Happy Valley star Mark Stanley has praised the show’s creator, Sally Wainwright, in an interview on Channel 4’s Sunday Brunch. Mark plays Ryan Cawood’s abusive PE teacher Rob Hepworth in the smash-hit BBC drama. The character's daughter has a special connection to her jacket and viewers have been theorising why - Read more about that here.
Conversation turned to the writer when host Tim Lovejoy asked: “Is it true Sally doesn't like things improvised? Is that true or is that just a myth?" Mark then replied: "It depends, if it's justified then it's okay, but... you don't need to. You don't need to have stuff added.”
Elaborating on his admiration for Wainwright, Mark added: “Sally [Wainwright's] got such an amazing way of weaving amongst the drama. She's got a way of weaving this northern humour and irony." He wouldn’t be the only person to think so as the writer has won numerous awards for her work on the series.
