Sharon Horgan’s eviscerating self-awareness underlies some of the biggest cult comedy punches of recent years. But now she’s travelling after mainstream movies and a directorial debut
Sharon Horgan doesn’t peculiarly enjoy watching herself on screen any more. She feels an awkwardness that, she reputes, comes from years of sitting in edit suites scrutinising take after take of television programmes she has created, co-written and performed in. Shows such as Pulling, a pitch-black comedy about three female flatmates that first aired in 2006 and was her breakthrough. And Catastrophe, the Channel 4 lines( rejected by the BBC) that she made with Rob Delaneyabout a one-night stand with long-term impacts that ranged for four seasons and has been broadcast in 133 countries and now signifies she has to have clocks in her London places evidencing the time in New York and Los Angeles. But Horgan, who is 49 and has eviscerating self-awareness, likewise accepts that “vanity” might be a factor.
“I really don’t enjoy learning myself as an older person on screen, ” she says, with a snorty half-laugh that seems to punctuate her most radically honest statements. “There’s always a quirky transitional period where you go from being able to play a girl who doesn’t know where her life is going to playing the mother of an 18 -year-old. The adjustment for that just takes a little bit of time.”
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