“That’s really disappointing,” says Sharon Horgan when I tell her every woman I spoke to in the run up to our interview idolises her, but she still seems to be somewhat of an unknown entity for the men. “But it is true! Eighty-to-ninety per cent of who I get stopped by in the street are women — and a lot of those are Irish women,” she laughs.
“But it’s not a conscious decision at all, not at all,” she says. “I want to appeal to everyone. Obviously when things are niche it’s great, but my ambition is to have as wide an audience as possible.”
