{"id":434786,"date":"2026-05-06T08:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T08:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/434786\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T08:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T08:08:10","slug":"behind-the-scenes-of-rivals-season-2-with-david-tennant-victoria-smurfit-aidan-turner-and-danny-dyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/434786\/","title":{"rendered":"Behind the scenes of \u2018Rivals\u2019\u00a0Season 2 with David Tennant, Victoria Smurfit, Aidan Turner and Danny Dyer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nAhead of the release of season 2, we get exclusive access to the set and some of the show\u2019s leading cast members \u2013 including Victoria Smurfit, Aidan Turner, Danny Dyer and David Tennant\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Victoria Smurfit pictured at the Irish Gala Screening of Disney+ Rivals Season 2 at the Light House Cinema Dublin. Picture Andres Poveda\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/ictoria Smurfit 001.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Victoria Smurfit pictured at the Irish Gala Screening of Disney+ Rivals Season 2 at the Light House Cinema Dublin. Picture Andres Poveda<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Walking onto the set of Rivals, a woman\u2019s piercing scream rings out across the grounds of a stately Cotswolds manor. Is it a cry of agony or ecstasy? On this show, it could go either way.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">It\u2019s a chilly November night and the TV adaptation of the late Jilly Cooper\u2019s \u201cbonkbuster\u201d novels is shooting a pivotal showdown for its second season, which launches on Disney+ on May 15. The crew are seven months into the 10-month filming schedule, and we arrive in the middle of a week of night shoots for a bonfire night party scene at The Priory \u2013 the O\u2019Hara family home. Almost the entire cast has gathered, typically filming until 1am each day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ahead of the release of season 2, we get exclusive access to the set and some of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434787,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[93,61,60,282],"class_list":["post-434786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}