Why is this green on your face?
Oh, sorry.
I'm just, like, been using a new foundation.
I feel like it's got rubbed in.
Has it not rubbed in properly?
I just, I thought it was, I just got it wrong, didn't I?
I mean, green suits... Do you think?
Some of us.
I was thinking about maybe doing Chicken Shop Date the Musical.
That actually could be kind of fun.
Do you think?
I'll produce it.
You would produce it?
Yeah, happily.
Chicken Shop Date the Musical?
Yeah.
Okay, I feel like it's going to win a Tony then straight away.
Yeah, we will try.
But I just need an opening song.
An opening song for Chicken Shop Date the Musical?
The Musical.
The Musical.
Chicken!
Yeah, maybe just start with that.
Well, yeah, like a good harmony chorus.
Oh, a choir.
Yeah, well, you need the whole cast.
Sorry, I was thinking about just me solo on stage with Spotlight.
Oh, OK, well, that works too.
But, you know, each their own.
I don't trust people who don't like musicals.
Well, I feel like people walk through their lives singing all the time, just in real life.
In the shower.
In the shower.
Pottering around the house.
So I don't know why it disturbs people when they see it on screen.
I can sing live on set.
Can I hear you?
I don't because it gives the crew migraines, so I just had to stop.
What's your favorite thing about being from South London?
The vibe.
South is different.
South has always been very different.
In the summertime, it's really, really beautiful.
London in general in summer.
It's just so good.
It's a different place altogether.
I love it.
To be in London in summer, I would never be anywhere else.
It's gorgeous.
There's a lot of trees, I feel like.
In South?
Yeah.
There's way more trees in South London.
And they're big trees.
You can make a lot of brooms out of them.
Yes.
I have an endless supply of brooms.
What was one of the most embarrassing things you had to do at drama school?
Did you ever have to pretend to, like, be an inanimate object?
No, animals.
What about lettuce, like a lettuce leaf?
What would you do for a lettuce leaf?
Well, I was gonna ask you, like, what would you do for a lettuce leaf?
I mean, depending on what kind of lettuce it is.
Have you ever used your acting skills to pretend a date is going better than it actually is?
No.
Okay, well you're missing a trick there.
The date is bad.
I'm just like, I should go.
Really?
You will leave?
I just don't believe in wasting anyone's time.
I don't believe in wasting my time either.
Yeah, time is too precious.
This is going beautifully though.
Do you have any dating advice?
I honestly believe this.
Just be yourself.
If you just let the person know who you are from the very beginning, then there's no sort of having to backtrack.
Totally, but what if you don't know who you are?
What does it feel like to have a superpower yourself with your voice?
Oh, thanks.
That's a compliment.
Thank you very much.
See, this is a good date.
Yeah, I'm flirting.
You need to teach people.
I do.
You're a good flirt.
On YouTube.
Yeah.
They watch and learn and take notes.
Okay, go on.
You've forgotten.
You've literally forgotten what to say.
I'm flustered.
Thank you so much.
Speechless.
What does it feel like to have a superpower?
You know what?
It feels really good.
I love being able to connect with people.
I love being able to decipher how people are feeling, or at least be able to be part of the expression of how they're feeling.
You're able to kind of like turn people's emotions on.
I'm flustered now by that.
I actually have thought of some songs for like Wicked part two.
Go on.
Drop It Like It's Throb.
Yeah.
Okay.
And actually would work.
Charli XCX remix, but Broom Broom.
Oh.
Instead of Vroom Vroom.
I like that.
Yeah.
I think there needs to be some more songs about Vroom anyway.
What about Gold by Spandau Ballet, but instead of gold, it's green.
Green.
Green.
Always believe in yourself.
Scene, scene, you've got the power to be.
You're indestructible, you're defying gravity.
You did a marathon.
Why?
I did a couple marathons and a couple half marathons.
I can't think of anything worse.
But the thing is, it feels like that at the beginning, but whilst you're doing it there's a weird sense of adrenaline that is like rushing through you, that you kind of become addicted to.
That's like me and dating.
You're addicted to dating.
I'm addicted to dates.
Addicted to dates.
So what's the end goal?
Well, to find love, to fall in love.
But do you want to fall in love or do you just enjoy the dating?
Well, that's the thing. is what I'm thinking about.
It's like, do I even want to fall in love?
Because if I actually wanted to fall in love, maybe it would have happened by now.
Well, maybe it's coming for you.
Yeah, maybe it's a slow burn, you know what I mean?
Or maybe I have met someone already, but it's just not for now.
Like, the timing is off.
But I also do go on a lot of dates.
No, I have actually had connections with people on the show before, but it just hasn't really amounted to anything.
But that's because I think I'm giving off an energy that's... What kind of energy?
Like, that's like a closed energy.
No, it's bad bitch energy.
I like it.
Yeah, it's bad bitch energy, but also, like bad bitch energy, I can be on my own fine, and I don't need anyone else.
You have a sincerity about you that I run away from in my own... and I just hide it with flirting.
And have you always been able to be naturally sincere?
I think so.
Do you think that people have a tendency to have an aversion to being sincere in interviews?
I think so.
Because I think it reveals a lot about the human.
I think it reveals a lot about who you are when you are sincere.
I think people have an aversion to even sometimes watching it, because when people are connected to their emotions, all of a sudden you have to pay attention to the human being that's in front of you.
And I think sometimes when we're watching it, we're like well, why is that person as comfortable being that human in front of another person?
So do you feel very comfortable in your own skin?
Very.
Yeah, it's taken time.
It took a long time.
That's brilliant.
You know an ex of mine?
Who's ex?
You worked with him.
Go on.
Daniel Clear.
Oh, to tell.
We had chicken nuggets and chips and he was obsessed with me.
Did you date for a little bit?
Just for the hour, yeah.
Okay, that would have been cute.
Does he talk about me?
Like if you've passed him in an award show?
We haven't.
I don't pry.
No, I don't pry.
He's probably playing it cool.
Probably.
Knowing him.
Knowing him, yeah.
I mean, that makes sense, actually.
He is playing it cool.
Daniel, stop playing it cool.
What is your kink?
What's your kink?
What's my kink?
I don't know if I have a kink necessarily.
I felt quite vanilla.
Yeah, same.
My kink is like kissing your tongue or something like that.
Is it, though?
Freaky.
No, well, for me.
I don't think that's kinky at all.
No, it's not.
That's the point.
It's not kinky.
I have an obsession with heels.
Is that a kink?
Oh, my God.
Wow.
Also, I love that you can get your leg like that.
Oh, yeah.
Legs can go pretty high.
Oh, my God.
Nobody knows that.
We've just revealed something.
Well, that you can get your legs really high.
Yeah.
Have you not done that in a show or something?
No.
Like done a high kick?
What, because you've been saving it?
No one's asked me to.
Really?
Yeah.
Okay, well in Chicken Shop Date the Musical, you can be doing high kicks everywhere.
You can have legs behind your ears.
Fair.
It's going to be... That's great.
It's going to be crazy.
On a first date, should you always go to first base?
And by first base, I mean like holding someone's finger.
I think we're doing it wrong.
No.
Do you want you to take my finger?
Just stop.
Do my short nails stress you out?
No, because they're really, really well manicured, actually.
I was looking.
