Jason Solomons interviews Sally Hawkins on Guardian Unlimited Film Weekly, April 17th 2008

As part of this week’s edition of Film Weekly, Jason Solomons interviews Sally Hawkins and Eddie Marsan about Mike Leigh’s new film, Happy-Go-Lucky. This news update is courtesy of babsden from the Sally Hawkins Domain, and the interview starts off with a brief clip of a dialogue between Poppy (SH’s character) and Scott(EM’s role) during a driving lesson.

It then moves onto the actual interview, where they touch briefly on playing the characters, and talk about filming the driving scenes; and I have to say, although we do focus on Sally Hawkins on this site, Eddie Marsan was incredibly funny as well. They make such a good combination during the interview, and Sally Hawkins‘ laughter is really very infectious!

Not the funniest part of the interview, but just to give you a teaser:

JS: Did you have any accidents?
SH: Yes, just a few.

As a side note, after reading and listening to a couple of interviews, the common theme is that Mike Leigh really does keep his actors guessing during the filming!

You can listen to the full podcast by visiting the website, or by clicking on the ‘play’ button below. The interview starts at around 16:30, which is just over halfway through the programme, and (sadly) lasts a brief 6 minutes, ending at 22:40.

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p/s: You can listen to a special in-depth interview with Mike Leigh by Jason Solomons from last week’s edition of Film Weekly.