In the interview with The Times, external the actress also spoke about when the role of Stacey Shipman came along and how she was working in a south London shoe shop.
“It was the first time since leaving drama school I’d thought, ‘I know these voices! I know this world!'”
“My mum is exactly the same as [Stacey’s mum] Gwen. If you’re miserable or upset, she’s like, ‘Do you want an omelette?’
“Before I first went to London my uncle Anthony gave me a rape alarm, just like Stacey’s Uncle Bryn.
“This part was mine. It was sacrilege if it went to someone else, who was either putting on an accent – although you’re allowed to do that, I have done my entire career – or they had famous parents, or they were just famous.”
She added that had she not got the part she would have been “done with the whole thing”.