The actors shared their delight with Yahoo at how their similar approach to The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin was "a gift for comedy".
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00:00 Dick Turbin and Jonathan Wilde have this really fun dynamic together as sort of enemies throughout
00:05 the series and I wondered how did you both want to approach their relationship and was it fun
00:12 to play off each other? Well yes it sort of reminds you of some of those sort of buddy
00:16 anti-hero and hero comedies of the 80s, planes, trains and automobiles,
00:24 that sort of tone. But really the straight-talking or the rather serious-minded corrupt politician
00:32 meets the flamboyant Tinkerbell of the woods who he can't quite believe his bad luck that he's
00:41 become a leader of the Essex gang now. It doesn't make any sense whatsoever. I just love the bit
00:48 where Dick says we're going to basically go on a journey together and become best friends despite
00:54 various hurdles to overcome and Jonathan Wilde's determined that that won't be the case and of
01:01 course he grudgingly has to admit that he does quite like him. Dick believes in Jonathan Wilde,
01:07 he sort of gives everyone that you know credit. Yeah there's a great generosity of spirit in
01:15 Dick which Jonathan Wilde is convinced that he's just black as a black soul and is really cross
01:22 that he's actually been shown that it may not be the case. But also what was quite unusual was that
01:27 we were very excited that Hugh was going to be Jonathan Wilde but then it became quite clear very
01:35 early on Ben Palmer and myself you know watching the rushes and things that we had quite a good
01:42 double act Hugh and I and Ben was like this is really working you two on screen together is
01:47 really working as a double act so that was like one of those happy sort of accidents you know one
01:52 of those great things you can't manufacture. Which is just as well because we're literally
01:57 manacled together at one point. It's just as well that we have a good double act yeah so we were
02:05 very lucky you know you're not always that lucky sometimes you try to force those things and they
02:10 don't work but you know our clown statuses seem to be compatible which is a gift for comedy.
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