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The Time Series/Season 3 media page. Interviews with the cast and some video I can't access (FFS BBC!) Available on BritBox if you're in the US. Episode 1 airs this Sunday.

Here's David's interview to save you a click (there's another photo of him there but you'll see it elsewhere I'm sure!)

Can you tell us what’s happening in the series when we meet Bobby Bailey?

The series is set in and around a young offender institution where my character, Bobby, is an officer. We follow what’s happening to him both at the prison and in his home life. We also follow what’s happening to some of the inmates and find out about why they’re there and what’s going on in their lives. Something happens towards the end of the first episode and Bobby’s left in a position where he knows more than the authorities do. He has to reckon with himself as to whether it’s right to be honest and truthful or defend his mate.

Bobby is a complex character – can you tell us a bit more about him?

Bobby is written very obliquely and sparely in some ways. You build up who he is by lots of micro experiences of him. He’s very different at work to how he is at home. He’s holding secrets at work. He’s someone who, in some ways, has atrophied. His life was in a routine that he wasn’t particularly interested in challenging, but he has been forced to challenge it by circumstances, both domestic and professional. He’s forced into moments of crisis that he did not go looking for and doesn’t particularly thrive in, yet he is forced to move. I think that’s what Jimmy has always been famous for, he puts ordinary people in moments of extremis and sort of lets them be, lets them unfold. That’s what his work has always been for me, it’s the human experience kind of twisted and tested. That’s why a prison environment is such fertile ground for him because it’s people in a very unique, very difficult, very extreme situations. It’s like he gets humanity and puts it on a slow simmer and sees what happens. That’s certainly what’s happening to Bobby throughout this, the heat is just gradually being turned up and there’s nothing he can do to turn it back down again. From an acting point of view, that’s what’s appealing and exciting. That’s what draws you to a project like this. You’re telling a story that feels very relatable and rather panic inducing!

Do you think that Bobby is a good person?

I think he’s a very human person. He’s very explicable and easy to identify with. Sometimes he’s a very good man and sometimes he’s quite flawed. I think he has some very good intentions, but he’s also quite compromised. It’s very difficult to answer whether he’s good or bad – he's both, like all of us.

Time tells the human story of the people in these institutions, do you think things are elevated in a young offender institution?

Each series of Time has been very much its own thing – apart from Siobhan’s character, there isn’t really a link between the series other than it’s about life in prison – a male prison, a female prison, and now a young offender institution. They’re both similar and very different. The prison system is a necessary part of the justice system, but it’s often regarded as imperfect, and yet those working within it often have the best intentions. Clearly when you’re dealing with young men, boys, who are being excluded from society, being locked away, it’s particularly difficult to consider. They've done some very serious things and they’re paying the price for that, but I think it’s always important that, as a society, we look at what we’re doing – whether we’re doing the right thing and what it does to the boys we lock away.

Why is setting this story inside a young offender institution a compelling choice?

There’s something about it being boys who are not yet men, who are all potential, and that potential being incarcerated. There’s something very galling about that. It’s quite scary because there’s a lot of energy in that moment in a young man’s life, in a boy’s life. It’s all that potential and it’s bottled and contained, which doesn’t feel right somehow. There’s a real sense of danger in that.

The young actors are brilliant – can you talk about the dynamic working with them?

I think one of the most exciting things about this is some of the young actors that Amy Hubbard, our casting director, and Paul Whittington, our director, have found. It was a big old search and they found some actors who have quite a lot of experience, some lads who are absolutely brand new to it, others who are looking to go to drama school – all different stages of an acting career, yet they’ve come in with such enthusiasm and energy. They’re all so committed and full of life. Working in and amongst them has been quite humbling for me. It’s very moving to see what they’re all bringing to it, they’re all very individual. I think this is one of those series people will look back on in 20, 30 years – I’ll be long gone, I’ll be dust - but you’ll be going: ‘oh my god, that’s where he started! And him, and him, and him!’ I feel very proud to be standing alongside them. That will be the beating heart of the show, their performances.

How has it been working with Siobhan?

I’ve been a fan of Siobhan for years. We'd never worked together, our paths may have vaguely crossed at a do or something, but to get to work with her and to get to know her... She’s everything you hope she will be – as an actor, she’s sublime, and as a human, she’s hilarious. Siobhan Finneran, doesn’t disappoint. You can have that, Siobhan, you can put that on your CV!

Between the delicious beginning and ending there is also a bonus of some very cool music ;-)

No idea whose hands have been in those bags but they grab a handful and snack away on unwashed stolen merchandise. Sanitizer wipe stations but no inclination to take one to put their gd cherry pits in so they can toss them all into one of the trash cans. Instead they put them everywhere else; shopping baskets, display tables, the candy setups at the register...
We're infested (and I don't mean the pits.) I hope each cherry those nasty folks munch on has a family of explosive poo worms happy to have found a home.

DAVID'S IN IT TOO! Click the link/photo...

"Here is the official announcement that Bridget Jones’s Diary and Bridget Jones’s Baby director Sharon Maguire has found her cast for unconventional love triangle comedy The Joy Of Sex, about how the famous 1970s love-making manual came about.

Maguire has been pulling this together for a while and her cast was worth the wait. Oscar-winners Colin Firth (The King’s Speech) and Julianne Moore (May December) are starring alongside Oscar nominee Laura Linney(Ozark) in the movie, which started filming in the UK this week.

Published in 1972, the sex manual The Joy of Sex was a scandalous sensation, selling more than 15 million copies worldwide, spending 70 weeks at the top of the New York Times bestseller list. Sex in the suburbs was never the same again."

(There's more in the article)
I'm already imagining Georgia's IG posts on this one... 🤣🤣🤣

Full versions yay!
You'll really want to watch this. 😍 😂😃🤓😰

We're pretty dead and I found something for the mgr and 3 supervisors to do - get a dime out of the receipt printer that was wedged into the front part and rattling. Funny to see all four leaning around it and discussing the best way/tools to use - guys doing a 'guy thing, lol. Fun to watch them enjoying it.

Hope everyone is having a decent day today. Holiday pay, yay!

If not, maybe wedge a dime into your register 🤣

I can never watch this interview enough; it's so much fun. I wish they'd do another as it's been ten years since this one!
(btw we have a mod who was actually there. Bitch...😅😘

A short rant.

I don't use those cards (yet...) I don't know what food that card covers, or that one, or that one. If you have one, and though it's not easy, you should be responsible about knowing how much you can spend with it and what you can spend it on.
The last thing you should do is get mad at ME because I don't work for the food stamp places except having part of my taxes help fund them (which, by the way, how about being the slightest way pleasant like most of the people you see around you and helpful to us who are honestly trying to help you. That might require communication - maybe learn how, just a little.)

Thank you.