Hi Will!” I smile, before realising what I’ve done. Will, of course, is Will the Intern, the hapless work-experience guy from BBC parody W1A. The person in front of me is Hugh Skinner, the actor who played him with bumbling aplomb. In my defence, we are at a café right outside Broadcasting House, where the comedy was set. “It happens,” he reassures me later of my faux pas. “I’ve played a lot of Wills and Harrys.”
He really has: there was Will the Intern, then Prince William in royal spoof The Windsors, before Harry the sweet boyfriend in Fleabag and Harry the younger version of Colin Firth in Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again. A long line of posh doofuses, essentially. “I went to a private school, so I know that world,” he says with a chuckle. “And I love playing people who are perceivably getting things wrong.”
