00:00How dare you? How dare you?
00:04Guys, congratulations on the show.
00:06Before we get into that, it's a very exciting day for me today.
00:08Oh, yeah.
00:09Because not every day you meet someone from Balloch's Angel.
00:13Balloch's Angel. I bloody love Balloch's Angel.
00:16I don't mean that in a facetious way.
00:17That was a big part of my 1990s.
00:19Love that.
00:20Great. Stephen Tomkinson came to my school once,
00:23but never got brought into my class, and I saw him walking around
00:26and I was seething, seething with jealousy.
00:29To loosely link on to that point,
00:31you've both been involved in beloved shows before,
00:33Being Human was great, Poldark was huge.
00:35How does being involved in a kind of a streaming hit compare?
00:41Because it feels like almost maybe it's more global,
00:44kind of connects the world at the same time.
00:46Like, how is it actually the last couple of years of your lives
00:50shifted in that way?
00:51You answer that one, because you've done the big stuff.
00:54Park's Angel's the big stuff. Let's not.
00:56Yeah, they're on like Bally K now.
00:57Let's be kind.
01:00It does feel very big, and it does feel, you know,
01:03the word you use is global, I suppose.
01:06And what I've noticed too, you know, it's just for me anyway,
01:11a different demographic.
01:12The demographics come and go and interchange, you know,
01:15how you get recognised on the street or around or whatever.
01:17And, you know, whatever show you're on or you're doing,
01:19it tends to be that thing for a little while.
01:21And this show I noticed just more kind of, you're sort of like 16 to 30s,
01:27you know, which is, haven't seen those guys for a while.
01:30I'm not the niche group of maybe this is a cult kind of a supernatural show
01:34or whatever it is.
01:35It feels like it's like all of them together.
01:38You know, it's on the tube.
01:39You're kind of seeing, you know, if anyone recognises you,
01:41and then word will travel fast.
01:42It's like, God, this is a younger group of people I've not seen in a while.
01:46So that's something I've noticed certainly that feels quite different
01:48about being in a show like this.
01:49It's quite a surprising show because you just, you don't know if you're part of the,
01:52I didn't know if I was part of the demographic
01:54and then I just like stuck it on after it had been out for a couple of months.
01:57I was like, this is so addictive.
01:59It's kind of loud and brash and bombastic and funny and just like joyful.
02:03It's like joyful escapist TV.
02:05And I can't think of a person, there'll be a few,
02:09but I can't think of a person that wouldn't get something from the show,
02:13like whatever it is.
02:14Right.
02:15Let's talk about the, let's get the raunchiness out of the way.
02:17Series two, are we talking more or less rumpy pumpy than series one?
02:22More.
02:22More.
02:23More.
02:23More.
02:24Good Lord.
02:25Is there more or is it just that we have more episodes though?
02:29Like is, is the per capita per episode,
02:31is that the same amount of sex that there was?
02:33Because there was already a lot of sex, you know,
02:35I'm not going to say too much.
02:36I wouldn't say that.
02:37But, but, you know, I know we, we definitely, we shot more,
02:41but I'm just thinking because the, the show we have,
02:43there's, there's an extra four episodes this time around.
02:45It was eight in the first series.
02:46We've 12 now.
02:47So we get to sort of delve into the characters and their lives a little bit more
02:51more, with a bit more detail.
02:52And, um, by definition of that, you're going to see them between the sheets a bit more,
02:56aren't you?
02:57I suppose.
02:57Sometimes in a show like this.
02:58Yeah.
02:59Um, let's talk about, let's talk about these characters for a minute.
03:02The family is very much kind of the emotional anchor of the show in a way,
03:07but it does feel like you guys almost could be falling apart at the seams at any,
03:10at any stage.
03:10So how are we going to, how are we going to crack on in series two?
03:13Are we, are we going to, are we keeping this, this train on the track?
03:17Can we rely on you guys to give us that anchor or, uh, are things about to explode?
