Peele’s ‘Twilight Zone’. What was it that
stopped you from developing the idea
further? If Netflix threw money at the
project would you do it?
It sort of went away as an endeavour. We
were excited about it - and worked hard
on a very nasty script, but it didn’t pan
out. All writers have these casualties.
It would be interesting to look at a long
form horror anthology, but we are sort of
doing our own version now with “Inside
No. 9” aren’t we.
Who inspires you in your acting and
writing projects? Is there anyone that
you would particularly like to work
with?
We take inspiration from lots of different
places. For instance, I love Stephen King,
but equally there’ll be something from
an old “Two Ronnies” sketch that might
spark something just as sinister. People
think we’re “dark”, but you can’t get
bleaker than “Sorry” or an episode of
“Ever Decreasing Circles”.
Real life is often the bearer of some good
ideas too. Actor wise, it would belovely to
work with the Dames, Mirren and Dench,
and the Sirs, McKellen and Hopkins.Believe or not. Aliens? Bigfoot? The
Loch Ness Monster? The Afterlife? And
would you be one of the ones lining up
to storm Area 51 if you could?“Ok. Aliens - must be a yes.
How can we be ‘it”? Bigfoot
is just daft, and the Loch Ness
Monster is probably a seal. I’d
stay clear of Area 51. I bet it’s
just like Ikea anyway. Right
down to the meatballs.”Going back to The League of Gentlemen,
did you, Mark and Steve ever tried to
tempt Jeremy into an acting role in it?
Well throughout the series Jeremy has
been in the League with several cameos.But he wasn’t an actor, so we didn’t make
him, no!Inside No. 9 just gets better and
better, how difficult was it to do the
LIVE Halloween special episode? Did
everything go according to plan?The live Halloween Special was great fun
to do. We knew the biggest challenge was
always going to be keeping our true plan
a secret. But actually it went remarkably
smoothly. The only thing we had to be
mindful of was not - in the panic of it
being live, start gabbling the lines and
finish too quickly. There were points
between live sections where they ran in
and told us to either speed up or slow
down the next bit, to get back on track.It’s 90 years ago this year since V.C.
Wall published articles about Harry
Price & Borley Rectory in the Daily
Mirror, you play V.C. Wall in the Borley
Rectory film, did you do much to
research him at all?