00:00Well, there's conversations of Scream 8. There is a first draft. Yep, I'm giving notes.
00:06Welcome to London. This is a pretty special night.
00:08Yeah, isn't it beautiful? Yeah.
00:10I was overhearing you saying how much of a fan of Black Dove Season 1 you were.
00:14Yeah.
00:14And then, I don't know if you manifested it, but then you're...
00:17And here I am.
00:18Have you had this happen to you before? We're like, I love this show. Oh, I get to be in
00:20this show now.
00:21Yeah, I had it happen on House of Cards as well. I was a fan of House of Cards. I
00:26was a fan of...
00:29Yeah, there's a few. Can't think of it right now because my brain's not working.
00:33I feel like you know you've made it when that happens.
00:35Yeah, absolutely. Very, you know, I feel very lucky.
00:40Obviously, the two leads within this are Ben and Kira.
00:42Have you had much crossover with them professionally before?
00:45Never professionally. Ben, I knew from back in the day when I used to live here 20 years ago and
00:50just moved back.
00:51And so when I got asked to do this, I was really happy.
00:53Kira, I had met once. We'd have been out for drinks. I think maybe we had the same rep about
00:5815 years ago.
00:59But she was lovely, so I was really happy to see them again.
01:02Oh, forgive me. I didn't know that you lived in London 20 years ago.
01:05I did and I live here now.
01:07Yeah. Where are you from?
01:20I mean...
01:21What is it about the spy genre that you think the Brits do so well?
01:24Because we've got a good background with it, haven't we?
01:26You do. Are there a lot of you walking around?
01:30I'm not going to tell you about it.
01:31It seems to me.
01:32We've got James Bond, we've got Empress Files.
01:34I know.
01:34Why do you think the Brits and the Spies go so well together?
01:36Because you're just really good storytellers and you're quite reserved.
01:41You don't like to give a lot away.
01:43You don't often want to share your feelings.
01:46Is that this track so far?
01:47That's sounding terrible.
01:50But what do you like about it?
01:51And quite discerning as well, you know?
01:54It makes sense, doesn't it?
01:56I've not met your character through season two yet.
01:58Could you please cue what you play and where we meet her?
02:01I play Cecile Mason.
02:03She has come to number ten to try and influence our Prime Minister.
02:10And she's really annoying, very opinionated, very strong-willed, knows what she wants.
02:17Is that like one of the funnest characters?
02:19To play an annoying character, you get to let it all out, you know?
02:22Absolutely.
02:23I don't often get to do that, so it was really fun.
02:26And I don't know where we stand in terms of a Black Dubs season three,
02:29but is it something that you hope to be a part of?
02:32Are we hoping to go that far into the series?
02:35You never know.
02:36Well, I've got you as well.
02:37Please, cue up.
02:38What other work of yours should we look out for you?
02:42Well, there's conversations of Scream 8 at the moment.
02:46I've sold a show to HBO Max called The Shore based on a book I found.
02:50There's also another book here called A Bird in Winter that I'm developing with Dancing Ledge
02:58to hopefully shoot here.
03:00So, yeah, doing that.
03:02How are we doing?
03:02We've got time with you.
03:03You sound incredibly busy.
03:04I'm going to mind you, though, for Scream 8.
03:07What do you mean conversations are being had?
03:08Where do we stand with that?
03:10What are conversations?
03:11There is a first draft.
03:13Yep.
03:14I'm giving notes.
03:16And that's where we're at the moment.
03:17And I won't get you in trouble anymore, though.
03:19Thank you so much in your time.
03:20I appreciate you.
03:20Thanks so much.
03:21Cheers.