03:22You can rely on Maud and Declan to, um, do their very best not to lie as their authentic
03:34selves.
03:34You can rely on them to gun for what they want, be selfish, ambitious, um, noisy.
03:42Um, you can rely on them to, um, they're, the train is on the track, but no one, we don't
03:51know who laid the track.
03:52We don't know if there's a driver.
03:54We don't know if there's a driver.
03:55Yeah.
03:56Okay.
03:56That's very, that's a wealth, that's a very political answer, but I liked it.
03:59Um, like one, one question, one of the questions from, from one of my colleagues was they wanted
04:03to know about how you thought parenting was in the 1980s, which I thought was a bit broad
04:08because these aren't normal parents and normal people there, but you guys are both parents and
04:12real life.
04:13Uh, how, how, have you taken any tips from your characters on, um, how to raise good youth?
04:19Because your kids are lovely in this, in this show, so you're doing something, right?
04:23Mm.
04:24Do you know what?
04:24I think there's an awful lot to say, because I was parented back in the 80s and, um, I was
04:29a teenager in the 80s, so, and, um, I think there's a lot to be said for the hands-off,
04:33for the come back when you're hungry, um, uh, approach.
04:37Now, it's not as possible to do it now, because there's just, I don't know if there's more
04:42creepy, more weird, more danger, or whether we're just aware we have the information that
04:46there's more creepy, more weird.
04:47Um, I think that they, you know, this tracking them, you know, everywhere and doing, it's,
04:54I don't know, I think it, to a certain degree, giving kids the, the autonomy to go and forage
05:01and learn and fall and, um, get up to naughty and not tell your parents, there's, there's,
05:07I certainly feel very lucky that I got to be free of phones and all that back in the
05:12day and letting my parents have no idea.
05:15Yeah.
05:15And neither should they.
05:16Yeah.
05:17But there's so much to be said for that too.
05:19Um, and we also talked about it earlier, but just the different roles that parents had,
05:22I suppose in the eighties or that were sort of designated, you know, dads did certain
05:27things in the house and mums did other things.
05:30And that feels much more fluid now.
05:32Like there isn't so much the defining role, um, in, in, in parenting.
05:35I think we could, we could use a little bit of, of that kind of freedom, but then again,
05:39if like, if your, if your daughter brings home a, a handsome older polo player, um, we
05:44don't know how we're going to react, uh, in that instance.
05:47Um, I got to wrap up, quick one, one word answer.
05:49Another question I had from the office is, is that mustache a real beauty?
05:53Or was that a stick on?
05:54And what was it like?
05:55How dare you?
05:56How dare you?
05:58I said real.
05:59I thought real.
05:59Who wrote that?
06:00Of course it's not a stick on.
06:01I grew that.
06:02Good.
06:03Yes.
06:03No, it took a long time to grow.
06:05It's probably about three months growth there.
06:07Um, but yeah, no, it's real.
06:08Of course it's real.
06:09Only because, and not that it would be, you know, I, I, I've stuck on facial hair before,
06:14but they're horrible and you can't smile like you're smiling now.
06:17It will fall off.
06:18You can't eat food.
06:19Um, you sort of have to talk like that all day, you know, and then this, you've somebody
06:23coming in all the time to press glue on your face.
06:24So I was determined not to have that happen on this.
06:27Um, I'm living through that.
06:29Show.
06:29Cause I've got, I've just had a, a retainer for my mouse.
06:31I can barely, I can barely enunciate.
06:34Oh, you do.
06:34You have an Invisalign thing going on.
06:35I know.
06:36Ah, good for you.
06:37It's not invisible.
06:37It doesn't feel invisible.
06:38But it's there.
06:39And we will persevere.
06:41Guys, love the show.
06:42Love all the shows.
06:43Uh, looking forward to seeing you guys down the line.
06:46And if you don't need my good luck, it's, it's an absolute banger.
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