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I started writing. Just to make Charlie laugh, I created a character called Kerry. She was like so many girls from around where we lived, and inspired by the school bullies from when I was at Deer Park secondary. She was oafish and selfish, but underneath it all she had a big heart. We started filming two-minute sketches. The videos got zero views on YouTube, but Charlie and I pissed ourselves

Daisy May Cooper ( This Country, Witchfinder) is one of Britain’s busiest writers – but definitely not one of its keenest readers. She says she’d love to read more – but it’s hard to find the time. And anyway – the classics are just dull, outdated and boring. Aren’t they? RTS Programme Awards 2021". Royal Television Society. 23 October 2020 . Retrieved 26 February 2022. a b c Merrifield, Ryan (17 February 2017). "Cirencester siblings Daisy and Charlie Cooper talk about their new BBC Three show This Country". Wilts and Gloucestershire Standard . Retrieved 28 February 2017. Thank goodness for gloriously silly Daisy May Cooper. Joyful, irreverent and totally uplifting' THE TIMES This Country': Jason MacDonald To Recur In Fox Comedy Series". Deadline Hollywood. 30 December 2020.Ashley McGuire as Mandy Harris. Known as 'Big Mandy' to some, she is a woman in the village who has a thuggish, rough-looking appearance and a somewhat unsettling presence. As a result of this, she is the only person in the village that Kerry and Kurtan genuinely find intimidating, though it is never certain as to whether she intends to be a bully to people or is in fact just misunderstood as being as such. She has a brash manner of speaking and tells anecdotes in which she has committed acts of violence or other forms of crime, such as the time she stalked Hannah Spearritt from S Club 7 for three or four years. Though Kerry and Kurtan are conflicted as to whether they believe anything she says, this nonetheless gives her the air of a criminal which causes them to label her a 'psychopath'. She often pursues creative endeavours, such as becoming a tattoo artist and joining the village book club to showcase her creative writing skills, but her efforts are often laughably poor as she is shown to possess very little creative talent. Charlie, she says, isn’t interested in showbiz events or awards ceremonies. “He will not go to any now. I’ll only go if I have a plus-one that I want to show off to,” she says.

Kurtan has a job at a bowls club but takes it too seriously. Kerry is excited to be helping her father in his business, which turns out to be receiving stolen goods and hiding them in a garage. BAFTA TV 2021: The Winners and Nominations for the Virgin Media British Academy Television Awards and British Academy Television Craft Awards". BAFTA. 28 April 2021 . Retrieved 9 August 2021. Spotting selfies at the filming locations of BBC's This Country". Cotswold Life . Retrieved 27 October 2019. Jones, Alice (8 March 2017). "This Country's Daisy May and Charlie Cooper: 'It's basically our experience of growing up in the Cotswolds' ". i News . Retrieved 9 March 2017. One of the stars of BBC comedy This Country, Michael Sleggs, has died aged 33". BBC. 10 July 2019 . Retrieved 10 July 2019.

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Between them they’re bombarding Daisy with some of the best historical fiction, classic murder mysteries and graphic novels ever conceived – but will anything persuade Daisy to put down her Take a Break magazine? The format persists with, and I say this through gritted teeth, old favourites such as the intros round and the one where contestants have to sing the next line to an, open quotation marks, well known, close quotation marks, song. What comes after “I believe it’s meant to be darlin’ – I watch you when you’re sleeping’”? “ I’m a dirty old man?” suggested Nish Kumar, sensibly. The correct answer was “You belong with me,” and the song is Eternal Flame by the Bangles. Or as the kids call them, The What Now? a b Heritage, Stuart (22 February 2017). "This Country: perfect, horrifying TV for anyone who grew up in a village". The Guardian . Retrieved 28 February 2017. Virgin TV BAFTA Television Awards Nominations Announced". BAFTA. 4 April 2018 . Retrieved 4 April 2018. McCahill, Mike (March 2017). "5 TV shows you should be watching this month". Reader's Digest . Retrieved 6 March 2017.

In conversation with a very special guest, Daisy will share a myriad of tales; from auditioning to be a stripper and being laughed off stage by a bunch of topless dancers, spending her student loan on a penthouse suite and facing expulsion from drama school, along with behind-the-scenes anecdotes from creating and filming her BAFTA-winning show. Apparently kindred spirits … Daisy May Cooper and Selin Hizli in Am I Being Unreasonable? Photograph: Alistair Heap/Boffola Pictures Andreeva, Nellie (24 February 2020). "Seann William Scott To Star In Fox Comedy Pilot 'This Country' ". Deadline Hollywood.The next few months are looking busy. There’s the book, and then a comedy thriller she is writing with her friend Seline Hizli, whom she met at Rada, about a toxic friendship. They film next month for the BBC. I ask her whose career she would like to emulate. “Everybody’s,” she says. “Michaela Coel, Phoebe Waller-Bridge. I want to go to the States and absolutely rinse it, like James Corden, and buy my own private jet.” The US version of This Country, called Welcome to Flatch, is coming out soon. “Basically, they said to me, let’s do the US version of This Country. I said, how much work do I have to do? They said, just put your name to it.” She laughs. She and Charlie read the scripts, she says, but essentially they left the Americans to it. “I said, do whatever you want and I’ll take the money.” The series was filmed on location in and around the small town of Northleach, Gloucestershire. Daisy Cooper said: "All the material is based around stuff that happens in Cirencester, but when we went to the channel they thought that Cirencester was a bit too big and Northleach is a smaller village, and sort of isolates the characters a bit more. Makes them more claustrophobic." [3] The location used for exterior shots of Kerry's house is at 16 Fortey Road, Northleach. [10] [11] It is Kerry's birthday, but due to disruptions in their plans, they are unable to make it to the local steam fair and end up getting lost in the woods. She was offered “a life-changing amount of money” to write her life story. “I said, absolutely, I’ll do it. But it’s like selling my soul, because I’ve had to admit to all the most vile, horrendous, embarrassing things that have happened in my life, that my parents are going to find out about.” RTS Programme Awards 2018 in partnership with Audio Network". Royal Television Society. 13 October 2017 . Retrieved 27 February 2022.