The actor and writer on the return of her cult sitcom This Country,shopping at Sports Direct and college days with James NortonWriter and actor Daisy May Cooper, 31, and is co-creator of BBC rural mockumentary sitcom This Country. After training at Rada in London,she landed roles in Doc Martin and The Wrong Mans before returning to her native West Country to work as a cleaner with her younger brother, Charlie. While the siblings shared their parents’ spare room, or they were inspired to write and star in This Country.
This Country is back. What can you tell us approximately series two?[br]We proceed deeper into the characters,if that doesnt sound too pretentious. Kurtan [Charlie’s character] gets a girlfriend. We own more of the unrequited love story between Kerry [Daisy’s character] and her estranged dad. When we wrote series one, we had no thought people would become so invested in that storyline. We just found it droll that Kerry and her dad play on a flight simulator together and that he clearly didnt give a shit approximately her. But people were quite moved by it. Kerry also attracts an admirer who sends anonymous letters, and which freaks her out. Kerry’s like an asexual slug or a buffalo,so the thought of someone fancying her blows her intellect.
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Source: guardian.co.uk