(soft music) - The scripts were brilliant from the beginning and they were just sort of wonderful.
They were really short and punchy and they seemed pro-love.
Things can be sort of soppy or they can be cynical, and this wasn't either.
It was sort of in the middle.
- I don't believe that when people are being sad, they stop being funny.
- Wasn't it the Rolling Stones who said, "We can't let the perfect be the enemy of the very good"?
- Absolutely not.
No, not at all.
That was Voltaire.
They said, "You can't always get what you want," quite famously.
- That's probably what I'm thinking of.
- The funniest things happen at the most painful times and the saddest things happen when you're laughing.
- I think a lot of stories that are funny end up being less deeply felt because they put, they concentrate on funny or they concentrate on emotional.
I think it's really hard to do both honestly and well and together.
Woo!
(people cheering) - Keep your drama funny and your comedy serious.
That's how life is.
Let's see that in the show.
Let's feel it in the show.
(hammer banging) - Each character is flawed and has moments where they win, but there's no sort of like they were the bad person and they're the good person, and that's the obvious route, and I would've done that as well.
I think everyone will find bits of themselves in each character.
- I don't think that I'm the right person for you to be figuring this out with.
I think I've got too much skin in the game.
- We think as we get older, like, oh, at some point you'll just get it.
You'll just know you made the right decisions and you chose the right person and that the path you went down was the right path.
But for most of life, that doesn't happen.
This show shows how you just keep throwing love at it and things sort of messily can come together.
- Sometimes I don't know when we're having a laugh as actors and having a laugh as the characters.
- I would call it serious, an honest, intimate love story with funny moments in it and also a bit of melancholy.
- It's exhausting, isn't it?
Being in love.
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