Emma Thompson Opens Up About Her 'Down Cemetery Road' Character's Complex Love Life

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00:00Emma, I'm kind of obsessed with Zoe's love life in the early episodes because she has this dysfunctional but loving marriage with Joe.

00:07You feel the love even though there's kind of this, you know, tension between the two of them.

00:11And she's got a dishy lover on the side in Stephen Cree's character.

00:14I'm curious what that told you about her and what it was like balancing that and how do you think she really felt about Joe?

00:20I think that Zoe has a sort of intellectual inferiority complex.

00:26She didn't go to university. Joe was super clever, went to Oxford.

00:30I think Joe gave her confidence and she found him genuinely properly decent and that he really saw her and that she hasn't had that growing up.

00:41But I think there was genuine love. I think their sexual relationship was not really important and probably atrophied quite early on.

00:48But that they shared passions, they shared interests.

00:51She has a great fondness for him, but it's like he's not, he's just living in a fantasy world.

00:57And sex, she just sometimes wants it and sometimes doesn't.

01:00I mean, she doesn't care about Bob Poland. He's just quite good in bed, that's all.

01:05And he's absolutely someone who she rings up and says, I'm in town.

01:10And he drops everything and goes to her.

01:13She wouldn't do it the other way around.

01:14She's the one who says, Bob, but no, he would never do that.

01:20And also he's married, he's got children, he's in a relationship.

01:22So he's quite convenient for her, you know, but I don't think it's a big love affair.