree maybe not maybe a little looking up for astronomy for
05:15dummies i might do that oh i'm sure there's a lot of it the moon will help you feel more
05:19in touch with yourself i think
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