RIVALS Cast Talk Recreating the '80's for new TV Adaptation!
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00:00I sort of focused a lot on my dad.
00:02I remember my dad in the 80s a lot.
00:04He rocked out a pretty big moustache
00:06and I think it was like based a lot of Declan on my dad.
00:09So that's kind of where I went with that.
00:11You know, there's lots of pictures of my dad in 1993
00:14with the exact same tush.
00:16So it was really odd for me.
00:17And it was odd for him when he saw me
00:18with the moustache as well.
00:20My dad was not wearing the clothes.
00:22No, no, my dad was a vicar.
00:25So he was in-
00:25Hey!
00:26Oh my God.
00:27So he was in a dog collar.
00:28He wasn't quite living Rupert Campbell Black's life,
00:30I'd say.
00:32He would have looked great in those jackets though.
00:34I had a good bit of input.
00:35Like, okay, let's use this high waist belt.
00:37The red lip was a thing for Cameron.
00:39The red nails, just very bold and powerful.
00:42Just stating a lot to who she is
00:44and who she, you know, wanted to portray in this world.
00:47But it was very vintage and very to the point 80s.
00:50A lot of color block for me, a lot of like sleek dresses,
00:54a lot of dope vintage designers
00:56that I was really excited about wearing.
00:57Glare, we had a lot of.
00:59And yeah, we like kept it true to that vibe in that time.
01:02The hairstyle too was really, really important for me.
01:04Like, I know what, you know,
01:06I remember those moments of like my grandma and my mom
01:09and how the hair look and the French rolls and the humps
01:11and all of like the authentic black hairstyles.
01:14We wanted to just bring that vibe,
01:15that New York energy to it.
01:17The sets were so extraordinary.
01:20Like our house, oh my gosh, our kitchen.
01:22I was walking through the kitchen going,
01:24oh my God, that cookbook.
01:25Oh my God, I remember this brand of dog food.
01:27What really struck me was the phone
01:29because I have a scene where I have to phone Freddie
01:32and, you know, just having to wait
01:34for the number to go back.
01:36You can't do quick phone acting.
01:38You have to go.
01:40Which adds to the tension in a way.
01:42I walked in and there was, what are they, cassettes?
01:45Yeah, cassettes.
01:46Yeah, Walkman.
01:47Yeah, yeah.
01:48And I went in and they had all these cassettes
01:52like Taggy's 80, 82 summer hit playlist.
01:56And we all had, you know, quite nice watches, didn't we?
01:58Yes.
01:59That got put in a safe overnight.
02:01Casio gold watch.
02:03And the atmosphere was so good that, you know,
02:04everyone always smoked indoors
02:05and it was just like really hazy all the time.
02:08Meeting Gilly, I have to say for me,
02:10was like meeting the ultimate national treasure and icon.
02:14It's like, hello, Vic, let me introduce you to Jane Austen.
02:19You're like, okay.
02:20She was, it was,
02:23oh, yeah, it's quite emotive
02:26because she's been in my life, my whole life in book form.
02:30She glows.
02:31She twinkles.
02:32Yes, twinkly.
02:33She's got a twinkle in her eye.
02:34Yeah, impish and joyous.
02:36So it's seductive.
02:41Just full of joy, you know.
02:43Really happy, wasn't she?
02:44Yeah.
02:45She's just, like her books, you know,
02:47she just makes you feel better when you're around her.
02:51There's some differences.
02:52I mean, one big and brilliant difference is Nafisa
02:56in that Cameron is played by a black woman,
02:59which is, I think, a brilliant, brilliant change
03:03to the story.
03:04You would not have seen a woman like Cameron in 1986
03:07being as bossy and as in control
03:10of a television production company as she is.
03:14So that, to me, I think we still have a good ways to go,
03:19but seeing how we're portraying that
03:21and how we're showcasing it is really, really important.
03:24And that's what, you know,
03:25just wanting to spark that conversation of change
03:27within the show.
03:28I think some of the sexual politics, to be serious.
03:31I mean, we're really exploring this
03:33with a sort of rigorous attention,
03:36the subtleties and the nuance of some of those dynamics
03:39that, you know, women had to navigate.
03:42And also, we explore really carefully, I think,
03:47the complexity of intimate relationships,
03:52that it's not always black and white
03:54and that there are bigger stories to consider.
03:57So that's-
03:58I think people, you know, it's obviously, you know,
04:00got a lot of raucous, racy sex scenes
04:03and that's very celebrated.
04:04But yeah, it also looks at the kind of darker side of that
04:07and you kind of, you come away from it,
04:09hopefully thinking about how far have we come
04:12in the world now, you know,
04:13has that changed and have we moved on?
04:15I don't know.
04:16I suppose it depends what character you're playing,
04:18you know, if it made sense for the character in that show
04:20to look a certain way.
04:22Like, Declan doesn't strike me as a guy
04:23who has a lot of time for pushups, you know?
04:27So it didn't.
04:28So you just kind of go that way.