Why is Frankie attracted to Paul?
He’s different. She hangs around, she’s trapped and she hates being in this little town that she lives in. Nobody has any interest in anything she’s interested in. They’re all sheltered people. When she meets Paul, he’s different. He reads and he’s quite funny, not in a laddish way but in an intellectual way and he lives in London, which makes her think ‘wow, you must be so cool’. And he’s real, he’s not like anybody else. Initially she’s really angry with him but then she softens. It’s a hell of a cast, what with Mackenzie and Colm and Imelda… It’s because the script is so good, I think people are happy to want to do it. The idea alone is really intriguing. I’ve only been acting professionally for the last six months so I still feel quite odd, so when I found out who the cast was, I was like, ‘fuck’. I always look up to women actors because I’m a woman, obviously, and Imelda has always been someone that I’ve absolutely admired so when I got to meet her, I was bowled over. It’s a real
