So she doesn’t just accept the conventional marriage contract, she makes sure that she is also benefiting from it. And I think that sadly what happens is that the marriage furthers her station in life, it affords her this amazing standard of living and her husband actually does become her best friend. But then I think as she starts to move on, it becomes kind of golden handcuffs.

I think it definitely made me look at marriage in a very new way. Maybe I’ll just leave it so long that I marry for money, who knows?

Niamh: You’ll make your own money! You know what Cher says? “I am a rich man!” So for Ellen, I don’t think she’s really concerned with marriage. I think that she’s married to the cause and I think the relationship that develops [with Louis Partridge’s Edward] is that beautiful Romeo and Juliet kind of saga… But she has so much self-respect and so much dignity for herself and it’s the cause that’s what she really cares about.

The women of the House of Guinness deal with both miscarriage and abortion in the series – tell me about what that was like to portray within that time, particularly as now in certain parts of the world, laws around these issues are regressing…

Danielle: I think coming from a place where abortion wasn’t always legal and it was a very contentious issue and being there for the repeal time and handing out the flyers and marching the streets and doing the vote and getting the vote, I remember so viscerally the emotion when the result was announced and we did change our constitution.

It’s still in my body, and I think that having met brave women who are open about talking about their experience with it, I definitely felt a pressure to really take care of all those women by how we told the story. It’s a very sensitive topic and I really just wanted those women to feel taken care of and seen. I just hope that we can do that with what we made.

I didn’t want Olivia to be punished in any way for her actions, in terms of her being sexually free, and also in terms of her choice to have an abortion. I think they did a great job of empowering her, and taking care of her as much as possible throughout that journey.

Emily: It’s really beautifully done in the show. It’s not black and white at all, which I think is a really great way of portraying something like that. I think there’s the sadness in it, there’s the empowerment in it. I think it’s really beautifully handled. And then similarly with Anne’s miscarriage, I think it was just wanting to make sure it was as sensitively done as possible.

How do you guys feel about the possibility of another season? It was all left on quite a cliffhanger…

Danielle: Yeah, TBC…

Niamh: Yeah, baby! Let’s go!

This interview was edited and condensed for clarity.

House of Guinness is available to watch on Netflix now.