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00:00Oh my god, look at these puppies!
00:02Oh my god!
00:04Sorry, I'm busy. I'll be back to you.
00:06Hi, I'm Ella Purnell from Sky's new drama series, Sweet Pea.
00:09I'm here to answer some questions in a segment inspired by my furry co-star, Tink.
00:14This is the Tink Debut.
00:16Oh my god, look at these puppies!
00:18Hi! Hi!
00:20Oh my god!
00:22Hi!
00:24Hi!
00:25Um, sorry, can you repeat the question?
00:27Yes.
00:28My favourite scene to shoot...
00:30Oh, another one!
00:32My favourite... Sorry.
00:34My favourite... Oh my god.
00:36My favourite scene to shoot in Sweet Pea
00:38was probably Rhiannon's first kill.
00:42Because it's the most raw and animalistic and crazy.
00:48Just very wild.
00:50You've all come to me.
00:52You love me.
00:54And I love you too.
00:56The character Rhiannon in Sweet Pea
00:58is at the start of the series,
01:00she's invisible, no one sees her.
01:02Throughout the series she kind of gains this confidence.
01:05Hi! Hi!
01:06How am I supposed to focus on anything with these dogs?
01:10She discovers this intoxicatingly addictive thirst for murder.
01:16What appealed to me most about playing Rhiannon
01:19was the challenge.
01:21It was like, it's a completely new experience for me
01:24to play someone I think that is so different from me
01:27and so far out of my comfort zone.
01:29And also, in the same breath,
01:31being able to play someone so completely free.
01:33There's this snap moment at the end of episode one
01:37where this quiet, invisible wallflower
01:40just loses it and becomes this animal.
01:43And when I read that scene in the pilot, it really scared me.
01:45I didn't know if I could do it.
01:46Then when I actually did it,
01:47it was so liberating and so freeing and incredible.
01:50The whole show was like that.
01:51There were so many scenes that seemed intimidating
01:53and really scary.
01:54And then when you do them, it's kind of therapy in a way.
01:57I did.
01:58I had a lot of inspirations in crafting the character.
02:00There's not a lot of female serial killer representation on TV.
02:05It's a crazy thing to say, but it's true.
02:07Villanelle was a good inspiration from Killing Eve.
02:10She's very playful and definitely more of an inspiration for me
02:13in the second half of the series.
02:14I did a lot of research into female serial killers,
02:17which is very different from male serial killers.
02:20A lot of research into childhood trauma
02:22and the kind of arrested development that can cause.
02:25Trichotillomania, when you, you know,
02:27the impulse of pulling out of your own hair.
02:29Yeah, a lot of really fun, light topics.
02:34My favourite memory of working with Tink,
02:39who in real life was called Evie.
02:41We're doing the scene at my dad's funeral.
02:43On the day, we put carpet down on the ground
02:45so that, you know, the high heels weren't jumping over the dialogue
02:48and messing up the sound.
02:49But Evie, Tink, really loved the carpet
02:52and would kind of just want to get up on the carpet
02:54and rolled around on the carpet,
02:55just really wanted to get in that carpet,
02:57which is really hard to do when you're crying
02:59and mourning the death of your father.
03:01It's just like a dog being a Wrigley sausage roll on the ground.
03:05You know, I haven't spoken much in Sweet Pea Press
03:08about Julia and Rhiannon's relationship.
03:10That, to me, is almost the heart of the story.
03:13She spends so much time being stuck in the past,
03:17unable to move on from what Julia did.
03:19And a lot of Rhiannon's growth and healing
03:22and character development
03:24lies in the fact that when she, spoiler,
03:27has Julia in the basement, she can't kill her.
03:30Sorry to anybody who's planning on watching the show,
03:32there's no point now, I've ruined it.
03:33Sometimes people hold onto their grief and their trauma
03:38as a part of their identity.
03:39Subconsciously, they don't mean to do it
03:41and it's getting in the way of us moving on
03:43because our brains just want to be comfortable.
03:45We've had that trauma for so long,
03:46we don't know how to let it go.
03:47And I think that's what Rhiannon needs to understand
03:49is that actually, at a certain point,
03:50she stopped being the victim.
03:52I think, actually, how funny Rhiannon was.
03:54I mean, I knew it was a dark comedy
03:57and I'd read the books
03:58and the books were really wickedly funny.
04:00What are you doing?
04:02But what surprised me about it
04:03was how funny she is at the beginning.
04:04The thing about quiet people
04:06is it's not that they haven't got anything to say,
04:07it's just that no one's listening to them.
04:09She's got some really cracking one-liners,
04:10it's just no one's around to hear them.
04:12And when you're with her the whole time
04:13and you're experiencing this world through her eyes,
04:15you notice that and you see that
04:16and I suppose that's not something
04:17that immediately came to mind.
04:18But it's a flavour I'm really glad that we introduced.
04:21Look at this cutie pie.
04:23Look at this sweet, sweet cutie pie.