00:00What attracted you to the project and made you want to be participated to Tarsiti?
00:07Well, the writing was the thing that like when I first read this, I think I was just sent the
00:11pilot and I was like completely gripped from the beginning and it stood out very obviously as
00:18something that had incredible dialogue and was very character driven and thrilling.
00:25And then meeting the creatives as well, it was like they were, they're really thoughtful guys.
00:31Yeah, I feel exactly the same. I didn't, my hook really into all projects is the people really.
00:37So I have known Nick, our director who set up the show. I've worked with him before on a show
00:44called
00:44Spy Among Friends. And, and so it was Nick really. And then I read the part and I was like,
00:53she's,
00:54I'm going to, I'd have loads of fun with her and then met the lads, Matt and Ben. And as
01:00Aggie said,
01:01they were just really lovely and really open to the creative discussion, you know, and I, and, and sort
01:11of you, especially with Ludmilla, I just wanted to not initially, but just, yeah, make her pretty
01:19intense and, and they were really up for that. And they are brilliant collaborators, aren't they?
01:25They really are.
01:26Yeah.
01:28And what about your characters? For you Agnes, your character was already present in the first
01:35series in For All Mankind. But how would you describe Irina and Ludmilla in a few words?
01:44In a few words. I find it really hard to describe them in a few words, because there's so much
01:49to them.
01:50But we meet Irina at like the beginning of her journey. In For All Mankind, she's like
01:57completely fully formed. And here she's like, ambitious, but very low ranking, incredibly lonely,
02:06doesn't know herself at all, quite cut off from herself. And as you go along, she sort of has to
02:16constantly be confronted by the kind of person she wants to be, you know, and keep surprising herself,
02:25I guess.
02:27Um, Ludmilla is easy, because she's just a badass. And that can mean one or two words,
02:35however many you ask for. So that's an easy one. I mean, she, you know, over the course of the
02:39series,
02:40what was really great, and Matt and Ben were really open to this, is that there has to be a
02:43reveal of
02:44why she is the way she is. And so we, there's a, there's, there's, that's, there's a very sort of
02:51satisfying side story of, of how Ludmilla has been shaped, which was really important for me.
02:57She can't just, um, go around, uh, torturing people. She can, but, um, that wouldn't have
03:04been very interesting for me. So, um, you really see her develop and really see the inner workings
03:10of her, um, why she's motivated to be as horrible as she is. Um, yeah.
03:20Thank you. And, um, um,
03:23Parcity is not, uh, science fiction is an alternative history,
03:27but, uh, how do you invent an alternative history when the real world today is so absurd that it
03:33seems fake?
03:35Well, I think there's a comfort then in an alternative history. And I think there's always,
03:41and will always everlastingly be a comfort in storytelling. And, and that is what we are doing,
03:46irrespective of what is happening politically. Now we are just storytelling and any stories,
03:54you know, um, however you receive them, whether that's theater or a book or a film or TV,
04:00there's a comfort in that or a joy in watching that or, or an interest in that. And, uh, that's
04:07really all we're doing.
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