The pair have teamed up with Rob Brydon and Dominic Cooper for Prime Video's latest historical romp. Report by Nelsonj. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00Guys, it's lovely to meet you and congratulations on a great show, by the way. I'm really enjoying
00:05what I've seen so far. Just for those who don't know, how much history is actually in the show?
00:12We took some parts that worked and that we liked and the parts we didn't like, we said we threw
00:18them away because we wanted to have fun with this retelling and you know there's historically
00:25accurate projects that exist and there's a great space for that. This is not that.
00:30We're just really inspired by her sort of tragedy and story.
00:34But we did have some little moments of genuine history that are so fun, like they did eat
00:38dolphin. No, a lot of the little details, the costumes that we wore, I wore two corsets and
00:46they strapped me in every day and you know we shot in Tudor appropriate locations and then
00:54also our set designer Will Hughes-Jones built incredibly accurate interiors.
00:59It looks amazing.
01:00So there is a lot of fun for history lovers. There's a lot of real stuff in there.
01:04I'm finding it so weird hearing your normal accent.
01:06Isn't it? She's got a better English accent than I do.
01:10Yeah, it's easy actually to do that posh English accent.
01:13I think, do you know, it's the one that you would learn first, I suppose, rather than the more
01:20London kind of, but you know, it's funny when I was here hanging out with everyone, I actually
01:25would have moments where I'd slip a bit more London.
01:28Oh yeah, you code switched.
01:29I would code switch.
01:30What's your London, how does that sound?
01:33Oh jeez, you've put me on the spot.
01:35It's going to be, it might be like borderline.
01:39You don't have to offend me.
01:40It's like Jordan, he's like, it's a bit more loose.
01:42Yeah, it is fair.
01:43You know, it's like, you talk a bit, I don't know, like that.
01:46You're really good at it.
01:48Yeah, the RP, the sort of received pronunciation is what we were doing in this because it's just
01:55sort of what you expect they sounded like.
01:57I don't think we actually fully know.
01:58Yeah.
01:59Does funny come to you guys naturally?
02:02Because it's a very funny series.
02:04What was really nice, I didn't feel pressure to be that funny.
02:07The scripts for our characters are really funny, but I didn't feel pressure because
02:10it's surrounded by so many like comedy geniuses who are playing such a like range of comedy
02:17characters from like villains to good guys, like all of it sort of, I think made it really
02:23easy for us to like relax into the script and be like, look, if the jokes land, that's
02:28great.
02:28But we're sort of the serious ones holding it together.
02:31Yeah.
02:31You know, it's Jane and Guilford are acting like it's, like you said, Hamlet.
02:36It's a very, taking everything very seriously.
02:39And I think that's the fun about this show is there is the sort of heart and center that's
02:44surrounded by all this humor and fantasy and then getting to work with these giants, Rob
02:49and Anna.
02:50I was like, I'll take your lead.
02:52They're so good.
02:54I love in these shows, the intros that they give people, like for instance, for Guilford's
03:02it's Frequenter of Tappans, Seeker of Trouble, Son of Lord Dibley and Lust Object of One,
03:07Lady Jane Grey.
03:08I wanted to know if you were going to have your own talk up intro, what would yours say?
03:13My own epithet.
03:15Yeah.
03:16Is that what it's called?
03:17An epithet is like when you have like the word just before your name.
03:20It's like in like ancient Greek literature.
03:23Swift-footed Achilles.
03:25I would, okay, let me think.
03:27Collector of Seashells.
03:29Oh, that's really good.
03:29Hunter of Gemstones.
03:32Lover of Spamasubis.
03:36Emily Bader.
03:37Yes.
03:37I love that.
03:39Should I get it on a business card?
03:40Yeah, you should.
03:41People will be like, oh, what?
03:42But the business card is huge, it's massive.
03:44It's a giant one.
03:45It's a poster, it's one of those giant checks.
03:48Love that.
03:49Mine would be some wide-distanced eyes.
03:58The self-written, democratic words.
04:00Pound shop Harry Styles.
04:03Oh, no.
04:04And then finally, a man of too many, too many slightly cropped jackets.
04:11I keep buying them.
04:13I can't stop buying them.
04:14Where are they today, Edmund, where?
04:16Well, I decided, you know, sometimes you do have to mix it up.
04:20And you can't always be seen in a cropped jacket.
04:22Or you're just the cropped jacket guy.
04:23You're wrong.
04:24That's why it's going to be your epithet.
04:25Exactly, and it becomes my epithet.
04:27I will be looking out from now on.
04:29Please, please.
04:30For the cropped jacket.
04:31I crop them by an inch every month.
04:34It's just going to be like a pair of sleeves.
04:36You can just see, like, nipples.
04:37Yeah, yeah, just my nipples.
04:39It's important to, you know.
04:40Next in fashion.
04:42Would have been perfect for this show.
04:44Absolutely.
04:44Yeah.