D: I’ve got two kids so I’m just getting by!

 

R: I’m staying with my Dad in Yorkshire and I’m a runner now, and a cyclist and apparently a meditator! It’s getting pretty chilled In here I can tell you.

 

 

 

 

D: It was genuinely like we hadn’t been apart. There were six months between series one and series two and it really did feel like we’d been away for two weeks and then just got back into it. People got straight back into it, got the costumes on and that was it we were off.

 

 

 

 

R: I feel like bloody Angelina Jolie.  Honestly, you walk down the street.. .we go past this coffee shop and they’re like ‘have this iced coffee!’ they’ve really taken us to our hearts, I really like it yeah.

 

 

 

 

R: We live in the middle of Manchester in this party manor! These apartments where we all live together… it sounds like a bad eighties sitcom but it’s nice. We hang out in the bar downstairs and it’s very social.

 

 

 

 

D: Well, when you’re making something you don’t know how it’s going to be received. We were just cautiously optimistic. We knew how good the scripts were and how good the cast and the writers were, so we all knew the potential it had but none of us could have known it would be Sky’s most original successful comedy in something like seven years. It gives you confidence when you come back to film more. It’s such a fun job, we have as much fun off set and we’re just thrilled for Joe that it’s so successful.

 

 

 

 

D: All I’ll say is if you’re doing a season two you have to be bigger and better! It’s funnier, everything from the first time has been ramped up for the second time. 

 

 

 

 

R: Well he wasn’t even written that way, I just naturally bring it to the role! It’s very modern, at no point is it like ‘I’m bisexual or this or that’, I just go with whatever it takes it.  The neighbours here at my dad’s are hilarious, they pop over the fence and they’re like ‘hey Ryan we loved that bit when you had the dildo’ it’s strange how that level of extreme openness really appeals to people in general.

 

D: Someone asked me which character I’d like to be for a day. Tommo is ideal! He doesn’t care for anything or anyone, he never worries, if you ever want a stress free day, be more Tommo.

 

R: Yeah, I freak out all the time so it would be really nice to consistently not be like that. The characters are so laid back and loving it.

 

 

 

We’d love to know what your dad’s neighbours think of Season 2.

 

R: Yeah well.. I have no self pride left! Let’s see what they think.

 

 

 

 

D: It is, I think when we finished season 2 and it was freezing cold we all just begged Joe and Danny to write an episode in season 3 where we go to Malaga or something and have a bit of sunshine.  

 

R: We did an episode overseas in season 2! But fuck me it was a trial. I know France isn’t meant to be the sunniest place in the world, but we went in Summer and it was torrential rain! Luckily my character was meant to get angrier and angrier, cos fuck me, I was.  The night before we went I got carried away at a party, I got really drunk, I managed to get to King’s Cross and then I got France having packed no pants, no bloody socks… so the fury you see in that episode is so real. 

 

 

 

 

D: I think they choose their programmes very carefully and they have a great rapour with the people making them.  They’re brave, they take risks, and they want the wackier the better.

 

R: They have this thing about scale, so they really want a big visual impact and it’s partly because they have a lot of money, but it means they can achieve things others can’t.  We’ve got a lion on the moors of Manchester this time! Normally things like that get filtered out in the script writing process but it feels so more bold and weird when you can keep it in!  It’s so good.