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Danny Dyer, Lisa McGrillis and Katherine Parkinson sit down with Melissa Nathoo to chat about the second half of Rivals season 2, whose storylines they're invested in, why we love other people's drama so much, and all the 'piping' in the show. Report by Nathoom. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00I'm still trying to get a triple in, which is...
00:01I can do a triple, but it gives me a headache.
00:03Yeah, so you can't sell with a triple, but...
00:06That's actually...
00:07There's a lot of piping in this show.
00:08I love this show so much.
00:10It just brings so much joy, and it's so full of drama.
00:13Do you think that we all love this show
00:15because we love other people's drama so much?
00:17And do you also love other people's drama?
00:21I live for drama.
00:21Of course we do, yeah.
00:22I live for gossip, I live for drama.
00:24I seek it out.
00:25No, it's glory.
00:27It's really lovely watching people sort of...
00:29having affairs.
00:31Being really naughty.
00:31It's sort of like, oh, it's juicy, isn't it?
00:34Your generation, the 80s, is fascinating, right?
00:38And it seems like the olden days.
00:41So I think it's really captured something in young people,
00:43going, oh, the 80s, because we really do sell it.
00:47It was a good decade when it was a bit right.
00:50Hey, born in the 80s, so it is my decade.
00:52Yeah, but I'm saying, you were born late 80s.
00:54I'm about 88 or something.
00:5685.
00:5785, okay.
00:58She looks so young.
00:59Oh, thanks.
01:01Whose storyline are you guys properly invested in?
01:03Because your ones is, like, it's very juicy,
01:06but when you're watching it from the outside.
01:08Two for me, which would be Charles and Gerald.
01:12Okay.
01:12It's such a...
01:13It's so sad.
01:15And I am into the Rupert and Teggy thing.
01:17They do tend to choke me up.
01:20I don't cry at myself, because that'd be weird, but I do,
01:23when I see them two on the screen, for some reason,
01:26it tears me up.
01:28Oh, no, I know.
01:30I think you just...
01:31She's...
01:31Well, it's so heartfelt, isn't it?
01:33It's so good, isn't it, the part?
01:35Yeah.
01:35Yeah.
01:35I put Bella and Elle.
01:36Yeah, I also...
01:40Well, I enjoy, also, Charles and Gerald,
01:44but I love how rowy Maud and Teggy are.
01:49Yeah, I know you.
01:49Particularly that.
01:50Oh, my God.
01:51And it really goes off this series for industry as well.
01:54It deservedly so, by the way, because what Maud's done.
01:57Yeah, no, you're right.
01:58Actually, I love it.
01:58Do you know what?
01:58I'll watch it.
01:59I can't believe I'm in it.
02:00I was a bit jealous when I read their scene,
02:02you know, at the read-through, and just...
02:04I was like, oh, I want to be in that.
02:06It was so good.
02:07You've got your moment, don't you?
02:08I know.
02:09I mean, you guys have a great storyline,
02:11the whole your little love triangle.
02:13I mean, I must admit, James, by now,
02:16would have given me the ick.
02:17Oh, yeah.
02:18Oh, it's very icky, isn't it?
02:19Yeah, it's very, very...
02:20Which is why I'm kind of like, you kind of root, right?
02:23Is it weird for you guys?
02:24I know, that's what I was going to say.
02:25Is it weird having people rooting for your affair?
02:28Was it first?
02:29Yeah.
02:29I felt like we were, in the first series,
02:31we just had a little part, really,
02:33and it was like, it was lovely to play,
02:35but I never thought it would cut on the way it did.
02:38You know what I mean?
02:39And the way people really invested in it.
02:41I knew it was sweet, but again, we didn't really have...
02:43We didn't have no big...
02:44You had more than me, really, monologue-wise, sort of.
02:47You've got a lot of typing and shit.
02:48You narrate it.
02:50I forgot that you did...
02:51Yeah, she did have a coach, but that's what she learned, so...
02:54Terrible.
02:55I, yeah...
02:55It took her ages to write a book.
02:57I don't think, I don't think, Danny and I,
02:58we've said before,
02:59expected the Freddie and Lizzie thing to learn quite as much as...
03:02Particularly because we didn't really have a lot,
03:04awful lot of screen time at all,
03:06so we had a lovely amount of time off.
03:08A lovely couple of holidays.
03:09I went on about five illegal holidays
03:11for us to let producers know.
03:12I didn't realise I had to let them know.
03:16So I think we were surprised, pleasantly surprised,
03:18but I also felt...
03:20I did feel like it had been so well-written,
03:23like these little moments,
03:24but they really landed
03:26and were written with a beautiful sort of intensity.
03:29So it's not said, isn't it?
03:31Between them, it's the little pipes, as we call them,
03:33little flip pipes and, you know,
03:35the longing pipes, the double pipe, is that, you know?
03:38The pipes, the...
03:40A pipe is a look.
03:41Oh, okay.
03:42I'm still trying to get a triple in, which is...
03:44I can do a triple, but it gives me a headache.
03:46Yeah, so you can't sell the triple, but...
03:49That's actually...
03:49There's a lot of piping in this show,
03:51especially Bella's the best at piping, I think.
03:54She's so...
03:54Bella's very good at piping.
03:55Piping out the window.
03:56She's got the perfect eyes for piping.
03:58So you've learnt something today.
03:59I have learnt.
04:00I will be looking for all the piping.
04:02You're piping at us, this is a triple pipe.
04:03You used to get a lot of special pipes, didn't you?
04:06They were like, is this a special pipe?
04:08This is a special pipe, yes.
04:09It's a special pipe.
04:10Wow, okay.
04:11We'll take piping away from this interview.
04:14Thank you very much.
04:16You know, I love this show so much,
04:17so I can't wait for more and more.
04:18I love the rest of it.
04:20Oh, so good.
04:21It's always lovely to see you guys.
04:22Lovely to see you.
04:22Lovely day, my baby.
04:24What a pleasure to meet you.
04:25Nice to see you.

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