Chloe BBC TV Show – Interview With The Cast

BuzzFeed UK: What about Elliot, what kind of journey does he go on?

Billy: We meet him just after his lowest ebb. The immediate shock of having lost a person he loves has just passed, I guess. I personally feel that all the stages of grief are conflated and they happen simultaneously, and so it’s hard to pinpoint where Elliot is emotionally. We also meet him at this point where his political career is on the ascendant, so that’s really interesting too.

There is this dinner scene in which he shares some information about his career and sort of asks his friends for their approval, which reinforces this idea that this friendship group are like the pinnacle for him. He’s still susceptible and exposed though – grief does that to people – and there’s a big void in his life now. Once he meets Erin’s character, he kind of becomes besotted with her in a knee-jerk way.

BuzzFeed UK: How was working on Chloe different from the previous projects you’ve all worked on?

Jack: Well, Covid doesn’t help when you’re trying to create a group of friends who hang out all the time and know each other really well! This is a very character-driven piece, and for me it felt like their was more work to be done on the psychology of the group and their dynamics. I guess I’ve done stuff like that before, but this felt very rich and deep and character-driven.

Pippa: It also felt like a family on this job! We all got on really well cocooned in Bristol in a little bubble, and coming to work it was so freeing. I mean, Alice Seabright is so generous and would allow us to almost do what we wanted to do. Not saying you don’t have that on other shows, but this just felt like a big warm woolly jumper.

Erin: That’s so true! I’m such a mad lover of theatre because you get so close to your colleagues – you’re there every day making this thing, and this was the first time I felt like you could have that experience on a set. The Crown was such a massive show that it felt like I was walking into a machine, essentially. It had such gorgeous heart because of the people working on it, but it was still this massive show, and I did feel a little out of my depth. Whereas this felt like I was part of a family with no hierarchy.