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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Interviews by Michael Hogan

‘I’m still friends with the person who applied my pubic wig’: how we made Cold Feet

‘We arsed about – for 25 years’ … Faye Ripley, John Thomson, James Nesbitt, Robert Bathurst, Hermione Norris and Helen Baxendale.
‘We arsed about – for 25 years’ … Fay Ripley, John Thomson, James Nesbitt, Robert Bathurst, Hermione Norris and Helen Baxendale. Photograph: Granada TV

Mike Bullen, writer and creator

I wanted to make a show about relationships based on me and my friends. Apart from This Life, our generation never saw our lives depicted on TV. All the shows we loved were American, like thirtysomething and Ally McBeal. We aspired to something that looked cinematic and not traditionally British.

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