9/20/2023 0 Comments Elena peep show![]() ![]() There is less PC culture here and so as a result the comedy can be much braver, transgressive. Still, the writers captured something about a generation and its lost-ness in the writing, with this humour that translated across borders. I was a bit disappointed but it was fine to move on to other things. She was too similar to my character, who reads books and likes movies, which was quite strange. I was asked to do the next series – series 7 – and then another character, Zahra, came along instead. It certainly comes from the point of view of a man. That’s not a criticism but that’s what it is. But the women come and go, don’t they? I do think of it as a male-orientated show. For one series, I think all her carefreeness and silliness was great. If it was lasting longer, I’d want Elena to be given more dimensions. It wasn’t, ‘oh my god, I have to act opposite this woman’, it was, ‘do I have an energy with this person or don’t I?’ And I think Emily and I did, and it was great acting together as a couple. Plus when I was a bit younger I was more fluid, so I never saw people in terms of gender I connected to the person. I had acted in another comedy film before with James Corden and Mathew Horne, in which I played a lesbian character, and you approach it in exactly the same way. I really loved the fact that Elena was bisexual. They were there all the time, watching the whole thing. The writers, Sam and Jesse, were the ones I spoke to the most. Robert Webb had a baby around the same time as me, so we connected over the whole parenthood, not-sleeping and coming to work thing. It’s probably one of the least prepared auditions I’ve had – I had a four-month-old baby. I’d finished drama school LAMDA, started my own theatre company and done a one-woman show based on Dostoevsky. It was right in the beginning of my acting career, when I had high-brow and serious roles in mind for my career. I just played a sillier version of myself. There’s a freedom to her that I don’t have myself. She’s a superficial character, driven by instinct. "Elena’s really clueless: a little bit harmful to lots of people but in a really innocent way. If I was looking at Rob Webb I probably would’ve found it very hard. It’s easy to keep a straight face because you’re staring into a camera the whole time. That is a lot to do with the camera work. He was clever because he managed to make it look really depressing, these two idiots in their dead-end world. I got on really well with Nick the cameraman who was basically the other actor, because you were looking down his camera, so it was important to have a good relationship with him. The rest of them apart from the girls are mainly comedians – he’s a full-on actor and I was much more used to that. Whenever Paterson was in, I’d relax because he looked after me like no one else. I was rabbit-in-headlights about it all, because I joined later, in season 3, when the boys were well into it. Very sweet natured, but not searching for the meaning of life. Suze was so clearly an innocent, rather posh, rather lucky, very idealistic little thing, in a bubble of ease and privilege. I didn’t prepare for the role: when the writing’s really good the script tells you what you need to do without having to look too far around you. "I hadn’t watched the first two series, but all my male friends from university broke down with excitement when I said I was doing this weird thing called Peep Show.
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