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“I’ve only written stand-up and sketch before, so writing something long-form on my own is proving quite difficult. Next stop? While it’s nice to be able to work on projects you enjoy, it means so much more when it’s something you’ve created yourself.“With Cunk and everything else, you have to film things and then just hand it over and someone else chops it up and decides which were the best bits,” she says.“But it’d be nice for me to do something where I’d go ‘no I’d like to do it like this’ and have full control over everything. You can basically do no wrong as Philomena. Completely honest.
It’s sort of serial sketches, what we used to do, and it’d be nice to get back to doing a bit of that.”Looking ahead, Morgan - having banked the experience of playing a character someone else has created - is now broadening her horizons and looking to step into the driver’s seat with her own ideas.“I’d love to try and write something myself. Just to see if I could do it.”The irreverent character made her debut on Charlie Brooker series Weekly Wipe.
Sounds quite posh, doesn’t it? “There’s probably someone I went to school with there too.“It’s almost like it’s the real me. I think if you chuck away all the social niceties and whatever I’ve got that’s meant to keep me safe, that’s what you’d be left with. I think they were worried that if it was a working-class accent it would look as if we were sort of taking the piss out of working-class accents.”She continues: “So I went in, did my best posh, but said: ‘Can I also try it in my own accent because I think it’ll be funnier?’ And they let me.”Since then, the 42-year-old has relished the freedom she’s been granted to express herself in a role most British comedy actors could only dream of.“[I] absolutely love it,” she proclaims, “because I can say anything. And “that’s enough”, according to her.When Morgan isn’t gallivanting around the “freezing” Scottish Highlands, she is appearing in sitcoms, such as “We might try and do more sketches,” she says.
“She was an idiot, but she was posh, hence Philomena.
“You could probably tackle anything [apart from Brexit]," she says. It’s still nice to watch.”With the latest series underway, Morgan is looking beyond the British Isles for Cunk’s next adventure – she jokes that it’d be nice to be somewhere with a warmer climate.“So I was thinking I go to America. "The dialogue in Cunk on Britain is mostly scripted – if you listen closely you can hear the essence of creator Brooker seeping through – but Morgan is allowed to let her improvisation run wild when it comes to the aforementioned interviews, which she says is definitely her favourite part of the job.These segments see her sit down for approximately two hours with each 'victim,' hilariously asking irrelevant questions to waste their time on topics some have dedicated their whole life to; which is then whittled down into tiny snippets. Because they’re so upbeat and positive and polite.”Now she’s too famous to surprise her UK interviewees, the US might be the perfect place she can start afresh – almost like a British version of “Let’s interview Trump. That’d be great, wouldn’t it?
“Whether people will like them or not, I don’t know.”“I’ve always wanted to do a sketch show. It’s lovely, it’s really comfy.”It’s that same lack of limitations that Morgan believes makes Cunk such a funny character. Diane Morgan (* 1975 ) ist eine englische Schauspielerin und Komikerin. If you’re bored, you can yawn, say whatever you want, and act however you want. You don’t have to be good socially, you don’t have to think of the right thing to say.
It’s like you’ve been given free rein to just do whatever you want. "She tells me it’s to do with ownership. And they’ve sort of gone out of fashion for a bit, or they’ve just stopped doing them for whatever reason. Although some less cultured folk remain confused, she enjoys watching them squirm.“I’m not sure how much TV they watch,” she laughs.
I think that would work, conquering America. It must be really difficult to come up with new jokes about Brexit.”Still, the series features a couple of sly hints within the series about “taking our country back” but they hardly delve into the topic.