Sian Clifford and Russell Tovey shoot improvised comedy movie | Also starring Richard Herring and Nick Helm

Sian Clifford and Russell Tovey shoot improvised comedy movie

Also starring Richard Herring and Nick Helm

Sian Clifford and Russell Tovey have finished filming an improvised comedy film about a family inheritance. 

The pair, along with Rosie Day from Sky comedy Living The Dream, play down-on-their-luck best friends who plan to stage a sham wedding to get their hands on the cast.

Comedians Richard Herring and Nick Helm also have roles alongside  W1A stars Ophelia Lovibond and Hugh Skinner, Phoebe Torrance, Richard Elis and Laura Patch.

Director Jamie Adams shot the as-yet untitled movie at Margam Castle in Wales over the course of just a week under strict Covid restrictions, Herring revealed on his daily Warming Up blog.

He also wrote: ‘I got to do a fun short scene with one of the stars of the film, Russell Tovey and my character's bitter warnings about marriage made him corpse, which is fine cos you just go back and do it again. It was cool to get approval from such an established, skilled and funny actor. 

‘But also the lines had come from nowhere and it was great that the improvisation aspect was working. The character isn't a huge stretch for me, but he feels very differently about his wife than I do about mine, so I must have channelled him for that part.’

Adams previously made Black Mountain Poets, which starred Alice Lowe, Love Spreads which also featured Helm, and Songbird, which starred Cobie Smulders alongside Jessic Hynes<, Emily Atack, Daisy Haggard and Ian Smith.

News of the project was first reported by ScreenDaily.

Published: 3 Feb 2021

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