Brassic star already has ideas for season 3 of his BAFTA-winning comedy series

When he won, we just hugged each other and I could feel us both shaking. I feel like he’s become a big brother character to me. People don’t know what he’s really like. He’s very, very loving and protective. I’m nervous and twitchy, and he’s understanding of that and wants to make sure that I’m all right.

The series is loosely based on your family. How did they react to the first series?

It’s based on elements from my family — I’ve laced into it quite a lot of little references to our life. So in series one, there’s an egg cup that their mum always really liked, and it’s the actual egg cup that my mum had, this weird little monk one. I was nervous about how they’d take it because sometimes the things that I’m writing can be a little bit confronting, but I think they understand that my way of getting my feelings out is by writing about them.

What can we expect from series two?

I only had four and a half months to write it because I was shooting Brassic, and you need a lot longer. So I had to write all day, every day, every weekend, for months. You don’t want to show you can do it in half the time but I nearly killed myself doing it. I really did. It’s not a good advert, is it? But weirdly, this season is definitely better. It’s significantly madder. Every episode has got this big, insane bit. I feel like I’m leaning into what I find funny, weird and strange.

What was it like being back on set with Danny?

It was a dream because this time I wasn’t as nervous, whereas last time I was s***ting myself. When you’ve written something and you’re filming it, there are thousands of things that could go wrong every day, and everyone’s trying to spin all the plates all the time. But coming back to a second series, it was fun instead of just being this terrifying rollercoaster.

Did you watch Danny in Rivals?

I watched it all. I think he and Katherine Parkinson stole the show. There are a lot of characters who are sexy and rakish, whereas their two characters are genuinely lovable. Some actors, it’s like they’ve got no skin. Emotion just permeates them and they’re being real in the moment. When you’ve got two actors who can do that, it’s magic.

And have there been any conversations about a third season of Mr Bigstuff?

I’m already coming up with ideas. We’ve got a kind of trajectory of where it goes. But we’ll see!

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