1 00:00:01,440 --> 00:00:03,360 Speaker 1: And Amanda jam Nation. 2 00:00:03,800 --> 00:00:06,320 Speaker 2: I am so thrilled to have this woman with us. 3 00:00:06,600 --> 00:00:09,479 Speaker 2: She is my favorite actress. She is truly a master 4 00:00:09,560 --> 00:00:12,400 Speaker 2: of her craft. I've loved her from her hilarious role 5 00:00:12,440 --> 00:00:15,080 Speaker 2: in Peep Show to her Academy Award winning performance in 6 00:00:15,120 --> 00:00:18,000 Speaker 2: The Favorite Are Forced to be Reckoned With. Well, there's 7 00:00:18,000 --> 00:00:20,960 Speaker 2: a fabulous new movie that she's starring in and produced 8 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:23,959 Speaker 2: called Wicked Little Letters. It's in cinemas from Thursday. She 9 00:00:24,079 --> 00:00:28,520 Speaker 2: joins us now the brilliant Olivia Coleman. Hello, Hi, how 10 00:00:28,600 --> 00:00:29,840 Speaker 2: are you both? Yeah? 11 00:00:29,960 --> 00:00:30,800 Speaker 1: Really well? Thanks? 12 00:00:30,840 --> 00:00:31,639 Speaker 2: How are you? 13 00:00:31,680 --> 00:00:33,400 Speaker 1: Can't good Blain better for talking? 14 00:00:34,360 --> 00:00:39,360 Speaker 2: This film is so so funny and quirky and charming, 15 00:00:39,400 --> 00:00:41,760 Speaker 2: and it's a true story. How did you find out 16 00:00:41,880 --> 00:00:42,959 Speaker 2: about this story? 17 00:00:44,640 --> 00:00:47,880 Speaker 1: I knew nothing about the story Johnny Sweet who wrote 18 00:00:47,880 --> 00:00:51,400 Speaker 1: the script. I think we got it from Studio Canal, 19 00:00:52,120 --> 00:00:55,160 Speaker 1: and I was reading it and there were pictures of 20 00:00:55,200 --> 00:01:01,080 Speaker 1: the original people, of original Edith and oh god, I've 21 00:01:01,080 --> 00:01:09,360 Speaker 1: forgotten forgotten too, that's all. Listen, don't tell Jesse Bose. Sorry, 22 00:01:09,360 --> 00:01:11,160 Speaker 1: I haven't talked about it for three weeks. I've forgot 23 00:01:11,160 --> 00:01:14,640 Speaker 1: everybody but Edith and Rose. And there were the real 24 00:01:14,720 --> 00:01:16,280 Speaker 1: black and white pictures of them on the front of 25 00:01:16,319 --> 00:01:19,560 Speaker 1: the script, and I kept going back, going really, it's real. 26 00:01:20,280 --> 00:01:22,520 Speaker 1: But it was, and it was debated in Parliament and 27 00:01:22,840 --> 00:01:25,360 Speaker 1: it was on all the broad scheet newspapers at the time. 28 00:01:25,400 --> 00:01:28,040 Speaker 1: Everyone it was a bit like a Wagatha Christie. I 29 00:01:28,040 --> 00:01:29,240 Speaker 1: don't know if that came over here. 30 00:01:29,120 --> 00:01:34,039 Speaker 2: But yes, very much so. Yeah, so the story is, 31 00:01:34,319 --> 00:01:38,360 Speaker 2: for those who don't know, a series of really rollickingly 32 00:01:38,520 --> 00:01:43,240 Speaker 2: rude letters that were dropped into letterboxes in London post war, 33 00:01:43,680 --> 00:01:46,720 Speaker 2: and the investigation to find out who had written these letters. 34 00:01:47,800 --> 00:01:50,240 Speaker 1: Yeah, so it wasn't London. It was a tiny little 35 00:01:50,280 --> 00:01:53,320 Speaker 1: seaside town, so it was extra sort of shocking and 36 00:01:55,360 --> 00:01:59,360 Speaker 1: and yes everybody was wondering, you know, who could possibly 37 00:01:59,400 --> 00:02:01,960 Speaker 1: who could know of these words? I love that it's 38 00:02:02,040 --> 00:02:06,040 Speaker 1: nineteen twenties England and you assume that swearing is a 39 00:02:06,080 --> 00:02:06,400 Speaker 1: new thing. 