Episode 10 Discussion [rewatch]

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Sorry for such a long wait for the next part but schoolwork, etc, took over.

[11:06] Nicola: They're always difficult these scenes when you have the whole gang there.
Julian: Yeah, so difficult.
Nicola: Difficult for you to shoot and they're difficult for a load of actors to stand around and not end up being pains in the arse to you.
Julian: Yeah, and you never really succeeded did you?
Nicola: No, no, probably not.

[12:15] Miranda: And she says things like false bottom with great authority and that's quite difficult.
Julian: I heard, I read, this is completely irrelevant but you'll like this. I read, in a magazine today, so this is not a trade secret at all, that Penelope Cruz had to have a false bottom for a movie she's just done because they said that she wasn't curvy enough!
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Nicola: But false bottom, I think if any of the regulars had had to have said - that can't have been correct English -
Julian: We'd have had a number of takes.
Nicola: Yeah, we'd never have got through it, but it's only because you've got a brilliant guest who comes in and actually just knows their lines and doesn't laugh at false bottom.

[15:25] Miranda: You remember we shot that, (Jo cutting off the top of the water cooler) and filmed this whole sequence of us putting these things in and the props guy Boyzy (sp?) was in the back of the shot for the whole lot.
Julian: Yeah, that was a good moment for me. You did cut the top off that water cooler very very neatly.
Miranda: I think it was quite a nice touch as well - Zaf not wanting to lose his phone.

[16:05] Nicola: It's a really nice touch that the reason she's able to get in is that they're all so keen to meet her and to flatter her. It's the Trojan horse, getting this woman into the building. It's our adoration of her that allows her in.
Julian: Also the other thing that allows her in which isn't ever actually paid off in the episode really is that Juliet Shaw, Anna Chancellor's character, says at the beginning 'I smuggled her in because she doesn't have a pass!' Well done Juliet! And then she gets to be a bit righteous at the end!
Nicola: Anna was in fits because she was always going off to these meetings -
Julian: We had to find so many different ways for her to say 'I'm late for a meeting' and we realised that actually what we were doing was painting this character who was rubbish at time keeping. And actually she's always going round late for a meeting at number 10. The Prime Minister must be hopping mad.

[17:15] Miranda: Having said, I mean, Lindsay was so unactressy and so brilliant, but one thing that, character-wise, that she did, that she was really possessive over her button, she didn't want anyone to puss the button.
Julian: Oh really?
Miranda: Yeah, well not, she wasn't odd about it or anything but she just erm, she'd sort of go 'oh no, don't.'

Will post the rest soon (hopefully!)