Sarah Lancashire made three speeches at the 2023 National Television Awards after winning Drama Performance and the Recognition Award, while her show Happy Valley won Returning Drama. After speaking three times, backstage she remembered an important person she forgot to thank. Report by Burtonj. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00 Well, I did hope, I really hoped that we were going to win for Happy Valley, because that's
00:05 just been such a pivotal piece in my working life really.
00:10 And it's quite unlike any other piece that I've ever done, purely because I suppose the
00:16 production team have bonded so much.
00:21 We have the same production team right the way through for ten years.
00:26 People came back, that's a real test.
00:30 People came back after seven years.
00:33 People who have actually moved on into different areas, they may be running whole departments
00:39 in television studios, and they took sabbaticals and came back to work with us.
00:44 And that's a great testament to Sally and the power of the show.
00:49 You've really been put on the spot tonight.
00:50 You've had to go up there and make three speeches.
00:52 Horrific.
00:53 In your dizziest of daydreams.
00:54 You may think of one speech, but when it's second and third one, what's running through
00:57 your mind?
00:58 It's awful.
00:59 It's absolutely awful.
01:00 Sally Wayne write 'Where are you' and 'I need you', just a short monologue would be really
01:03 appreciated right now.
01:04 I don't know, because I'm not...
01:05 I don't know really.
01:06 Well, I suppose you just have to speak the truth, don't you?
01:07 Just speak from your heart and hope that you remember the names of the people who may just
01:19 employ you again in the future.
01:21 But you just hope you don't offend anyone.
01:23 It's not possible to thank everyone.
01:25 These teams of people, these shows are like juggernauts.
01:29 It just isn't possible to thank an entire team of 200 people.
01:35 One of the most important people who I didn't thank actually, and it's ridiculous, because
01:41 he is such an important person to me, was Gary Bailey, who was my driver.
01:48 He would pick me up at half five in the morning and he'd taff me out of the car at nine o'clock
01:52 in the evening and I'd get in the car and I'd look like death and he'd say, "All right?"
01:59 And he just...
02:00 He was so just brilliantly spirited.
02:05 Little things like that matter.
02:08 You know when like...
02:09 Because somebody just brings you a cup of coffee and you think, "Oh my God, that's fabulous.
02:15 Thank you."
02:16 You become so grateful to small nurses when you go into this...
02:19 Because you disappear down a rabbit hole.
02:22 Filming is disappearing down a rabbit hole.
02:24 You leave everybody you love, everything you know, for four, five, six months at a time.
02:31 Everything goes on hold.
02:32 And so you're very reliant on the people around you, their expertise, their humanity, their
02:42 care, and specifically with a show like Happy Valley, which is brutal.
02:50 On the good days it's brutal, on the bad days it's unspeakable, but it's a tough gig.
02:56 And I was so looked after.