Bea created and stars in the series about desperate loneliness in London, and says she wrote a part specifically for her friend and 'Catastrophe' creator Sharon Horgan.
, her new Hulu comedy-drama – which deftly combines laughs with a tale of desperate loneliness in the city and also stars“I was proud of that joke in the end!” Bea laughs. “I believe you can be irreverent and funny about serious things and it gives them less power in a good way. But I also wanted to make this feel like a show of its own and grubby and rough and messy rather than too polished and shiny.
“I was reading something interesting about how loneliness is this disease now which genuinely affects society and how we deal with each other, but also everyone is afraid to say they have it in case they may catch it too," she said. "So what I wanted to do was make a comedy about loneliness.”'s first season and produces alongside Horgan , while the pair also star as Irish sisters transplanted to London.
“As soon as I met Ais I fell in love with her,” concurs Horgan. “She just made me laugh a lot and from that point we were trying to find something. We started writing a film together, and there was another project that we spent years on; it didn’t go anywhere. And then she wrote this, and you could see that there was really something there.”“Our dynamic, I'm so lucky to have it,” adds Bea. "And I love making her laugh. And I would hope to do it for a very long time.
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