(funky music) - [Speaker] "The Gold" provided quite a kind of fascinating era or period to put onto camera at the early to mid 1980s.
- 40 years ago really is period drama and everything looked different 40 years ago from the clothes people wore, the cars people drove.
So it's a massively complicated job and the art departments have really had to be stretched to achieve that.
- All real, this.
- I mean it was a filthy decade.
Smoky, shabby, technology was at this weird stage where things were progressing but like in a ugly fashion and everything was a little bit grubby, but there's something strangely romantic about that and nostalgic.
- It was actually quite cool back then.
The '80s has a lot of style, I think.
I quite like it.
I love the sets and the design and everything.
'cause it completely immerses you into that world.
- Every time I step on set, it's kind of hard to believe that they've dressed it.
The amount of detail that is in there is extraordinary.
- It's forever intoxicating and attractive, the 1980s London.
It's never not fun to dip back into that and the ridiculousness of that time.
Ah Jesus.
- You look great, Judy.
- Thank you, Brian.
- Everything's quite old and very floral.
A lot of the things have been like, oh, I would've seen this in my grandma's house, or I've seen this in my mom's.
It feels very familiar to me, but quite sort of sophisticated.
- In Kenny's house in particular in his living room, I remember that it was just brilliant, the set design.
It was horrible.
There was a bar, which is very southeast England.
- This is a simple time.
I think that's really reflective in how the art department have decorated the sets, how the costume department have pressed us.
And it feels like a really true reflection of the '80s.
- It's that period, it's the '80s.
Everything's just that little bit more brash and a little bit more sort of self-assured.
- I think it's so bad, it's good.
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