Did you ever imagine it would garner this much interest?
Ireland: We were waiting for a year to hear if it would go beyond Season 1. There’s no way we could envisage that it would get to Season 7, or beyond. We just didn’t even think about it, and I think because of social media, a lot’s changed, so we started filming Season 1 six-and-a-half, nearly seven, years ago. And social media has just gone nuts, so everything’s more accessible, and people can get more of what they want, more often, so it’s just kind of snowballed. It was like a great clash, a really great show, and it’s increasing.
Does the cast get along as well as they appear to?
Curry: Absolutely, there is not one person in the cast that’s a diva or that has any sort of hierarchical ascendancy over anybody else; we are a family. We are all peers and we all enjoy each other’s company as well as respect each other’s work. And I think we all raise our and each other’s standards to a higher level. When you walk in, you know that you’re going to have to step up to that higher level, and we always try to set a very high bar, and we’re not putting pressure on each other, that’s just the standards we set. The show definitely has some diversity to it, especially with the cast.
Purcell: We really do – you know when you asked before, about how we were so successful, I think that’s a big reason why.
Curry: I think one of the principal mandates that we have as actors going in the show is to be real. To be real people and not to be sort of some television version of whatever.
Can you share any big spoilers for the rest of this season?
Ireland: I reckon the ending. You’ve never seen before, for sure. Is that fair to say?
Curry: I will also say this, with my character, Jake, as much as people would think that they could never ever get onto Jake’s side, somehow, they’re going to go, “Go Jake!”
