What did it mean to you both for the series to be set up North, when the industry can be so London-centric?

Aimee: It’s home, isn’t it? Just speaking in our own voices and being in that world, it’s just so close to the heart.

Suranne: It was literally like getting into a warm bath… It made me feel very nostalgic. Just hearing that accent, and obviously all my family’s up there, it just felt warm.

Suranne, how did playing Suz compare to playing the Prime Minister in Hostage?

Suranne: I’d just done Hostage when I came to do Film Club. For me, it was brilliant, because [in Hostage] Abigail has to be held together. Susie’s the opposite of held together. She’s just a big ball of love, gets everything wrong and tries her hardest – and is just like a whirlwind. So it was brilliant. I loved it.

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Aimee, what is Suranne’s favourite film?

Aimee: I remember talking about August: Osage County at one point.

Suranne: Yeah, love.

Aimee: Yeah, I remember. What would be a quote from that?

Suranne: I don’t know. But my other one that you just found out is Wizard of Oz.

Aimee: Oh, of course. Wizard of Oz is what got Suranne into acting. That’s what inspired her.

Suranne, who would play Aimee in her biopic?

Suranne: It would have to be… God, no one’s at the right age, but it would have to be like a Bella Ramsey or a Florence Pugh or Anya Taylor-Joy. It’s got to be someone that’s kooky, intelligent, fun, beautiful with a dark side.

Aimee: I wish that we could time travel and Shelley Duvall would play me, but she’s died.