Fun on Set

- My ears are ringing.

Are your ears ringing?

(laughter) - Shut up.

Come here.

- Oh, goodnight.

- We have fun in front of the lens and we have fun behind it.

- Yeah, there is a lot of larking about, especially between Robson and James.

There is a lot of larking about, but between us all really.

You know, you have little in-jokes you do when you work on a series and that's why it's really lovely when you get to this level.

You're on series three.

Everybody feels, they don't feel comfortable but they feel like that they have a kind of particular place a little bit within the jigsaw.

You feel like you're part of a family, and that's what I like to do.

And that then comes across.

- The whole cast have caught on to what I refer to as the whingy kid.

(whinging) So me and James, when the cameras cut, do the whingy kid.

- I can't do it nearly as well as the two of them.

They've got it down to a fine art.

Again that's part of the joy of working as a team, because it's got to be fun, or why do it?

- It is funny, deep down it is funny.

(actors talking over each other) - Oh my god, I have to tell James and Robson off all the time.

They are a terror, they are terrors.

And they've got worse.

They always go giving each other the giggles.

The directors generally actually love it because they know that it's about the energy, and they keep the energy up and it's keeping everybody light.

But sometimes they do have to be told to concentrate.

And sometimes you do have to tell them off for being naughty.

And it doesn't stop them, they just carry on.

- Daisy knows us as actors now quite well, and the characters obviously.

And we all know what we're doing, and we're all now a team and a family.

So I suppose there's that shorthand this year and last year perhaps that we didn't have our first series.

But I think the scripts, the plots, the character detail gets more and more interesting actually.

- That's the beauty of Grantchester.

It's incredibly likable, and we all get on.

I mean it.

Every single day James Norton comes onto that set.

What a captain of a very, very tightly, cleverly run ship.

And if he's got a bad energy, the program will have a very bad energy.

So if you have the likes of James Norton and the relationship he has with me and the trust we have of one another both on and off the lens, it pays dividends in front of it.

And I think that really resonates for everyone.

- The longer you're with this group of people, the more the relationships grow, and the friendships blossom, and everyone just has a great, great time.

- We don't work at what's in front of the lens, me and James, and everyone else.

It's not work.

Find something you love to do with someone you genuinely love working with and you'll never have to work again in your life, because it's just a joy.