40 00:02:06,520 --> 00:02:10,200 Speaker 2: Surely not. Your character, Edith is a very kind of 41 00:02:10,280 --> 00:02:13,760 Speaker 2: proper young well not as young as we think. She's 42 00:02:13,800 --> 00:02:18,480 Speaker 2: living still with her parents and a very closed life. 43 00:02:19,080 --> 00:02:21,560 Speaker 2: What did you find that you were drawn to in Edith? 44 00:02:23,560 --> 00:02:28,400 Speaker 1: Well, just from a purely practical playing someone place. I 45 00:02:28,440 --> 00:02:33,640 Speaker 1: loved the fact that she was uptight and polite and 46 00:02:33,680 --> 00:02:36,079 Speaker 1: a pious Christian woman, and then to be able to 47 00:02:36,120 --> 00:02:40,639 Speaker 1: play the other side of her. Don't want to give 48 00:02:40,680 --> 00:02:43,880 Speaker 1: anything away. 49 00:02:42,200 --> 00:02:43,320 Speaker 2: Say no more. 50 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:48,160 Speaker 1: But there's everyone all human beings. There's more than one 51 00:02:48,200 --> 00:02:51,800 Speaker 1: side to a human being. And this person had a 52 00:02:51,919 --> 00:02:58,080 Speaker 1: really good, sort of multifaceted thing to play. And you know, 53 00:02:58,120 --> 00:02:59,680 Speaker 1: I was going to work with one of my best friends. 54 00:02:59,680 --> 00:03:03,160 Speaker 1: So go to work with Jesse every day was really 55 00:03:03,200 --> 00:03:08,600 Speaker 1: good fun. She's hilarious and wild and you know, alive 56 00:03:08,680 --> 00:03:10,520 Speaker 1: and full of love. And so to go to work 57 00:03:10,560 --> 00:03:12,840 Speaker 1: with someone like that, I'm sure you both understand, of. 58 00:03:12,919 --> 00:03:16,440 Speaker 2: Course, for each other working. 59 00:03:18,320 --> 00:03:18,600 Speaker 1: Great. 60 00:03:19,440 --> 00:03:21,720 Speaker 2: The characters that you play, there have been so many 61 00:03:22,120 --> 00:03:25,960 Speaker 2: extraordinary and with Edith, you know, you you let yourself 62 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:28,520 Speaker 2: be kind of jowlly and no glamorous because you're so 63 00:03:28,560 --> 00:03:29,640 Speaker 2: beautiful in real life. 64 00:03:29,639 --> 00:03:33,440 Speaker 1: It's just me. But thanks of all the characters. 65 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:36,040 Speaker 2: You've played, who is who was it hardest physically to become? 66 00:03:36,240 --> 00:03:38,320 Speaker 2: Was the Queen? The hardest one in the makeup cheir. 67 00:03:40,320 --> 00:03:42,400 Speaker 1: No, because that was really just a wig, which was 68 00:03:42,480 --> 00:03:50,760 Speaker 1: great plunk that on, oh great expectations took ages which 69 00:03:50,800 --> 00:03:53,400 Speaker 1: I found quite boring. I'm not the most patient in 70 00:03:53,400 --> 00:03:54,119 Speaker 1: a makeup chair. 71 00:03:54,320 --> 00:03:56,200 Speaker 2: Yeah, because there's a lot of mucking around, you know. 72 00:03:56,400 --> 00:03:58,840 Speaker 1: I don't know how those people go on Star Trek 73 00:03:59,160 --> 00:04:01,720 Speaker 1: and do all that stuff. Oh God, I think if 74 00:04:01,720 --> 00:04:03,680 Speaker 1: I read that in a script, I'd be busy pulling 75 00:04:03,720 --> 00:04:04,720 Speaker 1: the bubbles off my tights. 76 00:04:04,760 --> 00:04:10,960 Speaker 2: I'd say, no, Olivia, it's great to catch up with 77 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:13,600 Speaker 2: you wicked little livers in cinemas this Thursday, Olivia Common, 78 00:04:13,720 --> 00:04:14,360 Speaker 2: thank you. 79 00:04:14,520 --> 00:04:16,240 Speaker 1: Thank you so much. Go and see it. I hope 80 00:04:16,279 --> 00:04:18,800 Speaker 1: you enjoy it. Lovely to talk to you. Good. It's 81 00:04:18,800 --> 00:04:19,640 Speaker 1: a great movie too.